What do you do when the only records that remain of a language were made by someone who had absolutely horrendous views of the people who spoke it?
In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about a crossover episode with Claire Aubin of @thisguysucked.com!
“As long as it’s pedagogically informed and academically rigorous hating, sounds great”
@thisguysucked.com
We're excited to take a turn being historical haters tomorrow on @thisguysucked.com!
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TOMORROW ON @thisguysucked.com: TGS is teaming up with @superlinguo.bsky.social and @lingthusiasm.com for an episode you won’t be able to forget, although you might really, really want to! In it, we prove that Australia has spent the past few centuries being a weird bad place.
I don't usually listen to “presenting” drops on podcasts but @thisguysucked.com got me to. I’m SUPER excited for @dreamingagainstthemachine.com with @adambecker.bsky.social.
This might be exactly what I needed.
Including “Rage Against the Machine (name already in use)”
but 1st: ghosts and murder
why does he suck: crusades were extremely fucking violent wtf
guess who's coming back on @thisguysucked.com gang
Here at TGS Studios™ we love our fans :-)
"Did you ride your horse to school?" - the first thing Harvard undergrads asked Megan Kate Nelson when she rocked up as a fresher from Colorado.
Live-posting my listen of @mkn.bsky.social, author of books including THE WESTERNERS, chatting with @ceaubin.com, on @thisguysucked.com.
💙📚 🗃
This was such a fun conversation with @ceaubin.com!
Ovando Hollister was a complicated man, and one of the more frustrating guys who sucked. Because sometimes, he did not suck at all.
Note: we didn’t mean to color- coordinate our sweaters.
NOW STREAMING: Claire @ceaubin.com and Megan Kate Nelson @mkn.bsky.social talk Ovando Hollister, the Civil War, and a wilder West than you’re probably familiar with. Available wherever pods are cast.
This rocks so much!
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THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the one and only Megan Kate Nelson @mkn.bsky.social and I talk 19th century journalism, questionable morality, and what it means to be a Westerner
This conversation with @ceaubin.com about how Archie Bunker paved the way for Donald Trump was so much fun!! Listen to @thisguysucked.com wherever you get your podcast!
Today on @thisguysucked.com: I’m joined by the wonderful @oscarwinberg.bsky.social to ask what happens when you give the nuclear codes to Archie Bunker, the television character everybody was DEFINITELY NOT supposed to be emulating.
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THURSDAY: Claire and Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social meditate on the dangers of electing sitcom characters to public office.
A digital graphic for the "This Guy Sucked," podcast at the Mark Twain House & Museum
If you like your history intelligent, irreverent, and a little dangerous, this one’s for you.
Join us at The Mark Twain House & Museum for He Despised Himself: An Evening with This Guy Sucked and The American Vandal - @mattseybold.bsky.social, @thisguysucked.com, @erinbartram.bsky.social
“Until recently, nationalism was considered to be bad”
Sigh. If only @quinnslobodian.com wasnt so right.
Also, shoutout to “happy birthday, here’s a war!”
Happy bday @thisguysucked.com !
NOW AVAILABLE ON @thisguysucked.com: I sit down with @quinnslobodian.com to figure out what Murray Rothbard’s whole deal was and say very mean stuff about him on his 100th birthday.
LOLITA IS NOT A LOVE STORY feat. me, @drallylouks.bsky.social, a word that rhymes with schmedophile, and a truly manic energy the pod has never before experienced. Available now @thisguysucked.com
Dune movie poster, reading FREDERICK II: WHO CARES IF HES STILL A BABY
I’m just saying
For $10 ($7 with a membership!) you can find out whether I think Mark Twain sucked.
At the @marktwainhouse.bsky.social.
No spoilers.
Seriously, The American Vandal’s first ever crossover pod with @thisguysucked.com, hosted by @ceaubin.com, joined by @erinbartram.bsky.social
This will be fun.
a poster for the event "he despised himself" an evening with this guy sucked and the american vandal at the mark twain house & museum on May 6. it features a photo of Mark Twain with a yellow scribble over his face saying "this guy sucked"
Some of you may remember a day last year when @ceaubin.com and I found each other at the museum. I'm so excited to reveal what came from that meeting! Join us and @mattseybold.bsky.social at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social in May for a live dual podcast recording.
marktwainhouse.org/event/he-des...
We're all ears!
It’s the first day of our @thisguysucked.com triple-header birthday week! I can guarantee today’s show is the only episode of any podcast you’ll ever hear that covers Benjamin Franklin, Travis Scott, scrub mommies, and Clavicular.
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BIRTHDAY TRIPLE-HEADER @thisguysucked.com EPISODE PREVIEW: Friday! Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com and a bunch of balloons remind audiences that neither economists nor dentists are trustworthy.
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HEY! @thisguysucked.com BIRTHDAY WEEK TRIPLE-HEADER PREVIEW #2: I am joined on Thursday by the one and only @drallylouks.bsky.social for a little chat about a literary guy so not-nice they named him twice.
Lombroso!
TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: Prof. Richard Cole with an episode that’s bigger, badder, and medieval-er than ever on Frederick II (the Holy Roman Emperor). Also featuring TGS’ first doomsday prophecy.
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IT’S A @thisguysucked.com BIRTHDAY WEEK TRIPLE-HEADER PREVIEW: on Wednesday we join forces with No Such Thing to answer all your questions (including the ones nobody asked) about our freakiest Founding Father.
A Spotify comment that reads: calling Cheney the ‘Forrest Gump of American conservatism’ is the type of hard-hitting historical analysis that led me to subscribe to this pod in the first place
He can’t keep getting away with this!!!
