This Guy Sucked
Claire Aubin
This Guy Sucked is a history podcast for haters, by 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 historically-significant dead person is safe, and every episode proves 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
- 1 hour 2 minutesNapoleon Bonaparte (redux) with Marlene Daut
Claire and Prof. Marlene Daut cover life in the French Caribbean, and fill in all the bits that weren’t covered in high school or our previous Napoleon episode. For example, the murdering.
Guest
Our guest Marlene Daut is a Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale. Her newest book, The First and Last King of Haiti is available here. Visit her website here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism and racial violence, slavery, torture, child death & child endangerment
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
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11 December 2025, 10:00 am - 16 minutes 58 secondsThe Orientalists with Rhiannon Garth Jones (Subscriber Preview)
Claire and Rhiannon Garth Jones take a trip to the Middle East. Or possibly the Near East. Or maybe somewhere else but it’s DEFINITELY not the West and how dare you imply otherwise.
Guest
Our guest Rhiannon Garth Jones is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her book All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think of the Roman Empire Daily, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky. @rhigarthjones
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism, Islamophobia
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
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4 December 2025, 10:00 am - 21 minutes 7 secondsA Show We Love: Past Lives
Introducing Past Lives, a brand-new history podcast from Patrick Wyman, creator of Tides of History and Fall of Rome. Discover the real, lived experiences of everyday people in the human past, not Great Men and their Doings.
Subscribe for free on your podcast app of choice, and be sure to check out the Past Lives Patreon with tons of bonus content to support this 100% independent production.
-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia
-Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/past-lives/id1852618120
-Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/48xOnIJxt0Nbe8XAZsPcZN?si=2b287fae9eaf4615&nd=1&dlsi=bc74c6a0dc7c4c95
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3 December 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 2 minutesPetrarch with David M. Perry
Claire et David M. Perry de poeta mediaevali maledicunt.
Guest
Our guest David M. Perry is a journalist and historian. Pre-order his new book The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook here, or buy copies of The Bright Ages or Oathbreakers here. Follow him on Bluesky @lollardfish or visit his website here.
Sponsors
- Uncommon Goods is a small-batch and small-business-centered online marketplace. Visit UncommonGoods.com/TGS for 15% off your purchase.
- Give Calm History a listen here.
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
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27 November 2025, 10:00 am - 17 minutes 58 secondsBernard Mandeville with John Callanan (Subscriber Preview)
Claire and John Callanan explain why Bernard Mandeville is the bee’s knees. That joke might not make sense yet, but it will once you’re done with the episode.
Guest
Our guest Dr. John Callanan is a Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London. His book Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe, is available here. Follow him on Twitter @johnjocallanan and on Bluesky @johnjocallanan.
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
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20 November 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 12 minutesMartin Witherspoon Gary with Vanessa Williamson
Claire and Vanessa Williamson talk about death, taxes, and a man who literally believed they should go hand-in-hand.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Vanessa Williamson is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Her book The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @vanessawilliamson.
Sponsors
- Uncommon Goods is a small-batch and small-business-centered online marketplace. Visit UncommonGoods.com/TGS for 15% off your purchase.
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Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racial violence, murder, slavery
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
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13 November 2025, 10:00 am - 16 minutes 7 secondsThe Worst Wing with Nicole Hemmer and Kevin Schultz (Preview)
Claire, Nicole Hemmer, and Kevin Schultz play some games and answer the easiest question in the world: are all of the American presidents bad?
**THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED LIVE AT THE CHEERFUL EARFUL PODCAST FESTIVAL. A FULL VERSION IS AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS, OR FOR PURCHASE BY NON-SUBSCRIBERS AT PATREON.COM/THISGUYSUCKED**
Guest
Nicole Hemmer is a professor of History at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency. Her podcast This Day is available here or anywhere you get your podcasts. Follow her on Bluesky and Instagram.
Kevin Schultz is a professor in History at The University of Illinois, Chicago and the author of Why Everyone Hates White Liberals Including White Liberals, available here. Follow him on Instagram and TikTok.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny, racism and racial violence, antisemitism
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social
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6 November 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 2 minutesCarl Schmitt with Jonathan Fine *Unlocked*
Claire and Dr. Jonathan Fine build a case against the vice president’s favorite philosopher in the court of public opinion.
**THIS REMASTERED EPISODE WAS PREVIOUSLY RELEASED EXCLUSIVELY ON PATREON**
Guest
Our guest Dr. Jonathan Fine is a Germanist specializing in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Follow him on Twitter @jonathanbfine and on Bluesky @jonathanbfine, or visit his website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Antisemitism, Political violence
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social
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30 October 2025, 9:00 am - 22 minutes 55 secondsEdward Kelley with Cynthia Paces (Subscriber Preview)
Claire and Cynthia Paces try to separate a man from a whole lot of mysteries.
Guest
Our guest Cynthia Paces is a Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. Her new book Prague: the Heart of Europe, is available here. Visit her website here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Dismemberment/disfigurement, sexual coercion
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social
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23 October 2025, 9:00 am - 1 hour 20 minutesGary Gygax with Eric Silver
Claire and Eric Silver remind us that sometimes games we love are created by not-so-good people who openly wanted to do an immense amount of psychic damage to some of their players.
Guest
Our guest Eric Silver is a podcaster, writer, and the Game Master for TTRPG actual play podcast Join The Party. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram, or visit his website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny, drug use, sexual violence
Eric’s Article
Dungeons & Dragons Has An Antisemitism Problem
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social
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16 October 2025, 9:00 am - 17 minutes 34 secondsThe Internet with Wow If True (Subscriber Preview)
Claire is joined by Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim from Wow If True to discuss the collapse of the internet and why we can’t have nice things anymore.
**The full episode is available on the TGS Patreon now and will become available in full on the public Wow If True feed from 10/15.**
Collaborators
Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim are the hosts and intrepid internet travelers behind Wow If True, the podcast of your wildest memes. Find Amanda on her website and Isabel on hers - and don’t forget to preorder Sublimation.
This episode discusses Cory Doctorow’s new book Enshittification in some depth - go buy it!
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Political violence, death threats.
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social
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