You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality Steve Podcast, I am your host reality. Steve, thank you all for tuning in on this Friday. Good show for you heading into the weekend. I watched the call her Alex documentary two part series on Hulu. Watched it yesterday. And I’ll give you my thoughts on it.
Quick take, thoroughly impressed, uh, by all of it. Really good documentary, especially if you’re interested in just the podcast game and the podcast world. Um, and we will get to the fallout from that podcast that happened even yesterday after Alex Cooper posted again yesterday, and then a response from her college.
We’re also going to discuss, sorry, lemme get my topics up here. Gen Trans. Ex-boyfriend, Maddie Rossi. We’re gonna discuss that the traitor’s season forecast has been allegedly leaked. Somebody who had one of the more viral songs in the last five years is going to prison for 30 years because he killed somebody.
And finally, a sequel that is 40 years in the making was announced yesterday, and I cannot be more excited. I’ll tell you about that coming up. We’ll get to all that momentarily. Alright, let’s discuss the, call her Alex podcast. It’s about Alex Cooper’s rise to fame as being the most influential female podcaster in the game.
She might be the most influential podcaster male or female at this point, and. It’s a two part series on Hulu. Each episode is only one hour long, and the first episode kind of covers her tour that she did last year and the preparation for it, some of the things that almost went wrong, and then it dove into, you’ve probably seen the headlines over the last few days.
It dove into her playing soccer her first three years at Boston University, but for the first time in 10 years. She has spoken publicly about the sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of the head coach, and her name was Nancy Feldman. This has been making news for the last two days because nobody ever knew this about Alex Cooper.
As open as she is and what she talks about on her podcast, she has never talked about the fact that she was sexually harassed, uh, by her college soccer coach. We saw the discussion her. And her mother and her father in confessionals talking about, they went to the school and they told the school. So it’s not like Alex Cooper kept her mouth shut for 10 years and never said a word until now.
She went to the school at the time it was going on, her mother went to the school with a notebook of everything Alex ever told her while it was happening. And the school had no interest in looking at it. They had no interest in saying, we’re gonna fire the coach, we’re gonna do an investigation, nothing.
They basically just told her to shut up. So she ended up quitting her senior year and didn’t get to play soccer her senior year. And so this has obviously made news the last two days, but yesterday Alex Cooper took to Instagram and basically doubled down on everything that she had said. In the documentary, she said, since my documentary has been released, it has become public that I was sexually harassed for three years by Nancy Feldman, my college soccer coach at Boston University.
Nancy Feldman was someone I trusted, someone I believed in, someone who was supposed to help me grow, someone who was supposed to protect me, but instead she made my life a living hell and abused her power over me. She stripped me of my identity and took away what I had worked for my entire life because she didn’t control herself.
This defined my life for a decade and impacted her life 0%. I reported the abuse to the athletic director, drew Ello, and was turned away and ignored. There was no accountability, no investigation, and no justice. So when I found out the harassment and abuse was still happening on that campus today. 10 years later by Nancy Feldman’s successor and my former assistant coach.
I knew I needed to share my story. This is no longer just about me. This is system systemic. When this initially happened to me, I felt like I had no voice, but that is no longer the case. Now I’m coming for all you who abused your power over innocent young individuals, Nancy Feldman. You will no longer be able to hide in the shadows and get away with unscathed from the calculated pain you cause me and so many other women.
To anyone who has also experienced what I have been, what I have, and been ignored. I am with you and this is day one of changing the system, flipping the script, and finding justice. We will no longer be silenced. I’m ready to bulldoze through every fucking door for all of you out there. Because when I was 18 years old, dismissed and ignored by Boston University, I prayed and wished someone with a voice would’ve held my hand and helped me through the darkest time of my life.
Daddy gang, I got you. Stay tuned. I’d say that’s a pretty powerful statement by one of the most powerful women in all of media. Right now, Boston University is screwed as they should be. They’ve basically gotten away for 10 years with this. You don’t think Alex Cooper coming out with this publicly? In a documentary, and I think the interesting part of her statement is she clearly has spoken to other players.
Word got around to her maybe since the, I mean, it came out on Tuesday, so it’s only been out for two days. So maybe current Boston University players came to her and said, thank you for speaking out. It’s still going on. The coach right now has done this or said this to me, so I, I, I guarantee you. The fact that the voice behind this is one of the most powerful women in media right now.
Uh, Boston University is absolutely screwed, and I guarantee charges are coming. Absolutely. I guarantee whoever the head coach is right now who was an assistant under. Nancy Feldman, but has now been moved to the head coaching position, ’cause Nancy Feldman, I believe, retired in 2022 or 2023. So her assistant took the position, which normally is what happens.
And apparently that person has been doing the same thing. So I guarantee by this weekend that coach is gone. Whoever that coach is will be out of a job by this weekend because Boston University realizes they got a major problem on their hand right now. So what did Boston University do yesterday? They released a statement.
Boston University has a zero tolerance policy for sexual harassment. We have a robust system of resources, support and staff dedicated to student wellbeing and a thorough reporting process. Through our Equal Opportunity Office, we encourage members of our community to report any concerns and will remain committed to fostering a safe and secure campus environment for all.
Well, that’s a hell of a statement. 10 years after the fact, and you didn’t even address what Alex Cooper brought to the forefront, that you had a coach that was there for, I don’t know, 20 years or something like that, who was sexually harassing Alex Cooper. And let’s put it this way, I’m guessing that this woman.
Nancy Feldman, I’m guessing in all her years coaching at Boston University, I’m guessing Alex Cooper wasn’t the only woman that she sexually harassed, but if you go watch the documentary, you will hear what Alex says, and you’ll hear what this coach did. It was very, very manipulative, very, very controlling and flat out disgusting, and that woman is in some serious, serious trouble.
I. That takes balls for Alex Cooper to come out now 10 years after the fact and say, you know what? I’m putting an end to this because she knows she’s got a voice now. And as she said in the state in the statement in her Instagram post yesterday. When she was 18 years old, she didn’t have a voice. Nobody was listening to her.
Now, she’s the most powerful woman, woman in one in all of media, one of the most powerful women in all of media. She certainly has a voice, and I’m telling you, whoever boss University’s coaches, soccer coaches right now, women’s soccer coach, they will be out of a job probably by the time you listen to this ’cause there’s zero chance.
Boston University. Well, the first thing they’ll do is they’ll put that, they’ll say We’re conducting an investigation into the current claims that were made, uh, by Alex Cooper saying that other students have, uh, apparently gone to her. They will put that coach on a leave of absence and then they will be fired because there’s no way they’re gonna do an investigation and say, Nope, we found nothing.
That coach is allowed to stay on. No chance of that happening. So that’s the sexual harassment. Part of the documentary, the stuff that was interesting to me obviously was her building her brand, her doing a 180 on her brand. Because we know when this first started and she was podcasting with Sophia Franklin, it was all about women empowerment and two women who were basically doing guy talk.
Uh, but for women talking about their sex lives, talking about all their body parts, talking about blow jobs. I mean, it was. It was what you heard from Guy Podcasts, but we had never heard two women speak this way on a podcast before, and they obviously blew up at Barstool, and then Sophia decided she did not want to do it anymore.
She went out on her own. I know she’s got a Sophia with an F podcast now. I’m guessing it’s not doing as well. Not that Sophia Franklin’s hurting for money. She’s not, but. When Alex went off on her own, she signed a three year $60 million deal with Spotify, and then just recently she signed a three year, $125 million deal with SiriusXM.
So she is a badass. She is. I mean, it was really cool seeing that, and I, I give credit where credit is due. She is a self-made woman and I love the fact that she has built what she has. You know, I don’t listen every week. I probably listened to five of her podcasts total, but I’ve seen enough clips to know she’s a hard worker, and I like the way that she is rebranded because I don’t think that I, I, she doesn’t need to do what she was doing earlier with Sophia to succeed clearly, because now she gets all the top guests in America, and her podcast is obviously.
If someone’s gonna pay her salary wise, three years and 125 million, that’s just her salary. The money she made, probably on that unwell tour. The money she makes off her merchandise, the unwell what drink, um, and she is, she is just swimming in money and it’s all self-made. This isn’t somebody that’s got 17 producers that sit in the studio with them.
This isn’t somebody that just takes shots at people without doing their research. That’s why I respect what she’s done, all the credit in the world to Alex Cooper for how she has not only built the call her daddy brand, but has also been able to pivot and do a 180 and change her brand and not lose her audience.
She is badass and all the credit in the world to her and. Even more bonus points for deciding to do this. ’cause she could have kept her mouth shut. She did for 10 years publicly. Uh, but she decided, you know what? I can make a difference. And like I said. Nancy Feldman is in some serious, serious trouble now ’cause I guarantee there will be charges brought up against her for sure.
And as I said, I think that Boston University coach, whoever it is right now, is gonna be out of a job probably by this weekend, or at least put on administrative leave and then will eventually be fired once an investigation. Happens. ’cause I don’t think Alex Cooper is writing that statement that she did yesterday on her Instagram saying that I found out more harassment and abuse was still happening on that campus today.
Yeah, for sure. She’s not gonna say that without any sort of proof, meaning people came to her and shared their stories with her and she is now saying, Hey, I’m going to use my voice to get this to stop. So all the power, uh, to Alex Cooper, and really good documentary. Check it out. It’s on Hulu and it’s called, call Her Alex.
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