Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on? Everybody? It's your pal Izy here
and I'm gonna give you guys a little Patreon preview. Now.
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Come on over and join. Until then, this is a
little episode I called Who the fuck is is He? Presley?
Speaker 2: Enjoy truly a sight Toby oh oh Man, the once
great champ now study and moffishness no longer, the factory
hungry stilling wait right, so many times before a pathetic
wash up age ex Champion, All right, let's go.
Speaker 1: I think you know the guy, but I think you
know what right there? Whoa his name is he? Press?
Is he Presley? Is he pres He?
Speaker 2: Psley.
Speaker 1: What's my name? Say my name, bitch, my good friend?
Is he Presley? Is he Presley? Presley? Ouch? Is he Presley?
Speaker 2: WHOA? That sounds a little weird?
Speaker 1: Is he present? Is he Presley? Is he Presley? The heaviest,
gurthiest rocky j around. Hey, this is Jeff Levarr. You
listen to Izzy Presley. Those aren't pillows, Yes, Jeff, they
are pillows because your hands ain't getting anywhere near my ass.
Good morning, Las Vegas. Good morning, my loyal minions. It's
the daily. Wait a minute, I think that phrase has
been used before. It is the fourth of February, it
is Tuesday. It is eight point fifteen in the morning
here and beautiful and chili, Las Vegas, Nevada. But it's
gonna be close to eighty today, so that's pretty sweet.
It's too short, Geort's weather, Isy. Why are you coming
at us this goddamn early in the morning. Well, there's
two reasons. One, I'm awake. Two, I'm not working. I
mean I am, I mean the app is on. The
app is always on, you know, just in case there's
a big order that comes through that I could make
money on. But uh, And three the most important reason
that I am at home right now. I'm going to
be going out and working in a little bit. But
my sweet mother comes here tomorrow and I have to
make this apartment presentable. I have to do the deep clean.
I have to sanitize. I have to make it nice
for my sweet mother and her visit here to beautiful
Las Vegas, Nevada. So yeah, it's gonna be fun. It's
gonna be a good time. I'm gonna take her and
show her some things and some places and some people
and some stuff. You're gonna take her to Vamped on
Thursday night. There's a very light rock band that is
playing that she will enjoy. It's actually an acoustic duo
called Freaky and Faith. They are phenomenal. I'm playing seventies
and eighties light rock keyboard and a twelve string acoustic guitar.
They're great, They're good. This is so good. And then
her birthday is on Friday. Gonna take her to the Bootlegger. Yeah,
the famous Bootlegger that Eddie Trunk always talks about and
I've been to many times. I texted their owner because
I can do that. I'm people who know people, and
that is what shall happen. Mother will have a great birthday.
I'm rather excited about that. And of course I'm gonna
take her to see the dogs because she has to
see the goddamn turn I mean Tird, see the Tird,
that pretty little girl in the Harley. So anyways, I'm
just gonna hit you with a couple of things here.
First of all, more news on the Ryan White Maloney suicide.
And you're probably wondering why I keep talking about this, Well,
I didn't know. The guy news came out, Yes, it
was like yesterday or the day before that. There was
some kind of fun over at Jacket that was on TMZ.
And because we know TMZ is always the news, always correct,
Now when when did When did TMZ become the fucking news?
It's pretty wild? But apparently now as they are reporting
as of yesterday, because today is the fourth and this
came out yesterday afternoon, Ryan and his gal or his
ex wife, they were locked in a custody battle for
the in the months leading up to the suicide. The
dispute was taking a toll on his mental health, at
least according to his fiance. So he was okay. So
he had a fiance and there was a battle with
his ex wife about the kids or kid I don't
know how many there are. I think there's a couple.
Ryan's fiancees, Zana, tells TMZ Ryan and his ex wife
were fighting over the custody of their four children for
the past eight months. Zana says Ryan wanted to split
custody with his ex but she wanted primary custody, and
the back and forth was torturing him inside, as one
would expect. Oh Man to fight over kids is just
grueling people. Let's be adults. Let's be adults. Everything can
work out in the long run. Your children need a father,
your children need a mother. Your children need their father,
your children need their mother. You can make it work out.
She says. Ryan had a history of mental health struggles
and was working on his issues before fatally shooting himself
in Las Vegas. Yeah, so it goes on to reference
the previous article. Cops said, cops, cops, who wrote this?
Who wrote this? Why would you say, cops? Look, I
am not a scholar. I am not what one would
call a high falutant journalist. Although I was a journalist,
and we're going to get into that right after this.
But I know enough that you don't say cops, you
say the police. Cops said the couple was, Oh, maybe
that's her last name? All right, I take that back.
Let's see Ryan's fiance Esana. Yeah, they don't say her.
Let maybe that is her last name. Was arguing about
a jacket when he grabbed a gun from the glove
box and hopped out of the car and pulled the trigger,
which I believe happened inside or right outside the parking
ramp at New York, New York said he called her
a bitch argument beforehand, adamant he never spoke to her
that way, says she told the cops that she felt
that she felt like a bitch, and that was there
when he died and couldn't stop him. Okay, she didn't
want to talk to police and wanted time to collect
herself and give the statement later, but she said the
cops want to talk to her asap. Well, duh, And
of course they show the video at the bottom. Oh,
the celebration of Left is playing for Wednesday at All
Red in Vegas, where his band will perform his songs
with guest singers. So, oh shit, that's tomorrow night and
I can't go because my mother is in town. All right, Well,
there's that horrible, just horrible, just horrible fucking news. I mean, look,
like I said, I I'm not saying I was good
friends with the cat. I met him a few times.
I watched him perform a few times. But I know
people who are severely affected by his passing. I know
people who knew him very well. I knew people that
knew him better than me, but not that great. And
it's all a sad thing. It's a community here, and
I always say, it's like you move, You moved to
La and the vibe is, oh yeah, you play. What
do you do here? It's like, come, let's make money.
Let's make money. It's a fucking music community here, and
I love That's one of the things I love about
Las Vegas. So the community is shattered. Everybody is sad,
and it's a sad said thing. And may he rest
in peace? All right. So the other part of this
high flutin highly rated podcast is.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: I mean, why not tell some stories about me? Now?
There's there may be a few of you that don't
realize what I used to do in a former life,
that don't know where the name is he Presley comes from.
Don't know how Tommy Elwell became is he Presley? And
why I still use the moniker the gimmick. The nickname
is not a nickname when you give it to yourself.
The pen name, as it was, started out as I
was bartending press bar and parlor Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Rest
in Peace. That place was burnt to the ground about
five years ago. And I can't believe it's that long.
And it was burnt to the ground by the last owner,
not GREGANDZ who owned the place and sold it to
this fucking creetness humanoid and he torched the place. Saint
Cloud's home of rock and roll is now a hole
in the ground in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Part of me,
I need to sip a coffy. Ah, you know, I
do that on purpose. By the way. So there was
this magazine that started up in Saint Cloud called our
ex Magazine, your monthly dose of What's Hot, And they
knew I was a rock and roll motherfucker. So they
came to me and said, hey, Tommy, Tommy from the press,
what would you think about writing a monthly column rock
and roll news? And that's what I did, And I
thought about it. I'm like, well, Tommy Elwell's not a
very rock and roll name. Let's see, is he Stradlin
played on the greatest album of all time bar Non
Appetite for Destruction, Elvis is King, and bom is he Presley.
That's how it was born. They the names go well together, YadA, YadA, YadA.
So I took on the pen name the Moniker the
gimmick is he Presley? And that tiny little music news
column turned into stories. Then I moved to Minneapolis, and
I'm still writing for the magazine because it's all over
you know, email anyways, It's not like you have to
go to the office and do this shit. So I
started writing some sports stuff because their sports guy or
where they got their sports content wasn't working out anymore,
which turned into me taking the moniker of the sports
and music director of RX magazine. I handled all the
sports stuff, I handled all the music stuff, so basically
I was, in fact the sports and music director. Did
that mean I was making money? I no, it did
not shocking. I know, seems to be like a running
theme in my life. You do it, yeah you good? Ah, Yeah,
you're getting paid. That's cute. So yeah, that's what I
was doing, and uh, part of me, I'm not even
gonna mute this because I love you and you know that.
So I was doing that. Now I was starting to
get access. Press Box asked access to the Timberwolves, and
then it turned into the Wild, and then it turned
into the Twins, and then it turned into the Vikings.
I had season credentials for the Wild, the Twins, and
the Timberwolves, and a select two Vikings games a season
because football is the hardest one to get into because
there is so many people who want to cover it
and they can do that. So, you know, I covered
my couple of Vikings games a year. I covered one
year I was laid off. I had a payout because well,
let's let's get back to it. So I'm selling cars
in Minneapolis and doing the writing thing. And then I
take a job for a phone company and the name
of it is Echelon Echelon. It was a business phone
company downtown Minneapolis, and I meet this cat by the
name of Tommy Paid. Tom Paid whose gimmick name was
Tommy Danger. Tommy Danger had a fucking public access show
called High Voltage in the Greater Minneapolis area and his partner.
His producer was a cat by the name of Sandy.
Sandy there was a sound guy who I knew from
the jams and from being around the music industry in
Minneapolis and Saint Cloud. So we had so we had
a mutual friend and we became friends, which turned into
me having an appearance on High Voltage, which means I
had to use the name Tommy Olwell Tom Pets, Tom
Tom paid. What the fuck did I get paid from?
Tom Pets? So boom, I do High Voltage, which turned
into well, just be my co host. And we did
a lot of fun stuff on High Voltage, mostly music bassed,
but a lot of it was we did like fun
little gimmicks, like we did a Minnesota Swarm game and
we had a lot of fun like filming in there
and with the cheerleaders and all that kind of good stuff.
I've got some of these on on DVD and it's
fun to go back, Like we spent the day with Annville.
That was fun, you know. We did some stuff at
the Timber Lodge. My good friend Randy was the general
manager of We brought Mark Parrish in to do a
show there. We brought Curtis Foster in because you know,
working with the Wild you know, I knew the Wild players.
And then we did a big charity thing for mister
Parrish and that's one of the reason. That's how I
became friends with Mark. He's such a great dude. Sill boom,
I'm stuck. I'm Izzy Presley, still writing, moved Florida, still writing,
moved back, still writing. Then I end up on the
radio on rock and one oh one with my show
under the Covers with Izzy Presley, which may be making
a comeback, not on Rocking one o one, but uh,
you know other places. So and I'll keep you guys
posted about that. Obviously, that turned into that. That turned
into the Afternoon Drive. When Chod walked out one day,
quit got fired, YadA, YadA, YadA. Then I get us
on the Monsters Rock Cruise. Well I started the process.
We look, I just found out about the cruise, and
we worked with a a company. We did trade deals
where they would swap out trips for advertising airtime, and
we were somehow it worked out where we got a
cabin to give away on the cruise with airfare and YadA, YadA, YadA.
And then Larry called the station to thank us because
we were the first station in the country to do
anything with them, and all of a sudden about a boom,
but a bang, we're on the boat. Why don't you
guys come out. We're gonna give you another couple more
cabins and another one to give away, and boom, there
it is. I'm still Izzy Presley. So I moved to
LA I can't change the gimmick. Now. That's how everybody
knows me. So that's how I made my name in
LA as is he Presley. Now don't get me wrong,
I'm not saying that I'm a name in fucking Los Angeles,
just but you know, people in the community know who
I am. Which knows turns into hosting, filling in for
Paul Z when PAULI was on vacation for Ultimate Night,
Ultimate Jam Night, which turned and then when they split,
soundcheck Live starts Izzy, we need a host, and you're
my guy. Bought a boom, bought a bing. There's that,
Then there's the Ace Frehley tribute, then there the smoke
and kills. I'm Izzie Presley. I'm stuck with the fucking name.
That's how everybody knows me. That's how the name started.
That's why I'm still Izzy fucking Presley. But if you
want to call me Tommy, that's fine. I'm not one
of these uh stay k fabe at all times, even
though I should be more into that and not be
such an open book. But I think that's one of
the things you guys like about me, is that I
am an open book. That there is no bullshit, there
is no fourth I break down the fourth wall. So
there you go. There's that. I will have a show tonight.
I don't know who the I'm gonna try to work
on a guest. I don't know if I'll have time
to work on a guest, because I do have to
get this place fucking spotless for my sweet mother. But
this is for you, guys only. This is a patrion only.
I do love you guys, and uh we'll be back soon,
all right, talk to you guys later, or talk to
you tomorrow. In the words of my close personal friend
A J. A Job