Gene Simmons
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1,552 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Dec
Gene Simmons’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Love is the most powerful force on the planet is a lie. Money is the most powerful force on the planet, maybe the only one, because if you're living on a Kalahari desert and you're the, that's in Africa, if you're a loving mother and you have a child in your arms and you would give your life for your child, there's a caravan going by. If you don't have money, you're fucked.
your loving child will die in your arms. Even if you're a terrible mother, but you have money, you will both survive. It's a horrible life lesson, but not if you look at money as the air that you breathe. It's neither good nor bad, or like water. You need water or you'll perish, but you can drown in water. Fire is really important.
It warms the food, kills the bacteria, and all this kind of stuff. But you can lie to Forrest Farr. And if you think you've got enough money, anybody out there listening, I'll give my personal bank information because I want you to wire me any dollar you don't need. Because I always want more. You could do a lot with Gene Simmons' personal banking information, folks. Oh, no, just gifting is good.
You don't need a bank. Just send it to me. It'll make me happier. I would challenge you on that, but we only have so much time. Please try. You win the lottery.
But the more money you make, the more flexibility you have with free time. I have so much. The less money you have, the less of a choice you have.
I don't want to get into that because I'm sure there are other elements in that relationship. I'm sure there are. Never just about that. No. I'm not getting into the muck and mire between you and your dad.
Well, over the years.
You know, they ebb and flow because... One entity might have a year window or a two-year window and so on. Nobody has an exclusive forever, but everything. You want me to do the joke, which I've done many times? Sure. We have made everything from Kiss condoms. We've made Kiss caskets. We'll get you coming and we'll get you going. I said it before, but it's still funny.
No. When I was a kid living with my mother in Israel because my father ran out on us or went off on his own, take your pick, when I was about seven and my poor mother had to go out and work six days a week. and do what in some racial ethnic groups, 70 to 75% of all households, married or single, are these brave, hardworking, single mothers because guys are assholes. Some guys are, that's for sure.
Predominantly, they leave. They just, one day they get up and they leave. They abandon the kids and the mother, and she's supposed to raise the child, make sure it gets to school on time, all that stuff, watch over them, and go out and make money. The real superheroes of the planet are women. Yeah, I can get behind that. Guys just work. Women give life.
We were always, relatively speaking, dirt poor. But I never... felt poor nor ever thought about poor. Listen to the language. How did you do on the test poorly? How is that? That's poor. How is that wine? Well, that's rich. The language tells you the value of the words. Think of it this way. We have a double standard. If you work hard and dig ditches, you know that Sunset Boulevard we drove down?
Somebody had to pave that pour the asphalt and all the rest of that stuff. They do that every day, vacation time if they can get it, but they get up every day and work at a job they don't like, in some cases hate, in summer, in snow, and everything else. And they hate it just for the money so that they can feed their family and survive. That's the salt of the earth.
But if you're an actor or a painter or a rock star, you know, whatever you are, and you make a lot of money, you're disparaged. And that's a nice way of saying, ah, that guy's an asshole. Well, there's no credibility there. I guess a lot of people do call me an asshole. It's usually for other reasons.
It's relative, depending on who's looking at you. I see. So when, as opposed to if, aliens land on the planet, they won't understand the differences. If you're in America, whatever racial group, and you come from the South... How y'all doing? What are you doing over there? You kind of go, snicker, snicker. Listen to how they talk. They're from the south. I'm from the, ah, those northern bastards.
Then there's East Coast versus West Coast. And then you look at middle America. Well, nothing happens there. And they look at you. Everybody's got differences. Then there's old age, young kids. You're an amoeba. You don't know anything. Then there's black, white, Hispanic, all the differences. Even Cain and Abel didn't get along very well. So your definition of yourself is based on to whom.
So if I was, quote, African-American and I lived in Harlem, I'd never think about being black because almost all my friends and almost everybody around me is black. And I don't want to talk for other white people, but there are varying degrees of who your mother was, who your grandmother was. You can be mixed or not mixed or all that stuff.
At the end of the day, you try to go through the stop signs and the different lanes of life, and then you die. So there's not much going on except trying to figure out how to be comfortable in your skin, whether anybody else gets it or not. So I've always been delusional about myself. Yeah.
How about this? I know Mike Tyson a little bit. We've spent time over the years. And to hear Mike talk, if you just turn off the visuals and the history, you would never imagine that that voice was the most dangerous person on two legs that ever stepped into the ring. That's true. Mindset and will dominates. In fact, if you're about to die in the hospital, doctors try to talk you.
There's such a thing as will to survive, will to live. And you can be self-destruct in your mind and release toxins. And you hurry up the clock where you die. What do they die from? A broken heart. What the fuck does that mean? Yeah, I don't know. No, actually, your body releases negative toxins which kill you from the inside. So Tyson, well, he was always too short to be a heavyweight.
He didn't have a long reach because he was short. He never had the girth or the strength early on. He used to get picked on. I don't want to go into how he survived. He'll tell you that himself. And he doesn't have the lowest voice. And there was an impediment, you know, all that kith and all that.
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