@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.
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THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: I learn several lessons about the Kwisatz Haderach of the Holy Roman Empire from Richard Cole, and nobody gets the Gom Jabbar.
It's not like my enthusiasm for this is ever high but it's obviously especially frustrating right now.
Spoke a bit about it on This Guy Sucked at the end of last year before it all got So Much Worse:
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On my run i listened to @thisguysucked.com ep on Cheney followed by Chris Hedges ep on Iran war
Do not recommend this combo on your run unless you want to be filled with existential dread
(Really enjoyed both, btw, and recommend both… but just heavvvy. Glad for the light hearted moments on TGS)
This is incredible!
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.
