Pairing Gene Simmons MoneyBag Soda with Aganorsa Leaf Cigars!

Three Sides of the Coin – A KISS Podcast and Radio Show

Michael Brandvold, Tommy Sommers, Mark Cicchini and Lisa Martini

Music, Music History, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.3 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Episode 643. The Gene Simmons MoneyBag Soda team joins us with Aganorsa Leaf cigars to give us a update on a new partnership to bring you Gene Simmons MoneyBag Soda and Aganorsa Leaf cigar pairings. Enjoy a good cigar with soda!

Visit: http://genesimmonsmoneybag.com
Visit: https://aganorsaleaf.com

DON’T FORGET… We are going to be recording Three Sides of the Coin LIVE in Las Vegas on Saturday 11/15, 930am-1030am AND Sunday 11/16, 930am-1030am… come by and join us in The Shag Room at the Virgin Hotel, you can be part of the recordings!

Press requests please contact Michael Brandvold at www.michaelbrandvold.com

Since launching in 2012 Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 6,000,000 times. Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, Eddie Trunk, AEW Superstar and lead singer of Fozzy Chris Jericho, Angel lead guitarist Punky Meadows, Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook, Vinnie Vincent Invasion and Slaughter lead singer Mark Slaughter, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, comedian Craig Gass, KISS’ former business manager Chris Lendt, the Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack, Frank Munoz associate producer for Ace Frehley’s Anomaly album, award winning songwriter Adam Mitchell, Ed Kanon (Peter Criss’ drum tech), Kevin Valentine (drummer on KISS’ Psycho Circus album). Three Sides of the Coin was picked (October 2013) as a ‘What’s Hot’ podcast by Apple’s iTunes.

In the early ’90s, Michael Brandvold launched the fifth ever website on the Internet devoted to KISS, KISS Otaku. He built, launched and maintained Kissonline.com (KISS’ official web presence). He now owns Michael Brandvold Marketing, providing marketing services and digital strategy to musicians. Tommy Sommers spent 15 years on the record show circuit collecting, trading and selling memorabilia / Kiss merchandise. He is now a successful residential Real Estate agent in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. Tommy has also produced a KISS song For The Oddfathers and is the owner of Rock Steady Digital Photography. Mark Cicchini, is a world renown KISS collector. KISS have used parts of Mark’s vast KISS collection for audio, video & print materials including their book NOTHIN TO LOSE, CD re release of the LOVE GUN album & the VH1 Ultimate Album KISS ALIVE! special as well as many other KISS projects. His wife also makes a mean meatloaf!!!

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Three Sides Of The Coin is unofficial & unsanctioned and has no affiliation with the band KISS.

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0:00.0	Everybody, three sides of the coin.
0:02.6	Have you ever thought about smoking a cigar with Lisa?
0:08.6	She's going to do it in Vegas.
0:10.9	You can join me.
0:12.4	And she's going to pair it with money bag sodas.
0:15.1	And we're here this week talking about pairing cigars and money bag sodas.
0:20.9	This is Three Sides of the Coin talking all things.
0:25.9	Kiss.
0:26.9	So you love the show, visit www.3Sidesof the coin.com, subscribe on YouTube, follow and rate us on
0:34.0	Spotify, subscribe and leave a review on iTunes. We appreciate your support.
0:39.7	Everybody, welcome back to another episode of Three Sides of the Coin. We've got an update from the
0:45.9	money bag crew, Moneybag Soda's crew joining us. Something to do with cigars and sodas.
0:53.9	And Lisa's accepted a challenge that she's going to smoke a
0:58.0	cigar in Vegas on our show and hope she doesn't, and hope she doesn't puke. But I think real quick,
1:13.8	let's not turn this into discussion, but it's got to at least be mentioned.
1:21.0	Peter Chris did release the first single off of his upcoming album, which comes out December 19th.
1:23.0	Album is self-titled.
1:25.7	The first single is called creepy crawlers.
1:30.5	It's only people only available available on Apple, iTunes,
1:36.8	and Bandcamp.com. Don't go look and support Peter. Yeah, go support Peter.
1:42.1	The more you support them, the more you're going to get in the future. So support Peter Chris. We'll talk about the album or the single or the album slash album in more detail moving forward,
1:49.5	but we wanted to make sure everybody knows.
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