What a Creep

What a Creep
Season 24, Episode 1
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs

Sean “Diddy” Combs has a notorious career as a singer, songwriter, music mogul, rapper, actor, and clothing designer. He has been trying to rebrand himself as “Brother Love” after years of rumors of bad behavior. This is going to be a tough one y’all, as we are talking about rape, assault, sex trafficking, drug abuse, and a history of violence associated with this man. Please take care as you listen.

Today, we will give an overview of the latest lawsuit filed against in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by Producer “Lil Rod,” 54-year-old Rodney Jones, who lived and traveled with Combs in 2022-2023 in support of Combs’s The Love Album: Off the Grid.”

Sources for this episode:

• NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-accused-sexual-harassment-assault-producer-latest-alb-rcna140585
• PDF: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:884c472a-7c38-4fee-b568-49beaae565ff?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/27/sean-diddy-combs-sexual-assault-male-music-producer-allegations
• The Guardian (Ex-girlfriend Cassie) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/sean-combs-diddy-cassie-sexual-assault-lawsuit
• Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/diddy-sexual-assault-accusations-lil-rod.html
• Complex: https://www.complex.com/music/a/tracewilliamcowen/whos-named-in-latest-diddy-lawsuit-yung-miami-cuba-gooding
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Combs
• Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/sean-diddy-combs-controversies-timeline-1234889043/
• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/former-employees-now-exposing-diddy-1234911067/
• Mark Curry Dancing With the Devil
• People: https://people.com/sean-diddy-combs-controversy-timeline-8411635
• The Root: https://www.theroot.com/bad-boy-sean-diddy-combs-history-of-controversy-lega-1851030940/slides/3
• Surviving Diddy Swamp Storiez
• The Art of Dialog Mark Curry

Kimora Lee Simmons in New York Magazine 2003 "Russell’s a cultural icon,” continues the record-industry executive. “And in the hip-hop world, it’s all about Russell.” There was a nasty cloudburst when Kimora said something to Combs, and he threatened to hit her—“And I was pregnant! The moron!” says Kimora. Combs eventually got down on his knees in public to apologize. “I respect him for being a fierce entrepreneur,” she says now, “and I appreciate knowing that everything he does is emulating my husband.”

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What a Creep
Season 23, Episode 9
Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is a billionaire venture capitalist who cofounded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook. He’s got some bad takes on diversity, women's rights, voting, and privacy. A self-described libertarian, Thiel is also a political activist and mainly donates to right-wing politicians who want to take away basic rights from the LGBTQIA+ community, even though he’s a member of that community.
Sources for this episode:

• The Atlantic
• The Guardian
• Huffington Post
• Mother Jones
• The New York Times
• Vanity Fair
• Vox
• Washington Post
• Wikipedia

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What a Creep
Season 23, Episode 8
Special Episode with Chris Derosa of Fixing Famous People “Never Will We Ever, Cover…”


Chris De Rosa of the Fixing Famous People podcast comes on the show to chat with Margo about the subjects they are (mostly) certain they will never cover on their shows. (We reserve the right to charge our mind, however!)

Topics covered include Erika Jayne and the HULU special. (OY!)

Shayne Gillis on SNL https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2024/02/13/shane-gillis-hosting-snl-date/72584321007/723

JLo and Ayo Drama!https://people.com/jennifer-lopez-says-ayo-edebiri-apologized-negative-comments-saturday-night-live-8579337

Also, why serial killers have had their time in podcasts, the actors and comedians who make us feel the ick, why podcast “experts” are usually false, whether or not people want their minds changed, the “Unfixables,” the “Invincibles,” JLo’s new movie, and more!

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What a CreepSeason 23, Episode 7
Ann Woodward and the Curse of the Woodward Family

On October 30, 1955, William “Billy” Woodward was shot in the home he shared with his wife Ann. She told the police it was a case of mistaken identity as both carried guns to bed due to a recent spate of robberies in their town of Oyster Bay, New York. Did she kill her philandering spouse, who vocalized how much he had grown to despise her?

Ann’s eventual acquittal in the case was a local Long Island scandal until Truman Capote (who had only met her once and instantly disliked her) told a scandalized (and fictionalized) version in 1975’s Answered Prayers which insinuated Ann had murdered Billy and his mother’s money bought her out of any criminal indictments. (We talked about him last September!)So, which is true? And what brought a small-town girl like Angeline Lucille Crowell to the top of cafe society to a sad, lonely end?
Sources for the episode:

• Done and Dunne podcast https://doneanddunne.com/
• New York magazine: https://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/ann-woodward-2012-4/
• New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/08/nyregion/heir-fortune-tragedy-suicide-ends-life-wealthy-haunted-man.html
• Montillo, Roseanne (2022). Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century. New York: Atria Books. ISBN 9781982153755.
• New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/nyregion/truman-capote-feud-swans-fx.html
• Town & Country: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a46573658/feud-capote-vs-the-swans-ann-woodward-true-story/
• Vogue: https://www.vogue.com/article/who-is-ann-woodward-the-scandalous-true-story-of-the-new-york-socialite-who-shot-her-husband
• Elle: https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a46316970/ann-woodward-death-true-story/
• Harper’s Bazaar: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a46603823/ann-woodward-death-true-story/
• People: https://people.com/feud-capote-vs-swans-ann-woodward-did-she-kill-husband-intentionally-8553447
• Time: https://time.com/6590540/feud-capote-vs-the-swans-true-story/
• FX: Feud Capote Vs. the Swans
• The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (Dominick Dunne book & miniseries) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094199/
• Power, Privilege and Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytHsxRJm0E&t=8s
• A Crime to Remember: https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/video/a-crime-to-remember-investigation-discovery/who-killed-mr-woodward
• This Crazy Thing Called Love by Susan Braudy.

Trigger warning: Murder & Suicide
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What a Creep
Season 23, Episode 6
Update on Vince McMahon (WWE Creep)

Supercreep Vince McMahon is back in the news. A former employee is suing McMahon for physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault, and trafficking from 2019 to 2022. As a result, McMahon has resigned as chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Sources for the update:

• ABC News
• New York Times
• Vice

Our sources for the original episode:

• Vince McMahon
• What a Culture: 10 Seedy Stories Vince McMahon Wants You to Forget
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• The Richest.com 15 Times Vince McMahon was the Creepiest Employer Ever
• The Sportster:15 Creepiest Things Vince McMahon Has Done to WWE Divas
• Complex.com: WWE Scandals
• Cracked.com: 6-creepy-ways-famous-people-used-their-families-profit.html
• New York Post: Showing Some Hart Ex-WWF Star Starts to Blow Whistle on McMahon
• Sex, Lies & Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment by Shaun Assael & Mike Mooneyham
• Daily Mail (UK) Vince McMahon Announces XFL Return in 2020
• New York Post: Vince McMahon Ousts CEOs
• Bloomberg: WWE Plunges After Earnings Slump

Links to the “Non-Creeps”:

• All Elite Wrestling (AEW)
• New Japan Pro Wrestling
• SHIMMER Women's Wrestling
• Eve Wrestling
• Rhea Ripley
• Wrestle Joy

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What a Creep
Season 23, Episode 5
Ye/Varg Vikernes/Burzum

Kanye West “Ye” is a one-person horrible public relations machine. If it’s not his ego, the misogyny, the bad music, and/or public ranting--you can always count on him to praise people like Adolph Hitler. In this episode, we talk about his latest stunt that sent shockwaves wherein he wore a t-shirt for a Norwegian death metal band (Burzum), showing he hasn’t learned anything since the last time he acted up.

Sources for this episode:

• Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2024/01/kanye-burzum-photo-jpegmafia.html
• El Pais: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-08-12/they-were-bandmates-and-burned-churches-until-one-killed-the-other-the-crime-that-marked-black-metal.html
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/mar/11/norwegian-black-metal-varg-vikernes
• https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/20/popandrock4
• Blabbermouth: https://blabbermouth.net/news/kanye-west-wears-burzum-shirt-in-new-photo
• NY Post: https://pagesix.com/2024/01/19/entertainment/kanye-west-wears-shirt-with-nod-to-neo-nazi-after-apologizing-for-antisemitic-rants/
• Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12985107/kanye-west-t-shirt-neo-nazi-tribute-varg-vikernes.html
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes
• XXL: https://www.xxlmag.com/kanye-west-t-shirt-former-nazi-supporter-varg-vikernes-fans-react/
• NY Times The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/podcasts/the-daily/kanye-adidas.html

Trigger warning: Anti-Semitism, Suicide, & Murder.
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What a Creep
Season 23, Episode 5
When method acting goes too far

If an actor wants to go deep on their character work for a movie, TV show, or play, and they’re not hurting anyone, knock yourself out. However, method acting isn’t an excuse to humiliate or assault people or create a hostile work environment.
We talk about some actors and directors that go too far in the name of “art.”


Sources for this episode:

• The Atlantic
• Harpers Bazaar
• Hollywood.com
• Hollywood Reporter
• IndieWire
• IndieWire
• The Mary Sue
• The New York Times
• Nikki Swift
• Rolling Stone
• Slashfilm
• Vox
• Wikipedia

Trigger warning: Sexual assault, rape, and a lot of “ugh, get over yourself.”

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What a Creep
Season 23, Episode 4
J.D. Salinger

In 1972, a teenager named Joyce Maynard wrote a New York Times magazine piece titled “An 18-Year-Old Looks Back at Life.” The daughter of artistic, brilliant parents who had many issues and tended to treat her as an adult--she was precocious and a veteran of magazine writing by the time she graduated from high school.

Written during her first year at Yale, one of her fan letters was from 53-year-old J.D. Salinger--one of the most famous “genius” reclusives living in New Hampshire. The two had a correspondence, which led to a relationship where she moved in with him and gradually shrunk herself away from the world. Until he carelessly dumped her.
Turns out she is NOT the only young person who falls under his romantic spell. Also, she has some other messiness going on in her life. There is SO much to discuss here!

Trigger Warning: Grooming, eating disorders
Sources for this episode:
· Joyce Maynard Wiki· NY Times June 1972 “A 18-year-old Looks Back on Life”· Joyce Maynard in Vanity Fair· Joyce Maynard Vanity Fair (1998)· Joyce Maynard in the New Yorker (2019)· New York magazine 1998 “JD Salinger’s Women”· Ranker· KQED· JD Salinger's Documentary “American Masters.”· Glamourous Trash podcast with Chelsea Devantez

• Joyce Maynard At Home in the World (1998)
• Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us (2018)
• The Guardian (2000)
• New York Times review of Margaret Salinger’s Dream Catcher

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What a Creep
Season 23, Episode 3

The history of ‘ugly laws’ in America (1860-1970) & NON-Creep Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Laws are supposed to protect us, but from the 1860s to the 1970s, many cities nationwide had so-called “ugly laws.” The name makes it sound like the police were walking around and deciding if people were attractive enough to be in public, but ugly laws were a way to criminalize being poor or homeless and/or having disabilities and disfigurements. And played a part in the racial segregation of public facilities, immigration bans for the “unfit,” and the eugenics movement.

Sources for this episode:

• “The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public” by Susan Schweik
• Grunge
• Medium article by Yewande Ade
• Mother Jones
• PBS
• SFGate
• Wikipedia

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What A Creep
Mel Gibson
Season 1, Episode 4 (REPLAY!)

Sonia is out sick, so we are replaying one of our first season faves--Mel Gibson. Merry Creepmas to all who celebrate!

Mel Gibson is a huge movie star. He has starred in massive blockbuster movies and won Academy Awards. At one time, he was one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. Hell, he was even People Magazine’s first-ever Sexiest Man Alive.

Mel Gibson is also a racist, anti-semitic homophobe who somehow continues to work in Hollywood. Why? Sonia talks about it with a bit of help from our friends at:

• Wikipedia
• People.com
• Gawker
• Vox
• Vanity Fair

We end the episode with Margo sharing a story about someone who isn’t a creep.
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