Welcome back to the HBO official band of Brothers Podcast. This is Roger Bennett. I say

flash, you say thunder. Episode 1, Karahee, an episode that takes us back to easy companies

inception, basic training at Camp Tokewa Georgia all the way to a pottery England and the

precipice of the allied invasion of Europe. What we see during that time is the man undertaking

the grueling, grinding transformation from individual raw recruits into a fearsome collective,

a process that begins under the petty sadistic eye of Captain Herbert Sobel, a stickler played

by David Schwimmer, who delights in charging his underlings up and down Karahee, the mountain

over the edge of camp. While revoking weekend pass privileges due to any minor infractions.

What is this? Anybody? It's a can of peaches, sir. Lieutenant Nixon thinks this is a can of

peaches. That is incorrect, Lieutenant. Your weekend pass is cancelled. Those who endured Sobel's

tyrannical reign at Camp Tokewa watched him unravel upon arrival in England with a practical

application of the skills learned stateside were severely tested.

Failure that allowed Luz to dust off his best major haughton impression.

Bob, why are fans?

And it was that incompetence in the field that ultimately saw Sobel transferred an easy

company fall into the hands of their true leader, Dick Winters. A man who oozes natural, calm,

emotionally intelligent, follow me leadership. Above all, this episode,

co-written by Tom Hanks himself, along with supervising producer Eric Genderson,

director by Phil Older and a failed of Dream's fame,

illustrates that bond that Stephen Ambrose described so brilliantly in his book, Banda Brothers.

They would literally insist on going hungry for one another, freezing for one another.

My guest today is the man who played Captain Lewis Nixon III. The intelligence officer for the

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