What a Creep: "Les Moonves" (Former CEO & Creep at CBS)

What a Creep

Sonia Mansfield

Entertainment News, Comedy, News, True Crime

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What a Creep: Les Moonves Season 12, Episode 10 CBS CEO Honcho & Creep For almost 30 years, Leslie Moonves was one of the most powerful media executives in America. He was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, overseeing news shows like “60 Minutes” to dramas and sitcoms like “CSI” and “The Big Bang Theory.” He was also in charge of Showtime, the publishing house Simon & Schuster, and the streaming service, CBS All Access. He was one of the highest-paid CEOs in the country, sometimes earning more than $50 million in a year. He’s also guilty of sexual harassment and sexually assaulting a lot of women, including actresses, writers, producers, doctors, massage therapists, and CBS staff members. Les Moonves is a creep. Sources for this episode: New Yorker The New York Times New York Magazine People Magazine Hollywood Reporter Vanity Fair Vice Vox Wikipedia Trigger warnings: Sexual assault and sexual harassment Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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0:00.0	Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Marco Donio and Sonia Mansfield talking about creeps from the past to the present.
0:08.0	This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the worst.
0:14.0	From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.
0:19.0	Welcome back to What A Creep, this is Marco Donio and my cohort in creepitude as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield.
0:35.0	Hey Sonia, hello my friend.
0:37.0	Hello my friend, if you live outside of the US or you have absolutely no interest in who runs television companies, you might be saying, who is this subject recovering today?
0:49.0	Don't worry, we'll get to it and you will be outraged because that's kind of like our thing, but that's our jam.
0:55.0	That's our jam and if this is your first time listening to the episode, I just want to give you a shout out at the warning at the top of the show.
1:01.0	We use salty language in this program, so if that is not your thing, you may want to just listen to something else.
1:08.0	Just tell me.
1:09.0	Yeah, go fucking listen to something else.
1:15.0	We are on Facebook. We have a very basic Facebook page. You can go to complain about that language.
1:20.0	We also have a private Facebook group. What a creep podcast group.
1:23.0	You do have to ask a couple of questions before you can join because we're trying to keep it contained.
1:27.0	We don't want any lurkers in there. It's just a nice safe space to hang out.
1:31.0	We love our cohorts on the what a creep podcast page on Facebook.
1:36.0	Also, we you could find us on Twitter at creep pod.
1:39.0	We had to use creep pod because somebody had what a creep for 10 years on Twitter and never used it creep.
1:45.0	We are on Instagram at what a creep podcast and we have an old, tidy email if you want to reach out to us.
1:50.0	What a creep podcast at gmail.com, especially if you would like some stickers.
1:55.0	I've had a few people ask for stickers. I will get them out to you. I just had a crazy, busy week.
2:00.0	So sometime next week, I'm going to send a bunch out.
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