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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 21/09/2026

Have you ever thought to yourself: “wow, I wish I could listen to a historian doing a goose-themed actual play with three literal professional TTRPG players?” Because I’ve got great news for you coming on Thursday from @thisguysucked.com if so.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/09/2026

Tomorrow on @thisguysucked.com: an episode featuring Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social that I can only really describe as a fever dream.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 17/09/2026

NOW OUT ON @thisguysucked.com: Lord Byron, the most toxic man on earth — unless you’re his sister, apparently? Featuring the brilliant @k8lister.bsky.social, LB’s number one hater.

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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yay! The new @thisguysucked.com is on Byron, one of my pet hates. Hopefully this will add plenty of ammo to my existing (substantial) list of reasons I loath this man from the depths of my wizened soul:

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think I preferred those student emails with no salutation or name or class number that were like "i missed the assignment can u reopen" to these three-paragraph contrite epistles very obviously written by chatgpt

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 14/09/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the episode that has inspired the strongest reaction from me thus far, featuring the brilliant Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social and this f***ing guy

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Loved being on @thisguysucked.com. The conversation starts w/ Tudor gold-fever & ends with how different history might be when we centre other perspectives, ask other questions. Or if the full-length Inuit portraits had survived to hang alongside the only one we have from this venture: Frobisher's.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 10/09/2026

Today on @thisguysucked.com! The wonderful @laurenworking.bsky.social and I chat about Martin Frobisher, who proved how easy it was to fail upwards in the early modern period if you convinced people you knew where to get gold.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Doing a talk in a couple weeks on Sam Cummings so I'm listening back to this episode of @thisguysucked.com, which is a real banger if we're being honest podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 08/09/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the wonderful Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social joins me to talk about an early modern adventurer in Canada who loved kidnapping. Not great.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/09/2026

TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: The excellent Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net tells me that George McClellan was a racist coward who deserves to have his name cursed forever. So we tried our best to do that.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 02/09/2026

tomorrow at 5:00 a.m. only on thisguysucked.com/merch

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/09/2026

We thought we’d give you a little taster of this week’s @thisguysucked.com episode with @jamellebouie.net, which went off the rails immediately and which is very much not about Kamala Harris. Out Thursday.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 02/09/2026

Tomorrow! TGS feat. @jamellebouie.net and an extra-special merch drop!

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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#medievalsky #skystorians this was something special @ceaubin.com is the real deal. Check out @thisguysucked.com

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 31/08/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: pal of the pod @jamellebouie.net and I talk Kamala Harris, Dune, incompetent Civil War generals, and the time we got trapped at Mount Vernon.

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Simple and Clean: A Kingdom Hearts Podcast @simpleandcleanpod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our latest ep featuring @ceaubin.com (host of the fantastic @thisguysucked.com) is live! How does being a KH fan turn you into one of academia’s top haters? Come find out!

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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s true! @ceaubin.com of @thisguysucked.com outs me as a hater. And a lover of @ceaubin.com and @thisguysucked.com this conversation meant so much to me! Made with hate and love.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 27/08/2026

TODAY ON TGS: The incredible @sarannmcd.bsky.social joins me for a This Gal Rocked episode. In it, she tells me the story of Jehanne, a medieval survivor of sexual assault whose quest for justice challenges nearly every modern assumption about medieval women's lives. I'm really proud of this one.

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Jenna Routenberg @jennaroutenberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I love @thisguysucked.com for a lot of reasons, but especially for episodes like today’s, from which I learned that the FIFA Peace Prize dates back to ancient Athens

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 20/08/2026

This comment on the new @thisguysucked.com episode has me cackling

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Lindsay John Bell, Ph.D. @lindsayjbell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you haven’t discovered Dr. Aubin’s entertaining and educational podcast, @thisguysucked.com, I strongly urge you check it out! It is so good, I assign the episode on Roger Taney in my U.S. History course! It is way better than any ripoff show because it’s the OG!

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Dov @drnelk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also, every one of these 'modern university wouldn't" takes boils down to 'this guy from an episode on @thisguysucked.com" or "I'm about to mischaracterize the university system."

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Travis Roach @troach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@thisguysucked.com is my favorite podcast and it’s not even close. It feels like I’m getting to sit in on the best courses ever taught. Also there’s plenty of whatever this is 😂😂

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Ozkat @christie-lover.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The episode of @thisguysucked.com on Alcibiades with @roelkonijn.bsky.social gave birth to the phrase ‘Traitorous Twink’. That’s how I think about him from now on.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 17/08/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: Fan favorite @roelkonijn.bsky.social returns and we do, in fact, discuss ditches. And also polygamy.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 10/08/2026

you know, i've never recorded an episode of TGS before that made me feel this specific range of emotions

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 07/08/2026

Excellent news for fans of sports, history, and @patrickwyman.bsky.social! TGS is doing a live show in NYC on September 28th, where Patrick and I are doing what can only be described as “drafting a sports-inspired team of evil Americans. Sort of.” Tickets here: admitone.com/events/new-y...

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

goated tier: @patrickwyman.bsky.social both Past Lives and Tides of History @thisguysucked.com from @ceaubin.com @americanmedieval.bsky.social from @profgabriele.com History of the Crusades specifically, from @goingmedieval.bsky.social etc @fallofcivilizations.com everything from Mike Duncan obv

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 06/08/2026

Today on @thisguysucked.com: Nick Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social and Christa Dierksheide reveal that Thomas Jefferson's alleged guilt over slavery was actually for a worse reason than you imagined, since he mostly just wanted to kick Black people out of the country entirely

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.

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oneofthebarrys.bsky.social @oneofthebarrys.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This feels like something a Certified Hater would enjoy @thisguysucked.com

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 27/07/2026

Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 30/07/2026

TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social with Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, a man who truly epitomized the Loser Back Home stereotype.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 21/07/2026

Thursday on TGS: ANCIENT ROMANS WERE BIG WEIRD FREAKS AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 22/07/2026

Great news, academics! To cut down on the number of not-quite-right or not-quite-complete pitches we need to wade through, @thisguysucked.com now has a pitch form that contains all of the information we require from guests! Head to the link below to check it out. www.thisguysucked.com/pitch-us

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 20/07/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: I’m joined by the brilliant @emmasouthon.bsky.social to talk about a Roman who was. Uh. Less brilliant.

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This Guy Sucked @thisguysucked.com · 14/07/2026

Oh dang we got to 1k followers on here, should probably start doing something other than just reposts

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Amanda @msemmalyon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is the entire premise of the @thisguysucked.com podcast, in fact

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 14/07/2026

Thursday on @thisguysucked.com: We’re back with another really horrible man from the 19th century, and you’ve definitely (probably) heard something about him!

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 08/07/2026

I’ve been hinting about my current project for a while, and am so excited to (finally) announce it! I’m writing FALSE IDOLS: HOW GREAT MAN HISTORY LEFT OUR PAST IN RUINS with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social. Truly a dream come true, and I can’t wait for you all to read it.

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Yale postdoctoral fellow and host of the podcast This Guy Sucked Claire E. Aubin's FALSE IDOLS, the story of how the Great Man Theory came to dominate history, spanning from antiquity to the 21st century as it uncovers the unscrupulous chroniclers who built a pantheon of larger-than-life heroes, and why these discredited myths and distortions continue to haunt us, to Brandon Proia at Basic, by Connor Brown at Andrew Nurnberg Associates (NA).

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 06/07/2026

HEY. This week on @thisguysucked.com we’re releasing audio from last year’s president-hating live show and checking back in with @devintoshea.bsky.social for our first-ever bonus audio, discussing the extremely important issue of whether or not we can blame some horses for the Civil War.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/07/2026

which are YOU clubbing first?

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

You know who SUCKED? James Buchanan. A master of suckage. A bad president or the worst president? Thank you @ceaubin.com @thisguysucked.com for hosting and encouraging my rants! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Probably too many jokes were made about this person, perhaps the suckiest of sucky leaders of the United States of America (which is a real feat). Out Thursday! Yours truly with the amazing @ceaubin.com on the one and only: THIS GUY SUCKED podcast! (@thisguysucked.com)

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 25/06/2026

TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: The excellent @catherinefletcher.info on Renaissance arms dealers and the centuries-old question of gun control.

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Andrew Nelson @ninesnorth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you’re interested in Renaissance/early-Modern history and/or warfare, you’ve got to check out this week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com, which is about Renaissance arms dealers. Fascinating stuff!

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 21/06/2026

For Father’s Day we made a round-up of my dad’s favorite quotes from @thisguysucked.com, which he dutifully live-texts me every time he listens to the show. Here are a few:

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This Guy Sucked @thisguysucked.com · 16/06/2026

Happy Pride we love u and we hate feudal lords

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