"Calling a woman a slut years ago is orders of magnitude worse than being an anti-vaxxer" is a strange message to send to the Jeopardy fanbase. [Assuming there's not more to the Richards story they're keeping under wraps.]
Richards sexually harassed women on set when he produced The Price is Right and was accused of discriminating against pregnant women in employment. I don't care about the jokes on his podcast, but that stuff should be fireable. Actions should draw harsher punishments than words.