@thisguysucked.com
A weekly history podcast hosted by @ceaubin.com and a rotating cast of expert scholarly guests - because it's never too late to have haters. http://www.thisguysucked.com Part of @multitude.productions.
TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: if you forgot that Richard Bruce Cheney was an unabashedly evil human who wanted nothing more than unchecked executive power and forever-war in the Middle East, Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social and I are here to remind you.
I went on @thisguysucked.com expecting fun snark and hot takes. It did not disappoint, but even better was seeing how deeply @ceaubin.com cares about history. She's a hater, yes, but what she's really focused on is how the significance we give history depends on the way we study it. Great show
Something happened during a TGS recording with @quinnslobodian.com today that I have been laughing about for the last several hours
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THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: I am joined by Prof. Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social of @thisdaypod.com to talk about a man who would’ve absolutely loved hearing that we started a new war in the Middle East. 😒
HAPPY NEW @thisguysucked.com DAY! This week it’s Pericles, the guy who proves that politicians have always been this awful. Featuring Prof. Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social, who knows a lot about Ancient Greece, and me, who basically does not know anything about Ancient Greece.
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TOMORROW ON @thisguysucked.com: Prof. Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social and I discuss war, democracy, and the danger of letting extremely obvious liars run your city-state.
Related, here’s an interview with the podcast @thisguysucked.com I did on Henry Ford last spring:
So much fun to talk/drag Roger Taney (yes, THAT Roger Taney) with @ceaubin.com on @thisguysucked.com! From marrying well, engaging in Jacksonian cronyism, and enshrining racial supremacy in the US Reports (Dred Scott), Taney literally did it all. Check it out!
Today on @thisguysucked.com: Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social talks trash about former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a guy who pretty much literally only made bad decisions.
TGS is an official nominee for the 2026 Ambie Award for best emerging podcast!
I have some terrible news for my haters
Roger Taney walked so John Roberts could run.
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THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: I am joined by the delightful Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social to talk about America’s worst jurist - and that’s saying a lot.
We have returned once more to say “wow we should probably start using this page regularly, huh?”
People should check out @thisguysucked.com ‘s episode on the invention of blood libel by Godwin Sturt and Thomas of Monmouth. I learned a lot!
a special treat for members of the patreon (which YOU CAN BECOME RIGHT NOW!)
in partnership with @thisguysucked.com @spiritspodcast.com and @multitude.productions, a discussion of how to cope and how to fight
a bunch of smart people talking about what's going on...
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A graphic that says This Guy Sucked LIVE: The Worst Wing, over the painting of Washington crossing the Delaware. Everyone’s faces are scribbled out.
THIS THURSDAY ON TGS: it’s the live show recording you’ve all been clamoring for! I invented a sadistic game to make Prof. Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social and Prof. Kevin Schultz discuss rubbing Vaseline on presidents. There is a winner but really we all lose in the end. 😌
Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
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talking about my favorite nazi with @ceaubin.bsky.social for @thisguysucked.com spotify.link/hOrxQTSgTXb
hello, this is claire. i always forget to use this account. i love you all and thanks for listening!!!!!!
A stack of books: - Brooke newsman’s The Crown’s Silence - Vanessa Williamson’s The Price of Democracy - Austin McCoy’s Living in a DAISY Age - Naim & Toro’s Charlatans - Sophia Rosenfeld’s The Age of Choice
Finally back in the office and it was a very good pod book delivery day 🤩
I was on @thisguysucked.com with @ceaubin.bsky.social, my new fav podcast, talking about the creator of D&D was just a weird guy who was bad with money and how that doomed his creation to be harvested by corporations!!!!
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On it !!!
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THIS THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: I have a chat with the legendary Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social about an 18th-19th century guy who was also legendary. But, like, kind of in a bad way.
TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: I am joined by the incredible Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson.bsky.social to talk about D. W. Griffith, the silent film director who made Birth Of A Nation and enabled the re-birth of the KKK. Zero stars and two thumbs down from us.
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THURSDAY ON TGS: Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson.bsky.social and I discuss the long-term legacy of a man who redefined cinema and resurrected the KKK.
Hi, if you enjoy history podcasts, and like the idea of expert scholars kicking lumps out of famous people from the past, I highly recommend @thisguysucked.com -- it's really good fun, and very informative
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Poster for This Guy Sucked LIVE at Caveat NYC October 9th!
VERY COOL NEWS: we're doing our first-ever TGS live show! Come watch me, Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social, and Kevin Schultz engage in some wacky political history hijinks and talk (well-informed) trash about the presidency in a special format we're calling The Worst Wing.
Give it a listen here (or wherever you get your pods!)
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TGS x @appodlachia.com: Claire and Chuck dive into the abjectly awful world of The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, a union-busting private militia responsible for decades of terror in the West Virginia coalfields.
