Messy glamour, cousin chemistry, real fallout.
Sofia with an F runs on oversharing, sharp gossip instincts, and the comfort of a brutally honest group chat. Recent episodes move from Mormon Wives recaps and wedding anxiety to book vulnerability, New York reinvention, and the messy business of family, friendship, and public life.
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Sofia with an F is celebrity-lifestyle podcasting with the polish scraped off on purpose. Its engine is speed, intimacy, and a refusal to separate the ridiculous from the genuinely painful. Recent episodes show a format that can start with cousin banter, a sponsor read, a room-temperature mood check, or a reality-TV joke, then turn suddenly into a real confession about family, fear, ambition, or fallout. The show’s center of gravity is Sophia’s public reintroduction around Daddy Issues, her memoir about betrayal, reputation, and what happens after a friendship or platform collapse becomes mythology. That book material gives the newer episodes an unusually personal charge. She talks about writing as therapeutic but exhausting, about old houses and old high-school wounds, and about wanting to be seen as more than the version of herself people already decided they knew. It gets serious. Then Alex interrupts the seriousness with cousin logic, wedding commentary, or a reality-TV detour, and the whole thing starts moving again. Their dynamic is the most distinctive recurring feature: affectionate, cutting, familiar, and built for fast escalation. Episodes about The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives let the show operate as recap, gossip, and moral judgment all at once. Episodes about engagement, dresses, author photos, and New York life reveal a more anxious behind-the-scenes version of glamour. There are a villa, glam, Brooklyn shoots, social media spirals, and talk of public perception, but the show is rarely just aspirational lifestyle content. It is more interested in the panic under the outfit. That makes the tone unusually flexible. Sofia with an F can be petty, sentimental, self-mocking, and wounded within the same stretch of conversation. It suits listeners who like blunt personal-journal shows where pop culture is not a separate beat but the language people use to process their own lives. The result is chaotic, candid, and more emotionally exposed than its gossip-shell packaging might suggest.
Made for: For listeners who like celebrity-lifestyle podcasts with confession, reality-TV commentary, friendship drama, and blunt emotional processing. It fits an audience comfortable with fast banter and personal stories that swing from funny to heavy.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its cousin-driven conversational rhythm and the memoir thread running through recent episodes. Pop-culture recap, wedding stress, public reinvention, and old betrayal all sit in the same room.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Sofia with an F turns celebrity culture and personal upheaval into candid conversation, with Sophia Franklin moving easily between reality television recaps, engagement tensions, family dynamics, and the vulnerable work of writing a memoir.
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A loose cousin conversation where family history, New York survival, and sex talk run on the same unruly charge.
A cousin conversation shapes this episode, with the host and Alex sliding from jokes about a "favorite duo" into a candid look at New York's brutal first six months.
A funny, heated Mormon Wives debrief shaped by Sophia and Alex's chemistry and Alex's church background.
Sophia and Alex take on season four of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives as a fast-moving debrief, with Taylor Frankie Paul's place in MomTalk, Dakota's behavior around Taylor, and the uproar over Shania's sex pact all getting pulled into the mix.
Wedding wardrobes, a secret gown, and cousin chemistry keep the chaos intimate.
Sophia Franklin frames wedding planning as a study in cousinly closeness, with Alex nearly becoming a co-host as he sounds amused, protective, and a little wary.
A Brooklyn photo shoot leads the host to reflect on feeling more comfortable being seen.
The host opens with a hurried recording in a Milan apartment, then heads to Brooklyn for author photos and new podcast cover art. A blowout is on her mind: at an earlier shoot, she did her own hair and makeup and could not use the results.
The book Q&A is strongest when the host describes how writing has changed her view of the past.
The host's recently announced book gives this Q&A its most interesting thread: what happens to memory when she writes about her past. Returning to painful events tires her, but it has also changed their place in her mind.
A candid, textured look at the messy writing life behind a memoir that may still become something for the screen.
The episode sits in the tension between a very personal book and a screen project that may or may not become something else. Its host is most compelling when she talks about writing as a process of getting uncomfortably honest with herself, not just about shame and insecurity,…
A funny, intimate look at the assistant who knows Sophia Franklin well enough to ask what she avoids.
Sophia with an F turns an assistant introduction into a funny, revealing portrait of a working relationship that has become unusually close. Sophia Franklin sits with the person who effectively runs her correspondence, and the conversation wanders through breakups, parents,…
Pop culture trivia, argued fast and with affection.
Two hosts revisit one film, show, or book a week, plus long personal tangents.
A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.
Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.
Robert Wright interviews specialists on Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Taiwan, and open-source AI.
Bonnie Blue discusses her viral experience of sleeping with over 1,000 men in 12 hours and the resulting fame.
Sophia Franklin interviews professional matchmaker Sarah Powell about dating, chemistry, and the importance of feeling calm over sparks.
Sophia Franklin returns from Europe and shares a traumatic story about finding a centipede in her New York apartment, which came from a live grass pad ordered for her mom's puppy.
Sophia Franklin hosts her assistant, also named Sophia, to discuss their unique working relationship.
Sophia and Alex record a vegan mukbang outside, with Hello Kitty and Cinnamon Roll chopsticks, H Mart food boxes, White Claw, and OliPop on the table.
Sophia and Alex recap season four of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and focus first on Taylor Frankie Paul’s pulled Bachelorette season after a viral video showed her throwing a chair during a fight with Dakota.
Sophia says she is planning a wedding while also thinking about marriage, a baby, and “another baby,” and Alex pushes back on how fast that timeline is moving.
Sophia welcomes her cousin Alex back to the podcast after months, and they catch up on life.
A podcast host returns to the US and rambles about her apartment and slugs, preceded by a BetMGM ad.
A bouquet, a cake that said "daddy issues," and Soph's mom turned a book-announcement day into a bedroom embrace.
The title "daddy issues" is, in her words, "like a triple quadruple" reference to "two dads" and "beyond."
Mimi Bouchard shares her personal journey of overcoming depression and transforming her life, introducing the concept of activations for manifestation.
Sophia Franklin shares a personal update about her ex texting her and then provides a last-minute Christmas gift guide.
Sophia Franklin and her assistant discuss their dynamic and what they would do together if they weren't working, interspersed with ads for Instacart and BetMGM.