PODCAST · comedy
The Doomscroll Diaries
by 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
Episodes
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French Airport Jail, Turtle Smugglers & Hooters’ Midlife Crisis
Laura returns from Europe with stories of being trapped inside a closed terminal at Charles de Gaulle Airport for seven hours with nothing but a muffin and a few sips of water. Meanwhile, a traveler is caught smuggling 58 live turtles in her tights, Hooters attempts a family-friendly rebrand, and...
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Robert Pattinson Got Ghosted By His Own Stalker
Laura is headed to Cannes and may or may not accidentally end up in White Lotus season 4, the Solidcore guy somehow gets even weirder, and the JP Morgan “cannons” lawsuit continues to spiral into one of the funniest workplace scandals on the internet. This week, we get into: Men paying for fake...
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Pete Davidson’s Breakup, Monk Seal Justice & Cruise Ship Chaos
Pete Davidson’s breakup is getting messy, cruises are somehow having an even worse week than usual, and Hawaii may have delivered the most satisfying case of instant karma we’ve seen in a while. This week on Doomscroll Diaries, Mae and Laura discuss: Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt’s breakup drama...
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Soft Bar Drama, Emily Blunt Backlash & the JP Morgan Scandal
This week on The Doomscroll Diaries, Mae and Laura get into the absolutely unhinged JP Morgan lawsuit that’s blowing up online, Emily Blunt getting dragged for wildly out-of-touch career advice, and their chaotic visit to Carl Radke’s NYC sober bar, Soft Bar, where ordering a mocktail somehow...
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Nuclear Scientists Keep Disappearing… Plus Mae’s Miracle on Ice & Laura’s Louisiana Chaos
This week on Doomscroll Diaries, we have questions… and no answers. Nuclear scientists keep disappearing under very strange circumstances (totally normal), while Mae returns to the ice after 15 years for a true Miracle on Ice… in New Jersey. Laura reports back from Louisiana, where: Alligators…
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Why Is the CEO of McDonald’s Like This? And Why Can’t the Clintons Just Be Normal?
This week on The Doomscroll Diaries, we’re unpacking some of the internet’s most chaotic headlines. First up: the extremely awkward McDonald’s CEO video that somehow went viral while promoting the new Big Arch burger. Why does it feel like corporate PR keeps getting weirder every year? Then we…
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Punch the Monkey, Wrapping Up the 2026 Winter Olympics, and Hot Girl Robbery Season
Follow us on Instagram @laurasogar and @mae_planert and follow the pod @doomscrolldiariespod The internet has officially adopted a baby monkey. This week we’re breaking down the story of Punch — the viral monkey from a Japanese zoo who was abandoned by his…
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People Are Drinking Raw Milk in 2026... And We Have Questions
This week, we get into the internet’s latest (and most confusing) wellness obsession, why raw milk is suddenly everywhere, and how influencer culture keeps turning objectively bad ideas into lifestyle trends. We also talk about Ballerina Farm, trad-wife aesthetics, and what happens when “natural”...
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Live From a Post-Snowstorm NYC: Actors Need to Stop Taking Themselves So Seriously
We’re unpacking snow day chaos, grocery store panic, and why TikTok moms are preparing for winter weather like it’s the apocalypse. Plus: Shaun White snowboarding in Central Park, Ted Cruz fleeing another storm, and the age-old truth that actors need to stop taking themselves so seriously. We…
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What’s Going On With Brooklyn Beckham? And Yes, a Chinese Billionaire Has Hundreds of Children in the U.S.
What is actually going on with Brooklyn Beckham — and why is his family drama suddenly everywhere? This week, we unpack Brooklyn Beckham’s very public fallout with his parents, the internet’s many theories, and why it’s giving royal-family-level dysfunction. Then we pivot to one of the most...
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Influencers, Interest Rates, and Reality TV Politics
This week on DoomScroll Diaries, we break down the chaos at every level of power. Jerome Powell stands his ground as Trump escalates pressure on the Federal Reserve, proving why the least glamorous people are sometimes the ones we trust most. Then we pivot to Spencer Pratt’s very real run for…
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Starting 2026 HOT: NYC Got Pranked on NYE + A Couple Stole a Live Lobster from Brooklyn
This week, New Yorkers rang in the New Year by getting pranked by fake Brooklyn Bridge fireworks, while a couple in Brooklyn casually stole a live lobster from a restaurant and walked off into the night. From there, things only get stranger. Mae went to a Miami strip club and has thoughts, while…
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It’s Been a Dark Week — So We’re Sharing What Brought Us Joy
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...
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The Diddy Doc, Bonnie Blue Got Arrested in Bali, and This CEO’s Wild Interview
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...
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NYC Has a New Anna Delvey? Period Facials Are Exactly What You Think, and Campbell’s Soup Gate Explained
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”…
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The Weirdest Email in the Epstein Files (So Far), Russia’s On-Stage Robot Disaster & Who Is Scott Kelly?
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....
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Devastating News for Kim K’s Legal Career, Sydney Sweeney Needs a New PR Team, and This Wild Animal Is Attacking People in Japan
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...
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Britney Spears Deleted Her Instagram, Laura Freezes Her Eggs & Julia Fox Sparks Outrage over Halloween Weekend
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…
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NBA Betting Scandal, Britney Spears’ Breakdown, & a $4 Quadrillion K-Pop Lawsuit (feat. Van)
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…
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Louvre Heist in 4 Minutes, Trump and the AI Poop Plane, and is your Protein Powder Full of Lead?
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...
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Taylor Swift’s Rough Week | Trudeau x Katy Perry, Eric Adams Chaos & AI for Cats
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...
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Kanye’s New Enemies, Britney’s Beard Era & That Dystopian ‘Friend’ Necklace
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…
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The Week the Internet Lost Its Mind: Rapture, Foul Balls, $100k Visa Whiplash
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...
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Murder at Burning Man?! Cardi B Popping Off in Court, Taylor vs. Blake Drama, and Sydney Sweeney in Her Scooter Braun Era
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...
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We’re Back! Our HOT Takes on Taylor’s Engagement & Laura’s Honeymoon Safari Recap
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…
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Why Colbert Was Canceled + South Park’s Wild Trump Episode
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…
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We Break Down the Kiss Cam Scandal, Sydney’s Ad Mess, and the Worst App Leak Ever
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...
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Greg’s Glow Up, Elon Musk’s Grok Is Offensive, and A24 Disappointed Us (again)
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…
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Jojo Siwa’s Queer Identity Plot Twist, Liver King’s Arrest, and Dakota Johnson’s Sleep Era
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.…
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Jeff Bezos’ Tacky Wedding, Gen Z Interns Are Weird, and the JD Vance Baby Meme Scandal
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…
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Bezos’ “Cheap” Wedding, NYC Dogs Get Legal Status, and a Contagious Disease for Newlyweds
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...
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Welcome To THE DOOMSCROLL DIARIES!!! And Mae Got A Free Hot Tub and Laura Met Up With Girls From Reddit IRL
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),...
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Elon’s Black Eye, Sydney’s Bathwater Soap, and Selena Gomez’s Vape Scandal
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...
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Laura Got Married!!! And We Solved the 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla Debate
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...
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Justin Bieber Is Still Posting Through It, Eurovision Chaos, Duolingo Goes Ghost, and a Cop Did What in the Backseat?!
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...
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Selena’s Startup Is Broke & Justin Bieber Is Posting Through It
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...
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We Flew Into Newark Airport and It Was a Near Death Experience.
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...
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Bill Belichick’s Girlfriend Is 24. We Investigate.
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...
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Fyre Fest 2 Scam, Did JD Vance Kill the Pope? Wedding Bus Tour, Serial Killer in New England, and ChatGPT’s Carbon Footprint
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...
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Katy Perry Goes to Space and Other Headlines We Didn’t Expect
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...
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White Lotus Season Finale, Duke’s Bad PR, NYC Porta Potty Crisis
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...
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Chappell Roan on Motherhood and Sean Kingston guilty of Fraud!
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…
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White House Group Chat fail, 23andMe Bankruptcy, Presidential Portrait
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...
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Astronauts, Kanye, Southwest Airlines and Popper Panic
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...
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New Tell All Book on Facebook Scandals & Mel Robbins plagiarism?!
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...
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DOGE Gets HACKED, Poppi Soda gets HUMBLED and the SCANDAL with Macron's wife
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...
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Diddy’s lawyer QUITS, OnlyFans influencer’s big surprise, IVFing a strangers baby and Brian Johnson EMBARRASSED
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...
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The REAL Reason Why Eggs So Expensive? Plus, A Subway Birth & The TikTok Creep Under Investigation
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...
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Kanye Spent HOW Much on a Super Bowl Ad?! + The Egg Farm Nightmare
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...
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DEI to MEI and a Compromised Treasury
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…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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Laura Sogar and Mae Planert
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