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Former 'Call Her Daddy' co-host Sofia Franklyn claims someone else came up with the show's most viral bits
Sofia Franklyn, the former co-host of the popular podcast Call Her Daddy, has claimed that Alex Cooper’s childhood friend Muji Fricke helped create some of Call Her Daddy’s most recognizable jokes and thus shaped Cooper’s early on-air persona.
According to Franklyn’s new memoir, cheekily titled Daddy Issues, Alex Cooper’s longtime friend Muji Fricke was the source behind several of the podcast’s signature bits, including the viral “Gluck Gluck” joke.
Franklyn’s memoir — which was released on Tuesday, November 10 — recounts her friendship and business partnership with Cooper before their public falling-out in 2020.
Former Call Her Daddy co-host Sofia Franklyn claims that Alex Cooper took the show’s most viral bits from her friend
“I realize it’s one of several jokes – like saying her favorite porn star is Lisa Ann on an IG Q&A – Alex has made that could not have come from the mind of a white, blond college athlete,” Franklyn writes in the book.
“Muji’s ideas become central to the show, and especially to Alex’s persona: an overtly sexual, clout-chasing WAG wannabe.”
“Off-camera, Alex and I don’t even find a lot of Muji’s sexual humor funny. But we take his knowledge – the good, the bad and the ugly of sports and dudes – and put it on Alex, a dabbing hardo white girl in a push-up bra… Comedy gold.”
Franklyn and Cooper built Call Her Daddy together before a contract dispute involving Barstool Sports ended their partnership in 2020. Cooper continued hosting Call Her Daddy to massive success — including a $125 million deal with SiriusXm in 2024 — while Franklyn launched Sofia with an F.