What a Creep: Norman Mailer (Controversial Writer & Creep)
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What a Creep: Norman Mailer Season 14, Episode 3 Writer, Activist, & Wife-Stabber Norman Mailer has been in the news lately due to the fact his son John Buffalo Mailer who is partnering with Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon on a new trove of Mailer writings with the later writers’ ideas on what American democracy will look like in the future. The man died in 2007 at the age of 84 and lived as big a life as any (we will get into it all today.) Yet, Mailer’s longtime publisher Random House said they will not be associated with this work, instead, Skyhorse publishing (which...
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What a Creep: Rush Limbaugh (Talk Radio Creep)
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Rush Limbaugh was one of the most popular talk radio hosts and leading voices of the conservative movement in the United States. He was the prototype to Fox News trashcans like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and even disgraced former president Donald Trump.
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What a Creep: Canada's Residential Schools (Non-Creeps: Dan Levy & Eugene Levy)
What a Creep
Margo & Sonia talk about the Residential Schools of North America in this episode which lays out why it happened, how it kept going on for several decades, and the collateral damage of seven generations of cultural genocide. THEN, we talk about Canadians who are NOT Creeps. TW: Child abuse and SA.
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What a Creep: (Bonus!) Reality TV Talk with the "Book of Lies" Podcast
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Margo & Sonia talk with two of our favorite podcasters, Sunni & Brandi of the Book of Lies podcast about all things reality TV-related including Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Selling Sunset, Love After Lockup, 90 Day Fiance, the Duggars and more!
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What a Creep: Dov Charney (Former CEO of American Apparel)
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Dov Charney is the creator of American Apparel, a retail clothing chain that sold the building blocks for your hipster wardrobe - leggings, plain T-shirts, and pants. But it had really sleazy marketing and a dedication to not make their clothes in a sweatshop which made them kinda cool. Unfortunately, Dov Charney is probably more famous for his sexual harassment than he is for American Apparel.
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What a Creep (Bonus!): Interview with Trashy Divorces podcast & celebrity divorces
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Margo & Sonia talk with two of our favorite podcasters Stacie & Alicia from Trashy Divorces! We talk about the latest celebrity divorces in the news, their new podcast launching this month (Love Letters…), and what they each believe helps make a marriage stronger. Just a bonus episode of fun with a couple of amazing women in podcasting.
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What a Creep: Robert Durst ("The Jinx" Creep)
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In 2015, HBO released a docu-series that took the nation by storm. The first media interview with Robert Durst, the son of billionaire real estate magnate Seymour Durst, in decades at the time. The then 72-year-old Durst has been accused of three murders in his life and seemed to use his money and privilege to avoid any real penalty. He is now serving time for first-degree murder and will soon be on trial for the murder of his first wife. Will he make it long enough to face a jury of his peers again?
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What a Creep: Altamont "Creepy Concert Tragedy" Not Fade Away Replay
What a Creep
The real-life concert tragedy at the Altamont Raceway took place on December 6, 1969, and this replay of "Not Fade Away" digs into what really happened and how this could have all been avoided.
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What a Creep: Frank Sinatra (replay)
What a Creep
Margo & Sonia talk about the lifelong creepiness of one of the biggest voices of the 20th Century--Frank Sinatra. A singer, actor, lover, cheater, gambler, and one of the angriest people in show business. (That is really saying something!)
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What a Creep: Rex Harrison (Old Timey Hollywood Creep!)
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From Henry Higgins to Doctor Doolittle, Rex Harrison is one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men of the 20th Century. With his tall stature, deep booming voice, and his undeniable confidence—audiences ate him up whether he was playing a deceased sea captain in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir or Julius Caesar. “Sexy Rexy” as he was known led a life full of swagger, luxury, success, and often—tragedy.
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What a Creep: Frank Sinatra (Replay)
Season 13, Episode 7
Crooner N' Creep
Francis Albert Sinatra is one of the most celebrated vocalists of the 20th Century. He has sold over 150 million records and continues to sell just as well now as he did at the height of his height popularity.
He was known for his blue eyes and velvet voice. He was one of the first teen heartthrobs, a lover of women, a man who would just as soon get into a fight and then hug a person. He was demanding of everyone around him but outside of music & performing—cut himself a lot of slack.
Frank was a loyal friend unless you pissed him off, a good actor if you didn’t ask for too many takes, a lover who expected fidelity and gave none of it back. He was incredibly progressive for his time but used ethnic slurs without care.
Frank ran on all cylinders until he ran out of gas. Then he expected to be treated with kid gloves. He loved his kids but did not spend much time with them. He could be very generous and also hold a grudge for years.
He could be elegant and a total brute. Demanding and then pathetic. He was either a manic depressive or bipolar individual who at times could be a complete and total creep. He is complicated, smart, funny, mean, talented, childish, and ultimately a sad, lonely man who was his own worst enemy.
Sources for this episode include:
The London Telegraph (Martin Chilton)
Daily Mail (excerpt of Barbara Sinatra’s Book)
New York Daily News (Sheryl Connelly)
Mental Floss (Bill Demain)
Frank Sinatra: Behind the Legend by J. Randy Taraborrelli
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