This Guy Sucked
A show that proves no matter how long you've been dead, it's never too late to have haters. Join historian Dr. Claire Aubin and a new expert every week to pull back the scholarly curtain on the world’s worst guys and gals. From the widely beloved to the relatively unknown, no historical figure is safe, and every episode reminds listeners that the best part of understanding the past is criticizing it. New episodes every Thursday — free episodes bi-weekly, and access to all episodes (ad-free!) at patreon.com/thisguysucked
Episodes
Claire sits down with two Mark Twain experts for a live discussion of his memory and misdeeds. In his own home.
Guests
Matt Seybold is an Associate Professor of American Literature and Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College and the host of The American Vandal, and Erin Bartram is a historian and the Associate Director for Education at the Mark Twain House and Museum. Visit Matt’s website here, and Erin’s here.
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Claire and Dylan Gottlieb do some introspection on their brie and Pellegrino habits.
Guest
Our guest Dylan Gottlieb is an Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University and the host of Who Makes Cents. His new book Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers and Gourmands Who Conquered New York, is available here. Follow him on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit his website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Arson, murder
C...
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Claire and Matthew Gabriele talk medieval kingship, TikTok expertise, and why all historians are basically just sword guys.
Guest
Our guest Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies at Virginia Tech and the host of American Medieval. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram, or visit his website.
Sponsors
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Claire and Patrick Wyman build whatever the opposite of a monument is for this guy.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Patrick Wyman is a historian and podcaster. His book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World, is available here, and his podcast Past Lives is available here. Follow him on Bluesky, Twitter, and Instagram.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Slavery, warfare and descriptions of war-related vio...
Claire and Prof. Kristin Grogan serve some poetic justice to the literary world’s favorite fascist.
Guest
Our guest Kristin Grogan is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her book Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work is available here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Torture/imprisonment, antisemitism
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @...
TGS and Lingthusiasm join forces to think through all the things that can go wrong when you give a grifter too much power over indigenous languages.
Guest
Our guest Lauren Gawne is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University and the co-host of Lingthusiasm. Follow Lingthusiasm on Bluesky and Instagram, or join their Patreon.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Genocide, racism and racial violence
Credits
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Claire and Megan Kate Nelson head west and discuss old-timey journalistic ethics along the way.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is a historian of the American West. Her newest book, The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier is available here. Follow her on Bluesky and Instagram or visit her website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Genocide, racism, racial violence, sexual assault
Credits
Claire and Oscar Winberg consider whether it might be a bad idea to let television characters run your government.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Oscar Winberg is postdoctoral fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and the John Morton Center for North American Studies. His book Archie Bunker for President is available here. Follow him on Bluesky or visit his website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism, war
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Claire and Prof. Quinn Slobodian remind everyone that no matter how bad things are, some guys have always wanted them to get worse.
Guest
Our guest Quinn Slobodian is a professor of international history at Boston University. His newest book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, is available for pre-order along with his other books here. Follow him on Bluesky.
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Claire and Dr. Ally Louks shout LOLITA IS NOT A LOVE STORY into the nearest megaphone.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Ally Louks is a literary scholar, writer, and public academic. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and TikTok.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Child sexual abuse, pedophilia
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
Claire and Manny, Noah, and Devan of No Such Thing try to figure out what’s really up with our freakiest Founding Father.
Guest
No Such Thing is a weekly podcast finding actual answers to today’s most pressing questions. Go give it a listen and follow the show on Instagram and TikTok.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Slavery, genocide
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin...
Claire and Prof. Richard Cole head over to medieval Jerusalem and prove that dysentery is the real mind-killer.
Guest
Our guest Richard Cole is an Associate Professor of Medieval European History at Aarhus University and host of The Chronicles, from the Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Warfare and violence
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitt...
Claire and Prof. Nicole Hemmer take aim at the former vice president and then make him apologize for it afterwards.
Guest
Our guest Nicole Hemmer is a professor of History and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, as well as the host of This Day. Her books Partisans and Messengers of the Right are available here. Follow her on Bluesky @pastpunditry an...
Claire and Prof. Curtis Dozier venture back to Ancient Greece to investigate whether politicians have been horrible forever.
Guest
Our guest Curtis Dozier is an associate professor and chair of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar. His book The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate, is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @curtisdozier and visit his website, Pharos: Doing Justic...
Claire and Prof. Melissa Murray go south of the Mason-Dixon line to put America’s worst jurist on trial.
Guest
Our guest Melissa Murray is a Professor of Law at NYU and the host of Strict Scrutiny. You can buy tickets for Strict Scrutiny’s Bad Decisions tour here, and Melissa’s new book, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader, is available for preorder here.
Claire takes Eleanor, Luke, Danny, and Derek on a holy crusade to bring down Peter the Hermit.
Guest
Today’s guests are Eleanor Janega, Danny Bessner, Derek Davison, and Luke Waters the hosts of American Prestige and American Prestige: Welcome to the Crusades - give them a listen here.
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When Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States came out in 1980, it literally rocked the boat. Instead of starting where most histories of the Americas start — on the deck of Columbus’s ship as it approached land — Zinn flipped the script, focusing instead on what the people standing on the shore would have seen. This episode tells the story of the ripple effects of Zinn’s radical take on history.
Borrowed a...
Claire and Christina Wade get a little bit drunk with power and direct their righteous anger at one of the world’s most annoying men.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Christina Wade is a beer historian and the host of the Beer Ladies podcast. Her newest book, Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @braciatrix and Instagram @braciatrix, or visit her website here.
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