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The Chapo Traphouse podcast did an entertaining miniseries on the 30 Years War (including the defenestration of Prague) in their Hell on Earth series: https://

• smcl 3y ago
  This series was a real missed opportunity for me. The Chapo guys’ strengths are in their off-the-cuff banter and the little in jokes that pop up again and again. Large parts of this series involved Matt reading flatly from a script, and somehow fucking up nearly every place name (referring to Magdeburg as Madge-burg was like nails on a chalkboard). I am sure they wrote their own script but that gave the series the vibe of a High-School student reading out a Wikipedia article. When Chris and Matt were bantering about Beer George and such it was great, but the rest was a bit disappointing. I’m one of the few within my friend group who love CTH (btw definitely check out their companion cast “Chapo FYM” - I’ve found myself more drawn to those guys and the bizarre lives of the YouTubers they focussed on over the last year or so)