Part One: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Robert tells Margaret Killjoy the whole story of Lawrence of Arabia, a British imperialist, hopeless romantic and asexual icon who invented the concept of modern insurgent war. Through it all we ask: was he a bastard?

(4 Part Series)

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Sattin, Anthony. The Young T. E. Lawrence (pp. 34-35). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

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0:00.0	Call Zone Media
0:02.9	Uh
0:04.6	What's
0:07.9	The Dodgers won the World Series
0:09.1	The Daughters won the World Series
0:10.1	That's not the opening
0:12.7	Anderson's dressed up as a Dodger
0:13.8	I was going to go for
0:15.4	She's dressed up as Kendall Roy
0:16.3	This is Behind the Bastards
0:18.1	A podcast where Robert is very disappointed
0:20.4	because I had a whole bit planned to do with my guest.
0:24.0	Margaret Kiljoy.
0:25.7	It's a good thing this is a four-parter. Do it next time.
0:28.3	Margaret, have you, have you, how do you feel about bringing back thylacine foxes, which are extinct?
0:36.3	That's the Tasmanian tiger.
0:37.7	But this company says they've got it figured out.
0:40.3	They're going to be able to clone them.
0:42.1	You know, I wish I was more against that kind of stuff than I am, but I'm a little bit on,
0:46.1	like, bring on the dinosaurs chaos.
0:49.3	I've got a plan for how we can, how we can make this work for the Democratic Party.
0:54.8	Well, Trump probably wants to bring back the Orochs.
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