O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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.
0:03.0	No one is holding me in my house as a hostage.
0:06.0	I just really don't want to do anything.
0:08.0	But why did it take so long for him to say that?
0:11.0	Why did it take two years?
0:12.0	His brother, he's only leaving family and he lives in New Orleans.
0:16.0	All right, we're close.
0:18.0	Can you feel it?
0:19.0	Did you know that Richard Simmons used to live here? Fuck 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.
0:28.4	I'm 60 years old now, and I've devoted my life to this.
0:31.9	And I will devote my life to this to the day I die.
0:38.8	I'm Dan Tversky, and this is Missing Richard Simmons, Episode 5.
0:42.7	Oh, brother, where art thou?
0:50.8	So here's where we left off.
0:52.9	My producer, Henry, and I came to New Orleans to find Lenny, Richard's only brother.
0:58.3	And once we found him, he wasn't totally completely 100% on board with what we're doing.
1:06.6	Can I help you?
1:07.6	Hi.
1:08.4	I'm Dan.
1:09.5	Oh, I sent you that email last week.
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