Episode 146: Two Years 146 Episodes. One Mission. Knowledge Is Power.
About this episode
The episode celebrates two years of the podcast, reflecting on the journey and key lessons learned about the lives and rights of city letter carriers.
On August 28, 2026, Hot House with Richie Ray celebrates two unforgettable years of education, advocacy, personal truth, and rank-and-file solidarity. What began on August 28, 2024, with Richie Ray sittingbehind a microphone and admitting that he was “just trying this out” has grown into a national platform containing more than 140 episodes devoted to the lives, rights, struggles, and future of city letter carriers. This anniversary episode takes the audience through that entire journey—from the earliestworkroom-floor conversations and “Knowledge Is Power” training programs to emotional therapy sessions, national candidate interviews, union roundtables, safety discussions, OWCP education, grievance training, the National ConventionDiary, and the growing movement for accountability and change inside the NALC. Richie revisits the lessons behind the episodes: how carriers can protect themselves with PS Forms 3996 and 1571; how Weingarten rights operate during investigatory interviews; why projections can never replace actual street conditions; how stewards build grievance files capable of surviving every stage of the procedure; why safety includes extreme heat,robberies, harassment…
People in this episode
Host: Richie Ray
Topics covered
- education
- advocacy
- city letter carriers
- union rights
- safety discussions
- grievance training
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NALC
More episodes of Hot House with Richie Ray
- Episode 151: Interview with NALC Branch 758 President Phil Bzura
- Episode 150: Supervisors or Scapegoats? Inside the USPS Management Crisis
- Episode 149: The OIG Just Exposed the Postal Service's Biggest Problem. And It Isn't the Letter Carrier.
- Episode 148: Delayed Mail, Article 8, and the Truth About Overtime: What Every Letter Carrier Needs to Know
- Episode 147: MIKE HAYDEN THE FIGHT FOR REGION 11
- Episode 145: Built by Union. Driven by Justice. In the Hot House with Kimetra Simpson-Lewis
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