Dave Davies

And that's a scene from The Pit where our guest Noah Wiley is a star.

Right.

And you don't see it on the radio, but it is dramatic there.

But just the audio, I mean, you can hear the intensity of it.

And there's all this medical jargon flying by.

I mean, did you know all this stuff before you got into this series?

Yeah.

I watched this series with my wife who was 25 years as a primary care physician.

She gets almost all of it.

I get maybe a third of it.

But I don't feel like I'm missing much.

But I did wonder – you were a writer on the show, I know.

I mean do you think about maybe letting up on some of that or is getting all that in critical to the authenticity of it?

Well, the other thing that's interesting about those scenes is everybody's moving and all of these different actors are barking these observations and commands.

And they've got to be careful not to talk over each other so much that you can't hear it.

So it's got to be crisply delivered and well-miked.

I imagine this took some pretty meticulous rehearsal.

The effect is impressive.

You know, the origins of this show are interesting.

As I understand it, during the pandemic, you began hearing from medical providers and first responders who were dealing with all this high-stakes stressful demand on them.