From fruitcake friends to fruitcake foes: in the holiday spirit Mae and Laura spill the tea on inedible pastry cakes this week as they discuss the fruitcake fraud case of the iconic Collin Street Bakery. This adorable tale has big Texas style personalities, bummer betrayals, very poor taste in mattresses (you’ll see) and weirdly some political connections?

The girls also chat World Cup (it's pronounded "cutter"), Balenciaga and their creeptastic new ads, more crypto conspiracies, and getting frisked at the airport??? Chaotic as always. 

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We're back after our short break to get Mae married (finally!) and we've got a hot one. We're talking Sam Bankman Fried (aka SBF) and his polycule of Effective Altruist friends at FTX and Alameda Research that just went bankrupt, stole a ton of money and may be crashing crypto. 

If you haven't heard about this story then listen now to understand the darker-than-usual depression from your crypto-enthusiast millenial nephew Thanksgiving.

We review a deep dive on SBF the person, how this may have been why Tom Brady and Gisele got divorced, Caroline Ellison and her really cursed Tumblr account, some finance stuff that tbh is a bit over our heads, why the guy who shut down Enron has been called in, and of course, continued discussion of Mae and Mark's wedding. Oh and we discuss Qatar and the World Cup - yay sports!

We are also playing with having a full version (with more wedding content and a few other news stories) on our Patreon. That should be up later this week so if you're feeling us - check us out there @risquebusinessnews <3

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The girls talk the man of the hour, Elon Musk. The rocket man has finally completed his purchase of Twitter and it has been SPICY. We talk about his grand entrance to Twitter HQ with a kitchen sink in tow, losing all Twitter’s advertisers, his flirty tweets with AOC and of course the $8 subscription.

Get this guy a reality tv show already!

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The wedding industry: Mae is finally getting married, so in honor of her marriage (and Laura celebrating her shutting the F up about it already) the gals are covering the wedding industry. Turns out saying "I Do" is a whole $61B industry.

Laura and Mae talk biggest celeb weddings, and epic bridezilla and groomzilla (men can be nuts too) moments found online.

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Spirit Halloween and other drugs: a hodgepodge of stories from the week!

Mae and Laura cover Spirit Halloween and the spooky business model where they throw a bunch of clown costumes into a bankrupt business warehouse.

Other topics include:

The head of lettuce that stayed fresh longer than the British prime minister (we also think Mae’s had yeast infections longer).

The most horrifying image you’d ever see under a microscope (it's an ant)
An Aussie lab that made brain cells play pong like some low-rent Frankenstein

and finally how eBay said no thanks to Jeffrey Dahmer - but another store said yes please and is selling his urn for $250k.

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A recap of chaotic events: Mae and Laura cover Sean Penn and his next-level obnoxious Hollywood move of meeting with El Chapo *insert eye roll*, real housewife and mogul Bethenny Frankel suing smaller TikTok creators and TikTok as a whole (!), and some recent drama with PayPal’s terms and conditions. A lot happening in this one!

Next week we’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming. As always, thanks for listening!

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The girls are back again with part 2 of the story of the Sinaloa cartel and how they cleaned up their finances with the help of the world's biggest bank, HSBC.

This week the story focuses on the Mexican government's attempt to get one of the world's largest companies to simply stop funding terrorists. Feels like a simple ask but you'd be surprised! 

We also spend literally the first 28 minutes talking about haunted houses, sex clubs, and how we can't take Mae anywhere so if that's not your thing... skip ahead. 

Also trigger warning there's an INSANE murder in this episode. :(

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Topics: 

Everett Stern the whistleblower who didn't get into the CIA

HSBC anti-money laundering division (it's a ghost town)

Anna Delvey is out of jail!

King Charles' weird wakeup routine

Laura takes a very famous swimmer on the world's worst recruiting trip

Mae has a breakdown at a haunted house

The girls are back again with part 2 of the story of the Sinaloa cartel and how they cleaned up their finances with the help of the world's biggest bank, HSBC. This week the story focuses on the Mexican government's attempt to get one of the world's largest companies to simply stop funding terrorists. Feels like a simple ask but you'd be surprised! 

We also spend literally the first 28 minutes talking about haunted houses, sex clubs, and how we can't take Mae anywhere so if that's not your thing... skip ahead. 

Also trigger warning there's an INSANE murder in this episode. :(

Follow us @risquebusinessnews @laurasogar @mae_planert

Topics: 

Everett Stern the whistleblower who didn't get into the CIA

HSBC anti-money laundering division (it's a ghost town)

Anna Delvey is out of jail!

King Charles' weird wakeup routine

Laura takes a very famous swimmer on the world's worst recruiting trip

Mae has a breakdown at a haunted house

The girls are back from Mae's bachelorette in Mexico City so it felt only right to discuss one of the scariest businesses in the world... The Cartel.

This story focuses on HSBC, a legit bank that also happened to enable the Sinaloa cartel to be REALLY good at their job (drug trafficking and murder). In part 1 we talk about El Chapo's history, how HSBC could really not be bothered to worry about anti-money laundering, and attempt to explain the Mexican Peso Crisis (lol).

We also discuss Tom Brady's divorce (bye Tampa!), Edward Snowden, Kim Kardashian's SEC fine, and a couple in Brazil with the world's worst gender reveal party.

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The worlds greatest mogul: Kim Kardashian of course! Laura and Mae discuss the question we've all wondered - how did Kim Kardashian get so rich? We review her various business ventures from the failed KardashianKard to the absolute dominance of SKIMS. Then of course the nice check she got from an "acting" role with Ray J.

This lady is the master of her craft!

We also discuss the Beyond Meat CEO biting the nose of a man at an Arkansas football game (??) and Mae's impending bachlorette party in Mexico! 

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