A History Teacher Reacts | "T.E. Lawrence of Arabia" by Sabaton History

[Music] hey YouTube and welcome back to another history teacher reacts video mr. Terry to continue my search for historical knowledge here on the Internet alright today's video is a follow-up to the newly released as of recent leak obviously when I'm making these videos of sabatons music video for Seven Pillars of wisdom the story of TE Lawrence also known as Lawrence of Arabia so that video they just premiered a couple days ago and I watched it gave my reaction I was super excited when I heard that they were making that video because that's one of my favorite songs on the album maybe possibly my favorite and they just did such a good job of not just making a good song but just kind of this I don't anthemic song like a lot of theirs are if you don't know who sabaton is they are a Swedish metal band that focuses on history content it just makes a perfect mix of great things for you know myself because it was that band was actually shown to me by by viewers but great for this community so if you had not seen the music video definitely go check that out you can look in my previous videos of the last week and you'll see if you want to see a reaction to it but I would definitely just go go watch the actual video with the original video right outside of my content or our yeah my my reaction video but anyway what they what's what's something that's so cool about sabaton is they'll often follow these songs up with a video about the history of whatever it is that the song was about and they team up with any neidell was a great history video producer and has great stuff of his own and they combine those and it's pretty awesome puzzle school India was he actually played T Lawrence in the in the music video so that was cool wonder if that was he thought that was cool to kind of reenact that but anyway I'm super excited about this the T Lawrence story I was first schon about it in school and had was doing some research on specifically what one of my my biggest research projects that I did in college my senior thesis was on the Balfour Declaration so I was researching a lot about Arab history and the British involvement with with the Arabia and of course TE Lawrence is big in that context but that was my first introduction of and then of course I watched Lawrence of Arabia the big epic movie about TE Lawrence but the whole Lawrence of Arabia story really does not get a lot of study on its own as an actual impact of the war and I'm hoping they get into that and we hear more about that sort this is a fascinating story that I'm into also side note the T Lawrence campaign in battlefield one was also really fun I did a playthrough of that a few weeks ago and I know it's just interesting part I've been on really the almost this last about six months just about since I started the channel I've been on a world war one kick and it's just everything's kind of come into place with the newest Sabaton album and then we got a bunch of good content that came out recently from World War one and also I mean it's been that the world war one hundred year anniversary as well but then also with the upcoming 1917 movie you know a lot of good things happening for for World War one studies right now so I'm excited to get into this let's go ahead and check this out so this is their history video on TE Lawrence I'm hoping to they talk more about how the video is made I was asking people if they actually filmed in in Arabia of some kind and I guess people were telling me in the comments that was Tunisia but I'm interested to know a little more about the background for the video of what they use cuz the set was really cool too but I really want to hear the history behind you know T Lawrence as well so let's go ahead and do this if you like this original video make sure you go down below give them a like and subscribe please please please do that if you only have one sub to give one like to give give it to them alright let's go ahead and jump in this is your came from sabaton and I'm Lawrence of Arabia abital history yo Keem so this is not a regular studio we are in fact standing in the Sahara Desert because we're filming the video for the sabaton song Seven Pillars of wisdom which of course is the title of the book that Lorenz wrote he did let's learn all about it yes do it I haven't read the book if you have read it tell me what you think of it is it a good read is it useful could you just get it summarized and hit it is it really like a good literary literary piece let me know if you if you've read the actual Seven Pillars of wisdom book the Great War late 1915 British High Command frustrated about the war's progress not only was the Western Front as bloody and immobile as ever the attacks at Gallipoli had yet to bear any fruit and the success of the cook al-ahmar expedition in Mesopotamia was uncertain um if you wanted to know more about the attack of Gallipoli they also did a song on it cliffs of Gallipoli and the I'm data history episode and actually watch that too if you want a reaction to it but that's something you can check into into this context of fighting the Ottoman Empire in World War one which was the protagonist right or antagonists I should say of this of this story the need to open yet another front seam pressing too many but forces were spread thin with really the last available contingent sent to Egypt to safeguard the Suez Canal which the Ottomans had attacked earlier in the year but in Cairo a new opportunity arose as the Sharif of Mecca Hussein bin Ali of the Hashemites offered the British a deal the Sharif dreamed of building an independent Islamic caliphate and in exchange for assistance in terms of money guns and supplies would call upon the Arabs to revolt against Ottoman rule the British chief of intelligence there Gilbert Clayton was intrigued so yeah I mean the the the British are fighting with the Allies and the Central Powers course the Ottoman Empire joins just to go back to put some more context of why this was important let me go back can we find a good spot on the map here okay so the the key thing that the Ottoman Empire controls for this war is the Straits the Dardanelles right the connection between the Mediterranean the Black Sea which of course is a sea route that could could potentially connect Western Europe like France and Britain to Russia who was an ally of the of the Allies of course and was struggling for a lot of things and could have used a resupply or reinforcements from the West to help them and the attack of Gallipoli was that attempt of trying to break through a passage here between the Dardanelles are in the Dardanelles and try to connect that Strait of water and of course historically it was a massive backfire for the British as then I only lost a ton of people but also it's they never able to actually open that up it also ended at least temporarily Winston Churchill's career as he was one of the major people that was behind it as well so this fighting the Ottoman Empire the Ottoman Empire gets overlooked mostly a lot of people just like to focus even understand German even there's a lot of belligerence to this war but people often really forget the power of the Ottoman Empire and how difficult it actually was to to defeat them and maybe that's why the T Lawrence stories is so important because of the impact that he's gonna have so let's continue to learn the her but that was just a little bit I thought I'd add for you guys Suez obviously right I mean that's like for example the British have always tried used and your nations have tried to use to connect the Mediterranean into the Indian Ocean which cuts down travel to Asia considerably had attacked earlier in the year but in Cairo a new opportunity arose as the Sharif of Mecca Hussein bin Ali of the Hashemites offered the British a deal the Sherif dreamed of building an independent Islamic caliphate and in exchange for assistance in terms of money guns and supplies would call upon the Arabs to revolt against Ottoman rule the British which are intelligence their Gilbert Clayton was intrigued an Arab force running in the Ottomans rear disrupting the stability of the Empire from within was quite a proposal though an independent Arab state on the Arabian Peninsula and in the north from Syria to Mesopotamia as the Sherif envisioned was absolutely not in the Anton's interest well negotiations dragged on until March 1916 when Clayton succeeded in drawing in the Arabs without making concrete concessions instead British High Command let the Arabs think they would get a triumphant entry into the holy sites and would even take Damascus an arab army would be creative I mean those the holy sites for Islamic history opened entry into the holy sites and would even take Damascus so yeah Mecca right the origination of Islam Medina where Prophet Muhammad and early Muslims got their success on that up into Damascus with later caliphates being an important capital okay so you're seeing a little bit more about what the Arabs have to gain out of this which I mean especially if it's coming from a religious motivation right which they're trying to set up a Caliphate which is a government run by Islamic leaders and they would like to do that without the Ottoman interference right Ottoman Empire has always had a hard time dealing with some more of the religious fundamentalists inside of their empire while trying to also stay modernized and somewhat westernized it's been a big issue and was one of the hardest things for the Ottoman Empire to keep control of those how do you balance that modern modernity with the Islamic conservatism that was also always a big part of Ottoman history an Arab army would be created accompanied by carefully chosen British officers one such man there is more hummus Edward Lawrence on the left as a young man Lawrence had been charmed by Charles Montague Doty's travels in Arabia desert earth and chose to study what was then called Orientalism but which was Middle Eastern Studies and the Arabic language almost looks kadian right there the cool reliefs there okay so he was also influenced by others Brigit Imperials in the religion our region has been so big since especially since the British made a colony out of India the going through Egypt and Arabia was a huge part because they especially the Suez Canal because that's how they connected their empire with India being the most important colony that the British ever had then called Orientalism but which was Middle Eastern Studies and the Arabic language now he was neither an imposing figure standing only 165 tall that's five foot five those of you who don't do meters but he compensated with intelligence passion and a fair amount of showmanship he was assigned to the British Museum opponent of the British over-exaggeration of height officer corps in Egypt spending most of his time collecting the necessary maps about the Near East and supervising the decoding of telegrams between Gallipoli and Cairo Lawrence's expertise in the cultural geographical religious characteristics of the region made him an ideal candidate for this new mission some da I just wanna listen to the song over and over again get pumped up that way such a good song check it out if you haven't heard Seven Pillars of wisdom it's it's so good a June 1916 Lawrence and a group of British officers were on their way to support the Arab revolt that had been proclaimed by Faisal the son of the Sharif of Mecca he is if I saw is like the biggest figure of this entire revolt in trying to organize it the paper I had written that I talked about earlier was specifically the Arab response to the Balfour Declaration which is what paved the way in a way for the creation of Israel and a Jewish homeland in Palestine he was a big a big figure in this in this context here so yeah if there's a biggest leader in there you probably wanna go with Faisal although there's there's other Arab people that are involved in it Berber Vault it had been proclaimed by Faisal the son of the sheriff of Mecca in and around Mecca the rebels had already overwhelmed the small Ottoman Garrison's however the great revolution had failed to materialize there were some intellectual circles in the big cities who supported the idea of an independent Arab state but the bulk of the population had remained Pro Ottoman the deliberate revolutionary conflagration did not materialize you wonder what that was in a result of then what made people hold on to the Ottoman ideals rather than the Arab is it just because a powerful and an idea of power and stability and modernization and that kind of thing didn't think that it was compatible with what the Sherif wants and with this this rebel group wants I thought it would have been far more Pro revolt in Arabia Ottoman soldiers were not deserting in droves to the Sherif as hoped Faisal welcomed Lawrence into his camp though and had him dressed in Arab clothes this was an important gesture wearing the looser Arab dress instead of the tight British uniform he visibly became part of the Arab culture and slowly gained the trust of the other tribesmen Lawrence slipped into his Arab skin as he called it and could freely move in and out of Faisal tent while the British High Command judged the value of the Arab revolt clearly by the numbers of rebels or the amounts of rifles cannons and gold they had to supply them with Lawrence began to understand the Arab struggle and their desire to live freely according to their religion and their customs that was the thing with with Lawrence always saying is he like fell in love with the people and he fell in love with the land right the sands of Arabia are calling like the song and referred to that at least if you especially look at the Hollywood versions again I haven't read Seven Pillars of wisdom the actual text but I know that that's Lawrence of Arabia the the film took a lot from that and that was one of the big themes was how much he loved Arabia as he spent weeks on end traveling with them through the desert the more he came to know them the less he supported the British Empire for its arrogance towards lesser civilizations and it's ignorance of the Arab world on the other hand though Loren it's important because now is they gonna be seen as a traitor right they talk about that in the end of the song is it what's the line is a tree is a treason distressed or I forgot the end of the line and the I think in the bridge of the song but you can see what that's coming if he's starting to now sympathize with again a lesser people as British imperialism often reflected upon other people France knew very well he could never fully become one of them he could make the tribesman respect him or even befriend him but he would still forever be an infidel to them he felt that a shadow of loneliness and contempt for the world was creeping over him more and more he felt like he was playing a role an actor on the world stage moving from one civilization to the other sometimes he was a British officer leading the Arab revolt revolver in hand and then sometimes he was a traveler in Arab clothing riding for days on end through the desert on Camelback by the end of 1916 fizzles host had been pretty much constantly on the run from the Ottoman army the Bedouin were tough and fearsome warriors sure but totally unaccustomed to the tactics of modern war beta ones are the one of the the super-famous of nomadic trader groups that have existed in Saudi Arabia for four centuries the people that can actually survive and the harshness of the Arabian desert and make a life out of it as Caravan traders and stuff like that pretty pretty incredible they were able to survive and only survive a thrive for generations in those conditions they were not willing to dig trenches and even if they were persuaded to dig them they refused to get into them they wanted a mobile fight as they had had for generations attacking Saul they worried and in a fury and if things didn't go their way or they were outgunned they retreated and invaded their enemies and I mean it's how you have to fight a traditional army if you are beta in cultures you can't you can't fight the Ottomans you can't fight the British or whatever in a traditional war they'll they'll Nile eat you you have to use the tactics that give you an advantage those nomadic hit-and-run tactics that those people have grown up the mobility is ingrained in their culture and it'd be foolish not to use that Lawrence had to accept that he could not turn the Bedouin into modern soldiers although courageous they were easily spooked by artillery fire and the sight of a single airplane could throw them into disarray they could be trained to work machine guns and handle explosives easily enough but would not parade like European armies nor could they be drilled and ordered around so Lawrence had to work differently with them once more the British financed an army for Faisal recruiting thousands of eager warriors from the local tribes they made for the city of [ __ ] and overwhelmed the surprised Ottoman garrison slaughtering the defeated troops and plundering everything of value in fact the Bedouin leaders refused to carry on until they finished celebrating it was customs nowhere else was it more like what fun is a success if you don't celebrate right geez but I grated not a great military tactics hoe obvious help modernity clashed with old traditions the other their mobility it's what they use these people I mean camels perfect you have it fighting on camel horseback that's our depending on them can be actually very very fast and suited better than than other animals but the mobility is where these people get that advantage they're really the only advantage they have everything else they're gonna have to steal or whatever to make any kind of dent into the Ottoman Empire and to their heart so yeah sabotage things and they could happen that way so through the long desert rides in an environment totally unknown to most of his people at home lawrence tried to figure out how to maximize the strength of Bedouin warfare they avoided the main ottoman units and instead waited in ambush for smaller reserve units or supply columns in guerilla fashion they rated minor camps and attacked telegraph stations and were more of a nuisance than a real threat to the empire yeah it would be so annoying your train lines are getting robbed your telegraph lines are getting cut but remember this is the only thing that these people can do and it does yeah it will make an impact it will I mean anytime you can distract the enemy and that's can indirectly help another ally right I'd like the traditional British army that is until they set their sights on a major lifeline of the Empire the Hejaz railway that ran between Damascus and Medina Lawrence led the ambushes laying mines and explosives on the railway line then at the crucial moment as the mines exploded the locomotive derailed he let the Arabs loose supported by Lewis machine guns the Arabs first shot the carriages to pieces and then stormed the wreckage with scimitars and daggers killing the survivors the Arabs were fighting like devil his sweat blurring their eyes dust parching their throats while the flame of cruelty and revenge which was burning in their bodies so twisted them that their hands could hardly shoot is that from Lawrence by my order we took no prisoners yeah the only time in our war but way above our we took no prisoners for the only time in our war so Lawrence is ruthless I mean they're just slaughtering the survivors at everything yikes by the end of 1917 the British had plumbed nearly two million pounds worth of gold into the saddlebags of the Sharif and his sons and not without reason was Lawrence called the man with the gold and the constant losses on the Hejaz railway and the British offensives in Palestine had put steady pressure on the Ottoman forces allowing the Arabs to move more freely the capture of Aqaba solidified Lawrence's reputation as a Bedouin leader and more and more Arabs began joining his host even as Ottoman protection money was drying up by September 1918 the Palestine front finally collapsed under the stubborn Knights an agent this is the end of the war the war actually officially the fighting will be over in two months on November 11th but yeah hold on sorry I talked over though drying up my September 1918 the Palestine front finally collapsed under the weight of the British offensives the Ottoman army was in full retreat and chaos raged from Palestine to Syria most of the holy land fell under British control and together with Lawrence's Bedouins they pursued the disorganized Ottomans but this phase of the fight showed another side of the guerrilla war yeah well it was not just romantic camel rides in the desert the brutality of the Arabs was well known but it became so problematic that British officers even sometimes allowed their prisoners to keep their guns to defend themselves against the better ones Wow so it's like British capture these Ottomans but they fear the safety of their captives from other groups within that Empire that must be saying Allah I mean it mean just from T Lawrence not holding back the brutality but he also it sounded like I mean just from that quote he kind of condoned it and supported it and as the Allied forces moved on Damascus it also became clear the British had no intention of allowing the Arabs their own independent caliphate so this okay so this is where the arabs get kind of screwed out of the deal right is that's what they are hoping for they're gonna get a state right look up I don't know if they're gonna get to sykes-picot agreement that basically creates these mandates in the Middle East dividing it up and dividing it up on a lot of difficult lines that are going to prevent unity in the future as well and here's where a lot of distrust is going to come from the West which they feel like even if the the promises weren't formalized at the beginning that they will these assumed promises will be broken for the independent state and the independence how that would actually look like of how poorly they're I mean honestly how poorly the British handle this instead the Middle East should be split up in spheres of influence among the British and French as soon as the Ottomans had lost control over it the economic and geo strategic importance of the region oil were too important after all they had signed the sykes-picot secret agreement already in 1916 with the lands carved up by lines just drawn on a map with no regard for tribal or religious boundaries that is huge that is HUGE they you look at the lines and they look very arbitrary they are not cultural you're gonna be grouping people that the Western world has always misunderstood or just was completely ignorant of the tribal history of the Middle East to them it's just like oh they're all just Muslim Arabs it is so much deeper than that it's also a big reason though why this this push back by the Arab world there will not be a pan-arab movement a long-term successful and because there was too many differences within themselves even major major differences like Sunni and Shia split but then the sex sex within the sects and again it's a tribal place people have grown up in tribes that's how the Arab world has always been going back to pre Islam I mean that's that's how it's been specially you know Arabia a lot of people understand that a lot of when you think of like Persia or something like that a lot of times they did not actually control Arabia because it was difficult to take and was not useful at least to them in in the Imperial sense so this is a big deal and is going to help influence the this mismanagement is gonna help influence a lot of the difficulties the Middle East has had especially since World War one an agreement which bears a fair amount of blame for a hundred years of Middle Eastern strife absolutely Lawrence found himself confronted with events moving beyond his control as the Great War ended Arab independence seemed to be further away than ever and he soon a hero to the British public felt like a traitor he published his experiences in his book the Seven Pillars of wisdom yeah it's like how is he gonna answer to these Arabs I mean they put their faith in him they made a human he was like a hero a heroic figure and now he's gonna have to answer for the British who you already saw during the war was not as compassionate towards them as he started understanding the plight of the Arab world and now it contrasts the image that British materialism had towards these types of people the cabinet raised the Arabs to fight for us by definite promises of self-government afterwards Arabs believed in person not in institutions they saw in me a free agent of the British government and demanded from me an endorsement of it's written promises so I had to join the conspiracy and from what my word was worth assured the men of their reward that's gonna make him feel crappy they don't get anything out of it in our two years partnership under fire they grew accustomed to believing me and to think my government like myself sincere in this hope they performed some fine things but of course instead of being proud of what we did together I was bitterly ashamed TE Lawrence would soon become the legend Lawrence of Arabia a modern Robin Hood to the British public his tale was a tale of courageous fighting of distant journeys and exotic oriental adventure although it is often hard to tell what truly happened and what was Lawrence's exaggeration and dramatization and that is still debated by historians today his legendary status is unquestionable and like the Red Baron it has lived on for a hundred years after the Great War great so yeah I mean you're yeah so you're seeing I mean he's again I haven't read Seven Pillars of wisdom but I wonder - how if did T Lawrence know that these promises weren't going to be fulfilled like did he have that at least that inkling that this wouldn't happened yeah anyway yeah it's how Indy in the United the narrator here he plays T Lawrence in this you know he is he is him and it looked too much like Peter O'Toole and Peter O'Toole the guy that plays him he does look pretty good he's a you know super famous actor for you you old people as much our young people much much older than my generation of films - but I'm sure Andy thought it was pretty cool the sets so cool from the show did you ever actually read 7 I did I never actually read the whole book you think I would but I never I never have I was about to give up several times it's just the way he writes but it was really cool to read it anyway I'm happy now because there were certain elements in that we continued like working because it's a location that we can use in video I mean he's actually your king he he has said that a few times he'll read because he's an avid history reader and reads a lot of this stuff these famous texts and and books and journals and stuff from soldiers and things and inspires him to read it there's a bunch of of these he's right up these more just classic historians and he's like gosh it's just it's so boring and they take twice as long to say something they could say it half the time and it's funny that he won't he won't back down from that if it's like he doesn't like the text yeah didn't like it but you know he's like I almost stopped you know glad I read I glad I read Seven Pillars of wisdom but I had all decided to stop bunch of times but even with that it's it's neat that he can still respect the story and the content of the story and it can still be an inspiration to him to make of course this great song from a text he was like yeah but I mean his god he did it probably for the historical importance of it I mean there okay there's a lot of pros and cons with filming in the Sahara Desert yes well why don't you tell them about some of the pros and some of the cons Oh top pro is well first time here for me it's an amazing place it's okay it thing is it's really peaceful and it's really Zen and it's really open and expansive but after you've been here for like two hours you realize that even if I had all the water I wanted if I was here for a day I died yeah I mean it is it is deadly people underestimate the power of Serra the Sahara is as big as the United States um it's also why it almost made Africa into two continents for centuries northern Africa and southern half in sub-saharan Africa developed in a lot of ways almost completely independent of each other sub-saharan culture and northern culture totally changed what changed that eventually was northern Muslims or at northern Africans when Islam came and and really swept through northern Africa the Islamic world was one of Trade and the sub-saharan Africa was a huge untapped market especially in West West Africa but again because of the vastness and the devastating nature of the Sahara there was very very little at interaction across the Sahara and north to south and you can see why it's it's a very inhospitable place become really brutal that fast it's when the wind starts to blow about it because the sand when we were shooting there well the musical part of the video and I'm singing I always sing along to the track because if I just basically move my mouth it doesn't look very good so I'm actually singing along and once the wind starts blowing you get sand so I think I've swallowed what you look great oh thanks I can see myself in your glasses I'm thinking I look great oh yeah they cast me friends and all as Lawrence of Arabia but the Peter O'Toole version from the iconic movie soft a voice I you killed him he was my friend now if you look over there you can see a green thing that is the alesis where the where the resort and hotel is that we're staying there are these owaisi's across the Hara that would that is what even makes it possible to can did that I'm having to map those out because without those there's no way you could cross the Sahara north to south again it's a desert of size the United States and having to find those and map those out was necessary for anything to happen even you don't even want to stay in those owaisi's area so a Caesar just places that do have access to water and do have some resources because there is a faint water table underneath the Sahara because it used to be a used to be an ocean at some point prehistory but that's why those exists but that's cool it would be cool to stay at a you know hotel in an oasis in Sahara just to get that experience that would be awesome we're staying in tents yep tents that have toilets and showers and not in the tents however we only have air conditioning between 7:00 in the evening and I did mention that we're in the Sahara Desert so it's fairly warm yeah and imagine how great it is to get up 4:30 in the morning go and have breakfast it is actually quite great and then you drive out here for the first time which is also great right and then you should do your first shoots here and it's great and then it's 9 o'clock yeah and you want a nap and you go back to the tent and it's 50 degrees in the tent that's Celsius by the way yeah not so great yeah 1200 degrees that's awful I'd heard all if they're gonna stay in the video but some of the people that I were answering my question about where did they film this so it was in Tunisia we in northern Africa so that's good people also told me that while here they had the band had a horrific car accident that messed him up pretty badly for a while they were to recover but it was heard it was pretty bad they look more into that though and then you say oh the air conditioning was not working and they go no only seven to seven yeah that's crazy they only do the air conditioning for night time it's like in day it's like now maybe because it's just it's so hot that air conditioning it's it's too it's a waste like it's a waste you gotta like not be there during those hours because they run them two a day here in Tunisia when we first got to listen to the album you know even before you release it this was my favorite song on the album that's awesome so his favorite that's cool I went to the show they they just finished up an American tour and I went to one of the shows they didn't play it though I was I was kind of disappointed I mean it's hard because they have such a huge catalogue of like 20 years of songs off the new album they played great war 82nd all the way the Red Baron was that it from the new album I was really hoping they would play seven pillars of wisdom but fortunately they did not I was kind of sad but again I know they have such a huge catalogue I just I loved the new album and that was the first album I heard from that well I guess I had heard some of the other songs but like the first real full album cuz it was still pretty new when I cuz they came out in this past years towards the end of 2018 but came on I think the spring of this past year and I heard about them in like July and August or July or so and it was so pretty new then so that was the most of the songs I was exposed to were from the newest album you know ADEs hard rock heavy metal weight to it this was actually asteroids favorite song on the album yeah it's cool they did such a cool work I want to know if they if they talk about like the fort and stuff that they use there cuz that that was really cool just to have that setting if there is any history behind that or they just kind of like if there is but ever gets in Tunisia wouldn't have been in Arabia bard barbar okay we are obviously not in Tunisia now and it's because after we filmed what you just saw there were some other events that happened on our track yes it was a price and the way we back you well take it away well that's some of you might know we were in a car crash we are all gonna recover though he's still suffering a bit from cracked ribs and ThinkPad got a crack in his neck or something yeah and I had some stitches in my face seven stitches so services wisdom Oh seven stitches now I'm not with them in the car because I was still filming I had another day of filming on camel back in this one place right in the salt flats and it was my third day on camera and by that day I thought I was pretty good I mean the first you know writing it's okay when they're leading you're on by then I could guide it around and I got to admit I really enjoyed riding a camel that's the thing I liked most about the entire trip was learning how to you know get decent at riding a camel was it like you expected no um everybody said okay it's gonna be a different motion and I knew that but you could sort of get into it's especially when you're going faster although in the salt flats because um you know the the there's mud and stuff under the hard top and every now and then my camel his leg would break through in a we'd have we'd be stuck we'd have to be stuck until somebody can come and get him out and they were doing a long shot at one point so I'm like you know two kilometers away from any human being dressed as Lawrence of Arabia in the Sahara Desert on a camel wondering how how did life like this little boy and I'm guiding my camel and in my pocket of my robes I've got a walkie-talkie so I can hear them tell me if they want me to go left I want me to go right so I'm going I'm leading the count you know camel left and stuff and then after a while the camel aside he just didn't want to go anymore our eye I haven't ridden a lot of animals ever written like [ __ ] horses a couple times but our camels a lot a lot more stubborn than horses sometimes a horse will go and just be like now I'm done I've taken a break now so there's nothing you can do about it cuz I'm a horse and I'm huge you know what I mean another mark on Corbett nope this time it didn't work and I could hear them in the walkie-talkie they're like no no don't stop don't stop keep going I'm like I'm trying to talk they're filming they don't like it doesn't want to go anymore come go and then the cameras sat down so I got off the camera and this is a cool thing you can do about cat with camels that you can't really do with horses I got out of the camel i sat down in the sand leaned against the camel and just waited for them to come out just me and my camel just hanging out there in the desert no that's what I did well you guys were having a car wreck yeah lovely I mean whatever for better for worse and there were good things and bad things about the trip obviously it was absolutely an adventure oh yeah I wouldn't miss it for the world I reason could have been without the car crash but yeah truly an adventure okay well that is all for today from Sabaton history take care and see you soon it's cool yeah it totally is like an adventure you know yeah going out and doing this stuff in the modern sense because it'd be fun to go rally a four-wheeler out there right in the Sahara Oh is everybody's it's that part of it it's like the camel I'm just gonna chill now so all right I guess a little just hang out and sit and read Seven Pillars of wisdom maybe be a pretty pretty cool experience right here nothing like the Sahara Desert out there huh just as far as you can see hello there it's hot you should become a patreon so I can't afford to go home definitely all right cool man I love I love these these these videos that you they're so good there I mean the content is as good as any of the documentary stuff that you're gonna get Indy does such a good job it's so cool that the the band you know supports this and gets behind it and that sort of thing it just makes it such a cool thing and it's it truly does if you can combine one thing okay like like the music and people can get in for the music right then they can be brought in with history and maybe some of you you know because people have told me too that you know they like sabaton at first as a as a band like with the music and then it got them to like history more because the songs were so cool and the storytelling was so cool that then they then wanted to learn more right they wanted to learn more about that stuff so you add the video content there and it makes for an educational experience while still having of course really good music and for me it was like vice versa like I was into the history and got introduced to the band through the history and I I do know some people were like they getting throughs to history through the music and either way the destination is the same and hopefully you become you know more entrenched with that and that's such a cool thing but yeah that was awesome to hear again the story of TE Lawrence I'm glad they went into a little bit more of the the making it up video and I remember hearing about the the crash about when it happened and that being you know really sappy as I'm seeing that and how difficult that was so like they said it was you know it was an adventure and yeah obviously yeah you wouldn't want the crash but you know it's all it's all I guess part of that experience but looks like they recovered and that's that's awesome because they went on that show or this tour and it was awesome and our touring right now they're heading I think started their European tour which looks like it's gonna be a big hit so awesome alright if you didn't see the actual music video make sure you do that just look it up should be easy to find super cool video I would say watch that if you want to hear my commentary through it then maybe watch my reaction video and then watch this I don't know if I was able to add much about I do feel like I was able to add some of that context especially with what was going on in the larger scheme in World War one specifically in the Middle East there I would spend a topic I'd like to research and did work on in college and I'm still interested in kind of the Middle East history especially since World War one and specifically how World War one affected that and then seeing the ties of the struggles of the Middle East today and where actually you can see a lot of those struggles tie back to how the whole Arab world was managed after World War one which again in a sense was pretty disastrous as you can see with even current events so look into that more you'll be able to learn a lot more about the conflicts in the Middle East and make sense of what seems like a overly complicated thing into something that's not as complicated as you might think if you just look into even just the recent history within the last hundred years you're gonna find that but you do have to go back further than that but you can get most of it out of the conflict in the last 100 years alright well awesome let's go ahead and we'll start wrapping up here and thank you to everyone that has been subbing and liking the videos it's been an awesome recent time period for the channel and thanks to sabaton if any of you guys get this or indy neidell thank you for doing what you do it truly is an honor to be able to cover what you guys do and it and it's so great for the historical community what you guys are doing so thank you thank you for that and I hope you guys can keep doing that and keep having awesome success because you guys have earned it so genuine with your guys is that with the the history and the music and that really does not go unappreciated so awesome all right be sure to buy their album check out their stuff sub to the sabaton channel check out a teen idol you can see his name over here check out his stuff his youtube series are awesome so many things to hook up into them if you have not already yet thanks for liking my video here and for subbing to the channel love to have you as a sub to join our little community if you'd also like to be important more a part of a more direct community and get a lot of history discussion going go down below in my description and join our discord server join their patreon as well if you would like to have a patreon account for ours and one thing I do with our patreon here is put up holes for videos they get featured each week and it's one way you can interact with the channel a little bit and support it starting a just a dollar a month but anyways I just hopefully I just glad that you're here and hopefully enjoying history as much as I do and continue to expand your knowledge and love of history and keep understanding its importance alright we'll go ahead and see you next time bye [Music] [Music]

Channel: Mr. Terry History

Views: 26,228

Keywords: react, history, te lawrence, arabia, world war 1

Id: a_3oLwUB-RU

Length: 46min 7sec (2767 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 23 2019