Hell on Earth - Episode 6: THE NORTH
Added 2023-02-15 12:01:00 +0000 UTCKing Gustavus Adolphus brings the seemingly unstoppable power of Sweden crashing through central Germany.
Interactive atlas, bibliography and credits for the series can be found at: hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com
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The mayor of Cum Town obviously
Marxist-Swoletarianist
2025-08-25 13:16:37 +0000 UTCWow At the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas the Spanish got money trained by Vic De Mackay and his strikeen team 🐍.
Proinsias Lyne
2023-11-24 16:05:33 +0000 UTCI believe you are describing Thomas the Tank Engine.
NunsInABlender
2023-05-06 01:28:25 +0000 UTCI was a busker in 's-Hertogenbosch for a few months in the mid oughts - my ex was from Vught (pronounced f*cked but with the high French U sound). It's s'air-toe-ghen (with a sort of back of the throat horking sound on the g)- Bosch ( like the lead on the amazon cop show, or his namesake, Hieronymus). But people just say Den Bosch for short.
Luke Fowlie
2023-03-23 14:00:15 +0000 UTCHey capitalism is big men with fake mustaches ordering people about like those guys on horses, except they are steam engines.
David Cox
2023-03-13 23:16:21 +0000 UTCCavalry and calvary are very different words. Great series tho
Emily P
2023-03-12 15:00:31 +0000 UTCMy main criticism is this: For a series that supposedly wants to explain the genesis of capitalism, the sudden intense focus on the swedish military campaign feels rather out of place. I guess you have to talk about war in a series about a famous war, but this segment would feel more at home in a monumental series like "Age of Napoleon", that has the depth to go into such detail, instead of a series like this, that has a more narrow scope. And if I wanted a typical pop-history series about big men of history fighting their big battles - I could find that elsewhere.
Wilko
2023-03-07 21:31:49 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnAvNdVyJB0 Best Sabaton video Carlos Rise!
4non06
2023-02-25 05:51:07 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnAvNdVyJB0
4non06
2023-02-25 05:50:44 +0000 UTC"History is written by the guys who kill everybody else who might have written it instead"
Grant Larson
2023-02-23 23:29:46 +0000 UTCHere's what The Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Thirty Years War has to say about the sack of Magdeburg, with no mention of sack or atrocities: "During this period, in which no decisive action took place, Tilly's position became critical, because, as had happened at Stralsund, a Swedish detachment under Dietrich von Falkenberg had thrown itself into Magdeburg, in September, 1630, and, supported by the citizens, refused to permit the imperial troops to enter. Magdeburg was the city which Wallenstein had so carefully avoided. Tilly determined to take it, and stormed it on 20 May, 1631. But a fire, which the Swedes are accused of starting when they saw that the city was lost, laid it in ashes, and took from Tilly the advantage he had gained."
Andrew Jensen
2023-02-22 00:36:47 +0000 UTCI listen to them on repeat.
alex.station
2023-02-21 06:39:34 +0000 UTCSaw the Vasa when I was an Army brat as we were touring Europe in the late 60s. Its floor was painted blood red, presumably so that when blood was spilled, those on board wouldn't freak.
Julie Baxter
2023-02-19 19:15:10 +0000 UTCthese are so good. trying to force my brain to concentrate fully on them, rewinding a lot. probably a healthy exercise.
Daniel Lawther
2023-02-19 03:37:10 +0000 UTCwow, i am really enjoying this. masters of the craft.
Jim Storrie
2023-02-19 02:43:10 +0000 UTCThis is why I became a member. It's great. Your individual inputs and ad libs are great.
Sylvaneous
2023-02-18 15:03:27 +0000 UTCMore like leipSICK
Braedon
2023-02-18 13:17:22 +0000 UTCfikin bravo! Bravo!!!
John Mitchell
2023-02-18 03:44:11 +0000 UTCRIP Gustavus, you should have been the new Holy Roman Emperor
Tyler Sutherland
2023-02-17 23:26:23 +0000 UTCStrutting like a handsome Duke, so full of duck sausage and black ale you can barely walk.
Sour
2023-02-17 20:47:44 +0000 UTCShe Gustav on my Adolphus until I Vasa
Ian Priest
2023-02-17 13:45:50 +0000 UTCThese are so good. I pictured a Brad Neely illustration of the battle with Gustavus flexing across the battlefield to that music. Including his recalcitrant mercenary just pointing a blunderbuss at his head.
K H
2023-02-17 05:10:16 +0000 UTCStupid Spanish Flanders is an all timer line.
Doug K
2023-02-17 04:57:15 +0000 UTChttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkszNmr6Qh0
Sean Culottes
2023-02-17 04:12:55 +0000 UTCThe sad horse show?
skrrt vonnegut
2023-02-17 04:06:20 +0000 UTChttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Gumbo Pie
2023-02-16 23:13:25 +0000 UTCHorace Mann abopted the Prussian Education system into the US for subverting workers. Hides behind being an abolitionist, sounds like the offisaction Pete Buttigeg is doing right now.
Gumbo Pie
2023-02-16 23:10:54 +0000 UTCChris if you read this: can you please either link to or release the soundtrack to this series? I’m really digging it.
Daniel Terry
2023-02-16 22:23:54 +0000 UTCBowling for Troop
Andrew Cross
2023-02-16 21:48:45 +0000 UTCAs a redux to this series, Felix should Twitch stream a play through of Final Fantasy Tactics The Lion's War. [Aka "Tactics"] The plot, the script writing, all of it is probably the best game I've ever played. And yes, it is absolutely modeled after the Thirty Years War. They don't write games like these anymore folks.
Gumbo Pie
2023-02-16 20:15:09 +0000 UTCLoved how the Dutch recaptured Shoggothenbush
Dr. Lumpenjoker
2023-02-16 17:53:58 +0000 UTCWho the fuck is Goo Stavros?
HawkandQuail
2023-02-16 17:43:29 +0000 UTCRIP to a real one, Gustavus Adolphus.
Ali Saribas
2023-02-16 14:25:06 +0000 UTCLove these history series! Great work!
christoph.s
2023-02-16 12:13:56 +0000 UTCThis podcast has singlehandedly given me the tools I need to pass an AP Euro exam
Thomas Mullane
2023-02-16 11:34:04 +0000 UTCYeah wasnt there a character named count richelieu?
Shawn Hayes
2023-02-16 04:05:24 +0000 UTC“The Swedish lutheran tradition of I’ve been freezing my balls off”
Zane 🇧🇪
2023-02-16 03:26:22 +0000 UTCThe music is brilliant. Please release a 30 Years War album for my listening pleasure.
Nicolay Hristozov
2023-02-16 02:51:13 +0000 UTCI am loving the series. I wonder if any of you are fans of the film The Mill and the Cross. Good Dutch-Spanish drama.
Isaac Taylor
2023-02-16 02:25:48 +0000 UTCI love that they apparently found out the correct pronunciation of Leipzig about halfway through the episode
Ian Stone
2023-02-16 00:23:54 +0000 UTCGustavus casts Stasis Sword!
Tim O'Connor
2023-02-15 23:05:17 +0000 UTCI love how every musical interlude makes it sound like a Castlevania boss is about to come out.
Tim O'Connor
2023-02-15 23:03:57 +0000 UTCcoincidentally, I started reading a song of ice and fire just as this series started. It’s been really interesting to read those books and listen to you guys talk about the subject matter at the same time
Terrance McDonald
2023-02-15 21:53:00 +0000 UTCKept thinking it
Patrick Burke
2023-02-15 21:01:04 +0000 UTCListen to this series has me wanting to play Final Fantasy Tactics again.
Gumbo Pie
2023-02-15 20:21:34 +0000 UTCLet's Go Brandonberg!
Greg
2023-02-15 20:03:08 +0000 UTCThere are two kinds of good chapo content: presidental primary riffing and historical mini-series. More please.
A Witherspoon
2023-02-15 19:06:10 +0000 UTCKinda shame you didn't mention Gustavus supposedly last words before he was fatally shot. "Who are you?" "I was the king of Sweden"
Kacper Komorowski
2023-02-15 18:32:53 +0000 UTCI want to hear Jenna Maroney say the phrase "Urban Burghers".
Luke Peristy
2023-02-15 18:29:01 +0000 UTCnever forget 9/11/1631
Reece Coren
2023-02-15 17:57:36 +0000 UTCIt would’ve been business as usual
MC Prescott
2023-02-15 17:36:04 +0000 UTCThanks now I wanna play EU4
Zane 🇧🇪
2023-02-15 17:36:01 +0000 UTCBig Chapo Muckety mucks I got a brain stormer - why not do an alternate history for the R party of Hillary had won . I keep coming back to it - would they have splintered? become friendlier? Or was this dark trash always in the offing? I’d love to hear y’all’s thoughts
Ben Zaretsky
2023-02-15 17:22:09 +0000 UTCI usually listen to podcasts like they're just ambient background noise, but this requires such intense focus to comprehend, like I thought Wallenstein died already!
Sandra
2023-02-15 17:01:32 +0000 UTCThis ship is Sweden’s Challenger rocket
Major bit me
2023-02-15 16:21:28 +0000 UTC"Leipzig." Sounds like "hype"-zig.
Mason Coffey
2023-02-15 15:58:53 +0000 UTCI love this series but you still haven't rectified when you said that people feared the end of the world in the year 1000.
Jill Sanders
2023-02-15 15:47:40 +0000 UTCI could see the Finnish cavalry as a bunch of Kimi Raikkonens who refuse to talk in any circumstance except when it's to yell at supply guys for not filling up the water bottles
etienne
2023-02-15 15:45:40 +0000 UTCYou guys are doing an excellent job on this series but it's probably the most confusing conflict I've heard of. I need maps, flow charts and family trees!
David Andrews
2023-02-15 15:36:32 +0000 UTC“…the bass drop in the EDM song that is the 30 years war” 🫡
Brent Hughes
2023-02-15 15:24:23 +0000 UTCI NEED the song playing at 15:10, please tell me it's somewhere online
Kula Palayam
2023-02-15 15:24:04 +0000 UTCChris should really be getting work as a narrator for major documentaries
Bill Crotts
2023-02-15 15:05:21 +0000 UTCVale Gustavus Adolphus, Lion of the North! Damn shame he went out like that.
Antipaganda
2023-02-15 14:55:58 +0000 UTCI got goosebumps from that ending Chris you madlad!
Garth Hillsborough
2023-02-15 14:53:07 +0000 UTCBuenos ding dong diddly dias, señor
Tommy
2023-02-15 14:32:40 +0000 UTCWhy can't I hold all these cannons?
Mitch H.
2023-02-15 14:28:33 +0000 UTCThat whole ship thing was funny
Gianni Romano
2023-02-15 14:10:39 +0000 UTCCommunism is based
Peacock Jive
2023-02-15 14:09:09 +0000 UTCThe American RenFest community is an untapped but powerful polity.
Joshua Cool
2023-02-15 14:07:49 +0000 UTCThat Protestant Victory Music rules, had me struttin like a handsome duke.
Joshua Cool
2023-02-15 14:06:18 +0000 UTCNone! Congrats boys!
kLindberg
2023-02-15 13:54:24 +0000 UTCThis podcast supports my theory that human history is to date just various degrees of grim dark.
Ahmed Razick
2023-02-15 13:25:35 +0000 UTCEvery time they say Brandenburg, I think Brandonburg. Let go Brandonburg!
Frederick Gallucci
2023-02-15 13:12:26 +0000 UTCWhat if a Swedish guy was Italian
etienne
2023-02-15 12:57:18 +0000 UTC90 minutes of Heck on Earth? Don't mind if I do!
Isaac Jones
2023-02-15 12:56:40 +0000 UTCYes! I teach history and for years have described the armies of the middle ages and pre-modern Europe as heavily armed, mobile and violent music festivals. I feel validated lol
Comrade Trash Panda
2023-02-15 12:44:57 +0000 UTCHell yeah, need some Swedish death metal for this epi
Herschell Gordon Lightfoot
2023-02-15 12:29:09 +0000 UTCI always thought that italian assassin story was just the guy quiet quitting.
EricVulgaris
2023-02-15 12:28:52 +0000 UTCthis is gold... ABBA Gold
rum sodomy and the clash
2023-02-15 12:25:21 +0000 UTCGonna keep an IKEA jokes counter
kLindberg
2023-02-15 12:21:25 +0000 UTC🇸🇪 represent
Christian Johnson
2023-02-15 12:10:38 +0000 UTCBest way to start the work day
Wingrider
2023-02-15 12:03:12 +0000 UTCInject it into my veins
Nick
2023-02-15 12:02:36 +0000 UTC
