Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Producer Kristen's "Connection" To Ace Frehley
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Oh, six point seven six seven, Happy Friday, Kubby and
- 0:04Speaker 1: Christine in the morning, producer Kristin and Phil Collins. Right there.
- 0:08Speaker 1: We kicked off this show with New York Groove from
- 0:11Speaker 1: Ace Freely, who passed away yesterday the age of seventy four,
- 0:15Speaker 1: known for being a band member and Kiss. He had
- 0:18Speaker 1: a solo album in nineteen seventy eight from the Bronx.
- 0:21Speaker 1: A New York Groove was like a top ten hit
- 0:23Speaker 1: here in America. I think it was like top twenty
- 0:26Speaker 1: in the UK. But you know what's crazy, Christine, we're
- 0:29Speaker 1: talking about this off the air, and you have a
- 0:31Speaker 1: strange connection to in a weird way. Kristin has a
- 0:35Speaker 1: strange connection with Ace Freely. Yeah, and the family and
- 0:38Speaker 1: the timing yesterday, something happened yesterday and you didn't really
- 0:43Speaker 1: get the answer to the question until after you heard the.
- 0:45Speaker 2: News, right yes. So, as I've said before, my husband Ryan,
- 0:50Speaker 2: he runs horror conventions and in the past we've had
- 0:53Speaker 2: Peter Chris, who is the original drummer of the band Kiss.
- 0:57Speaker 2: We've had him at our show doing some signings, had
- 1:00Speaker 2: him a few times, and Ryan has kind of built
- 1:02Speaker 2: a friendship relationship with Peter and his wife Gigi. So
- 1:07Speaker 2: they're working on a project together kind of, Ryan and
- 1:11Speaker 2: Peter and his wife Gigi. So they've been going back
- 1:14Speaker 2: and forth with communication for about a week or so,
- 1:17Speaker 2: and yesterday Ryan reached out to Peter's wife Gigi and
- 1:21Speaker 2: with no response, and it was weird because she's usually
- 1:24Speaker 2: on top of it, like responds right away. Didn't really
- 1:28Speaker 2: understand what was going on, And we later found out
- 1:30Speaker 2: that Peter and his wife Gigi were at the hospital
- 1:34Speaker 2: because Ace passed away in Morristown, New Jersey's.
- 1:38Speaker 1: That's unreal how you're in a weird, strange way connected
- 1:41Speaker 1: or you knew what was like, yeah, like that's that's
- 1:44Speaker 1: what was going on.
- 1:46Speaker 2: They were bedside, right and we had no idea obviously,
- 1:49Speaker 2: So yeah.
- 1:50Speaker 1: And he passed away to complications from a fall right Christmas.
- 1:53Speaker 3: That's what I was reading that he had fallen. Yeah,
- 1:55Speaker 3: so I don't know the details, but.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Anyway, gone but not forgotten. And I thought it was
- 2:00Speaker 1: cool kicking off the show with New York Groove. Welcome
- 2:03Speaker 1: to the Weekend, everybody. It's officially Friday, October seventeenth. Go
- 2:07Speaker 1: home tonight and watch Missiletoe Murders on Hallmark.
- 2:11Speaker 3: I guess so covey. Hi, Sabrina, our dear friend who
- 2:15Speaker 3: loves the Hallmark Channel, and.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Their countdown to Christmas begins today today and the first
- 2:20Speaker 1: movie is Missiletoe Murders.
- 2:22Speaker 3: It's a series. Tonight is the series premiere.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Yeah, why not tie in both holidays.
- 2:28Speaker 3: You've got it exactly, You've got them both. If you're
- 2:30Speaker 3: gonna do it, do it now in October.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:32Speaker 3: To my neighbors, I love you, but it's not Christmas yet.
- 2:36Speaker 3: It's not Christmas.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Okay. So you talked yesterday about how your overall community
- 2:40Speaker 1: was putting up their lights. Yes, but it's now more
- 2:42Speaker 1: than just it's more than that.
- 2:43Speaker 3: It's not the community now. They haven't turned the lights
- 2:46Speaker 3: on yet. And I get you put the lights up
- 2:48Speaker 3: when it's warm. But when I went to leave this morning,
- 2:51Speaker 3: two houses down and across the street full on Christmas lights.
- 2:55Speaker 1: These are like neighbors doing it, already on up.
- 2:59Speaker 3: And glowing like not. The neighbor right next to me,
- 3:02Speaker 3: her house is adorable. It's all decorated for Halloween. And
- 3:04Speaker 3: then two houses down Christmas.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Wow.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I love Christmas and I'm one to put my tree
- 3:09Speaker 2: up November first. I'm all for it and I'm ready,
- 3:13Speaker 2: but I'm still not ready.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Still, yeah, this is to me in my head, I'm like, Okay,
- 3:18Speaker 3: it's over. I'm officially stressing all way.
- 3:20Speaker 2: You know.
- 3:21Speaker 1: It's scary, guys. It's gonna beat Christmas literally in a week.
- 3:25Speaker 3: Pretty much as soon as Halloween.
- 3:27Speaker 1: That's how it's gonna feel.
- 3:28Speaker 3: It almost like the stores are like, come on, just
- 3:30Speaker 3: end Halloween.
- 3:32Speaker 1: No, it's just flying by. It's just going way too fast.
- 3:34Speaker 3: It is in Garden State Plaza and we were walking
- 3:37Speaker 3: past Macy's and they were all christmased out. Wow, all
- 3:40Speaker 3: the decorations were up in the store.
- 3:42Speaker 1: It is incredible. Well, let's focus on Halloween here. Criola
- 3:46Speaker 1: Experience has a great Halloween thing going on. I have
- 3:48Speaker 1: that coming up for you giveaway in fifteen minutes, along
- 3:51Speaker 1: with three pretty cool things on this Friday, October seventeenth
- 3:55Speaker 2: Mor coming and Christine coming your way on light at
- 3:57Speaker 2: them