Uh, can he win a national championship at USC?

Uh, yeah, there's, I think you have two different things.

Can he get it done? Does that, you know, that to me means can he take USC to the college football playoff on a regular basis? Um, and I think that's a possibility.

I mean, this year they might make the college football playoff.

I mean, it's, He hasn't done it yet, which is a big problem.

I mean, I bet any USC fan in the world would have bet me five years ago if I'd said, well, he's not going to make the college football playoff in his first four years, and everyone would have looked at me like I was crazy.

But he hasn't done that.

What is Scott's all-time, talk about tailback to you, the top five tailbacks at USC of all time?

It's not gonna take a full season to get to know them.

No.

I mean, this is one of the things when I read the script for the first time, I thought, "Wow, I kinda feel like I sorta know who all these people are and what their relationships are already." And that's really hard to do.

It's a credit to the writing.

But, um, but yeah, really quickly you get a sense of who these people are, you know, what their motivations are, what's at stake for them.

And because we're in this hospital environment where, you know, there's new cases every week, people are coming to have their lives saved, it's really life and death, the stakes every week.

And with the cast of doctors, you know, this crew of incredible professionals, because of the central story, which is, uh, the doctor in the middle of this world gets in a terrible ar- accident, loses eight years of her memory-

Yep

Do you let them have social media?

So our oldest does.

So the middle one, our middle son who's 13, he has...

He has TikTok.

And he makes these videos and stuff.

He creates with it.

And they're the funniest, most adorable things.

And so I'm like, how, how do you do that? Like, how do you talk through things that people write about you before they see it?

I can send that to you.

I'll tell you, I need it.

It's perfect.

Yes.

And look, you know, this character that I'm playing, because he was the antagonist in season one, you know, he was...

I refer to him as the accidental villain because he's an otherwise really good person, really good doctor, made a terrible mistake, didn't feel like he had the freedom to come clean.

He thought, if I tell her what I did, she's going to bury me and that'll be the end of my career.

How happy are you to do it?

Had you guys crossed paths before, or is this your first time working together?

First time.

First time.

And, boy, am I lucky.

She is unbelievable.

She's an incredible human being, an incredible talent.

And, yeah, look, you know, the magic trick here, like we talked about with Party of Five, you know, the magic trick, if it works— is that people fall into a world and, you know, an hour goes by and it's like, holy moly, I'm in my living room again.

that one actress that wanted to make out with you.

Well,

how is it good enough – all these homers say that the defense is much better – They gave up 1,300 yards in three losses.

They gave up 500 yards to Illinois.

Notre Dame rushed for over 300 yards.

That's not good enough.

And what I don't understand, and, you know, you know this.

You were at SC.

Is this just a lost cause for us old heads and they're really going to mess with the Notre Dame rivalry to the point where it's not recognizable?