00:00I got three kids, hopefully none of them will see this or read this, but I screwed up at
00:05least a little with all of them, you know?
00:12And we should be working together, like Batman and Robin. You can even be Batman.
00:19You already sound like him. I'm gonna make you pay for that.
00:22Why do you love so much the mentor-student relationship? Because Jimmy and Paul here,
00:28J.D. Hancock's in Scraps. Why do you love it so much?
00:32I'm so psyched that you asked that because I get to talk about something so important to me. I write
00:37about mentor relationships in all my shows because they're so important to me personally. And I'll
00:44tell you two things. One, Hollywood gets a bad rap, as it should in some cases, because there's some
00:51bigger-than-life bad guys. But there's nobody, no young man or woman that got into this business
01:00without some mentorship, without somebody kind of helping them find their way in. That's first.
01:05And secondly, I did not grow up in a Hollywood family. I knew I always wanted to do this,
01:10but I had no connections. I was not the best high school student. I was not the best student.
01:16And I was very lucky in high school, an English teacher, and I'm so grateful to talk about this,
01:24he passed about a month ago. And he took me and a buddy my junior year. And he said,
01:34instead of sneaking across the street and drinking beers and being an idiot during your free period,
01:40why don't you come in here and talk to me about books and movies and TV? Because you're a pretty
01:45good writer. You might be actually able to do this. And his name was Bob Cox, and I named Dr.
01:52Cox after
01:53him. And one of the coolest things in my job still is getting to mentor young people in this business.
02:03And I think it's just, look, I think it's the way out of a lot of problems in our world
02:08right now.
02:09And so I'm going to keep writing about it till the end of time.
02:11Nice answer.
02:12Oh, it's such a good question, by the way. Not everybody notices. There's a mentor relationship
02:16in every show I've done.
02:18In this second season, Jimmy and Paul say that they are almost like Batman and Robin.
02:23The first season, Paul says, who are we? Psychological vigilantes.
02:26So do you really believe that they are the Batman and Robin of mental health?
02:31Look, I would be remiss if I did not say that this is a fictional story and not necessarily the
02:39way
02:39therapy should work. But what a nice fantasy to have somebody so willing to go the extra mile
02:50and get entrenched in helping you. There's consequences to it. But yeah, I think we're playing
02:58that mostly for a joke because we feel like Harrison's voice sometimes sounds like Batman.
03:04You know, but man, I would, I have a therapist. I'm okay saying it. And I would like it even
03:10more
03:11if he occasionally just showed up at my house and told me what to do, but he doesn't seem to
03:14want
03:14to do that.
03:17And Gabby, she's Batgirl, so it's perfect.
03:20Yeah, exactly. Right?
03:21Yes.
03:21Oh, she's a bigger, she's a bigger hero than the two of them, man. I think she could take
03:25them both. She's a, uh, uh, yeah.
03:29And in this season, Paul says that you can escape from your past forever. Uh, I want to
03:35know if you, uh, agree with him and how can we face our past because it's not so, so easy.
03:41Look, I think to, without getting too deep, you know, we're writing about stuff that we
03:46all obsess about in the writer's room. And I think I've reached an age that if you keep
03:52living in the past and living in your own mistakes, whether it's not forgiving yourself
03:56or, you know, I got three kids, hopefully none of them will see this or read this, but
04:02I screwed up at least a little with all of them, you know? Right. Uh, uh, and, uh, I did
04:07okay, but, you know, Chris and I together, we, uh, uh, uh, we certainly, you know, we
04:13certainly did our best. Uh, but, um, I, I'm a really big believer that, um, there's
04:20no, nothing good comes from living in the past, you know? Um, and, uh, I'm trying to
04:24press forward. I did not expect to be having this much fun, uh, and, uh, having like a career
04:30renaissance in my mid fifties. But even if I didn't, I think I got into a point that I
04:35could keep moving forward and be happy being a goofball and teaching somewhere
04:39or something. That was a weird answer. I'm sorry. No, no, it's fine. Thank you so
04:43much. The show is amazing. Thank you. Oh, you're so nice. And thank you for noticing
04:47that mentor thing. That was a big deal to me. I appreciate it. Bye.
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