A Daily Show Ears edition, listener, what's up? It's Roy Wood Jr. I'm recommending one of my favorite episodes of the Daily Show's Beyond the Scenes podcast as we bring mental health awareness month to a close. This episode was about the obstacles black people face when seeking mental health treatment. I was joined by Daily Show writer Ex-Mayo and Daily Show writer Ashton Womack for a deeply personal discussion about mental health, the Black church, and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.

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What is up, everybody?

I am Roy Wood Jr.

I am a correspondent for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

Welcome to Beyond the Scenes.

This is a podcast where we journey deeper into the topics and issues that we've addressed on the show and explore them even more to see where we are today

on these same issues. And we're going to do that with some of the shows, writers and producers

and special guests. You know how like on the actual daily show we do between the scenes. But see, now

we're going beyond. I'm going to say it just like that every time. Beyond the scenes.

Today we're going to be talking about mental health in the black community. Now, this is a topic

that we dealt with on the show back in December of 2019. There are few groups who could stand to benefit

from therapy more than black people.

I mean, think about all the things black people have been through.

Slavery, segregation, winter, all equally traumatic experiences.

But unfortunately, even as therapy has become more mainstream, the black community has had a tough

time getting the help that they need.

Now, I don't know if you heard, 2020 was a crazy year, all right?

A little bit off.

You know, you had the pandemic.

We had the election.

We had the uprisons that occurred after the murders of George Floyd, Ahmed Aubrey, Brianna

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