I gained so much respect for Gene while listening to him describing his introspective epiphany which lead him to change his mind, heart and habits for the people he loves most. That's true courage and strength, good on you Gene.
@anthonyelwick3600 Жыл бұрын
My father was never around and because of that I never wanted to let my kids down. I've been married for 25 years and 1 very successful son.
@JK-br1mu Жыл бұрын
Yah this is the right reaction. The other one's......pretty weak and selfish.
@smw4628 Жыл бұрын
Bill has a bad habit of interrupting people right in the middle of their thoughts on this podcast. I prefer a clear headed Bill Maher myself.
@ChadStormTheAftermath Жыл бұрын
That’s because he was stoned. I’m surprised Gene even agreed to sit there since he’s so anti-drug.
@smw4628 Жыл бұрын
@@ChadStormTheAftermath He needs to re-watch his podcasts and ask himself if this is what he wants.
@robtpenn9666 Жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for someone to say that. Thought I was the only one.
@darylallen2485 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they are doing this activity we call, "conversation". It's not an interview.
@anthonyelwick3600 Жыл бұрын
He's high so
@d.a.6608 Жыл бұрын
Bill doesn’t know when to shut his mouth.
@rickjohnson5328 Жыл бұрын
Gene Simmons is just the best. I love KISS' music and would love to watch him perform but, even more than that, I wish I could just sit down and talk with him for hours. I grew up without a father until I discovered him 3 years ago at age 50, coincidently also learning that I was 50% Jewish. He was 85 and I was only able to meet him and talk to him twice before he passed, but we were kindred spirits. I think Gene reminds me of him. Maybe that's it....I wish I could have had more time to talk with the father I barely knew and I feel like I could have the same meaningful conversations with Gene. What an interesting person.
@suzanne296 Жыл бұрын
I am part of my father. He was extremely mean to me. Made fun of my disability, my weight and everything. I have a temper I wonder why. I have been in therapy for 40 years. I'm 60 and have extremely enjoyed listening to Gene. He is so pleasant and Intelligent.
@azilll Жыл бұрын
At a certain point, one has to become an adult. It may be at the legal age, or ten years later. Sixty is over twice the limit. Grow up.
@clintonanderson240 Жыл бұрын
@@azilll ouch..
@JK-br1mu Жыл бұрын
Did he ever scream "Hey, Beefy!" up the stairs at you when he wanted you to come down for dinner?
@LeSatan Жыл бұрын
Good discussions between these two. Keep this podcast going, Bill 💪
@breft3416 Жыл бұрын
Gene's a smart man and a character, for sure. He played a great bad guy in the movie Wanted: Dead or Alive with Rutger Hauer.
@tjnaples Жыл бұрын
Bill really misses the point early and often.
@Paul-dw2cl Жыл бұрын
Haha
@Paul-dw2cl Жыл бұрын
Well-put
@shannonrichardson3405 Жыл бұрын
Wow! A side of Gene you don’t see often! But he still is the Doctor of Love!
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
Gene's onstage persona was more like The God Of Thunder and Paul Stanley was more like Doctor Love.👍💯
@Wally1892 Жыл бұрын
Great clip. I think a lot of adolescent boys have been dumped and have a life long “armour” surrounding them. Very deep and right on point!
@pjh2331 Жыл бұрын
oh man...Maher laughing hysterically while Simmons is clearly in pain because of his father is a rough watch
@diegopitbull7580 Жыл бұрын
That happens when you try to have a true conversation with a drunk or stoner.
@phaxad Жыл бұрын
I can relate. I never had my father.
@JK-br1mu Жыл бұрын
I'm proud of Gene for not wanting to hurt women like his dad did, so he just slept with a lot of them, and never gave them the commitment many of them undoubtedly wanted. Using women for sex illustrates how you care about them. In my opinion.
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
You're being sarcastic, right?😊
@mission2113 Жыл бұрын
I always wonder what's worse; an absent father or an emotionally abusive one
@BroughtCat Жыл бұрын
Facts bro 👏🙌
@williambyham3674 Жыл бұрын
🤔
@Mrs.Valenice Жыл бұрын
You want a father that is there, even a not so perfect one... if even for a season... because then you have a plum line to use in your life of what you do or don't want to become. Obviously there are outliers, but generally... it is a blessing to have the experience. יהךה (YeHoVaH) will use it for good in the end.
@markdraine3571 Жыл бұрын
Gene did pretty well for himself , and his Momma was the best ..
@MrMick560 Жыл бұрын
My mother and father were divorced and I remember once I was left in the house alone for a few hours one night, I woke up and felt exactly the same as Gene, it was terrifying I will never forget it. I can still feel the horrible choking sound as you can't catch your breath with crying so much.
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
I feel you on that. But you and I both survived horrific parents. Praise God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit 🙏✝️💯👍
@averywhitecotton5393 Жыл бұрын
We know that the bumper cars were an analogy, Bill. Gene knew that too. Everyone knows that.
@willtwain1383 Жыл бұрын
Daddy issues are a big motivator.
@BroughtCat Жыл бұрын
Ain't that the truth brother 🙏
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
@@BroughtCatDamn Right 👍
@joyjeffcoat8711 Жыл бұрын
That's how Gene protected his heart. Bill is a lonely soul
@67marlins Жыл бұрын
Bill please let Gene speak.....
@JayRo-xp1nt Жыл бұрын
Hurt ppl hurt ppl . Unfortunately
@jaxonmattox9267 Жыл бұрын
Wow, now I like KISS even more, really seems to be made of a great group of guys
@TweedSuit Жыл бұрын
Gene: Let's have a photo burning ceremony. Shannon: That's gonna be tricky for me...
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂 Right. Given the fact that she, Shannon Tweed, spread wide and long in the pages of Playboy .😮😁🤔🧐😳😲
@DC97163 ай бұрын
Bill, it happened to me too. My high school girlfriend ran off with Jody when I was in the service. That was a tough letter to read. Anyone, male or female who has been in the military knows who Jody is.
@AmB39 Жыл бұрын
Idk man. His lifestyle might seem appealing to some but just seems sad in the end.
@Kitch-hu7tm3 ай бұрын
To Bill, it's all about Bill.
@mybiz1006 Жыл бұрын
It's EXACTLY like bumper cars.
@janetpartyka5968 Жыл бұрын
The pain lasts forever though.
@josephwiacek8123 Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure that photo burning ceremony is why half the west coast is still on fire.
@wolfman8449 Жыл бұрын
So instead he found a woman and had kids that just have to deal with a public cheater and cringlelord for decades lmao
@hbomb_101 Жыл бұрын
gene- your father would be proud and very regretful of what you have created. I hope you can find peace with it
@wightclaudia Жыл бұрын
“I said us instead of me” - a shot at Paul
@00KMB0011 ай бұрын
K you need to get over this. When you watch the episode of Gene Simmons Family Jewels where you went to Israel and met your half siblings……even Shannon said this to you on that trip……your father didn’t leave you. Your mother made him leave to go find work.
@dogecoin4085 Жыл бұрын
Photo burning ceremony?? 😂
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
Right 👍 and with a Playboy playmate at that.😂😂😂
@ttarantulas4u258 Жыл бұрын
I lost all respect for Gene when he pushed the vaccines. " “If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy.” Gene Simmons
@Spartakiss Жыл бұрын
You lost respect, yet your here
@ttarantulas4u258 Жыл бұрын
@@Spartakiss To let everyone know what this asshat said. So yeah they don't get a pass or forgiven for the evil vile things they said to people.
@nickbarcheck1019 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure he's devastated.
@mission2113 Жыл бұрын
you have fox news brain
@azilll Жыл бұрын
@@Spartakiss And yet "YOU'RE" here, instead of watching remedial English lessons. They are free, and you could stop appearing as a twelve year old in second grade for the fourth time.
@Earthad23 Жыл бұрын
Wearing makeup and heels does that to a dad.
@serfardi3 ай бұрын
His father remarried and stayed married, also having other children. I believe his mom might have done something. His father preferred to take the high road and left. Gene most likely inherited his mom genes. When he died Gene cried like a baby, I believe he found out what really happen. His dad stayed faithful to his second wife and children. Does not fit the profile of a neglecting husband or father.
@winston_smith3113 ай бұрын
this is why it irks the hell out of me when people act like 'fatherless homes' is some kind of excuse or justification for being a violent pos monster....billy joel's father got up and walked out one day and so did stephen king's, etc., etc., etc., growing up without a father IS NO EXCUSE to be a pos or commit violence against others...it IS NOT 'fatherless behavior'...it's called being a scumbag pos.
@lonelyone Жыл бұрын
Cool, so all it takes is 5,000 girls in order to settle down
@williambyham3674 Жыл бұрын
I could get by with 4000 + 4 🤩
@janetpartyka5968 Жыл бұрын
What he put his kids and girlfriend through....
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
@@janetpartyka5968Old Shannon Tweed had to wait 28 years for Old Gene Simmons to marry her. 😂 He didn't have to wait that long to get what he wanted from her. Some women are too pathetic.
@mcasteel2112 Жыл бұрын
Gene, porked 10k worth of women Bill, wore both hands out.
@williambyham3674 Жыл бұрын
🤭
@players7686 Жыл бұрын
No. Bill use too hang out at Playboy mansion all the time.
@miblish5168 Жыл бұрын
Maher turns into an ignormus when he's stoned. He half-listens, then tries to equtes breaking up with a gf in high school to losing a father and having the mother gone all night.
@rjl7655 Жыл бұрын
bill, your analogies are lame...
@Paul-dw2cl Жыл бұрын
Gene Simmons is so unlikeable, which is a shame, because it’s easy to see that he’s a sensitive and caring guy. He wears a pretentious shield to guard himself
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
A lot of Jews live life on their 'guard'.
@psychguy Жыл бұрын
Lol after 5,000 women - what a jackass. Thanks Bill for keeping the laughs alive.
@X396409 ай бұрын
5000 women at the same time?
@FiveFigsDigital Жыл бұрын
Best decision his father ever made.
@sunnyhill5119 Жыл бұрын
Damn😂😂😂😂
@mikeodonnell6799 Жыл бұрын
hey, that's Gene Simmons ................................of Kiss