The hosts of the “I’ve Had It” podcast are learning a hard lesson about the objective truth behind the phrase, “you reap what you sow,” as a 39-second clip that was shared on social media platform X has turned into a huge public relations disaster that is going to cost them a lot of money. A total of nine companies have decided to yank their sponsorships from the popular radical left-wing program that talks politics and culture after hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan made horrible comments on air.
The clip, which has pulled in a massive six million views and 18,000 likes, showed the two women laughing it up while making wisecracks and comments about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who died after being shot in the neck by a radical transgender activist on a college campus in Utah. The clip immediately drew fire from X users who then called for the show to be the subject of a boycott.
Not long afterward, online pet retailer, Chewy, started to distance itself from the podcast. “We do not sponsor or support the “I’ve Had It” podcast. “We unequivocally condemn violence in all forms,” the company went on to say in a response posted on X. “The comments made by the hosts do not reflect Chewy’s values or what we stand for as a company.”
Sumit Singh, the CEO of Chewy, later doubled down on the company’s decision to pull their sponsorship in a post of his own on the platform, a report from Business Insider said. Cash App, Zenni, Casper, and Honeylove joined Chewy in cutting ties with the program. Honeylove later posted their own statement in response to the horrific comments.
“Honeylove has ended our partnership with the I’ve Had It podcast. Violence of any kind is never acceptable, and those comments do not reflect our values,” Honeylove’s post read. The hosts of “I’ve Had It” posted an apology over the Kirk comments on their Instagram account, but it seems the damage has already been done.
“It was an insensitive joke, and we should not have laughed. We regret it, and we apologize,” the podcast explained in the post. “Whatever our political differences, there is nothing funny about gun violence.” The show then said that it donated money to Everytown for Gun Safety, which is known as the largest gun-violence-prevention group in the country.
In a video that was recently shared on their Instagram account, the hosts claim that Turning Point USA, the group that Kirk founded in order to reach out to college-aged Americans with the conservative message, is “spearheading” an online campaign to get the program canceled. Someone who understands the plight the hosts find themselves in is late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
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Right after Kirk was assassinated, Kimmel cracked some cruel and despicable jokes about Kirk and even insinuated he was probably murdered by someone on the right. ABC, which is owned by Disney, immediately suspended the host for his actions, though, ultimately, he was put back on the air with the suspension being nothing more than a slap on the wrist as far as conservatives were concerned.
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