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The Doomscroll Diaries

Laura Sogar and Mae Planert

Two stand-up comics in NYC bring you a weekly roundup of the best of the worst the internet has to offer. We cover everything from pop culture and corporate fails to celebrity news and whatever else the almighty algorithm throws our way. We doomscroll so you don’t have to. https://beacons.ai/doomscrolldiariespod

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All Episodes

46:31

Fyre Fest 2 Scam, Did JD Vance Kill the Pope? Wedding...

The Doomscroll Diaries ·

2025/04/23

Fyre Fest II is back… and already canceled again. The gals break down who’s dumb enough to buy tickets, plus the chaotic $333 wedding bus tour, a serial killer on the loose in New England, and a hiker who ignored rescuers because he thought they were spam calls. RIP Pope Francis and we’re blaming JD Vance. Also, Laura’s bachelorette is coming up, ChatGPT might destroy the planet, and China says hot girls shouldn’t go outside. You know, normal stuff. Follow us on Instagram

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51:21

Katy Perry Goes to Space and Other Headlines We...

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2025/04/16

This week on Risky Business News, Mae and Laura blast off with Blue Origin’s all-female space flight - featuring none other than Katy Perry sending her friend to space. From awkward PR stunts to cringe-worthy quotes, the girls break down everything wrong with this chaotic launch. Then they spiral into the rest of the week’s mess: KTLA’s appalling viral tweet, bad decisions made at Coachella, and LeBron James’ terrifying feet. It’s unhinged, it’s hilarious, and it’s exactly what your group chat

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48:24

White Lotus Season Finale, Duke’s Bad PR, NYC Porta...

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2025/04/08

The gals are spiraling over the White Lotus finale and Mike White’s war on common sense. Laura and Mae have thoughts - mostly about poison pina coladas, mysterious dads, and why Duke University took it so personally. A sushi restaurant in Queens is getting wrecked by an MTA porta potty (we wish that was a joke). A Williamsburg bathhouse is serving Bitcoin, bugs, and UTIs. A Florida principal gets busted for shrimp theft. And a Japanese man loses his pension over a large coffee. Just another week in

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52:35

Chappell Roan on Motherhood and Sean Kingston guilty...

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2025/04/04

The Gals are chatting about the AI chat bots getting bummed out from our problems. Laura needs to stop unloading on her poor chat bot. A woman at the DFW airport wore her birthday suit and was found covered in blood??? Imagine sitting next to her in 19A. A polygamist in Ohio has more rizz than Pete Davidson. Sean Kingston and his MOTHER are facing charges for a jewelry scam? And a pastor that said give god your money or ELSE! Oh! And the gals give their thoughts on chappel roans CHD pod. Enjoy!

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56:10

White House Group Chat fail, 23andMe Bankruptcy,...

The Doomscroll Diaries ·

2025/03/28

On this weeks ep we are group texting war plans! We go over the The Atlantic journalist who found himself in the most cursed group chat of all time. Trump's new Colorado portrait, we think its a pretty kind interpretation! Forever 21 AND 23andMe are going out of business, tough to be a company in your 20s! Even tougher to be a woman around former NFL and college assistant coach that's charged with hacking young athlete's images. Crazy world out there, throw your phone away! Follow

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54:22

Astronauts, Kanye, Southwest Airlines and Popper Panic

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2025/03/19

This week, the gals are diving into the latest buzz, from the mysterious new ‘menty B’ taking the spotlight according to Republican lawmakers. Find out if you have it! Plus, the astronauts stuck in space for months might finally have a way back to Earth, but honestly, who wants to return? Spoiler alert: not them. Meanwhile, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are at it again, this time over a spicy new track featuring America’s favorite trafficker, Mr. Diddy himself, and their daughter, North West. And

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40:19

New Tell All Book on Facebook Scandals & Mel Robbins...

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2025/03/11

Girlbossing too close to the sun? This week the gals into the explosive new tell all ‘Careless People’ by the newest Meta whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. She’s really out here 8 years after getting fired alleging sexual misconduct that goes all the way to the top and accusing the one and only Sheryl Sandberg of making her purchase $13k of lingerie. Sarah, just admit you wanted to have a shopping spree at fleur du mal. Plagerizing??? Well as Mel Robbin’s would say “let them”. Laura talks about

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53:02

DOGE Gets HACKED, Poppi Soda gets HUMBLED and the...

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2025/03/03

This week the gals are talking Macron's wife, DOGE getting hacked, A feline that works for the feds, and Poppi soda's tonedeaf superbowl ad. Mae's father in law came in hot with some serious tea on Macron's wife. HOW are we just now findng out shes a dinosaur with great skincare (don't cancel us for being ageist). Kendrick Lamar has some new subjects for his next hit against P*dos. Poppi soda is leaning hard on influencers of a certain genre. It's always the people that need $25K soda machines the

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50:16

Diddy’s lawyer QUITS, OnlyFans influencer’s big...

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2025/02/25

This week on Risque Business News, we’re braving NYC’s wind tunnels and diving headfirst into unhinged mayhem. First up: a woman in Georgia gave birth… to someone else’s baby thanks to an IVF clinic oopsie. Love that for her! The OnlyFans girlies are back at it - two adult stars claimed to be pregnant immediately after setting world records for the most… activity in 12 hours. Stunt or stork? We’ll find out Meanwhile, a new guy is trying to out-biohack that creepy youth-obsessed millionaire Brian

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46:54

The REAL Reason Why Eggs So Expensive? Plus, A Subway...

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2025/02/18

The gals are back, and this week, it’s all about eggs, scams, and the miracle of life on public tranportation. That’s right - someone stole $40K worth of eggs (how?!), a woman gave birth on the NYC subway (iconic), and TikTok’s worst pickup artist is now an international menace. Meanwhile, Trader Joe’s might be selling live chickens, and Estonia just threw the pettiest Eurovision-style breakup party ever to cut ties with Russia’s power grid. We get into the real reason eggs are stupidly expensive

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54:10

Kanye Spent HOW Much on a Super Bowl Ad?! + The Egg...

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2025/02/11

The gals are joined on this episode by the legendary international podcast star Greg (the cat) Normand and Mae takes a mid pod break to put on a burka and feed her newborn baby out of her literal breasts #metal. Gangs all here! No you can’t see her boobs (not even on Patreon) but feel free to imagine. This episode is as chaotic as Kanye west this week. We discuss his latest meltdown on X that might get him kicked off for goood, his dentist chair iPhone shot Superbowl ad, and the Chinese mafia is… up

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46:58

DEI to MEI and a Compromised Treasury

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2025/02/06

Welp! The gals are finally discussing the orange elephant in the Oval Office. Mae covers Trumps rollback on DEI department hires and his switch to MEI. He’s also hoping to give trans military employees the boot so to speak. We talk about the trans military members that meet his MEI metrics and are fighting back. Laura gives a run down of how everyone’s favorite oligarch and n*z* (allegedly!) Elon Musk is skirting government clearance to manage (steal from) the US Treasury with a group of 19 year old

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54:59

Mae Has a Baby (on Zoom)

The Doomscroll Diaries ·

2025/01/29

The gals are back! But on zoom. Laura is in Cali getting Hyatt points with a nosey maintenance man and Mae just had her baby! They talk Mae’s birth story, spoiler alert nature is METAL and breastfeeding sucks, literally. Laura tells hospital horror stories and funny sex gone wrong. Not in a sexy grays anatomy way. And Mae tells the story of a cop gone rogue in Long Island. A tale as old as time! We’ll be back in person live from Brooklyn next week! Get tickets to Laura’s Don’t Tell taping 2/1 in

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01:04:46

What in the Masculine Energy is happening to Mark...

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2025/01/13

The girls talk about how the more Zuck is turning F*Boi, the wilder he gets. Impending divorce alert! Laura breaks down his interview with Joe Rogan where he outlines how Meta will no longer fact-check. Because everyone knows info on Facebook our alcoholic aunt reposted is always factual Tiktok is officially getting banned! The girls can’t tell if this is a massive bummer or will literally save America from debilitating ADHD and mental illness. Either way! Follow us on IG and save those folders! Mae

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57:26

Lily Phillips gets banned from AirBnB, Camel Beauty...

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2025/01/10

This week on the pod the ladies are talking some RISQUE topics starting off with a Camel Beauty Pageant in Saudi Arabia with some shocking Performance Enhancing Drugs in use (we're talking botox central!). Mae is having this baby any minute now, so in the spirit of parenthood we talk about the world's worst mother. Lily Phillips the now famous OnlyFans model just slept with 100 guys in one day and has her eyes on 1000. Is this female empowerment? And of course, the second we say one thing about the

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01:13:00

Blake Lively Ends Justin Baldoni and Laura Loomer...

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2025/01/02

It's the start of 2025 and people are FIGHTING! We're talking about Mae's body fighting through these last few weeks of pregnancy, Elon Musk fighting alt-right troll Laura Loomer and Blake Lively fighting midwestern mom's/Justin Baldoni. Follow us @risquebusinessnews @mae_planert @laurasogar and tell your friends! #itendswithus #blakelively #lauraloomer #elonmusk #pregnancy #podcast

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57:08

Drones for Nukes?! Luigi's new Lawyer, Fortnite...

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2024/12/18

Drones over Jersey? A grandma that’s cool as hell, a “designer” from hell takes over an Airbnb, and a Luigi Mangione update The gals chat up top about seeing ‘Anora’ and viewing the worst Christmas movie in history, the Family Stone. Spoilers ahead Drones over Jersey?!?! WTF is going on with these drones over Jersey and NYC? Unsettling new theories (made up by Laura and TikTok but hey… they make sense) and more. Who says grandmas can’t be successful streamers? Move over boys wearing way too wide of

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48:19

Luigi Captured, Hawk Tuah Down, Jay-Z fights back and...

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2024/12/10

The sexy CEO assassin captured, Jay-Z is fired up, hawk tuah girl needs to talk tuah lawyer and robots are about to steal our jobs! The gals talk about Luigi Mangione, everyone’s fav assassin. Should we be glamorizing this? Absolutely not. Was it kind of nice to have the entire country unite for a few days? You betcha. Jay-Z is firing back at a Jane Doe accuser. The gals chat about their take on these rumors and the circulating rumors about Beyoncé being a secret k*+ller? lol The hawk tuah girl, of

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58:38

Crypto Mogul eats a $6.2 Million Banana

The Doomscroll Diaries ·

2024/12/07

This week on the pod the ladies discuss Justin Sun, the crypto mogul who decided to dip his toes into the world of fine art. Justin hit the news when he purchased the "Comedian" art installation (it's just a Publix banana taped to a wall, literally) and ate it. We also talk about an IVF clinic that needs to put some of its employees on PIP. Greg also gets a crazy haircut! Follow the pod @RisqueBusinessNews @laurasogar @mae_planert Like subscribe, tell your friends! #podcast #comedypodcast

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42:50

Thanksgiving Time Crimes!

The Doomscroll Diaries ·

2024/11/26

The gals talk about Matt Gaetz, of 17 year old loving fame, being put up for Attorney General and the upcoming ethics meeting. (Yes, we know this story has some significant updates but hey - we enjoyed chatting about it!) The T man is really putting together a real life avengers team of misfits isn’t he? A New York woman has gone on so many dates that she was finally gifted what every man gives when he truly loves someone (spoiler alert, its a fluid. Yes, that one.). A groups of friends witnessed a

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