I’m all about accountability but comments made on a podcast almost 10 years ago? His cohosts weren’t offended and have not spoken out against him (yet).
Here’s his awful offensive career ending comments.
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The Ringer, which reviewed all 41 episodes of the podcast before they were deleted online, reported that Richards at one point asks his female assistant and his female co-host whether they had ever taken nude photos, or in his words, “booby pictures.” In one episode, he calls his co-host a “booth ho.”
Per The Ringer: “Women’s bodies and clothing are recurring subjects for Richards. On a 2013 episode, he says that women ‘dress like a hooker’ on Halloween; on another, he tells a story about a former Price employee who had taken up baking: ‘We said that we were going to have to saw her out of her room because she was going to be so giant that she wouldn’t be able to fit out the door.'”
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That’s just not bad at all, honestly. By all accounts the discussions were lighthearted and no one on the podcast was offended by his remarks.
I’m also curious as to the so called “backlash” that the Ringer article keeps referring to. I’m not aware of any backlash at all to his selection. Even this controversy seems 100% media driven, specifically what is clearly an attempt to destroy and discredit him by the angry people at the Ringer. Their article read like sabotage and an intentional slam piece designed solely to generate clicks (shocker from a buzzfeed ripoff site).
But whatever. If they fire him, maybe it means we get Ken Jennings instead.