The Bizarre Life of Elvis, Part One: From Poverty to Pop Stardom
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
How far would you fly for a sandwich? Decades after his death at just 42, Elvis Presley remains a global pop phenomenon. His short life was full of strange, ridiculous adventures... but how many of these stories are true, and how many are just modern folklore? In today's episode, the guys welcome the journalist Jordan Runtagh, co-creator of Too Much Information, for a special two-part series on the man, the myth, the legend: Elvis.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.8 | Fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.5 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.8 | Let's hear it for The Man, the Myth, the Legend, |
| 0:35.1 | our super producer, Max, the Hound Dog super producer, Max the hound dog Williams. |
| 0:54.5 | Hello, grumpy, grumpy Gus Williams. We just, uh, we just called him a grump off air. We just roasted you so hard off air. Side note, everyone, side note, everyone, I am actually up in Canton, Georgia, so I'm basically in Tennessee right now. Hey, Hey, congratulations. |
| 0:55.7 | And them hollers. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, what's it like at the top of the map? in Georgia, so I'm basically in Tennessee right now. Hey, yeah, you are. Congratulations. |
| 0:55.8 | And them haulers. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah, what's it like at the top of the map? |
| 1:01.3 | Or if you're in the hollers, uh, at the bottom. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | The bottom is the top that is getting a little hermetic for us. |
| 1:09.0 | That's none other than the legendary Mr. |
| 1:09.9 | Noel Brown. |
| 1:10.8 | Noel, how you feeling? |
| 1:12.1 | You know, I'm pretty good. |
| 1:13.5 | Nice. |
| 1:16.1 | I am feeling pretty good myself. |
| 1:18.3 | We're very excited about this one. |
| 1:23.5 | Oh, they call me Ben Bullen on this show because, Noel, today we are tackling one of the biggest figures in old of American music history. |
| 1:27.1 | This is a larger than life son of the |
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