‘We’re Digging Up Charlie Kirk and Doing It Again’: Podcast Hosts Laugh at Kirk Joke — Then Cash App, Chewy and More Sponsors Walk

Jennifer Welch read a listener’s post out loud — and then she could not stop laughing. “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” Then Welch and her co-host Angie “Pumps” Sullivan dissolved, laughing through the rest of the segment.

The 39-second clip came from “I’ve Had It”‘s November 5 episode, “Drinking MAGA Tears.” It spread fast, carried by Gad Saad’s reel: more than 2,500 likes, 847 comments, 615 angry. The joke was a listener’s post, read aloud by Welch. What followed was the hosts’ own commentary — and that turned a bad joke into a revolt.

Sullivan offered: “No comment — other than he was shot by somebody that was super MAGA family.” Welch went further: “He was shot by a MAGA person.” Then: “White person, White MAGA family.” Those claims about the shooter are the hosts’ own words — and they are contested. The accused shooter is Tyler Robinson, 22, charged with aggravated murder in Kirk’s killing. Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University in Utah.

Sponsors Walked, Then Came the Apology

Cash App said on November 6: “We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast.” Chewy followed on November 7: “We do not sponsor or support the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast. We unequivocally condemn violence in all forms.” Reports put the total at at least 10 sponsors gone. The Wrap and the New York Post both covered the fallout.

On November 7, the hosts apologized on the podcast’s Instagram: “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.” They added: “Whatever our political differences, there is nothing funny about gun violence.” It also announced an Everytown for Gun Safety donation. Erika Kirk, his widow, answered on November 8: “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.”

The comments were unsparing. It all started with a listener’s post: “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” Hundreds of users went on to call the hosts “evil, vile, demonic” and “ugly inside and out,” and many dismissed the apology as a move forced by the sponsor losses. Others traded sponsor-contact lists and posted brand replies, while a third group pushed back on the hosts’ claim about the shooter.

Welch fired back at her critics on November 9, but the argument has not quieted. Whether sorry counts when it comes only after the sponsors walk is what the comments are still fighting over.