It's election season and we worked VERY HARD to find you non-political stories! Tell that cortisol to bother somewhere else! First, we dive into the chaos at NYC’s Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest. Organized by a producer with ties to Mr. Beast, the event went off the rails with a few 'police brutality' arrests and a surprise cameo from Timmy hi…

Guest alert! We've got funny man, Max Spinelli, on the pod celebrating the launch of his brand new debut special "Finish Your Croissant". He leads our super serious discussion of Mae's pregnant cans. We also talk about a few business topics including the ARREST of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO, Mike Jeffries for sex trafficking. Apparently, this m…

In this episode, we go over FTX leader Ryan Salame's new LinkedIn update, where he just announced his exciting new role... as an inmate. What will this “authentic king” learn about B2B sales behind bars? We can't wait to find out. Next up, Laura shares her harrowing adventure in the middle of a Florida hurricane, narrowly escaping disaster—by the h…

This week we're taking a break from all the serious scary world news to bring you some absolute softball topics. We're talking lowwww stakes people. From the controversy behind viral pygmy hippo sensation, Moo Deng's, pork-themed name to the fight to keep Pesto the penguin off Ozempic. This episode is an easy breezy listen!! Enjoy! #pesto #podcast …

This week on the pods your ladies are talking local politics!! We're digging into the drama behind NYC Mayor Eric Adams and his strange obsession with Turkey (the country). Should we pay politicians more? Why did Eric Adams give Diddy the keys to NYC? Lets find out! Speaking of Diddy... the plot thickens. What is his tie in with Justin Bieber? How …

The gals talk the new Hulu reality show Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. What are their actual net worths? How did they blow up on TikTok, and what scandals have flown under the radar? Plus, we have to talk about their unbelievably perfect hair— how do they do it? Is it extensions or is Joseph Smith himself their stylist? Laura and Mae also talk Teen …

This week the gals gab a little about life updates including Laura being exposed to the elements in Norway… camping.. laura! Intentionally! What a world. Speaking of being exposed to the elements the ladies break down the absolutely batshit story of Kanye West and his spite tear down of architecture legend Tadao Ando's Malibu mansion. A full breakd…

Hot people getting in trouble: the gals talk about Taylor and Travis’ leaked “PR plan” to break up end of September, Zuckerberg apologizes for censorship … also who does he think he is looking that fine? Hunter Biden Is in some big boi trouble and Laura just found out he banged his deceased brothers wife. Where is this movie?! Right-wing hot girls …

The girls talk about the one and only Mr. Beast. His rise to fame and recent scandals that have recently plagued him. Is it possible his charity work is staged? How much of his facade is real? Former employees have been putting out some wild accusations and some have wild accusations of their own. Do we think that the former employees are leeching …

We chat with our pals from Cargo Cult, @NaomiKaravani and @PeopleConspire. The gang chats about sharks in South America having a BRAT summer. These sharks are 365 party girls on C*caine and other drugs. Good for them! (We kid, don’t do drugs! D.A.R.E etc et). Get yourself a guy that give you a bouquet of Legos. Lego dealers are the new bad boyz in …

This week we're talking about friendship! Or the lack of friendship between these two tech founders who beefed online over their new AI friend hardware. Talk about some people who need to touch grass! We go over the story of Avi Schiffman the Harvard dropout who went from winning a Webby award for his COVID-19 tracker to building a black mirror pie…

Mae and Laura dive into the underaged hooked-up scandal of internet-famous Cody Ko and Tana. These people have more followers than people that live in NYC and if you’re like us, you’ve never heard of them! Wild! We also chat about other influencer drama, beefs, saucy tweets and more. We’re talking James Charles, Jason Nash, Brooke Schofield, Trish …

A utopia or her personal PRISON!? Laura and Mae take a deep dive into the life of internet famous “trad wife” rancher and beauty queen Hannah Neeleman, her Uber wealthy JetBlue heir hubs, and their eight…(8)….children. 7 of which born without the help of drugs .. obvi. Was the viral Times article a hit piece? Was it a peek into a patriarchal prison…

This week we are diving deep into the glittering yet controversial (culty?!) world of America's most iconic cheerleading squad. That's right, we're talking about the behind-the-scenes of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. From their glamorous beginnings as the epitome of "hot ladies" to their questionable present, where skinny women drum up business f…

We're turning up the heat this week with an homage to the late Richard Simmons, the guy who made jazzercise look like a Studio 54 party. From his wild infomercials to "Sweating with the Oldies", Richard was the original inspirational influencer fitness instructor. He danced so SoulCycle could spin. We also talk about his mysterious end-of-life disa…

The gals talk about the scandalous Fourth of July down on Coney Island when Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest BANNED the GOAT of eating, Joey Chestnut. We give you the whole story complete with a very quick, very adorable recap of why exactly this contest is even a thing? All we know is Joey Chestnut needs to cash in on mukbang material and Major Lea…

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 C…

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 …

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 al…

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. L…

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.…

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…

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 mi…

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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…

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 agai…

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. 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 fashion…

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 u…

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 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…

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 swe…

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 o…

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 a…

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…

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 Whit…

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…

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 Wireca…

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 @risqu…

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 no…

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 d…

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 S…

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 br…

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 t…

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 Tyso…

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 @RisqueBusin…

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 documenta…