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Hello and welcome back to big mood little mood. I'm your host Danny M. Lavery and with me in

the studio this week is W. Kamau Bell, a stand-up comedian, director, and author, executive producers,

and as the host of the Emmy Award-winning docu-series United Shades of America. He's also the director of a

new Showtime docu-series called We Need to Talk About Cosby. Welcome to the show Kamau. It's so

nice to see you again. Yeah, thanks Danny. Good to see you too. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, well, we'll just get right into it. I will start off by reading our first letter where

the subject is Betrayed Boss. This one is the longest one by far and it's also it goes places,

so just prepare yourself accordingly. I recently got promoted and became the manager for a team

that is currently negotiating for a union contract. Before this promotion, I would have been part

of that bargaining unit and I helped lay a lot of the groundwork to start the unionization process.

I'm happy they're unionizing. Part of the impetus for unionization was a lack of support and

direction at work. So when I got promoted, my boss and I made sure to create work plans with concrete

goals and quarterly feedback and evaluation points, none of which had been present before.

We've been practicing this more structured approach for about three months and everyone seemed

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