Headlong: Missing Richard Simmons

Missing Richard Simmons is Dan Taberski’s 2017 serial about the fitness star who stopped teaching, stopped calling, and left his regulars without an explanation.

Taberski is a friend of the class, not a cop. He talks to the people who were worried, the people who were angry, and the machinery of fame that thought it was owed an answer.

The series is a pivotal, uneasy narrative: intimate, sometimes pushy, and honest about how a podcast can crowd a person who chose silence. The discomfort is in the text, not an accident of tone.

Hear it as a finished argument about privacy. Later bonus messages in the feed are not new chapters of the disappearance.