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Top 3: Chapo Trap House

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Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Will Menaker and Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House join Paul & Amy on this week's crossover Unspooled! Matt shares three films to watch before listening to his new history miniseries Hell On Earth, including a Puritan horror folktale and a medieval breakthrough from a master satirist. Will announces his own upcoming miniseries and highlights three films on rails to help get into "movie mindset." Listen to both shows at patreon.com/chapotraphouse. Next week, tune in as we discuss Hollywood Shuffle! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to unspoiled.

0:27.3

Today on top three we are having two of the hosts of Chappell Trap House which you might

0:40.5

know as a left wing political podcast.

0:43.7

They are not afraid to speak their minds.

0:47.3

They can get into very contentious political discourses.

0:52.6

They have been behind books like Chappell's Guide to Revolution which came out a couple

0:59.2

of years ago and debuted number six in the New York Times bestseller list.

1:04.2

Both of them now are doing some special spin off shows on their Patreon.

1:10.8

These shows are really, really fun.

1:14.2

Hell on Earth is a show about the 30 years war.

1:19.2

That is hosted by Matt Chrisman and Chris Raid and Matt will be on the show today.

1:23.2

I really like this because I didn't know that much about the 30 years war and he goes

1:28.9

very deep into and we'll talk to him a little bit about it but it's a history podcast.

1:33.5

It really is a history podcast but it also looks at the 30 years war through the lens

1:37.3

of now and how there's a lot of similarities.

1:40.4

Yeah and he's put together for us a sort of viewing list if you will.

1:46.4

Please to watch if you want to get a feel for the tone of the 30 years war which as he's

1:51.1

going to say in a second it's hard because we haven't made a lot of movies about the 30

1:54.5

years war.

1:55.5

Yeah and so it's a companion piece.

1:57.0

If you've been listening to Hell on Earth which is on the Chappell trap house Patreon.

2:01.0

Now this is a way that you can kind of go in and out.

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