Noah Wyle
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531 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 22 Apr
Noah Wyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, that was one of the two episodes I wrote.
You know, we had a bit of a mandate. Let's not be too biased. You know, the fastest way to get people to turn the channel is if they feel like we're preaching to them or we're being dogmatic. So what we wanted was accuracy and realism. We wanted to just be presentational with what emergency rooms look like. I wrote that episode and I couldn't resist.
Just taking one stance, which I thought was fairly benign, which is to talk about the efficacy of masks in cutting down the transmission of disease and germs, which shouldn't be a political statement and shouldn't even be called into question. And yet it has been the last couple of years. And it's a great statement.
sort of metaphor for uh for all the distrust that's been uh seeded between uh us and our doctors and um it's really i think incredibly unfortunate and i don't know if by the time this airs how much worse the situation is going to get but there was so that 20 of the nih was just laid off we're going to be seeing the tale of that decision making for years and years and years to come
Well, that was what was so funny. We wrote these episodes almost a year ago. And so when we did a storyline about neurocystic sarcosis, we had no idea that RFK Jr. was going to be diagnosed with neurocystic sarcosis. Nor did we think when we did a measles storyline that it was going to be as topical as it is right now. Nine months ago, it wasn't.
But it wasn't hard to look into your crystal ball and see what was going to happen if vaccine rates continued to drop. And we live with an international community that travels all the time. Like we are as vulnerable as the next incoming flight.
Oh, I'm glad. I've gotten some mail from Philly that didn't appreciate it. I know. I meant it as sort of a compliment because when I grew up, I grew up from L.A. And, you know, when the Lakers would play the Sixers or when I would see Rocky or the Broad Street Bullies, like, you guys were tough. They were tough. Yes.
So I just thought that's almost an homage to Philly to say it's the tougher of the two.
Well, it actually circles back to what you mentioned before about trying to put as many details about Pittsburgh into the show. And in doing our Pittsburgh research, we came across this incredible story that is now starting to get told about the Freedom House Ambulance Service, which was a program started by Dr. Safer, who invented CPR, where he recognized that up until that point, if you lived in
at any neighborhood and you needed to go to the hospital, you had to call the police. The police would come and pick you up and you went into a paddy wagon and they took you to the hospital. But if you lived in the black neighborhood, that didn't happen. So the mortality rate in the black neighborhoods was just terrible in the late 50s and early 60s.
And so this was an attempt to train high school, college age, young black men in lifesaving techniques for the first time, deploy them in the field with that training and ambulances that could go to these neighborhoods and pick up people and bring them back. And it was the very first ambulance service, the very first 911 system in the country. It was incredibly successful.
The mortality rate dropped considerably, and it got the attention of all of the city fathers who looked at this and thought, my goodness, what a great program. We should fire all these young men, replace them with white drivers, and make this a national standard, which is what happened. And all those original drivers lost their jobs.
Some of them stayed in health care and worked in health care and actually got to meet a couple of the surviving members when I was in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago. And so we brought in a patient who was depicting a guy who had been one of the original drivers so we could just shed a little light on it.
That is a real thing. And I've seen films of it done, and it's just as moving as we've depicted it, if not more so in real life. It's really beautiful.
So it was – This is where the tree gets very fuzzy.
What was your childhood like? What kind of kid were you? Eclectic. You know, I'm one of seven children spread over a couple of marriages. At the most, we had six under one roof sharing a bathroom. That's a lot of kids at the table. That's a lot of vying for attention.
We had all sorts of, you know, we've had academics, we've had athletes, and I was trying to find my identity in the midst of all that, and I ended up the storyteller.
I did. I went to a boarding school, the oldest boarding school in California, a school called the Thatcher School, founded in 1889. And when I was there my sophomore year, I auditioned for a play kind of as a joke, intentionally to go and kind of make fun of the process and ended up getting cast. And I just... took to it. I enjoyed the process more than that.
I enjoyed somebody telling me that I was good at it after the show. And that feeling of being told I was good at something was enough to make me want to continue doing it.
Also, growing up in Los Angeles, an acting career didn't seem like a foreign concept. You know, I knew that roadmap fairly well. So it all seemed within grasp.
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