UFC President Dana White promised to remove Peloton stationary bikes from his gym over its dispute with a comedian having Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast.
Comedian Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von was sponsored by Peloton through a Sept. 25 episode where the comedian, whose full name is Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski, interviewed Kennedy. During their conversation, Kennedy details how he came to his controversial conclusions surrounding vaccines. At the time, Kennedy was running for the Democratic presidential nomination but has since switched to be an independent candidate. On Tuesday, Von had White on his podcast to discuss the fallout.
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“We have Robert Kennedy Jr. on and we had a company called, a couple companies call, after that and say, yeah, just stuff about him. ‘We’re not advertising this episode,'” Von said. “My advertiser’s like, ‘You guys need to take the episode down.'”
“What’s wrong with him?” White asked.
“Nothing,” Von, who claims to have known Kennedy for seven years, said.
“Nothing. Guy’s f***ing brilliant,” White repeated. “He’s a Democrat [with] common sense, right? He’s like an old-school Democrat.”
Later in the episode, Von revealed the advertiser who called about the episode was Peloton. White immediately called for the company’s bikes to be removed from the UFC’s gym, and even called in UFC head of production Craig Borsari to fill him in on why the UFC would no longer work with Peloton.
“F*** you Peloton,” White said. “My guys are gonna take the Pelotons out of the gym today. We’re getting rid of ’em. We’re gonna go throw them in the f***ing garbage today.”
While White offered that Von’s crew film the bikes being removed, that was not included in the episode, even though Von joked that he would help throw the bikes away.
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“This is America, you can f***ing have whoever you want on your podcast,” White assured the comedian.
Kennedy is one of two independent candidates running for president in 2024, the other being activist Cornel West. There are four Democratic candidates, including incumbent President Joe Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), author Marianne Williamson, and news anchor Cenk Uygur.
The Washington Examiner has reached out to Peloton for comment.
