Bad reputations, freshly re-examined.
What a Creep profiles creeps from politics, entertainment, sports, and history through a bluntly moral pop-culture lens. The tone is funny, furious, and conversational, but the point is clear: bad behavior should not get laundered into charm.
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What a Creep is a sharp-edged catalog of bad behavior in public life. The show moves across history, politics, entertainment, sports, and pop culture, choosing subjects whose reputations deserve more scrutiny than nostalgia usually allows. One week the focus might be George W. Bush or Dick Cheney. Another might land on Max Landis, Artie Shaw, Lance Armstrong, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Diddy, or Bill Maher. The format is conversational, but the frame is moral. It is built around the idea that creepiness is rarely just one ugly anecdote; it is usually a pattern supported by status, institutions, fans, money, or fear. The show’s humor is fast and caustic. The research often returns to the same question: how did this person keep getting protected, promoted, excused, or rebranded? That makes the celebrity episodes feel connected to the political ones. Hollywood profiles sit beside war, media narratives, misogyny, abuse allegations, public hypocrisy, and the long shelf life of bad men with useful connections. The hosts and guests use a friend-at-the-table rhythm, which keeps heavy material from turning stiff. Still, the show does not soften its judgments for politeness. It is especially pointed about double standards for women, the myth of exceptional male genius, and the way powerful figures treat consequences as optional. Recent episodes also show the program adapting after the death of Margo Donahue, with Sonia Mansfield revisiting older material, honoring the show’s community, and keeping its mission alive. The recurring “non-creep” ending matters. After an hour of corruption, abuse, or cruelty, the show deliberately makes space for someone decent. That small structural choice keeps the series from becoming pure doom. What a Creep suits listeners who want history and scandal with jokes, anger, receipts, and a clear ethical line.
Made for: For listeners who like political and pop-culture history with a blunt point of view, dark humor, and little patience for image rehabilitation. It fits people who want scandal stories tied to power, harm, and accountability rather than gossip alone.
What sets it apart: The show pairs researched creep profiles with loose friend chemistry and a recurring “non-creep” release valve. Its range is wide enough to connect presidents, Hollywood figures, comedians, musicians, athletes, and media narratives under the same accountability lens.
We talk about Creeps of the past and the present: It's the who's who of who's the worst. Do you have a story about one of the Creeps we covered? Email us at [email protected].
History's creeps get a dossier, a verdict, and exactly as much decorum as they deserve.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Paramount hiring update leads What a Creep back into Hollywood's uneasy separation of screen credits from alleged conduct.
A Paramount hiring update gives What a Creep a timely reason to return to Max Landis, with Sonya Mansfield setting the frame before revisiting a 2020 conversation recorded with the late Margot Donoghue.
A sharp, salty celebrity-history episode that uses Artie Shaw's marriages to expose the violence behind his self-justifying logic.
Artie Shaw's marriages open onto a harsher story about celebrity, entitlement, and domestic abuse. Sonia Mansfield and Simone Elias move from Shaw's brief marriage to Kathleen Windsor, the Forever Amber novelist criticized and banned for upfront sexuality, into the divorce…
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Margot Donoghue and Sonia Mansfield introduce a special guest, Brian Buckmire, to discuss his new podcast about P.
Sonia Mansfield introduces a replay of a Bill Maher episode from her podcast 'What a Creep', criticizing Maher as a 'garbage person' for his anti-trans and anti-woke commentary.
Sonya Mansfield and Jeff Hunt discuss why George W.
Sonja Mansfield announces that Paramount hired Max Landis, a known abuser, to write a GI Joe script, and replays a 2020 episode about him.
Sonia Mansfield and Margot P.
Sonya Mansfield and guest Simone Elias introduce the podcast and tease an episode about Artie Shaw, a historical figure with a twist.
What a Creep examines Dick Cheney’s career from Gerald Ford’s White House to George W.
Bill Gothard founded IBLP, whose rules placed men above women and children and demanded unquestioned authority.
Jesse Watters's 2025 masculinity rules include “Don't eat soup in public” and “Don't drink from straws,” which Sonia Mansfield and Margo P mock.
What a Creep’s Bill Maher replay pairs Sonia Mansfield’s new introduction with Margot Donahue’s original co-host discussion of Maher.
Sonia Mansfield announces the death of her co-host Margo Donahue and plans to re-release old episodes of their podcast 'What a Creep'.
Margot and Sonia discuss the 1976 murder of Olympic skier Spider Sabich by his girlfriend Claudine Longet, with surprising twists involving Andy Williams.
Margot and Sonia interview Brian Buckmire about his new podcast 'Bad Rap' covering P.