This Guy Sucked

Claire and Patrick Wyman build whatever the opposite of a monument is for this guy.

Guest
Our guest Dr. Patrick Wyman is a historian and podcaster. His book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World, is available here, and his podcast Past Lives is available here. Follow him on Bluesky, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Slavery, warfare and descriptions of war-related 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

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- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

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Claire and Prof. Kristin Grogan serve some poetic justice to the literary world’s favorite fascist.

Guest
Our guest Kristin Grogan is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her book Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work is available here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Torture/imprisonment, antisemitism

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

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Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

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TGS and Lingthusiasm join forces to think through all the things that can go wrong when you give a grifter too much power over indigenous languages.

Guest
Our guest Lauren Gawne is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University and the co-host of Lingthusiasm. Follow Lingthusiasm on Bluesky and Instagram, or join their Patreon.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Genocide, racism and 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

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

Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thisguysucked
- Bluesky: @thisguysucked.com
- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

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*THIS GUY SUCKED WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK*
In the meantime, enjoy an introduction to Multitude’s newest show, Dreaming Against The Machine with Adam Becker!

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Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
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- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

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Claire and Megan Kate Nelson head west and discuss old-timey journalistic ethics along the way.

Guest
Our guest Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is a historian of the American West. Her newest book, The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier is available here. Follow her on Bluesky and Instagram or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Genocide, racism, racial violence, sexual assault

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
- Cover: History Colorado. Accession #91.429.263

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Find Us Online
- Website: thisguysucked.com
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- Twitter: twitter.com/thisguysucked

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