Max Landis (update)
What a Creep
Sonia Mansfield
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Host Sonia Mansfield talks about the most recent news, and then she turns the rest of the episode over to herself and the late, great, lovely, and amazing Margo Donohue way back in 2020.
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- Medium post titled “I Submit The Following to the Court of Public Opinion”
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- Wikipedia
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the podcast that talks about creeps of the past and the present. |
| 0:08.4 | My name is Sonia Mansfield, and I'm here with an update and a replay on What a Creep alum, Max Landis, who is back in the news because everything is awful. |
| 0:19.2 | It was announced this week that Magicoded Paramount has hired Landis, a known rapist and physical |
| 0:25.8 | and psychological abuser, to write a script for a new G.I. Joe movie. |
| 0:31.1 | Yeah, there's a movie everyone's dying to see. |
| 0:34.4 | Why did these gross MAGA companies want to do business with abusers like Landis or Brett Ratner who directed the Melania documentary that no one saw? |
| 0:42.3 | There's plenty of talented people in the world who deserve this opportunity more. Trust me. |
| 0:48.3 | Trust me, Landis isn't a singular once-in-a-lifetime talent. |
| 0:53.3 | And female creators have been put in movie jail for much, much less than what Landis has done. |
| 1:00.0 | And we're going to get into that in a minute. |
| 1:03.0 | David Ellis, who owns Paramount is a creep and Max Landis is a creep. |
| 1:08.0 | And I'm going to rerun an episode from 2020 it is recorded with the late great |
| 1:14.1 | lovely amazing Margo Donahue so stay tuned for that just a few little housekeeping things |
| 1:21.3 | there is salty language on the show if you don't like that this may not be the show for you |
| 1:25.9 | you can go to our basic Facebook page and complain that you don't like that, this may not be the show for you. You can go to our basic Facebook page and complain that you don't like that. But I don't really go there because we have a private Facebook group. You answer a few questions. Promise not to be a creep. You can join. It's the best group on Facebook. And we talk about creeps and non-creps and share photos of our pets it's the best if you want to know |
| 1:45.7 | more about the show you can visit the website what a creeppodcast.com there's links to all of our |
| 1:50.5 | past episodes and you'll notice in those posts that we contain the show notes because we source everything |
| 1:56.5 | that we're talking about here we want to give credit to the our friends in the media who are |
| 2:01.1 | doing all the good work if you want to do a deeper dive on our creep that's a fabulous place to |
| 2:06.3 | start you can also follow the show on blue sky and instagram and you can email me at what a creep |
| 2:12.0 | pod at gmail.com if you've got a creep or non-creep suggestion, email it. |
| 2:19.5 | Send it to me on social media. |
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