1092: Gene Simmons | KISS and Make-Up
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What insights does Gene Simmons share about wealth creation?
Coming up next on The Jordan Harbinger Show. If you have a hit single and you just sing in the microphone, they're paying more money for a ticket than they do for the album. It makes fans. Michael Jackson, without all that dancing and the backwards and the stuff, not the same artist.
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That's his personality. I guess a lot of corny sex jokes you might also expect if you were like hanging out with a pervy kind of grandpa kind of dude. But we also dive into money, fame, parenting, and even Taylor Swift. All right, here we go with the one and only Gene Simmons. I told my trainer that I was interviewing you. He's from Newfoundland, where your wife is from. And he told me that he had some mutual contacts growing up. And while the Internet says she's from St. John's, Newfoundland, have you heard about the small town where she's apparently actually from? Dildo. Dildo. I thought that was fake. But since you've heard of it, it's not.
I want to tell you the actual. You want to hear something crazy? Yeah.
That's kind of crazy.
Yeah, it was. That checks the box. See what I did there? We actually went and visited there because there's a dildo post office. She hates it when I mention this. And we ate at the dildo cafe. Overlooking Placentia Bay. No. Look it up on Google and Schmoogle. And there's Captain Dildo. It's a fascia, in other words, a two-dimensional thing of a guy with a beard, just like you'd expect. And he's holding like a blackboard. And people write, it's about six feet tall, people write sayings. Stay where you're at and I'll come where you're to. By, you know, all kinds of new feet things. I had a dildo burger. Mm-hmm. I'm not making it up.
What's he roll with the name? I swallowed.
Yeah. And there's more. Stay tuned, kids. Get grandma in here. I probably know her. So there's Placentia Bay. There's Come By Chance next town. And there's Spread Eagle, which is the town next to that. Really? There used to be a Spread Eagle coin. before Newfoundland joined Canada because they refused to join. They were very rebellious and stuff. I didn't think they joined until, oh, something like 1950. Before then, they had their own militia, their own currency. Yes. They're like the Texas of Canada. Well, different culture. They had displaced Irish with a touch of French and everything. By the way, if you go there and you want to be ingrained in it, you've got to kiss the screech. I'm not making any of this up.
I believe you. Why make it up? It's already weird.
It's a dead fish, and you've got to kiss this thing and do other godly things to it. That has to do with where the sun don't shine.
It's on brand, man. But you coming from hot yoga, what the f*** is that? Hey, man, my producer dared me to go. He said, let's do it.
Yeah, because you always do what she says.
Yeah, he's like, worst case, you'll get a story for this show. Is it a she? And here we are. No, no, my producer's a guy. But is he a she? Okay, go ahead. So far, no. Let's not get political yet, eh, Gene? You're quite a renaissance man. Fine artist with gallery shows, film production company, tons of products, not just the kids' stuff, but I mean, there's food, there's alcohol, multiple books. What keeps you doing more? You don't need the money. Obviously, you're trying to stop... I really don't.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What insights does Gene Simmons share about wealth creation?
0:00–15:46
2
How did Gene Simmons' background shape his success?
15:46–20:47
3
What is KISS's strategy for building fan loyalty?
20:47–27:36
4
How does Gene Simmons view the importance of knowledge?
27:36–34:28
5
What does Gene Simmons say about reinvention?
34:28–1:03:53
6
How does Gene Simmons relate money to purpose in life?
1:03:53–1:21:23
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