Robert concludes the story of T.E. Lawrence by getting into the real bastardry of his life, including a pretty heinous war crime!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What's murdering 75 men in hand-to-hand combat? Margaret, have you killed 75 men in hand-to-hand combat? I've been told to not comment on this until I'm more certain about a few steps. I would fucking follow you into war so fast. I'd be like, yes. Yes, boss. Where are we going? To me, Let me grab my axe.
Let's go.
That's going to be conditional for me on what kinds of men you count when you're killing, right? Like, Oda didn't count Turks. Do you count Turks if you kill them in hand-to-hand combat? These are the questions that I need to know. Yeah, no, chuds are the ones that are not certain count. You don't count? No chuds, yeah.
Yeah, no, I refer to my truck as a chud truck, and people think I refer to it as a chud truck because it looks like a truck a chud would drive, but actually it's just very good at... Anyway. Oh, I would have been a truck guy. I think we can all agree on that. Yes. It's a shame that none of these people live long enough to see the Hilux.
I know. It's tragic. He was born for the Hilux. Oh, my God. Can you imagine how much Lawrence would have loved the Hilux?
I got my oil changed recently by this guy who was trying to tell me about why it's worth it to import a Hilux. Absolutely. You don't have to convince me, brother. The cost of importing the Hilux. He went over all of the prices of all of the importing the Hilux. And I was like, this no longer seems worth it. I thought the point of it was that it was cheaper than the other Toyota trucks. Yeah.
The point of it is that it's a Hilux, you know? That's just got some flair you can't replace. It has high classiness. It's in the name. Yeah. I do feel some... I can understand Lorenz better now that I've gone into battle in the back of a Hilux in the fucking Arab world. Driven across Syria, yeah. In an up-armored Hilux, yeah. That is a good life experience to have for really getting T.E. Lorenz.
Yeah. Yeah, it would have been a lot of fun, probably, if we got to blow up a bridge or two. But that wouldn't have been helpful in the situation we were in. No, just strategic, scientifically. Scientific. And I have no idea how to really do that. I would just blow up the bridge. Yeah. Yeah. Now, when we discuss T.E.
Lawrence, particularly when we try to answer the question, was he a bastard, you know, sitting at our computers in the fall of 20? Have we been forgetting to do cold opens, haven't we, Sophie? We just do them and then Daniel cuts them in later. Daniel cuts them in later. He's a hero. I don't know. Does Dan... Sorry. It's fine.
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