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Jan 2025
1h 4m

Gene Simmons: How is the Orchestra?

Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe
About this episode

Gene and Rob are here to explain magazines to Gen Z! Legendary KISS frontman and business mogul Gene Simmons joins Rob Lowe to discuss his relationships with the "Holy Trinity" (Cher, Diana Ross, and Liza Minnelli), the surprising historical origins of the classic KISS makeup, his experience as a sixth-grade teacher, and some moving memories of his mother, an amazing woman and Holocaust survivor. 


 

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