Richard Winters
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Sep 18, 2026
Jay MottyHOST
Jackson's character from Pulp Fiction.
Stephen HowsonHOST
Dick Winters from Band of Brothers.
Stephen HowsonHOST
It's not fixed, is it? No, that doesn't
Jay MottyHOST
count
Stephen HowsonHOST
Knows his stuff.
Stephen HowsonHOST
True hero.
Stephen HowsonHOST
Dick Winters.
Stephen HowsonHOST
I believe there's a documentary about...
Jocko WillinkHOST
Yeah, you know, that's, uh, in, in Band of Brothers, that's a case that I bring up because sometimes you're gonna get ordered to do some dumb stuff.
Jocko WillinkHOST
And w- that's one, one of the best examples, you know, everyone loves Dick Winters, you know, as a, as a leadership example.
Jocko WillinkHOST
Well, at the, in the end of the war, the war's almost over.
Jocko WillinkHOST
They're, you know, they're about to sign the treaty and everybody knows it, and he get, they get s- he has to send guys over on a recon across this river.
Jocko WillinkHOST
There's some casualties.
Jocko WillinkHOST
It's a bad deal.
Jocko WillinkHOST
They come back, and the next night the, I think he's a brigade commander, says, "Hey, I want you to do another recon." And, you know, Dick Winters says, "Hey, sir, you know, I'm not sure if that's the best idea, you know.
Jocko WillinkHOST
There's really not much we're gonna see.
Captain ConsHOST
And I think it was Damian Lewis.
Captain ConsHOST
So I absolutely just really love, you know, major winners, the main guy and just hearing him talk about the relationship he formed with Dick Winters, but then also to your point about the timing of it all.
Captain ConsHOST
I think so often actors will read a script and a lot of times you think, wow, this is going to be great.
Captain ConsHOST
And he said how everyone, every guy who was of a certain age at that time wanted to be a part of this project.
BenHOST
You look at, and the actors talk about picking up the phone to speak to the men.
BenHOST
You know, Damien Lewis spent a lot of time with Richard Winters.
BenHOST
And so a lot of it was done as in collaboration with the men.
BenHOST
So you take a book written by Ambrose and it's like, right, how do we turn this into a 10 part series? without the men to act as telling them what happened and how different things occurred and things.
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ChrisHOST
and the series itself because you know the filmmaking rarely needs to announce its own seriousness because it trusts proximity to do the work and the result is that the history feels immediate without becoming like you said earlier sensationalized or um you know like almost like hollywood from a privileged distance yeah and the men are observed without ever seeming reduced just to character case studies
BenHOST
Yeah, and I think on that kind of Bond side of it, so Eon Bailey, who plays Webster, and as an aside, I'd urge anyone if you can find it, I think they're quite rare, but David Webster wrote a book quite soon after the events of the war.
BenHOST
So a lot of the books, and we're going to do a whole episode on the books around Band of Brothers, a lot of them, so there's one, I think Shifty's written one, I think Garnier and Babe Heffron wrote one, obviously there's one by Richard Winters.
BenHOST
They were all written just not long after the series came out, so there was a slightly different perspective, whereas David Webster's one was written not long afterwards, so it has a completely different take on it.
BenHOST
And he's been removed from combat command and lieutenant at the time.
BenHOST
Dick Winters emerged as one of the company's most trusted leaders.
BenHOST
And then comes D-Day.
BenHOST
So they were flying towards Normandy and the men are expecting to land together and begin the invasion as a unit.
BenHOST
It's just, yeah, they really were in the thick of it.
BenHOST
And there's a line later in one of the episodes where I think it's in Bastogne where someone talks about the men being surrounded.
BenHOST
And Winters says one of my favourite lines of the whole series where he says...
BenHOST
We're paratroopers, so we're supposed to be surrounded.
Chris WhiteHOST
25 years ago, HBO took an enormous gamble on a 10-part miniseries about one American paratrooper company.
Chris WhiteHOST
And by the end of the series, millions of people knew the names of Dick Winters, Carwood Lipton, and scores of other men from Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
Chris WhiteHOST
The Band of Brothers premiered on September 9th of 2001.
Chris WhiteHOST
Two days later, the United States was attacked.
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Gary AdelmanHOST
There I was in an event.
Gary AdelmanHOST
It was cool.
Gary AdelmanHOST
They were honoring all sorts of things in the opening and Dick Winters was there.
Gary AdelmanHOST
I stood next to him and didn't know who he was.
Brian EricksonHOST
He was not a great soldier, though he actually was a good enough paratrooper to earn himself a screaming eagle patch.
Brian EricksonHOST
a distinction he bizarrely shares with former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Major Dick Winters of Band of Brothers fame, and General Colin Powell.
Brian EricksonHOST
He was given a general discharge in 1962 and went back home to Washington to start making something of his music career.
Brian EricksonHOST
I'm going to really breeze through those early days.
Michael MakaturaGUEST
And let me just set the record straight on something.
Michael MakaturaGUEST
So during, if you've seen Band of Brothers, another great military movie, Major Dick Winters is being interviewed and he relates a story where his grandson says, Grandpa, were you a hero? And Dick Winters' response was, no, but I served in a company of them.
Michael MakaturaGUEST
Um, I'm the same way, Dan, I'm not a hero.
Michael MakaturaGUEST
Um, but I, I served with an awful lot of ordinary Americans who did extraordinary things when, when duty called and, and I'm very honored to have done that.
BenHOST
Along the way, we'll honour the men themselves, not just the characters, but the real soldiers behind them.
BenHOST
Men like Dick Winters, Carwood Lipton, Joe Toy, and so many others whose courage continues
ChrisHOST
to inspire.
ChrisHOST
So whether you've been watching Band of Brothers since 2001 like us, or you've only just discovered Easy Company, whether you've got every episode memorised or you're about to watch it for the very first time, we'd love for you to join us.
Parker McCumberGUEST
But if your people know what you're trying to win and why, they can improvise to achieve the desired intent.
Parker McCumberGUEST
One of my favorite examples of this, I'm sure you're familiar with the movie Band of Brothers and the story of Easy Company and Captain then Major Winters.
Parker McCumberGUEST
Yeah.
Parker McCumberGUEST
So D-Day morning, they land and need to storm Braycourt Manor in France.
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