November 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Michael Berry tackles Texas politics, illegal immigration, and Harris County’s $1.3M legal aid controversy. Hear sharp commentary on Ken Paxton’s lawsuit, Colony Ridge, and the viral “Brick Lady” hoax. Plus, insider talk with the Elevator Constructors Union about elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks.
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Good morning, Wake go.
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My Al Michael. Good morning. Al Michaels turns eighty one today.
American sports broadcaster, best known for his work broadcasting NFL games,
but I would argue his greatest call was this historic
moment in sports history. The crowd go insane, urlam killing
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at him of the American amagain.
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Borrow what you saw five seconds looking you believe in miracles, unelievable.
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The nineteen eighty miracle on ice. I'm not even a
hockey fan, but you had to be proud at that moment.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Harris County over
the one point three million dollar Democrat commissioners recently approved
to hand to Democrat groups to help illegal aliens fight
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deportation orders in a four to one vote. Obviously, the
only good vote was Tom Ramsey. Last month, Harris County
commissioners voted to funnel an additional one point three million
dollars to the Immigrant Legal Services Fund Program or ILSF,
which is a coalition of Democrat groups that help illegal
aliens fight deportation orders. The program was created in twenty
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twenty by who else, Rodney Ellis and it includes five groups.
Baker Ripley. Keep your eye on Baker Ripley. One day
we're going to expose what a criminal enterprise I think
Baker Ripley is. The Galveston Houston Immigrant Representation Project. Justice
for All Immigrants. They don't tell you that these immigrants
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are illegal immigrants. Justice for all illegals is what it
ought to be. Kind inc oh in that nice, we
call them kind and we got justice for all in
one of them, and kind in another one and the
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Service. In
a statement, Paxton says, we must stop the left wing
radicals who are robbing Texans to illegals from being deported
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by the Trump administration. Beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional, this
is evil and wicked. And see that's kind of language
I can get behind roman evil and wicked. Oh that
sounds good. Let me read that again. Beyond just being
blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Mind can you
clip that evil and wicked and put an echo behind
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it so we can just throw that in every time.
This is evil and wicked, Just evil and wicked will
do no hell. Millions upon millions of illegals invaded America
during the last administration, and they must be sent back
to where they came from. That's right. They're not citizens
of this country and they are not here legally. Every
country has a process by which you enter, and they
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did so illegally. Some entered legally but did not follow
the rules and leave when they committed it to That
is also illegal immigration, and it's about half of them.
He added that these expenditures serve no public purpose and
instead constitute unconstitute grants of public funds to private entities
to subsidize the legal defensive illegal aliens who ought, by
all accounts, to be deported. The Texas Constitution prohibits governmental
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entities like Harris County from misusing public funds by giving
gifts or conferring public benefits to individuals and groups that
do not serve a legitimate public end. Way to go,
Ken Paxton. What they are doing is this is evil
and wicked, just evil and wicked. You don't do this
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is they is doing evil and yeah, what they are
doing evil and wicked. What they are doing is evil
and wicked beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional. This is evil
and wicked. Yeah, just cut the evil in wicked and
put an echo effect. Do I need to get Chad involved? Okay?
You got this? Okay, I mean I was giving you
a big compliment. I seeing if you're ready to step
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up to the big leagues. You know you're not. You're not.
We can review ready, but you might get you might
could do evil and wicked that might be in there.
So city council meets this morning, and on their agenda,
they're very keen Mario Castillo and Tiffany Thomas that they
don't want city money going. They don't want HPD assisting
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the federal government in the deportation of illegal aliens. Oh,
they are very upset, very upset. They do not want
the law enforced. You see what Trump has forced with
the deportation of illegal aliens. Democrats for years said we're
not for illegal immigration. We just want a comprehensive plan.
They would keep telling we just want to do a plan,
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just a plan. Well, what's happened now that he's removing them.
They never wanted a plan, they never wanted any of
what They told people to shut us up because they
didn't want to have to admit, no, no, no, we
want a bunch of illegals. We want as many illegals
as possibly. We want to overrun this country. We want
to dilute the vote and influence of American citizens by
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bringing in people that we can control from third world
countries who were used to socialism. And that's the truth.
They wanted to bring in enough people who came from
countries of socialism, and frankly, we're fleeing countries of socialism,
but didn't know any better because you live better under
socialism in America than you do under socialism in Venezuela
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and the various countries from which they came. They wanted
to bring those people into this country where they could
control them. Hey, we brought you here, we gave you
the goodies, Now vote for us. In the meantime, there
would be a constant decline, an erosion in your quality
of life as you took on the burden of all
of these people, as our system began to crumble, and
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it has, and they've never wanted them, never wanted them removed.
So that's what Houston City Council is doing today. John Whipmark,
to his credit, is standing up to this, and I
think he deserves our credit. A lot of Republicans voted
for him, and I asked Republicans to vote for him,
and on this occasion, I'm very proud I did.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Maybe this here is a stir up success and brought
up in Arrange, Texas, broke ass whole scholarship.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
His way to two law degrees, including one from her
Majesty to Quinna Egg elected three or four times, a lawyer,
a husband, a father, but most of all are ignorant.
Asked asking your seat there to get ready for more
of mister Michael beer Hines.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
As you know, drunk Dade has fallen from Speaker of
the House to lowly member to now not going to
run for reelection. His goose is cooked. They got him
over the finish line by buying Democrats to come out
and vote, thirteen hundred of them. He won by three
hundred votes in the primary in his own state rep district,
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and he was losing going into the runoff. That just
doesn't happen. That's how unpopular he was back home in Orange,
Jasper and Jefferson County. The family was so petty that
his family oh very well to do family the Falin family,
or Feelings as they're called. There owned the building where
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the Orange County Republican Party was. When the Orange County
Republican Party did not endorse Dad, old drunk Dad, they
kicked him out. I don't think that was in your
best interest, but hey, I guess at this point, if
you got to be petty, you got to be petty. Besides,
drunk Dad's got nothing else to go back to but
the family business. He's lived off of the entirety of
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his life. So what does Donald Trump do with drunk Dad?
Like John Bayner having staggered off into the wilderness. Does
he forget about drunk days? Does he let him have
his dignity? Is he exit stage right? Oh? No, he
kicks him one last time, the President of the United
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States kicking a lowly state rep as he exits. It's
the public stage, Donald Trump, writing on Trump, Social, on truth, Social.
Fortunately for the great State of Texas, their former speaker,
who is no longer speaker, Dave Feeling, is quitting politics.
He was the one responsible for killing every bill having
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to do with voter integrity and school choice. Good luck
in your next life date. Pretty good, So, as you
might imagine, I got a voicemail from drunk Day last night.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I Mary, this is Dave Failing, big best friend ever
all time?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Hey man, did you see who I was be bopping
with last night? President? The President, the President of Trump America?
He said, And I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it.
Write them for you, he said. Fortunately, a great state
of Texas.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
The former speakers no longer speaker, Dave Filing as me yours.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Truly, he's quit in politics.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
He's the one responsible for killing editor bill, having to
do voter integration, integratation in school choices?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Cool choice, good luck in your next life day. Do
you see that? You see that? Good luck in your
next life day? He's just wishing me well wishing.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Because I tell you this, he's.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Wrong about one thing.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Quit in politics. Yeah, don't quit politics.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't quit politics.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Man, How does this get starting?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Baby?
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Michael Perry, Michael Perry, Me and Michael Perry take failing
to me. Micael Berry. We gotta play pickle, Paul mane cocktails.
Let's talk about this. We both run around. Brother is
Donald Donaldson Trump?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Hey? Hey man, I'm tired. Yet another violent inmate released
from the Harris County Jail. But we're post to believe
this was mistakenly. How many of these very bad guys
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do they keep releasing onto the streets ABC thirteen with
a story.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Twenty seven year old Nicholas Garra a freeman, but that's
not what the justice system intended. Friday, the same day,
he was said to begin serving his sentence for stealing
a pair of pruiting sheares from a home depot. It
was released from the Harris County Jail at a five
thousand dollars bond. The Sheriff's office tells US jail staff
released and based on paperwork showing he had posted bond.
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His attorney is cooperating with us and is making arrangements
for the defended to come serve the remaining few days
of his county jail centers. The Sheriff's office says theft
is one thing, but court record. Garrett was already on
probation for repeatedly violating a protective order stemming from a
July twenty twenty four assault case, his then pregnant wife,
telling police he attacked her with a cop then continued
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showing up to their Midtown home in direct violation of
the judge's order.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Record was accused of.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Violating the order on multiple occasions in twenty twenty four,
including by breaking into the victims home, sleeping in her
room while she was out, and on one occasion, slamming
her to the ground. In August that year, he got
three years deferred adjudication, but the violations continued, and Garret
was ultimately sentenced to one hundred and fifty days in jail.
Even after his theft conviction, his deferred adjudication agreement remains intact,
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although prosecutors are now making it clear any violations of
his terms and they'll immediately move to revoke. In the
theft case, he was initially sentenced to forty eight days
with credit for five days served, but the Sheriff's office
says in practice he would have served less time due
to an arrangement in which an inmate can get three
days credit for each day they served. Even so, he
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still had days left on his sentence and still got
out early in February. The same thing happened to this
man awaiting trial on a capital murder charge. The Sheriff's
office told us jail staff had mistaken him for another
inmate with the same name, and in twenty twenty three,
a man convicted of shooting his wife was mistakenly released
a waiting to be transferred to prison. The sheriff's office
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blamed that on a clerical error.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I've done some dating on this, and I'm told that
the staffing at the Harris County jail is terribly, terribly
poorly executed, and that was part of Rodney Ellis's goal
to starve out the Harris County Jail, and then in
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the absence of sufficient resources, they would make mistakes, there
would be errors, there would be problems, and then they've
encouraged groups to sue Harris County for the conditions there. Well,
when you don't have the staffing to keep the savages,
the animals under control, that's exactly what does happen. My
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Jewish friend told me that as their tradition on someone's
birthday to wish for them to live to be one
hundred and twenty. So I asked, what do you tell
somebody on their one hundred and twentieth birthday? Then he said,
enjoy the rest of your day. A patient asked this doctor, doctor,
is there sex after death? The doctor replies, that really
depends on your pathologist. Again, that's why I had gear
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probably had a tune. Now you might have to edit that.
This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of talk radio
Riscocaine is still taking money from Colony Ridge. On his
September thirtieth report, he took thirty five hundred from Colony
Ridge homebuilder, the largest home building in Colony Ridge. Daniel Signarelli,
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You know, Coloney Ridge is the example of what America
is going to look like and how now some people
are profiting off of illegal immigration. Colony Ridge is a
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colonia of these ramshackle homes in their own little fiefdom.
Every document you have to provide in order to buy
a home, they don't have to provide. It's like a tote.
THENTE lot car dealers do this as well, and the
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numbers suggest it sure appears to be the case that
the model is to sell a home to an illegal
alien that you finance, he pays on it for a year,
falls behind, and you take it back. But in the meantime,
law enforcement officials tell me, and there have been numerous busts.
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You can look it up for yourself. Can't believe we're
having to argue this but maybe folks don't remember. In
the meantime, there have been numerous busts of clear cartel activity,
massive stashes of guns by cartel members, drug running, trafficking.
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Once it was exposed about that time the developer gets
arrested in Waller County and did thirty days there. We
had them on for three hours. Charming, very charming people.
I would have met, very charming people and actually very
good businessman to the extent. Al Capone was a good
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businessman for John Gotti. It is everything wrong with illegal immigration.
It has drained the resources of law enforcement and created
a breeding ground for the cartel and brisk cocaine was
steady taking money from and talking them up. Called it
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the American dream. If anybody can look at any story
on Colony Ridge that is objectively done and say that
looks like the American Dream, then the congressional seat pops open,
and now all of a sudden it's laid bare. Now
people go, well, but he has a mustache, and where's
a cowboy hat? And he starts every video with howdie
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can't be that bad. That's how they get you, the
politics of personality. How y'all doing, I'm so proud to
be your state, reyp it's the John Cornn Act. Because
a lot of people can't believe you're stabbing me in
the back while smiling. Give me a real firm handshake light. Yes,
he is continuing to take money from the people who
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profit at Colony Ridge. That is a fact, and that
will be known by every voter in congressional district now
on an election day when the primaries come, and if
they still choose to vote for him, then so be it.
But I am going to make sure that they know.
We're not going to pretend like that's a nothing issue,
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because that's a real issue. It's an important issue, and
it's important that voters know about it. From what I
am sending you a story, tell me when you have
it of the Houston Black activist. I thought I had
it ready for you, but just tell me when you
have it Houston Black activist quote unquote. Because everybody's an
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activist or a preacher, some are both. Who lied about
being assaulted with a brick by a man outside a
club has been found guilty for fraudulently raising more than
forty thousand dollars on GoFundMe off the hoax Rota Osman,
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who became known as Brick Lady, has been sentenced to
ten years in PRIs No ten years probation because we
don't ever actually want to punish anybody these people in
their go fund me hoaxes, and it's always that she's
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a victim because she's a black woman. My goodness alive.
The story from January of last year from KPRCTV.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Do you all just man, just hit me in my
face with a brick and all these black men.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Just want This video, with more than a million likes
on the Shade Rooms Instagram page, captured the moments after
what appeared to be a brutal attack in West Houston.
My faith, the woman is thirty three year old Rhoda Osmond.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
What have I ever done to anybody of my life
to deserve this scene?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Here? In tears in a hospital gown.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
She told the detective, the responder that she was hit
in the head with a breck after she refused to
give her phone number to a guy on the street.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
And was that verified by any of the evidence that
detectives looked at. No, that was Harris County Prosecutor Keith
Houston says surveillance videos from that early September morning show
Osmond hitting a man first.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So she's the one who she was the aggressor. She
was the aggressor house and it was a water bottle
that hit her, not a brick.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
He did have a water bottle in his hand, and
we think that's what.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Left the mark.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
According to court documents, she asked someone else to launch
this GoFundMe for her recovery, raising more than forty two
thousand dollars, but as the story went viral, a blogger
on TikTok called police, alerting them to this twenty twenty GoFundMe,
which claimed a vicious assault by a security guard in Minneapolis.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Detective Thornton verified with Minneapolis Police that there was no
assault done at that time, it was completely fictional.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Prosecutors alleged theft by deception and believed she would have
received all that money had the campaign not been shut down.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
The violence I have suffered September thirty is just unbelievable.
I can't even believe I'm here. They try to leave
me forbid.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
In an Instagram story posted Wednesday, Osmond addressed those who
have doubted her.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I actually have things going on in my life I
actually have real ways to make money. I don't have
to go fun things for money. I actually can earn
income because I'm actually educated and I actually am talented.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
What are your ways to make money? I like when
people say they're educated. They're educated. I've known several billionaires
and none of them even went to college. Well one
of them, now, one of them has a college degree.
I like the idea that going to a school makes
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you educated. I think just the opposite. Anchorman fans will
appreciate when we talk about the Brick Lady. Four rules
to live by. Never get less than twelve hours of sleep,
Never play cards with a guy whose first name is
the same as the city, Never get involved with a
woman with a dagger tattoo on her body, And never
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believe anything is said by someone who goes by the
name Brick.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It looks like there's going to be another great weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Here to tell us all about it is Brick Tammlin
with weather Brick.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
Now it got all the way up to ninety seven
degrees in some of the outlying areas today, And that
my friend is really really hot. And I always make
the same plea every year. This time you've got pets
and you're going to leave them in the car and
this kind of heat. Make sure they have a lot
of chew toys and be sure to roll up the
windows so that heat doesn't get into the car.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
This is Tracy Baird and welcome to the Lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I call it the Michael Barry Joe. My daily report
from David Maulsby this morning began thusle today's champions. What
a day at Camp Hope. There's no better place in
the country for our veterans. We have quite a list
of people and companies to think today. We want to
thank our friends at IUEC Local one. These guys just
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wrapped up their annual Veteran golf tournament and it wasn't
just about great, great golf and coal drinks. It was
about purpose. Through partnerships with Helmets to Hard Hats of
the PTSD Foundation of America, they're helping union members and
veterans understand what real transition looks like, moving from the
battlefield to skilled work and getting help for the wounds
of war. You can't always see every swing out there
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helps veterans find hope and healing At Camp Hope right
here in Houston. So hats off to the men and
women of i UEC Local thirty one for making sure
no veteran fights alone on or off the course. Well,
I didn't know what the IUEC was, so I looked
it up. It is the International Union of Elevator Constructors,
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So I put in a call. It's folks who work
on elevators from installation to repair. Seems like a pretty
cool thing. I will admit I have some odd neurotic
obsessions things that I am. I am weirdly very interested
in in elevators. Happens to be one of them. So
I place the call and who do I manage to
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get through to other than Ryan Shott, the big dog
over there. Welcome to the program, sir, thanks for being
with us, Thanks for having me. First of all, thank
you for I don't know how y'all chose Camp Hope
to be the beneficiary of your annual golf tournament, but
we appreciate it. Our veterans appreciate it, and their families
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
So Veterans Day for Elevator Constructors is actually a paid holiday.
So we have the day and we salute our veterans
that are currently in service and those that will be
those that have passed in the line of duty, and
so we take that day. It's a day of remembrance,
but also for us, we like to contribute to the
veterans veterans as a whole within Houston surrounding area, and
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so we've teamed up with Camp Hope and a PTSD
Foundation of America because we really support their program. We
like to be an advocate in that ally for them,
and so we get out there on the links and
then we like to say, because it is a paid
holiday for that one day, you are a professional golfer.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
So Ramon's asking me if we start a union of
talk show hosts, would we get more paid days off? Hopefully?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Right, that's the power of collective bargaining.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Are you a union boss? That just hit me? I
don't get to talk to a lot of union bosses.
That's kind of awesome.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I guess technically it's not something that we classify ourselves as,
but we do represent six hundred and forty four union
elevator constructors here in Houston and we do everything from
new installation, service modernization for elevators, escalators, move or walks
and convey it systems of all types.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh like the movie sidewalks and everything.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Absolutely, let me just ask you about the ebody working
at the airport.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's us. Okay, let me ask you about elevators to
start with, because I am the weirdo that looks at
which brand of elevator, and almost every elevator in a
commercial building is an Otis. What percentage of elevators and
commercial buildings would you say our Otis brand?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
So Otis is the largest manufacturer in the world. The
modern elevator system was created by Elisha Otis and brothers.
And there's a component of it which is a governor
that would keep you from falling, and it's a device
that uses centrifugal force.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And I won't get into.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
The logistics of it too much, but that's the modern
elevator was created by Otis. Now we have the big
four companies which are going to be Otis, Schindler, TK,
and Kone. Those are the big ones.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Shindler though, and.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Usually they don't put their name out there, but Otis
has been doing it for a very long time, so
you're more likely to see some Otis signage than any
other company.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And what about the moving sidewalks who makes most of those?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
So Otis also manufactures a lot of those, and a
lot of the escalators as well as does Kone, and
everybody has a product available. Now with your larger companies,
Mitsubishi has some products as well. If you go to
Las Vegas, they have some in the park shops that
they turn and so it's almost like a spiral staircase.
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It's a really interesting product as well.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Interesting. So I'm assuming your members are union, but they
work for private companies. So if somebody needs installation or repair,
they're calling those companies. Your folks just happen to be
union members, that's correct.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
So the education portion of it, and so I'll touch
on Helmets to Heart hats here just for a second.
That is a pathway for folks to get into fourteen
different building and construction trades, of which we are one
of them. And so Helmets to Heart helps those service
members have an opportunity in a new career as they're
transitioning from their service lives, and so we partner with
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them as well to get them an opportunity. Now, that
is our education program. So our education program is called
NEF it stands for the National Elevator Industry Education Program,
And so what happens is the purpose of the union.
What they're going to do is they are going to
educate and be able to have quality journey folks and
also apprentices to be placed out on a job site.
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When a signatory company calls up and says we need
a qualified mechanic, we know that they have a minimum
education level for the specifics of what that job may include.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So, if ramone wanted to get into the elevator installation
repair business, how does somebody get in? Do they come
to the union hall and get training there or where
is a person trained for this?
Speaker 6 (29:23):
So they start by going to the educational program's website
which is neat inei ep DO org and then you
can sign up for updates there and the Department of Labor.
We are a registered apprenticeship program through the Department of Labor.
So you will go through that education program and then
throughout the country as there are recruitments available, they will
be in contact with you via email after you sign
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up and it'll show you that the exact steps that
it takes, and then you'll come in. There's an aptitude
test and there's a panel interview and then minimum qualifications
to be eligible to be an apprentice eighteen years of age,
eligible work in the United States, and high school diploma
or equivalent. And then we also have a pathway through
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Helmets to heart Hats. If you visit Helmets to heart
Hats dot org, there is a pathway. You upload your
d D two fourteen and all the pretinant details that
they're going to need. Start an account there and based
upon where you would like to be working or where
your home is, then you will see the need program
also there on Helmets to Heart Hats and someone will
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be in touch with you and you can sign up
for updates there as well.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And NEEP is a place I got about thirty second
before we go to quick break and we'll come back.
Is NEP is the place where you get the education?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
So what's that website administer.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
An ei EP dot org.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
N ei EP dot org. Ryan, can you hold with
me for just a moment. Absolutely, there's something giving me
the red ass and I want to see if you
can help me with this. A lot of buildings are
going to this thing. We're on the ground floor. You
push which floor you're going to and it tells you
which elevator, and so when you get in and you
turn to push the button and it doesn't let you
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do that anymore. I like to get in my elevator.
I like to look around at all the floors. I
like to choose my elevator button from there. I just
want to see if you can do anything about that. Okay,
hold on just a minute, Ryan Shewitt with the iu
e C. Was that a local number thirty one? International
Union of Elevator Constructors. You didn't even know about that. Roman.
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See you learn something today. That can be a cool job.
But I bet people are mad when you show up
It's that time, time time, luck and load. The Michael
Berry Show is on the air. Hello, good every buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is my little Hamilton Astros win again and a
good morning to the Tzar. Good morning, Michael Berry. It's
Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show. Pity.
I washed it to find it. Good morning, Michael Berry.
I'm all jaked up on Mountain Dew. This is the
Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry.
(00:45):
Good morning, Michael, Lady, Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Michael,
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Czar, Good morning, Michael, zave Saalen, Good morning, Elsina.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are you there? Good morning you,
Michael Berry. How you learned that?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I read it to MoMA.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Good Mory, Texas, listen to this. Good morning, Texas, morning,
your car.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Good more money.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Texas is honest.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We're happy to be here to.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Talk about everything.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Good morning, We're not wearing pants.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Good morning, Texes, Good morning Texas, Good MORDINGXS.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Good morning, Wake go.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Bet speak God damn.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
My Al Michael. Good morning. Al Michaels turns eighty one today.
American sports broadcaster, best known for his work broadcasting NFL games,
but I would argue his greatest call was this historic
moment in sports history. The crowd go insane, urlam killing
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at him of the American amagain.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Morrow is back.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There, Don Johnson. Nineteen seconds. Johnson over to Ramsey, will you.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Lecanock get the.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Tech by Ramsey?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The kind of Dan is there? The puppy is still lose.
Eleven seconds.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You've got ten seconds, the countdown going on right now.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Borrow what you saw five seconds looking you believe in miracles, unelievable.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
The nineteen eighty miracle on ice. I'm not even a
hockey fan, but you had to be proud at that moment.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Harris County over
the one point three million dollar Democrat commissioners recently approved
to hand to Democrat groups to help illegal aliens fight
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deportation orders in a four to one vote. Obviously, the
only good vote was Tom Ramsey. Last month, Harris County
commissioners voted to funnel an additional one point three million
dollars to the Immigrant Legal Services Fund Program or ILSF,
which is a coalition of Democrat groups that help illegal
aliens fight deportation orders. The program was created in twenty
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twenty by who else, Rodney Ellis and it includes five groups.
Baker Ripley. Keep your eye on Baker Ripley. One day
we're going to expose what a criminal enterprise I think
Baker Ripley is. The Galveston Houston Immigrant Representation Project. Justice
for All Immigrants. They don't tell you that these immigrants
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are illegal immigrants. Justice for all illegals is what it
ought to be. Kind inc oh in that nice, we
call them kind and we got justice for all in
one of them, and kind in another one and the
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Service. In
a statement, Paxton says, we must stop the left wing
radicals who are robbing Texans to illegals from being deported
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by the Trump administration. Beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional, this
is evil and wicked. And see that's kind of language
I can get behind roman evil and wicked. Oh that
sounds good. Let me read that again. Beyond just being
blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Mind can you
clip that evil and wicked and put an echo behind
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it so we can just throw that in every time.
This is evil and wicked, Just evil and wicked will
do no hell. Millions upon millions of illegals invaded America
during the last administration, and they must be sent back
to where they came from. That's right. They're not citizens
of this country and they are not here legally. Every
country has a process by which you enter, and they
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did so illegally. Some entered legally but did not follow
the rules and leave when they committed it to That
is also illegal immigration, and it's about half of them.
He added that these expenditures serve no public purpose and
instead constitute unconstitute grants of public funds to private entities
to subsidize the legal defensive illegal aliens who ought, by
all accounts, to be deported. The Texas Constitution prohibits governmental
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entities like Harris County from misusing public funds by giving
gifts or conferring public benefits to individuals and groups that
do not serve a legitimate public end. Way to go,
Ken Paxton. What they are doing is this is evil
and wicked, just evil and wicked. You don't do this
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is they is doing evil and yeah, what they are
doing evil and wicked. What they are doing is evil
and wicked beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional. This is evil
and wicked. Yeah, just cut the evil in wicked and
put an echo effect. Do I need to get Chad involved? Okay?
You got this? Okay, I mean I was giving you
a big compliment. I seeing if you're ready to step
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up to the big leagues. You know you're not. You're not.
We can review ready, but you might get you might
could do evil and wicked that might be in there.
So city council meets this morning, and on their agenda,
they're very keen Mario Castillo and Tiffany Thomas that they
don't want city money going. They don't want HPD assisting
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the federal government in the deportation of illegal aliens. Oh,
they are very upset, very upset. They do not want
the law enforced. You see what Trump has forced with
the deportation of illegal aliens. Democrats for years said we're
not for illegal immigration. We just want a comprehensive plan.
They would keep telling we just want to do a plan,
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just a plan. Well, what's happened now that he's removing them.
They never wanted a plan, they never wanted any of
what They told people to shut us up because they
didn't want to have to admit, no, no, no, we
want a bunch of illegals. We want as many illegals
as possibly. We want to overrun this country. We want
to dilute the vote and influence of American citizens by
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bringing in people that we can control from third world
countries who were used to socialism. And that's the truth.
They wanted to bring in enough people who came from
countries of socialism, and frankly, we're fleeing countries of socialism,
but didn't know any better because you live better under
socialism in America than you do under socialism in Venezuela
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and the various countries from which they came. They wanted
to bring those people into this country where they could
control them. Hey, we brought you here, we gave you
the goodies, Now vote for us. In the meantime, there
would be a constant decline, an erosion in your quality
of life as you took on the burden of all
of these people, as our system began to crumble, and
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it has, and they've never wanted them, never wanted them removed.
So that's what Houston City Council is doing today. John Whipmark,
to his credit, is standing up to this, and I
think he deserves our credit. A lot of Republicans voted
for him, and I asked Republicans to vote for him,
and on this occasion, I'm very proud I did.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Maybe this here is a stir up success and brought
up in Arrange, Texas, broke ass whole scholarship.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
His way to two law degrees, including one from her
Majesty to Quinna Egg elected three or four times, a lawyer,
a husband, a father, but most of all are ignorant.
Asked asking your seat there to get ready for more
of mister Michael beer Hines.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
As you know, drunk Dade has fallen from Speaker of
the House to lowly member to now not going to
run for reelection. His goose is cooked. They got him
over the finish line by buying Democrats to come out
and vote, thirteen hundred of them. He won by three
hundred votes in the primary in his own state rep district,
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and he was losing going into the runoff. That just
doesn't happen. That's how unpopular he was back home in Orange,
Jasper and Jefferson County. The family was so petty that
his family oh very well to do family the Falin family,
or Feelings as they're called. There owned the building where
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the Orange County Republican Party was. When the Orange County
Republican Party did not endorse Dad, old drunk Dad, they
kicked him out. I don't think that was in your
best interest, but hey, I guess at this point, if
you got to be petty, you got to be petty. Besides,
drunk Dad's got nothing else to go back to but
the family business. He's lived off of the entirety of
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his life. So what does Donald Trump do with drunk Dad?
Like John Bayner having staggered off into the wilderness. Does
he forget about drunk days? Does he let him have
his dignity? Is he exit stage right? Oh? No, he
kicks him one last time, the President of the United
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States kicking a lowly state rep as he exits. It's
the public stage, Donald Trump, writing on Trump, Social, on truth, Social.
Fortunately for the great State of Texas, their former speaker,
who is no longer speaker, Dave Feeling, is quitting politics.
He was the one responsible for killing every bill having
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to do with voter integrity and school choice. Good luck
in your next life date. Pretty good, So, as you
might imagine, I got a voicemail from drunk Day last night.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I Mary, this is Dave Failing, big best friend ever
all time?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Hey man, did you see who I was be bopping
with last night? President? The President, the President of Trump America?
He said, And I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it.
Write them for you, he said. Fortunately, a great state
of Texas.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
The former speakers no longer speaker, Dave Filing as me yours.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Truly, he's quit in politics.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
He's the one responsible for killing editor bill, having to
do voter integration, integratation in school choices?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Cool choice, good luck in your next life day. Do
you see that? You see that? Good luck in your
next life day? He's just wishing me well wishing.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Because I tell you this, he's.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Wrong about one thing.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Quit in politics. Yeah, don't quit politics.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't quit politics.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Man, How does this get starting?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Baby?
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Michael Perry, Michael Perry, Me and Michael Perry take failing
to me. Micael Berry. We gotta play pickle, Paul mane cocktails.
Let's talk about this. We both run around. Brother is
Donald Donaldson Trump?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Hey? Hey man, I'm tired. Yet another violent inmate released
from the Harris County Jail. But we're post to believe
this was mistakenly. How many of these very bad guys
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do they keep releasing onto the streets ABC thirteen with
a story.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Twenty seven year old Nicholas Garra a freeman, but that's
not what the justice system intended. Friday, the same day,
he was said to begin serving his sentence for stealing
a pair of pruiting sheares from a home depot. It
was released from the Harris County Jail at a five
thousand dollars bond. The Sheriff's office tells US jail staff
released and based on paperwork showing he had posted bond.
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His attorney is cooperating with us and is making arrangements
for the defended to come serve the remaining few days
of his county jail centers. The Sheriff's office says theft
is one thing, but court record. Garrett was already on
probation for repeatedly violating a protective order stemming from a
July twenty twenty four assault case, his then pregnant wife,
telling police he attacked her with a cop then continued
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showing up to their Midtown home in direct violation of
the judge's order.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Record was accused of.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Violating the order on multiple occasions in twenty twenty four,
including by breaking into the victims home, sleeping in her
room while she was out, and on one occasion, slamming
her to the ground. In August that year, he got
three years deferred adjudication, but the violations continued, and Garret
was ultimately sentenced to one hundred and fifty days in jail.
Even after his theft conviction, his deferred adjudication agreement remains intact,
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although prosecutors are now making it clear any violations of
his terms and they'll immediately move to revoke. In the
theft case, he was initially sentenced to forty eight days
with credit for five days served, but the Sheriff's office
says in practice he would have served less time due
to an arrangement in which an inmate can get three
days credit for each day they served. Even so, he
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still had days left on his sentence and still got
out early in February. The same thing happened to this
man awaiting trial on a capital murder charge. The Sheriff's
office told us jail staff had mistaken him for another
inmate with the same name, and in twenty twenty three,
a man convicted of shooting his wife was mistakenly released
a waiting to be transferred to prison. The sheriff's office
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blamed that on a clerical error.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I've done some dating on this, and I'm told that
the staffing at the Harris County jail is terribly, terribly
poorly executed, and that was part of Rodney Ellis's goal
to starve out the Harris County Jail, and then in
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the absence of sufficient resources, they would make mistakes, there
would be errors, there would be problems, and then they've
encouraged groups to sue Harris County for the conditions there. Well,
when you don't have the staffing to keep the savages,
the animals under control, that's exactly what does happen. My
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Jewish friend told me that as their tradition on someone's
birthday to wish for them to live to be one
hundred and twenty. So I asked, what do you tell
somebody on their one hundred and twentieth birthday? Then he said,
enjoy the rest of your day. A patient asked this doctor, doctor,
is there sex after death? The doctor replies, that really
depends on your pathologist. Again, that's why I had gear
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probably had a tune. Now you might have to edit that.
This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of talk radio
Riscocaine is still taking money from Colony Ridge. On his
September thirtieth report, he took thirty five hundred from Colony
Ridge homebuilder, the largest home building in Colony Ridge. Daniel Signarelli,
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You know, Coloney Ridge is the example of what America
is going to look like and how now some people
are profiting off of illegal immigration. Colony Ridge is a
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colonia of these ramshackle homes in their own little fiefdom.
Every document you have to provide in order to buy
a home, they don't have to provide. It's like a tote.
THENTE lot car dealers do this as well, and the
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numbers suggest it sure appears to be the case that
the model is to sell a home to an illegal
alien that you finance, he pays on it for a year,
falls behind, and you take it back. But in the meantime,
law enforcement officials tell me, and there have been numerous busts.
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You can look it up for yourself. Can't believe we're
having to argue this but maybe folks don't remember. In
the meantime, there have been numerous busts of clear cartel activity,
massive stashes of guns by cartel members, drug running, trafficking.
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Once it was exposed about that time the developer gets
arrested in Waller County and did thirty days there. We
had them on for three hours. Charming, very charming people.
I would have met, very charming people and actually very
good businessman to the extent. Al Capone was a good
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businessman for John Gotti. It is everything wrong with illegal immigration.
It has drained the resources of law enforcement and created
a breeding ground for the cartel and brisk cocaine was
steady taking money from and talking them up. Called it
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the American dream. If anybody can look at any story
on Colony Ridge that is objectively done and say that
looks like the American Dream, then the congressional seat pops open,
and now all of a sudden it's laid bare. Now
people go, well, but he has a mustache, and where's
a cowboy hat? And he starts every video with howdie
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can't be that bad. That's how they get you, the
politics of personality. How y'all doing, I'm so proud to
be your state, reyp it's the John Cornn Act. Because
a lot of people can't believe you're stabbing me in
the back while smiling. Give me a real firm handshake light. Yes,
he is continuing to take money from the people who
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profit at Colony Ridge. That is a fact, and that
will be known by every voter in congressional district now
on an election day when the primaries come, and if
they still choose to vote for him, then so be it.
But I am going to make sure that they know.
We're not going to pretend like that's a nothing issue,
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because that's a real issue. It's an important issue, and
it's important that voters know about it. From what I
am sending you a story, tell me when you have
it of the Houston Black activist. I thought I had
it ready for you, but just tell me when you
have it Houston Black activist quote unquote. Because everybody's an
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activist or a preacher, some are both. Who lied about
being assaulted with a brick by a man outside a
club has been found guilty for fraudulently raising more than
forty thousand dollars on GoFundMe off the hoax Rota Osman,
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who became known as Brick Lady, has been sentenced to
ten years in PRIs No ten years probation because we
don't ever actually want to punish anybody these people in
their go fund me hoaxes, and it's always that she's
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a victim because she's a black woman. My goodness alive.
The story from January of last year from KPRCTV.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Do you all just man, just hit me in my
face with a brick and all these black men.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Just want This video, with more than a million likes
on the Shade Rooms Instagram page, captured the moments after
what appeared to be a brutal attack in West Houston.
My faith, the woman is thirty three year old Rhoda Osmond.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
What have I ever done to anybody of my life
to deserve this scene?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Here? In tears in a hospital gown.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
She told the detective, the responder that she was hit
in the head with a breck after she refused to
give her phone number to a guy on the street.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
And was that verified by any of the evidence that
detectives looked at. No, that was Harris County Prosecutor Keith
Houston says surveillance videos from that early September morning show
Osmond hitting a man first.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So she's the one who she was the aggressor. She
was the aggressor house and it was a water bottle
that hit her, not a brick.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
He did have a water bottle in his hand, and
we think that's what.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Left the mark.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
According to court documents, she asked someone else to launch
this GoFundMe for her recovery, raising more than forty two
thousand dollars, but as the story went viral, a blogger
on TikTok called police, alerting them to this twenty twenty GoFundMe,
which claimed a vicious assault by a security guard in Minneapolis.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Detective Thornton verified with Minneapolis Police that there was no
assault done at that time, it was completely fictional.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Prosecutors alleged theft by deception and believed she would have
received all that money had the campaign not been shut down.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
The violence I have suffered September thirty is just unbelievable.
I can't even believe I'm here. They try to leave
me forbid.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
In an Instagram story posted Wednesday, Osmond addressed those who
have doubted her.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I actually have things going on in my life I
actually have real ways to make money. I don't have
to go fun things for money. I actually can earn
income because I'm actually educated and I actually am talented.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
What are your ways to make money? I like when
people say they're educated. They're educated. I've known several billionaires
and none of them even went to college. Well one
of them, now, one of them has a college degree.
I like the idea that going to a school makes
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you educated. I think just the opposite. Anchorman fans will
appreciate when we talk about the Brick Lady. Four rules
to live by. Never get less than twelve hours of sleep,
Never play cards with a guy whose first name is
the same as the city, Never get involved with a
woman with a dagger tattoo on her body, And never
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believe anything is said by someone who goes by the
name Brick.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It looks like there's going to be another great weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Here to tell us all about it is Brick Tammlin
with weather Brick.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
Now it got all the way up to ninety seven
degrees in some of the outlying areas today, And that
my friend is really really hot. And I always make
the same plea every year. This time you've got pets
and you're going to leave them in the car and
this kind of heat. Make sure they have a lot
of chew toys and be sure to roll up the
windows so that heat doesn't get into the car.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
This is Tracy Baird and welcome to the Lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I call it the Michael Barry Joe. My daily report
from David Maulsby this morning began thusle today's champions. What
a day at Camp Hope. There's no better place in
the country for our veterans. We have quite a list
of people and companies to think today. We want to
thank our friends at IUEC Local one. These guys just
(24:01):
wrapped up their annual Veteran golf tournament and it wasn't
just about great, great golf and coal drinks. It was
about purpose. Through partnerships with Helmets to Hard Hats of
the PTSD Foundation of America, they're helping union members and
veterans understand what real transition looks like, moving from the
battlefield to skilled work and getting help for the wounds
of war. You can't always see every swing out there
(24:23):
helps veterans find hope and healing At Camp Hope right
here in Houston. So hats off to the men and
women of i UEC Local thirty one for making sure
no veteran fights alone on or off the course. Well,
I didn't know what the IUEC was, so I looked
it up. It is the International Union of Elevator Constructors,
(24:46):
So I put in a call. It's folks who work
on elevators from installation to repair. Seems like a pretty
cool thing. I will admit I have some odd neurotic
obsessions things that I am. I am weirdly very interested
in in elevators. Happens to be one of them. So
I place the call and who do I manage to
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get through to other than Ryan Shott, the big dog
over there. Welcome to the program, sir, thanks for being
with us, Thanks for having me. First of all, thank
you for I don't know how y'all chose Camp Hope
to be the beneficiary of your annual golf tournament, but
we appreciate it. Our veterans appreciate it, and their families
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
So Veterans Day for Elevator Constructors is actually a paid holiday.
So we have the day and we salute our veterans
that are currently in service and those that will be
those that have passed in the line of duty, and
so we take that day. It's a day of remembrance,
but also for us, we like to contribute to the
veterans veterans as a whole within Houston surrounding area, and
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so we've teamed up with Camp Hope and a PTSD
Foundation of America because we really support their program. We
like to be an advocate in that ally for them,
and so we get out there on the links and
then we like to say, because it is a paid
holiday for that one day, you are a professional golfer.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
So Ramon's asking me if we start a union of
talk show hosts, would we get more paid days off? Hopefully?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Right, that's the power of collective bargaining.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Are you a union boss? That just hit me? I
don't get to talk to a lot of union bosses.
That's kind of awesome.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I guess technically it's not something that we classify ourselves as,
but we do represent six hundred and forty four union
elevator constructors here in Houston and we do everything from
new installation, service modernization for elevators, escalators, move or walks
and convey it systems of all types.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh like the movie sidewalks and everything.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Absolutely, let me just ask you about the ebody working
at the airport.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's us. Okay, let me ask you about elevators to
start with, because I am the weirdo that looks at
which brand of elevator, and almost every elevator in a
commercial building is an Otis. What percentage of elevators and
commercial buildings would you say our Otis brand?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
So Otis is the largest manufacturer in the world. The
modern elevator system was created by Elisha Otis and brothers.
And there's a component of it which is a governor
that would keep you from falling, and it's a device
that uses centrifugal force.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And I won't get into.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
The logistics of it too much, but that's the modern
elevator was created by Otis. Now we have the big
four companies which are going to be Otis, Schindler, TK,
and Kone. Those are the big ones.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Shindler though, and.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Usually they don't put their name out there, but Otis
has been doing it for a very long time, so
you're more likely to see some Otis signage than any
other company.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And what about the moving sidewalks who makes most of those?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
So Otis also manufactures a lot of those, and a
lot of the escalators as well as does Kone, and
everybody has a product available. Now with your larger companies,
Mitsubishi has some products as well. If you go to
Las Vegas, they have some in the park shops that
they turn and so it's almost like a spiral staircase.
(28:03):
It's a really interesting product as well.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Interesting. So I'm assuming your members are union, but they
work for private companies. So if somebody needs installation or repair,
they're calling those companies. Your folks just happen to be
union members, that's correct.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
So the education portion of it, and so I'll touch
on Helmets to Heart hats here just for a second.
That is a pathway for folks to get into fourteen
different building and construction trades, of which we are one
of them. And so Helmets to Heart helps those service
members have an opportunity in a new career as they're
transitioning from their service lives, and so we partner with
(28:38):
them as well to get them an opportunity. Now, that
is our education program. So our education program is called
NEF it stands for the National Elevator Industry Education Program,
And so what happens is the purpose of the union.
What they're going to do is they are going to
educate and be able to have quality journey folks and
also apprentices to be placed out on a job site.
(29:00):
When a signatory company calls up and says we need
a qualified mechanic, we know that they have a minimum
education level for the specifics of what that job may include.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So, if ramone wanted to get into the elevator installation
repair business, how does somebody get in? Do they come
to the union hall and get training there or where
is a person trained for this?
Speaker 6 (29:23):
So they start by going to the educational program's website
which is neat inei ep DO org and then you
can sign up for updates there and the Department of Labor.
We are a registered apprenticeship program through the Department of Labor.
So you will go through that education program and then
throughout the country as there are recruitments available, they will
be in contact with you via email after you sign
(29:45):
up and it'll show you that the exact steps that
it takes, and then you'll come in. There's an aptitude
test and there's a panel interview and then minimum qualifications
to be eligible to be an apprentice eighteen years of age,
eligible work in the United States, and high school diploma
or equivalent. And then we also have a pathway through
(30:06):
Helmets to heart Hats. If you visit Helmets to heart
Hats dot org, there is a pathway. You upload your
d D two fourteen and all the pretinant details that
they're going to need. Start an account there and based
upon where you would like to be working or where
your home is, then you will see the need program
also there on Helmets to Heart Hats and someone will
(30:27):
be in touch with you and you can sign up
for updates there as well.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And NEEP is a place I got about thirty second
before we go to quick break and we'll come back.
Is NEP is the place where you get the education?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
So what's that website administer.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
An ei EP dot org.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
N ei EP dot org. Ryan, can you hold with
me for just a moment. Absolutely, there's something giving me
the red ass and I want to see if you
can help me with this. A lot of buildings are
going to this thing. We're on the ground floor. You
push which floor you're going to and it tells you
which elevator, and so when you get in and you
turn to push the button and it doesn't let you
(31:05):
do that anymore. I like to get in my elevator.
I like to look around at all the floors. I
like to choose my elevator button from there. I just
want to see if you can do anything about that. Okay,
hold on just a minute, Ryan Shewitt with the iu
e C. Was that a local number thirty one? International
Union of Elevator Constructors. You didn't even know about that. Roman.
(31:26):
See you learn something today. That can be a cool job.
But I bet people are mad when you show up
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