Ron Gross
speaker
113 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2009
last heard Sep 2014
Ron Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think any fact that either stops you from performing your job or is potentially life-threatening, by definition, is material.
Okay.
So, major surgery, that's a material fact?
He's one of those stars that really became larger than life.
You can count them on your one hand, Elvis and Michael Jackson, a few Beatles.
Weird Al Yankovic.
Weird Al Yankovic.
He's number six on my list.
He became larger in life and he led a lifestyle, the word extravagance probably doesn't even come close to what it was.
And although Forbes, I think, estimated its net worth in early 2000s at about a half a billion dollars, I think that might have even been conservative at that time, he was leading a lifestyle that he just could not afford.
And that's, I think, an extreme example of something we should all watch.
Now I'm disappointed that this isn't a video podcast.
I think we have to give him his due.
He changed the face of pop music.
It crossed racial barriers, socioeconomic barriers.
I was 14 when Thriller came out.
It was a big deal, and it remains a big deal today.
Number one on iTunes and Amazon today, following his death.
And he really did change the face of music.
Did we all have the poster?
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