Hey, it's me, Mike Roe, and I'm always delighted when people stop by who are far, far, far, far more famous than I.

That is fair to say. Very fair to say.

One of the founding members of a little rock band called Kiss.

It was in the neighborhood, and he braved the L.A. traffic, which was no easy thing to do.

But he came in, and he sat down, and we began to chat.

And the pearls of wisdom just bounced across the table as they tumbled out of his mouth.

That guy knows a lot and he's not

afraid to tell you about it, right? A lot of fun facts in there. And one thing that he's very keen

about is how many Jews there are in the world? We definitely, we did talk a lot about the diaspora.

And the Jewish population, of course, Gene Simmons is very, very Jewish and is realite

in every sense of the word and eager to talk about it. And he does because he's Gene Simmons.

He's 75 years old. He's worth close to half a billion dollars. You want to talk about crypto?

You want to talk about fine art. You want to talk about the joy of music. You want to talk about the Holocaust. Whatever you want to talk about fine art you want to talk about the joy of music you

want to talk about the Holocaust whatever you want to talk about he sure can he's

been there and he's done it and he's a guy that I've wanted to meet for a long

long time and he didn't disappoint you know I mean if you're not old enough to

remember without overstating it kiss Kiss changed rock and roll,

changed fashion, changed music.

It changed everything.

Yeah.

I remember, let's see, this would have been 1975.

They had formed the band had, and they were playing, but no one knew of them yet.

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