What a Creep: Merry Creepmas! “Top 5 Christmas Creeps” Season 9, Episode 3 Happy Holidays to all of you cohorts in Creepitude!  Let’s face it, 2020 was a dumpster fire and we are more than happy to let the door hit it on the ass on the way out! So we decided to have a little fun and offer our picks for the things that make the holidays a little (or a lot!) creepy. We hope you enjoy it with the intention of having some fun during the time of COVID! Trigger warnings: The possible destruction of your childhood! Margo’s Top 5: “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Song by Band Aid “Santa Baby” Song by Eartha Kitt & Madonna Mistletoe  “Glenn Beck’s: The Christmas Sweater” (2009) HBO’s “Tales from the Crypt: And All Through the House” (1989) Sonia’s Top 5: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Lying to children about Santa The War on Christmas starts earlier every year Christmas carolers Shitting in Nativity scene  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: Charles Dickens Season 9, Episode 2 Old-Timey Author Creep   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 important 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 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: “Oprah’s Biggest Creeps” Season 9, Episode 1 Dr. Phil McGraw, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Jenny McCarthy & James Arthur Ray Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful talk show hosts in the history of television. Her talk show, which ran from 1986- to 2011, was so powerful that she could create superstars from obscurity. The Oprah Winfrey Show started as a celebrity chat/tabloid talk show but eventually, it morphed into a spiritually-based program with subjects as varied as how to empower your soul and what our dead relatives have to teach us. Oprah is a perpetual seeker of wisdom and is unapologetically a hedonist who enjoys her wealth. She went from absolute poverty, born to a single mother to being an Oscar-nominated actress and one of the richest people in the media world. In the search for Namaste—she has had her share of self-help hucksters on her program. Most have been forgotten—but there are a few that have been proven to be total, unrepentant Creeps  Today we will discuss four such Creeps who at one time were anointed by the Big O.  Sources: McLeans Minn Post Trigger warnings: Pseudoscience, woo, death by suicide, claustrophobia, and total bullshit    Dr. Phil McGraw Sources for this segment include:   The Daily Beast Mercury News Buzzfeed Slate Boston Globe Kansas City Star Psychology Today Wikipedia Dr. Mehmet Oz Wikipedia USA Today New Yorker CNN Money "Dr. Oz Looks at Donald Trump’s Medical Summary" Washington Post Jenny McCarthy Daily Beast Daily Beast - “They Don’t Want an Autism Cure” Time magazine Jezebel Oprah.com Frontline World Health Organization Vox Autistic Mama Autistic Self-Advocacy Network Wikipedia   James Arthur Ray (“The Secret”)   Wikipedia The Self-Styled Life ABC News CNN The Guardian People Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray “Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment” by Matt Stroud (for Wondery)     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: Keith Raniere (NXIVM) Season 8, Episode 9 Rapist, Liar, and Cult Creep   Keith Raniere made national news in the fall of 2017 when the New York Times exposed the self-help guru as a megalomaniac, a fraud, a user of women, and a person who allowed (if not blatantly enforced) a secret society of women in his NXIVM group to have sex rituals and human branding to show his loyalty to him. He claims to have one of the highest IQs ever recorded, to have been a judo expert at the age of 12. By thirteen, he taught himself three years of college math. That he can cure anyone from crippling things like smoking addiction to Tourette Syndrome. He told women if they had sex with him—they would see a blue light of magic in their heads. He called himself “Vanguard” and created a self-help program called NXIVM which for thousands of dollars—could help men and women be their true selves and achieve enlightenment. His office in Albany, NY had a retreat every year at the end of August called “Vanguard Week” where his most devoted followers from around the world would praise him. Some of his followers included the wealthy & elite from politics, entertainment, and being lucky enough to grow up wealthy with no boundaries on your trust fund.  He is also a total fucking creep who scammed people out of their money, dignity, and youth. He is a pedophile and a fucking asshole of the highest order. Trigger Warnings for this episode: scam artists, sexual assault, cults, pedophilia, and shitty human behavior unchecked. Sources: Albany Times Union (2012) Albany Times Union (2012) Albany Times Union (2019) South China Morning News New York Times October 17, 2017 Vice (2020) CNN (2020) Forbes (2003) Vulture (2020) Los Angeles Times (2020) Oxygen Rolling Stone HBO’s “The Vow” Starz “Seduced” “Escaping NXIVM podcast/CBC” The Ringer Bustle Mark Vincente Blog Post 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

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What a Creep Season 8, Episode 8 Pablo Picasso  Pablo Picasso is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His art career lasted 78 years, creating more than 147,800 works of art, including 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations, and 300 sculptures or ceramics. Yes, he was an amazing artist, but he was a garbage human being. Picasso was unfaithful to every woman he claimed to love, and, at least indirectly, drove two of them to suicide. He used them for his own self-serving needs, for inspiration, and then moved on to his next inspiration. Trigger warning: Domestic abuse, suicide, and cheating, lots and lots of cheating Sources for this episode: ArtDex ThoughtCo The Paris Review Biography The Atlantic The Guardian CBS Morning interview with Francoise Gilot History Collection PabloPicasso.org Wikipedia 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: Whitey Bulger Season 8, Episode 7 In his 89 years of life, James “Whitey” Bulger mostly did whatever the hell he pleased—and usually got away with it. The notorious Boston gangster held his hometown in his clutches as the leader of the Winter Hill Gang. He was involved with everything from racketeering, extortion, murder, narcotics, and money laundering. He was eventually charged with the murder of 19 people (that we even know about) after being on the lamb for 16 years. His story was told (not very well) in the Johnny Depp movie Black Mass (the book is much better!) The character of “Costello” in The Departed (played by Jack Nicholson) was inspired by the story of Whitey Bulger. (Spoiler alert) He wound up killed by a younger version of himself on his first day at a prison in West Virginia. His whole life he railed against rats and snitches—but it turns out he was one of the biggest FBI informants in the 70s & 80s which shielded him from the law. His legacy of mayhem and murder continues in the culture of Boston and the number of supposed “good guys” who were complicit in his crimes will blow your mind.   Trigger Warnings: Murder, violence, sexual assault, and Margo’s frequent attempts at a Boston accent. The main sources for this episode. Whitey Bulger Wikipedia NY Times The Mob Museum Biography CNN Boston Globe NBC News NBC News Boston Boston Magazine “Whitey: The United States of America v. James J. Bulger” directed by Joe Berlinger “The Irish Mob” (Amazon Prime) “Manhunt: Kill or Capture” Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerald O’Neill Black Mass (film) directed by Scott Cooper 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

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What A Creep: Betsy DeVos (Replay) Season 8, Episode 6   We are replaying our Betsy DeVos episode because President-Elect Joe Biden will bring us a new Education Secretary (thank god!) Have a listen as to why DeVos is such trash and why we can’t wait to meet her replacement.  Betsy DeVos is the Secretary of Education, and she’s an ignorant, privileged creep who only cares about the education of rich, white, Christian, heterosexual, non-disabled, and neurotypical kids. Do you know how shitty of a person you have to be to be considered one of the worst people Predator Trump appointed to his cabinet? Pretty fuckin’ shitty. Let’s start at the beginning … In this episode Sonia is talking about Secretary of Education Betsy Devos with a little help from her friends at: Mother Jones Wikipedia The New York Times The Washington Post Snopes CBS News CNN The Atlantic Education Post Education Votes, which is a part of the National Education Association Audio Clip from the The Late Show Stephen Colbert   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: Alex Jones “Conspiracy Creep” (Season 8, Episode 5) Alex Jones has been called "the most paranoid man in America" by Rolling Stone and the "king of conspiracy" by CNN. “The Alex Jones Show” has approximately 2 million weekly listeners and is nationally syndicated on about 60 radio stations. He also founded InfoWars.com and PrisonPlanet.com.  Alex Jones is a massive creep who has claimed that the Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas massacres were staged, vaccines cause autism, illegal immigrants vote for Democrats while selling “health supplements” and “survivalist” crap on his garbage show. Sources for this episode include: The Southern Poverty Law Center Rolling Stone Rolling Stone - “Meet Alex Jones” Vox The New York Times The New York Times The Daily Beast CNBC Buzzfeed Buzzfeed Wikipedia 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 Season 8, Episode 3 Amy Kremer With Amy Coney Barrett on her way to being confirmed to the Supreme Court, now is the perfect time to talk about women who don’t support other women. The kind of women who encourage other women to vote against their own interests.  Let’s talk about Amy Kremer. You may not have heard her name, but she’s been a big part of how we got where we are. She’s a political activist who co-founded the modern Tea Party movement, and the organizations Women for Trump and Women for America First. Sources for this episode: Washington Post Brown Political Review ABC News NBC News Huffington Post Jezebel Alternet The Independent The Gateway Pundit Buzzfeed Yahoo Finance Wikipedia (Amy Kremer) Wikipedia (The Tea Party Movement) Amy Kremer’s Twitter 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  

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What a Creep Season 8, Episode 2 Elvis Aaron Presley Elvis Aaron Presley is one of the biggest rock stars of all time and is known as “The King of Rock & Roll.” Beginning with his meteoric rise in the mid-1950s to his sad decline in the 1970s, Elvis is still one of the most popular celebrities in the world with his estate earning $80 million in 2018. He remains the best-selling solo artist in recorded history. He has had the most songs charting in Billboard magazine top 40. He has the record for selling the most albums on the Billboard 200. He holds the record for most gold records of all time (solo artist) and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018. There have been dozens of books and movies made about him and his life. John Lennon once said he did not think the 60s were truly over until Elvis’ death. Bob Dylan described hearing Elvis for the first time as feeling as if he had busted out of jail. His sexy onstage presence set America & the world on fire.  The world is filled with Elvis impersonators and his legacy will last forever. He was also a major Creep when it came to women with much of his time focused on girls as young as 14. He could also be a mean asshole to his close friends, associates, stage crew, and family. Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault, Predatory Grooming, and Drugs.  Elvis Presley Wikipedia Vice GOAT (Australia) Meauuw Elvis Presley: A Southern Life by Joel Williamson Newser Elvis Presley: A Careless Love by Peter Guralnick Elvis & Me by Priscilla Presley The Elvis Blog run by Phil Arnold (the “Original Elvis Blogmeister”) Daily Mail   Also, 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