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Call Her Daddy

Parenting Your Parents

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4166.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alex unpacks what it means to start parenting your own parents. From taking on travel plans, technology, and doctor’s appointments to navigating role reversal and anticipatory grief, she explores the emotional reality of watching your parents age. She opens up about the guilt, frustration, and growing responsibility that can come with this shift, and what it feels like to still need your parents as you become an adult. Finally, Alex dives into romanticizing your love life, and why it might actually be okay to write a letter to your ex-situationship. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Daddy gang, welcome back to another Sunday session. I feel like it's kind of in a while since we've

0:07.2

been here and just chatted together. And so I'm really excited to have this space today because

0:14.6

there is something that my friends and I've been talking about a lot lately that I wanted to

0:20.7

just kind of like open up and share with you guys because I'm

0:23.6

assuming it is applicable to all of your lives as well. So I had a few girlfriends over last

0:29.7

week for a little wine night and one of my close friends had just gotten back from a week

0:35.2

long vacation with her family. So we were excited to hear her

0:39.4

stories and have her just tell us all about it. But instead of, you know, coming back, relaxed,

0:46.2

beautiful, well-rested, excited to share the details, she was so absolutely exhausted. And as she started telling us about what happened and why she was

0:58.1

emotionally drained from the trip, all of us just began like aggressively nodding along

1:03.8

to her story being like, absolutely, yep, we understand. We have been there. We understand.

1:09.2

We've all gone through this.

1:18.0

So basically, my friend on this vacation had gone through her first experience of having to be the parent to her own parents. And listen, back when you were a kid traveling with your parents, obviously your brain could

1:29.8

probably just go on to autopilot, right? Like maybe your dad had the boarding passes.

1:34.6

Your mom had all of the snacks planned. It was just you and your Harry Potter book against the

1:41.3

world. And you didn't have to worry a god damn thing. You could literally go

1:45.8

through the airport blindfolded and like you wouldn't you would get there. You would get there.

1:49.7

You don't even know how you got there, but you got there because your parents led you there.

1:52.6

But now maybe you get to the airport and your dad can't understand how the self-service baggage

1:59.8

tagging ticket situation works. Right. So then you end up taking over. It's all right, dad, I got this one. And then your mom can't figure out how to download the airplane app on her phone so you're like, no, no, no, I got it. Don't worry, mom. Like, we got it. And then maybe you land, right? You're in a new city and the process of finding the Uber pickup location is basically impossible for them.

2:18.2

So then you're like, don't worry, guys, I will lead you to the promised land. I got this.

2:22.4

And then from there, figuring out the hotel logistics or the car rental or the dinner

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