Call Her Daddy

Call Her Daddy is a sex advice and comedy podcast currently hosted by Alexandra Cooper, and formerly Cooper and Sofia Franklyn.

Call Her Daddy
Presentation
Hosted byAlexandra Cooper
GenreHuman sexuality, Sexual relationships, Interview, Culture of New York City
Created byAlexandra Cooper
Sofia Franklyn
LanguageEnglish
Production
No. of episodes107 (list of episodes)
Publication
Original releaseOctober 3, 2018 (2018-10-03) – present
WebsiteOfficial Website

The podcast was created by Cooper and Sofia Franklyn in 2018. The podcast is partially owned and distributed by Barstool Sports. In the late spring of 2020, the co-creators and hosts were engaged in a publicized dispute with David Portnoy and Barstool, which resulted in Sofia Franklyn leaving the show and creating her own podcast, Sofia with an F. Cooper remained host and continued the show on her own.

Content

Podcast content includes sex/relationship advice, stories/anecdotes, discussion of embarrassing moments, and just some classic "girl talk".[1]

History

Sofia Franklyn and Alexandra Cooper started the podcast in 2018. The podcast rapidly increased in popularity, with downloads rising from 12,000 to 2 million in two months.[2]

According to Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, the company signed a three-year contract with the co-hosts in 2018. This contract provided a base salary of $70,000, supplemented with bonuses by download statistics and a portion of merchandise sales. The contract ceded all intellectual property to Barstool Sports. Franklyn received an economics degree and hails from Utah.[3] She held a nine-to-five job at the onset of Call Her Daddy. Cooper was a full-time vlogger at the start of the podcast and received schooling at Boston University. The two met by sharing an apartment together.[1]

2020 break and dispute with Barstool Sports

Following an episode titled "Kesha... The End" released April 8, 2020, new episodes stopped being released. Explanations for the break were not communicated to fans, with the co-hosts releasing a statement on Instagram noting that they "legally can't speak out yet." Amidst the lack of communication, significant speculation developed among tabloids and fan forums. An episode released to the podcast feed by Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sports founder and president, on Sunday May 17 discussed events from the perspective of Barstool. The thirty-minute episode described financial and contractual details. He said that Barstool had offered a base salary of $500,000 to the co-hosts in a rooftop deal, and noted that Barstool was losing $100,000 per episode. He said that Cooper had settled on new terms, but that Franklyn remained on the bargaining table at the advice of her advisors. The New York Times notes that this effort by the co-hosts to re-negotiate terms comes out of a trend of fissures between creative talent and corporate platforms.[2]

Suit man

Meanwhile, Franklyn was also involved in a relationship with Peter Nelson (pejoratively called "Suit Man" by Portnoy), an executive at the time for HBO Sports, who was allegedly actively convincing Franklyn to undermine the podcast's success and ask for more money and merchandising money. Nelson was also allegedly shopping the program around to other distributers for her.[4]

Return

Cooper was releasing the podcast alone following the break, and said in late May that she would be pushing forward without Franklyn for the future. She told listeners that a new co-host would be chosen soon.[5] Miley Cyrus joined Cooper on the re-started podcast in August 2020. Along with Cooper, she discussed her breakup from Liam Hemsworth.[6]

Franklyn released her own podcast titled Sofia with an F starting in October 2020.[7][8]

Popularity and reception

In 2020, Call Her Daddy was the fifth most popular podcast on the streaming service Spotify.[9][10]

SoHo Karen

In January 2021, Miya Ponsetto (also known as SoHo Karen) gave an interview with Gayle King over her 2020 incident in which she falsely accused a 14-year old black boy of stealing her iPhone. In the interview, Ponsetto is seen wearing a "Daddy" baseball cap in reference to the Call Her Daddy podcast. Alexandra Cooper later commented that the hat was not official "merch" from the Call Her Daddy website.[11]

References
  1. Rossy, Aura (30 November 2018). "How "Call Her Daddy" is empowering women". The Observer.
  2. Lorenz, Taylor (19 May 2020). "The 'Call Her Daddy' Feud: What Happened?". The New York Times.
  3. Onibada, Ade (20 May 2020). "Fans Of The Popular Podcast "Call Her Daddy" Are Picking Sides As The Drama About Its Future Gets Very Messy". BuzzFeed News.
  4. https://www.distractify.com/p/call-her-daddy-suit-man
  5. Belfiore, Emily (27 May 2020). "Call Her Daddy's Alexandra Cooper Reveals Where She Stands With Former Co-Host Sofia Franklyn". E! Online.
  6. Petter, Olivia (14 August 2020). "Miley Cyrus says she was 'villainised' after split from Liam Hemsworth". The Independent.
  7. Schuster, Allison (14 October 2020). "In 'Sofia With An F,' Sofia Franklyn Blames Everyone Else For Call Her Daddy Drama". The Federalist.
  8. DeNinno, Nadine (7 October 2020). "Ex-'Call Her Daddy' host Sofia Franklyn launching solo podcast". New York Post.
  9. Pesce, Nicole Lyn (3 December 2020). "These were the Spotify playlists and podcasts that got us through 2020". MarketWatch.
  10. Garvey, Marianne (2 December 2020). "Bad Bunny tops Spotify's most-streamed list of 2020". CNN. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  11. "'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper: Hat on 'Soho Karen' Not 'CHD' Merch". January 8, 2021.
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