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        <title><![CDATA[Alex Cooper to host ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast without Sofia Franklyn amid drama]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She&#8217;s a single father now.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221;</strong> co-host Alexandra Cooper took to YouTube late Friday night, announcing that she signed a solo deal with Barstool Sports to resume her smutty podcast and to tell her side of the split from her partner Sofia Franklyn.</p><p>Cooper, 26, said Franklyn, 28, allowed her beau <strong>HBO Sports executive Peter Nelson</strong> and his &#8220;posse&#8221; of agents and lawyers to interfere in their business and come between the one-time best friends.</p><p>The pair, who were originally squaring off with Barstool before <strong>turning on each other</strong>, haven&#8217;t recorded a podcast since early April.</p><p>&#8220;I am so f&#8211;king excited to get the show back on the air and continue to talk about the blow jobs and sh&#8211;ty one night stands,&#8221; Cooper said in her YouTube diatribe.</p><p>&#8220;The excitement I have, I wish Sofia had that day on [Barstool founder] Dave&#8217;s [Portnoy] rooftop,&#8221; she said of the now infamous meeting where Portnoy offered Cooper and Franklyn a sweetheart deal that would guarantee them a $500K base, plus incentives, and give them the &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; intellectual property (IP).</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll see you f&#8211;kers on Wednesday,&#8221; she said at the end of her clip.</p><p>In the 30 minute video, Cooper said the in-fighting started as they began renegotiating the second year of their three-year contract with Barstool Sports. During the first year with the sports media behemoth, Cooper made $506,000 and Franklyn received $461,000, according to Portnoy.</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" ><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MKSK3xctT0I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" width="600" height="315"></iframe></span></p><p>But the blonde said Nelson kept chirping that they made &#8220;way below&#8221; the industry standard. (Franklyn and Nelson have not responded to The Post&#8217;s requests for comment.) Cooper also alleges that the 38-year-old Nelson then took the lead, drafting a list of demands the women sought from Barstool, which included a guarantee of $1 million each, a bigger piece of their merchandise revenue and giving them the intellectual property rights.</p><p>&#8220;Dave Portnoy essentially told us to go F ourselves in every single hole possible. It was awful &#8230; that document essentially pissed Dave off so much.&#8221;</p><p>According to Cooper, that&#8217;s when all negotiations stopped but they continued to do the podcast as Nelson started shopping them around to other media companies.</p><p>After receiving other offers, the co-hosts met Portnoy on his roof-deck — but Cooper said they both went in with different goals. To Franklyn it was a courtesy meeting to let Portnoy know they were leaving while Cooper said she went in with an open mind. That&#8217;s when Portnoy extended the deal, which he said would have netted them millions.</p><p>&#8220;He offered what I consider the world,&#8221; Cooper said. But she claims her co-host felt differently. At the meeting, &#8220;I can tell Sofia is not matching my level of excitement. I wanted to shake Dave&#8217;s hand right on the rooftop,&#8221; said Cooper, who added that they walked home in silence, and they didn&#8217;t respond to Portnoy for a few days.</p><p>In that time, which Cooper calls, &#8220;the ghost period,&#8221; she said she was attempting to appease Franklyn&#8217;s ever changing demands. During a painful two hour phone call, their divergent paths became clear.</p><p>&#8220;Alex, I hate this deal. What it comes down to is: you don&#8217;t want to leave, and I don&#8217;t want to stay,&#8221; Cooper recalled Franklyn saying. &#8220;Sofia said, &#8216;the IP is the most important thing, but it&#8217;s not as important to me as it is to you. You think the IP is the end-all-be-all but I feel differently about that&#8217; . . . We agreed that we valued the brand in a very different way.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s when Cooper believes Franklyn wanted to sabotage everything. She suddenly had more representatives including Ben Davis, a hot shot agent at William Morris Endeavor, and other attorneys who kept moving the goal posts further away from Portnoy&#8217;s original offer.</p><p>&#8220;These people are never going to be f&#8211;king happy. This is all about money,&#8221; said Cooper, adding that no one on Franklyn&#8217;s side seemed to care about one another other than greenbacks.</p><p>According to Cooper, Franklyn kept saying that Barstool was &#8220;desperate&#8221; to get them back and kept asking for more.</p><p>That&#8217;s when Cooper called Portnoy, got her own representation that &#8220;Peter Nelson did not pick for me&#8221; and started hashing out a deal to return.</p><p>She also seemed to respond to Franklyn&#8217;s allegation that <strong>Cooper stabbed her in the back</strong>. Cooper admitted to landing a raise independently of Franklyn in the first year because she simply did more work including editing the podcast and handling the marketing and social media.</p><p>&#8220;I chose not to share this raise with Sofia, and I chose to do that because Sofia made me feel uncomfortable that I did more work,&#8221; said Cooper.</p><p>This announcement caps off the salacious saga which Portney said, “In my 17 years of doing this, <strong>I have never dealt with anyone as unprofessional</strong> and disloyal and greedy as [the two women].”</p><p><strong>On Instagram</strong>, Portnoy confirmed Cooper&#8217;s news, saying he doesn&#8217;t hate Sofia but couldn&#8217;t resist one last dig at Nelson.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all now back to Alex Cooper and Peter Nelson go f&#8211;k yourself, you f&#8211;k.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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