The Doomscroll Diaries

This week on the pod the ladies review some sensitive topics (and a guy who falls over his cat). We're talking "How to get Fired Guide" by Harvard, MIT, and UPENN Presidents George Santos on Cameo and his brush with Jimmy Kimmel Zara's questionable ad campaign The Chipotle Assault and its unusual punishment Follow us @mae_planert @laurasogar @risquebusinessnews

This week on the pod the ladies catch up with the 19-year-old arch-nemesis of Elon Musk, Jack Sweeney! Jack spent his quarantine taking exams and aggravating Elon with his Twitter/X account @ElonJet that published open-source information on Elon's private jet's flight records. This transformed from a hilarious internet squabble to a historically notable free speech issue when Elon banned Jack and...

Laura proposed! This week we go over the logistics of the woman proposing (WHY ISN'T THIS A THING YET?)! We talk about Laura's journeys in Asia including wet markets in Bangkok, beaches in Krabi, and the beauty industry in Seoul.  We also go over some fun stories from November. Rivers of wine in Portugal! A finger found in a Chopt salad! 2 Million dogs being let free in Korea! It's been a wil...

It's the holiday season and if you think your family is dramatic... this week we talk about the lady who has made family drama big business, Jada Pinkett Smith. With the release of her memoir in the middle of WWIII, Jada doesn't want us to keep her name out of our mouth. We go over her history as a self-proclaimed drug dealer (entrepreneur!), the Scientology school she founded with Will Smith, her...

This week the ladies are joined by Sophie Buddle (Comedy Central, Tonight Show, Juno Award) and this episode is truly serving c*nt. We start off learning how the Canadian comedy scene works and break down how she got started in comedy at 14 years old (she made a lot of egg salad). Then we get into the important topics like Kim Kardashians nipple bra and NBA SKIMS partnership - that lady sure knows...

This week on the pod the ladies are joined by Erica Spera, comedian and host of dating podcasts Finding Mr Height and Shooters Gotta Shoot, to talk about the rise of AI relationships. From companies like Replika to influencers making their own AI bots, normal human people are opting out of dating other humans in favor of computers. Try explaining that one to your grandma! We also go over whether p...

It's scary season and the girls get into some work horror stories, including our own. From picking your nose on a call you're not invited to, to yelling at incestual cats on an All-Hands. We've all been there. We then review some terrifying business moves like when Biore decided to use a SCHOOL SHOOTING influencer to sell nose strips?! Or when Tyson used immigrant child labor to clean slaughterhou...

This week the ladies are talking about the Bravo drama that doesn't go on camera, the latest push for unionization by Bethenny Frankel. From “Real Housewives” to “Something about Miriam” reality TV has been sucking the drama from these people's lives and making more than reality tv gold for decades. Should they see the money? Follow us  @RisqueBusinessNews     @ mae_planert @la...

The gals are joined by everyone’s favorite TikTok star, Shannon Fiedler (  @shannonfiedler13  ) to talk about her work horror stories from careers past and Victoria’s Secret in its flop era? The ladies dig into the latest Victoria's Secret Fashion Show which took a 5-year hiatus (did anyone notice? We didn't) to come back in a truly bizarre documentary fashion... with no wings! We talk a...

This week we're talking about the hottest reservation in the country, Mehran's Steakhouse. The upper-east side hacker house that was able to fake out NYC residents into thinking it was a world class steakhouse. Complete with Drake fans, Marilyn Monroe portraits, and a fake proposal. The girls also revisit the horrible story of the murdered Baltimore CEO (RIP) and the new "Far-Right" beer that is a...

With the writer's strike over … almost.. Laura and Mae cover the demands, grievances, and resolution (?!) of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA drama. The television world has been full of more drama than they could write! From Drew Barrymore's absolutely terrible scab timing to The View revealing that they have no writers or plan for their show please and thank you and programming will continue undisrupted. D...

Very risque indeed! This week's episode is NSFW so get your kids out of the house (no seriously) and grab your ball gags! This week on the pod the girls recap Mae's wild times in Europe. From early morning river swims in Oslo to taping up her tits at a sex club in Berlin, it was a memorable trip! Get ready for that to be her entire personality from now on. Like Burning Man, only somehow even more...

It's FOOTBALL season and it was pretty obvious we were going to talk about this story. This week we're tackling The Blind Side scandal where Sandra Bullock (or the Tuohy family, whatever) fake adopted a young man, made a movie making fun of him, and then he went on to win a Superbowl.  Michael Oher is now furious with them for putting him in a conservatorship rather than adopting him truly an...

Mae and Laura are joined by fellow comedian and Britney Spears super fan, Kelly Taylor, to tackle the #freebritney movement and the details of her conservatorship. The gals chat about the events leading up to the conservatorship (tbh a bald head is super chic now) how Britney’s POS dad became ‘Britney’ in the court's eyes and how she finally escaped. The 2000s were a wild ride, amiright. Follow ou...

If ADHD was an episode - it would be this one. The girls are back and digging into topics as serious as the Russian Oligarch and Wagner Group leader Prighozin mysteriously falling from the sky to Bethany Frankel trying to unionize reality television stars. Same geopolitical impact!  Your girls also make sure to catch you up on breaking news like the two men who spent a romantic night in the E...

Johnny F'ing Football - this week the girls are talking about football star Johnny Manziel and his climb to TMZ level fame and unfortunate fall. This guy took the NCAA on making fistfuls of cash signing "illegal" autographs and partying like a rockstar. What a boss. He then got into drugs and partying and domestic violence (yikes!). Not such a boss.    Follow us @risquebusinessnews @laur...

Elon's done it again! Goodbye tweeting, hello Xeeting? The girls are talking about Elon's totally not ketamine-fueled decision to change the name of the old bird machine, Twitter, to X.com. And let's just say this transition went far from smoothly. In the course of one week, Elon fought with the San Francisco Police Department, the residential neighbors across from X.com's SF HQ, Stephen King, and...

A-holes in the Ivy League? You don’t say. We are SHOCKED. Mae and Laura chat about an unassuming janky jobs board for economics majors, ‘Economics Jobs Market Rumors’ that has been overrun by some unsavory characters that make Jason Aldean's music look progressive. Turns out, if you give people anonymity, they aren’t very moral - who knew?  Oh! And recent IP addresses show that the call is co...

SHEIN scandal! Or is it SHEIN? Did you pronounce them differently in your head? No one knows, including Mae and Laura. But what we DO know is that they are being investigated for violating RICO laws. You know RICO laws, the ones designed to put mafia kingpins behind bars?  We talk about the fashion mogul behind the $100 Billion company, Chris Xu. Just kidding, he is a search engine optimizati...

We've got a Billionaire cage match on our hands, did Christmas come early!! This week's episode is a roundup of our favorite news stories of the last few weeks. We're talking: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk partner with the UFC to fight in potentially the Roman Colosseum - 2023 has some blessings after all!! An eccentric millionaire spends $2M a year to reverse his biological age  Elizabeth Ho...

This week on the podcast we’re talking about the cult of Teal Swan. Teal, the author and “spiritual leader” uses some seriously irresponsible practices to encourage her followers to live (or not live) their best lives. Massive Trigger Warning due to suicide and child abuse. Teal has built her empire with good old SEO marketing, specifically targeting vulnerable people to buy her self-help courses....

This week on the pod Laura and Mae do their best to unpack the drama behind the missing (now found) submarine. We talk about the fired safety expert who wrote an explicit note telling them that MAYBE they may consider making sure the Titan was safe before selling $250k tickets. We also talk about the media reactions and antics of one of the billionaire's stepsons who used this opportunity to try t...

Weirdest news stories on the internet: you can’t make this up. Mae scrounges up some of the most bizarre news stories you’ve ever heard. Every headline sounds like a mad lib. A woman wakes up at her own dang funeral - nightmare!  A group of hungry teens murder a beloved swan, a fertility dr with a god complex crashes a Wright Brothers-style plane, a government official really needs to keep hi...

Mae's fresh off a plane from Australia so we cover a light and airy topic about our favorite "Direct to Consumer" mail-order entrepreneur... Ted Kaczynski!  The infamous serial killer who mailed bombs across the country injuring two dozen people and killing three. He hit the news over the weekend when he died by suicide in a max security prison at 81 years old.  We take a look at his pas...

Kicking off the show, we've got an Aussie survivor story that's straight out of a college frat house. A Melbourne woman lost in the bush, survived 5 days solely on wine. Sounds like senior year! Then we talk about the heartthrob of America, the one and only Jeff Bezos. He proposed to Lauren Sanchez making her have the highest ROI boob job in the biz! Moving on, we've got a professor who has taken...