Band of Brothers Podcast | Episode 3 "Carentan" with Capt. Dale Dye & Matthew Settle | HBO Max
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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. #BandOfBrothers
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Band of Brothers Podcast | Episode 3 "Carentan" with Capt. Dale Dye & Matthew Settle | HBO Max
Dale Dye's value add to these war films is immensely significant. I could listen to him speak all day!
Thank you HBO for this, you should make a reunion like friends but all the actors of Band of brothers because this series premiered before I was born. Love to see them now
They do
The National WWII Museum did a day-long 20th anniversary symposium (delayed by a couple of years by Covid) with the actors, writers, producers, directors, documentary makers, Dale Dye and his cadre, and the children and grandchildren of George Luz, Babe Hefron, Bill Guarnere, Doc Roe and Ed Tipper. It’s awesome, and on TH-cam.
I’m so glad that Matthew Settle decided to stick it out playing “Spiers”. I loved his character. Loved his portrayal. His smile! Thanks for another great episode. Can’t wait for the next one.
I think he is fantastic. Portrays the intensity so well
Did he smile even once?
@@jangrnkjrpedersen3214 Of course he did. A few times.
Someone has a crush.
He is pretty handsome
Lt. Speirs comment to Blythe about accepting that you are already dead and don't worry about it , really rang a bell with me. My friend Don and I were both drafted in the fall of 1969. I lucked out and stayed at Fort Sill OK while Don became a combat medic in Cambodia. He told me that on long patrols in the jungle, they would just consider themselves as already dead.
This podcast is long overdue but it couldn't be more welcomed. What a great decision doing this.
nostalgia 💜
I've never had the pleasure of listening to Roger Bennett before. He is an amazing writer and his summaries of the episodes are superb. He is so knowledgeable and entertaining. Wonderful job.
I was a little embarrassed to realize in episode three that the host was Roger Bennett. He and Michael Davies were fantastic with "Men in Blazers."
Matthew, if you by chance are reading this, I want you to know that I really enjoyed your interview, and learning of your faith. Thanks for portraying one of these extraordinary men.
had the absolute pleasure of been trained for a scene for an afternoon by Capt. Dale Dye. We were extras for the Omaha Beach scenes in Saving Private Ryan. For the scene where Hanks and co finally breakthrough the wires etc we were right behind so for that one scene we had Capt. Dale Dye training us in movement in the sand dunes for a few hours. The banter was first class :)
WOW, Dale Dye AND Capt Speirs?!?! Thank you so much for this treat. Three things I noticed in this podcast:
1) I loved how both Dye and Settle would often refer to their cast mates by their characters names and hardly ever their real names.
2) I loved how when Dye was talking about his time with Major Winters for the production, he kept referring to him as 'sir'. It made me realize that for military guys, rank never ends. Here's Dale Dye, a captain from the Vietnam war, and Winters, a major from WW2. Neither man had been active service for decades, yet when the two were together, Dye would still call him 'sir'.
3) I find it interesting that David Schwimmer did the boot camp with the other actors. I remember reading about the making of Saving Private Ryan where the main cast also did a boot camp (likely with Dale Dye) but Spielberg made sure Matt Damon didn't have to do it. He wanted the other actors to resent Damon in the same way their characters resented having to find and save the missing Pvt Ryan.
Everything you say is true, but also, I call any man from that generation “sir” because they’re older. That’s a Southern thing.
Also, he helped save the whole damn world, so yeah, he gets a “sir.”
I can relate to Matthew's struggle with his confidence in his abilities as an actor. I sometimes doubt myself too. I'm glad he had that heart to heart with Captain Dye because he played Speirs in such a fantastic way.♠️
Just past 12 minutes into this podcast, the discussion about Platoon begins. Platoon’s opening day, I arrived late to few seats remaining. I found one in the second row, a theater position that I dislike. The screen filled my entire field of vision. The sound was way too loud. At some point into the movie I realized that my hands ached from squeezing both armrests, my torso tensed and twisted. I was sweating. I thought about walking out, but was transfixed. Then it dawned on me that this was the most realistic war film I had ever seen, even tho I had not served as a soldier in the military. Now I know that Dale Dye brought this realism to life. Thank you sir.
@jaymacpherson8167, I had a similar response watching 1917. There’s a scene early in which two British soldiers have to traverse no man’s land, having been told the Germans have gone. “That’s what they said at the Somme.” Sometime during that scene I realised I’d crossed my legs twice - thighs crossed and then feet tightly wound right around my ankles - leaning forward, hands gripping each other, jaw set. Every muscle in my body was tense. It’s the most visceral feeling I’ve ever had watching film or TV.
As an media consultant historian I find what Capt. Dale says at 16:00 so important! The core of everything. I'm so glad for the series to have captured that so well!
The amount of badasses in this episode is through the roof
This was the first episode on BoB that I ever saw (on the BBC) and I was hooked immediately.
Dye & Settle just blew me away with their interviews. Settle seems like he would have been a great soldier reguardless .
Some of the questions are inspired. Great job interviewers. Awesome one about Matthew settles. Man, did Mathew nail it. Great performance.
The respect shown to the 'subject' shines through. The podcast again demonstrates the commitment and determination of all concerned to 'get this right'. Truly a remarkable series - telling the story of an extraordinary generation.
What a fantastic pod cast. Start to finish.
Thank you Roger. You are absolutely great at this.
Captain Dye also worked on the Last of the Mohicans. One of the best films of all time.
I agree, it's a great film 🙌🏻
Best series ever. I am so in awe of this. Imagine being in the middle of producing this epic.
Fantastic Pod Cast, thanks for keeping it alive Host Roger and Capt. Dale Dye and Matthew Settle.
Commentaries are as valuable as the
Band of Brothers series itself thank you for posting
You just never know how you’ll react until it happens. Of course all fails in comparison to war. Sir Michael Caine described his experience with war during his combat experience in Korea in an interview with him I watched. He said something like “I found out that I could think and act under war conditions and it has served me in good stead for my entire life.” Knowing he could survive that and still think and act coherently stayed with him for his entire life so far. Brilliant interview. At Oxford I believe.
Mr. Captain Dye: Please make "No Better Place to Die", we all want to see it and that story needs to be told.
Awesome episode as always. I wonder how Marc Warren (Blithe) felt after the show was released. I didn't find out until years later about the inaccuracies with the portrayal Albert Blithe. It does not, nor should it take away from his performance. He's an excellent actor, and his character was essential at conveying the psychological trauma that all men go through as a result of war.
Warren admitted that he never watched the series, only the episode he was in. Disappointing.
My parents were of that generation. I think the Great Depression hardened them to the hardships during the war. That is something that is usually missing from many of the films about World War 2.
Carentan was actually the first episode of Band of Brothers I ever saw, it was on the History Channel. I had never heard of the show before but was immediately, as Mr. Settle said, "transported." The scene between Spiers and Blithe was seared into my memory, so well written and acted.
Nicely done. Very insightful questions. One of the best podcasts on Band of Brothers ever!
I hope Rick Gomez gets part of an episode, I met him on a flight from Santa Rosa to LAX. Absolutely a real one.
I met him too, in my gym in LA. He was with the guy who played Picante. Both of them were delightful, and they were hanging out together in a gym 10 years after BoB was filmed. How cool is that?
@@yes2day100 That is very cool! Sadly Rick didn't get interviewed though.. Seems like with all the zoom/teams meetings going on, we could've heard from the class clown of the series. Also would've like to have heard from Randleman.
Rick was great and added a lot to the series. I'd like to fight him in an MMA match or battle him in a food network bake off.
@@imtryinghere1why not do both?
@@imtryinghere1I’ve got it! MMA fight, bake-off, ballroom dance-off. Followed by a celebratory high tea picnic together and daisy chain-making.
I adored Matthew’s performance. Blythe was like an angel.
I did not know until now that Dale Dye played Colonel sink. I thought it was another person who played Sink and wondered why they didn't use Dale, especially since the "actor" sounded exactly like Dale Dye....DUHHHHHHHH
I’ve said this on pretty much every post of BoB I’ve commented on, Band of Brothers is the best miniseries EVERY made…
Much respect to both these Dudes!
Thursday, June 6, is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of France to defeat Nazism. Very few veterans survive, but I was in Normandy for the 50th year observance, travelling with veteran paratroopers on D-Day Eve.
I was supposed to witness airborne veterans parachuting from a vintage aircraft into a VIP area, but I decided to leave my space to a veteran, so I walked into Ste Mere-Eglise, the first French town liberated by our paratroopers, to wait for the parade- the ceremonial re-enactment of the battle- to assemble in the church square where the carnival of American television- Bryant Gumbel and Joan Lunden- were all broadcasting to the US and the world.
As I moved through the mass of people to photograph the parade, I was overtaken by a surging throng screaming “Vivre Americain! Merci Americain!.” I kept saying, “Je ne suis pas une veteran!” but it didn’t matter. They wanted to physically embrace Americans today. I have photos of the parade.
A line of mounted Gendarmerie cleared the path. The 68-year-old airborne veterans who had jumped again raised beer cans and cheered. Then- future Chairman JCoS General Hugh Shelton led combat-ready detachments of contemporary American paratroopers, fresh from the fight against Iraq.
The victors of Desert Storm saluted the victors of Normandy with a triumph that would have paled Ceasar. The best light infantry of any army, anywhere, at any time in history, were feted by thousands of grateful, free people from around the world, their clamor to render all honors and glory to the airborne forces of the United States.
On June 6, 1994, I was travelling with the 101st Airborne Division veterans’ association when we drove into Carentan, encountering the Fallschirmjager Regiment Six 50-year reunion. Fans of the tv show, “Band of Brothers,” will recall the battle to capture and defend Carentan.
We were looking for the turn from the Normandy highway to Les Moulins, Omaha Beach, for the international observance by the heads-of-state of 13 D-Day countries. We missed the turn, driving past the German cemetery at La Cambe, where a lot of people were gathered. We drove on to Carentan for refreshments, before turning back to Omaha.
As I stepped off the bus, I saw the green banner with gold Teutonic lettering, “Fallschirmjager Regiment Six.” I assumed they were at La Cambe, but when I opened the door to the restaurant, there they were. Elite German infantry, now 68 years, drinking and talking.
I held the door for a Screaming Eagle who walked with a cane, saying, “It looks like the Germans are having their reunion, too.”
“Just the ones we didn’t kill,” he muttered, a reference to the large tumulus at La Cambe.
The sight of the Screaming Eagles patch on our veterans’ caps exploded like a hand grenade. Every German sprang to his feet and pulled tables and chairs out of the way with a cacophony of squeaking and scraping. Now I was wearing a trench coat, so I acted like a security officer, holding the Hun at bay. After 50 years, this band of brothers just didn’t want to speak with Germans.
What fantastic interviews.
@2:20 gives me the idea that each episode after E1 has a situation that reflects a lesson from Captain Sobel which may have been intentional or unintentional. This one is that, in training, a soldier's pass may be revoked by the captain at the drop of a hat. In the theater of operations the war will revoke the company's pass at least a few times, so get used to it.
wow i'd never considered that but it's so true
Brilliant episode, well done!
8:12 Dale Dye: I heard Ron Nixon say in the podcast-..... hahaha
I love the honesty
GREAT episode as always.
Hearing Dale Dye reminds me of playing Medal of Honor: European Assault.
And MOH Rising Sun.
Well this is outstanding. Very impressed with Settle.
This series, specifically episode 6, helped me get back to the 'why' of why I chose to save lives for a living.
Thank you for that and your 2 guests too
This show still inspires and motivates me 20 years on! My teenage boys also watched it & liked it, so I took them to Normandy & The Ardennes to have a look around. We found the very street in Carentan where Easy Co. were pinned down by the MG42's. It's a long straight road going downhill to what is now a shop, but you could see that an MG42 placed in the upstairs window would sweep ANYTHING moving on that road. Later in that episode, Lipton tells the men to get out of there as "they have us zeroed", which makes perfect sense as most of the buildings around that junction are modern, suggesting that the original ones were probably destroyed by the shelling/mortar fire. It must have been brutal! :-(
It was very interesting to visit Carentan because you get a much better picture of what Easy Co. were actually doing there? Turn a left at the shop and continue downhill for a few hundred meters and you come to the railway station, which I presume was their main objective.
I wanted to point out an much older movie that did the same thing as Capt Dye did: A French movie called 317 Platoon, about a French led platoon of Laotian irregulars tasked with harassing the Viet Minh supply lines; the director, Pierre Schoendoerffer (who was a war correspondent that actually captured by the Viet Minh in Dien Bien Phu) took his cast to Cambodia in the middle of the monsoon season and drilled them intensely, assisted by several Cambodian vets who had actually served with the French. His motto was that a war film should not be made in comfort.
“Better get some OD’s Bob”. Don’t know why but this is my favorite Col. Sink line.
I always utter this line! Thought I was the only one.
If I could like this again every time I watch it, I would. Matthew Settle seems like a good dude.
Much better than the first episode. If only they could go back, & bring it to quality also
Episode 3 was probably one of my favourite episodes, getting to see Speirs engaging with his NCO's and Blithe was very hard done by in the series because he wasn't killed and in fact he went on to fight in the Pacific theatre, died in his later years.
He fought in the Korean war
Thank u HBO for making this
“We got zips in the wire down here”
I had no idea Dale Dye was also an advisor for the show. Amazing.
Dale Dye actually started off his Hollywood career as a military advisor for the entertainment industry. He first started with Platoon and then even got a small part in that movie. I guess he was always around set so much for his advisor role that most directors thought to give him small on camera roles as well. 20 years of military service definitely gives him the experience needed to convincingly play an officer on the big and small screen.
Dale Dye was a Marine combat correspondent in 'Nam. Basically he was 'Joker' from FMJ. Turned his war experience and journalism chops to making his life's work in H'wood getting military portrayals authentic on film. So good at it he became the go-to guy and the rest is history...pun intended.
My situation was opposite: I did not know until now that Dale Dye played Colonel Sink. I thought it was another person who played Sink and wondered why they didn't use Dale, especially since the "actor" sounded exactly like Dale Dye....DUHHHHHHH
Sat between Winters and Spiers! Wow, what a privilege that was.
Nice to see actual footage besides the audio
Think Captain Dye put Steven Seagal through boot camp for the movie Sniper Special Ops? Lmao
Amazing listens
Capitan Sobel after ww2 became a actor and did take part on the Famous series F.R.I.E.N.D.S
This host is gushing with praise
Just watched the BoB episode #3 and the incorrect statement of Blythe not recovering is still there at the end.
Shocked Spiers didn’t get the Medal of Honor for Foy
What a coincidence! I was just watching a movie called "The Angel Wore Red", and found an Italian actor in it who, and I kid you not is Matthew Settle's doppelganger! I mean twins! His name is Francisco (Nino) Castelnuovo. Chech it out. He just passed away on September 6th.
Burned their boots?! Nah, they should have donated them to charity for victims of war. And Speirs did admit to the stories, so I would imagine that his family probably accepted the fact that it was war, and there were many things that people do that they normally wouldn’t.
Exactly.
Blythe was mishandled. He was not killed and had a lengthy career in the army.
Yes , we've known that for 25 years
Awesome.
GPS Coordinates are for Poses, France (en route to Paris)
What spiers said about accepting death is accurate. Because worrying all thw time about ur survival will shoot ur anxiety up 1000 percent, and distract u from ur job. Trying walking around southen Afghanistan if u disagree.
Capt. Dale Dye.
As a Vietnam vet, I think Platoon is the closest to the real thing. One tiny detail I loved was when a soldier calls a captain "die wee" (sp) which is Vietnamese for, you guessed it, "captain." It's the only rank that does that. What I loved was just throwing that out there without explanation.
One little comment at the end irked me, a little. I'm a veteran......not a combat veteran, but a veteran, and an atheist. I understand the actor is speaking from his beliefs and his faith; but, I get irked when people seem to think that you must believe in a deity to have "faith." Servicemembers, even the atheists have "faith;" but, quite often, it is not in "god," it is each other....that your buddies are there for you, that you work and train together, and when the defecation hits the oscillator, you are there for one another. That faith gets you through a lot of hard things, not just combat situations, but stressful times, or physical discomfort, or just a long, arduous day of work or training. It gets you through times where you feel ill-used by politicians or survive a bad leader or to become a better leader. Yes, a great many have faith in a deity; but, my personal experience was that faith in each other was far stronger a belief, especially those who didn't believe in a "divine plan."
BLYTHE DIED IN THE 60's THOUGH
About pilots
The Rough Riders is a good movie also'
Is this true
Should add a small correction...the East in the coordinates should be WEST. (France is in the western hemisphere).
Those coordinates are east of the prime meridian. It's near the Seine river in Poses, France, southeast of Rouen.
@@jimleonardson4268 You are correct. But the location should represent Carentan, FR. Each episode gives the specific coordinates to the episode name. (not a random intersection in the middle of nowhere). Change East to West and voila!
I heard a new series is coming out
Isn't base on "Masters of the Air" by Donald Miller?
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These were all my brothers that came before me this is why only two percent of Americans can serve
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It’s a shame the interviewer has a voice and speech pattern that to my ears is like nails on a chalkboard. Because what the actors have to say is really fascinating! Just fed up of hearing the interviewers drawling way of talking.
Oof
Well, at easy Easy Company and enjoy this video ♠
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