What a Creep Season 20, Episode 6 The Tale of “Scamanda” with Guest Charlie Webster! In this episode, we cover a scam artist who was young, pretty, Christian, and a mother claiming to have cancer several times while keeping her followers engaged through her Blog “Lymphoma Can Suck It.” Amanda Christine Riley , who lived in San Jose, spent years telling her audience, friends, and family she was undergoing expensive treatments. She actively accepted financial help and free perks while supposedly f...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 20, Episode 5 May’s Biggest Creeps (So far!)Ron DeSantis, Greg Gutfeld, Chris Delia It’s getting towards Memorial Day here in the States, and Sonia is celebrating by heading out to San Diego to see Lizzo! So today, we are offering a Patreon-ish bonus ep covering May’s creepy news (so far!) Get ready to get your rage on! First, RIP Tina Turner! (1939-2013)Tina Turner https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/arts/music/tina-turner-dead.html We talked about her her ex-husband’s overall...
May 26, 2023•41 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 20, Episode 4 Armie Hammer Armie Hammer is probably best known for his roles in “The Social Network” and “Call Me By Your Name.” His most recent project is the “House of Hammer” documentary, and news articles reveal that he’s an abuser, both physically and sexually. He’s a creep. But to talk about Armie Hammer, we must start initially because Armie comes from a long line of creeps. It’s practically hereditary. Sources for this episode Complex The Guardian “ House of Hammer doc...
May 19, 2023•54 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 20, Episode 3 Steven Crowder Steven Crowder is a far-right comedian and media commenter who has been getting tons of press lately for bad behavior at “ Louder with Crowder, ”--a very popular YouTube/Rumble channel. He claims to be a strict Christian while also being a racist, sexist, homophobic garbage person. Also--he treated his wife like shit, which is finally enough for some people to drop him. In the past few weeks alone, he has earned the wrath of Ben Shapiro and Candac...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 20, Episode 2 Moms for Liberty In the United States, there’s a resurgence of book banning and preventing the teaching about race, slavery, LGBTQ+ people, and history. This is the result of a certain kind of parent group that loves to talk about “parental rights” but not your parental rights. If you have a gender-nonconforming child, an immunocompromised child, a child with special needs, or a child that isn’t straight and white, no one cares about your parental rights. This i...
May 05, 2023•55 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep “Disco Demolition Night: July 12, 1979” Season 20, Episode 1 Margo and Sonia put on our boogie shoes and prepare to call bull shit on all of the excuses given for “Disco Demolition Night” on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, IL . A group of boring, racist, sexist, and homophobic idiots decided disco music had been popular for too long. For fun, Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl created a stunt to destroy LPs on the field of a White Sox & Detroit Tigers game! Mayh...
Apr 28, 2023•52 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Comedy Creeps (2020) Replay Ep! Russell Brand, Chris Harwick, Chris D’Elia & Victoria Jackson Hosts Margo Donohue and Sonia Mansfield host an open mic night of comedy creeps to kick off Season 8, including Russell Brand, Chris Hardwick, Chris D’Elia, and Victoria Jackson. Don’t worry; they end the episode with some comedians who are not creeps. Sources for this episode include: Russell Brand YouTube The Russell Brand Show Prank of Andrew Sachs New Music Express "Andrew Sachs Wid...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Jack Nicholson Season 19, Episode 10 From “Easy Rider,” “Chinatown,” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” to “The Shining,” “Batman,” and “The Departed,” Jack Nicholson is considered one of the best actors of all time. But do we want the truth? WE CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. Because the truth is Jack Nicholson is an amazing actor who has made a lot of really great movies. But he’s also a womanizing creep with a nasty temper. Sources for this episode AP News Brittancia Facinate The Guar...
Apr 14, 2023•44 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 19, Episode 9 The Station Nightclub Fire On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 11:07 pm, the band Great White-headed onto the stage of the East Warwick, Rhode Island rock club The Station with a blast of pyrotechnic sparks. Singer Jack Russell quickly observed that the stage and ceiling were catching fire, and the crowd of over 460 people was told to leave the building. Within 6 minutes, the building was engulfed in flames killing 100 people (the youngest was 18) and injuring 23...
Apr 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 19, Episode 8Wanye LaPierre and the NRA Wayne LaPierre is the CEO of the NRA, the National Rifle Association. He’s the man who said the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. He’s the man who blames mental illness, video games, and movies every time there’s another mass shooting in this country. He’s the man who made the NRA the powerful lobbying organization it is today. Wayne LaPierre is a greedy, selfish creep who manipulates the public discour...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 19, Episode 7 Bill Murray Bill Murray is a comedy legend who first came to fame as one of the “Not Ready for Primetime Players” on Saturday Night Live from 1977-1980 and has gone on to star in classic films like Stripes, Rushmore, Ghostbusters, What About Bob?, and Groundhog Day--to name a few. He also has won Emmy Awards, been nominated for an Academy Award, and received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2016. He is also known to be an abusive Creep who has been a b...
Mar 25, 2023•1 hr•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 19, Episode 6 Jared Fogle from Subway Sources for this episode Business Insider Business Insider CBS The Herald Times Indy Star Indy Star “ Jared From Subway: Catching a Monster ” on ID Discovery Los Angeles Times Washington Post Wikipedia Trigger warning: Child sexual abuseJared Fogle was the face of Subway sandwiches for years. He was famous for losing 245 pounds by eating two Subway sandwiches daily. But eventually, he got more famous for being a pedophile. What a creep! B...
Mar 17, 2023•41 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 19, Episode 5 “ Stockholm Syndrome ”Real diagnosis or just sexist trash? On Thursday, August 23, 1973, a convicted felon Jan-Erik Olsson entered the Kreditbanken Bank in Stockholm, Sweden (technically Norrmalmstrong); he was wearing a wig, painted his eyebrows black, pulled out a submachine gun, and yelled in English with an American accent “the party has begun!” He fired several shots into the ceiling, announced this was a robbery, and ordered people to the ground. A silent ...
Mar 10, 2023•59 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 19, Episode 4 Anita Bryant Sources for this episode: The Daily Beast Encyclopedia NBC News PBS Playboy The Slate podcast “One Year: 1977 - Anita Bryant’s War on Gay Right” Them Washington Post Wikipedia Trigger warnings: Homophobia Anita Bryant was a singer in the early ‘60s, but she’s probably best known for her Florida orange juice commercials in the early 70s. She could’ve just got her big juice money and lived a quiet life. Instead, she used her fame to strip basic human ...
Mar 03, 2023•52 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep (Replay) Season 3, Episode 4 Scott Adams “Dilbert” Creator This is a replay of an episode that ran in 2021. This guy is still a Creep all these years later! Scott Adams: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-dropped-from-book-publisher-and-distributor-over-racist-commentary/ar-AA181gsh?li=BBnb2gh https://news.yahoo.com/apologize-dilbert-comic-creator-scott-093008292.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/media/dilbert-distributor-sc...
Feb 28, 2023•37 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 19, Episode 3 Bonnie & Clyde (Crooks & Murderers Elevated to Icon Status) Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (Bonnie Parker) & Clyde Chestnut (Champion) Barrow were Depression-era outlaws who caught the nation’s attention between 1932-1934 with their antics. According to legend, they were star-struck lovers who traipsed across the middle of America and the South, holding up banks to “stick it to the man.” The 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn and starring ...
Feb 24, 2023•55 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 19, Episode 2 The NFL Are you ready for some football? The NFL ( National Football League ) is the wealthiest professional sports league in the world and the most popular in the United States. It’s also got a lot of creepy behavior, including a culture of sexual harassment, doling out light punishment for players convicted of sexual assault and domestic violence, racism, and full-on ignoring player safety. NON-Creep: Pat Tillman and the Pat Tillman Foundation Sources for this...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 19, Episode 1 “A Quartet of UK Creeps” Co-Horts! We have reached season 19 (!), leading it with one of our “Quartet of Creeps”--UK style! We have stories of creepiness from the worlds of entertainment, punditry and a tale about an Irish woman who really disliked her British boss. These stories are more of an overview than a deep dive into shitty behavior, and we always reserve the right to revisit any or all of them as solo episodes. Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault, murder, r...
Feb 04, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 18, Episode 10 Howard Hughes An old-timey Hollywood Creep is a longtime fan favorite of this show. We feel it is time to talk about a billionaire who was acclaimed as an original thinker (he honestly was, though) and also one of Hollywood’s most prolific swordsmen. Howard Hughes either inherited a fortune or grew a nice inheritance (more on that later) at the age of 19 and would go on to be one of the wealthiest people of the 20th Century while also innovating the worlds of b...
Jan 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s awards season. Let’s talk about the Golden Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press, a collection of journalists and photographers that cover Hollywood for foreign media markets. This story involves bribery, sexual assault, and racism. The movie based on this story would probably be nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Comedy or Musical category. Sources for this episode: Entertainment Weekly GQ Hollywood Reporter Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times NBC News Newsweek Teen Vogue Vox Wikipe...
Jan 20, 2023•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 18, Episode 8Lizzie Borden (1860-1927) “Creepy Murder Mystery” “Lizzie Borden took an axe. Gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41”--Children’s rhyme late 19th century/early 20th century. Lizzie Borden was just another 32-year-old New England single woman who loved her family and was devoted to her church. On the morning of Thursday, August 4, 1892, her world turned upside down with the murder of her father and stepmother in her home....
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 7 Nicole Daedone and OneTaste Nicole Daedone is the founder OneTaste, which positioned itself as a wellness company that preached the practice of what she called “orgasmic meditation,” or OM. OneTaste made $12 million a year at one point, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Khloe Kardashian sang Daedone’s praises. But eventually, it was revealed that Daedone was less of a wellness guru and more of a leader of a sex cult or a prostitution ring that exploited trauma victims and ...
Jan 06, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 6, “Ask Us Anything,” & There is NO Cancel Culture Hi, Cohorts! We are finishing the year with an episode devoted to your questions--As Us Anything! In it we answer your questions about the following: How do we pick our Creeps The Creeps we will not cover & why How we practice self-care while putting the show together How there is NO “Cancel Culture.” Creeps in Stand-Up Comedy Why do people forget what Creeps do Our favorite makeup 🙂 Sonia’s style and why ...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 5Chris D’Elia, Charles Dickens, & Can’t Stop the Music Comedian Kyle Anderson posted on YouTube a one-hour takedown of Chris D’Elia, who is turning into a modern-day Bill Cosby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBxm0FSKXpM We have talked about D’Elia before, as he has been credibly accused of harassing minors and being generally gross to women who interact with him. But this is awful. Trigger warning: Sexual Assault and Coercive Control. Some of his comedy pals ...
Dec 23, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 4 Matt Taibbi Matt Taibbi is a journalist who has been described as a “firebrand” and whose writing is reminiscent of gonzo-style writing like the late Hunter S. Thompson (worshipped by white boys since the 1960s.) In the 1990s, he helped uncover corruption in 1990s Moscow with the paper The eXile (along with a former friend and fellow Creep Mark Ames .) As a New York-based freelancer, he went from a mouthy opinion writer for the alternative weekly, the New York Pr...
Dec 17, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 18, Episode 3 The Salvation Army Ti’s the season for giving, and one of the organizations that encourages giving the most is The Salvation Army. Their army is stationed outside stores worldwide, ringing bells with their little red buckets asking for donations. They do a lot of good work, but unfortunately, they also have a history of sexual abuse and discrimination. Sources for this episode: CharityWatch CNN Forbes The Guardian Huffington Post The New York Times NL Times The ...
Dec 09, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 18, Episode 2 Diamond Annie & the 40 Thieves/Elephants Ladies Who Thieve Peaky Blinders is a popular show on Netflix about a group of thieves and gangsters in 1920s London. Many people do not know that there were gangs of women considered the best shoplifters and thieves of the wealthy that ran from the mid-19th century up into the 1950s. The most notorious of these was the “Forty Thieves/FortyElephants” gang, run by tough women who master criminals. Diamond Annie (born Anne ...
Dec 03, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 18, Episode 1 James Dobson, Focus on the Family & Family Research Council James Dobson is an evangelical Christian author and founder of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group. In the 1980s, Time Magazine ranked him as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in American public life. He’s written more than 30 books on family issues, specifically parenting and ma...
Nov 25, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 17, Episode 10 The Murder of Johnny Stompanato Lana Turner was one of Hollywood’s most alluring (and controversial) actors in movie history, with star turns in the original The Postman Always Rings Twice, Imitation of Life, and Peyton Place. She was blonde, sexy, and a supposed “maneater” with eight marriages and several lovers. In 1958 she dated the former war hero and current mob hooligan Johnny Stompanato who supposedly treated her terribly. Her only child, Cheryl Crane, a...
Nov 18, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 17, Episode 9 Megyn Kelly The Advocate Brittanica The Cut The Daily Beast Gawker Media Matters Media Matters MSNBC New York Post Rolling Stone Uproxx USA Today USA Today Wonkette Wikipedia Trigger warnings: Racism, sexism, sexual harassment, and debating the race of Santa Megyn Kelly wasn’t just one of the beautiful blond talk show hosts at Fox News. She was THE beautiful blond talk show host at Fox News. Her show “The Kelly File” was one of the network’s highest-rated shows,...
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