With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Before becoming a podcaster, Jennifer Welch had a successful career as an interior designer and co-starred in a reality show on Bravo. But, since 2022, she and Angie Sullivan, her co-host on the podcast “I’ve Had It,” have gained millions of fans as a sounding board for left-leaning political frustrations. These aren’t only concerns about MAGA but also about the Democratic establishment that she views as captive to a corporate agenda. Welch talks with David Remnick about her contentious interviews with Cory Booker and Rahm Emanuel, her belief in “dark woke,” and how a white Oklahoma woman in her fifties emerged as one of the most provocative voices on today’s left.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the political scene. I'm David Remnick. |
| 0:08.3 | Early each week, we bring you a conversation from our episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour. |
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| 0:23.6 | Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. |
| 0:27.9 | One of the big changes in our politics, and I don't think we've really gotten our heads around it yet, is the change in how and where people get their information. |
| 0:37.5 | You know the top line here. |
| 0:39.4 | Very real declines in people watching the nightly news and reading the newspapers, |
| 0:44.1 | and in their places come a much more scattered, much more siloed universe of social media feeds, |
| 0:50.9 | TikTok explainers, podcasts, newsletters, and all the rest. Now, I don't think it's unfair to say |
| 0:57.6 | that most of these outlets, not all, but most, whatever their virtues, are not exactly obsessed |
| 1:03.8 | with fairness and accuracy in the way that the best traditional journalism outlets are, or damn well, |
| 1:09.5 | should be. And yet there's no denying the power, |
| 1:13.5 | even the relatability of many podcasts, whether it's Ben Shapiro on the right, Joe Rogan, wherever he |
| 1:19.1 | might be on a given day, or on the left, someone like our guest today, Jennifer Welch. Welch came to |
| 1:25.7 | political podcasts in a kind of roundabout way. She had a successful |
| 1:30.0 | career as an interior designer, and she co-starred in a reality show on Bravo. But since 2022, |
| 1:37.3 | she and her co-host, Angie Sullivan, have been pushing political buttons and getting millions of |
| 1:42.7 | fans on the podcast called called I've had it. |
| 1:46.2 | And that's Jennifer Welsh's daily state of mind, furious. |
| 1:51.4 | I've had it with white people that triple trumped. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.7 | That have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, |
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