This Guy Sucked – Details, episodes & analysis

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 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, with access to all episodes (ad-free!) at patreon.com/thisguysucked

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Claire and Dr. Robert Komaniecki ask an important question: was Jerry Lee Lewis a gigantic jerk to everyone, about everything? Their answer will absolutely not surprise you.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Robert Komaniecki is a lecturer in music theory and music history at the University of British Columbia. Follow him on Twitter @Komaniecki_R and on Bluesky @komaniecki

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, child sexual abuse

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

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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Claire sits down with Dr. Eleanor Janega to talk Candide-ly (get it?) about the guy who ruined medieval studies.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Eleanor Janega is a medieval historian and host of the podcast We’re Not So Different and History Hit TV’s Going Medieval. Her book, The Once and Future Sex, is available here. Follow her on Twitter @GoingMedieval and on Instagram @dreleanorjanega, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, sexism, incest, slavery, antisemitism

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

- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked

- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked

- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisguysucked

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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Claire and Dr. Andrew Hartman discuss Marxism, labor movements, and why everybody’s favorite presidents might’ve made things a whole lot worse.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University. His newest book Karl Marx in America, is available for pre-order from University of Chicago Press. Follow him on Twitter @hartmanandrew and Bluesky andrewhartman.

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

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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Claire and Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique attempt to answer an age-old question: what’s Scotland’s whole deal? 

Guest

Our guest Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His book The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World is available here. Follow him on Twitter @Asheeshksi and on Bluesky asheeshksi.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, slavery

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

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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Claire and Dr. Matthew Gabriele go on a holy crusade to figure out what’s up with Charlemagne the Actually-Not-That-Great.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies at Virginia Tech. His new book with David M. Perry, Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe is available here. Follow him on Bluesky profgabriele or visit his website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Intimate partner violence, violence, racism

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

- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked

- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisguysucked

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Claire and Dr. Drew McKevitt go to the gun range. Not really, but there are definitely some shots fired.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Drew Mckevitt is a professor of History at Louisiana Tech. His book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, is available here. Follow him on Twitter @drewmckevitt and Bluesky drewmckevitt

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, gun 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

- Patreon: patreon.com/thisguysucked

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked

- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisguysucked

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

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Claire and Dr. Matt Lodder discover why being born left-handed and a woman mean they missed out on their real calling: a life of crime.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. His newest book Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art is now out with Yale University Press. Follow him on Twitter @mattlodder and on Bluesky mattlodder, or visit his Instagram.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, misogyny, ableism, eugenics

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

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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Claire and Dr. Erik Baker set out on an intrepid journey deep into the heart of darkness itself: Harvard Business School.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Erik Baker is a historian of labor and lecturer at Harvard. His new book Make Your Own Job: How The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America is out now with Harvard University Press. Follow him on Twitter @erikmbaker and on Bluesky erikbaker, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Antisemitism, misogyny, fatphobia

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

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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

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Claire and Dr. Jonathan Fine build a case against the vice president’s favorite philosopher in the court of public opinion.

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

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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