Episodes

  • Alexander Graham Bell with Dr. Anabel Maler (Patreon Preview)
    Jul 31 2025

    Claire and Dr. Anabel Maler dial in for a discussion on everything that was wrong with that one phone guy.


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Anabel Maler is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her book, Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @amaler.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Ableism, eugenics


    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


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    17 mins
  • Alexander the Great with Dr. Patrick Wyman
    Jul 24 2025

    Claire and Dr. Patrick Wyman have a chat about mythology, stupidity, and the guy who put the Great in Great Man History.


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Patrick Wyman is a historian, author, and podcaster. His book The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World is available here, and you can listen to his podcast Tides of History here. Follow him on Twitter @Patrick_Wyman, Bluesky @patrickwyman, on Instagram @wyman_patrick.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Violence, murder, slavery, genocide, infanticide, alcoholism


    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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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Spiro Agnew with Dr. Kevin Schultz (Patreon Preview)
    Jul 17 2025

    Claire and Dr. Kevin Schultz discuss a man who grifted his way into (and out of) the White House, and how America’s current political polarization started earlier than you think.


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Kevin Schultz is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His newest book, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is available here.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Racism, war


    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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    21 mins
  • Terry Dolan with Dr. Neil J. Young
    Jul 10 2025

    Claire and Dr. Neil J. Young discuss the frustrating legacy of Terry Dolan – attack dog of the New Right, proponent of ‘traditional values,’ and life-long closeted gay man.


    Guest

    Our guest Neil J. Young is a historian of the American Right. His book Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right is available here. Follow him on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit his website.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Racism, homophobia, misogyny, HIV/AIDS, death


    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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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Napoleon Bonaparte with Dr. Nicole Cochrane (Patreon Preview)
    Jul 3 2025

    Claire and Dr. Nicole Cochrane make an important contribution to the Horrible Man Theory of history and do not mention anybody’s alleged height or anatomical features while doing it.


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Nicole Cochrane is an art historian and Assistant Curator in Historic British Art (1790-1850) at Tate Britain. Her co-edited collection Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives: Art, Culture, and Heritage 1821-present is available here. Follow her on Twitter.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Misogyny, racism, slavery, warfare


    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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    18 mins
  • Percy Grainger with Dr. Imani Mosley
    Jun 26 2025

    Claire and Dr. Imani Mosley talk high school band, Scandinavian fantasy freaks, and BDSM (Bizarre/Delusional/Strange Men).


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Imani Mosley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida School of Music. Follow her on Bluesky or visit her website.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Racism, antisemitism, sexual violence


    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

    - Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social


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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Leo Kanner with Dr. Hannah Zeavin (Patreon Preview)
    Jun 19 2025

    Claire and Dr. Hannah Zeavin do a deep-dive on 20th century child psychiatry, and why we all started believing everything is our moms’ fault.


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Hannah Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, a cofounder of the Psychosocial Foundation, and Founding Editor of Parapraxis Magazine. Her newest book Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century is available here. Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit her website.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Ableism, racism, misogyny


    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

    - Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social


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    16 mins
  • Alcibiades with Dr. Roel Konijnendijk
    Jun 12 2025

    Claire and Dr. Roel Konijnendijk talk trash about ancient Athens’ most treacherous twink.


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Roel Konijnendijk is a Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Oxford. Follow him on Bluesky or find him on r/AskHistorians.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Murder/violence and warfare


    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

    - Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social


    Want to become a sponsor of This Guy Sucked? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads

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    1 hr and 19 mins