SALLY HOEDEL, the Elvis author, joins us to discuss her books, her research, and next project!

[@betsyjonex9364]

Girls I am a fan since 1956 I am 80 years old. I was and still are a Elvis fanatic. I have every thing written and recorded about him. I want to thank you for your wonderful book. It was a profound revelation to me. I had felt there was so much more to his story. He went through a lot he was so misjudged. I can't thank you enough for what you have done he deserved your book, you have given us a gift, God Bless.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you Betsy!! I absolutely love that you've been a fan since 1956!! Did you ever get to see him perform??

[@gracieg7601]

I’m 77, just turned this week. I’ve been a fan since my sister brought home a record of Elvis when I was 13. I loved going to his movies. I used to get mad at the movies when the girls would scream cause I wanted to hear his voice.

[@paulasmith3179]

I grew up a Beetles fan I discovered Elvis on youtube. Once i started watching Elvis i was no longer interested in any other singer. I started watching every interview he ever did and everything written about him. He really got into my soul. Everyday i look for you ladies, thank you so much for your love of Elvis

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Hi Paula! We so know the feeling - once you find Elvis, nothing else compares!! Much love to you!!

[@gracieg7601]

I just love Sally Hoedel. I do love that she wrote the book so you can understand what happened to Elvis health. I think every fan should read her book.

[@hpel1241]

You just described my experience perfectly!

[@marigreecher]

This book is so important! I will always praise Sally for this. Grateful for the clarification on all the myths about Gladys and Elvis heath ! 🙏🙏🙏

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you for your support!

[@synchronicity1470]

It is always reassuring to hear Elvis supported and understood by sensitive, intuitive people - both women and men alike! Most of his devoted fans 'got' him and we will always promote him and share with others all the exemplary and noble qualities Elvis personified. He was not a complainer. Nor did he blame others for his plight. He stoically carried on, even when his body was failing and his spirit was defeated. The world used him up. He reveled in his fame for most of the twenty short years his star shone but life got the best of him. Actually, his broken body failed him. His story is still not completely told. Sally is to be commended for her well-researched book on Elvis' health. It explains so much. You ladies are correct. He was so much more than a joke in a cloak who died in a way that should have been kept private. So MUCH of the life Elvis strove to keep private should not have been revealed by his MM associates and his ex girlfriends. Privacy and loyalty are the only two things Elvis demanded and I understand why. He gave ALL of himself without reservation. There's been no one like him before or since and there never will be another like Elvis again. I am happy Sally Hoedel plans on documenting Elvis' generosity. The one remaining unexplored aspect of Elvis that needs to be told is just how intelligent Elvis was. He was not an ill-educated hillbilly hick. He graduated high school. But continued feeding his keen mind with information on a wide range of topics all the way up until his untimely death. He was a thoughtful articulate speaker, yet was discouraged from publicly speaking by the cretin manager! It is reported Elvis had a photographic memory. He knew thousands of songs. His skill at producing music has also not fully been explored. He would astutely memorize every movie script, not just his parts. His thirst for knowledge was endless. To think he did not have the world of resources at his fingertips as we do today. He had to buy his books. It is disturbing knowing that his people were so threatened by Elvis spiritual seeking, they stole his books and burned them, rather than allow this bright man to broaden his mind!!! Elvis was a man afr better than the small-minded and insensitive circle that surrounded him. Even they all deserted him in the last three years. He was so sad about how all the brightness had gone away. And yes, he was responsible for much of the change and isolation. But his life was more than a story of a self indulgent pill popper. Anyway, thank you lovely ladies for doing your part in raising Elvis up. He was so much more than his reputation.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you so much!!

[@synchronicity1470]

@@ThoseElvisGirls💓

[@Elvista]

​@@synchronicity1470bravo, my friend....absolutely nothing but the truth. Well said 👏🏼💯⚡❤

[@sallyhoedel]

Thank you!! It was so great to chat with all of you. Appreciate the opportunity so much. Can't wait to sit down with all of you in person one of these days!!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Absolutely loved this!! Can't wait to chat in person SOON!!

[@evearcana2392]

@@debra2700 Elvis’s relatives married other people… meaning they do not have the same genetic makeup as Elvis. Meaning they could have gotten healthier genes from their other half parent and their genetics. Some died young and some didn’t… but ALL didn’t have the grueling schedule Elvis did either. Also, Sally’s book came out at the almost same time that Benjamin, Lisa Marie’s son, passed away and Lisa Marie was extremely reclusive during that time so that also doesn’t fit your narrative. Lisa Marie is Elvis’s daughter and could have also had a long life but didn’t…. She died at 54 & medical treatments, life and genetics played a role in that. Sally is just trying to shed some light on Elvis’s case as well.

[@keithp115]

I was fortunate to meet Sally in person. She is a wonderful gal and always looking forward to her next project!

[@sallyhoedel]

@@ThoseElvisGirls "Debra" has been harassing me and others via social media for years. I will not reply to her. I would suggest blocking her. She's a troll and has a reputation.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

@@sallyhoedel ok will do! thank you Sally!!

[@clairedubery1056]

Wow i loved hearing about sally's research and wow, what good decent and humble people his parents were. Truly gifted and a grateful person Elvis was. Having God in his life early surely helped keep him centred!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

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[@neilc.2045]

I just read Sallys Biography on Elvis. What an excellent job she did! Very in depth and well paced.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

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[@JulieSuzanneYoga]

THIS is my favorite interview so far!!! Excellent questions asked, immeasurable camaraderie between you all, and such respect talking about a very difficult topic for all of us. Sally’s book is phenomenal . At first it was not for me , I didn’t want to hear that that Elvis would have died anyway. After reading the book I realized Elvis was always the guy that I thought he was . He didn’t OD. He was trying to manage a rigorous career while dealing with a bad hand of genetics. Sally has opened our eyes to this and confirmed what our boy was and always was . She’s completely instrumental is his legacy . She is so approachable and genuine too. You girls did your homework. You are extremely professional , very humbling, and immensely respectful. I feel the world on its axis moved a little with this interview. Well done❤❤❤ BTW Those Elvis Girls looked hot too as well as Sally ⚡️⚡️⚡️Just saying 💅🏻

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

We love you!!

[@gracieg7601]

I’ve read this book and I’ve given it as a gift. I just think it’s awesome. I want to get the book about Ron. He is such a awesome man. Love his stories.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

🙏🙏🙏

[@cynthiacudmore7265]

What a great interview and so wonderful to hear the great positive love for Elvis. I have been a fan since 1957, I was six.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you so much!!!

[@susyq810]

Thank you very much for sharing so much information with us. His fans miss him and love him so much.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

That we do!! 🥹🥹🥹

[@brendastonitsch1952]

I am loving all of this interview

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

thank you Brenda!!!

[@WandaG.-lq7vf]

I have read Destined to Die Young. And, knowing a little bit about health, I am impressed with her putting forward complicated medical information that was not commonly known then, and is not even now, all while managing to humanize Elvis. This is a sad story, but Sally did a great job with sensationalizing it.

[@WandaG.-lq7vf]

Without, I meant

[@WandaG.-lq7vf]

Without

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Yes we so agree Wanda! Thank you! It was a huge task that Sally took on, and spent years researching and giving us the best information that she could, and she did it with care and integrity! We are so lucky to have Sally in our corner!!

[@joyintheholyspirit7830]

Elvis suffered from disease in nine of eleven bodily systems, five of which were present from birth. It's a miracle he lived to the age of 42. He accomplished so much in the short time he was with us. Enjoyed reading this book via library loan from Illinois!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Yes us too!!! Thanks for watching Joy! We appreciate it so much!

[@Toria-l6b]

BS .he wouldn't of been able to function ,SH also said she didn't understand why the mm lived a longer life as they were taking the same meds as Elvis, she's so naive ,elvus was getting more from various doctors in large quanties ,clueless

[@VegasVixen]

Sally’s smile is mesmerizing ❤great interview ! I was always the weird chick that didn’t know any of the new stars , 1800s-1970s is my musical jam .

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

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[@MaaikevanBroekhovenIBCLC]

I have to get her books soon! Hopefully it's on kindle. Great to hear you discus our dear Elvis in a lovely way. ❤

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Yes I think it's available as an E-book!!

[@Sivan0608]

Fantastic interview, thank you!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Our pleasure!

[@Sivan0608]

Fantastic interview, thank you. I’m on book 40, and will definitely read this one next. ❤

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thanks for watching Jennifer!!

[@gracieg7601]

That’s the reason I love Destined to die young. It tells you exactly how and why it all happened. I love that sally told Elvis truth & it is what he deserved. So people realize how hard Elvis had to live in pain.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

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[@papichulo-DK]

It’s easy to take for granted how far medicine and science behind diets and sleep have advance. Great show!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

You're so right!! If only they knew what we know now 🥹

[@keithp115]

Sally is awesome. I met her when the Spa guy and Trey were interviewing Johnny Lang a few years back. Her book is incredible and worth your time to read. Great job Elvis gals!!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you thank you!

[@kats72951]

I love your podcast, and I loved this book which I had already read before let’s speak in the podcast. I appreciate about all of you so much is the compassion, the willingness to let him have his basic human dignity. It seems like so many people during his life, and all these years after are unwilling to Allow him that.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you!!!

[@scottcarpenter2580]

Loved the interview with Sally, ladies. Its great that she sourced basically everything (32 pages worth). Looking forward to her new book. Hopefully in the future she'll write a book called Destined To Rock The World.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Scott, I absolutely love that idea!! Lol Such a cute title!!! Thank you as always for your support. We love you!

[@JamieRose89]

Love this so so much!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you so much!!!

[@jaseagnew6789]

Great interview Ladies was well worth the wait,real interesting and can't wait untill next one,Elvis got his three "⚡Elvetts ⚡" Taking Care IOf Business ⚡🤪

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Awwww omg Elvis did get us, and we owe SO much to him! This is Kristen btw - I found Elvis at a time in my life when I needed him, and he pulled me back from the darkness 💕 I will always work to show the world who he really is!

[@jaseagnew6789]

@@ThoseElvisGirls Hi Kristen,been an Elvis fan since i was a kid,love your channel and won't be missing an episode,so glad i found it TCB⚡

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

@@jaseagnew6789 truly so happy you're here!!!!! Sending so much love your way!!!

[@jaseagnew6789]

@@ThoseElvisGirls😁

[@brendastonitsch1952]

I'm looking forward to the audio version

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

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[@kathy-t5q]

George Klein said on the air in 1989, that Gladys told him that Elvis would sleepwalk, and that when they were on the road if Elvis did sleepwalk to just talk to him very calmly and very softly..Elvis come on back and to go back to sleep. She worried about him 😢 Also, after seeing Lorenzo’s Oil, who is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease, and the parents researched themselves to find the cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history, that they (doctors) are not the end all.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Yes!! Gladys did worry about him so much ❤

[@joyintheholyspirit7830]

Globetrotting with Trey was interviewing Jimmie Rodgers Snow on Oct. 3, 2023 at the "Just Pretend Mansion Summer Bash". It's on youtube. Jimmie mentioned in Jan. 1958 he had spent the night at Graceland. It was 2 in the afternoon when he came down the backstairs and seen Gladys at the kitchen counter. She was sitting there with a beer. She died Aug. 1958 of that same year. Jimmie was called to preach at Graceland in Jan. 1958. He is a very interesting nice guy to listen to! He is 87 years old.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Hi Joy! Yes, we love Jimmie too! Another interesting perspective to consider in all of this ❤️🙏 thank you for listening!!

[@joyintheholyspirit7830]

With Elvis getting that draft notice from the army on December 20, 1957, right before Christmas, Gladys needed something to calm her nerves in Jan. 1958.

[@sallyhoedel]

There is no dispute that she drank at Graceland in the last year of her life. It's prior to that which get exaggerated. What Jimmie Rodgers Snow said is in line with my research as well. @@joyintheholyspirit7830

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

​@@joyintheholyspirit7830yes! Sally does mention Gladys was drinking that year.

[@evearcana2392]

Gladys would have an occasional beer but she was not an alcoholic

[@DEFENDINGELVISPRESLEY]

Interesting

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you for watching!

[@barbarahatfield8027]

Where can I buy the book you made . I want to buy on line . Love love what all you girls said . 😊

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Hi Barbara! We linked to the books in the description!! Www.elvisauthor.com

[@davidlunn1608]

Thankyou sally and girls for protecting elvis image. What a pity elvis privacy even in death wasn't, we didn't need to know did we so who let it out??? Where he exactly died they could have said atop the stairs ?

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Yes thank you David! We have to work to share the truth, we are the keepers of his legacy ❤️⚡ much love to you!

[@davidlunn1608]

@@ThoseElvisGirls well im 64 years old and glad to see that your all so mature in your understanding of him, tce , andove to you all! i thought that all a new fan was about was kissing ass but when im gone i know hes in good hands,xxxx

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

@@davidlunn1608 means so much to us!! Thank you!

[@shellbigpineapple1322]

Lol.. protecting Elvis image with BS, it's a hypothesis. Ask her for proof E had Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency there is none y'all. Sally's tapped a market of romantics who don't want to think of Elvis a certain way. Utter rubbish. Read Anita Wood's book and see how he was into those pills as early as '57, people think he got hooked in the army. He loved the feelin', and didn't realize the dangers. Body shutdown from abuse, fatty liver, intestines stopped working to digest food properly. Exactly what too many opioids over a long time do to ya. Don't get sucked in to this Elvis fans. The TRUTH is in first hand accounts over a long period of time. They're all their if you look for 'em on YT. Elvis wouldn't stop taken 'em.

[@Dru-h6n]

You could by dexadrine over the counter in the 70s, being thin was stressed! I had insomnia as a child, still do and I'm in my 60s! Didn't want to sleep alone if I didn't have to. Having someone there would help me sleep better. Did sleep walk as a child, my parents put chairs in front of our doors so I wouldn't out. I also have colitis! They are linking these syndromes together instead of looking at them separately. Because of my own issues I feel for Elvis having to care for so many people and to be Elvis, I'm shocked he lived as long as he did! The gut pain must have been tremendous and why he needed pain medication. He probably took less than he needed to keep the pain at bay. Very sad...

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thanks for watching!! 🕊️⚡💖

[@carolhayar3037]

Regarding "processed food" -- people have been eating processed food going back many generations; people were ignorant of how the food they bought was made & processed. And the food industry wanted to keep it that way. Trans fats were invented in the 1890s and entered the food supply in the 1910s & World War I brought about new methods of food processing, including canned and frozen foods. Government subsidies for corn and soy led to a food industry with a financial incentive to use high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified corn starches, & to produce lots of highly processed (and unhealthy) foods. Packaged bread, processed meat, cookies, canned pork & beans, various cheeses, TV dinners, & a very long list of other foods. Processed food ads promised to save time for housewives, fast food restaurants were everywhere, and processed foods were mass distributed. So don't think that "back then" or "years ago" there were no processed foods. We were saturated with it. And I am not inferring that a healthier diet would have changed any of Elvis genetically inherited issues, but truth be told, the Southern diet is very unhealthy. And let's not forget about the spraying of crops with DDT!!

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thanks for watching! 💞

[@SharonMatthews-h3w]

Have you girls ever discussed his illnesses with any member of his family? Close friends like Jerry Schilling? His nurse? Someone must have known something

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

We hope to go more in depth about it!!

[@barbarahatfield8027]

Where else did Elvis lived after the little house I know he lived at relative but after that … do they have photos

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Hi Barbara! do you mean in Tupelo?

[@evearcana2392]

Elvis lived in many places when he was young with his family, they moved almost every year. They lived at Lauderdale Courts the longest during his childhood- then Audubon house, then Graceland as an adult

[@nancyericson4263]

What was the platelet disorder Gladys had?

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thanks for watching Nancy!

[@beckyblevins3107]

There’s a diet with female urine - HCG which implements 500 cal.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

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[@TCB0816]

This book should be translated in german as well 😉

[@gracieg7601]

Billy Smith was so upset from what he says on EFM that Gladys was portrayed that way in the movie. It is irritating to me that Baz did that. Also that’s another thing about Elvis was a time bomb. Billy even says there was a couple of times on the road that Elvis scared him. He had to work to get Elvis awake.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Yes I heard that as well!!

[@shellbigpineapple1322]

Billy flips depending which way the winds blowin'. Watch All The Kings Men where he talks about Gladys, he says the very things the movie shows her as. Then for his review says the opposite. He had his neck out cause he wasn't invited y'all to the premiere. Not that I think he'd gone anyway, but I reckon he'd have just wanted to receive an invite. It would have been a courtesy. Not that the movie portrayed Colonel accurately anwyay. Good story though and it's made a lot of money for EPE and by percentage ownership to the family. Set 'em all up for life after LMP passin'.

[@gracieg7601]

The sleeping together was the heat wasn’t as available back then they put baby Elvis in bed with them to keep the baby warm.

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

aww you're right!!

[@daysjours]

Looking forward to listening. But have heard her before. It seems deeply reactionary and puzzling to deny Elvis struggled with a massive drug addiction. It takes nothing away from him and it is not a weakness to have such a crippling disease. His whole entourage snd his doctors knee he was a drug addict. Why the denial with this author?

[@ThoseElvisGirls]

Thank you for watching. Have you read Sally’s book entirely?