Two left-wing podcast hosts are feeling the heat after cackling on air at a social media post about digging up Charlie Kirk’s corpse and “doing it” again. Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan of the “I’ve Had It” podcast burst out laughing at the “joke” during their post-election episode, and the clip set off a boycott that sent their sponsors running. On Saturday, the pair posted an apology and announced a donation to a gun control group.
The segment aired Thursday, November 5th, on an episode titled “Drinking MAGA Tears,” two days after Democrats flipped the House and Senate in the midterm elections. Welch and Sullivan spent the show reading social media posts celebrating the Democratic wins, with Welch calling the joke-writers “patriots.” Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on September 10th, 2025, shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Tyler Robinson has been charged with his murder.
“We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again,” Welch read aloud, right after a submission mocking Chick-fil-A’s Sunday hours, and both women dropped their heads and burst into laughter. They kept it up for nearly 30 seconds, barely able to compose themselves, until Welch looked into the camera, quipped, “I’m zooming in for Fox,” and added, “No comment.”
The hosts then tried to blame the killing on conservatives. “No comment — other than he was shot by somebody that was super MAGA family,” Sullivan said, as TheWrap reported. “He was shot by a MAGA person,” Welch agreed, with Sullivan concluding, “Right, so do with that what you will.” Utah voter registration records show Robinson is unaffiliated with any political party and didn’t vote in the past two general elections, Fox News Digital reported.
The clip raced across X, where Kirk’s supporters began tagging the show’s advertisers. By Friday afternoon, Welch and Sullivan had quietly scrubbed the exchange from the episode posted online, RadarOnline reported, leaving the preceding post intact while the audio jumped to the next item, a joke reading, “Every Cheesecake Factory is now an abortion clinic.” The stealth edit did little to slow the backlash.
Sponsors began heading for the exits almost immediately. “We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast,” Cash App wrote on X on Friday, while Chewy followed on Saturday: “We do not sponsor or support the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast. We unequivocally condemn violence in all forms.” Eyewear brand Zenni canceled its advertising, and bedding company Boll & Branch said it doesn’t advertise with the show “and will not in the future,” as The Independent reported.
Watch Welch and Sullivan’s initial comments about Kirk here:
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The statement went up on the show’s Instagram page on Saturday. “On Thursday’s show, we laughed at a joke about Charlie Kirk. It was an insensitive joke, and we should not have laughed. We regret it, and we apologize. Whatever our political differences, there is nothing funny about gun violence. We’ve long supported common-sense gun safety reform. To that end, we’ve made a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in America,” they wrote, as Breitbart News reported.
The remorse is a new look for Welch, who has spent the past year criticizing the Kirk family. As Mediaite reported, she has called Kirk’s widow, Erika — who now leads Turning Point USA — a “terrible person” and a grifter, and claimed Charlie Kirk “justified his death.” In September, Welch told Piers Morgan: “Erika Kirk, no, I do not regret it, and oftentimes when I see [what I’ve said], I don’t think I go far enough.”
Erika Kirk responded on Sunday, November 8th. “To see leftist podcasters, comedians, and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it’s entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline, is beyond disgusting,” she wrote on X. “My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I will live with every day for the rest of our lives,” she continued, adding, “Political violence must never be something this country tolerates, excuses, or celebrates.”
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