When you think about the monetization of AI, tell me about that and how that could be the next catalyst for the market.

Well, when you think about what AI's really doing, it should increase productivity for other types of companies, right? And so what's the sense of spending all this money on computing power if it doesn't lead to better bottom lines for other industries and other companies? So I really believe the next huge opportunity is in the so-called neo companies, the companies that are AI native and are trying to reimagine some other sort of an industry from the ground up using AI.

Uh, and I think we've just begun seeing that in, out there in other industries, so there's still a lot of likes there.

Where do you see this group going? Is this an outperforming group, in your opinion, going forward?

Absolutely is, because all of the other things that I talk about with AI and the economy can't happen without them, right? And so you got the big players that are, that are building the chips, like the AMDs and the Nvidias.

You've, you've got Taiwan Semiconductor who's actually, you know, manufacturing them.

Some of these big companies are already far enough ahead that they're, I think they're gonna continue to dominate.

And, you know, the AI revolution can't happen without them.

Yeah.

And I think our heroes, my heroes, were songwriters.

Um, Brill, the Brill Building, um, those were the people that I aspired to be like.

When I was 15, I was, um, at the Brill Building or in 1650 Broadway with my guitar, and whoever would listen to my songs, God bless 'em.

You know? The, the most important thing to me was not a, a song as a vehicle to jam on.

It had to have an intro, a verse, a bridge, a chorus, a hook.

That's, it was called a hook because it grabbed you.

Yeah

When

you wish upon a star.

My God.

Makes no difference who you.

Please stop.

No.

I caught a skull fragment in my thigh.

Fuck Don Henley!

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, welcome and congratulations, by the way.

Thank you.

It's an honor.

You know, we've gotten all these accolades in the last few years.

Yeah.

You know, I always say at this point in my life, if you love me, let me know.

Don't put it in the obituary.

You've actually sold the brand, KISS.

All good things come to an end.

Fuck you, Steven Tyler.

But Starchild, it's happening.

It's really gonna happen.

Excuse me, Gene, a word.

[footsteps thudding]

What is it?

Gene, I'm having a really difficult time exerting my authority over this group, and you coming in here and not addressing me as Chairman Starchild really undermines what I'm trying to accomplish here.

How the hell is Axl Rose on your board? What is he, 60?

Fuck you, Don Henley.

I may be 60, but I have the health of an 80-year-old.

Woo, silence.

The Star Child will now hear the trade offer.

Guys, can we move on?

Woo.

I will not have the first post-Gene meeting fall apart on my watch.

Is that what you're seeing?

It definitely seems that way.

Historically, that wouldn't be the case, right? When the risk-free rate gets to a certain point, people would say there's a better alternative.

But when you have earnings growing at 20% like they have been, It's just it's not a big enough rate for it to make a huge difference.

And I think people just have a lot of confidence in what AI can do from here.

Even all this AI spend that we've seen, it's going to eventually trickle down to other parts of the economy, right? It's all been spending on the build out right now, but it's got to create more efficiencies for industrials, more efficiencies for some of the mid and small cap companies.

And so I think there's a whole other leg that's going to happen from this investment in AI, which is why we're kind of ignoring the rate story and just saying all the growth is still in tech.

Yeah, if NVIDIA clears the bar tonight, I mean, who do you suspect is the biggest beneficiary from that? I mean, is sort of the likely reaction that we see.

But, but who's playing bass?

Woo, I told you he'd get his card in a wad if we didn't F him.

[upbeat rock music]

Rock Meadows featuring Dan McCrae as Crispin.

Axel Clauser as the beatnik announcer.

Josh Martillo as David Grohl.

Quade Condill as Angus Young.

Colt Parson as Bono.

What are you talking about?

Whoo, Gene is right, people.

The last thing the Star Child needs is to scrape his creepy skin against one of those studs.

Huh, I, I'm a bleeder.

Uh, what are your concerns with Rush, Starchild?

I speak from experience, people.

Alex Lifeson, he can't be out within 100 feet of a pickled egg.

Mm.

Because Kiss Alive really captured the essence of the live experience.

Now, that couldn't have happened without us going in the studio and enhancing it and surrounding you with people.

Live albums were boring for four hours.

You didn't even know they were live until the end of the song where you heard some clapping, but-For Kiss, we wanted an album that immersed you, immersion i- in, in the experience, which means being surrounded by people, which means bombs going off that are deafening, um, which means fixing any mistakes or a broken string.

People may have, snobs or purists may have looked down their nose at that idea, but the truth is that album's still considered, if not the greatest, one of the greatest, and in a lot of circles, greatest live album ever.

Not because everything was live, but because it captured the live experience.

[laughs] Okay.