In the past few weeks Missing Richard Simmons has shot up the charts — the podcast charts. It's turning into a Serial-level obsession, but this time everyone's talking about an aging fitness guru.
The show follows a simple premise: a filmmaker, who says he knows the '80s fitness video star Richard Simmons, is trying to figure out why Simmons has disappeared from the public eye and retreated deep into his private life.
Spoiler alert, Simmons isn't actually missing in the "call 911 and put up posters with his picture" sense. It's more that his presence is missing from charity events, TV appearances, workout sessions, social events, videos, social media, the internet — everywhere. Read more...
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