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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He decided at whatever point in his life that he's going to be the champion of champions of all time. And the rest is just hard work. I mean, that's the hardest part. But without lighting the fire, the spark, you're never going to get the forest fire. So it's mindset. Mindset is everything. You're about to walk a tightrope. You know what that is, right?
Yeah. I don't know if it's 50%, but there's a chance you're going to fall off. Yeah. Now, you can think about it in two ways. One is thinking to yourself, well, there's a tightrope and there's nothing holding, there's no net. You know, there's a pretty decent chance I'm going to fall, and I don't know if I'll get to the other side and all that stuff. Or you can do what champions do, delusionally.
There's no way I'm not going to get double negative, which means absolutely I'm going to get to the other side. What do boxers do? in the dressing rooms. I'm going to kill that guy when I get in there. What does a coach do when he gets into the dressing room and sees all these guys with towels? Oh, nice dick. No, that's another kind of coach. What does he do? He immediately starts yelling at them.
Who are you going to kill? Who are you going to do? You know, you get, it's called mindset. Yeah. And that's
I had an advantage. Yeah. I didn't have to compete with anybody. It was just my mother and I. And even if you're dealt unfair cards- You can still get up in the morning and work at jobs you hate. Sure. I worked the night shift at Williamson & Williamson, a legal firm in New York City, going at 8.30 at night, come out 12 hours later.
I could type really fast because I took typing and dictaphone in high school because the rest of the class were all girls.
Did I pronounce that correctly? I think you nailed it. What's up? Yeah, nailed it. Despite the fact that it's a T at the end and not an S, but I still pronounce it S. Yeah. That's incorrect, isn't it?
You tried a vernacular? That's a Dracula, right? Yeah, you start saying what's up in a big corporate event, see how far that gets you. I think you could get away with it.
Oh, I could get away with it, but only because of the fame and the money. Somebody who's looking for job security, not going to work.
I guess the doctor pulled me out by the wrong appendage. Yeah, maybe.
Well, as girls will tell you, they don't like to discuss it with other guys, but they'll talk to themselves about it. It's the movement. Mine is blessed with having the ability to have a spin and dry cycle and whip up a good goddamn froth. But by and large, the mystery of women is that no two are alike. I mean, men are as simple as ABC. Not even. You don't even get to see.
There's one movement you can make with your hand. Done. I figured out all men. No, soft, fast, too slow, too fast. And also to unlock the honeypot. The best you can hope for is to start spelling the alphabet. A, B, C. Oh, she likes the C. Okay, there's it. Every girl's different.
Well, it's worth noting that the two original guys who did partake... We're in and out of the band three times and then eventually out of the band. You can't be an Olympic athlete or a football player in something and be high. It doesn't work.
Now, conceptually, I could almost understand the idea of using crack or whatever the hell people call it, if it makes your schmeckle bigger or if you get richer or better looking or live longer or, you know, whatever those things are. None of that happens. In fact, it costs money. And if you drink enough, your schmeckle won't work. There's guaranteed you're not going to say anything bright enough
to the chick you're with. She's judging you, remember, trying to figure out if you're worth her time. You may throw up on her shoes that she just bought for the date, and if she lets you get close to her, Your equipment's not going to work if you drink enough. Oh, by the way, the next day you'll have a headache and you'll be, what the hell? What's that? Yeah, it's a terrible sales pitch.
So when I was 13, I'd be invited to sweet 16 parties because I was always taller and all that stuff. And, you know, they'd have spin the bottle and all that stuff and rub two sticks together and start a fire, see what I just did there. Kids didn't have no idea what spin the bottle is. That was a big thrill.
And see, you're not allowed to laugh at that because now you're a cis.
It's fine. I don't care. I don't give a fuck either. And then what happened was... I would wait until the end of the night when the guys were drunk and passed out and like a vulture swoop in and take any chick. Because they were all drunk and passed out on the floor.
I had Dick Donner, who had just started working on Superman, and Christopher Reeve, who was Superman, I think. And they both came up to my place. And we were talking about movies and stars and things. He had taken me over to Margot Kidder's house, you know, Lois Lane in L.A. when I was there. We were hanging out. And all I remember doing was playing my cartoon collection at Looney Tunes.
to Donner and Christopher Reeve. And I remember Christopher saying, what is this stuff? And Donner was saying, no, no, no, this is cinematic. Look at the edit of that stuff and the subtlety of Bugs Bunny cross-dressing with lipstick. I mean, it was deep, almost Shakespearean.
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