The Doomscroll Diaries

This week on the pod we are going through the story of the Wilking sisters. The two beautiful dancerswent to LA with dreams of dancing for the stars and found themselves dancing for a dangerous religious zealot. Classic LA story! We go over the story as revealed by the family in the latest Netflix documentary, Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult. Miranda Wilking (Derrick) and Melanie Wilking...

This week on the pod the ladies get in on the Bravo spritz beef. We’re talking about Kyle Cooke’s Lover Boy vs Craig Conover’s Spritz Society and all the Bravolebrities involved. From Summer House to Southern Charm these reality TV stars are all struggling to make that Lisa Vanderpump money. We taste test the products and tell you which one tastes less poisonous. It’s a hot one! Follow us @risqueb...

This week on the pod we are talking about a brand new beef - Scarlett Johannson vs Open AI's Sam Altman! What a pairing.  ChatGPT just went through a brand new spring upgrade where GPT-4o added a voice function a la "Her" which sounds suspiciously like ScarJo. Did they use her voice without her permission? Is she going to sue them? We discuss! We also talk about the world of dating and the po...

This week on the pod we're joined by two lovely good girl guests, Becca Stephenson and Syd King from the Good Girls Gone Sad podcast! Becca and Syd talk us through the world of pageants and the resignation scandals rocking the Miss USA competition. We also discuss purity culture, boob tape, questionable pageant slogans and the Bumble celibacy ad. Laura is on a slightly questionable tiny mic for th...

The girls are back with a monthly roundup! It's Mother's Day week and Gypsy Rose Blanchard has some choice words on her biological mom. Boeing's second whistleblower is taken out (By Boeing's rival, influenza?). The internet yells at more influencers for going to the Met Gala and a Bank of America finance bro dies after working 120 hour work weeks.  Follow us @risquebusinessnews @laurasogar @...

Bonus Episode! The world can't get enough of the Drake vs Kendrick Lamar feud so we went back to the basics to try to figure out why Kendrick is sooooo mad. We go back to the beginning from the friendly days of 2011 when Drake and Kendrick worked together to today when shots have quite literally been fired. From Rick Ross' pool party jams, J Cole's apology, Adonis Graham's lessons from Kendrick, M...

This is a casual episode, we're wearing sweatshirts and talking about getting older. It's like a millennial The View. We talk about the influencer who got roasted for banditing a half marathon. A cat that took an unplanned trip courtesy of Jeff Bezos. The tourism fees in Venice or "Italy's Disneyland" and the deal at Red Lobster that's cost them millions. It's a hot one! Follow us @risquebusinessn...

Diddy do it? This week we are talking Sean Puff Daddy Diddy Love Combs. A man of many names and many crimes (allegedly!).  In our last episode we went over his rise to fame and the scandals that got him there. This episode... we're discussing some VERY unsavory content. MASSIVE trigger warning this has pretty much every trigger imaginable if you're with kids just like/subscribe/comment and mo...

We are BACK and it's a big week - Mae’s special has been taped! The ladies go over how hard Mae crushed, the aftermath *flees to Puerto Rico*, and more! We also go over Caitlin Clark's insultingly low salary, Rat birth control helping NYC rats move away from abstinence-only education, the mysterious deaths of TikTokers (and JLo's involvement?). We finish up with a wild story of a hot dog vendor wh...

Diddy did it? This week we are talking about the now infamous Sean Combs and the Epstein-like drama that has built after a CONCERNING amount of allegations have come out against the media mogul.  In Part 1 of 2 we are talking about how Diddy got to where he is today. We review his early days at Uptown Records, the creation of Bad Boy entertainment, and of course his time on Making the Band (m...

We’ve got a hot one! This week on the pod the ladies break down some short stories to kick off April and break down over Mae’s upcoming special taping (anyone got the number of a therapist?). We start off with a controversial new Online Harms Act in Canada that may impact free speech on the internet. Spicy! We then talk about the best employer out there, BooYung group whose billionaire founder is...

The ladies have possibly their darkest episode to date! No kids for this one you guys (but seriously… trigger warning for cannibalism?!) We start off light with a story that will have you breaking your ankle running to the comments? The yogi burglar that got their vinyasa on before robbing a bakery for some hot cross buns. The ladies then cover the Russian concert hall attack and Russia’s next-lev...

This week on the pod we’re ruining your spring break travel plans with the play-by-play on Boeing’s plane failures. We’re talking losing wheels on takeoff, engines catching fire, the infamous Alaska airlines door blowout, and a concerning amount more. We then go over the whistleblower, John Barnett, who was unalived in the middle of testifying against them. Let the conspiracy theories flourish! We...

We've got the hilarious Anna Bianco on the pod with us. First up, Anna spills the beans on some serious workplace drama at American Apparel, namely being possibly the only employee to NOT be harassed. Then, we dive into the cutthroat competition of being a George Washington Museum tour manager.  For our weekly topics, we've got some m*rder for ya. We've gotta talk about that Joe Rogan guest w...

We're talking the big world changing issues - Sydney Sweeney bringing America back into our boob era. We also cover the Miami crackdown on fun, the 90-Day fiance colon cancer scam and the viral Willy Wonka experience that left children in tears. Follow us @risquebusinessnews @laurasogar @mae_planert and write us a kind review for a good old fashioned in the mail gift! https://forms.gle/gRZ1j9vEwoG...

This week on the pod the ladies are talking the #GotProof lawyer, Nicole Fegan, who got so involved in her trial with gang YSL (not Yves St Laurent) that she ended up locked up herself. We check in on our boy SBF who is making friends in jail and get an update on Neuralink human trials. We also discuss the Momfluencer, Ruby Franke, who got locked up for child abuse. Definitely not trying to be inf...

This week we’ve got a story we can’t even believe is true - the time that eBay cyber-stalked (and in-person stalked) a Massachusetts couple for writing them a bad review. Talk about not being able to take a dose of your own medicine! The girls go into the story of Ina and David Steiner who ran the newsletter and website, EcommerceBytes for sellers on sites like eBay and had a mafia-style intimidat...

On this week’s episode, the ladies talk football! Filmed on Super Bowl Sunday we go over Game Day predictions and commercials of the past, yes this is coming out after the Super Bowl so you get the pleasure of hearing how stupid we sounded! There’s more though! Elon Musk hired his employee, Shivon Zilis, for an unusual task that definitely required HR review- surrogating his twin babies. The TikTo...

We've got a February story round-up! This week we're talking about the comeback story of the century *dramatic* - Shane Gillis's return to SNL as a host! 5 years after his off-color jokes got him fired, he's back as a guest host with a Budlight sponsorship thrown in the mix. Cheers to that!  Then we chat about a viral tide-pod-inspired challenge sweeping Korea, is it actually as bad as it sou...

We're pulling back the curtain on the dollars and cents behind THE celebrity PR (?!) relationship, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Join us as we dissect the lucrative business of crafting public images that helped make the NFL an additional $330M this season. We also dig into the undeniable rise of NFL star Travis Kelce from the field to the cover of the Wall Street Journal (magazine, but still!)....

Bonus episode alert! Today on the pod we have a special guest, comedian, and friend of the pod, Felicia Madison. The gals talk about running Westside Comedy Club, a comedy school, reinventing yourself, and motherhood in the modern age. They also talk about which celeb relationships will stand the test of time; Taylor swift and Travis Kelce? Kylie and Timothee?  Catch Felicia’s special ‘Better...

It's a modern-day Cinderella story! The girls talk about the story of Samsung heiress, Lee Boo-jin, who falls in love with her security guard and has to convince her Korean GDP-impacting family to let her start a life with him. Don't worry, as with all of our stories this one doesn't have a happy ending when he goes on to cheat on her (?!) and goes through a brutal divorce. We also talk about our...

What do an exploding Dunkin Donuts toilets, that University Chancellor who had a side hustle in porn, a violated manatee statue, and the anti-surrogacy pope all have in common? They're some of the weirdest news we cover in this weeks episode.  We start off with White Claw's lame attempt to get into the Dry January game by creating non-alcoholic White Claws aka normal seltzer waters. I'm not b...

You had to know we were going to do this one... the Gypsy Rose Blanchard story. Mae and Laura tell the story of a decades long financial and medical scam perpetrated by Dee Dee Blanchard. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know who Gypsy is by now, but do you know the full story? The girls cover her childhood, how her mom got away with her crimes, her family drama, and the harrow...

Happy New Year! We are back with a hot one - we're talking fraud in the billions with a B and possibly the most wanted man in the world, Jan Marsalek. Today's story is on the Wirecard disaster that high key embarrassed Germany's banking industry. We're focusing on wanted fugitive Jan Marsalek, the former high power Chief Operating Officer of Wirecard who was secretly a Russian spy. We talk about h...