What a Creep: Cullen DavisSeason 12, Episode 4 Texas-Sized, True Crime Creepiness In the 1970s, Cullen Davis was one of the richest men ever charged for murder. He was so wealthy that he was able to outspend the entire State of Texas in his defense. Cullen was said to be the inspiration for JR Ewing of 80s hit TV show Dallas. He also (allegedly) was a cruel, mean, and violent man behind the doors of their mansion. His acrimonious divorce from Priscilla Davis made all the papers, and on the night...
Aug 27, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: James TobackSeason 12, Episode 3 Creepy Director James Toback is the writer and director of such movies as “The Pick-Up Artist,” “Black and White,” and “Two Girls and a Guy.” He was nominated for an Oscar for writing the screenplay for Warren Beatty’s “Bugsy.” He’s also a super creep who has been accused of sexually assaulting more than 300 women over a 40-year period. Sources for this episode Los Angeles Times New York Times Daily Beast Natasha Leggero on Jimmy Kimmel Live Rolling...
Aug 20, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Eric Clapton Season 12, Episode 2 Old-Fashioned Rock Creep Eric Patrick Clapton is a musician of such renown; he is the only person inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame three times. He has won several Grammys and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Some of the bands he has been with include The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominoes. He has played at London’s Royal Albert Hall over 200 times, the most of any artist. His life ...
Aug 13, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Joe Francis Season 12, Episode 1 Founder of “Girls Gone Wild” & Mega Creep Joe Francis was the founder and creator of Girls Gone Wild, which made him a millionaire 10 times over. He has also been convicted of tax evasion, bribery, false imprisonment, assault; and has pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution. Sources for this episode: Hollywood Reporter Jezebel CBS News Forbes Ranker Las Vegas Review-Journal Los Angeles Times Syracuse The Sun Meet Joe Francis Wikipedia Tri...
Aug 06, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Ted Bundy (Replay) Season 11, Episode 10 Because Hollywood Cannot Stop Telling This Horrible Story! This week we decided to replay one of our episodes from the first season about killer Ted Bundy because once again--Hollywood decided to have a hot actor play the disgusting garbage person who took the lives of dozens of women and children. Chad Michael Murray is the lead for the new film Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman which is set to release in August 2021. Trigger Warnings: Murder, ...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Carl Lentz Season 11, Episode 9 Justin Bieber’s Former BFF and Hillsong Church’s Former Star & Creep Hillson Church is based in Australia with dozens of outposts worldwide, and over 150,000 attend weekly services. If you check their YouTube channel for Hillsong Worship, Hillsong United, and Hillsong Young & Free--their music is the main draw with millions of streams and downloads for their spiritually uplifting attitude. The church services seem youthful and look more like concerts...
Jul 23, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Imelda Marcos Season 11, Episode 8 The Dictator’s Mrs. Did More Than Buy Shoes! Known as the “Steel Butterfly” for her combination of fashion sense and political ambition, Imelda Marcos is the former first lady of the Philippines. Her husband, Ferdinand Marcos, was president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. During that time, the couple embezzled $10 BILLION from the government. In fact, Imelda and her husband hold the Guinness World Record for the Greatest Robbery of a Governm...
Jul 16, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: H.H. Holmes “The Devil in the White City" Season 11, Episode 8 Murderer & Creep This week’s Creep is considered one of America’s first serial killers with anywhere from a couple of dozen to over 200 victims depending on your source. He was a thief, liar, schemer, forger, bigamist, and a killer of men, women, and children whose many deeds were described in the book The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. None other than Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are the producers of ...
Jul 09, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: “Free Britney,” John McAffe & Reality Creeps in the News Season 11, Episode 7 Creeps in the News June 2021 After listening to Britney Spears’s testimony to mark herself free of her father’s conservatorship, we had to drop our usual planned episode and talk about her, the death of past episode subject John McAfee, and some reality show Creeps in the news. A summer scorcher of Creepiness! Sources for this episode: NPR “Britney Spears asks for the end of conservatorship” New York Time...
Jun 25, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: “The Tylenol Murders” (1982) Season 11, Episode 6 Mystery Creep! In September 1982, some creep put cyanide inside Tylenol capsules, put them back in the bottles, and randomly placed them on store shelves across the Chicago area. Seven people died after taking Tylenol, including a 12-year-old girl, a new mom, and three members of the same family. The police set up a special task force to investigate, and several suspects were questioned throughout the years, but no one has been arre...
Jun 18, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Charles Lindbergh Season 11, Episode 5 Aviator Creep Charles Lindbergh is one of the most important aviators in the history of flight. Not just on earth, but also in space where he is one of the grandfathers of the U.S. Space Program. He went from being a national hero to an international disgrace and back to hero status in his 72 years of life. He was handsome, eloquent, and brave. He spoke about old-fashioned American values and the importance of living a curious life. Lindbergh ...
Jun 11, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Rachel Hollis Season 11, Episode 4 Motivational Creep A few short years ago, motivational speaker Rachel Hollis was at the top of her game. Followed by millions on social media with her inspirational message of getting everything you want in life and overcoming poverty & sexism with cheery optimism & a bit of Jesus thrown in. Married to her only boyfriend with adorable kids and an MLM/speaking business designed to help women to be girl bosses and take accountability in order to ove...
May 31, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Kevin Spacey Season 11, Episode 3 Acting Legend & Total Creep Kevin Spacey is probably in some of your favorite movies from the 1990s, including Swimming with Sharks, The Usual Suspects, Se7en, LA Confidential, A Time To Kill, and American Beauty. He’s won two Oscars, multiple Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild awards, and critic awards. He’s really good at playing creeps, but it turns out it wasn’t really acting. More than 30 people have accused him of sexual harassment and sexual...
May 21, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Eddie Mannix Season 11, Episode 2 MGM’s Main "Fixer" & Creep This episode was inspired by the 2016 Cohen Brothers movie Hail Cesar which stars George Clooney, Scarlett Johansen, Tilda Swinton, and Josh Brolin playing a very fictionalized version of longtime MGM enforcer—Eddie Mannix. The film presents him as a lovable rogue and family man who has the tough job of keeping his stars in check. He was known as “the Fixer” and in reality, there was little to love about the man. Mannix w...
May 14, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Blake Bailey, Josh Duggar & Scott Rudin Season 11, Episode 1 A trio of the biggest Creeps in the news (right now!) Hello, Cohorts! It is the beginning of a new season and we are beginning it with a trio of Creeps who have been featured in the recent news. They are harassers, exploiters, and total shitheads--just the kind we like to roast! Get ready to rage out! Trigger warnings: Descriptions of violence, sexual assault, grooming by a predator, workplace violence, and child exploita...
May 07, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Brett Favre Season 10, Episode 10 NFL Creep Brett Favre is a quarterback who played in the NFL for 20 seasons, mainly with the Green Bay Packers. He had 321 consecutive starts from 1992 to 2010, the most in league history. He’s also a creep who sends unsolicited dick pics and sexually harasses women. Sources for this episode: USA Today New York Times Deadspin: Brett Favre’s cell phone seduction Deadspin: Favre sued for sexual harassment Deadspin: Favre silent on Caitlyn Jenner runn...
Apr 30, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: The Gardner Museum Heist (1990) Season 10, Episode 9 Our First Mystery Creeps! In this episode, we are talking about our first “Mystery Creep” as it is about one of the biggest art heists of all time and features the city of Boston, the world of stealing art as a form of currency with law enforcement and gangsters. In the 30+ years since the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum was vandalized with 13 works stolen (some ripped right out of their frame), there have been no arrests and th...
Apr 23, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 10, Episode 8 Jim Bakker "TV Preacher & Creep" Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye Bakker were the most famous televangelists in America in the 1970s and ‘80s with “The PTL Club” and a Heritage USA theme park. They lived a lavish lifestyle with several houses, fancy cars, and more money than God. Jim Bakker also misused funds to try to cover up a sexual assault. What a creep! Sources for this episode: Charlotte Observer Herald-Journal People Magazine ABC News NPR Washington Po...
Apr 17, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Billy McFarland Fyre Festival Creep Season 10, Episode 7 On April 28, 2017, a tweet blew up the Internet from Trevor DeHaas, @trev4president with a picture of a very sad bread and cheese meal saying “Here’s the dinner they fed us tonight. Literally slices of bread, cheese, and salad with no dressing #fyrefraud #fyrefestival #dumpsterfyre This was day one of the Fyre Festival fraud perpetrated by 25-year old Fyre Media CEO & Founder Billy McFarland. Hundreds of people were stranded,...
Apr 09, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep - Victor Salva "Creator of Jeepers Creepers is a Convicted Child Predator" Season 10, Episode 6 Victor Salva isn’t a name that you probably recognize, but he is the director of 1995’s “Powder” and the horror movie franchise, “Jeepers Creepers.” He’s also a convicted child molester who continues to work in Hollywood. Sources for this episode: Los Angeles Times The Independent The Daily Beast San Francisco Chronicle Vice IMDB BBC Wikipedia Nathan Forrest Winters's band 7he Seven Stone...
Apr 02, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Larry Nassar (USA Gymnastics) Larry Nassar, John Geddert, and Steve Penny (Gymnastics Creeps) Season 10, Episode 5 Larry Nassar is one of the biggest creeps we have ever covered—which is really saying something. There have been a few times in the last 20 years where the media has talked about sexual abuse against young athletes—specifically in gymnastics which has competitors who begin the sport in their elementary school years. Most people first learned of Dr. Larry Nassar in 2016...
Mar 27, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast What A Creep: Piers Morgan (Updated!) (With some Sharon Osbourne thrown in!) Season 10, Episode 4 Our special replay episode features Britain’s Piers Morgan who was a subject in our first season. From phone-hacking scandals and fat-shaming to racism and sexism, TV host Piers Morgan is a professional troll, who got his creepy career started working for Rupert Murdoch at News Of The World yet still somehow found a way to sink even lower. Due to his leaving his cushy job Good Morning Britain and ca...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Dan White “The Creep That Killed SF Mayor George Moscone & SF Supervisor Harvey Milk” Season 10, Episode 3 Dan White was a city supervisor in San Francisco in 1978. After a disagreement with the mayor and his fellow supervisors, he brought a gun into City Hall and murdered two people: Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the country’s first openly gay man ever elected to office and a famous figure in the national gay rights movement. Sources for this episode: The Times ...
Mar 12, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Johnny Carson “King of Late Night Creep” Season 10, Episode 2 Johnny Carson was known as the King of Late Night with NBC’s The Tonight Show which he hosted between 1962-1992. He was so popular that the phrase “going to bed with Johnny Carson” was part of the vernacular. In his lifetime, he won 6 Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award in 1985, The Presidential Freedom Award in 1992, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 1993. When Johnny retired from show business on May 22, 1992, it was such a b...
Mar 05, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Joey Buttafuoco & John Wayne Bobbitt Season 10, Episode 1 90s Tabloid Creeps Joey Buttafuoco The name alone became a punchline—Buttafuoco! In the summer of 1992, America was obsessed with this trashy tale from Long Island about a murderous teenager and her dumb, muscle pants-wearing lover. This scandal had everything, sex, escort services, autobody shops, a Howard Stern interview, and secret videotapes which the tabloid media covered breathlessly for over a year. Trigger Warnings: ...
Feb 26, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Merry Creepmas! “Top 5 Christmas Creeps” Season 9, Episode 3 Happy Holidays to all of you cohorts in Creepitude! Let’s face it, 2020 was a dumpster fire and we are more than happy to let the door hit it on the ass on the way out! So we decided to have a little fun and offer our picks for the things that make the holidays a little (or a lot!) creepy. We hope you enjoy it with the intention of having some fun during the time of COVID! Trigger warnings: The possible destruction of you...
Dec 24, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Charles Dickens Season 9, Episode 2 Old-Timey Author Creep Charles Dickens is one of the most successful authors of the 19th Century who attracted a rock star-like following around the world for his dramatic readings. He is considered as close to Father Christmas as any man has ever been and was a champion of working-class people and liberal causes. His work influenced writers for several generations including Willkie Collins, Jules Verne, Gorge Orwell, Roald Dahl, and Jonathan Nol...
Dec 18, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What A Creep: Betsy DeVos (Replay) Season 8, Episode 6 We are replaying our Betsy DeVos episode because President-Elect Joe Biden will bring us a new Education Secretary (thank god!) Have a listen as to why DeVos is such trash and why we can’t wait to meet her replacement. Betsy DeVos is the Secretary of Education, and she’s an ignorant, privileged creep who only cares about the education of rich, white, Christian, heterosexual, non-disabled, and neurotypical kids. Do you know how shitty of a pe...
Nov 10, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 8, Episode 2 Elvis Aaron Presley Elvis Aaron Presley is one of the biggest rock stars of all time and is known as “The King of Rock & Roll.” Beginning with his meteoric rise in the mid-1950s to his sad decline in the 1970s, Elvis is still one of the most popular celebrities in the world with his estate earning $80 million in 2018. He remains the best-selling solo artist in recorded history. He has had the most songs charting in Billboard magazine top 40. He has the record for...
Oct 17, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 8, Episode 1 Margo & Sonia Expose a Few “Comedy Creeps” Including Russell Brand, Chris Harwick, Chris D’Elia & Victoria Jackson (Plus, we mention our favorite non-creeps!) 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...
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