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Richard Simmons

Richard Simmons

Date: Feb 27 2006

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Richard Simmons is a flamboyant fitness guru. He became famous with his video workout series Sweatin’ to the Oldies, which features people exercising to hit songs from days gone by.

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Dave

Dave

Taylor

Taylor

Tayor

Dave:  Remember Richard Simmons?

Taylor:  I do. Curly hair, always sweaty, loud, obnoxious.

Dave:  Running around in that tank top...

Tayor:  Yeah.

Dave:  ...with the too-short shorts.

Taylor:  It reminds me of a different day and age.

Dave:  I just saw a news article on him. He’s taking on a new case, some greatly obese guy who’s around 800 pounds or so, can’t stand up. You know, Richard Simmons is all about motivation.

Taylor:  Right.

Dave:  He gets all teary-eyed when he meets his clients. So, he’s going to take this guy on as a personal case and, you know, work him out, get this guy down to a healthy weight.

Taylor:  That’s admirable of him.

Dave:  Yeah.

Taylor:  Do you know how he’s getting paid for this?

Dave:  Maybe he’ll spark sales again in his Sweatin’ to the Oldies series. I’m not sure.

 

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Discussion

Richard Simmons was very overweight as a child. In his adult life, he became very depressed because of his weight problem.

After living briefly in Italy, Richard Simmons moved to Los Angeles, where he opened a unique exercise center. Instead of helping skinny people become skinnier – like most weight loss and fitness programs – he decided to help people with severe weight problems lose weight and live healthier lives.

 

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kellysweet

kellysweet

China

good

01:15 AM Feb 27 2006 |

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