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This Guy Sucked

A show that proves no matter how long you"ve been dead, it"s never too late to have haters. Join historian Dr. Claire Aubin and a new expert every week to pull back the scholarly curtain on the world’s worst guys and gals. From the widely beloved to the relatively unknown, no historical figure is safe, and every episode reminds listeners that the best part of understanding the past is criticizing it.New episodes every Thursday — free episodes bi-weekly, and access to all episodes (ad-free!)

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00:16:55

Toussaint Charbonneau with Craig Fehrman (Subscriber...

This Guy Sucked ·

2026/10/08

Claire and Craig Fehrman determine that the best part of a 19th century trapper in North America is usually his wife.GuestOur guest Craig Fehrman is a journalist and author. His book This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark is available here. Visit his website here.Sensitive Themes & TopicsAnimal attacks/violence, sexual violence, child sexual abuse, slaveryCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Instagram @drclaireaubin, Bluesky ceaubin, Twitter

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01:20:15

Paul Gauguin with Daisy Dixon

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2026/10/01

Claire and Daisy Dixon do a deep-dive on depravity.GuestOur guest Daisy Dixon is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. Her book Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art, is available here. Follow her on Instagram or visit her website.Sensitive Themes & TopicsChild sexual abuse, sexual assault, bestiality, domestic violenceCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Instagram @drclaireaubin, Bluesky ceaubin, Twitter @ceaubin or check out her website.-

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00:21:05

The Goosisode (Subscriber Preview)

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2026/09/24

Claire, Mischa Stanton, Mayanna Berrin, and Julia Schifini commit bird-on-bird violence.Co-starsMischa Stanton is a sound designer, storyteller, and the host of Simple and Clean from Multitude. Check out their website. Mayanna Berrin is an actor, writer, and the host of Simple and Clean from Multitude. Check out her website.Julia Schifini is a sound designer, voice actor, and the host of Spirits from Multitude. Check out her website.GameHonk Daddy by Goosepoop Games - get a copy hereCredits- Host

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01:22:01

Lord Byron with Kate Lister

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2026/09/17

Claire and Kate Lister remind you that no man is worth putting up with this type of tomfoolery.GuestOur guest Dr. Kate Lister is a literary scholar and historian of sexuality. Her newest book, Flick: The Story of Female Pleasure, is available for pre-order here, and her podcast Betwixt The Sheets is available here. Follow her on Instagram @drkatelister or visit her website.Sensitive Themes & TopicsFatphobia, child sexual abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, incest, domestic violence, medical

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00:16:43

Martin Frobisher with Lauren Working (Subscriber...

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2026/09/10

Claire and Prof. Lauren Working talk adventure kidnapping, and why you can never trust an alchemist.GuestOur guest Lauren Working is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies at the University of York. Her book A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Tudor and Stuart England, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @laurenworking and on Instagram @drlaurenworking.Sensitive Themes & TopicsViolence, child abuse, child death, racial violenceCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E

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01:06:55

George McClellan with Jamelle Bouie

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2026/09/03

Claire and Jamelle Bouie prove that fear is the mindkiller. Especially in the Civil War.GuestOur guest Jamelle Bouie is a political commentator and columnist for the New York Times. Follow him on Bluesky, Instagram, and Youtube.Sensitive Themes & TopicsSlavery, racismCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Instagram @drclaireaubin, Bluesky ceaubin, Twitter @ceaubin or check out her website.- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.- Music: Marshall Dean

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00:17:15

Jehanne with Sara McDougall (Subscriber Preview)

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2026/08/27

Claire and Sara McDougall go on a mission to prove everything you thought you knew about medieval women wrong in one of our special This Gal Rocked episodes.GuestOur guest Sara McDougall is a Professor of History at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her book Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @sarannmcd and Instagram @saramcdougall_medieval.Sensitive Themes & TopicsSexual assault, domestic violence,

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01:16:04

Dionysius of Syracuse with Roel Konijnendijk

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2026/08/20

Claire and Dr. Roel Konijnendijk return with another chat about an extremely untrustworthy ancient mediterranean man. Shocker.GuestOur guest Roel Konijnendik is a Darby Fellow in Ancient History, Lincoln College at Oxford. Follow him on Bluesky @roelkonijn.Sensitive Themes & Topicsslavery, suicide, genocide, murderCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Instagram @drclaireaubin, Bluesky ceaubin, Twitter @ceaubin or check out her website.- Editor: Julia Schifini

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00:16:24

Ibn Jamahir with Craig Perry (Subscriber Preview)

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2026/08/13

Claire and Prof. Craig Perry remind you that the medieval period didn’t only happen in Europe, and Christians did not have the monopoly on doing bad stuff.GuestOur guest Craig Perry is Associate Professor at Emory University and historian of slavery and Arab-Islamic and Jewish culture in the medieval Middle East. His book, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @caperry.Sensitive Themes & TopicsslaveryCredits- Host & Executive Producer:

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01:03:44

Thomas Jefferson with Christa Dierkshielde & Nicholas...

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2026/08/06

Claire, Christa Dierksheide, and Nicholas Guyatt teach you something new (we promise) about one of the Founding-est Fathers.GuestChrista Dierksheide is a Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of the Age of Jefferson at the University of Virginia, and Nicholas Guyatt is a Professor of North American History at the University of Cambridge. Their book Jefferson’s Wolf, is available here. Follow Nick on Twitter @nicholasguyatt and Bluesky @nicholasguyatt.Sensitive Themes &

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00:18:27

Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore with Brendan...

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2026/07/30

Claire and Brendan Greeley talk trash about the Andrew Tate of the 18th century, and explain the economy a little bit too.GuestOur guest Brendan Greeley is a writer and former US economics editor at Financial Times. His book The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money, is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @bhgreeley and Twitter @bhgreeley.Sensitive Themes & TopicsSlavery, sexual abuse, trafficking, murder, kidnappingCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E

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01:05:37

Vedius Pollio with Emma Southon

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2026/07/23

Claire and Emma Southon get really mad at the Romans. What else is new?GuestOur guest Dr. Emma Southon is an author and historian of Ancient Rome. Her new book Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire (US) or Servus (UK) is available here. Follow her on instagram @emmasouthon, or visit her website.Sensitive Themes & TopicsSlavery, starvation, suicide, torture, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, animal abuse, murderCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on

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00:18:42

Preston Brooks with Paul Quigley (Subscriber Preview)

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2026/07/16

Claire and Paul Quigley talk duels, masculinity, and what really happened to Charles Sumner.GuestOur guest Paul Quigley is an Associate Professor of Civil War Studies and the Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. His book The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War, is available here. Sensitive Themes & TopicsSlavery, racial/racist violence, violence, murderCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin

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01:17:01

The Worst Wing with Nicole Hemmer and Kevin Schultz...

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2026/07/09

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**GuestNicole 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

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00:20:36

James Buchanan with Gautham Rao (Subscriber Preview)

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2026/07/02

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.GuestOur 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 & TopicsSlavery, racism and racial violenceCredits- Host & Executive Producer:

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01:14:26

Renaissance Arms Dealers with Catherine Fletcher

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2026/06/25

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.GuestOur 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 & TopicsGun violenceCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin

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00:17:02

Louis Bieral with Andrew Wender Cohen (Subscriber...

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2026/06/18

Claire and Prof. Andrew Wender Cohen confirm that you really, really, really did not want to be alive in the 19th century.GuestOur guest Andrew Wender Cohen is a Professor of History at Syracuse University. His new book Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in 19th Century America, is available here.Sensitive Themes & TopicsRacial violence, domestic violence and child abuse, sexual violence, misogynyCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky

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01:14:18

Ivan the Terrible with Eli Yudin

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2026/06/11

Claire and Eli Yudin ponder the long-term negative effects of poisoning everybody you’ve ever met.GuestOur guest Eli Yudin is a comedian, writer, and host of What A Time To Be Alive. Watch his new stand-up special Humble Offering here. Follow him on Twitter @eliyudin, Bluesky @eliyudin, Twitch @pig_dog and Instagram @yahootoolbar, or visit his website.Sensitive Themes & TopicsMurder, domestic violenceCredits- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and

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00:22:04

Henry Hudson with Peter Mancall (Subscriber Preview)

This Guy Sucked ·

2026/06/04

Claire and Prof. Peter Mancall remind listeners that all those places were named after a real guy, who might still be alive since we don’t technically know what happened to him.Guest Our guest Peter Mancall is a Professor of History, Anthropology, and Economics at the University of Southern California. His newest book Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America c. 1000-1680 is available here. Visit his website here. Sensitive Themes & Topics Genocide, racial violence, child

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01:21:07

Alonzo Slayback with Devin Thomas O'Shea

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2026/05/28

Claire and Devin Thomas O’Shea come up with a series of incredible drag names and talk about a Confederate soldier/secret society founder a little bit.Guest Our guest Devin Thomas O’Shea is a writer and lecturer at Saint Louis University. His book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis is available here. Follow him on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit his website. Sensitive Themes & Topics Murder, warfare, animal death, racism and racial

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