What a Creep

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 this episode:

The Hollywood Reporter
People Magazine
The Sun
The New York Times
New York Times Obit
Vanity Fair
Washington Post
Britannica
Wikipedia

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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 Zoot-suiters were seen as a dangerous element and causing a crime wave. The phrase De-Zoot the suit was often sed.
Diaz's murder remains unsolved, but it was the catalyst for the "Zoot Suit Riots" that happened the following summer. If you have heard of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies song—you will get no idea how horrible this incident indeed was for the Chicano and African American community.
This episode will talk about the Sleepy Lagoon Murders, the sham of a trial that happened afterward, and the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles of 1943.
Trigger Warnings: Racism and my terrible attempts at Spanish.
Sources:
Sleepy Lagoon Murders Wiki
PBS American Experience "The Sleepy Lagoon Defendants"
The Sleepy Lagoon website
LA Law Library
Sleepy Lagoon Mystery by Guy Endore
The Zoot Suit Riots by Mauricio Mazon
The Zoot Suit Riots by Charles Rivers Editors
Zoot Suit (1981) Starring Edward James Olmos
Zoot Suit Riot by the Cherry Poppin Daddies
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How to help the people of Ukraine
UNICEF
Doctors Without Borders
Sunflower of Peace
International Committee of the Red Cross
Save the Children
CARE
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
The Red Cross
Voices of Children
How to help the trans people of Texas
Transgender Education Network of Texas
TxTransKids.org
Equality Texas
Lambda Legal
Trans Youth Family Allies
Allgo
Trans Pride Initiative

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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
Slate
Mother Jones
The Nation
New Republic
New York Magazine
The New York Times
The New Yorker
Politico
Think Progress
Washington Post
Washington Post: “The Nominee’s Soulmate”
Britannica
Wikipedia

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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 “The Boy They Couldn’t Kill”

Lance Rentzel
Lance Rentzel When All the Laughter Died in Sorrow (1973)
Lance Rentzel Wikipedia

Ben Rothlisberger
Ben Roethlisberger is a former NFL quarterback who played for 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. On the field, he’s considered one of the greats. Off the field, he’s an asshole and a serial sexual assaulter.
Sources:
Defector article by Diana Moskovitz
Sports Illustrated
SportsCasting
Wikipedia

Tom Brady
Tom Brady was a quarterback in the NFL for 22 seasons. He spent his first 20 seasons with the New England Patriots, where he was a central contributor to the franchise's dynasty from 2001 to 2019. In his final two seasons, he was a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Brady holds nearly every major quarterback record. He was also voted one of the most punchable faces by us, and he’s a cheatin’ creep
Sources:
ESPN
Forbes
SBNation
Sports Illustrated
Wikipedia
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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 all accounts, a good Mormon who seemed like the perfect family man?
In this episode, I will go into Mark's background as a world-class forger and liar who ran himself and others into so much debt—he felt that setting off bombs would buy him time to figure out his financial problems. And the fallout in the church and community since then.
Trigger warnings: Murder, Sociopathy
Sources:
Mark Hofmann Wikipedia
Esquire
Deseret News
Bustle
Netflix: Murder Among the Mormons
Forensic Files "Postal Mortem" Season 2 Episode 11
The Mormon Murder: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith

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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 warnings: Rape and sexual assault

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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 they will not be associated with this work, instead, Skyhorse publishing (which worked with Woody Allen last year) decided to take on this new work.  Why is Mailer potentially considered “canceled” so long after his death and living a life out loud with his machismo & boorishness?  Today we will talk about Norman Mailer and why he is one of the most controversial (and creepy) writers & creators of the 20th century.  Trigger warning: Domestic Violence & homophobia Sources: Norman Mailer Wikipedia Norman Mailer: The American Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, and Janet Flanner on Dick Cavett Show (1971) Town Bloody Hall (1979) New York Times Britannica New York Times Obituary New York Magazine The Airship Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group!  Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: [email protected]  We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com  Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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 Magazine Politico Rolling Stone Rush Limbaugh’s website Washington Post The Wrap Wikipedia Trigger warnings: Racism, sexism, and homophobia Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group!  Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: [email protected]  We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com  Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group!  Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: [email protected]  We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com  Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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 overcrowded schools that cut their hair off, changed their names, made them convert to Christianity, exposed them to violence. They were forbidden from speaking in their native language, and died were not reported to authorities. (It's estimated about 25% died from everything from illness to malnutrition.) Last year in May 2021, more than 1300 unmarked graves were found at four different former residential schools, which caused the nation to finally come to terms with a national stain that has never really been rectified. This episode has trigger warnings: child abuse, sexual assault, racism, and cultural genocide. Take care of yourselves while listening. Sources: Canadian Residential School WIKI The Guardian Newspaper (Map of Schools) NPR New York Times Indigenous Foundations The Economist Scientific American Al Jazeera Carlisle Indian School Project The Sleeping Giant Awakens by David B MacDonald Intimate Integration: The History of the Sixties Scoop by Allyson D. Stevenson Canada's Dark Secret Documentary Gord  Downie's The Secret Path The Fifth Estate: The Truth About St. Anne's Home From School (PBS Documentary) VOX CBC Stolen Children Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group!  Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: [email protected]  We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com  Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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 sure to follow us on social media! But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Check out our merch at https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/ Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts! Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/What-a-Creep-Podcast-413020689512914/  Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep