Hell on Earth: Episode 7 - HELL
🕑 Added 2023-02-22 12:01:00 +0000 UTCThe apocalyptic effects of years of war on the population transform central Europe into Hell on Earth.
Interactive atlas, bibliography and credits for the series can be found at: hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com
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BlackWolfSkinwalker
A Kegel of beer! 32:55
Kevin
The part about witchcraft and fears of “dick theft” made me wonder if there isn’t something similar going on with today’s trans panic.
Garth Hansen
I've listened to this series 4 or 5 times and every time matt says "kriegsvolk" I shudder. It's so fuckin chilling
The Children of Jack Acid
Fuck, that part about the minute 44 mark is haunting my waking dreams
Urik Mej
Love the song at the 23 minute mark - getting clockwork orange vibes
WOOOOO SCHWEDENTRUNK!!!
James Aydelotte
Gotta say- Simplicissimus is amazing- thanks for the recommendation. And the horror read on this pod happens by page 27- by page 50 things are in ‘100 Days of Sodom’ and ‘Blood Meridian’ territory 😬
A
I gotta finish beserk
J.W.
NFTs are the final tulips.
ClownBabee24
Tulips were the first NFTs
Breakaway
Definitely. The Seven Years War wasn’t too long before the Constitution was written; I’m sure plenty of people in the Colonies knew exactly what foraging armies were wont to do.
Scott
I'd rather be totally effective than effectively totaled, whoa, zing!
LEAH NELSON
Ok I now I really get why we made the 3rd amendment
Sam Nelson
Where my tender brained bohemians at
Diokles
Great, thanks.
LeeTravens
https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/bibliography/
Diokles
I may be missing this, but where can I find a bibliography?
Diokles
This is fantastic.
Diokles
The Lord of Light will revive him.
Ale
Stay tuned for the Carolus XII spinoff series
Roger Peet
Huh I didn't realize they'd made a movie out of the Painted Bird
Roger Peet
Simplicius, The Painted Bird, Come and See...
Big-ol’-pufferfish19
The soundtrack to this has been spectacular!
Alex Schneider
Goddamn, Chris’ description of the pillage by soldiers on that poor farming family are haunting.
Brent Hughes
How am I only now understanding the actual meaning of “musketeer”? Whelp, time to lord it over everyone like I always knew.
crabbe
I hope they write Gustavus back into a later episode/season he was pretty cool and i think his arc ended too early
No
The local specialty in Bamberg is Rauchbier, which is smoked beer which smells like bacon and tastes like absolute shit. Having been there I can confirm it has been condemned by God for this crime
William L Jagnow
🤣
Luke Cragg
When I heard that line listening to the CV Wedgewood audiobook, I gasped out loud
John Williams
I had the same problem with the 100 years war but then I read Druon and all of the faces and names clicked as it had characterization attached. So any literary treatment of the 30 years war might help if there are recommendations.
Jim McKenna
10 of 10. This series is so good. I have to admit in the heat and excitement of your descriptions I lose track of names and alliances. If I wasn't driving a semi while listening I'd make a little scorecard to look at.
Michael
Wonderful episode again. Those descriptions of hardship in Simplicius Simplicissimus (which I had forgotten) were burned into my brain as the character of the war since I took a class on the HRE in college. You have brought the exhaustion and the ruin to life. It is such an achievement.
Jonathan Szerszen
10 out of 10
Ben Goldberg
I just wanted to say that I absolutely love this series. I look forward to it every week. I really appreciate the hard work and research that went into this series. Something that this series helped me realize is how much fantasy writing (and games) I enjoy are influenced by this period of time. I can’t wait to read some of the books on your bibliography to learn even more. Again, I just want to thank you guys for such hard work and an excellent series.
Konrad T. Howitz
Yeah, I was just being a dick. Thing is I was born in Heilbronn and was looking forward to its little moment in the hellfirelight.
Adrienne Suydam
Air horn: these are exceptional.
Colin McFadzen
Incredible episode guys. I look forward to this more than anything every week
Dan Mcnamara
I like the synth music around 22 min
T
How do Matt and Chris do it? 🥵
Private
This is only halfway between that and the world that bespectacled feeb Curtis Yarvin wants.
Adam H.
Damn dude, that's like, totally true.
Steve D
Really does make you think, and I’m totally serious - war, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Sean Russ
Listen, his "Wallenstein" was bothering me until I remembered how often my Hessisch gets made fun of
Konrad T. Howitz
Sheesh, Matt, a boy of Schwaebisch ancestry really needs to learn how to pronounce Heilbronn.
etienne
I'm sorry but Americans are entitled to pronounce german names and words however they see fit. Scoreboard.
THEKILLERWHALE
"Hey you! Stop crossing that street against the light even though there are no cars in sight! And no recycling on Sundays"
Noah Abbas
This is the world Libertarians want
Gavin Farrell
Joseph Conrad wrote about colonialism in Heart of Darkness: "They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind..." seems like it also applies very well to internal European affairs as well as their dealings in the colonies.
Private
Most anglos: Lype-zig Most Germans: Lype-sig Weirdos from Saxony: Lypesch You two rednecks: Leap-sig
Major bit me
Hell is other German people
Michael Polacheck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Grandes_Miseres_de_la_guerre
Michael Polacheck
For a graphic record of the horrendous events described in this episode, check out the engravings of Jacques Callot- Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre.
Dan
I know what fools and dwarves are in the context of court entertainers, but what are "elves"?
Of course
A lost opportunity for this series to be narrated in the voices of Matt's Clay Higgins and Felix's Sy Hersh.
Jacob
Someone rid me of my fat, rich wife.
etienne
Cardinal Richelieu my name is Christian Pious I am 8 years old and live in Magdeburg. My family is being persecuted by Habsburg subcontractors please send Double Arquebuse with Slow burning match and Black powder
etienne
there are people out there who purchased one bitcoin for sixty nine thousand american dollars
Post Void
"A blackened room with fools dwarfs and elves for entertainment" usually runs me about $50 on a Saturday.
Saga
Every time you bring up Cardinal Richelieu, I imagine Tim Curry from the 1993 Three Musketeers adaptation and it makes me chuckle
Post Void
Ferdinand: "Wally old boy, fix this mess!" Wallenstein: "Well, funny thing about this "mess" you speak of, let me hand you this mirror" Ferdinand: "Hey, wait a moment, kill him!"
Dee Haytch
Original HOE soundtrack release when!!?
Michael Landreth
I hear you I guess, but I have to hope there’s a better way. I don’t know how much human misery I can live with while celebrating the disintegration of the empire. Of course, the level of human misery the empire demands is already well beyond tolerable levels. Tanner and Ashlyn wouldn’t have it any other way. So I don’t know.
Bryan Jennings
Matt and Chris getting increasingly, vocally furious at the number of "Christian"s at the time is fantastic
Reece Coren
imagine being the guy who turned down 12 acres of land for a tulip
C. Ries
Can’t wait for this to happen to the Tanners and Ashlyns in some pigshit flyover suburb soon
Byron_the_Bulb
I have always had the eerie feeling that all this violence is just under the surface, ready to erupt.
Byron_the_Bulb
All the music is so perfectly chosen. I'm trying to find the creator of the track that includes a remix of Baroque choral music. Any hints for me?
Tim Mullen
The Swedish drink gives me troubling thoughts about the origin story of Swedish meatballs
Daniel E
Y’all didn’t have to go so hard !!
DW Lynch
Anyone else hear these stories about marauding soldiers and think it sounds like things to come?
jick
anyone else think of the matt berry's brother from snuff box any time someone says "france & spain"?
T
So "Brandon" means "flame on"...
Heavenly Father69
Fuck yes, made it to hell.
Walking Bones
That reading from Simplicissimus, holy hell
Mitch H.
Hell, the place we're all going to shortly
MC Prescott
They did it folks, they made geohell
carl
finally--HELL
NYCM&AHole
Is that what the US Afghanistan ambassador meant?
NYCM&AHole
This episode is so Metal. Also brandmeister literally means fire/blaze master
Abernathy
“Too clever to be happy, not clever enough to be successful” story of my life
River
we need to arm every peasant woman with an ak47
Mia
amazing ep!! also, for my traumatised girlies: there's a lot of extremely violent rape in this one, skip 0:39 - 0:45 if you want to miss the worst of it.
Xander Norris
Beer George just tryna vibe bro one of the most open minded individuals
Dee Haytch
Hoping Loudun gets a mention🤞🤞🤞
Dr Nermal Funkenstein
Who else gets adequate amounts of sleep!?!
BloomingmyBerg
Protestant me papi
Xander Norris
Lesgo
Brian Brain
My body is ready.
Christian Johnson
Hell yeah first one in