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You wanted the best you got the best. The hottest podcast in the world, my mom's basement. Hello and

welcome to the Halloween edition of my mom's basement with Robbie and Mike Fox. This is my older brother.

If you haven't seen him or if you don't recognize him because if you're watching on YouTube and not

just listening on the podcast feed, we're all done up for Halloween. I'm Gene Simmons, he's Peter

Chris and today we are going to be talking about KISS. It's pretty awesome. Yeah man we had to. We

talked about this so many years ago about doing it and something about Halloween gets me in that

let's get painted up like freak spirit and who better to get painted up as than the hottest band in

the world. Well I was going to say this is my first time ever wearing KISS face paint my entire life

which is actually kind of surprising considering the KISS fan, the member of the KISS army that I am

but it's not your first time. This is what your third is it or second? Okay so it's my second.

It should have been my third and we'll get to that but I dressed as Gene for Halloween in fifth

grade I was 10 years old. I had seen them close out the VMAs and we should get to that too because

that was sort of the genesis, the birth of everything that might have happened in my whole life. But

let's fast forward all the way to 2011 I have a residency at a club in Hoboken New Jersey playing

drums with the DJs every week on a Friday or Saturday I think it alternated. I would set up the

drums next to the turntables and just blast all night. Allah Travis Barker DJ A. It was a really great

time and the club owner told me hey we've got Halloween party coming up and light bulb went off

big flashpot went off in my head. I said you know what now is the time to put on the whiskers

and I'm going to be playing drums I'm going to be Peter so I could play and have this great time

this Halloween party and play as Peter I mean lifelong dream to be slamming on the tubs with the

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