Hell on Earth - Episode 10: A NEW GOD
Added 2023-03-15 11:00:04 +0000 UTCCommonwealth, Restoration, Glorious Revolution: we complete England’s cycle of political instability and, with a little help from our old friends the Dutch, birth a new order into the world.
Interactive atlas, bibliography and credits for the series can be found at: hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com
This is the end of the narrative portion of our series, thank you all so much for listening. But fear not: There’s more Hell to come. We have seven (7) bonus episodes coming up featuring interviews with guest experts on specific thematic topics we wanted to dive into more. Release schedule will remain weekly on Wednesdays through mid-April, with Will’s Movie Mindset series debuting right after.
Comments
Hell of an ending, fellas. 12/10
Elias Hartwood
2025-06-09 22:26:16 +0000 UTCListening to this whole series again, and I suddenly remembered that James Joyce once put the entirety of Restoration culture into 6 words, namely "The time of the great talkers"
Michael S. Judge
2024-07-20 16:07:14 +0000 UTCGuess it went right over my head :(
Peter Sullivan
2024-01-19 23:22:25 +0000 UTCThis series is the EU4 of podcasts
Olivia Kali
2024-01-19 15:40:33 +0000 UTCYou can do a game of Eu4 as England where the 5th Monarchists take over. It’s really rare and hard to make that happen, but it creates probably the most uniquely powerful but also challenging form of government in the game
Jason Olaru-Hagen
2023-05-29 08:17:59 +0000 UTCBanger outro gave me chils❤️
Scot Forsythe
2023-04-14 04:22:11 +0000 UTCGreat series and i'm looking forward to the addendums! Gotta admit though, it is jarring how scripted Matt sounded. Nonetheless, an absoute fantastic listen 👏
Yoopup
2023-04-13 03:43:26 +0000 UTCChris I’m so god damn impressed by your work on this series. You’ve heard it already but this really was a fantastic, epic journey. My thanks to you, Matt and everyone who had their hand in this project
Daniel Baylor
2023-04-12 13:38:17 +0000 UTCJust a point of information. It didn't require the postwar US hegemony to force the whole world to be capitalist. That had already been achieved by European imperialism, and especially by the British Empire as the most widespread and proactive variant. See Imperialism Pioneer of Capitalism by Bill Warren. What the US has been doing since taking over the gig of global imperialism as a whole has been preventing countries escaping from capitalism, and wherever possible forcing escapees back into the prison of private property, market relations, and national level dictatorships to prevent democracy and its potential to enable further bouts of socialism.
Patrick Holt
2023-04-03 08:53:42 +0000 UTCnothing is written
Hayley
2023-03-26 22:17:08 +0000 UTCReally, really fucking good guys. Amazingly good, enlightening on things I thought I knew and I learned a tonne I didn't . My single criticism - not even a snippet of kurious oranj around the glorious revolution as a fall fan, Chris?? Come on man! Get it together, Jack
Yossarian
2023-03-24 20:36:42 +0000 UTCAn absolute masterpiece gentlemen! I needed to hear that ending.
PJ Martinez
2023-03-23 18:11:19 +0000 UTCGreat summation at the ending!
Michael Dobson
2023-03-22 16:01:33 +0000 UTCFuck that was good
SlowTrickle
2023-03-22 15:48:04 +0000 UTCthat's a joke. they meant to say mel gibson because mel gibson is antisemitic and mel brooks is jewish. they riffed on it for 5 minutes afterwards
etienne
2023-03-22 01:00:28 +0000 UTC@ 53:40 min mark Will says “the great Mel Gibson” when he meant Mel Brooks. Both are “great” depending on which ways you look but a funny slip up nonetheless
Peter Sullivan
2023-03-22 00:05:18 +0000 UTCThis series was fucking fantastic need more Matt & Chris content
Elai Kehler
2023-03-21 21:56:01 +0000 UTCbenis
nick
2023-03-20 13:36:48 +0000 UTCFuck you guys! Thanks for the bonus episodes! Looking forward to re listen to the whole series again.
Phil Gushulak
2023-03-20 05:42:42 +0000 UTCWhen you Of in the hot food
Matt James Rich
2023-03-19 07:40:55 +0000 UTCThose monologues at the end were so good. Excellent work fellas.
Mark Niziolek
2023-03-18 23:05:58 +0000 UTCExcellent series, tyvm!
Adam Brennan
2023-03-18 19:57:41 +0000 UTCSeems a little suss you haven't had a single guest on that lived during the 30 years war....
Jesse DeStasio
2023-03-18 15:59:58 +0000 UTCFantastic job, a dence, coherent, and unique podcast that will stand the test of time. Can't wait for more.
Andrew Argraves
2023-03-18 03:04:50 +0000 UTCYes would love to hear Spanish revolutionary history expounded on
fuzz
2023-03-18 01:07:20 +0000 UTCPhenomenal series. Whatever the path for Chapo holds, i hope that these become a regular occurrence or permanent spinoff. Now tell me about the Spanish Civil War!
Caelan McCracken
2023-03-18 00:00:09 +0000 UTCWhat an amazing history podcast. Never hard to follow. Entertaining as hell and illuminating things I never knew about the origins of capital and how that relates to us even now.
James Wallace
2023-03-17 19:49:58 +0000 UTC7 bonus episode, thank Allah I was so sad to reach the end. This series is fantastic!
Xio Dio
2023-03-17 19:47:27 +0000 UTCThis was so good. Thank you all so much for making this 🙏
Drew Middleton
2023-03-17 19:35:12 +0000 UTCI would implore anyone who listened to this episode to go watch the 2020 animated feature Wolfwalkers. It is a very kid-friendly fantasy movie that takes place in Kilkenny, Ireland in 1650. It gives a really thorough and satisfying depiction of the social order and characters one would actually encounter in one of these major Cromwellian Irish settlements of the time, complete with an arch-villainous Lord Protector, completely consumed with a fanatical and nearly incoherent project of Godly duty, acting as the antagonist. The politics of the movie are simple and clear but also powerful and righteous. Run, don't walk, etc.
MinkL0af
2023-03-17 16:20:53 +0000 UTCThanks so much guys. Hope there will be more of this type of stuff but no pressure. Hell on Earth was worth several years of my Patreon money
Bill Crotts
2023-03-17 15:31:25 +0000 UTCAbsolutely incredible series guys. Huge shout out to you two and everyone else who helped out. Very much looking forward to the bonus content
Colin McFadzen
2023-03-17 14:48:02 +0000 UTCTerrific series! Thank you
Erik Coates
2023-03-17 06:51:12 +0000 UTCIncredible series. Thank you Matt and Chris
Alex Greenberg
2023-03-17 04:53:16 +0000 UTCWhat an absolute ride. Had such a good time listening to this. Gave me that blow back fix I needed but with AP Euro content
S
2023-03-17 00:29:00 +0000 UTCThe more recent series The Devil’s Whore (starring Andrea Riseborough, with Michael Fassbender as Rainsborough & Dominic West as Cromwell) is a good leveller-friendly dramatisation.
Raoul Lundberg
2023-03-17 00:03:40 +0000 UTCHelluva closing monologue, boys.
Sean Orr
2023-03-16 22:35:14 +0000 UTCNutted my drawers the second I heard “7 bonus episodes”
Clammy_Damp
2023-03-16 21:48:46 +0000 UTCGotta say this was amazing. Chris and Matt’s talks are a 1000 times better than any religious sermon I ever heard. Besides the materialist analysis of the birth of capitalism, it had great little tidbits like how Princess Diana was a descendant of Beer George
Matthew Dunn
2023-03-16 21:06:54 +0000 UTCReally good shit lads, loved the closing bits from both of you.
Braedon
2023-03-16 20:00:36 +0000 UTCthe ascension of England seems like such a deus ex machina, the writers really ran out of ideas
Sandra
2023-03-16 19:45:36 +0000 UTCExcellent work thank you
Brendan Deery
2023-03-16 19:37:50 +0000 UTCI love the theme music. This show was packed with knowledge and good story telling. Two thumbs way up!
Suckinonachilidawg
2023-03-16 18:50:38 +0000 UTCA series on Napoleon... PLEASE
ClownBabee24
2023-03-16 17:21:05 +0000 UTCMatt sounds like a 10th grader asked to read paragraph 5 on p. 216 from the textbook for the class.
Daniel Kamen
2023-03-16 16:44:39 +0000 UTCThis is an amazing series, thank you for all of your work
Keenan Nilsen
2023-03-16 16:18:43 +0000 UTCWill you guys also release the music used in the series? The one that was playing when Matt was starting his final analysis rips.
Gurjot
2023-03-16 16:15:51 +0000 UTCThank you Matt and Chris for the excellent series.
Gurjot
2023-03-16 16:10:17 +0000 UTCI really hope you guys win some awards for this
Evan C.
2023-03-16 15:28:39 +0000 UTCGreat series thank you guys
Tyler Moss
2023-03-16 15:24:29 +0000 UTCStill listening but congratulations! The Wilhelm Scream gets me every time.
Mike Mariano
2023-03-16 15:24:05 +0000 UTCCan't even say what was the best part of this series: the depth of the research, the thematic organization of each episode, the perfectly timed sound effects, the music... bloody masterclass.
J Fitz
2023-03-16 14:54:43 +0000 UTCYou killed it. I hope you do more of these blowback-style miniseries.
calvin kilby
2023-03-16 14:19:19 +0000 UTCLOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH
Jennifer Reft
2023-03-16 13:30:55 +0000 UTCThe series is so dense yet so enjoyable and plays out like a true mini-series that I know I'll be starting from the beginning again very soon. Amazing replay value and great job!
Gumbo Pie
2023-03-16 13:27:02 +0000 UTCgreat series. compelling storytelling, amazing delivery, amazing soundtrack, so engaging start to finish. y'all have achieved something truly special here with this project, so thank you and congratulations!
Bobby Frith
2023-03-16 13:21:23 +0000 UTCGreat work yaddy yaddy ya, where can we listen to the soundtrack?
Salgarious
2023-03-16 12:56:34 +0000 UTCCongrats Chris and Matt on this incredible series.
Tom Sullivan
2023-03-16 12:54:35 +0000 UTCGreat work guys. Such a great series with a ridiculous amount of information. I'd have to listen to it 3 times just to get a functionable understanding of it.
Donald
2023-03-16 12:44:40 +0000 UTCVery well done. Hell of Presidents was great too. I hope you guys keep doing these. I know Matt is a big Civil War head. I'd love to hear that series.
Adam H.
2023-03-16 11:49:24 +0000 UTCCongratulations. Wonderful series 👍
Shartk
2023-03-16 10:41:42 +0000 UTCTremendous work guys
Don Friðrik Ólafsson
2023-03-16 10:05:03 +0000 UTCThank you. A fine example of historically materialist documentary radio programming. May I have some more please.
Carole Oleniuk
2023-03-16 08:49:06 +0000 UTCBravo on the series fellas! Still hope we get the Thirty Years War version of We Didn't Start the Fire!
Nimbly Bimbly As FUCK
2023-03-16 07:01:13 +0000 UTCCongratulations, boys. You did a good thing there. The whole series was great and the final summations were truly *mwah!* Looking forward to the bonus eps and beyond! Keep up the good work.
Alan
2023-03-16 03:49:16 +0000 UTCThis was a ride, god damn. Where's the ERFURT LATRINE DISASTER easter egg in the interactive atlas though?
skrrt vonnegut
2023-03-16 03:24:18 +0000 UTCThat was a brilliant series and a brilliant ending. I'm not particularly well read, but you guys made it quite accessible. I listened to the last little bit sitting in a nice warm bath, and it was deeply affecting. Thanks guys
Dan Anderson
2023-03-16 03:11:04 +0000 UTCThank you so much!
Joshua Russert
2023-03-16 01:23:54 +0000 UTCThis was so sick. You guys fucking rock. Thank you so much for being awesome and bringing the cleansing firehose of knowledge to the filthy unwashed peasantry.
Caz VanDevere
2023-03-16 00:44:38 +0000 UTCI’m really enjoying this series. And he’ll of presidents.
Andrew Johnson
2023-03-15 23:09:56 +0000 UTCHell of an ending, very well done.
Isaac Larkin
2023-03-15 22:37:11 +0000 UTCI’m so sad it’s oven already :,(
Carter Drake
2023-03-15 22:36:53 +0000 UTCGreat series guys, absolutely loved it. I do want to mention that Praise-God Barebones had a son, named If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebones, who changed his name to "Nicholas" after the Restoration and became a London property developer and free market economist
Madeleine Winters
2023-03-15 22:19:07 +0000 UTCThis lived up to the hype.
KatrinaJadeHelm
2023-03-15 22:07:52 +0000 UTCThis was so dope, Matt going from a pure riffer to working with more scripted content has been good to see
Andrew Cross
2023-03-15 22:00:14 +0000 UTCthe last 20 min had me sitting like Nelson seeing Andy Williams
Christian Kaiser
2023-03-15 21:46:05 +0000 UTCCongratulations that was an amazing series. That you both. Is there a place where I can download the main theme? I love it so much!
Stefan Catinella
2023-03-15 20:48:09 +0000 UTCBanger ending fellas
Matthew Silverman
2023-03-15 20:37:20 +0000 UTCWhat a send off Chris. It's always the end of the world and birth of a new one. Excellent series guys. I look forward to what you do next. This has happened before,and it'll happen again. So many instances in this series that parallel our own current state of affairs though through the lens/terms of the times.
James Browning
2023-03-15 20:26:38 +0000 UTCThis was so sick, thanks boys
David Wych
2023-03-15 20:20:05 +0000 UTCFantastic series guys
Justin Antonucci
2023-03-15 20:01:50 +0000 UTCSo glad you guys mentioned Drogheda in this one (excellent pronunciation btw)! I’ve lived there my whole life and even though the cromwellian conquest was centuries ago, a lot of what happened is still visible in the town. We have a street called scarlet street, because its said that the he killed so many people here that the streets ran red with blood, hence the name. Even though he killed hundreds of people here he gave us a pretty decent tourist trade as a result, so at the end of the day its not all bad
maudlin
2023-03-15 19:57:29 +0000 UTCIs Cromwell the Protestant Trotsky?
Major bit me
2023-03-15 19:36:23 +0000 UTCThis happened to my buddy Eric
Rohmer Simpson
2023-03-15 19:29:23 +0000 UTCFantastic series, well done guys! It took me a couple of eps to get my head around it, so I'm tempted to do a replay now that the main eps are out. Hope you do more of this in future.
Saga
2023-03-15 19:12:33 +0000 UTCMasterfully done. This series perfectly illustrates the value of history as a means of interpreting the present. When we feel overwhelmed by current events and fearful of the future, history can help put everything in context. At best it can inspire hope and action when people see the moment for what it is. Keep up the great work guys. It's been truly enlightening.
Dylan Schwaegel
2023-03-15 18:56:02 +0000 UTCI know this isn’t the last episode, but thanks Matt and Chris for this unreal series. Looking forward to the episodes every week has made my last semester of school bearable
Tim Mullen
2023-03-15 18:53:00 +0000 UTCFYI: There's a fictional and royalist-friendly version of the Protectorate and Restoration, By the Sword Divided, all episodes on YouTube. Fun fact, the actor (Peter Jeffrey) who played Oliver Cromwell in that series played Philip II of Spain in an earlier and more famous series, Elizabeth R. The actor has yet another turn at a very religious man, when he plays a tortured and imprisoned preacher sentenced to death in Henry VII Tudor's reign, in the series In the Shadow of the Tower. Honestly, it would be fun to listen to Matt comment through these 1970s-1980s costume dramas.
SJ
2023-03-15 18:35:33 +0000 UTCShould’ve closed the series with this https://youtu.be/8OyBtMPqpNY
NYCM&AHole
2023-03-15 18:30:53 +0000 UTCFinally mentioning the Irish.
dingbat44
2023-03-15 18:14:49 +0000 UTCAmazing. Can't wait for the bonus eps. Thanks for this beautiful and revolting history.
Johan Stefonski
2023-03-15 18:06:14 +0000 UTCI've shared a lot of Patrick Wyman content with my mom; the family that Pods together goes with God together
Gubriel
2023-03-15 17:42:47 +0000 UTCExcellent series guys! well done!
Steve Joseph
2023-03-15 17:16:51 +0000 UTCGreat job boys
jjmm
2023-03-15 17:00:18 +0000 UTCAlso TIL Royal Oak
Alec
2023-03-15 16:48:46 +0000 UTCTo Chris, Matt, and all the supporting cast, you did amazing work on this series!
Alec
2023-03-15 16:48:23 +0000 UTCListening from my hollowed out Oak tree. A stellar episode capping off a stellar series. I've actually listened to every episode with my Dad, who is *very* different politically, but weve found a nice common ground in this series. THANK YOU- this has been equal parts informative and entertaining. Chris gets extra points for the EXCELLENT production, but professor Matt was a star as always. Looking forward to whatever is on deck..
Degrassi Knoll
2023-03-15 16:45:59 +0000 UTCWow just wow
Mickey Gallz
2023-03-15 16:44:44 +0000 UTCGreat series! I would pay extra to get more content like this and less movie filler.
A Witherspoon
2023-03-15 16:37:33 +0000 UTCHey chapo, you've made something you should be proud of. This has been an amazing series. Please continue to make series like this in the future. Your research and commentary are incredibly digestible. I've been week to week for the next episode. Great, great work.
Scert
2023-03-15 16:26:52 +0000 UTCWell done fellas
Nixper
2023-03-15 16:02:26 +0000 UTCReally blew my hair back
JD
2023-03-15 15:43:47 +0000 UTCI could cry. Love both of you, love this series.
Jammy Cooks
2023-03-15 15:20:51 +0000 UTCSomething special this series. Really enjoyed it. Every episode is worth a relisten. It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.
JMB
2023-03-15 15:17:56 +0000 UTCFantastic series. Chris's philosophical ending of why they did this series paired perfectly with Matt's explanation of how to understand capitalism rise you have to look so much further afield than just the place it eventually manifested. Also serious respect the music for this series, they really made a harpsichord go hard.
Bryan Jennings
2023-03-15 15:16:59 +0000 UTCGoddamn, Chris, that ending hit HARD.
Robert Armstrong
2023-03-15 14:43:31 +0000 UTCIf there was one thing I learned in middle school in Leeds, it was the importance of the Battle of Leeds in 1643, on which the history of the whole human race turned…and you skipped it 500 guys slugging it out in the Main Street of town and that decided the whole of history thereafter. Surely worth a mention? 😉
Russell Sugden
2023-03-15 14:37:38 +0000 UTCA series on the 1848 revolutions would rock
Michael Ehrenreich
2023-03-15 14:37:04 +0000 UTCBravo, what a great series!
Robert Mehling
2023-03-15 14:27:24 +0000 UTCThank you for creating this excellent series. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the bonus episodes. Also.. greetings from Huntingdon, England
Ed Goddard
2023-03-15 14:24:30 +0000 UTCSo happy Matt said on the last stream that maybe the Spanish Civil War will be the next series - my family was tied into that war very closely and I think it's just a generally fascinating topic.
Gubriel
2023-03-15 14:08:21 +0000 UTC“Judgment day is inevitable” - the governator in T3
NYCM&AHole
2023-03-15 14:07:07 +0000 UTCOrange you glad I’m not Catholic?
C. Ries
2023-03-15 13:54:23 +0000 UTCFantastic series guys. I feel like I learned a lot.
J Vladcliff
2023-03-15 13:35:06 +0000 UTCSoundtrack will be available on bandcamp in the next two weeks or so.
Chapo Trap House
2023-03-15 13:29:35 +0000 UTCYes, please, 1M times.
Dan Hunter
2023-03-15 13:12:15 +0000 UTCBeautiful, just absolutely beautiful! "Gif of guy in movie theatre clapping in black and white"
James Cook
2023-03-15 12:57:18 +0000 UTCRE Cromwellian purge- check out The Irish of Montserrat for some wild modern day accents https://youtube.com/watch?v=PzxRuSh4bXo&feature=shares
Eoin Donnelly
2023-03-15 12:55:27 +0000 UTCSEXCELLENCE
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2023-03-15 11:16:03 +0000 UTCGreat but when are you making the soundtrack available?
Nikitas Fudukos
2023-03-15 11:08:36 +0000 UTCSubbed to the patreon for the first time for this series. Extremely worth it fellas!! Thanks so much for all the hard work.
Erik Bourre
2023-03-15 11:04:57 +0000 UTCYou followed my advice & look what happened
Christian Johnson
2023-03-15 11:02:36 +0000 UTCI am first!
Fap
2023-03-15 11:02:18 +0000 UTCI fucking did it !
Fap
2023-03-15 11:02:12 +0000 UTCa god of Content and Posting
etienne
2023-03-15 11:02:09 +0000 UTCFirst
Fap
2023-03-15 11:02:01 +0000 UTC
