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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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
January 28, 2023Howard Hughes: Billionaire & Creep
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 business, aviation, real estate, and most notably--motion pictures.
He was also a manipulative, abusive Creep who treated women like trash and was not all that great to anyone who worked for or was related to him. Leonardo DiCaprio played him in the Martin Scorsese film The Aviator and got many of the essential details correct but missed an opportunity to expose his more douchey behavior.

Thankfully--this is what we do here at What a Creep!

Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault, coercive control, and general assholery.
Sources for this episode: BritannicaWikipediaHistory.comBBC.comThe New York PostThe Daily Mail (UK)Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina LongworthRankerHoward Hughes: A Secret Life by Charles HighamCracked:NPR Fresh Air interview with Karina LongworthHistory How Stuff WorksTexas Monthly 1977Noah Dietrich WikipediaBe 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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1h 1min
January 20, 2023Why "The Golden Globes" Suck & the Non-Creepy Invictus Games
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
Wikipedia for the Hollywood Foreign Press
Wikipedia for the Golden Globes

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51min
January 13, 2023Lizzie Borden (Fall River, Massachusetts) & NON-Creep Elizabeth Montgomery
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. Each was hit multiple times in the head with an axe and with no witnesses, and Lizzie was the only one in the house when the crimes occurred--she was charged with their murder.

What happened next was one “trial of the centuries” the media likes to play up along with a mystery that has never been solved. Lizzie was acquitted and lived the rest of her life as a pariah.
Who were the Bordens, and why would anyone want them dead? If Lizzie didn't do it, who did? Did her sister Emma know the truth behind the murders? Why is her crime still a source of fascination with dozens of films, books, and documentaries about this one crime? We will discuss this in today’s creepy murder mystery!

Sources for this episode: Lizzie Borden Wikipedia
Smithsonian Magazine
Britannica
Crime Museum
Legends of America
PBS News Hour
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015) Christina Ricci
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) Elizabeth Montgomery
Lizzie (2018) Kristen Stewart
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller
CBS 48 Hours (December 2020)
The New York Times 2021
The New York Post
The Inhabitant (2022)
History’s Mysteries
A & E Lizzie Borden: A Woman Accused (1996)

Trigger warnings: Sex abuse, animal abuse (quick mention), and murder
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1h 11min
January 06, 2023Nicole Daedone & "One Taste" and NON-Creep Dr. Ruth Westheimer
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 others that needed healing.
Sources for this episode:

Orgasm, Inc.: The Story of OneTaste
Bloomberg
Jezebel
Los Angeles Magazine
Newsweek
The New York Times
Page Six
SFGate
The Sun
Wikipedia for Nicole Daedone
Wikipedia for OneTaste

Trigger warnings: Sex abuse, child molestation, and coercion
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51min
December 30, 2022"Ask Us Anything" & Why There is NO "Cancel Culture" Louis CK, Chris D'Elia, John Lennon, Fave Podcasts
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 she is bright & teens love her
Margo’s broken ankle story
Our favorite movies
And so much more! Please, have a listen and let us know what you think. 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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1h 19min

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