Kai Ryssdal

Yeah, you can't write without the map.

And then you have counters or players for all the actors.

And we just move them around like Risk as you figure it out.

Because our show is very kinetic.

Very.

And so in order to keep that going, you have to know the set very well.

And you have to know that if I want to have Robbie and Dana have a conversation, you know, starting in room 20 that ends at the hub, I better make sure that dialogue covers that distance, you know.

Like literally the time it takes to walk that distance.

Absolutely, yeah.

So you'll see us down there, all the writers talking to themselves, you know, as they walk the set.

You've been in TV for a long time.

You've done JAG and obviously ER and NCIS.

What was it about doing this project that got you to come back to a thing that honestly you've mastered kind of, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Ironically enough, this came out of a conversation of why I would never do another medical show.

And I listed a bunch of reasons and thought of one maybe that I would do.

And then it just transformed into, you know, once sort of hit upon the real time aspect, changed everything.

And what we wanted to do was we had the opportunity to create a new medical show from scratch.

And so that was exciting because you are inheriting nothing other than I had Noah and John.

Did you know it was going to work?