This Guy Sucked
Claire Aubin
<p>This Guy Sucked is a history podcast for haters, by haters.</p><p>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.</p><p>New episodes every Thursday — free episodes bi-weekly, and access to all episodes (ad-free!) at <a href="http://patreon.com/thisguysucked">patreon.com/thisguysucked</a></p>
- 1 hour 2 minutesPeter the Hermit with Welcome To The Crusades
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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Sensitive Themes & Topics
Warfare and violence, starvation, cannibalism, sexual violence, antisemitism, 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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5 February 2026, 10:00 am - 21 minutes 27 secondsA Show We Love: Borrowed & Returned
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 and Returned is a podcast series from Brooklyn Public Library that examines what our reading public borrowed in the past, and what we’re all reading now. In conversations with writers and readers across the country, the show revisits the books that changed us, and changed America, too.
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3 February 2026, 10:00 am - 17 minutes 48 secondsBarnabe Rich with Christina Wade (Subscriber Preview)
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.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Murder and violence, misogyny
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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29 January 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 8 minutesBill Clinton with Austin McCoy
Claire and Prof. Austin McCoy ask a very important question: does being okay at the saxophone cancel out hundreds of thousands of prison sentences and the dismantling of the welfare system?
Guest
Our guest Austin McCoy is an assistant professor at West Virginia University. His new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @austinmccoy and Instagram @ausmccoy, or visit his website here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism and racist violence, imprisonment
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
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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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22 January 2026, 10:00 am - 5 minutes 5 secondsThe Long Rest (Subscriber Preview)
A moment of... something, if not exactly peace, for our patrons.
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Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editors: Mischa Stanton and Julia Schifini.
- 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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15 January 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 16 minutesPhyllis Schlafly with Akilah Hughes
Claire and Akilah Hughes attempt to figure out what that lady’s whole deal was and why everything is kind of her fault.
Guest
Our guest Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. Her newest podcast, How Is This Better? is available from Courier here. Follow her on Twitter @akilahobviously, on Instagram @akilahh, or visit her website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny/sexism, murder
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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8 January 2026, 10:00 am - 16 minutes 59 secondsJames II with Brooke Newman (Subscriber Preview)
Claire and Brooke Newman travel back to the 17th century and remind a king that he deserves all the hate he gets.
Guest
Our guest Brooke Newman is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her book The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @brookenewman and Instagram @drbrookenewman, or visit her website here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Slavery, torture, racial violence
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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1 January 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 3 minutesGeorge IV with Madeleine Pelling
Claire and Maddy Pelling remind us that the life of the party is often also the worst person you know.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Madeleine Pelling is a cultural historian, author, and broadcaster. Her newest book Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment is available for pre-order here, and her podcast After Dark is available here. Follow her on Instagram @maddypelling, or visit her website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny, slavery, political violence and police brutality
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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25 December 2025, 10:00 am - 19 minutes 31 secondsThe Anti-Suffragists with Sophia Rosenfeld (Subscriber Preview)
Claire and Sophia Rosenfeld discuss what women want. And what they don’t want. And what they don’t want other women to want.
Guest
Our guest Sophia Rosenfeld is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is available here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny
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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18 December 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 3 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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