Episode 3: Carentan (with Capt. Dale Dye and Matthew Settle)

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Senior Military Advisor Capt. Dale Dye and Matthew Settle, who plays Capt. Ronald Speirs, join host Roger Bennett to relive one of the series’ most combat-heavy episodes. Capt. Dye, who also plays Col. Sink in the series, opens up about his total immersion method that transformed actors into members of Easy Company. And Settle discusses his portrayal of the mythologized, enigmatic and unflinchingly fearless Capt. Speirs, and what it was like to play some of the series’ most haunting scenes.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to HBO's official Band of Brothers podcast. I'm your host, Roger
0:22.2	Bennett. I say Flash, you say Thunder. Episode 3. Carrington, one of the most action-packed
0:31.7	installments of the entire series. If Episode 2 opened our eyes to the mortal danger-easy
0:37.3	company as exposed to in France, Episode 3 delts into the mental traumas they suffered.
0:44.4	It does so through the terra-filled blue eyes, a private Albert Blithe, whom the men first
0:51.7	discover staring into the sky on June 8th, 1944, D-Day Plus 2.
0:58.4	With in ten minutes of that meeting, our men plummet into battle, tasked with taking the
1:11.9	town of Carrington, France. The only place where the Allied armor from Utah and Omaha
1:17.8	beaches can link up and head inland. To full-frontal assault, right into the teeth of the German
1:25.0	machine gun, in which easy company take heavy fire and suffer instant casualties, even
1:35.3	those unscathed by bullets and not immune to damage.
1:51.4	hysterical blindness, the result of fear, which is really the central theme at the heart
1:58.2	of Carrington, woven throughout the episode from the Battle of Bloody Gulch, where Private
2:03.8	Blithe does ultimately raise at M1 after some encouragement from Lieutenant Winters.
2:12.0	All the way back to England, a place of respite, where easy company is returned, only to find
2:18.6	out they won't be staying long.
2:22.2	All passes are hereby revoked. We're heading back to France. Pack up all you gear. We
2:28.8	will not be returning to England, boys. Anyone who's not made out of will, go to the supply
2:35.0	office, trucks depart from memory at 0700.
2:48.4	My first guest today is a man who is a legend to the Bander Brothers cost and a cult hero
2:54.8	to all who love the series. You may recognise him from his role as Colonel Sink, but in real
3:02.5	life he was a decorated marine himself, a man who survived 31 major combat operations during
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