What a Creep Season 15, Episode 1 Loveline creeps: Adam Carolla & Dr. Drew Pinsky Adam Carolla is a radio personality, comedian, actor, and podcaster. He’s also a poster boy for toxic masculinity and is a misogynist creep. Dr. Drew Pinsky is a doctor, addiction medicine specialist, and media personality. He’s also kind of a creep who recommends drugs without disclosing he’s on the big pharma payroll. And these two creeps used to host a popular syndicated radio show called “Loveline.” Eventually,...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Hugh Hefner Season 14, Episode 10 Playboy Founder & Creep On September 17, 2017, Hugh Marston Heffner died at the age of 91. He was hailed in the press (for decades) as being solely responsible for the sexual revolution of the 60s, a champion of civil rights, a First Amendment warrior, a philanthropic activist, and a hero to women who would still be stuck home with sexless lives were it not for his brand Playboy. It was just a few weeks afterward that the ‘Me Too” movement began wi...
Mar 11, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 14, Episode 9 Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis was a comedian, actor, and director whose goofy comic style made him one of the most popular performers of the 1950s and ’60s. You might also know him as the guy that hosted the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon that ran from 1966 until 2014. But he was also difficult, cruel, and an insecure egomaniac who couldn’t keep it in his pants. He was a sexist creep who sexually harassed and assaulted many of his female co-stars. Sources for...
Mar 04, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Season 14, Episode 8 The Murder of Jose Gallardo Diaz & the Zoot Suit Riots On August 2, 1942, Jose Gallardo Diaz (22) was found unconscious in an area known as The Sleepy Lagoon. He had multiple head injuries, was stabbed at least twice, and had a broken finger. He died at Los Angeles Hospital, and a complete sweep of Mexican Americans by the LA cops captured the media's imagination. Though mostly from future Creep William Randolph Hearst) kids that were Z...
Feb 26, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep Season 14, Episode 6 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas is a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. He’s only the second African-American to serve on the Court, after Thurgood Marshall. Since 2018, Thomas has been the longest-serving member of the Court, with a tenure of 30 years. He’s also a creep with a history of sexually harassing women. Oh, and his wife, Ginni Thomas, is a creep, too. Sources for this episode: The documentary “Anita” ABC News Slat...
Feb 18, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: NFL Creeps Season 14, Episode 6 Tom Brady, Rae Carruth, Lance Rentzel, & Ben Roethlisberger In honor of the upcoming sports ball competition that involves football (we are not supposed to say Super Bowl because of evil overlords,) Margo & Sonia are talking about a quartet of NFL Creeps. Grab some chips & dip and enjoy! Trigger warnings: Murder, Sociopathy, Sexual Assault, & General Assholery! Sources: Rae Carruth Rae Carruth Muderpedia Rae Carruth New York Times Sports Illustrated ...
Feb 11, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Mark Hofmann Season 14, Episode 5 Forgery/Liar/Killer/Bomber Mark Hofmann had a Netflix documentary series that highlighted his criminal activity in the '70s & 80s in Salt Lake City, Utah—the home of the Mormon Church (known as the LDS the Church of Jesus Christ Later Day Saints.) In Murder Among Mormons, you learned about his crime spree on Tuesday, October 15, 1985, which involved two people being killed by homemade bombs he created and left for them. But what motivated this, by ...
Feb 04, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Peter Nygard Season 14, Episode 4 Big Time Fashion/Retail Creep Peter Nygard is a Finnish-Canadian fashion executive and a super creep. More than 80 women from the Bahamas, Canada, and the United States have joined a class-action lawsuit accusing Nygard of rape, sexual assault, and sex trafficking. Sources for this episode “The Secrets of Nygard Cay” on Dateline “Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygard” on Discovery+ NBC News CBC News Toronto Sun Vanity Fair Wikipedia Trigger w...
Jan 28, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Norman Mailer Season 14, Episode 3 Writer, Activist, & Wife-Stabber Norman Mailer has been in the news lately due to the fact his son John Buffalo Mailer who is partnering with Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon on a new trove of Mailer writings with the later writers’ ideas on what American democracy will look like in the future. The man died in 2007 at the age of 84 and lived as big a life as any (we will get into it all today.) Yet, Mailer’s longtime publisher Random House said...
Jan 22, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Rush Limbaugh Season 14, Episode 2 To All the “Ditto-Heads” Out There! Rush Limbaugh was one of the most popular talk radio hosts and leading voices of the conservative movement in the United States. He was the prototype to Fox News trashcans like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and even disgraced former president Donald Trump. Rush Limbaugh was a sexist, racist, homophobic bigot and a big ol’ creep. Sources for this episode include: CBS News Huffington Post New York Times People ...
Jan 14, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Canada’s Residential Schools Season 14, Episode 1 The systematic cultural genocide of indigenous people of North America From 1831 – 1998 North America put seven generations of indigenous people (primarily children) into residential schools to take the culture of First Nation and turn it into a Christian/European society. The Catholic Church was often involved, but the Canadian Government ran some. Over 150,000 children were forcibly taken from their families and sent to overcrowde...
Jan 07, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: “Book of Lies” Season 13, Episode 11 Margo & Sonia meet Sunni & Brandi to talk about Reality TV Creeps Margo & Sonia talk with two of our favorite podcasters, Sunni & Brandi of the Book of Lies podcast about all things reality TV-related including Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Selling Sunset, Love After Lockup, 90 Day Fiance, the Duggars and more! Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and you will never miss an episode. Also, be ...
Dec 22, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Dov Charney Season 13, Episode 10 Former CEO & Creep of American Apparel Dov Charney is the creator of American Apparel, a retail clothing chain that sold the building blocks for your hipster wardrobe - leggings, plain T-shirts, and pants. But it had really sleazy marketing and a dedication to not make their clothes in a sweatshop which made them kinda cool. Unfortunately, Dov Charney is probably more famous for his sexual harassment than he is for American Apparel. Sources: Bloomb...
Dec 20, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: “Trashy Divorces” (Bonus ep!) Season 13, Episode 9 Margo & Sonia meet Stacie & Alicia for a Fun Interview! Margo & Sonia talk with two of our favorite podcasters Stacie & Alicia from Trashy Divorces! We talk about the latest celebrity divorces in the news, their new podcast launching this month (Love Letters…), and what they each believe helps make a marriage stronger. Just a bonus episode of fun with a couple of amazing women in podcasting. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get yo...
Dec 15, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Robert Durst Season 13, Episode 8 The Jinx Creep! (Kathleen & Robert Durst) In 2015, HBO released a docu-series that took the nation by storm. The first media interview with Robert Durst, the son of billionaire real estate magnate Seymour Durst, in decades at the time. The then 72-year-old Durst has been accused of three murders in his life and seemed to use his money and privilege to avoid any real penalty. The filmmaker Andrew Jarecki was obsessed with Durst's story, so his 2010 ...
Dec 10, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Not Fade Away Podcast Bonus Ep “Altamont/The Rolling Stones” The Not Fade Away podcast is back and today’s subject--the Altamont concert that took place on December 6, 1969. It was supposed to be a showcase by the Rolling Stones to demonstrate their ability to draw an even bigger crowd than the Woodstock festival which took place in August of that year. That concert was billed as “three days of peace & music” and managed to rise above their circumstances of overcrowding, rain and b...
Dec 06, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Frank Sinatra (Replay) Season 13, Episode 7 Crooner N' Creep Francis Albert Sinatra is one of the most celebrated vocalists of the 20th Century. He has sold over 150 million records and continues to sell just as well now as he did at the height of his height popularity. He was known for his blue eyes and velvet voice. He was one of the first teen heartthrobs, a lover of women, a man who would just as soon get into a fight and then hug a person. He was demanding of everyone around h...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Rex Harrison Season 13, Episode 6 “Old-Timey Hollywood Creep” From Henry Higgins to Doctor Doolittle, Rex Harrison is one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men of the 20th Century. With his tall stature, deep booming voice, and his undeniable confidence—audiences ate him up whether he was playing a deceased sea captain in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir or Julius Caesar. “Sexy Rexy” as he was known led a life full of swagger, luxury, success, and often—tragedy. This is one of those old-t...
Nov 26, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Bobby Flay Season 13, Episode 5 “Creepy Chef” (Food Network's Bobby Flay) Bobby Flay is a celebrity chef who has hosted 16 (!) cooking shows and specials on The Food Network and The Cooking Channel including “Boy Meets Grill” and “Beat Bobby Flay” - a show that Anthony Bourdain once commented on saying, “Beat Bobby Flay sounds promising until you realize it's about cooking." He’s also a cheatin’ husband and a low-stakes creep - the kind you might encounter in the office and think, ...
Nov 12, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Not Fade Away Podcast Bonus Ep “The Who in Cincinnatti” The Travis Scott “Astroworld” Concert Tragedy (This episode was originally released in December 2019) In today’s episode, we talk about the tragedy at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati that took place on December 3, 1979. On that night 11 people were killed trying to enter the doors for a concert by The Who. At the time it was the worst concert tragedy in American history. “Festival Seating” was demonized and the term “stamped...
Nov 07, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Gwen Shamblin Lara Season 13, Episode 4 The Founder of Remnant Fellowship Church “HBOMax The Way Down” Gwen Henley Shamblin Lara was the founder of a popular Christina diet program called “The Weigh Down” whose followers were instructed to use God as their guide to lose weight and overcome eating issues. This led her to start her own ministry called the Remnant Fellowship which along with her best-selling books and popular online programs and festivals made her a wealthy woman. For...
Nov 05, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: “The Gainesville Ripper” Season 13, Episode 3 Danny Rolling, the inspiration for Scream’s “Ghostface” Did you know that the movie SCREAM was inspired by a true crime? We didn’t. Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five students in Gainesville, Fla., in August 1990, which all but shut down the college town. And it turned out he had murdered before but didn’t get caught until years later. This is a rough one y’all. Trigger warnings including child abuse, rape, mutilation,...
Oct 29, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Mark Weinberger Season 13, Episode 2 “The Sinus Doctor” & Creep (Vanity Fair 2011) Dr. Mark Weinberger was at one time THE Ear, Nose, & Throat surgeon in Indiana, a place where factory smoke billows through the air constantly causing sinus issues for many of the residents. Most of them with union jobs and therefore, have health insurance. In 2004, he disappeared in Europe while on vacation with his wife for her 30th birthday. What she didn’t know was the man she married committed m...
Oct 23, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Casey Affleck & James Franco Season 13, Episode 1 A Duo of Acting Creeps Casey Affleck is a successful actor, writer, and director who was nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actor in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in 2007. He also had roles in a string of hit films like To Do For, Good Will Hunting, Oceans 11, 12 & 13, plus Gone Baby Gone directed by his older brother Ben. In 2009, he and his buddy Joaquin Phoenix decided to direct a ...
Oct 15, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Les Moonves Season 12, Episode 10 CBS CEO Honcho & Creep For almost 30 years, Leslie Moonves was one of the most powerful media executives in America. He was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, overseeing news shows like “60 Minutes” to dramas and sitcoms like “CSI” and “The Big Bang Theory.” He was also in charge of Showtime, the publishing house Simon & Schuster, and the streaming service, CBS All Access. He was one of the highest-paid CEOs in the country, sometimes earning ...
Oct 08, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Alex Kelly Season 12, Episode 9 “The Preppy Rapist” Alex Kelly was considered a golden boy in his hometown of Darien, CT. Born to a wealthy family and growing up in a peak New England fancy neighborhood (meaning rich & white) he was good-looking, athletic, and popular. That all changed in February 1986 when the HS senior was arrested for suspicion of two rapes of girls in the span of four days. The Dairen police and district attorney decided to charge and try him for both at the sa...
Oct 01, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Errol Flynn Season 12, Episode 8 Old-Timey Hollywood Replay Episode (Originally dropped October 2019) Welcome to the third season of What a Creep talking about old school Hollywood star Errol Flynn and his awful, creepy ways. He was an animal-abusing, lying, thieving, womanizing child rapist who somehow is still beloved by classic movie fans. (It must be the way he held a sword?) Then, Margo & Sonia talk about a screen legend who was definitely NOT a Creep. This episode is put toge...
Sep 23, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Henry Ford Season 12, Episode 7 Inventor Creep Henry Ford rose from obscurity to become one of the most successful men in history. His Ford cars ushered in the modern world. But he was also a racist and anti-semite, who tried to control his workers’ lives and bullied the people closest to him. He’s a creep. Sources for this episode: American Experience: Henry Ford PBS History.com Biography.com Salon Edsel.com Henry Ford Museum Wikipedia Trigger warnings: Anti-semitism and racism Be...
Sep 17, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Jeffrey MacDonald Season 12, Episode 6 Family Annihilator & Creep Jeffrey MacDonald was convicted in 1979 of murdering his wife and two daughters on the night of February 17, 1970. At the time he was a doctor for the United States Air Force, his wife was expecting their third child (a son) and he told his wife that he wanted to live in Russia for a few months and work on the US Army boxing team. They had an argument heard by the neighbors and later he called the police saying he an...
Sep 10, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a Creep: Richard Scott Smith Season 12, Episode 5 The Love Fraud Creep Richard Scott Smith, the subject of the documentary Love Fraud, meets middle-aged women, love bombs them, and then drains them of their life savings. He moves on to the next con, leaving these women with massive debt. He is a narcissist and a bigamist, and a real creep. Sources for this episode: The documentary series “Love Fraud” Scott the Crook website Vanity Fair Oprah Daily Cinemaholic Oxygen Refinery29 USA Today Vox...
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