Dan constantly mentioning America
I was looking for a new history podcast to dig into after listening to History of Rome, History of Byzantium, Tides of History and a few other shorter ones.
I decided for Hardcore History as it is highly praised, bought the whole collection for $90, and have so far listened to Punic Nightmares and am halfway through the second episode of Death Throes of the Republic.
As someone who's mostly interested in ancient and medieval history, I find Dan's constant need to find reasons to mention America very off putting. It feels like every couple of minutes he'll find a reason to mention some Civil War general, some battle or some President.
None of that means anything to me as I know only the broad outlines of American history, but I can understand perhaps a large portion of his audience is American in which case such parallels can be fun/interesting for them which is okay.
But, just now, he was talking about a consul dying in battle, and for some reason he had the need to say "can you imagine a US president dying in battle?" Why would I need to imagine that? Why wouldn't I just imagine a Roman consul dying in battle? The comparison brings nothing to the topic, it just breaks the mental image I as a listener am trying to create when immersing myself in a totally different world these people lived in.
Is this a constant across all his shows? Anyone else bothered by it?