From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Emerson Sykes, a staff attorney here at the ACLU and your host.

Today's guest is Wyatt Senac, the host of Wyatt Senac's Problem Areas, a television series now in its second season on HBO.

In the show, Synac mixes monologues, sketches, interviews, and documentary footage to address America's persistent social issues and to explore possible solutions.

Satirical and informative, Problem Areas takes a wide-ranging look at policing in season one.

Season two, which is airing now, deals with education.

You may also remember Senac as a correspondent on the Daily Show from 2008 to 2012.

We'll discuss his current show and his body of work mixing comedy and social justice.

Wyatt Sannack, it's a great pleasure to have you with us. Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. So let's start with problem areas. What compelled

you to make this show and especially why now? I think in making the show one of the things that

myself and my head writer, executive producer,

Hallie Hagland, we talked about in our experience working at the Daily Show together,

was the news cycle so often you find yourself chasing it.

And there are stories that you see.

And because the news cycle kind of burns through them so quickly, you find yourself saying,

well, wait, I wonder if there's more to that story.

And, you know, when we talk about something like police reform and police accountability

in the national conversation, there are moments where

the rhetoric gets so heated that it feels like trying to even change something seems almost

futile. And when you actually go into communities where people have been affected by something like police misconduct,

you see that on the ground, those people are neighbors and they have to figure out a way to make

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