How Old - Age: 75. Today, in the Instagram generation, Michael Gross could have staged his Adonis body in a completely different way. And this kind of keys into who the originator of QAnon is. Mr. And it's almost like this fear substance that is produced. GROSS: If those two are behind it, if the people who run 8kun are behind it, does that mean that they're doing it just to get more followers, and therefore to maybe make more money? So then, one day, some QAnon believers said, hey, do you think that guy looks like JFK Jr.? Ever since, millions of fans worldwide have come to believe the singer's death was a hoax and that he was still alive and well. Michael is alive and kicking and is currently 72 years old. It's like - it's the fountain of youth, essentially. There was one analysis that said a third of all of his posts have been promoting QAnon. But because she was a QAnon believer - and she was holding a giant Q on a staff maybe twice her height - she said she wasn't just there to, you know, see Trump reinstated or see him get another four years or disrupt the vote count. It really all centers on him. And there are some obvious similarities here. And one of the people who impersonates him, Vincent Fusca, developed his own following. I think often they're mistaking Botox, you know, fillers, etc. And ultimately, she would face charges for her role in the riot. And when I was reading them, I was so struck by how QAnon had really reached the top ranks of the government. WILL SOMMER: Sure. So this - but at its core, it is this idea of this kind of satanic or this occult ritual involving children's blood. We asked Gross himself. I think in terms of why QAnon believers see Donald Trump as, as you say, a messianic figure - it is baffling. The documentary follows Michael Peterson from his wife's death in December 2001 to his release in 2017. That's why, you know, Trump couldn't take them down this time. GROSS: And also, you know, if your beliefs aren't based on logic, logic will have a hard time undoing those beliefs. [1] Gross and his younger sister, Mary, were raised Catholic. And we're also seeing the - I think the idea that we - that Republicans got from QAnon, that you could sort of just casually call your political opponents pedophiles or accuse them of being involved in conspiracies to corrupt children, that this is - has become mainstream in the Republican Party. Fox married Tracy Pollan who was once a co-star in the 'Family Ties' on July 16th, 1988. You were outside the Capitol speaking to QAnon followers. And that is taken as a criticism of Jerome Corsi and Alex Jones. Writer, journalist, comic reader. Fox & Justine Bateman, Yes, father of: Theodore Alex Burkhardt & Katharine Lucille Burkhardt. Can you explain what's going on there? It wasn't his idea, but that is not to say that Gross felt forced out. UPDATE 02/03/2023 : This story seems to be false. He didn't last long. That's because the pandemic has disrupted the adrenochrome supply. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. I talked to people who had lost family members to this group. So Q ends up on 8chan, where - there's an interesting moment. So I think this conspiratorial nature of QAnon has really gone mainstream in the GOP. [6][7], Gross guest-starred in an episode of the sitcom Night Court, in which he played a sexual predator of Markie Post's character, Christine Sullivan. This is real. SLR Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:SLRC) Q2 2021 Earnings Conference Call August 4, 2021, 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Michael Gross - Chairman and Co-CEO Bruce Spohler - Co-Chief. Some of them call him the God emperor of the United States. We got to stick with the original QAnon guys. " He joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. But as you say, I mean, this is also a group that was heavily involved in January 6, several murders. Gross appeared in 2000 on Spin City as a therapist to Michael J. SOMMER: Sure. He had a van covered in Trump pictures. Followers have committed murders. During a CrimeCon . And he's a guy with sort of a thin mustache, a - middle-aged. Related: Warner Bros. and Legendary Release First Trailer for Denis Villeneuves Dune! Joh'Vonnie. You have tried to track down Q's identity. But go over again the conspiratorial beliefs about this substance known as adrenochrome. It is a guy who in some ways seems so venal and is such a slave to sort of his basest instincts, you know, whether it's his ego or sexual gratification or greed. We're going to get the queen of England. SOMMER: It's very complex. For one thing, the showrunners originally planned on outright designing the show to be a breakout opportunity . "I always said, if Kevin Bacon or Fred [Ward] or Reba [McIntire] or anybody [wanted to return], I'd be there in a minute," Gross said. And these are both, like, very far-right, very conspiracy-oriented channels. Michael Gross. And I got in there. SOMMER: (Laughter) Yeah, it's very mind-boggling. In a video obtained by TMZ, someone that looks an awful lot like the legend is seen having a night . I mean, this is one of the most fascinating things to cover about QAnon, is how QAnon more broadly, for someone outside of it, looks so ridiculous. SOMMER: The amount of money involved in these events, I think people often really don't realize the - as you said, I went to an auction of QAnon paraphernalia. She had a major role in shaping the career of Michael Jackson, and he had made her millionaire. The fans certainly havent walked away. Updated on September 30, 2021, by Michael Chaar: David Hasselhoff was once upon a time the "it" actor. Let's start a little bit with family, because you've written about families where one family member becomes a part of QAnon, tries to convert the rest of the family. Michael Jackson is alive! The anonymous figure Q had gone silent shortly before that and said, hey, everyone, stop identifying as QAnon believers. He - yes, as you say, he's saying - now that he's been cast out of QAnon, he turns on it, and now he says, well, this thing that makes us all look ridiculous, that inspires all this violence, that is - that has nothing to do with me, even though, No. [5] His performance in Tremors 3: Back to Perfection earned him a Best Actor award from the DVD Exclusive Awards, formerly known as the Video Premiere Awards. GROSS: So is the whole bit here that JFK Jr. staged his own fake death so he could return as Q? But then after a few months as QAnon is exploding, everyone is profiting together, the people who win on Infowars are making money, Alex Jones is making money, it sort of seems as though Alex Jones and Q sort of look at each other and they ask, who's in charge here? And so JFK Jr. saw this and said, you know, I know how sick these people are. So QAnon went underground for a little while. SOMMER: Sure. While many of the stories in No Time Like the Future revolve around Fox's family and friends having fun and living fulfilling lives, at its core, there's a sequence of frightening brushes with serious illness and even potential death. Michael Gross, the great German butterfly and freestyle swimming ace of the 1980s. SOMMER: So Alex Jones, as you say, is sort of the the godfather of the current American conspiracy theory movement. March 2023. Before the murder case, Michael Peterson's net worth was over $2 million, and he had a substantial amount in his life insurance. Andros still sometimes visits George's grave. It was kind of like the second coming or something, and I just can't understand why, of all people, Trump became this messianic figure. Now, adrenochrome is a real thing. Vote For The 2021 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards; First Stats Announced! If you'd like to catch up on FRESH AIR interviews you missed, like this week's interviews with actor Ke Huy Quan, who's nominated for an Oscar for his performance in "Everything Everywhere All At Once," or actor Cate Blanchett and writer-director Todd Field, who were each nominated for Oscars for their work in "Tar," or Jeanna Smialek, author of a new book about the power of the Federal Reserve, check out our podcast. This substance called adrenochrome is a liquid fountain of youth that will help keep the users alive. Really, its the monsters inside of him that are always more interesting to me than the monsters outside, he said. He lived long enough to make love with his new bride, Jane, the virgin mother. Michael knew he was important, he knew that he had struck gold, but nothing changed," Gross said of Fox, who starred as Alex P. Keaton on the show. Jim Watkins runs a pig farm in the Philippines. This is FRESH AIR. Just because one, I love Burt, but I always thought of him as this guy kind of on the fringes, and I just came to the fore because everybody else walked away.. The film, which debuted on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital today, centers on a group of trophy hunters who go after genetically-modified graboids on a tropical island. Some theorists claim that a video, which emerged after the . And the psychologist said, all right, well, you know, first thing's first. The stuff about adrenochrome and the dungeons and all this stuff, that is true. He's the author of the new book "Trust The Plan: The Rise Of QAnon And The Conspiracy That Unhinged America." George Michael's former partner Kenny Goss will reportedly receive a share of the singer's 97 million estate, after a long-running legal battle. His other television credits include Boston Legal, How I Met Your Mother, Batman Beyond, ER, Parks and Recreation (Episode: "Summer Catalog"), Law & Order, and two of its spin-offs: SVU and Criminal Intent. And it makes them seem young and vigorous. It's - the QAnon person she was quoting from wasn't even a mainline QAnon person. Michael Gross was born on June 21, 1947, and spent many of his formative years in Chicago, Illinois. And maybe eight isif I had a concept for eight, it would be Burt horribly injured, but in a motorized, weaponized wheelchair that has rocket mounts on the side and can leave an oil slick behind like James Bond's car. I talked to - I was shadowing one of them, and these women were so excited to see him as though they had seen, you know, a real celebrity. In a conversation with Mike Birbiglia's for his "Working It Out" podcast . "Frankly, I thought to myself -- I didn't express it to them, but I thought to myself -- 'Maybe Universal's getting a little tired of this franchise.' They can all thank an escalating arms race for content that in recent years has enriched the world . And when that didn't happen, they were shocked. GROSS: By the way, if drinking adrenochrome from the brains of children who had been sexually abused by Satan is really - if that's a fountain of youth and gives you kind of eternal youth, which is one of the beliefs of QAnon, why have Democrats been accused of being a gerontocracy? Jim Watkins is a very right-wing guy himself. GROSS: Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer at The Atlantic. If you can - that's a lot to ask you in one answer. Michael is widely recognized for starring in the sitcom Family Ties and film franchise Tremors. Michael Gross, National Lampoon alum, artist, and designer, has died of cancer at the age of 70. I mean, as simple as that sounds, and as silly, that is where they draw it from. So how did they become proponents of QAnon? . But I mean, he seems to be having the time of his life. Because this wasn't my idea.". It's a psychological operation perpetrated by the intelligence agencies to undermine the real truth tellers. It's about heaven and hell. The estimated Net Worth of Michael S Gross is at least $9.82 Million dollars as of 1 March 2021. So I had that sense of this really unsettled anger that QAnon had caused that ultimately did help end up driving the riot. But when that happened, they got really concerned. His most notable roles are fatherly figure Steven Keaton from Family Ties and graboid hunter Burt Gummer from the Tremors film and television series. I mean, just Vincent Fusca alone, this guy who, you know, he knows is sort of impersonating JFK Jr. - there is comedy there. Jerome Corsi almost embeds with these conspiracy theorists who are decoding the messages. Michael Edward Gross (born June 21, 1947) is an American television, film, and stage actor. We'll be right back. "And he's really pissed off at them. He made his money as a government . Of course, Gross also said recently that if Universal wanted to reboot the franchise again with Burt in a minor role as the cranky survivalist neighbor -- the character's starting point, before all the other original Tremors leads fell away -- he'd be delighted for it. Shrieker Island looks to be his last hurrah (no spoilers) but the 73-year-old is open to a reboot under the right conditions. And these thousands of people were on their feet crying for blood. Lo and behold, this is our Top 60 of celebrities that have been caught smoking or, Celebrities dont always wear makeup anymore. Long-time friend Andros Georgiou believes the singer would still be alive if Anelsmo had not died. This is FRESH AIR. If you're just joining us, my guest is Will Sommer, author of the new book "Trust The Plan: The Rise Of QAnon And The Conspiracy That Unhinged America." Pinterest. What impression did you take away from this guy? Copyright 2023 NPR. Yeah. And it was fascinating. His other notable works include Big Business, Batman Beyond, ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and How I Met Your Mother. But ultimately, in the HBO documentary "Q: Into The Storm," which really investigated this pair, his son, Ron, sort of confessed. On Thursday (March 02) the actor's reps officially confirmed that Michael J. And so instead, you should trust random guy with a YouTube channel or random person with a Twitter or Telegram account. And, you know, the son just came in one day and said, look; Mom and Dad, I want you to know that in the next couple of weeks, some pretty big celebrities are going to be arrested for being pedophiles. SOMMER: Yeah, so certainly I think people cycle in and out of QAnon. He's been reporting on QAnon since it began. Don Michael Paul's Shrieker Island - now available on Blu-ray, VOD and Netflix - ends with the death of Michael Gross's iconic character Burt Gummer, sacrificing himself and being devoured . They thought that would be when Trump would execute his enemies, send everyone, like, from Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton to Tom Hanks to Guantanamo Bay. And so when you look at, you know, "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" YouTube clips about adrenochrome, all up and down in the comments, it's QAnon people saying, you know, Q sent me here and things like that. And an interesting thing about Michael Flynn is that we know privately that he feels that QAnon is fake and that it is a ruse because Lin Wood, one of his rivals, secretly recorded him saying as much. It's a byproduct of adrenaline. His book, Trust the Plan, makes the case that there are more conspiracy theories to come. Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Amy Salit, Phyllis Myers, Roberta Shorrock, Sam Briger, Lauren Krenzel, Therese Madden, Ann Marie Baldonado, Seth Kelley, Susan Nyakundi and Joel Wolfram. Since 2009, Gross has been the "celebrity spokesman" for the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. And this would go for $5,000, $10,000. And everybody else is like, Nah, Ive had enough. That means the alternate ending was likely never meant to see the light of day. Michael's wife was found lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase in the couple's residence. This is FRESH AIR. In 1988, he portrayed a murderous bank robber in the true life movie In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. So her text messages came out because the January 6 committee got them through Mark Meadows. And it's all of these conspiracy theorists under the banner, as you said, of Michael Flynn and a guy named Clay Clark, who's a Tulsa radio host, who's sort of a - slash sort of entrepreneurship guru. So one of the major ones is a question of whether JFK Jr. faked his death in the '90s from a plane crash and is, in fact, still alive. Appearing in countless television classics, including Baywatch and Knight Rider, the actor was all anyone could talk about throughout the 90s. So tell us a little bit about 8kun and its predecessor, 8chan, and how they have been linked to either knowing or being Q. SOMMER: Sure. In a 2018 interview with DailyMail, Joh'Vonnie revealed that she didn't have a close relationship with the Jackson family, despite the fact that she is officially Michael's half . He's hanging out with them in their chatrooms. But increasingly, as they started to suspect that it was not really a high-ranking intelligence official, they started to distance themselves from Q. Various writers had used it as sort of a stand-in for a very powerful drug, I think, because it just sounds cool. And, of course, now, you can look at that and compare that to what they believe about - what QAnon believers think about adrenochrome. And then, of course, he never responds. MICHAEL Jackson is alive and well and preparing to make a massive comeback, according to a group of his friends and collaborators. michael jackson is alive 2021 | NEW LIFE | Storms can COME BACK? Fox is still so well known around the world, it may be difficult to remember just how big he really was. Of course, he promoted birtherism, saying that Barack Obama was really born in Kenya and was therefore not qualified to be president. And then, in a sort of more mundane but similarly tragic way, there are also just all of these families that have been destroyed by QAnon, where suddenly someone in the family starts saying, well, you know, I got this crazy story about Hillary Clinton to tell you. Let's get back to my interview with Will Sommer, author of the new book "Trust The Plan: The Rise Of QAnon And The Conspiracy That Unhinged America." July 14, 2021 by Frank Lake. And they would have kind of a shoddily Photoshopped picture of Michael Flynn as a Revolutionary War hero, perhaps with a Q or a 17, which is a prominent Q symbol. SOMMER: Sure. So it is just a deluge of content, a lot of it pornographic. Spoilers ahead for Tremors: Shrieker Island, out today. And then she quoted from a QAnon website that Biden and his co-conspirators would be headed for Guantanamo Bay to face military tribunals. And people say, wow, it's JFK Jr. And he says, well, maybe, maybe. So that's what leads people to believe - and to my mind, even though he denies this, this is the most compelling explanation of who currently controls Q - is Jim and his son Ron Watkins had seized control of Q to draw more people to their channel. Recently, the 60-year-old explained that while he doesn't fear death, he's "happy . But he positioned himself as sort of a trusted acolyte of Q and someone who is sort of the interpreter for Q, his sort of oracle of Delphi. It's prominent bankers. It's hosted by Michael Flynn, General Michael Flynn, who was the first national security adviser to Trump. Fox says living with Parkinson's disease has influenced the projects he selects in his acting career.. Caine who is 85 now was born on March 14th 1933 in London. This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: And, of course, there's money involved. Why do they, you know, stage these mass shootings? He was involved with a gang for a couple of years during high school before becoming a better student. And she just said, he's alive, and sort of flitted away into the crowd. He is notable for playing Steven Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties (198289) and survivalist Burt Gummer in the Tremors film franchise, being the only actor to appear in all the films, show and a canceled pilot. I think initially the idea was that they sort of had a golden goose here in QAnon, in Q posting on their forum. And this idea, obviously, as ridiculous as it sounds, it catches on across Europe and inspires these pogroms where Jewish people are murdered in the thousands, at least, to the extent that one of the popes had to come out and say, just, everyone, stop believing in this. We don't live in utopia. I am Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. If Elvis Presley were alive, he would have turned 86-years-old in January 2021. Why does that - and military tribunals - why does that figure so much into QAnon? Let's get back to my interview with Will Sommer, author of the new book "Trust The Plan: The Rise Of QAnon And The Conspiracy That Unhinged America." Thea Chaloner directed today's show. It's difficult to get into. And particularly in [Shrieker Island], I said, Its time for him to deal with a woman. And whoever originally runs Q says, wait, you know, I'm losing control. Michael Caine. So the blood libel is this topic that emerged around the 13th century. So first of all, yeah, let's take Ginni Thomas. Now, once they move it over to 8chan, he then - whoever runs Q loses control of it. ELVIS SEEN AT GRACELAND ON HIS 85th BIRTHDAY! But when I said to him, you know - are these pizza socks about Pizzagate, you know; are you wearing this QAnon pin because of QAnon? But the question is who's going to make money from it? Can you tell us about some of those splits? Disclosure Information: Some of the organizations with products on our site may pay us a referral fee or affiliate commission when you click to apply for those products. Journalist Will Sommer went to road shows and spoke to believers and their families while investigating QAnon. Why did Michael Jackso. GROSS: Trump to QAnon believers - at least when he was president - was a savior. And he's kind of cast out of the movement. Michael Gross was born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, to Virginia Ruth (Cahill), a telephone operator, and William Oscar Gross, a tool designer. In his book, the Hunter S. Thompson character receives a drug called adrenochrome from another character, and that guy says, you know, you can only get this from a pedophile. It's the answer to, why does the cabal do this? Michael Gross Birthday. Alex Jones has a conspiracy theory about the conspiracy group QAnon. I was hanging out at the Trump Hotel, and I saw this woman wearing a JFK Jr. shirt, who was convinced that he was coming back That day. Trump is posting about QAnon on Truth Social, his platform. As Gross previously told us, though, the death of Burt was Universal's idea, not Gross's, because the studio and filmmakers thought that after thirty years, it would lend some real emotional heft to the film if the audience finally had to say goodbye to Burt. I mean, it really is - as ridiculous as it seems, it is a viable movement for many. But he still appears at all of these events. Netflix. SOMMER: Yes. He discussed what gives the eccentric survivalist staying power and what keeps the actor coming back for more. madden 22 our servers cannot process; gloria borger thyroid; how to treat allergic reaction to surgical glue; airbnb near 3510 coral way, miami fl 33145. how were japan's industrialization and imperialism linked FRESH AIR's executive producer is Danny Miller. Like, look at Jim Jones. Apr 10, 2022 - michael jackson is alive 2021 | NEW LIFE | Storms can COME BACK? She said that she was there because she believed that world elites keep children in tunnels where they drain them of their blood - they call them mole children - and that she believed that, you know, the sort of the greatest forces in the world were committing horrible crimes against children and that there had to be this kind of climactic moment that she believed would be that day. By Neil Genzlinger. A substance with special, energizing qualities that can only be found in the brains of children who have been sexually tortured in satanic rituals is harvested from children and distributed to top Democrats, Hollywood celebrities and bankers in the cabal. He's got a kind of a permanent 5 o'clock shadow. As far as Guantanamo Bay goes, I think a psychologist might be able to say what about the American psyche it is that - and how the war on terror has affected us that Guantanamo Bay looms so largely that people say, well, you know, we just got to - we got to cut through this mess of politics and gridlock. The New Zealand shooting, among others, was posted there. Others claim that Jackson really faked his own death, perhaps in order to escape the public scrutiny he had endured for his whole life. So when the Q posts start appearing in October 2017, it doesn't take long for Alex Jones to seemingly see this as an opportunity for content, which he's always on the lookout for.