Episodios

  • Tertullian of Carthage with Dr. Chance Bonar (Patreon Preview)
    Aug 14 2025

    Claire and Dr. Chance Bonar journey back into Ancient Roman Africa to talk about a guy who was very afraid of everything, including jewelry and high school teachers.


    Guest

    Our guest Dr. Chance Bonar is an Advising Fellow at the University of Virginia. His book God, Slavery, and Early Christianity, is available here. Follow him on Twitter and on Bluesky.


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Sex, child sexual abuse & marriage, misogyny, antisemitism, violence, slavery


    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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    18 m
  • The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency with Appodlachia
    Aug 7 2025

    Claire teams up with Chuck from Appodlachia to talk about the union-busting hired guns that made it even harder to survive in the West Virginia coalfields.


    Collaborator

    This episode is a collaboration with Appodlachia, a show about the culture, history, and politics of Appalachia. Listen to them here and join their Patreon here.


    Recommendations

    - Black Coal and Red Bandanas by Raymond Tyler, Summer McClinton, and Paul Buhle

    - West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV


    Sensitive Themes & Topics

    Murder, gun violence, racism & racial 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

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    1 h y 15 m
  • 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


    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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    17 m
  • 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 h y 10 m
  • 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 m
  • 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 h y 1 m
  • 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 m
  • 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 h y 13 m