What a Creep 
Season 31, Episode 4
Artie Shaw

The lovely and fantastic Simone O. Elias, author of “Old Films, Young Eyes: A Teenage Take on Hollywood's Golden Age,” joins host Sonia Mansfield to talk about Artie Shaw.

Artie Shaw played the jazz clarinet and was a big-band leader who reigned supreme as one of the kings of swing with his recordings of "Begin the Beguine," "Lady Be Good," and "Star Dust" in the late 1930s and 40s. He was also an abusive husband, who was married 8 times, ANNNND, he dropped some names at the House of Un-American Activities in the 1950s. What a creep.

Sources for this episode

• ArtieShaw.com
• Ebsco.com
• The Guardian
• The Guardian
• The Hairpin
• New York Times
• New York Times
• NPR
• Swing and Beyond
• Time
• Wikipedia
• Wikipedia

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What a Creep
Season 31, episode 3

Host Sonia Mansfield and Erin Lim from Bitch Talk Podcast talk about Dick Cheney.

The former VP rebranded “torture” as “enhanced interrogation” and argued that if the president does something, then it’s legal. Gee, that’s sounds familiar. He pushed our country into a war that killed a lot of civilians and U.S. servicemembers. Oh, and he personally profited from it. 

Dick got a redemption arc from the media and society after he announced he would vote for Kamala Harris rather than Predator Trump in the 2024 election. Well, too little, too late. What a creep.

Sources for this episode

• AP News
• Britannica
• CNN
• The Guardian
• New York Times
• Wikipedia
• NPR
• PBS NewsHour
• Politico

Trigger warnings: Dick jokes

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What a Creep
Season 31, Episode 2
Bill Gothard, founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles

Kristen Meinzer from The Nighty on Hatch Plus and Health Matters from the Mayo Clinic joins Sonia Mansfield to talk about creep Bill Gothard, a minister, writer, and the founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). The IBLP is a fundamentalist Christian organization that encourages the submission of wives to husbands, procreative sex, the corporal punishment of children, homeschooling, and biblical literalism. Those who’ve escaped it say it goes much further, enlisting coercion, mind control, isolation, sexual abuse, and financial manipulation against its adherents.

Sources for this episode:

• RecoveringGrace.org
• Quiverfull: Inside The Christian Patriarchy Movement, by Kathryn Joyce
• A Well Trained Wife, by Tia Levings
• Counting the Cost, by Jill Duggar Dillard
• Becoming Free Indeed, by Jinger Duggar Vuolo
• I Pray You Put This Journal Away, available on Spotify
• The Sojo Files, available on Spotify
• Leaving Eden, available on Spotify
• Shiny Happy People, on Amazon Prime
• IBLP.org 
• Chicago Magazine 
• New York Times 
• People magazine 
• Washington Post 
• USA Today 
• The Guardian
• BuzzFeed 
• NBC News 
• https://inthesetimes.com/article/cult-of-character
• The Sojo Files 
• Leaving Eden 
• Christianity Today
• In Touch Weekly
• Duggar Family website

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What a Creep
Season 31, Episode 1
Fox News bros
 
Host Sonia Mansfield is joined by Margo Porras from Book vs Movie to talk about a trio of Fox News creeps who have been in the news recently: Jesse Watters, Brian Kilmeade, and Greg Gutfield.

Sources for Jesse Watters
The Daily Beast
The Guardian
Wikipedia

Sources for Brian Kilmeade 
The Majority Report
The Ring of Fire  
Raw Story
The Grio
Wikipedia 

Sources for Greg Gutfeld 
CNN
Media Matters
Mediate
Rolling Stone
Wikipedia

Sources for non-creep Gretchen Carlson
Wikipedia 
Bloomberg Television
ABC News 

Our first-ever inductee into the Noncreep Hall of Fame is Margo Donohue, the brainchild behind this podcast. She passed away in July. Her book, "Fever: The Complete History of Saturday Night Live," was released shortly after and is now available in bookstores or can be ordered online (we recommend Kensington Books or Bookshop.org).

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Comedian Bill Maher likes to paint himself as someone who just calls it as he sees it. If you don’t like his jokes, you’re either an ignorant conservative or a liberal snowflake. Well, we also call it as we see it, and we think Bill Maher is a creep.

Sonia tells us why Bill Maher is a creep with a little help from our friends at:

• Wikipedia
• Huffington Post
• New York Magazine
• Jezebel
• The Mary Sue: Rep. Katie Porter vs. Bill Maher

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What A Creep
Lance Armstrong
Season 30, Episode 5

In very sad news, cohost of What a Creep, Margo Donohue, passed away in July. The podcast is on a hiatus for now. In the meantime, we’re re-releasing early episodes from behind our Patreon wall. We’re starting with season 1, episode 1 of “What a Creep:” Lance Armstrong, a lying/lawsuit-crazy/vindictive/world-class jerk with cycling cleats.

Sources for this episode

• Wikipedia (Lance Armstrong)
• “The Armstrong Lie” Directed by Alex Gibney
• “Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story” Directed by Alex Holmes
• Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by Juliet Macur
• Liar City podcast

Trigger warning: Cycling talk and doping 

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What a Creep
Season 30, Episode 4
Marge Schott, the former owner of the Cincinnati Reds

Marge Schott was the owner of the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 to 1999. When she first started, she seemed like a good fit. But it wasn’t long before she revealed herself to be a racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and Nazi-sympathizing creep.

Sources for this episode:

• ESPN
• New York Times
• NPR
• Sports Illustrated
• Sports Illustrated
• Wikipedia

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 What a Creep
Season 30, Episode 3
The Murder of Kirsten Costas
(The Inspiration for the 1994 TV  Movie Death of a Cheerleader)

In the idyllic suburb of Orinda, California, the summer of 1984 was marked by the shocking murder of 15-year-old Kirsten Costas. A popular high school student, Kirsten, was killed by her classmate Bernadette Protti from Miramonte High School. Motivated by jealousy and social pressure, the crime revealed the darker aspects of affluent adolescent life. 

The murder went unsolved for months, and when the killer was finally found, it shocked the community. I contend that this case was one of the first crimes to highlight the insecurities of Generation X. The incident inspired the made-for-TV film "A Friend to Die For" (1994), later retitled "Death of a Cheerleader." Starring Kellie Martin and Tori Spelling, the movie explored themes of peer pressure, envy, and the price of popularity, giving the case a haunting cultural resonance that still lingers today.

Trigger Warning: Murder

Sources for this episode:

• The Campo Claw
• Kirsten Costas Wikipedia 
• CNN
• Discovery +
• Murderpedia
• The Los Angeles Times
• Ranker
•  Yahoo News
• People Magazine
• Inquisitor
• Screen Rant
• The New York Times
• The Cinemaholic
• The San Francisco Examiner

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What a Creep (Replay!) 
Season 20, Episode 7
George Washington and the Tale of Ona Judge

George Washington is the “Father of Our Country” and one of American history's most revered Founding Fathers. We heard tales of how brave he was and that he could not tell a lie. He also famously refused to create a fiefdom with the office of President, which means we are not stuck with someone in office unless they are duly elected. 

Like many white people of his time, he enslaved people. This is a fact, and though not unusual in his peer group--it's not a great look for a person who is enshrined all across the United States. People want to downplay his racism and evil acts.

Listening to Bill Maher and Elon Musk minimize his actions made us realize we need to dive into one of the first President’s most heinous acts by talking about badass Ona Judge. An enslaved woman who escaped from the President’s home and remained free despite his relentless pursuit of her. 

This woman is an American hero whom everyone who truly believes in liberty and freedom needs to learn about and memorialize her contribution to history. 

Trigger Warning: Racism and slavery

Sources for this episode:
Twisted Philly Podcast
George Washington Wiki
Daily Mail
Oney Judge Wiki
Drunk History with Jen Kirkman 
Mt. Vernon.or Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia 
Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of the Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 
Erica Armstrong Dunbar at SMUBlack Heritage Trail video
The White House Historical Association
The National Park Service
Zinn Education
ProjectBeyond the Bell Tours (Philadelphia)
Museum of the American Revolution
Ona Judge’s 1845 interview with The Liberator
History.com 
The Fugitive Slave Acts
New York Times 2015 op-ed https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/opinion/george-washington-slave-catcher.html?searchResultPosition=3

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What a CreepSeason
 30, Episode 2
The story of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sånchez's wedding

Let’s talk some crap about the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sånchez and their celebrity-filled guest list.

Sources for this episode:
ABCNews
AP News
Daily Beast
Fortune
Instagram

• Eva Longoria
• Entertainment Tonight
• Leonardo DiCaprio

Jezebel
Los Angeles Magazine
New York Times
People Magazine
Reuters
Vanity Fair
VarietyVox
Wikipedia

• Jeff Bezos 
• Lauren Sånchez

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