Episode 9: Why We Fight (with Ross McCall & John Orloff)

Band of Brothers Podcast

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Ross McCall, who portrays Technician Fifth Grade Joseph D. Liebgott, Jr., and the episode’s writer, John Orloff, join host Roger Bennett to discuss this sobering, powerful installment of the series, which depicts the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. McCall and Orloff reveal the unrelenting weight and responsibility they felt while creating the episode, and its enduring legacy some 20 years on.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to HBO's official band of brothers podcast.
0:18.5	This is Roger Bennett, I say Flash, you say Thunder, Episode 9, why we fight.
0:26.8	An installment that contains not a single shot of gunfire, yet is viewed by many to be
0:33.2	the single most powerful episode of the entire series.
0:37.8	Tom Hanks called why we fight a tone poem, and it consists of two interlocking halves
0:44.6	storylines that at first seemed jarringly different on the to connect them in the final
0:49.7	scenes with an awesome gut wrenching tremor.
0:54.8	The war is winding down, easy company of enter Germany.
0:59.2	We discover them first at rest, overlooking a broken city, talum, in ruins, piles of
1:06.2	rubble being slowly picked over by weary age German civilians.
1:12.1	A relative respite for a unit that has endured the horrors of Normandy, market garden, and
1:19.2	the battle of the bulge.
1:20.5	Do you understand that this is the best part of fucking what I've seen?
1:24.4	I got hot chow, hot showers, warm bed, Germany is almost as good as being home.
1:30.2	I even get to wipe my ass real toilet paper today.
1:33.8	All of this sudden downtime has given easy company time to think, too much time to think
1:40.0	perhaps, and ponder why is it that they've done what they've done.
1:45.0	Given of themselves, sacrificed, lost their friends in the process, and they're asking
1:50.9	themselves, in the delicate words, a private first-class webster, to a column of surrender
1:56.1	German soldiers.
2:10.8	This episode delivers a sobering answer then, as easy company rolls into Landsberg, which
2:17.7	sets up a devastating climax.
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