Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan, hosts of the podcast I’ve Had It, devoted Thursday’s episode to the left’s favorite pastime: mocking Republicans for daring to exist. The episode, tastefully titled ‘Drinking MAGA Tears,’ featured Welch gleefully reading, ‘We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.’ Because nothing says tolerance like fantasizing about desecrating your political opponents.
They put their heads down and laughed. Welch said she was “zooming in for Fox,” then, “No comment.” Sullivan added that Kirk ‘was shot by somebody that was super MAGA.’ Welch nodded along: ‘He was shot by a MAGA person.’ For the record, Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated in September 2025 at Utah Valley University by a leftist gunman. They offered no evidence for the claim that Tyler Robinson was “MAGA.”
On Saturday, the hosts were forced to apologize on Instagram. “It was an insensitive joke, and we should not have laughed. We regret it, and we apologize.” They said there is “nothing funny about gun violence” and that they had donated to Everytown for Gun Safety. Funneling money from one leftist cause to another counts as contrition in the eyes of Welch and Sullivan.
Advertisers were not impressed. Cash App said it does not condone “violence of any kind” and is no longer a sponsor of the podcast. Chewy said it does not sponsor or support the show, condemned “violence in all forms,” and said the hosts’ comments “do not reflect Chewy’s values.” Honeylove and NOBL Travel ended their partnerships too.
Welch, ever the victim, dubbed the fallout a ‘mass cancellation.’ On Tuesday’s show, she accused Turning Point USA of ‘harassing our advertisers,’ lamenting that ‘some of the advertisers have caved.’ But, she assured her audience, ‘we still have other advertisers, and we’re still standing.’
Then they found a new friend in Wisconsin. Producer Kylie Josey read aloud a post from Minocqua Brewing Company, eager to capitalize on the moment:
“Hey I’ve Had It Podcast, Charlie Kirk was an awful human being, and everybody who’s not in a cult or a paid influencer on the right realizes that. We’re sorry you’ve lost a few sponsors because you laughed at a joke about this racist jerk.”
“We probably don’t have as much money as the sponsors you lost, but we’d love to step in and partner with you if you’ll have us.”
They even tagged the pitch #shootingourshot.
‘That is so sweet,’ Welch gushed, as if she’d just been handed a puppy and not a PR grenade. She told listeners no money was needed and that the show was ‘happy to promote your products.’ She even declared, ‘This show is sponsored by Minocqua Brewing Company in the great blue state of Wisconsin.’ The brewery, in a newsletter later Tuesday, clarified they were still ‘waiting to ink a deal.’
Kirk Bangstad, the brewery’s owner, did not wander into this by accident. The day after Kirk was murdered, Bangstad wrote on the company’s Facebook page that his heart was “hard for men like Charlie Kirk,” and, “So F*** Charlie Kirk.” He added, “His assassination is only worth about 6 sentences of my time.”
He has also built a promotion around the hope that President Donald Trump dies. In January, the brewery promised free beer “all day long, the day he dies.” It did not name the president. After an armed man tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April to kill Trump, Bangstad posted, “Well, we almost got #freebeerday. Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle.” He added, “we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens,” and promoted shirts that say, “I wish it was free beer day at Minocqua Brewing Company.” The FBI and Secret Service interviewed him about the post. The brewery then published a Secret Service agent’s phone number and told supporters to call and “ask this secret service agent to stand down.”
This is the guy Welch called sweet. This is the company she was thrilled to plug, right after laughing about digging up a murdered dad and ‘doing it again.’ If this is what passes for sweet these days, I’m terrified to see what they call spicy.
The companies that bailed weren’t bullied; they just decided they’d rather not have their brand next to a podcast that celebrates political assassination with comedy. Bangstad couldn’t let a chance for self-promotion go to waste and hit Welch up. A podcast that laughs about desecrating Charlie Kirk and a brewer who treats an assassination attempt on the president as a missed opportunity for free beer aren’t strange bedfellows. They’re the perfect match made in hatred.
