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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to a special edition of the Cheryl

Ackison podcast. Today, the world, according to Gene Simmons. We talk about culture,

politics, what defines a woman, Bitcoin, Donald Trump, and the new Reagan movie starring

Dennis Quaid, in which Simmons sings a silky song. By the way, Simmons was inducted

into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss.

I just can't get my poor soul together. Oh, I'm weary all the time.

Keeps who raining all the time.

Good to see you. Actually, you look fantastic.

Good lighting. That's the key.

Are we allowed to compliment women anymore or are those days gone?

Women over 60, absolutely. Women over 50, I think, absolutely.

I used to be a sixth grade teacher and people, by the way, should I shut up and get started with the record button?

Okay.

Okay.

But go ahead and start with your sixth grade teacher story.

Yeah, I know I don't look like what I used to be, what I am and what I'm going to be.

You know, you don't always judge a book by its cover,

ad infinitum and ad nauseum. Of course, these are semantics, but I'm not anti-semantic. You see what I did

there? That was a kind of... I do. So I used to be a sixth grade teacher, and I loved books. I

wasn't born in America, and so I fell in love with the House of God,

which once upon a time was called the library and all kinds of books from mankind's knowledge.

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