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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 who decided to follow up his prison reform tour with a BIG crime. Trigger warning on this one! Then Ja Biden is going full Dark Brandon with the recent bill introduced that may swipe out of TikTok for the last time. Are we finally going to be free? 

And the Mother's Day photo that broke the internet. Folks, we're talking Kate Middleton''s "self edited" family photo. Where. Is. She. At. We discuss. 

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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.

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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 influenced by her! 

Laura also gives a critical review of Poor Things, she hated it. 

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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 intimidation campaign run against them by eBay executives. We’re talking embalmed pig fetuses, live cockroaches, literature-based death threats, and A LOT more.

The ladies also cover some lighter stories like a good old-fashioned lawsuit between Disney and Gina Carano over mask mandates and the NYPD dance squad that has New Yorkers saying ACABD (all cops are bad dancers). Enjoy!

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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 TikToks these kids are going to come up with about having Elon as a dad will be truly next level.

We talk Taylor Swift suing former guest of the pod, Jack Sweeney (check out our episode with him), for tracking her private jet. 

We finish the episode off with the tale of the viral Stanley Cups, the 40 OZ to hydrated freedom that are quenching the Mormon moms of America and also giving them lead poisoning (?!). It’s a hot one! 

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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 sounds? Turns out, maybe not! 

We finish up with some truly terrifying developments in the world of mind control - Neuralink has kicked off clinical trials in humans for its Link device. The ladies go into the goals of Neuralink to merge humans with AI and its surprising number of competitors. 

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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!). This guy didn't get fame and fortune just from his on-field activies.

We go over his college management team, The Eanes Brothers, that made it happen. Follow us for more  @RisqueBusinessNews  @mae_planert @laurasogar xoxoxo

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? 

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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 weekend going to The Box, a famous s*x club in NYC, so don't tune in with your kiddos unless that's your famillies style!

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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 buying it! Then we go through a dirty lawsuit against Dunkin’,  and a cute little story about a college chancellor that gets fired for making porn with his wife. Hey, what people do in their spare time is their business, no? Oh! And the pope hates Khloe Kardashian for using a surrogate? 

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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 harrowing tale of the murder that ended Gypsy in prison and on tabloids everywhere.

Oh…. And also are there aliens in Miami or what? We cover the story of the insane police response to “teens fighting” at a Miami mall???

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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 how he used his position to try to fund a militia in Libya *casual* and win the love of his favorite man, Putin. Enjoy!

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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

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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 every reporter who dared to mention his tracker from the platform (and threatened to sue him). We get the first-hand story from Jack. 

We also talk to him about the Forbes 30 Under 30, Mark Cuban, Taylor Swift and all the other private jets his company, GrndCntrl tracks.

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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 wild month. 

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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 friend zoning of Tupac, and the many INSANE Red Table Talks that made us know frankly too much about her relationships.

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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 how to handle basketball balls. We then go over Elon Musk’s master plan to get weird twitter guys laid with his Twitter/X dating site. 

We then get into the upcoming Prada NASA spacesuits and how aliens are absolutely real and definitely not interested in butt stuff anymore, stop asking. It’s a hot one! 

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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 people should date in the workplace and horror stories from those little trists! 

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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 slaughterhouses. We're scared.

We also give an honest review of Dumb Money, the documentary on the GameStop saga which absolutely INSISTED on including Pete Davidson for no damn reason. We also touch the absolutely terrifying personal life of Jada Pinkett Smith, lady why do we know so much about you.

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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?

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