And for today’s episode of “Blizza Blizza Presents,” we bring back WGRD’s ever-popular “Rick, Darla, and Scott Celebrity Deathwatch.”
The premise behind this theory of Rick Beckett’s was that famous people die in threes. Whenever someone moderately famous died, two more famous people had to die within the next two weeks or the theory would be, well, “violated.” In about eight years of listening to their morning show daily, I can’t think of a single counter-example that ever occurred.
So I’m kicking off this Deathwatch with Dr. Atkins (of Atkins diet fame) and John Paul Getty Jr., the billionaire philanthropist and recluse. Both died earlier today.
(Note to you statisticians out there: yes, I realise how patently ridiculous the whole thing is. Merely glancing at the New York Times obit page is enough to keep the Celebrity Deathwatch going for years, and with a period much shorter than two weeks. But it’s fun, OK?)
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