9 Podcasts Like Call Her Daddy (For Honest Talk Beyond the Headlines)

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Call Her Daddy started as Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn’s raunchy, no-filter take on sex and dating, recorded in a New York City apartment. It became one of the biggest podcasts in the world, then Cooper took it somewhere nobody expected: long, serious sit-down interviews with guests like Vice President Kamala Harris, alongside authors, athletes, and public figures who don’t usually do unscripted press.

That range is the whole appeal. One week it’s an explicit Q&A about relationships. The next, it’s a real conversation about ambition, trauma, or public life. Cooper asks whatever she actually wants to know, and the show never apologizes for either side of that split.

If you love Call Her Daddy, you’re probably drawn to one side of that range more than the other. Here are 9 podcasts that pick up different parts of what makes it work, plus one you may not have heard of yet.

What makes Call Her Daddy work

Before the list, it helps to name the two things the show does well, because most alternatives only do one of them.

Cooper is completely unfiltered. She asks the question everyone else is thinking and skips the part where she pretends not to be curious.

She also takes her guests seriously, no matter who they are. Whether it’s a comedian or a sitting vice president, she prepares like the conversation matters, and it shows.

The podcasts below split into those two camps: the raw, funny, unfiltered girl-talk shows, and the bigger, more reflective sit-down interviews. Decide which side of Call Her Daddy you miss most, then start there.

Signs a show will feel similar

• The host says the thing everyone else edits out.
• Guests are treated as real people, whatever their fame level.
• The tone can turn from a joke to something serious inside one sentence.
• Nothing is off-limits, but nothing feels cheap either.
• The host is genuinely curious, not performing curiosity for the mic.

What to listen to instead

1. Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg talk bluntly about dating, sex, breakups, and everything in between, with the same two-friends-on-a-couch energy that made early Call Her Daddy addictive.

Why it fits: If you miss the original, unfiltered dating-and-sex-talk version of the show, this is the closest match available.

2. Giggly Squad

Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo cover pop culture, dating, and their own lives with a fast, funny, best-friend rhythm that has sold out venues across the country.

Why it fits: Less explicit than early Call Her Daddy, but the same loose, funny, nothing-is-precious energy.

3. Not Skinny But Not Fat

Amanda Hirsch built a following on self-deprecating, unfiltered pop culture and celebrity commentary, then started landing real interviews with names like Kim Kardashian and Ryan Reynolds.

Why it fits: The same arc as Cooper’s: start informal and personality-driven, then grow into a show that attracts guests who wouldn’t normally sit for an unscripted conversation.

4. Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain

Emma Chamberlain talks through whatever is actually on her mind that week, from existential spirals to mundane observations, with almost no filter between the thought and the microphone.

Why it fits: If what you love about Call Her Daddy is the sense that the host is saying exactly what she’s thinking, this is the purest version of that instinct.

5. Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce

Kylie Kelce shares blunt opinions on parenting, marriage, and pop culture, then brings in guests for conversations that go further than the small-talk version of the same topics.

Why it fits: A newer show riding the same wave Call Her Daddy popularized: a woman with a big platform saying exactly what she thinks, guests included.

6. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle talk about the genuinely hard stuff, healing, parenting, identity, with less joking and more raw honesty than Call Her Daddy’s lighter episodes.

Why it fits: This is the serious sit-down side of Call Her Daddy taken further. Start here if the Kamala Harris-style episodes are your favorite part of the show.

7. IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson answer listener questions about life’s actual dilemmas, plainly and without the usual press-tour distance.

Why it fits: This is the closest thing to Cooper’s Kamala Harris moment as a recurring format: someone with an enormous public profile choosing to just talk honestly about ordinary questions.

8. Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett interviews founders, scientists, and public figures with the same instinct Cooper brings to her biggest episodes: deep preparation, genuine curiosity, and a willingness to let the conversation go somewhere unplanned. See the full breakdown of his interview style for what specifically makes it work.

Why it fits: If Call Her Daddy’s move toward serious, high-profile interviews is what drew you in, this show was built entirely around that instinct.

9. So Many Questions…

So Many Questions… takes Cooper’s core instinct, ask the question everyone else edits out, and applies it to people who aren’t always famous. Host Kendall Guillemette treats every guest like their answer actually matters, whether that’s a Director of Photography or a sportswriter navigating a controversy at work.

The tone is warmer and quieter than Call Her Daddy, but the underlying belief is the same: people say more interesting things when the host stops performing politeness and just asks. Try Elizabeth Maxson on boundaries and motherhood in tech leadership, or Ken Schultz on the Pride Night controversy he covered firsthand.

The common thread

Every show on this list shares one belief: an unfiltered host who genuinely wants to know the answer gets further than a polite one who’s managing the room. Call Her Daddy proved that works at every level, from an apartment recording about relationships to a sitting vice president.

The shows above split that instinct in different directions, funnier, more serious, more personal, but they’re all chasing the same thing Cooper chases: a conversation nobody edited down first.

Takeaway

The best podcasts like Call Her Daddy share an unfiltered host and a real curiosity about the guest, whether the conversation is funny, serious, or both in the same breath.

Start with Girls Gotta Eat or Giggly Squad for the closest tonal match to the show’s early years. If it’s the recent big-name sit-downs you love most, branch into IMO, We Can Do Hard Things, or Diary of a CEO. And if what you actually want is that same honesty applied to people who aren’t famous at all, that’s what So Many Questions… is for.