Episode 645: Ronald Gene Simmons Part I - A Difficult Man

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week the boys dive right on into the twisted mind of Ronald Gene Simmons, America’s deadliest familicide killer. In the span of over one week in 1987, he murdered 14 family members before going on a small-town shooting spree. From a difficult child to a difficult man, with an obsessive need for control... Get ready to explore the tale of The Arkansas Christmas Massacre.

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0:00.0	There's no place to escape to.
0:02.9	This is the last podcast.
0:05.0	On the left.
0:07.2	That's when the cannibalism started.
0:12.3	Who was that?
0:14.9	Oh, yeah!
0:19.3	That's why they kind of believe that partially the Mothman myth.
0:23.2	That's right.
0:24.6	It's perpetuated by gangsters from Jersey that were in the West Virginia area growing marijuana to keep them out of it.
0:32.7	Hell yeah.
0:33.6	And they're smart.
0:34.3	Jersey ain't going to West Virginia.
0:36.0	But guess what?
0:36.6	Then they built a whole Mothman festival around it.
0:38.5	So it turns out fucking, and then what will do is smoke weed at it.
0:41.2	Yeah.
0:41.5	Yeah.
0:41.8	So they go, everything got fucked. They all thing got fucked. Full circle, man. The more weed you smoke, the more real the Mothman gets. Fuck yeah, dude. That's what I like to hear. You know who also, you know who could have used weed?
0:51.0	Who?
0:51.6	Ronald Gene Simmons.
0:55.6	This guy.
0:56.6	No, he used weed. Who? Ronald Gene Simmons.
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