According to the archives of NPR?s Fresh Air program, Gene Simmons ?declined to give permission? for the Fresh Air web site to archive the audio of his interview with Terry Gross. (You can read a transcript here. Of course, that interview has been blogged to death, but what?s interesting is that half the people who discuss it believe that Terry Gross put Simmons in his place, and the other half see Gene as the undisputed winner in their smackdown. (Is it the battle of the sexes? Of the classes? Gene keeps talking about Terry being immersed in books and dust mites, Terry keeps asking Gene about his codpiece.) But if it?s true that Terry was willing to have the audio on the NPR site and Gene wasn?t, then that really settles the question of which of them felt he or she came out on top. (Of course, NPR may not have tried too hard to get Gene?s permission.)