This Guy Sucked – Details, episodes & analysis

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

- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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Claire and Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd grade the man behind Mississippi’s mid-century campus culture wars. He (unsurprisingly) gets an F.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities, and the host of American Campus. Her book Resistance From The Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars is available here. Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, racial violence, homophobia 

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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Claire and Dr. Zack Furness let loose on the antisemitic calorie-counting surveillance pervert behind America’s most mediocre homegrown auto manufacturer.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Zack Furness an Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny. His book One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility is available here. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram, or visit his website.

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. Moiya McTier ascend to the heavens and nuke 2nd century astrophilosophers from orbit.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrofolklorist and the host of Pale Blue Pod. Her book The Milky Way: An Autobiography Of Our Galaxy, is available here. Follow her on Twitter and on Instagram, or visit her website here.

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. Sarah-Jane Murray flip the script on one of the world’s first French poets with our inaugural This Guy Rocked episode.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray is a Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing at Baylor University and the founder of The Greats Story Lab. Follow her on Twitter and visit her website.

To learn more about Marie’s incredible stories, SJ and Claire also recommend reading The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Translation by Claire Waters, available here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

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

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

- Bluesky: tgspod.bsky.social

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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

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

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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. 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

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

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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

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

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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

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

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.