Category Archives: Season 18

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 thatContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 10: Howard Hughes”

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 MusicalContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 9: The Golden Globes & The Hollywood Foreign Press”

“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,Continue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 8: Lizzie Borden”

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 wellnessContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 7: Nicole Daedone and OneTaste”

We are finishing the year with an episode devoted to your questions — Ask 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.” CreepsContinue reading “What a Creep: Ask Us Anything”

What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 5 Chris 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. We have talked about D’Elia before, as he has been credibly accused of harassing minors and being generally gross toContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 5: Christmas & comedy creeps”

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 fellowContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 4: Matt Taibbi and media creeps”

Tis the season for giving, and one of the organizations that encourages giving the most is The Salvation Army. Their army is stationed outside stores all over the world, 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 sexualContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 3: The Salvation Army”

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 theContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 2: Diamond Annie and the 40 Elephants”

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’sContinue reading “What a Creep Season 18, Episode 1: James Dobson and Focus on the Family”