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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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1 hr 19 min
December 23, 2022Comedy Creep Chris D'Elia, Christmas Creep Charles Dickens & "Can't Stop the Music"
What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 5Chris D’Elia, Charles Dickens, & Can’t Stop the Music

Comedian Kyle Anderson posted on YouTube a one-hour takedown of Chris D’Elia, who is turning into a modern-day Bill Cosby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBxm0FSKXpM
We have talked about D’Elia before, as he has been credibly accused of harassing minors and being generally gross to women who interact with him. But this is awful. Trigger warning: Sexual Assault and Coercive Control.

Some of his comedy pals have been accused of sexual assault as well, and we have heard from survivors of their abuse privately.

Before we get to our main subject of this episode ( a replay from December 2020), Charles Dickens, we will talk about a NON-Creep who needs our help.

Actress Valerie Perrine is fighting Parkinson’s Disease and needs help with her medical expenses and care. The 79-year-old is best known for her roles in Superman (1978,) Lenny (1974), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), and finally, Can’t Stop the Music, which also stars The Village People, Caitlyn Jenner, and was directed by Nancy Walker. Here is the link for her “Go Fund Me” page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-valerie-perrine-fight-parkinson039s-disease?utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B5102-48hr-donor-share

Now on to our replay ep:

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 Nolan (screenwriter for The Dark Knight.)He was also a massive creep to several vital women in his life, which is what we will focus on today. Trigger warnings: Shitty husbands
Sources for this episode include:
The London Telegraph (2016)
Bates College Alumnae Interview
BBC
The Guardian
The Vintage News
The Smithsonian
The Herald News
Charles Dickens: A Life by ClaireTomalin
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51 min
December 17, 2022Matt Taibbi, Elon Musk, Twitter and Media Creeps
What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 4
Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi is a journalist who has been described as a “firebrand” and whose writing is reminiscent of gonzo-style writing like the late Hunter S. Thompson (worshipped by white boys since the 1960s.) In the 1990s, he helped uncover corruption in 1990s Moscow with the paper The eXile (along with a former friend and fellow Creep Mark Ames.)

As a New York-based freelancer, he went from a mouthy opinion writer for the alternative weekly, the New York Press to one of the most celebrated investigative journalists for Rolling Stone winning several awards for excelling in reporting. Featured on everything from Rachel Maddow’s show on MSNBC to Bill Maher on HBO and even on Late Night with Seth Meyer.

Many people on the left claimed him as one of “theirs” who speaks truth to power with bravado, and some of his best-selling books tackled the financial shenanigans of Goldman Sachs, the idiocy of Congress, the march to the war in Iraq built on shabby evidence, and how the media is dividing Americans.

Nowadays, he is a popular substack creator who rakes in millions writing about anything he damn well pleases. This is any writer's dream, but he has seemed to switch from fighting power and corruption to fawning over billionaires and power-mad lunatics like Vladamir Putin. He now writes about Trump being a victim of a press that hates him for no reason and recently was part of the big Twitter reveal from past Creep--Elon Musk.

So what did he uncover? Why does he feel like a victim of woke culture? We will get into it today. Also, I had an encounter with Matt Taibbi, who did some shitty journalism for a magazine I worked for and maligned me in his column for no fucking reason except he a burr up his ass about a topic he is not an expert on and tried to throw me under the bus.

For 20 years, I have been hearing friends tell me how awesome and brave he is, and I have to tell them my story and remind them he is a punk-ass bully with no genuine affection for the topic he covers and wants to swing his dick around.

Today I found the article in question and will read it allowed for the first time since 2004. Then I will learn about Taibbi and why he is controversial. Like the tagline for Jaws The Revenge--this time, it's personal!
Trigger warnings: Drug use, sexual assault,

Sources for this episode: NY Magazine 2021Washington PostWashington Post 2 (Kathy Lally)Twitter Jill Filipovic Yahoo NewsMatt Taibbi WikipediaMatt Taibbi SubstackThe HillMatt Taibbi’s Hate IncMatt Taibbi Insane Clown PresidentMatt Taibbi The Great DerangementMark Ames & Matt Taibbi The Exile Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New RussiaJack Dorsey blames himself about Twitter’s policiesNewsweekRolling StoneHuffington PostChicago ReaderChicago Reader 2Web Archive’sVanity FairThe New York ObserverThe New York Press

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1 hr 3 min
December 09, 2022 The Salvation Army & the Best NON-Creepy Organizations to Support Instead
What a Creep
Season 18, Episode 3
The Salvation Army

Ti’s the season for giving, and one of the organizations that encourages giving the most is The Salvation Army. Their army is stationed outside stores worldwide, ringing bells with their little red buckets asking for donations. They do a lot of good work, but unfortunately, they also have a history of sexual abuse and discrimination.

Sources for this episode:

CharityWatch
CNN
Forbes
The Guardian
Huffington Post
The New York Times
NL Times
The Salvation Army
Sydney Morning Herald
Time Magazine
Think Progress
Vox
USA Today
Brittanica
Wikipedia

Trigger warnings: Homophobia, transphobia, and sex abuse

Noncreepy organizations for donations:

Direct Relief https://www.directrelief.org/
Enterprise Community Enterprise Community Partners
MAP International https://www.map.org/#
Rotary Foundation https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/rotary-foundation
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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44 min
December 03, 2022 Diamond Annie and the 40 Thieves/Elephants (A Very British Creepy True Crime Story)
What a Creep
Season 18, Episode 2
Diamond Annie & the 40 Thieves/Elephants
Ladies Who Thieve

Peaky Blinders is a popular show on Netflix about a group of thieves and gangsters in 1920s London. Many people do not know that there were gangs of women considered the best shoplifters and thieves of the wealthy that ran from the mid-19th century up into the 1950s. The most notorious of these was the “Forty Thieves/FortyElephants” gang, run by tough women who master criminals.

Diamond Annie (born Anne Diamond) was labeled as such for her ferocious punch with fingers crammed with diamond rings. At 5’9”, she was a formidable woman who ran a gang of shoplifters, seducers, and blackmailers, which made the police and media baffled by their brazenness. With the invention of the automobile, women soon took off for all parts of England with their thieving. This story is wild!

Sources for this episode:
The History Girls
Ranker
Forty Elephants Wikipedia
The Sun UK
St. Mary’s University
Danny Dutch.com
The Guardian
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants by Brian McDonald
Lessons from History on Medium
Bitch Media
Wondrium Daily
The Human Exception
The Culture Trip
Grunge
The Daily Mail

Trigger warnings: Thieving and my attempt at a British accent

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42 min
November 25, 2022 James Dobson, Focus on the Family, & NON Creep Kevyn Aucoin (Shreveport, LA)
What a Creep
Season 18, Episode 1
James Dobson, Focus on the Family & Family Research Council

James Dobson is an evangelical Christian author and founder of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group.

In the 1980s, Time Magazine ranked him as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in American public life. He’s written more than 30 books on family issues, specifically parenting and marriage. Dobson frequently appears as a guest on the Fox News Channel.

James Dobson and his organizations are sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and racist.

Sources for this episode:

DrJamesDobson.org
Family Research Council
Focus on the Family
Jezebel
Propublica
Southern Poverty Law Center
Wikipedia: James Dobson
Wikipedia: Family Research Council
Wikipedia: Focus on the Family

Trigger warnings: Racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.

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57 min
November 18, 2022 Lana Turner and the Murder of Johnny Stompanato
What a Creep
Season 17, Episode 10
The Murder of Johnny Stompanato

Lana Turner was one of Hollywood’s most alluring (and controversial) actors in movie history, with star turns in the original The Postman Always Rings Twice, Imitation of Life, and Peyton Place. She was blonde, sexy, and a supposed “maneater” with eight marriages and several lovers. In 1958 she dated the former war hero and current mob hooligan Johnny Stompanato who supposedly treated her terribly.

Her only child, Cheryl Crane, at 14, stabbed Johnny to death after her mother tried to break off their relationship. Cheryl was acquitted of any wrongdoing (Johnny was a BAD dude) but spent years dealing with her childhood trauma and being the daughter of a movie queen.

But did Cheryl really kill Johnny, or was she covering up for her mother?

Trigger warnings: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, & Murder

Sources:
Vanity Fair April 1999 The Gangster and the Goddess
Lana Turner Wikipedia
Biography.com
Johnny Stompanato Wikipedia
Cheryl Crane Wiki
People Magazine
All That is Interesting
History 101.com
Los Angeles Times
The Daily Beast
E Mysteries & Scandals March 9, 1998
Cinema Scholars

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53 min
November 04, 2022 Megyn Kelly & NON-Creep Nellie Bly
What a Creep
Season 17, Episode 9
Megyn Kelly

The Advocate
Brittanica
The Cut
The Daily Beast
Gawker
Media Matters
Media Matters
MSNBC
New York Post
Rolling Stone
Uproxx
USA Today
USA Today
Wonkette
Wikipedia

Trigger warnings: Racism, sexism, sexual harassment, and debating the race of Santa

Megyn Kelly wasn’t just one of the beautiful blond talk show hosts at Fox News. She was THE beautiful blond talk show host at Fox News. Her show “The Kelly File” was one of the network’s highest-rated shows, even beating The O’Reilly Factor.”

She left Fox News for a short-lived stint at NBC, where she was fired for defending blackface. Now she hosts a talk show and podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, that airs live daily on SiriusXM.

“Give me any opinion, and I can argue it,” she once said. I’m not sure that Megyn Kelly really believes the ignorant crap she spews, and it doesn’t matter. She does it for the money, and that’s gross.

She’s an opportunistic pick-me girl and a racist. What a creep.

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52 min
October 29, 2022 John List, Netflix "The Watcher," & Westfield, NJ
What a Creep “John List”
Season 17, Episode 8
Creepy Westfield, NJ

The sleepy New Jersey town of Westfield has been overrun with tourists eager to check out the “real” homes featured in the Netflix series The Watcher, which tells the true story of the Broaddus family, who a stranger sent creepy letters for years. The series takes many liberties with the details of what happened to the family and what happened in Westfield in the past.

The murderer John List, a family annihilator who spent over 17 years on the run from justice, is truly the weirdest and most disturbing crime story from the area and the subject of this episode.
Trigger Warnings: Murder, Family Annilhator
Sources:
Westfield, NJ Wikipedia
John List
Yahoo Life
Good Housekeeping
The Cut
The Cut follow-up
People Magazine
People Magazine (Fact Vs. Fiction)
NJ.com
All That’s Interesting.com
Crime Magazine.com
John List Confession
Morbid Academy video
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57 min
October 21, 2022 Alfred Hitchcock (October 2020 Replay)
What a Creep

Season 4, Episode 10

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was the master of suspense, the creator of some of the best (and scariest) films of all time, a famous director, and, at times, a world-class creep. (Ask Tippi Hedren!) In this episode, we talk about his childhood and how he became a legend we all still talk about 40 years after his death and discuss some of his best films and his worst behavior. Enjoy!

Our sources for this episode:

Telegraph "Alfred Hitchcock Sadistic Prankster"

The Guardian: Tippi Hedren "Alfred Hitchcock Sexually Assaulted Me"

The Independent: Obsession “The Dark Side of Alfred Hitchcock”

Fascinate.com: 42 Creepy Things About Alfred Hitchcock

Yahoo.com "Alfred Hitchcock’s Creepy Infatuation with His Leading Ladies”

Alfred Hitchcock Wikipedia

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in the Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan

Alfred Hitchcock: Peter Ackroyd

The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto

Behind the Bastards podcast

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57 min

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