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This is part two of a two-part series on the bizarre saga of Elvis Presley.

So with a shout-out to our super producer, Mr. Max Williams,

you gotta listen to Part One, folks.

Oh, you must.

And now that you're done with that,

why don't we just dive on in headlong in MediaRES or in Medias Ray in Two?

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Did Elvis Presley pay his entourage?

Because it seems like it was similar to what we would later see with the

entourages of, say, Little Wade, or most famously MC Hammer. Whether they drew a salary or not,

he supported their existence. That's the question. Like, did he pay them a salary? Or were they

just hangers on? They would be on the payroll, as it were, right?

He had a lot of cousins and stepbrothers and things, like extended family who absolutely

were on some form of payroll.

I think there were other, and then other close friends and stuff too.

I think there were definitely people that were more on the fringe that were just kind of

there for handouts and got. Hangers on. Yes. They called him. Yeah. Yeah. What's up with the hamburger guy? Was he part of Memphis Mafia? He was basically like the Snoop Dog Blunt Roller equivalent of the day where he was just they're providing hamburgers. I think it was little way to met some of his entourage, and he had a guy called snacks,

and his job was just to get snacks for Wayne.

And was this cat grilling him up to order?

Was he just going out and fetching hamburgers?

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