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>
- 16 minutes 4 secondsArchie Bunker with Oscar Winberg (Subscriber Preview)
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
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
Want double the episodes, all ad-free, and other exclusive perks? Join the TGS Patreon.
Shop our bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
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26 March 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 8 minutesMurray Rothbard with Quinn Slobodian
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.
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin
- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys
- 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
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisguysucked
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20 March 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 5 minutesHumbert Humbert with Ally Louks
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.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Want double the episodes, all ad-free, and other exclusive perks? Join the TGS Patreon.
Shop our bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
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19 March 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 4 minutesAll About the Benjamin with No Such Thing
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 and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Want double the episodes, all ad-free, and other exclusive perks? Join the TGS Patreon.
Shop our bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
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18 March 2026, 9:00 am - 23 minutes 12 secondsFrederick II with Richard Cole (Subscriber Preview)
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 Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.
- Music: Marshall Dean Williams
- Multitude: multitude.productions
Want double the episodes, all ad-free, and other exclusive perks? Join the TGS Patreon.
Shop our bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
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12 March 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 18 minutesDick Cheney with Nicole Hemmer
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 and Instagram @pastpundit.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Gun violence, terrorism, warfare, torture and 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
Want double the episodes, all ad-free, and other exclusive perks? Join the TGS Patreon.
Shop our bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
Want to become a sponsor of This Guy Sucked? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads
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5 March 2026, 10:00 am - 17 minutes 24 secondsPericles with Curtis Dozier (Subscriber Preview)
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 Justice to the Classics here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Slavery, white supremacy/nationalism, misogyny, xenophobia
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
Want double the episodes, all ad-free, and other exclusive perks? Join the TGS Patreon.
Shop our bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
Want to become a sponsor of This Guy Sucked? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads
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26 February 2026, 10:00 am - 59 minutes 20 secondsRoger B. Taney with Melissa Murray
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.
Follow her on Bluesky @profmmurray and Instagram @profmmurray.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism and racial violence, 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
Want double the episodes, all ad-free, and other exclusive perks? Join the TGS Patreon.
Shop our bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.
Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked
Want to become a sponsor of This Guy Sucked? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads
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19 February 2026, 10:00 am - 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
Want to become a sponsor of This Guy Sucked? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads
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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.
To listen to Borrowed and Returned, head over to your podcast app of choice.
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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
Want to become a sponsor of This Guy Sucked? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads
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