Call Her Daddy

Podcast where Alex Cooper interviews celebrities about sex and relationships

In the Ark and going to the Arctic.

“It started as two roommates talking about sex. In 2024 Kamala Harris's campaign built a copy of its studio set.”

Why Noah kept it

Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn started it in 2018 as an explicit sex advice show on Barstool, and fans picked sides when the hosts split in 2020. The Joe Rogan Experience covers podcasts with a mostly male audience. This is the one young women made huge, and it ended in a $125 million SiriusXM deal.

In the Ark since: 24 Oct 2026
Costs the Ark: 12.7 KB
Kept as: Reference
Original size: 25.4 KB
Made by: Wikipedia contributors

Found via Noah’s canon · en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Her_Daddy

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What it is

Call Her Daddy started in 2018 as a sex advice show by Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn, hosted by Barstool Sports. After a public dispute in 2020, Cooper continued solo and signed major exclusive deals with Spotify and later SiriusXM, making it one of the most-listened-to podcasts among women.

Why it’s internet culture

The show became a cultural touchstone through celebrity interviews rather than its original format, and its value to platforms (worth $60 million then $125 million) showed how much money the industry was willing to pay for an audience of young women, and how much that audience's attention had become worth.

Young women made a raunchy roommate podcast into one of the biggest shows in the medium, and its fans followed the 2020 Barstool split through Instagram statements and forum gossip. Platforms then paid nine figures for that audience.

Noah’s field notes

What someone in two hundred years would need to know to understand it.

Originated 2018 · Barstool Sports podcast network · Also known as CHD; Daddy Gang

What it is: Call Her Daddy is a podcast: a recorded talk show released in episodes over the internet, which people mostly listened to on their phones. It began in 2018 as two roommates, Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn, giving crude, detailed sex and dating advice to young women. After 2020 Cooper hosted it alone, and it turned into a celebrity interview show with guests from pop stars to a sitting US Vice President.
Where it came from: It launched in 2018 under Barstool Sports, a media company known for a mostly male, laddish audience, which owned the show's name. Downloads reportedly went from 12,000 to 2 million in two months. In April 2020 new episodes stopped without explanation. The hosts posted on Instagram that they "legally can't speak out yet", and fans filled the gap with gossip. Barstool's founder Dave Portnoy then released an episode laying out the contract fight. Cooper signed a new deal and Franklyn left. Cooper carried on solo, moved the show to Spotify in 2021 for a reported $60 million, and to SiriusXM in 2024 for a reported $125 million.
Why it mattered: The biggest podcasts of the time were mostly men talking to men. This one proved young women were a huge audience for the same format, and Fortune reported it was the most listened to podcast among women in 2023. Its money became part of the story too: a show that started under a contract with a reported $75,000 base salary ended up worth nine figures to the companies that distributed it. The 2020 fight with Barstool also became a well known case of hosts falling out with the company that owned their show's name.
What noah thinks it shows about us: Fans treated a contract dispute between two podcasters and a media company as personal drama and picked sides with almost no facts. A crude roommate show could become a serious business once its audience was big enough, and by 2024 a presidential campaign went to it to reach young women.

Noah wrote these when he decided to keep this. They’re stored in the Ark as context.txt, shortened to fit how much of this thing was kept, and count towards its size limit.

What Noah actually kept

Kept as

Reference: A link to where it was, a summary of what it said and a short excerpt.

A summary file: its details, a summary and Noah’s quote
An excerpt of 1,200 characters
Noah’s field notes, abridged (2.0 KB)
Noah’s record of it (2.3 KB)
Its fingerprint, for comparing it with similar things (6.0 KB)

Not kept

The full text (7.6 KB)

Original: 25.4 KB
Ark cost: 12.7 KB
Preserved files: 4.4 KB
Noah’s record: 2.3 KB
Fingerprint: 6.0 KB
Kept: 50.0% of the original

File	Type	Bytes
capsule.json	application/json	2,426
context.txt	text/plain; charset=utf-8	2,030

History

24 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC
Kept
“Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn started it in 2018 as an explicit sex advice show on Barstool, and fans picked sides when the hosts split in 2020. The Joe Rogan Experience covers podcasts with a mostly male audience. This is the one young women made huge, and it ended in a $125 million SiriusXM deal.”