This Guy Sucked

Claire, Nicole Hemmer, and Kevin Schultz play some games and answer the easiest question in the world: are all of the American presidents bad?

**THIS UNLOCKED EPISODE WAS RECORDED LIVE AT THE CHEERFUL EARFUL PODCAST FESTIVAL IN OCTOBER 2025**

Guest
Nicole Hemmer is a professor of History at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency. Her podcast This Day is available here or anywhere you get your podcasts. Follow her on Bluesky and Instagram.

Kevin Schultz is a professor in History at The University of Illinois, Chicago and the author of Why Everyone Hates White Liberals Including White Liberals, available here. Follow him on Instagram and TikTok.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Misogyny, racism and racial violence, antisemitism

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

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Claire and Gautham Rao get into why, exactly, this guy is often ranked the worst president of a country with a lot of truly awful presidents.

Guest
Our guest Gautham Rao is an Associate Professor of History at American University. His newest book, White Power: Policing American Slavery is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @gauthamrao, and on Instagram @rao__gautham, or visit his website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Slavery, 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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Claire discusses the Silver Linings podcast. It is hosted by The Old Gays, who became a TikTok sensation and are all about serving wisdom, laughs, and a little lovingly earned side-eye after decades of love, loss, and fabulous survival. Hope you give it a listen and that you enjoy it as much as I do.

Claire and Prof. Catherine Fletcher take a (metaphorical) trip to the gun range, except it’s in Italy and the people are wearing funny pants.

Guest
Our guest Catherine Fletcher is a Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her new book The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @catherinefletcher or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics
Gun 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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Claire discusses the Silver Linings podcast. It is hosted by The Old Gays, who became a TikTok sensation and are all about serving wisdom, laughs, and a little lovingly earned side-eye after decades of love, loss, and fabulous survival. Hope you give it a listen and that you enjoy it as much as I do.