Elvis Lives w/ Billy Stanley
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Elvis Lives w/ Billy Stanley

Elvis Lives? Billy shares his experience dying and encountering him in Heaven!

Elvis Presley, the legendary "King of Rock and Roll," captivated the world until his sudden passing in 1977 at the age of 42. However, beyond his musical prowess, lies a facet of his life often overlooked: his deep-rooted faith. Billy Stanley, Elvis's stepbrother, unveiled this aspect in his book, "The Faith of Elvis: A Story Only a Brother Can Tell."

In this podcast episode, Stanley shares first hand accounts into Elvis's private spiritual life."Contrary to popular belief, Elvis was a devout Christian"

Elvis Lives? Billy shares his experience dying and encountering him in Heaven!

Elvis Presley, the legendary "King of Rock and Roll," captivated the world until his sudden passing in 1977 at the age of 42. However, beyond his musical prowess, lies a facet of his life often overlooked: his deep-rooted faith. Billy Stanley, Elvis's stepbrother, unveiled this aspect in his book, "The Faith of Elvis: A Story Only a Brother Can Tell."

In this podcast episode, Stanley shares first hand accounts into Elvis's private spiritual life."Contrary to popular belief, Elvis was a devout Christian"

[00:00:00] and the world was. He said, come follow me. We look for more walks of life since, and then becoming our lives. Elvis Presley, known as the King of Rock and Roll, one of the most cultural, significant figures of the 20th century.

[00:00:18] Elvis has been inducted into five hall of fame's rock and roll country, gospel, rock ability in R&B. He has sold over one billion records. He's had over 150 different albums in single certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum. He still holds the record for the most top 40 hits at 114.

[00:00:42] He starred in 31 feature films and two concert documentaries. He won three Grammys, and they were all for gospel music. Elvis had 53 top 40 albums on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

[00:00:57] His Elvis Aloha from Hawaii, which was the global satellite concert. First time ever done seen in 40 countries that was watched by more people than watched the first man on the moon. Elvis is the only music artist to be honored with two U.S. postal service commemorative stamps.

[00:01:19] Which years ago I bought the 1993 one in 1993 a bunch of them and I framed them. I have them someplace, another in 2015 and that 1993 stamp, which is iconic today, is still the most popular U.S. commemorative stamp of all time.

[00:01:35] Elvis had one child, Lisa Murray. Soon after he came back from the service he ended up having three step-rothers. Not only three step-rothers they weren't in the background, they were a major part of his life and vice versa.

[00:01:51] As a matter of fact, there seems to be from this latest book I just read. One of the most important things to Elvis was to be a good brother to these step-rothers and did not consider them step-rothers but actual

[00:02:04] brothers. Ackon. Great to be here. Growing up with Elvis, we come from a strict military background with my mom divorced my dad and married Vernon.

[00:02:15] The first night we met him, we did my brother's night. We didn't know who he was because like I said we come from a strict military background.

[00:02:23] We didn't have a radio, we had a radio but they didn't listen to Elvis and we didn't have a TV so I never saw any of these movies. So I had no idea what it was.

[00:02:32] And then we walked into the house that night he shouldn't pull and he sees us and he walks over and says Daddy, what if we got here and he said these are your new little brothers.

[00:02:44] He picked all three of us up. We were so small I could pick all three of us up at one time. He picked us up and he said Daddy always went little brother and I have three.

[00:02:54] We just I didn't know who he was but I just thought man this guy's kind of me. And next page, what was your age then and where was he at in his career?

[00:03:03] I was seven years old and he just came out of the army. He got home in March and we did we moved in to Graceland in March.

[00:03:12] So right shortly after he came out so he was 25 but I was seven years old and my brother Rick was six and my youngest brother David was four.

[00:03:21] He took to sin that bed that night and he said he let us in prayer before he put us in bed. And then the next day we didn't know he wasn't really an early more in person but the next day he came in early.

[00:03:34] And it was like a fire grip coming wish got to go got to go and we started looking for clothes we was going to change out of our pajamas he said you don't have time for that.

[00:03:42] So he takes David and puts David up on his shoulders and grabs me and Rick by the hands it takes us in the backyard.

[00:03:48] And then there's three of every kind of toy you can think of. He had a store opened up that night and then bought all these toys for us and I looked up and he was like this guy Santa Claus.

[00:04:00] And that was the beginning of our relationship with him. That's how he welcomed us to the family. And when I was growing up and especially after we came to realize who he was in my teenage years and even up I was 24 or 40 past away.

[00:04:16] But when I sometimes we'd get it we'd nail it to end up at the end of his bed could sometimes he calls up to talk to him and he'd be reading his bow or something.

[00:04:24] And then he just felt like praying and he would get on his knees at the on the edge of his bed and. Or the side is bed and leading some prayer I'm just going if the world could see this guy right here right now.

[00:04:40] The guy I grew up because it there's been so much said and about him since he passed away. And it just seems like all anybody wants to do his focus on the negative things.

[00:04:52] Elvis was a Christian I'm just going to say it just he was a Christian was he perfect no but who is when I say this I would love to just say okay those without seeing cast the first time.

[00:05:06] But what it is about people that become successful or something and then the media and other people want to tear him down for what the guy was a good guy people always asked me the generosity man he just gave everybody its world famous.

[00:05:22] The says in the Bible the Lord loves a generous giver Elvis was the most generous give breath of her met my life he gave cars money and stuff to people he never knew.

[00:05:32] He does that one of the things that was left to do every day was just in Memphis he could get out and ride around. And what what she did almost every day either on motorcycle or his car.

[00:05:45] So when they said let's go for a ride building and said okay he said so I had to run upstairs and grab his wallet. And I put it in my briefcase and he and I just were right around.

[00:05:54] And we just he loved to just look at how how Memphis is growing and all this stuff like that and we pass this homeless guy. He makes the you turn and as he makes the you turn he says, hey me the money.

[00:06:08] Now when I talk about Elvis is why it was so thick with money you couldn't fold it. And so I said how much he said all of it okay so I take it all and I take he takes it.

[00:06:19] Cooks it down with 20 legs and we pull up to the gentleman. He rolls him in down and the the guy looks at me Mr. Pressley said yes he said please call me please call me.

[00:06:31] And he started going off about all that I used to have all your records I've seen all your movies. That was said that's enough about me sir. He said let's talk a little bit about you right now. Okay, so what's going on with in your life right now?

[00:06:45] I just hit a little rough path to everything is going to get better. I'm walking down here to unemployment office. I should be getting a job here pretty soon.

[00:06:52] And Elvis said I'm sure you're looking to change sir and he reaches out and he's got the money's hand to shake hands with the gentleman.

[00:07:00] And the guy puts his hand out and then he takes the money he's looking at it. He said no, Mr. Pressley said no I said please call me Elvis.

[00:07:09] He said I can't take this he said yes you can this is my way of repaying you for watching all those silly movies and buy on my records. And the guy started choking up and I'm still getting choked up.

[00:07:23] And he said God bless you, Mr. Pressley. He said sir, you already has and we drove away and I'm sitting there crying like a baby going I've never seen you feel like this.

[00:07:33] He said what's he used to having a bill if you can't share with your fellow man. Yeah, that was it. So he would read Bible to my brothers and that but he would do more than just read he would act out the park. And that is okay.

[00:07:49] You talking about a Bible lesson you'll never forget he could give you one I promise you, but he gets a wrap up in it.

[00:07:57] I mean everybody talks about being on tour with Elvis and stuff like that but the one thing that went with Elvis everywhere he went when he went on tour was about.

[00:08:07] He took even though the hotel might have a Bible he cared it with him and he was either my job or my brother Rick or Davis job to care that Bible.

[00:08:15] And make sure he was sitting next to his bed sitting on his bed stand at night could he read the Bible.

[00:08:22] I can't tell you how many times he read through the whole Bible and he he constantly read through it anytime he felt like everybody knows about all the problems that he had and stuff like that but that's where he got his comfort was reading from that right there.

[00:08:38] The sex drugs and rock and roll that's what that's all everybody talks about that's why I wanted to do this book here to give another they've only talked about one side of Elvis they don't talk about the complete Elvis and then that's what I wanted to that that's what I wanted to show the world with this book was there was more to the gathering what you just heard there was a lot more to it.

[00:08:58] You're 19 years old and I was said now the world is right there in the palm of your hand. What how would it affect you nobody says not even the president said nobody says no to you right so how would that affect your life.

[00:09:12] And I was so contact you can contact the White House and say I'm coming for a visit it was just a spur of the moment type thing too it was actually him and Priscilla got into a disagreement about how much money he was spending during Christmas.

[00:09:27] And he got upset and just took off in a car and while he's driving in a car go I think I'm with a ghosty president Nixon. He didn't have any money had to write out you when he got to the ticket counter to American Airlines.

[00:09:40] But he rises long letter while he's on the plane to go see Nixon because he wanted to get to get his DEA badge.

[00:09:48] And that's how it all happened it was just a spur of the moment it wasn't playing he had just okay this one go do but I said Nixon he saw it. It wasn't like oh you have to wait for us.

[00:10:02] Well, let me give us the giving the note and we'll get back to you. That's how it was our handle and they did they called him that night. I was always told me he we was watching a thing about Vietnam. He said there's another word going on.

[00:10:19] Where he told me he said the war within. He said you got the devil on one show and you got God on the other show. And he said in the battles right here and you're it. He said so who's going to win this.

[00:10:32] And I said I choose to go with the Lord. He said yes, he's a good answer bill. He said but with all the temptations in every turn. And he said that's perfect example was his favorite chapter first in the Bible was God so loved the world they gave.

[00:10:48] He gave he's only but got him so he said that's how much. See, but he would talk about he wouldn't really when he talked about the Bible he would talk about God's love that he loves us so much. That he sent his son to die for our sons.

[00:11:04] We all fall short no matter what good day you do in this earth is nothing to God. It's what you believe with all your heart and soul and he did it.

[00:11:17] But it's aggravating to me when I hear people get up there and tell her well if he loved the Lord so much how come he did this and that it. All right, I always are you a Christian do you understand anything about Christianity at all?

[00:11:29] And they usually when they say no let's let me explain something and then I start explaining what it's all about. And then then they'll either oh I didn't know that or I never thought of that.

[00:11:42] Yeah everybody was to dwell on his thoughts don't do that first off you don't need to be looking at some nice thoughts anyway you should be looking at good. Don't ever just focus on what they did wrong because who in the world hasn't done wrong.

[00:11:58] So when you're a believer you can sense the spirit and other believers he knew that his gift was a gift from God and I always say how many rock concerts you ever go to in the middle of it there's two gospel songs in the middle of the show.

[00:12:11] He did because he wanted to and it was his message of letting people know I'm a believer now he wasn't going to chapter and verse you and try to turn you off.

[00:12:24] But if you listen I always challenge people especially Elvis fans are people that aren't Elvis fans listen to any Elvis song then listen to a gospel song. You can hear the difference because he's heart and I put his heart so when everything you ever did.

[00:12:39] But when you hear that God that's why he got three grandemies praise gospel I mean you listen to that stuff and you can feel the conviction in his voice you hear it I mean I get tears my eyes listen it to it now because it's just so powerful way things basically saying it is just wow.

[00:12:58] If you never got to see him in stick on in person it is.

[00:13:02] It was a completely it was almost like a religious experience seeing and I mean he realized that and that's why he started he injected the gospel songs into it because he wanted people okay you're all freaking out.

[00:13:17] I'm going to give you something to freak out about they do those gospel song but they were so wrapped up in what he was doing that they missed the message just went over their edge he's a very sharing space with you that was his ministry was his music.

[00:13:30] He took it literally when it says in the Bible that you're supposed to love everybody and that was his message love everybody even your enemies yes. And I was I'd hang my head out that's hard he said it may be but that's what you got to do okay.

[00:13:46] He was a man he was curious especially when it comes to God and philosophies and stuff like this he was very curious and yeah he picked up their killer.

[00:13:57] Introducing gave some books and stuff like this which he read but then he put him away got rid of them because it all come back to this if it does in the line with the Bible that I'm not going to be a part of. That was it.

[00:14:13] Now I got to ask one favorite I see I notice you were at hat just but I thought okay can I put my head on please okay. Look at that.

[00:14:24] All right T.C.B. I feel like an outlaw when he was a teenager living here in Memphis he was sneak down and there was some there was a church of black church down on the field street and he would go into the black church and watch.

[00:14:40] And they move around when they're singing gospel songs and that's where he got it from it wasn't current anybody felt it just one of the perfect examples of Elvis and music because everybody talks about.

[00:14:53] Man he shot the TV said because Robert Guley in the story is the real story to that is we were in Vegas and there was a daytime TV show on where various artists that are performing in Vegas we come on this TV show and they do so or two.

[00:15:13] So that was what's sitting there and he was watching it and he just clicked oh oh that he shot the TV said and I just whoa what was that he said because all technique and no hark.

[00:15:26] He was could not stand an entertainer to get up there and just fake it you it's got to come from your heart what you got to put all your heart and soul into what the songs that you said and if you listen to Elvis and so Paul Simon was a perfect example.

[00:15:42] He went to the Madison Square Garden in 1972 and Elvis did bridge over trouble wars he started crying and they talked to him they said that's the way the song should have been done because when he sang a song out when I was growing up.

[00:15:58] And when he would be listening to the various songs that the early stuff that in the movie stuff he wasn't really crazy about that music at all it was just but when he started performing laughing yeah.

[00:16:10] He would hear a various songs just like bridge over trouble water now he would play the song.

[00:16:17] All day and I walked in only one day and there was nobody around I was wondering what was going on he said what are you doing he said I'm just listening to music. Okay, I said where are you? Yeah.

[00:16:30] I said there for probably about two hours and after about two hours that is going okay I'm tired of hearing this. I said so what are you what do you eat? I call it living with the music billy.

[00:16:41] That's it. What does that mean he said I get it in my head. I visualize the song in my head and if you listen to Paul Simon's version of it then you listen to Elvis's version.

[00:16:54] He keeps it true to what the artist originally meant for it to be but he changes it because he arranged it in his head to fit him. And that's what he's been called living with the song.

[00:17:07] So after that first experience in any time. I was in listen it was a really good song. Okay, I'm going to go now I'll see you later.

[00:17:15] But like steam roller blues James Taylor my brothers and I introduced him that song we were playing in the basement in Graceland when night and he walks he comes down there who's that. And we said that's James Taylor what's that song is called steam roller he played again.

[00:17:33] And we played it he played it again. So we played in a plan for three times yeah I like this song he's yeah thanks boys. We didn't know that he was going to turn around and record it live.

[00:17:45] But that's how yeah now as far as Elvis music because my brothers now as we got older. The influence especially when he came back doing live performances. He listened to a lot of the stuff that we played.

[00:18:00] He knew who Led Zeppelin was and in fact Led Zeppelin made him on tour and in their box set they said we want to thank Elvis's step brothers for playing our music. So he heard Led Zeppelin. He heard Clapton we got the meter Clapton even kiss.

[00:18:18] And all people in the litter scanner. Now everybody's his kiss and I go yeah there was a song. I was I had a date now it's down to basement at Graceland playing kiss alive. And the song let me go rock and roll comes up.

[00:18:33] So I'm playing here guitar I got a cranked up because it was a great sound system down here. And he must have heard it and he comes downstairs and I was like, hey Elvis, I'm at garage with it.

[00:18:44] I'm not following for that and then Elvis is hey Billy. Oh she turned her a he said what is that you're listening to? I said it's called kiss and it's the song that let me go rock and roll.

[00:18:55] He said kiss I'm painting the album cover. He just looks at it. Okay, I get it keep it simple stupid. I got it. He said they could take to make make up off and then walk around nobody knows who they are.

[00:19:07] Yeah, but he loved what ace freely was doing with the guitar work which was actually 50s get Tark grew on steroids. That's what he said. That's what we were doing back in 50s. What? He said listen to it, Billy. You know, I saw you're right.

[00:19:25] Yeah, he got all the big artists back in the day and that was one of the great things about being Elvis's brother we went to a lot of concerts.

[00:19:33] Now David, we did new Jerry, Jerry One truck which would you know he later became a famous movie producer and all that stuff like that. He was working for concerts west I think. And he said how come you're not with Led Zeppelin and all these other bands.

[00:19:52] He said David, I make more money on one night with Elvis than these guys doing a week. That's why I'm here because see my brothers and now we didn't really see Elvis as everybody else did. They saw this great superstar. We just knew him as a brother.

[00:20:09] In fact, the only time I heard who he was that was growing up the process. He made sure the process was really slow. It wasn't immediately who he was. But it was in 1969 when he came back and he did Las Vegas for the first time.

[00:20:25] I didn't want to go I wanted to go to woodstock. But they said no, the family vacation we're doing Vegas with Elvis and okay. So sitting there and looking around and going man this is not going to be nothing but old people here and I'm looking around.

[00:20:37] I see all these all different age groups. And I'm going wow this might be pretty cool. And I've seen all these celebrities go wow. He comes out and does the first song. I think I took one breath there in my whole show.

[00:20:51] I'm looking at my brothers who is this guy. But we've never seen this guy before. We've seen the actor and stuff but the only other time I got to the same before was in 1961, but I was only eight years old and I didn't understand it.

[00:21:06] And I really hear anything because there was too much screaming and stuff. Vegas 1969 and that's when I went. Now I know why they call him the king. Because that show out over seeing my life still. And I've seen a lot of bands.

[00:21:19] I called this episode as Elvis is alive. Yeah, May 19th, 2018. It was just normal day. I wouldn't you know, I mean, I had head chest pains all week long but I didn't know what a hard tech was.

[00:21:32] So I'm 65 years old and I'm just sitting there watching TV with my brother David. I said it's thing won't take in that. And the next thing I know, I'm standing and it looked like I'm standing on clouds.

[00:21:49] And it's the brightest light I've ever seen in my whole life and I started in fact it was so bright. I started looking for the source just to see where it was coming from. But there was there is no you don't see a light source. It's just bright.

[00:22:02] Then I started looking around and I said, all the I've never seen that many people before my life.

[00:22:07] It was like, when you see pictures if you were standing in the middle of woodstock and you looked around it's the only that compared to I've never seen that many people that was just from one side to the other. And I was just wow.

[00:22:22] And the first thing I felt all of a sudden was this overwhelming sense of love. Love so strong that it made you feel that you felt like you were glowing. That's how strong this love feeling is.

[00:22:34] I just took it all in and a voice I saw a city that had the best, the best, the only way I can describe it it had a wall. But the top of it had this golden hue from it. A voice that that's where you're supposed to go.

[00:22:49] So I took a small step because like I said, it looked like clouds and I wanted to make sure I could walk. I saw that I could. So I looked into city and I started walking.

[00:22:59] So the strange thing about it was as I was walking, the people were moving. I couldn't walk up to them. It was like they were moving away as I was walking to.

[00:23:09] And then I see a figure in the, it's got his back to me and as I get close to us. I'd say maybe five feet six feet away from him. He turns around and it's always. And he says, great to see but he did.

[00:23:24] The great thing about it in heaven is. You. They don't speak with their mouth. He can hear their thoughts. And he reaches forward like this and I walk up to him and he gives me a hug and pass me on the back.

[00:23:38] And I said, it's great to see you those. And then I was saying, I started getting a little scared because just as that happened. There's like the old cartoons how they closed in.

[00:23:48] It was just getting dark and I was looking at his face and the darkness was closing in around his face. He said, tell my family, my friends and fans. I love them. I'll see them when they give here. I said, okay.

[00:24:02] Then I heard another boy's just before God. He said, no doubt, no fear. Now I knew that was God. No doubt there isn't heaven. And no fear this is where you're going to be. The great thing about when God talks to he doesn't have to explain anything.

[00:24:19] And I knew immediately what he meant by that. No doubt, no fear. But there's that one stipulation he comes with it. That you have to bleed with all your heart and soul that Jesus came and died for your sins. And that's all it is.

[00:24:33] I came to and I'm laying on the floor and my ribs were hurting real bad because Liz is daughter of this mobile. I've heard daughter. It's seen a video on CPR or the week before the time.

[00:24:46] And she didn't do a CPR in doing the compression and stuff like that. And I was, when I come to you, I was okay, what am I doing laying on the floor? And I got to get up. I got to go to the bathroom.

[00:24:57] They said no, the paramedics are on the way up the stairs. What it happened is I had to suffer a heart attack stroke and seizure. I was dead for 10 minutes. But it seemed people say, oh, it turns. Man, it seems like a long. I was only there.

[00:25:12] It felt like seconds. So, you had no sense of time at all. Heaven is not a strong enough word to describe how beautiful and how peaceful it really is. When I walk here on earth and stuff like that, I walk a little fast, but there I was just.

[00:25:30] I was very slow and just relax the most calming feeling I've ever felt in my life. But that overwhelming sense of love is the first thing I made to you. It's just like, oh my God, you've never felt that kind of love before in your life.

[00:25:44] And it just like I said, it makes you feel like you're glowing. And the thing is, and I didn't tell anybody about this for probably about a month and a half. And I kept praying to God, what am I supposed to do with this?

[00:25:57] And finally that same voice. It told me no doubt, no verse. You're supposed to tell everybody, Bethany, Bethany. Oh, okay, I got it. And that's another reason why the book, The Faith of Oaks. Yeah, I liked that. Yeah, that's why I called it Elvis's alive.

[00:26:14] And when we're both there someday, you can introduce me to Elvis. Trust me, if you go before me, he'll come and say hello to you. We've got all your loved ones and every people you don't even know, they are also glad to see when you get there.

[00:26:29] I saw these people. I couldn't make I can see all the different skin colors and hair colors, but I couldn't make out their faces. But I could see a little bit of a smile on their base base.

[00:26:40] And it was like, it's a big welcoming party when you get there. Yeah, the base just said, there, I'm surprised they were going there. You made it, finally. But it changed my life because as a Christian, and up in one sense, I was 13, 14 years old,

[00:26:58] there was always to do that a little bit of doubt. Is it real? I want to believe it. I want to believe it. And I did believe it. Always have, but then God showed it to me. Okay, I got it now. I got it. Yeah. It's real.

[00:27:13] And I tell everybody, it's as real as me sitting here talking to you right now. Yeah. A real it is. And it is the greatest place ever. You have a brother that's now in a van de laus. Yeah, Rick.

[00:27:26] Now Rick passed away in 2019 that day before Elvis is birthday. He was a preacher. He worked with Billy Graham and me. And David became a minister also. He's no longer in the ministry, but he's thinking about getting back to it.

[00:27:42] But I was the last one to come on board with. And in fact, my brother, because I was baptized when I was 13 and 14, but I didn't really truly understand what it was all about. My brother Rick baptized me in gosh, I was like 79, 1979.

[00:28:00] Because then I understood who God would. I really had a better understanding at that day. That was like 26 years old and he baptized me. And it's just funny how God moved in our lives. How differently our lives changed after it was passed when he passed away.

[00:28:20] For me, the lesson I learned was there's no guarantee for tomorrow. That's why when I talk to people all love and stuff like that, for him's the stuff. I tell my love because I'm not going to get that chance again.

[00:28:32] So I've been learning how I want to know how I feel right now is opposed to how I wonder how I know how I'm going to tell you how I feel right now. There may not be another tomorrow.

[00:28:42] But as long as you believe the biggest thing is the things I've learned since then is a lot of people like watching your show and stuff. They may be praying for answers and stuff. And they're going to go in his God going to enter my prayer.

[00:28:57] When a stranger walks up to you and tells you something that you've been praying about, that's God talking to you. It's like you always said, God is always talking to you. He's not going on the door, but are you going to open it?

[00:29:10] So he's always talking to you. And that's what I tell people was, but Billy is so hard. Yeah, it's hard to follow what the Bible says. But man loves to make it so much more complicated than it really is.

[00:29:24] If you just, if you believe this will all your heart and so that Jesus came and died for your sounds, yes, where you're going, you're going to have it. Because it's not your deeds that get you there. Elvices at perfect example.

[00:29:37] What he didn't get in there, it was his belief. Because even in his deepest darkest periods of his life is when he would turn that by open that Bible, and he knew that's when I needed his lower right now.

[00:29:51] And that he was a, he read that Bible every day. He had mercy themselves in it. But like I said, but in her battle that's here, you got to battle on one side and God don't know other than that battle zone is in your head.

[00:30:06] And when you get these the urges and all these things, that's when you say, okay, God, I'm leaving it up to you. Help, you know, that's all it. He's waiting for you to say that. Just help me. That's he will. Are you going to do that?

[00:30:20] He Billy and closing. If someone came to you, had never heard of Elvis Presley, what would you want them to know about Elvis Aaron Presley? He was first off, he was probably one of the the finest Christians I ever met and he was also a great entertainer.

[00:30:40] That order. And here's Elvis sign on all these checks and you look at the expression on his face is he's not happy with because now you're bringing that tension to him doing this. No, I'm doing this because I love people.

[00:30:55] He used to do this every year where he would write out right 50 checks for a thousand dollars each to all these different charities and they took a picture of him once.

[00:31:04] And he's looking up and he's not real happy because he's not happy because you bring it to him. He didn't want the attention for that. I'm doing this at the goodness of my heart. I'm not doing it for any other reason. I don't want recognition for this.

[00:31:19] Even these stories that I share he didn't do it for publicity or he was doing it out of the goodness of his heart.

[00:31:26] And but and that's why I share a lot of those stories in the book is because I wanted everybody to have a better understanding of who this with what they say the greatest entertainer of all time. What he was really all about.

[00:31:40] And that's what that's what it's all about is yeah, he did all those those great things as far as business wise. But he did a far more greater things in his personal life as far as a Christian and that's what people needed them.

[00:31:53] He was not ashamed of who they was a Christian dog. He wanted to let people know he was but do it in a way that would be acceptable instead of forcing it. That's the problem with a lot of Christians that's they try to force that on somebody.

[00:32:08] That's not how you do it. You do it.

[00:32:11] But you ask you for it and then say, okay, and share it in a way that makes that they will understand and want to know more instead of no you got to be this and this and hammer it down and nobody can do that.

[00:32:24] There was only one thing that was Jesus. You just be the best person you can believe and believe is that simple and go to church. Yeah, fine. Good.

[00:32:33] I said we used to buy the good church one that preach us from the Bible because I've been to a few that oh yeah, we we love you and we'll pass the play around it but we're not going to say anything about the Bible or Jesus or anything.

[00:32:47] Okay, that's enough. But they're put on a good biggest style show. That's a good.