Gene Simmons: How is the Orchestra?

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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. Our thoughts are with all those affected by the wildfires in Southern California. If you can, please consider supporting those impacted, as well as first responders, by donating to the LAFD Foundation. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube at YouTube.com/@LiterallyWithRobLowe! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at 323-570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0	We, and we'll get to this, we lived in, we came of age and lived in the best time.
0:05.3	Oh, yeah.
0:06.0	Period.
0:07.0	Full stop.
0:08.0	Not even a question.
0:09.0	Hey, welcome to literally.
0:24.2	Wow.
0:24.8	I mean, today, if you'd have told me and when I was a young ingenue,
0:30.8	fledgling, teeny bopper, cover of 16 magazine kind of guy,
0:36.2	that I would have Gene Simmons from kiss on my podcast i would have
0:41.0	been like no way and today is the day we have i mean there's nobody like him nobody like jean
0:48.5	and uh the day has come we're going to rock and roll all night right now.
1:04.4	Gene, how are you?
1:06.4	I am deliriously happy.
1:10.3	I'd like to start off by saying you're a powerful and attractive man.
1:16.9	Coming from you, I never thought I, if you'd have told me when I was 15 listening to,
1:21.2	I want to rock and roll all night that this day would come, I wouldn't have believed it.
1:26.1	Well, I've obviously followed you and so have quite a few other people on the planet.
1:32.9	I think we might have shared a couple of magazine covers in the day.
1:34.5	16 magazine.
1:37.4	I have a feeling there are some kiss.
1:39.2	I bet you they're out there. I have a feeling that we might have been pinups together back in the day.
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