Podcasters Laughed at ‘Digging Up Charlie Kirk and Doing It Again.’ Cash App, Zenni, Ridge Walked.

Charlie Kirk was shot dead on stage at Utah Valley University in September 2025. Fourteen months later, two popular left-wing podcasters read a joke about digging him up to kill him again, and laughed.

The hosts are Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan of “I’ve Had It.” On Thursday’s episode, their show after the midterms, they were reading posts from people online reacting to the results. One said: “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” Both hosts cracked up. That segment has since been cut from the episode, but it had already been clipped and shared, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The sponsors, in their own words

Cash App went first. On Friday afternoon, answering a post that carried the clip, the company wrote: “We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast.” That reply has been seen more than 6 million times.

By Saturday evening three more brands had said the same thing on their own accounts:

Zenni Optical: “Zenni does not condone violence of any type. We have canceled advertising on I’ve Had It and are reviewing our podcast placements against our brand safety standards.”

Ridge, the wallet maker: “We are no longer sponsors of the show and will not be working with them going forward.” In a second reply, Ridge said it has “no future plans to work with this creator or any shows on their network.”

Boll & Branch, the bedding company: it “does not currently advertise with the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast and will not in the future.”

One name that doesn’t belong on the list

Several viral lists have Chewy dropping the show too. Chewy says that’s wrong for a different reason: it was never there. The pet retailer has posted the same reply to customer after customer on Saturday: “We do not sponsor or support the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast. We unequivocally condemn violence in all forms. The comments made by the hosts do not reflect Chewy’s values or what we stand for as a company.”

That matters because the boycott only works if it’s aimed right. Four companies have confirmed they’re gone, in writing, on their own accounts. Anything beyond that is somebody’s list, not a company’s word.

The apology

On Saturday, two days after the show and a day after Cash App walked, Welch and Sullivan put out a joint statement: “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.”

Then came the pivot: “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. We’ll keep using our platforms to fight for the safety of all Americans.”

Read it twice. The statement never says the word “murder.” It never names Erika Kirk or the two small children who lost their father. It calls the joke “insensitive,” as if the problem were taste rather than laughing at a call to kill a man a second time. And the make-good is a check to a gun-control group, which turns a joke about a political assassination back into a pitch for their own politics. That’s like spilling wine on someone and making it up to them by donating to a temperance league.

Why the timing stings

The post they laughed at wasn’t random. It came off the midterm results, the week the left was celebrating its wins. The idea that Kirk’s death was a political win worth joking about is exactly what conservatives warned about after Utah Valley: that a slice of the left saw a murdered 31-year-old father as a scoreboard.

It also lands days before a real deadline in his case. Tyler Robinson, 23, the man charged with killing Kirk, still has no trial date. Fourth District Judge Tony Graf has said he will rule on the schedule Nov. 9, according to the Deseret News.

What happens next

The episode stays up with the segment cut. Those four written confirmations are the ones on record so far, and the companies that spoke left little room for a comeback: Ridge said it won’t work with any show on their network. Every remaining advertiser on “I’ve Had It” now has the same question in its inbox, and the same choice Cash App made on Friday.