What a Creep

By Sonia Mansfield

We talk about Creeps of the past and the present: It's the who's who of who's the worst. Do you have a story about one of the Creeps we covered? Email us at [email protected].... more

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April 08, 2023The Station Nightclub Fire: West Warwick, RI "Great White" Fire FEB 2003
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 230 others. Today we will discuss what led up to the tragedy and what has happened in the 20 years since then.
Trigger Warning: Death by fire.

Sources for this episode include: Station Nightclub Fire Wikipedia
The Providence Journal
CBS 48 Hours (October 2021)
The Hour (Norwalk, CT)
Report of the Technical Investigation of The Station Nightclub Fire
(June 2005)WPRI.com (Timeline of Events)
NBC News
The New York Times (2003)
YouTube “Wonder”
The Cinemaholic
The New York Times (2006)
Boston Globe 2021
Daily Mail 2021
More Resources:
Killer Show by John BarylickFrom the Ashes,
Surviving the Station Nightclub Fire by Gail Russo
Trial by Fire by Scott James

The Not Fade Away Podcast “The Who in Cincinnati” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-not-fade-away-podcast-ep-4-the-who-in-cincinnati-1979/id1607752963?i=1000549438098

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1h 1min
March 31, 2023NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre (Creep) & Artist and Activist Nan Goldin (NON-Creep of the Week)
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 discourse on guns to keep those donation dollars flowing into the NRA.
Sources for this episode include:
ABC News
The Atlantic
BBC
Giffords Law Center
The Guardian
NBC News
New York Times
New York Times
The New Yorker
PBS’s Frontline and Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
Vanity Fair - From Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA by Tim Mak
Wikipedia

Trigger warnings: Gun violence involving men, women, children, and elephants

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1h 2min
March 25, 2023Bill Murray (Legendary Talent & Creep) and NON-Creep Gilda Radner
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 bully in just about every sense of the word on set and off since the beginning of his career and only in the last year faced anything resembling consequences.

We are also big fans, but this shit needs to be discussed.

Sources for this episode
Deadline
New York Times
CNBC
Wikipedia
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair Geena Davis review
Bill Murray creeping on Geena Davis on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1990 (YouTube)
Los Angeles Times
Jezebel
The Smoking GunTop 10 Beyond the Screen (ignore the bad pronunciations)
Los Angeles Times podcast “Asian Enough” with Lisa Liu
Nikki Swift.com
Entertainment Weekly
The AV Club
New York PostPage 6 History of Bill Murray Beefs
Slash Film
Geena Davis’s memoir Dying of Politeness

Trigger warning: Domestic Violence, Assault, and Workplace Abuse. Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it!
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March 17, 2023Jared Fogle: The "Jared from Subway Guy" Creepiness
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!
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42min
March 10, 2023The origin story of "Stockholm Syndrome" & NON-Creep Jaycee Lee Dugard
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 alarm alerted the police, and two officers showed up (one of them unarmed.) Ollson shot one of the officers in his hand while the other was ordered to sit in a chair and sing “Lonesome Cowboy” while taking four hostages into a vault.

Six days later, the entire group, including convicted criminal Clark Olofsson, came out of the bank sacred, dehydrated, and in fear for their lives. They were all scared of the cops, and the kidnap victims had so much sympathy they hugged the captors before being taken to the hospital. All refused to testify against their kidnappers and said they felt more terrified of being harmed by the police than the criminals who held them for days at gunpoint.

The term “Stockholm Syndrome” or, more accurately, Norrmalmstrong Syndrome” was created by Nils Bejerot (a criminologist and psychiatrist), who theorized that victims come to love their kidnappers as a coping mechanism. This would also be the basis of other labels that pathologize and often discredit victims, like trauma bonding (or TROW-MAh, according to Jamie Lee Curtis), battered wife syndrome, and why women seem to pick abusive men.

Over the years, the bank heist and kidnapping situation has been revisited and revised to show a complete picture of what happened in these six days and why Stockholm Syndrome might be a false theory. In short, it’s a creepy diagnosis meant to show women how weak they are under pressure. We think it is bullshit.

Sources for this episode:
The MarySue
YouTube
QXIR
Inside Edition
Crying Out for Justice Blog
DR. Allen Wade Rethinking Stockholm Syndrome (YouTube)
Stadafan.com
The Independent UK
Today I Found Out.com
Business Insider
Vogue Scandinavia
IMDB “Clark”
Clark Olofsson Wikipedia
Memory Motel podcast
History.com
The History of Stockholm Syndrome PDF
Reason Based Practice
Collider
BBCCriminal podcast
The New Yorker (November 17, 1974)
Six Days in August: The Story of the Stockholm Syndrome by David King

Trigger warnings: Kidnapping, gun violence, and Margo’s bad pronunciations.
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March 03, 2023Anita Bryant (Anti-LGBTQ Creep) & Canadian Hero (NON-Creep) Terry Fox
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 rights away from gay people.

And while trying to criminalize being gay was not new in the 70s, she’s the one who took it mainstream. The impact of her hateful campaign can be seen in the current “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida and the laws around the country targeting drag shows.
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52min
February 28, 2023Scott "Dilbert" Adams: Still a Racist Creep! (Replay of 2021 Season 3 ep)
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-scott-adams/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/dilbert-scott-adams-racism/

“Dilbert” is a comic strip about office drone Dilbert and his dog Dogbert. It’s about office culture, micromanaging bosses, and annoying coworkers, and it’s syndicated in more than 2,000 newspapers and is being read in 57 countries and 19 languages. Scott Adams created it.

You’d think that the creator of Dilbert would be on the side of workers. Unfortunately, Scott Adams is just another rich jerk who doesn’t want to pay his fair share in taxes. Oh, he’s also a big believer in the men’s rights movement.
This episode is put together with a bit of help from our friends at:

Wikipedia
Jezebel
The New York Times
The Outline
AV Club
RationalWiki
Comics Alliance
Britannica
Harvard Business Review
And Scott Adams’s blog, Scott Adams Says
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38min
February 24, 2023Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow: Texas-Sized Killers & Creeps "Bonnie & Clyde"
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 Warren Beatty (possible future Creep episode) and Faye Dunaway, was a sexed-up Hollywood version of their affair.

In real life, they were murderous losers who took 11 lives, kidnapped several people and dropped them off hundreds of miles from home to evade the police, mainly robbed small businesses like gas stations and grocery stores, and put out shitty poetry. Today we will talk about the real story behind Bonnie and Clyde.

Trigger warnings: Sexual Assault and Murder
Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia
History.com
64 ParishesCrime Museum
Decider.com
USA Today
Texas Monthly
405 Magazine
Biography.com
Texas Archive
ThoughtCo.com
Bonnie & Clyde: The Making of a Legend by Karen Blumenthal
PBS American Experience
Netflix: The Highwayman
Anything Under the Sun (YouTube)
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56min
February 17, 2023The Creepiness of the NFL & NON-Creep of the Week Pat Tillman
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 episode

AP News
Bleacher Report
CNN
CNN
The Conversation
ESPN
The Nation
NBC News
New York Times
New York Times
NFL
NPR
Ranker
SB Nation
Scientific American
Wikipedia

Trigger warning: Sexual assault, sexual harassment, concussions, suicide, and bad football puns
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1h 6min
February 04, 2023Ricky Gervais, DJ Tim Westwood, Katie Hopkins, & The Murder of Julia Martha Thomas (UK Creepiness)
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, racism, sexism, transphobia, and general assholery.
Sources for Ricky Gervais

Darryl R. Scott’s Medium post
Paste Magazine
The Mary Sue
Vox
Ricky Gervias’s tweets about how trans people are rapists, perverts, liars, and linguistic terrorists, and his claims to be very concerned with the state of cis men pretending to be women to rape them
Wikipedia

Sources for DJ Tim Westwood
The Sun
The Guardian
ITV April 26, 2022
BBC.com
Tim Westwood and G-Eazy in 2015
BBC and The Guardian's Abuse of Power
Tim Westwood Hop Hop’s Open Secret
Tim Westwood Wikipedia
Gardner Davis YouTube 2019

Sources for Katie Hopkins

BBC
Forbes
Herald Scotland
The Sun
Wikipedia

Sources for Kate Webster
Daily Mail
Muderperdia.org
Irish Post
Capital Punishment UK
IFL Science
The New York Times
Foreign Field Living YouTube
The Gruesome Tale of Kate Webster by Well, I Never YouTube

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1h 16min

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