5: O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Missing Richard Simmons

Headlong: Missing Richard Simmons

Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

Serial, Arts, Society & Culture

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dan talks to Lenny Simmons, Richard’s brother. Then he looks into some of the stranger, more personal aspects of being a Richard Simmons fan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Previously on Missing Richard Simmons.
0:03.5	No one is holding me in my house as a hostage.
0:06.6	I just really don't want to do anything.
0:08.6	But why did it take so long for him to say that?
0:10.9	Why did it take two years?
0:12.1	Just brother, he's only leaving family
0:14.9	and he leaves in your wings.
0:16.6	All right, we're close.
0:17.9	Can you feel it?
0:18.7	Did you know that Richard Simmons used to live here?
0:20.7	It's like now.
0:21.5	I didn't think anyone liked me because I was fat.
0:24.5	And that's where his angst, his compassion comes from.
0:28.5	I'm 60 years old man and I devoted my life to this.
0:32.1	And I will devote my life to this to the day I die.
0:39.3	I'm Dan Tversky and this is Missing Richard Simmons
0:41.5	Episode 5.
0:42.8	Oh, brother, where are you?
0:51.3	So here's where we left off.
0:53.0	My producer Henry and I came to New Orleans to find Lenny.
0:56.5	Richard's only brother.
0:58.8	And once we found him, he wasn't totally,
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