Alex Cooper Shares Secret Details About ‘Call Her Daddy’ Podcast

Alex Cooper, host of the viral “Call Her Daddy” podcast, is opening up about some of the show’s behind-the-scenes secrets. While appearing on Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s “Burnouts” podcast, Cooper also revealed one of the biggest lessons she’s learned since becoming a household name.

Cooper got candid about everything her “Call Her Daddy” podcast listeners wanted to hear when she spoke with Gates and Kianni, including what led her to sign a $60 million contract with Spotify in 2021.

According to Cooper, she also had an offer from Amazon; however, the deal’s terms led her to walk away from the table.

“To be honest, it was the same amount of money basically and a little less work,” she said. “So I was like, why would I not do Spotify?”

A reported paywall and the number of episodes required are some of the conditions of the Amazon deal.

“It was a lot as a creator at the time who didn’t have a company behind me. I was a one-woman show,” Cooper shared. “I was just trying to look at how will I be able to execute this type of deal in a capacity that I feel like I’m actually capable of. Because I wanted to be a good partner.”

Cooper shared that signing with Spotify was a no-brainer, given that she was only required to film 52 episodes a year and was guaranteed a set amount of money, regardless of how the show performed.

And while she was excited about where the show was headed during its early days at Spotify, Cooper admitted there were industry-dealings she had to become familiar with.

For example, after signing with Spotify, Cooper shared that her money was being sent to her various agencies rather than to her directly.

“I was like, ‘Wait, no, I want that in my bank account. And then I’ll send your 10%,’” Cooper recalled. “Understandably, as an agency, you want that X amount of millions of dollars coming into whatever agency, UTA, WME, CAA, because then they can put that as basically that is in their revenue for the year,” she added.

That’s just one of the things Cooper had to learn, she said. Elsewhere during the episode, Cooper opened up about the “mistakes” she learned “in terms of trusting people.”

Cooper, whose podcast draws 10-12 million listeners per month, stated that she learned to put more things in writing. She added that she’d been burned in the past by people who went back on their word.

“And I’m like, ‘Wait, that never happened.’ But I guess I technically should have put that in writing so that I so I think now I put everything in writing,” she said.

Cooper isn’t beloved by everyone, though, according to The Blast.

A source shared that “America’s Got Talent” judge Howard Stern was allegedly frustrated with Cooper because of her show’s success.

“She gets hundreds of millions of hits, she has this mega $125 million deal, and he hates that this young bubbly woman is the big new thing,” the source claimed.

And Cooper is in good company. The source also alleged Stern was furious with “Real Housewives” executive producer Andy Cohen, claiming the latter’s show is “regularly promoted by Sirius, while you don’t hear much about Howard’s interviews these days.”

Cohen renewed his contract with SiriusXM in 2022, stating that he was “gratified by the level of commitment” the network had shown him.

Before she was interviewing Kamala Harris and Hilary Duff, Cooper shared that she used to date sugar daddies in New York City to earn enough money to pay her bills, according to The Blast.

The podcaster learned of the lowkey opportunity after being laid off from her job, adding that she’d “go get drinks and dinner, and by the end of the night have enough money for rent.”

Cooper said she always made sure a friend was nearby in case something went wrong, and she urged anyone interested in doing the same to be cautious.

The content creator finished by revealing she had no regrets about her life before fame.

“And yes, of course, the caliber I was doing it, people might think of that as aspirational. But we all go through our sh-t,” she said.