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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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You might have heard that something big happened this weekend. That's right: Richard Simmons died. Who could forget his infectious attitude, his ever-present tank top, or his ascension to a robotic form. That last one may or may not have actually happened. Oh yeah, also we had our first presidential candidate get shot in forty years. That's pretty big news too.
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0:00.0 | Now this is going to take quite long to do. |
0:07.0 | Welcome to the family with Andy Brent Bernard. |
0:10.0 | Nanna and Alex are both coming back from a dance competition that Fawney was in in Orlando, so just Andy and me, but there's a billion things to talk about here. |
0:25.2 | A few things have happened. |
0:27.3 | Yeah, no question about that. |
0:29.1 | Death comes in threes is the headline here, ladies and gentlemen. |
0:34.2 | Richard Simmons, The Shining Lady, and who else was it? Okay, I'll read it |
0:39.9 | right here for you, as a matter of fact. Richard Simmons passed away on Saturday, which was a day |
0:44.5 | after his 76th birthday. His rep says he celebrated it the day before. There's no word on the cause |
0:50.3 | of death. Richard's brother Lenny said, quote, I don't want people to be sad about my brother. |
0:55.2 | I want them to remember him for the genuine joy and love he brought to people's lives. |
0:59.6 | He truly cared about people. He called, wrote, and emailed thousands of people throughout his |
1:03.7 | career to offer help. So don't be sad. Celebrate his life. Simmons became a talk show staple |
1:10.5 | thanks to the message of fitness, |
1:13.1 | healthy eating and positivity. He also had his own talk show, the Richard Simmons Show, |
1:17.5 | from 1980 to 1984. And of course, there were workout videos, most notably 1988's |
1:24.5 | Sweatin' to the oldies. I remember that. Simon, oh, I did see, I forgot about this. |
1:31.3 | I did know about it, but Simmons was an obese child, but he turned his life around at 16 years old |
1:36.3 | when someone left a note in his car that said, Dear Richard, you're very funny, but fat people die young. |
1:41.3 | Please don't die. |
1:43.3 | Simmons had been out of the public eye for years, but in recent months he upped his social media presence, |
1:48.1 | including a message in March saying, quote, I have some news to tell you, |
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