What a Creep

What a Creep Season 19, Episode 9 The Station Nightclub Fire On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 11:07 pm, the band Great White-headed onto the stage of the East Warwick, Rhode Island rock club The Station with a blast of pyrotechnic sparks. Singer Jack Russell quickly observed that the stage and ceiling were catching fire, and the crowd of over 460 people was told to leave the building. Within 6 m...

What a CreepSeason 19, Episode 8Wanye LaPierre and the NRA Wayne LaPierre is the CEO of the NRA, the National Rifle Association. He’s the man who said the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. He’s the man who blames mental illness, video games, and movies every time there’s another mass shooting in this country. He’s the man who made the NRA the powerful lobbying or...

What a Creep Season 19, Episode 7 Bill Murray Bill Murray is a comedy legend who first came to fame as one of the “Not Ready for Primetime Players” on Saturday Night Live from 1977-1980 and has gone on to star in classic films like Stripes, Rushmore, Ghostbusters, What About Bob?, and Groundhog Day--to name a few. He also has won Emmy Awards, been nominated for an Academy Award, and received the M...

What a Creep Season 19, Episode 6 Jared Fogle from Subway Sources for this episode Business Insider Business Insider CBS The Herald Times Indy Star Indy Star “ Jared From Subway: Catching a Monster ” on ID Discovery Los Angeles Times Washington Post Wikipedia Trigger warning: Child sexual abuseJared Fogle was the face of Subway sandwiches for years. He was famous for losing 245 pounds by eating tw...

What a Creep Season 19, Episode 5 “ Stockholm Syndrome ”Real diagnosis or just sexist trash? On Thursday, August 23, 1973, a convicted felon Jan-Erik Olsson entered the Kreditbanken Bank in Stockholm, Sweden (technically Norrmalmstrong); he was wearing a wig, painted his eyebrows black, pulled out a submachine gun, and yelled in English with an American accent “the party has begun!” He fired sever...

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 j...

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...

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 ba...

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 fu...

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 t...

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 woul...

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 Week...

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, Au...

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 wellne...

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...

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 hi...

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 Yor...

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...

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 “Fo...

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 A...

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...

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...

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 w...

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 f...

What a Creep Season 17, Episode 6 The Murder of Betty Gore by Candy Montgomery Candy Montgomery was just another bored 70s suburban Texas housewife when she was tried for committing a crime so heinous people still have difficulty making sense of it. The murder of Betty Gore was the subject of a TV series starring Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey on HULU called Candy. It will also be adapted into a...