It really is fundamental to understanding why people like Columbus and de Gama were the way they were from knowing the state of Europe at the time. They were violent and desparate mercenaries from a violent and desparate place, when they arrived anywhere their first thoughts were "ok, what can I immediately loot and sell here, if I don't come back with something good my debtors are gonna cut my balls off"
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackWolfFeed/comments/oj7mzt/540_its_coming_rome_feat_patrick_wyman_71221/
On another note, I thought the first Hell of Presidents was actually mostly decent and focused a lot on the actual motivations of the constitution writers.
I could listen to about 80 more episodes of Hell of Presidents. I find it much more entertaining listening to Matt go on his strange rants in a semi-controlled manner.
I think having another person on helps keep Matt in the sweetspot of rants that connect actually existing historical lines. On his vlogs he can roll off on a crazy tangent at times; this was better.
I am already feeling sad about it being over despite that being so far off. I hope they come back and jump around with some additional episodes on some of our favs