What a Creep: Oprah Creeps (Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Jenny McCarthy & James Arthur Ray)

What a Creep: “Oprah’s Biggest Creeps” Season 9, Episode 1 Dr. Phil McGraw, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Jenny McCarthy & James Arthur Ray Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful talk show hosts in the history of television. Her talk show, which ran from 1986- to 2011, was so powerful that she could create superstars from obscurity. The Oprah Winfrey Show started as a celebrity chat/tabloid talk show but eventually, it morphed into a spiritually-based program with subjects as varied as how to empower your soul and what our dead relatives have to teach us. Oprah is a perpetual seeker of wisdom and is unapologetically a hedonist who enjoys her wealth. She went from absolute poverty, born to a single mother to being an Oscar-nominated actress and one of the richest people in the media world. In the search for Namaste—she has had her share of self-help hucksters on her program. Most have been forgotten—but there are a few that have been proven to be total, unrepentant Creeps  Today we will discuss four such Creeps who at one time were anointed by the Big O.  Sources: McLeans Minn Post Trigger warnings: Pseudoscience, woo, death by suicide, claustrophobia, and total bullshit    Dr. Phil McGraw Sources for this segment include:   The Daily Beast Mercury News Buzzfeed Slate Boston Globe Kansas City Star Psychology Today Wikipedia Dr. Mehmet Oz Wikipedia USA Today New Yorker CNN Money "Dr. Oz Looks at Donald Trump’s Medical Summary" Washington Post Jenny McCarthy Daily Beast Daily Beast - “They Don’t Want an Autism Cure” Time magazine Jezebel Oprah.com Frontline World Health Organization Vox Autistic Mama Autistic Self-Advocacy Network Wikipedia   James Arthur Ray (“The Secret”)   Wikipedia The Self-Styled Life ABC News CNN The Guardian People Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray “Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment” by Matt Stroud (for Wondery)     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: [email protected]  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