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What a Creep: Mario Batali (Celebrity Chef & Major Creep)

Release Date: 06/19/2020

What a Creep: Blake Bailey, Josh Duggar & Scott Rudin (a trio of creeps!)

What a Creep

Margo & Sonia start their 11th season talking about a trio of Creeps in the news including author (& creepy teacher) Blake Bailey, Pervert Josh Duggar & the absolutely terrible producer Scott Rudin. Lots of creepiness here!

What a Creep: Brett Favre (NFL Creep)

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Brett Favre is a quarterback who played in the NFL for 20 seasons, mainly with the Green Bay Packers. He had 321 consecutive starts from 1992 to 2010, the most in league history.

What a Creep: "The Gardner Museum Heist" (1990) Mystery Art Creeps!

What a Creep

What a Creep: The Gardner Museum Heist (1990) Season 10, Episode 9 Our First Mystery Creeps! In this episode, we are talking about our first “Mystery Creep” as it is about one of the biggest art heists of all time and features the city of Boston, the world of stealing art as a form of currency with law enforcement and gangsters. In the 30+ years since the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum was vandalized with 13 works stolen (some ripped right out of their frame), there have been no arrests and the artwork has never been recovered. So, the questions are? Who did it and why? Where is the...

What a Creep: Jim Bakker (PTL Creep/Not Tammy Faye!)

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Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye Bakker were the most famous televangelists in America in the 1970s and ‘80s with “The PTL Club” and a Heritage USA theme park. They lived a lavish lifestyle with several houses, fancy cars, and more money than God. Jim Bakker also misused funds to try to cover up a sexual assault. What a creep!

What a Creep: Billy McFarland (Fyre Festival Fraudster)

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On April 28, 2017, a tweet blew up the Internet from Trevor DeHaas, @trev4president with a picture of a very sad bread and cheese meal. This was day one of the Fyre Festival fraud perpetrated by 25-year old Fyre Media CEO & Founder Billy McFarland. Hundreds of people were stranded, millions of dollars were borrowed and never paid back. Here is the story of one of the biggest (and youngest) frauds we have covered on this show.

What a Creep: Victor Salva (Child Predator Creep) TW SA

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Victor Salva isn’t a name that you probably recognize, but he is the director of 1995’s “Powder” and the horror movie franchise, “Jeepers Creepers.” He’s also a convicted child molester who continues to work in Hollywood.

What a Creep: Larry Nassar (USA Gymnastics Creep)

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Margo & Sonia talk about the many scandals of USA #Gymnastics which results in hundreds of victims being abused thousands of times. Plus, the #IndyStar reporters who are NOT Creeps #podernFamily #ladyPodSquad #ShePods #LarryNassar #JohnGeddert

What a Creep: Piers Morgan Update & a Bit of Sharon Osbourne (TV Creeps)

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Our special replay episode features Britain’s Piers Morgan who was a subject in our first season. From phone-hacking scandals and fat-shaming to racism and sexism, TV host Piers Morgan is a professional troll, who got his creepy career started working for Rupert Murdoch at News Of The World yet still somehow found a way to sink even lower. Don't worry about "cancel culture"--he will fail upward!

What a Creep: Dan White (Creep that killed SF Mayor George Moscone & Harvey Milk)

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Dan White was a city supervisor in San Francisco in 1978. After a disagreement with the mayor and his fellow supervisors, he brought a gun into City Hall and murdered two people: Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the country’s first openly gay man ever elected to office and a famous figure in the national gay rights movement.

What a Creep: Johnny Carson (Talk Show Creep Hey Yooooooo!)

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Margo & Sonia talk about the life & career of Johnny Carson who though the indisputable "King of Late Night" TV in the 70s & 80s, was something of a Creep to friends, family, and colleagues. No trigger warnings needed here. Hey Yo!!!!!!!!

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What a Creep

Season 5, Episode 6

Mario Batali

Mario Batali is one of the most celebrated chefs of the 21st Century. During his career, he has hosted multiple television shows, authored several bestselling cookbooks, opened Michelin-rated restaurants, was friends with celebrities, was named as GQ Man of the Year in 1999, and won the James Beard Award.

He even made an appearance on The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horrors!”

Batali is also known as a world-class woman-abusing Creep who has been accused of multiple accounts of sexual assault and harassment. Here is his story.

Sources for this episode include:

Eater.com (Irene Plagianos)

NY Eater.com Dec 11, 2017 (Irene Plagianos)

Grub Street (Chris Crowley)

Time magazine (Jamie Duchmare)

Creep Sheet

Esquire 2010

Los Angeles Times (Samantha Masunaga, Jonathan Gold, Amy Scattergood)

CNBC.com (Amelia Lucas)

D-Listed (Alison)

New York Times May 2018 (Kim Severson)

Hollywood Reporter (Abid Raman)