This Guy Sucked

By Multitude

A show that proves no matter how long you've been dead, it's never too late to have haters. Join historian Dr. Claire Aubin and a new expert every week to pull back the scholarly curtain on the wor

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How many episodes does This Guy Sucked have?

The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.

This Guy Sucked episodes:

February 05, 2026 Peter 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

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1h 3min
February 03, 2026 A 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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22min
January 29, 2026 Barnabe 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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18min
January 22, 2026 Bill Clinton with Austin McCoy
Claire and Prof. Austin McCoy ask a very important question: does being okay at the saxophone cancel out hundreds of thousands of prison sentences and the dismantling of the welfare system?

Guest
Our guest Austin McCoy is an assistant professor at West Virginia University. His new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @austinmccoy and Instagram @ausmccoy, or visit his website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism and racist violence, 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

Shop TGS’ bookshelf - The Hater’s Library - here.

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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1h 9min
January 15, 2026 The Long Rest (Subscriber Preview)
A moment of... something, if not exactly peace, for our patrons.

For more of whatever this is and lots of other slightly-less-weird stuff, join the Multicrew!

Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.
- Editors: Mischa Stanton and Julia Schifini.
- 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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6min
January 08, 2026 Phyllis Schlafly with Akilah Hughes
Claire and Akilah Hughes attempt to figure out what that lady’s whole deal was and why everything is kind of her fault.

Guest
Our guest Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. Her newest podcast, How Is This Better? is available from Courier here. Follow her on Twitter @akilahobviously, on Instagram @akilahh, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny/sexism, murder

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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1h 17min
January 01, 2026 James II with Brooke Newman (Subscriber Preview)
Claire and Brooke Newman travel back to the 17th century and remind a king that he deserves all the hate he gets.

Guest
Our guest Brooke Newman is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her book The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @brookenewman and Instagram @drbrookenewman, or visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Slavery, torture, racial 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

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
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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17min
December 25, 2025 George IV with Madeleine Pelling
Claire and Maddy Pelling remind us that the life of the party is often also the worst person you know.

Guest
Our guest Dr. Madeleine Pelling is a cultural historian, author, and broadcaster. Her newest book Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment is available for pre-order here, and her podcast After Dark is available here. Follow her on Instagram @maddypelling, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny, slavery, political violence and police brutality

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

Want to become a sponsor of This Guy Sucked? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads
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1h 4min
December 18, 2025 The Anti-Suffragists with Sophia Rosenfeld (Subscriber Preview)
Claire and Sophia Rosenfeld discuss what women want. And what they don’t want. And what they don’t want other women to want.

Guest
Our guest Sophia Rosenfeld is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is available here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
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
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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20min
December 11, 2025 Napoleon Bonaparte (redux) with Marlene Daut
Claire and Prof. Marlene Daut cover life in the French Caribbean, and fill in all the bits that weren’t covered in high school or our previous Napoleon episode. For example, the murdering.

Guest
Our guest Marlene Daut is a Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale. Her newest book, The First and Last King of Haiti is available here. Visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism and racial violence, slavery, torture, child death & child endangerment

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
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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1h 4min

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How many episodes does This Guy Sucked have?

The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.

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