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Aura Rossy, Accounts Manager November 30, 2018

When you first tune in to the Barstool Sports’ “Call Her Daddy” podcast, your mind may overflow with judgements and misconceptions. The voices of the two women that fill your ears are high-pitched and energized, as if they consumed five cups of coffee before showing up to record. They may remind you of some preppy overly enthusiastic person from your high school. The podcast is unique in how it talks about unusual topics with a comical twist. Minutes after you put your earbuds on, despite your initial impressions, you may be laughing in front of strangers without realizing it.

The podcast is hosted by Alexandra Cooper and Sofia Franklyn, two women in their twenties who have recently moved to New York City and are exploring their new life, while maybe simultaneously exploiting it. Cooper is a Boston University graduate who vlogs full-time for YouTube. Franklyn, who did not know Cooper before they became apartment-mates thanks to New York City’s sky-high rent, has become Cooper’s best friend and splits her time between a nine-to-five job and the Barstool offices.

“Call Her Daddy” is both a new and established concept in the world of podcasts. The content of the podcast is a blend of advice, whether you are in a relationship or not, hilarious stories and content from their listeners. Much of their content is not simply advice but sometimes just outright hysterical stories. Most of the advice the women lay out for their audience is about sex. The majority of the embarrassing moments detailed in their episodes talk about what some might consider taboo, but all the stories are framed in a hilarious context that makes them more approachable.

Although the podcast is hosted by two women and the name suggests that the target audience is strictly women, it is not. While the duo dedicates a good portion of their content to offering sexual and romantic advice to women, they are also dedicated to roasting men and offering them advice in today’s chaotic dating world.

What makes “Call Her Daddy” stand out from other podcasts in the realm of self-help content is that it is not afraid to touch on taboo topics. Despite the content not being for everyone, there is something to take away from their approach. These Barstool Sports women are normalizing discussing the many aspects of sexuality and relationships, a healthy, refreshing and empowering approach.

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The hosts of raunchy hit podcast “Call Her Daddy” claim they’re by sports media behemoth Barstool Sports, which launched the show. But Barstool has defended itself to Page Six telling us it made them into “superstars” using its “million-dollar marketing machine.”

Alexandra Cooper and Sofia Franklyn — who launched the show in 2018 — have stopped recording the weekly podcast and launched the #FreeTheFathers hashtag, suggesting they’re being imprisoned or even enslaved by the company. But someone leaked their contracts to us — and industry insiders who reviewed them tell us that the deal is actually pretty sweet for a new podcast with unproven hosts.

The contract says they’re each making $75,000 annually as a base salary — going up to $100,000 after three years — with an additional $2,500 an episode for every 10% of listeners that they can pull in above their average. The deal adds up to a steady six-figure take-home, insiders estimate.

But we’re told that the real money for the pair is in TV and book spinoff deals — which they can’t cash in on because Barstool owns the show’s intellectual property, such as its name, logo and concept. “If I was their agent, I’d tell them that now is the time to get out of their deal or renegotiate it,” said one, “They’re huge right now — you don’t want to wait until after your moment has passed.”

A Barstool rep tells Page Six that, “In the case of ‘Call Her Daddy,’ we took a risk on unproven talent and put the full resources of Barstool Sports and our million-dollar marketing machine behind them to make them huge.” The rep told us that they’ve been given “significant raises.” “The goal with all of our talent here, including Alex and Sofia, is that at the end of their contract, their personal brands are worth far more than when they started.”

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‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast hosts have ‘turned on each other,’ insider says They added, “We take risks on talent and try to make them superstars. We believe it is a win-win for everybody.”

Cooper didn’t get back to us, and we couldn’t reach Franklyn for comment.

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Select All Vendors Select All Hosts Call Her Daddy' host Sofia Franklyn breaks silence on controversy By on 05/23/202005/23/2020Shares There are many things you can say about Barstool Sports, their personalities, and the sagas that unfold between them. Uninteresting is not one of those things.

The latest brouhaha to come out of Barstool Land involves the extremely popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which seemingly imploded last month but now appears to have been reborn following a fallout between the two hosts and rumors of a conflict of interest involving now-former host Sofia Franklyn’s boyfriend, HBO Sports Executive Vice President Peter Nelson.

Recommended Articles 00:00/00:32 LIVE00:00undefinedNext Video×Next VideoRecommended ArticlesCancelAutoplay is paused First, a refresher and/or introduction to what we’re talking about here. The popular podcast “Call Her Daddy,” which features raunchy and unfiltered discussions about sex, dating, and life in NYC, was started by friends Sofia Franklyn and Alexandra Cooper in 2018. It quickly took off and Barstool swooped in and acquired the show within a month, helping it climb from just as quickly. It has since been one of the highest-rated podcasts on the Apple Podcasts charts on a consistent basis.



Everything seemed to be going fine until early April when the show abruptly stopped publishing new episodes. The cryptically titled “Kesha… The End” was published on April 8 and then…nothing. Listeners (known as…deep breath…Daddy Gang) , and an April 21 statement by both Franklyn and Cooper that they “legally can’t speak out yet” about what was happening only intensified the search for answers.

A on May 16 introduced the revelation that Franklyn’s boyfriend, Peter Nelson, has inserted himself into the fray by attempting to get both hosts to leave Barstool for a new deal elsewhere.

> The insider said the feud has been stirred up by Franklyn’s boyfriend, HBO Sports executive vice president Peter Nelson, 38, claiming that he has been advising them behind the scenes.

They were offered a deal with podcast network Wondery, the insider said, which was orchestrated by Nelson: “He was quietly shopping them even though they were still under contract with Barstool.”

Our own Ben Koo :

> A simplified version of a complicated situation would be that Franklyn and her co-host, Alexandra Cooper, are embroiled in an extremely contentious contract renegotiation, the aim of which includes more money (duh), to regain the Call Her Daddy brand which Barstool acquired the rights to, and potentially their exit from Barstool altogether.

The next day, Barstool president and founder Dave Portnoy released an episode on the “Call Her Daddy” feed (titled “Daddy Speaks”) explaining the company’s side of things.

> “I was starting to hear whispers and Alex confirmed it, and this is is a big part of the story. Sofia’s new boyfriend, which I guess Call Her Daddy people call “suit,” I call him fucking a bad guy from a James Bond movie who thinks he’s way smarter than he is……Peter Nelson, is that his name? HBO exec. Probably greenlit a hit piece on me not too long ago. But he had come into the mix. He was the one who brought in all these lawyers. The lawyer was his friend, I believe. This is what I believe, and he was openly shopping Call Her Daddy. He was acting almost as a manager, and he got a deal with Wondery. They were going to call the podcast “The Fathers.”

The hit piece that Portnoy is referring to is the and painted Barstool Sports in a fairly unflattering light.



Fast-forward to this past Friday when a few things happened in quick succession. The “Call Her Daddy” Twitterfeed was updated to include one host, Alexandra Cooper, while Franklyn was removed. Meanwhile, Cooper uploaded a 34-minute video to YouTube titled “The truth about Call Her Daddy” in which she tells her side of the story and announces that she has signed a new deal with Barstool and will resume the podcast as a solo endeavor.



According to Cooper, the problems between the duo began when they started renegotiating the second year of their three-year contract with Barstool. Per Cooper, the deal was initially set for $75,000 each in year one, $85,000 in year two, and $100,000 in year three. Three months into the deal, she says that the duo received raises. Cooper also notes that she received a separate raise for editing and marketing of the podcast, which was not shared with Franklyn. The difference in the amount of behind-the-scenes work that each host put into the podcast appears to have been a major source of friction between the two.

that by the time the show went on hiatus in April, Cooper made $506,000 while Franklyn made $461,000.

In the video, Cooper claims that Nelson was unhappy with the financial deal the hosts had in place and that it was below industry standards. At that point, Cooper says Nelson took over negotiations and made demands that included a guaranteed salary of $1 million for each host, more merchandise revenue, and the ability to regain ownership of the intellectual property rights.

“Dave Portnoy essentially told us to go F ourselves in every single hole possible,” says Cooper. “It was awful. Everyone was telling us that this was the deal…that document essentially pissed Dave off so much because he was like ‘I don’t even need to renegotiate with you guys.'”

This is when Nelson reportedly began shopping the hosts around to new networks and media outlets. While there appeared to be positive momentum, the two hosts had a meeting with Portnoy who extended them a new deal. Coopers says that while she was interested in taking the offer, Franklyn was “not matching my level of excitement at all.”

From there, per Cooper, Franklyn wanted to start fresh with a new show elsewhere, while Cooper decided to get her own representation and approach Barstool about a return by herself.

Portnoy , saying “we got the deal done today.” He also added that he did not have ill-will against Franklyn, though he capped everything by saying “it’s all now back to Alex Cooper and Peter Nelson, go fuck yourself, you fuck.” So there’s that.

For her part, Franklyn hasn’t updated her since May 19, when she posted the introduction to a video explainer of her own side of the story. The full video was released via her Instagram Stories but is no longer live. , which include Franklyn saying she felt like Cooper had gone behind her back in financial dealings with Barstool and was trying to take control of the show from her.

> “I found out that Alex had gone behind my back and done something. And I found out it wasn’t the first time. And that’s why we’re here. I trusted Alex. I feel betrayed.”

“I am willing to do ‘Call Her Daddy.’ I really am. I just can’t do it under the circumstances that she wants,” she said, claiming “she is demanding that she controls the show.”

Cooper sums it all up the whole saga and the “Call Her Daddy” ethos at the end of her video…

> “At the end of the day, what it comes down to, is that I am very aware that this brand, the Daddy Gang, is bigger than Sofia and me. Much bigger. And I am so fucking excited to get the show back on the air. To continue to talk about sex…and blowjobs…and talk about shitty one-night stands…and get into it. And I think that it fucking sucks because the excitement I have, I wish Sofia had had that day on Dave’s rooftop.”

So there you go. You’re all caught up on the “Call Her Daddy” drama. You’re welcome.

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SharesAbout Sean Keeley A graduate of Syracuse University, Sean Keeley is the creator of the Syracuse blog Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician and author of 'How To Grow An Orange: The Right Way to Brainwash Your Child Into Rooting for Syracuse.' He has also written non-Syracuse related things for SB Nation, Curbed, , and many other outlets. He currently lives in Chicago.

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