
Latest Episode!
After more than a week on a Virginia-wide prison lockdown, Randy is back and recording again. In this episode, he breaks down what led to the statewide lockdown, how it affected daily life inside, and what it felt like to be cut off from the outside world. Raw, real, and straight from the source—this is life behind bars, unfiltered.
More Episodes.
- ROR 164: Statewide Lockdown
- ROR 163: Mother’s Day in Prison
- ROR 162: Buckingham
- ROR 161: On The Bus
- ROR 160: The Visit
- ROR 159: Pod Drama
- ROR 158: Use of Force
- ROR 157: Is this the end of Red Onion Randy?
- ROR 156: DOGE
- ROR 155: Robert Brooks
- ROR 154: A Tough Nerd
- ROR 153: Keefe Group
- ROR 152: Co-Defendants
- ROR 151: Hillbillies
- ROR 150: To Catch a Predator
- ROR 149: The LA Wildfires
- ROR 148: The Fires at Red Onion
- ROR 147: The rich and the poor
- ROR 146: Where I’m at
- ROR 145: Luigi Mangione
- ROR 144: A Conversation With My Podcast Producer
- ROR 143: The Alaskan Avenger
- ROR 142: Hunter Biden
- ROR:141 The Prison Library
- ROR 140: Incentives
- ROR 139: An Open Letter To Donald Trump
- ROR 138: Be A Man
- ROR Episode 137: Religion
- ROR 136: Battles Worth Fighting
- ROR 135: Wedding day in prison
- ROR 134: Hate Mail
- ROR 133: Chaos, Part 3
- ROR 132: Chaos Part 2
- ROR 131: Chaos Part 1
- ROR 130: Prison Weight Pile
- ROR 129: Nicole
- ROR 128: Answering listener questions
- ROR 127: Friends
- ROR 126: Keen Mountain
- Life Update December 2023
- Episode 124: Psychic Vampires
- Episode 123: Drugs in Prison
- Episode 122: Some Men Can Handle It. Some Can’t.
- Episode 121: Praying for a Lockdown
- Episode 120: A Glimpse of Freedom
- Episode 119: If it’s not treated, it’s going to kill you
- Episode 118: Eight Crazy Days
- Episode 117: New Pod
- Episode 116: Glad to Be Back
- Episode 115: Questions from Kyrgyzstan
- Episode 114: Transfer Pain
- Episode 113: A Way Out of Prison
- Episode 112: Endless Frustration
- Episode 111: An Emotional Pressure Cooker
- Episode 110: A Cast of Characters
- Episode 109: A Young Man in Trouble
- Episode 108: Writing to Prisoners
- Episode 107: Prison Showers
- Episode 106: Convict Conditioning
- Episode 105: Keeping Sane Inside
- Episode 104: Anger and Forgiveness
- Episode 103: John Q. Smith and a Season Break
- Episode 102: Pornography and Masturbation
Older Episodes
- Episode 1: Loneliness and Friendship
- Episode 2: Childhood
- Episode 3: My Teenage Years
- Episode 4: That Evil Black Cloud
- Episode 5: The Scary Thing
- Episode 6: No Gettin’ Punked Once
- Episode 7: Strike First
- Episode 8: Basically A Torture Chamber
- Episode 9: COVID-19 Comes to Red Onion
- Episode 10: The Choice We Make
- Episode 11: A Walk in the Woods
- Episode 12: From Solitary to Gen Pop and Back Again
- Episode 13: Q&A: The Thing That Kept Me From Going Insane
- Episode 14: I Ain’t Heard from You in a While…
- Episode 15: Don’t Shake the Spoon
- Episode 16: Solitary – Final Years Part 1
- Episode 17: Solitary – Final Years Part 2
- Episode 18: True Blood
- Episode 19: The Child Molester
- Episode 20: Groundhog Day
- Episode 21: Anger, Boredom and Fantasy
- Episode 22: Red Onion Lullaby
- Episode 23: Damn Nightmare
- Episode 24: Gimme the Chicken Tray! (Hilarious)
- Episode 25: Working for the Man
- Episode 26: Randy Answers Your Questions
- Episode 27: Christmas Holiday (Not) Special
- Episode 28: Interfaith Action for Human Rights: Gay Gardner Interview
- Episode 29: Falling Out with Lee Boyd Malvo
- Episode 30: Racism and Red Onion
- Episode 31: Stone Cold Warriors
- Episode 32: Keefe Commissary versus Prison Issue
- Episode 33: Lace ‘Em Up! Footwear on the Inside
- Episode 34: The Wild Horses of My Childhood
- Episode 35: A 42-Year-Old Virgin
- Episode 36: Gladiator School
- Episode 37: Fight Club
- Episode 38: To Fight or not to Fight
- Episode 39: A Practical Guide to Prison Life
- Episode 40: Recipes for Kevin
- Episode 41: Don’t Call Me Ghost: Prison Nicknames
- Episode 42: Trust No-one?
- Episode 43: The Coffee Dare
- Episode 44: Visitation
- Episode 45: Prison Mash
- Episode 46: Addicted to Crime
- Episode 47: Life Without the Possibility of Parole
- Episode 48: My Education
- Episode 49: Dungeons and Dragons
- Episode 50: Beauty from the Ashes
- Episode 51: Fear
- Episode 52: Gangbanger Danger
- Episode 53: Killer in the Jungle
- Episode 54: An Alpha Male
- Episode 55: Life is Beautiful
- Episode 56: The Appeal: Jonathan Sheldon
- Episode 57: Lockdown
- Episode 58: The Podcast Behind the Scenes
- Episode 59: The Appeal: No Backing Up
- Episode 60: The Child Molester: a Closer Look
- Episode 61: Mental Health
- Episode 62: Dream of Freedom
- Episode 63: Guns
- Episode 64: Father
- Episode 65: Mother
- Episode 66: Randy’s Prison Rules
- Episode 67: Elise and the Magic Well
- Episode 68: Prison Boyfriends
- Episode 69: Randy’s Prison Rules Concluded
- Episode 70: Childhood, The Unforgettables
- Episode 71: Prison Medical
- Episode 72: Music
- Episode 73: The World Outside the Window
- Episode 74: The Murder
- Episode 75: Randy Answers Questions from Children and a Boxer
- Episode 76: My Brother Jason
- Episode 77: Randy Gets a Transfer
- Episode 78: Cellies
- Episode 79: Frustration
- Episode 80: Tuco Salamanca
- Episode 81: Home Sweet Home
- Episode 82: Hospital Visit
- Episode 83: Time, The Cruel Mistress
- Episode 84: Conor McGregor, Success Killer
- Episode 85: Randy’s Model Prison
- Episode 86: Sports – One of the More Beautiful Forms of Escapism
- Episode 87: Joe Giarratano
- Episode 88: Randy in Quarantine
- Episode 89: Republicans vs Democrats
- Episode 90: Red Onion Then and Now Part 1
- Episode 91: Flower in the Wasteland
- Episode 92: Spiraling Down
- Episode 93: Betrayal
- Episode 94: Will Smith v Chris Rock
- Episode 95: Red Onion Then and Now Part 2
- Episode 96: Gunning
- Episode 97: Reputation
- Episode 98: Little John
- Episode 99: Tattoo
- Episode 100: Hotline for Messages