Richard Simmons's 'Dying' Words
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday, former fitness guru Richard Simmons gave his fans a huge scare. The man who brought the world “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” had everyone sweatin’ to his posts on X and Facebook, which mentioned that he's "dying.” Richard encouraged everyone to cherish every moment and to “enjoy life to the fullest.” This sent his fans into a tailspin! They flooded his social media with condolences and well wishes. One person even begged Oprah to help Richard. So Richies, what’s really going on here? We’re all "dying" to know.
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| 0:05.6 | So, Aria, you'd think that by now people would know that they've got to be |
| 0:16.6 | careful about what they post online because people will read into everything. |
| 0:21.3 | Literally. Literally. |
| 0:24.0 | I mean, I don't even know how else to agree with that. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:29.0 | You could just post a picture of the sky and people are like, well, |
| 0:32.0 | turns out the apocalypse is coming. |
| 0:33.5 | Blake Lively posted the sky. |
| 0:34.5 | That's what that means. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.5 | So the latest panic online comes to us from fitness guru Richard Simmons. |
| 0:41.0 | He posted a very rare message on his social media yesterday and it just freaked people out. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, his post caused a lot of panic among his fans, but as it turns out when it comes to what Richard was trying to say, |
| 0:54.4 | we all got it dead wrong. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, we did. |
| 0:57.8 | From Wundery, I'm Brooks Sifrin. |
| 0:59.6 | And I'm Arisha Skidmer Williams. |
| 1:01.3 | It's Tuesday, March 19th. |
| 1:03.0 | And you're listening to Rich and Daily. top of the world on a diamond high. |
| 1:14.0 | I see that hair toss, give me that loss, |
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