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The Doomscroll Diaries

Laura Sogar and Mae Planert

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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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It’s been a dark week, on the internet and around the world, so we went looking for the things that actually brought us joy online. We talk viral dances that briefly cured our doomscrolling, a man fighting off a coyote to save his chihuahua, deeply unhinged wedding traditions, British “Chinese food” discourse, why smart fridges might be a mistake, …
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This week on The Doomscroll Diaries, we dive into our thoughts on the new Diddy documentary - the wild moments, the uncomfortable parts, and why everyone online is reacting the way they are. Then we get into the story of Bonnie Blue being arrested in Bali, how it unfolded, why it sparked so much debate, and why this whole situation feels like the w…
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A new Anna Delvey in NYC? Period blood as skincare? Campbell’s Soup in scandal mode? Yeah… it’s one of those weeks. NYC is apparently auditioning a new Anna Delvey and she’s dining-and-dashing across Manhattan like it’s performance art. Meanwhile, the internet has discovered “period facials” (we’re sorry, but also… you clicked), and Campbell’s Soup…
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This week we’re breaking down the weirdest email to surface from the Epstein files so far (yes, the one causing the Trump–Clinton rumors), Russia’s AI robot that immediately collapsed onstage, and the Jonas Brothers concert moment that turned Scott Kelly into the internet’s favorite résumé story. Plus: Disney Adult “man ears,” eyelid-flipping child…
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This week on The Doomscroll Diaries, we’re spiraling over Kim Kardashian’s latest legal flop, wondering who’s running Sydney Sweeney’s PR (because girl…), and trying to make sense of a wild animal that’s straight-up attacking people in Japan. We also get into the death-metal Miss Universe performance that broke our brains, Jennifer Lawrence swearin…
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Britney Spears has deleted her Instagram again, Julia Fox is making headlines for a bloody Jackie O Halloween costume, and Laura is deep in her egg-freezing era. This week on The DoomScroll Diaries, Mae and Laura spiral through the internet’s most chaotic stories — from TikTok’s emotional whiplash and Reddit redemption arcs to China’s new influence…
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We’re joined this week by our loudest new guest host: baby Van. Between his surprise mic grabs and running commentary, we somehow cover the NBA gambling scandal, Britney Spears’ latest headline-making chaos, and a K-pop star suing for $4 quadrillion. Somewhere between Van’s coos and the internet’s collective meltdown, Kristen Bell posts something t…
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Spooky-season chaos, anyone? We kick off with museum mayhem: the Louvre’s brazen 4-minute jewel robbery, a string of copycat heists, and the Mango founder’s death turning into a true-crime twist. Then it’s the “No Kings” protests and a truly unhinged response video (yes, an AI plane dumping poop 🙃). We unpack the viral clip of a streamer yelling at…
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This week on The DoomScroll Diaries, we try to care about world news but… Taylor Swift’s PR machine is melting down again. We unpack Taylor’s “I’m just a football girlfriend” era, the conspiracy that Travis Kelsey signed her Records, and her chaotic interviews with Jimmy Fallon. Then we get into Justin Trudeau canoodling with Katy Perry (?!), Eric …
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Kanye made a “Betrayal List,” and somehow it includes Hitler, Curious George, and his own daughter. We don’t know what’s going on either. This week we’re talking about: •Britney Spears posting a bunch of Orthodox Jewish men for Rosh Hashanah and just writing “I like the beard” •The new AI necklace called Friend that talks to you like a therapist an…
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The internet really outdid itself this week. A YouTube pastor swore the rapture was scheduled, Bumble’s founder is facing messy old allegations while pitching AI dating, and a Phillies fan stole a foul ball from a kid—only for the mob to go after the wrong woman. Also on the scroll: Bill Belichick’s girlfriend filing a Gold Digger™ trademark, an ex…
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This week on The Doomscroll Diaries, we’re spiraling over the weirdest mix of stories the internet threw at us. Burning Man wasn’t just dust storms and chaos - someone was actually murdered, and the rumors around it are getting darker by the day. Over in LA, Cardi B turned her $24M lawsuit into a full-blown circus, with testimony moments that felt …
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We’re back in studio! What a summer. We catch up on everything we missed: Laura’s safari recap (close encounters with wildlife and a guide named Cloud), Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement and all the speculation around it (the ring, the Ralph Lauren looks, and the American Eagle campaign), Serena Williams’ new GLP-1 partnership and the body…
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Stephen Colbert is out, CBS quietly handed Trump $16 million, and Trisha Paytas’ baby might be Ozzy Osbourne reincarnated. We’re not saying it’s confirmed… but we’re not not saying it. This week, Mae and Laura dig into the Colbert cancellation theories, the real story behind CBS’s Trump settlement, and South Park’s latest Trump episode. They also u…
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Sydney Sweeney’s new jeans ad might be the most unintentionally (or very intentionally?) eugenics-coded campaign of the year and that’s somehow not even the most cursed brand moment we cover this week. We get into the tea app data breach that exposed women’s personal info, a Coldplay kiss cam scandal that cost a tech CEO his job, a WNBA campaign th…
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We’re back on Zoom this week Mae’s was on Cape Cod with her family, Laura’s dealing with hecklers, and Greg the cat just got professionally groomed (and immediately took a revenge dump). We cover everything from prison pregnancy “life hacks” to Lily Allen’s overshare about a thousand-dude sex tape. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok spirals into fu…
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Liver King challenged Joe Rogan to a fight… now he’s in jail. Dakota Johnson sleeps 14 hours a day and we’re honestly jealous. JoJo Siwa may or may not be gay, and a British man is basically in a relationship with a lie detector, and a new dating app matches you based on your search history. Enjoy! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Ma…
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Jeff Bezos got married and it was somehow both a $64 million event and deeply tacky. We’re breaking down the foam party, the Friday ceremony (??), and a wedding aisle carpet that screamed “startup office in 2012.” Meanwhile, Katy Perry skipped the wedding, but her ex Orlando Bloom didn’t — and yes, it’s giving drama. We also get into: • Gen Z inter…
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This weekend broke us. Laura got hit with a foam sword at LARPing in Prospect Park, Mae barely survived the NYC heatwave with a baby in tow, and Coney Island? An actual hellscape of broken glass, trash fires, and emotional damage. We recap our chaotic social calendars (why did we say yes to everything?), debate whether mental illness is actually co…
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The DoomScroll Diaries era has officially begun!! And we’re kicking it off with naked hot tub incident, Mae cosplaying as an escort, and Sabrina Carpenter’s not-so-subtle album cover. This week, we’re diving into all the juicy chaos: Mae gets a free hot tub that immediately backfires (literally), Laura reveals regularly she lies down in the shower …
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This week on Risqué Business News, the girls are asking: what the hell is going on?? Elon Musk showed up to the White House with a mysterious black eye, and no, it probably wasn’t from his 5-year-old son, X . Meanwhile, Sydney Sweeney is out here bottling and selling soap made with her used bathwater — and yes, it sold out. And Selena Gomez is once…
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Laura got married!!! It was dino-themed. There was a tornado. There was an armadillo. A porta potty flew down the street. Then we all boarded a party barge captained by a lesbian named SugarTits. Somehow, that’s just the first five minutes of this episode. We also dive into the 100 men vs. 1 gorilla debate, Kylie Jenner casually dropping her boob j…
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This week on Risqué Business News: Eurovision drama heats up with Israel’s controversial second-place finish and a sus voting surge, Duolingo erases its entire TikTok presence after an AI backlash, and an influencer’s $125 sweatshirt line may actually be Alibaba in disguise. We also cover a cop caught having sex with a suspect in his own patrol car…
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This week, Justin Bieber decided Mother’s Day was the perfect time to post something that really should’ve stayed between him and Hailey who looked like she needed a hug. Meanwhile, Selena Gomez’s mental health startup WonderMind somehow forgot to pay people (oops). We also cover Suffolk County’s iconic move to publicly blast the worst deadbeat dad…
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We just flew into Newark and, honestly, we’re lucky to be alive. This week we’re talking about the airport chaos (spoiler: the planes disappeared from radar??), a janitor who peed herpes into the office water cooler, and Kanye West suing his dentist over a nitrous oxide addiction. We also become accidental water snobs thanks to a deep dive into the…
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On this week’s ep, Gwyneth Paltrow has entered her carb era, the Oscars are forcing people to actually watch movies now before they vote for the academy awards (rude), and Bill Belichick, 74, has become a full-time Instagram boyfriend to his 24-year-old girlfriend. We also unpack JoJo Siwa’s Big Brother identity crisis, a motivational speaker who u…
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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, C…
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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 v…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 N…
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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 Karda…
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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 linge…
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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 subjec…
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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…
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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 ju…
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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 w…
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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 everyo…
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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 g…
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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 …
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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 Only…
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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 #laural…
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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…
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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 Jan…
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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 al…
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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 t…
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It's election season! Recorded on Election night, we talk about as many non-political things we can find! Yes we know it's Saturday, it's been a chaotic week! Stop yelling at us! This week's pod covers the new mascot for the Vatican (its not a choir boy, don't worry), Peanut the Squirrel's unfortunate demise and some weird quirks of previous presid…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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