December 2, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Berry breaks down why “gangsta” culture fails, exposes viral stories, and shares smart money lessons to avoid million-dollar mistakes.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The page took the Daily Mail as has been appointed,
as has been pointed out to me by a listener,
reads as follow Blue and Bluer divorce photo. That's what
they call the picture of the two of them. And
then at Democrat convention. And there's a picture of Lena
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Hidalgo speaking at the Democrat convention with the title as follows.
Rising star democrat who appeared in Vogue announces split from
husband on their first wedding anniversary after he used his
life savings to pay for her mental health treatment.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Ooh, coach, so now he's a broke nerd mmmm, Allen's
let me read that again.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Make sure I got that right. Rising star democrat who
appeared in Vogue announces split from husband on their first
wedding anniversary after he used his life savings to pay
for her mental health treatment. After he used his life
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savings to pay for her mental health treatment, My goodness,
that does not look good. I know people get mad
when I say this, But she's cute. She ain't cute, Michael,
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she ain't cute. Are you looking at your profile picture? Lady.
She's cute. She is cute. There is no doubting that
she doesn't have to be the most beautiful woman world. Well,
she's got a bad personality, so I can't see the
cute and you also can't have a reasonable discussion, and
that makes it not very interesting to me. The point
for this argument is she's cute, she's a girl. He
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is a complete and utter dork. He had to be
excited he got some want cute girl to lay with him.
He was obviously smitten because he spends his life savings
to try to help her crazy ass. You gotta figure
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how bad crazy is she because you know she's not
the one that wanted to divorce. You know that. How
bad crazy does she have to be? For him to say,
you know what, I have out kicked my coverage physically,
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I just can't. This is crazy is just too much.
This is just too much crazy for me. I'm sorry.
I mean. The thing about it is you don't know
what goes on behind closed doors. People put a public
face on. We have seen her snap in public. You
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realize that's only one percent of the crazy. She's boiling
the cat, the kid's cat on the stovetop crazy. I'll
bet you that dude could tell you some stories. Woo man,
I bet there are some stories to be told. Clip
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number thirteen ramon this was a wild one. A church
employee in Webster arrested for posing as an ICE agent
in order to extort money from a massage therapist. I'm
going to tell you the story does not have a
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happy ending for him. In order to extort money from
a massage therapist who refused to take a credit card
payment from him, POPO say, Donald Doolittle pulled out an
ID card labeled ICE, identified himself as an ICE agent
and said he needed to see the victim's ID, and
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demanded five hundred dollars. Ooh, Donald Doolittle because she wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
ABC thirteen with the story supposedly a man of God,
but police say, certainly no agent of Ice. Don Doolittle,
listed as safety director on the Gateway Community Church of
Webster's website, charged with impersonating a public servant Thursday. Police
say he flashed a fake ICE ID at this Northwest
Houston massage parlor, bettered to have the massage therapist deported
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if she didn't pay him money. Investigators say Doolittle had
booked and received a massage from the victim. The problems
arose when Doolittle went to pay. He wanted to use
a credit guard, but the victim told him she only
accepted cash or Zell payments, and at that point, she said.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
He pulled out an ID card a little ice stated
he was an ICE agent who needs to see her ID.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Police say the victim complied, showing him her temporary visa,
but that apparently wasn't enough, because they say Doolittle went
on to insist she also sent him money.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
He said he demanded she sell him five hundred dollars
or he would take her away and she would never
see her family.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Or children again. The victim sent the money, police say,
only to hear from Dolittle again, this time assuring her
she wouldn't be hearing from any other ICE agents that.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
He would market as not prostitution.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
According to prosecutors, the victim ultimately told her story to
police officers, who she happened to run.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Into the next day.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
When they interviewed Doolittle, they say he denied getting a
massage or going to the victim's business, but that surveillance
video proved otherwise. Gateway Community Church didn't respond when asked
about Doolittle's arrest and an affidavit filed at the court.
He knows he's worked there for ten years.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, I mean I never went there, and we have
a video of you going there. I never went inside
and got a massage. Here's the video of you going
in and getting a massage.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I work at the church.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's what we got. The best part is he's pulling
a stick up on somebody who's actually met him before,
so you know he's got to kermit the frog voice
or some distinctive feature, and then he's going back to
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jack her up for five hundred bucks. I wonder how
he decided on the amount. I wonder where he got
the Ice card printed. Did it give a name for
him or just say Ice? I'm here with Ice. What
did that stand for? It's just Ice. You know everybody
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knows Ice. It's what it is. You've seen it on TV, right,
and uh so, I'm gonna need your papers and more importantly,
some money from Ice and everything. You don't need it
on my name because from from Ice here you probably
see it on TV and stuff. That's what I kind
of when I do everything. You know, it's my job.
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I had a moment wake up and you see something
around you and you didn't know it, and however old
you are, that's the moment you realize it and you think,
if I hadn't known that X number of years ago,
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how it could have changed my life. I was watching
a video of Odell Beckham Junior, and he signed a
five five million dollar, five year, one hundred million dollar
contract twenty million dollars a year, so one hundred million dollars.
He was on a podcast. It was pretty clear he's
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burned through it without him saying it. And he said,
you gotta understand, people hear one hundred million dollars, you
don't actually get a hundred million dollars. You only get
sixty And they're like, oh wow, like you throwing knowledge, bro,
you throwing knowledge. So you got three black guys, all
of them have made good money in their lives, more
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money than ninety nine percent of Americans talking about this. Okay,
So he says, you know, people think you know one
hundred million dollars, but it's it's only sixty million cause
of taxes, and the other two are going yeah, right, right,
stros real man. So and then and then you don't
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get it all at once, Okay, Like they gonna give
you twelve million one year, and then they gonna give
twelve million and the other. So so you you're thinking, oh,
I got one hundred million dollars, but they're not gonna
give you all that. They're not gonna give you motht
of it. And so you get twelve million, you know,
and then and then about time you out of money,
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you're like, I'm ready for that next one, you know,
and so they're like, now, oh no, you got two
months to go. So they continue this conversation and he explains,
without defending it, why the money is all gone, and
he says, the kind of things you got to spend
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it on, you know, because I'm gonna buy me a call,
you know, by my car, you know, buy my mama house.
I'm buy my mama. I'm good person, I buy my
mama house. And uh, you know you gotta show off
boom stop the screen. That's it. No, no, you don't.
When you talk about aspects of culture that get people
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into trouble, that moment right there is what gets people
into trouble. That is the difference between cultures and subcultures
that thrive, and those that barely survive are worse. I
was watching a video with Michael Dell and it says
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he's going to invest six points six point two five
million dollars into these Trump accounts for X number of
babies when they're born. I was raised among working class people.
The concept of investing was alien to me. I didn't
know anyone who invested in anyone in anything. All we
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knew was that you wanted to save your money, and
by save, I mean put into a savings account at
the bank. If you when you got paid your wage
from your employer, if you didn't spend all of that
and you put some in a savings account with almost
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no growth by the way, then you were considered a responsible,
good person. When you look at a projection of the
difference between saving what you don't spend and investing what
you don't spend. With an average investment return over the
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period of ten years, it'll surprise you. Twenty years I
I will be saucers thirty years. Will blow your mind.
Imagine if our first paycheck when we were fifteen years old,
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scooping ice, scooping yogurt at Colombo Yogurt in Bridge City,
at the edge of the bridge off Tech Avenue, ten
dollars a pay check. What that would be today until
you understand that the power of compounding growth over time
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and hitting it with just a few stocks over time.
And yet I don't ever remember that subject being taught
to me before I graduated high school. My parents didn't
know it. No shame for them. Why would they. Nobody
taught them. My high school teachers didn't know it. No shame,
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nobody taught them. And as I got further along in
my career, I was a baby lawyer at JENKINSI Gilchrist,
and I started being exposed to investment bankers who would
come in and we were doing one hundred and six
billion dollars one hundred and six million, which was a
lot of money back then, one hundred six million dollar
bond debenture off for Swift Energy, and a fellow came
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in from Oppenheimer out of la to be the lead
investment banker, and I didn't understand what the hell he did,
I mean, not really. And I started studying the financial
industry and the fact that there is a set of people,
not very large in this country who understand and take
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advantage of this system and then there's everybody else that's
living like serfs, and I did for most of my life,
and it it used to make me mad because I
grew up with a You probably figured out a pretty
big chip on my shoulder which I inherited, come by it,
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honestly inherited it from my parents, that the world was
out to get us, and the rich get richer and
the poor get poorer, and we'll never get ahead, and
the system is rigged against us. And I mean, you
could argue it is. But there are things available to
anybody and everybody if you just so much, just know it.
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And so now I would like to offer to you.
I'm just kidding. I think about this often because I
think about everybody's life. To use the kind of therapy
lingo is a journey. But I think about where I started,
and I think about where I am now, and I
think about moments where things were revealed to me, where
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I learned things, and I'm just amazed that, Wow, this
was the sort of thing. And the O'Dell Beckham Junior
clip and then the Michael Dell Investing Accounts for Children's
clip got me to thinking about that.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
You are listening to Michael Barry's Shaw.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
David, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Can you hear me? Yep? I can barely hear you.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I don't know what to tell you. I can hear you.
Soon the whole world will hear you. Nice.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Uh So, I have an ex wife that is just
as crazy as Lena Hidalgo. And at times when I
hear her on the radio, I kt r H when
you play the longer clips of her walking out of
the meetings, I'm like, that's like, oh my gosh, I'm
listening to my ex wife who is a mastermind of lies.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Like, give me an example.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Uh So, the big one was when uh, when we
were going through divorce, uh, which took about two years
too for the for the judge and the lawyers to
unweave her lives. That she she uh she just like
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you said, was with you know, she's charmed. She has
this charming side of her that uh it is believable
until you get to know her. And then uh, I
watched her walk intoir car dealerships with with with with
no money and uh pour on the tears and come
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out of the dealership with the with the car and uh,
you know with the with battlecard and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So well, then then your acts had something she doesn't have,
and that is charm, because I know people who do
and have worked with her. I know people who do
and have worked for her. I know people who had
to interact with her. It's a lot of people, in
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excess of one hundred people who've interacted with her in
some capacity or not as her employee, as her peer,
as a vendor, any number of other capacities, and not
one of them has ever said, I know she seems crazy,
but she can be very charming. In fact, quite the opposite.
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It's my party and now cry if I want to
vibe to her. Twenty four to seven. She's an angry,
little spoiled brat, and getting elected only made that worse.
She was living at home with her parents when she
was elected County judge. If that's not a red flag,
I don't know what is. You are an adult, almost
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thirty years old, living with your parents without a job. No,
you can say, yeah, but she's been in a nutbin
at that point several times. All right, So she's coming
out of nut ben and her parents are saying what
parent wouldn't say, Hey, come live with me. Let's get
you backgrounded. Let's let's see if we can't. You know,
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let's ease back into this and easing back into it
was I'll be the puppet of Rodney Ellis and I'll
run one of the largest counties in the country. And
while there, I'll be abusive to police officers, taxpayers. I'll
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she might need a furniture dealer now. Now I spoke
too soon there, sister girl. You might need one now.
A thug who violently attacked an elderly man outside a
North Houston store is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Video of the attack went viral two years ago because
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of the brutality of the attack the story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Even nearly two years later, this video is hard to watch.
It shows the violent attack in a parking lot off
Shepherd near Tidwell. The victim is Florentino Hurtado, a sixty
nine year old man with dementia.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
How could they do that to an old man?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Delilah Brown is hur Toto's granddaughter. She tells me the
injuries from that day worsened his dementia.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
Before the meeting, he was able to recall people's faces
his granddaughters, his great grandchildren, but now there's no recollection.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
On the day of the attack, Hurtado had been at
the meat market with his wife when he got lost
and tried to open the wrong car door.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
They were under the impression that he was trying to
break in the car.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Perry Bass represents the suspect, Trevion Lockridge, who was sentenced today.
Could the defendant have been more compassionate in this situation?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Well, yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There is several mistakes there.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Bess tells me Lockridge is sorry, but Delilah doesn't buy it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
There's no accountability, no remores.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Just to anybody watching this and they see an elderly
person who is confused out on the street, what would
be your message to them?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Social love and some compassion.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
That someone's father, that someone's grandfather, that someone's husband, brothers, sister.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
So I would just show some compassion.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Yeah, And they told me compassion is something that goes
a long way. Now there was another suspect in this attack.
That man is currently serving prison time for another crime.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, they told me that compassion goes a long way.
The response to this was, how could you do that
to an old man? To which my question is, how
could you do it to anybody? How could you do
that to anybody? Story ABC ten clip number eleven, ramon.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
What was supposed to be a joyful celebration for a
two year old's birthday party Saturday afternoon quickly turned to
terror when someone came into this building in Stockton and
fired several shots.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
All I heard was gonna shots. I didn't see anything.
I just fell to the ground with my baby.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I tried to hide behind the jumper.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
That's all I remember.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
The terrace.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
Williams was hosting her daughter's birthday surrounded by mostly family
and some friends. She says the shooting happened as they
were preparing to.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Cut the cake and in the party.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Her grandmother, Teresa Spivey, says she threw the cake table
down as soon as she heard the shots and used
it as a shield.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
All I see was kids dropping.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Somebody fell inside of me and they was hit. I
looked up and I see my granddaughter. I ran and
got her and I just started throwing kids in the
back room, putting them up under their table, and.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I just seen the other kids is dropping to the ground.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
Believing Spivey's sister Bernie spass A r I did the
horrific scene shortly after.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
She says she could.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
See people carrying out children and people laying on the ground.
The family shared this video from inside the building, taken
when the family visited the scene the following day.
Speaker 11 (23:13):
And the ones that lost their children, I am so sorry.
I have eight of my own and when I woke
up this morning.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Non it was Monday morning.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
You had to get up and get your baby's dressed
for school.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Four parents sex to parents out there.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Shouldn't get up wake their baby up.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
We asked the family if they knew of any possible motive,
but they tell us they know of none. And it
was hard to see who entered the building that night.
And it's hard to understand why anyone would want to
shoot up a child's birthday party.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I believe they just deserve to write in GI.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
The family now calling for justice.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
I want the city to know on today, if you
have any idea who pulled up and robbed us, stole
from us, and took from us lives. Tell it you're
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not a snitch because the person that did it not
a gangster.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
You lost it if you thought you was.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And that says everything, doesn't it. You shot this house up.
You think you gangster, but you not, because gangsters don't
do that. Well, how did we start with the idea
that gangster was good in any capacity? Trench p plain rights,
apple pro absolutely nothing. Remember when limos were it? I mean,
limos were the absolute top of the stem on the
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cherry on the cake. If you had a Limo for prom,
you were guaranteed second base, even if you took a
girl a year older. Renting a Limo was the epitome
of middle class division kids living outside their means. And
it was awesome. That's true, It is so true. So
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this toddler story three toddlers, three sorry, three children. It
was a toddler's birthday party. But the children were at
the party. They were eight, nine, and fourteen, as well
as a twenty one year old. They were all murdered.
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And somebody pulls up and starts blasted, and we heard
the mother say, if you know who did this, tell us,
And you go, okay, that's a mother wants to know
who killed her children. You won't be a snitch. Wait
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a minute, Yeah, if I was aware of who killed
your children, I'd want to come forward and tell you,
so you could track them down and put them in prison.
I wouldn't hesitate and say, well, I know who killed
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those children, but I don't want to tell because that
would make me an outcast from society, because in my
cultural paradigm, sharing that information is worse than killing kids.
And the mother is saying, I'll give you an exemp
an exemption. This is not a snitching. See, we don't
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talk like that where I live. When you talk like that,
your culture is broken. That's how people walk down the
streets and shoot each other over some supposed gang turf.
We control this busted up corner of Cracknelan. You can't
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have it. We're willing to risk going to life, going
to prison for life, to control this corner selling poison
to kids. Somebody's got to stand up and say, stop
blaming people outside your community. Start taking responsibility. You are
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your own worst problem. Stop being a victim and feeling
sorry for yourself. Start standing up and taking back your culture.
And then the Vice mayor of Stockton, he's a he's
an authority figure. He redefines what being a gangsta is.
Speaker 13 (27:49):
It's never been gangster to kill kids. Never, It's never
been gangst to kill kids. You went in a in
a birthday party and shot people's children. So I just
want I know we're here, we want to if I
could just parents brought their children out and they left
with medical examiners. That is not human. That is not human.
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And I will say to those who are thinking of retaliation,
when my brother got murdered, I thought about it too.
It's human to want to hurt people who hurt people
you love. But I had a choice of mak and
I hope that the people out there in our community
make the right choice and contact law enforced men. Called
me and called the mayor, Call whoever you know, called
the pastors, call your friend, turn yourself in, because at
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some point, the redemption for what you did is gonna
happen when you see the person that created you. But
you could start that process by turning yourself in and
doing the right things.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Okay, the last part is actually really good. I like
it because I've seen boys in the hood and no
matter what you smoke somebody, you get smoked the next day.
So you went to all that trouble, you got the
lift package, you color the purple, the whole deal. You
remember when ice Cube got smoke. You're like, oh man,
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it's not even any good without him. Yeah, but let's
go back to the original line. Play play that first
line of that again.
Speaker 13 (29:10):
It's never been gangster to kill kids. Never, It's never
been gangs.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
To kill We are defining the concept of what it
means to be gangster. This is as profound to America's
crime problem as anything we deal with. It's never been
gangster to kill kids. So killing kids is outside the
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realm of this really cool thing. Now, if you think
this really really cool thing extends to killing kids, it doesn't.
There's this really cool thing over here that's being gangster.
And here's what being gangster means. Okay, how about this.
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If being gangster doesn't mean killing kids, what does it mean?
Does it mean going through the neighborhood mowing lawns and
saving the money, Because that's what I did? Was I gangster?
Just the word boy in the hood, which is lawn
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mow work? Is that gangster?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Ramon?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And then once I had everybody's yards mode, I would
go around and ask if I could wash their car?
Was that gangster? Li's sue cleaning the wheels? Got that
white wall shining? What's up? Gangstuck? Was that gangstap?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Was that cool?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Let me see riding my bike two miles away to
go see if I could mow their grass and wash
their car and save my money?
Speaker 9 (30:59):
Up?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Am I little safe in my room? Was that gangster?
That's what I thought was a good thing. That's what
I thought was noble. Did I have a different paradigm
when we have acknowledged that being gangster is the goal,
and we are attempting and this is actually, this is
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actually progress to say, hey, killing killing kids not gangster.
Why is any part of gangster good? See, there's your problem.
You're not repudiating the entirety of it. Stop being a thug.
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It's a dead end street. But that's not what we've done,
is it. We've got politicians trying to what was Joe
Biden doing with that corn pop story? When you get
right down to it, Joe Biden was signaling gangster. I'm
not kidding when you get into the deep, deep, profound
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social message that he was conveying. Hey, all the white
people over here, they don't know about corn pop. They
run from corn pop, not me. I took a chain out.
I said, you might beat me, man, but I'll whip you,
and you need to understand how bad Corn Pop was
a bad dude by a new gangster
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The page took the Daily Mail as has been appointed,
as has been pointed out to me by a listener,
reads as follow Blue and Bluer divorce photo. That's what
they call the picture of the two of them. And
then at Democrat convention. And there's a picture of Lena
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Hidalgo speaking at the Democrat convention with the title as follows.
Rising star democrat who appeared in Vogue announces split from
husband on their first wedding anniversary after he used his
life savings to pay for her mental health treatment.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Ooh, coach, so now he's a broke nerd mmmm, Allen's
let me read that again.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Make sure I got that right. Rising star democrat who
appeared in Vogue announces split from husband on their first
wedding anniversary after he used his life savings to pay
for her mental health treatment. After he used his life
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savings to pay for her mental health treatment, My goodness,
that does not look good. I know people get mad
when I say this, But she's cute. She ain't cute, Michael,
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she ain't cute. Are you looking at your profile picture? Lady.
She's cute. She is cute. There is no doubting that
she doesn't have to be the most beautiful woman world. Well,
she's got a bad personality, so I can't see the
cute and you also can't have a reasonable discussion, and
that makes it not very interesting to me. The point
for this argument is she's cute, she's a girl. He
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is a complete and utter dork. He had to be
excited he got some want cute girl to lay with him.
He was obviously smitten because he spends his life savings
to try to help her crazy ass. You gotta figure
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how bad crazy is she because you know she's not
the one that wanted to divorce. You know that. How
bad crazy does she have to be? For him to say,
you know what, I have out kicked my coverage physically,
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I just can't. This is crazy is just too much.
This is just too much crazy for me. I'm sorry.
I mean. The thing about it is you don't know
what goes on behind closed doors. People put a public
face on. We have seen her snap in public. You
(04:04):
realize that's only one percent of the crazy. She's boiling
the cat, the kid's cat on the stovetop crazy. I'll
bet you that dude could tell you some stories. Woo man,
I bet there are some stories to be told. Clip
(04:25):
number thirteen ramon this was a wild one. A church
employee in Webster arrested for posing as an ICE agent
in order to extort money from a massage therapist. I'm
going to tell you the story does not have a
(04:46):
happy ending for him. In order to extort money from
a massage therapist who refused to take a credit card
payment from him, POPO say, Donald Doolittle pulled out an
ID card labeled ICE, identified himself as an ICE agent
and said he needed to see the victim's ID, and
(05:07):
demanded five hundred dollars. Ooh, Donald Doolittle because she wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
ABC thirteen with the story supposedly a man of God,
but police say, certainly no agent of Ice. Don Doolittle,
listed as safety director on the Gateway Community Church of
Webster's website, charged with impersonating a public servant Thursday. Police
say he flashed a fake ICE ID at this Northwest
Houston massage parlor, bettered to have the massage therapist deported
(05:38):
if she didn't pay him money. Investigators say Doolittle had
booked and received a massage from the victim. The problems
arose when Doolittle went to pay. He wanted to use
a credit guard, but the victim told him she only
accepted cash or Zell payments, and at that point, she said.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
He pulled out an ID card a little ice stated
he was an ICE agent who needs to see her ID.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Police say the victim complied, showing him her temporary visa,
but that apparently wasn't enough, because they say Doolittle went
on to insist she also sent him money.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
He said he demanded she sell him five hundred dollars
or he would take her away and she would never
see her family.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Or children again. The victim sent the money, police say,
only to hear from Dolittle again, this time assuring her
she wouldn't be hearing from any other ICE agents that.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
He would market as not prostitution.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
According to prosecutors, the victim ultimately told her story to
police officers, who she happened to run.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Into the next day.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
When they interviewed Doolittle, they say he denied getting a
massage or going to the victim's business, but that surveillance
video proved otherwise. Gateway Community Church didn't respond when asked
about Doolittle's arrest and an affidavit filed at the court.
He knows he's worked there for ten years.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, I mean I never went there, and we have
a video of you going there. I never went inside
and got a massage. Here's the video of you going
in and getting a massage.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I work at the church.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's what we got. The best part is he's pulling
a stick up on somebody who's actually met him before,
so you know he's got to kermit the frog voice
or some distinctive feature, and then he's going back to
(07:45):
jack her up for five hundred bucks. I wonder how
he decided on the amount. I wonder where he got
the Ice card printed. Did it give a name for
him or just say Ice? I'm here with Ice. What
did that stand for? It's just Ice. You know everybody
(08:09):
knows Ice. It's what it is. You've seen it on TV, right,
and uh so, I'm gonna need your papers and more importantly,
some money from Ice and everything. You don't need it
on my name because from from Ice here you probably
see it on TV and stuff. That's what I kind
of when I do everything. You know, it's my job.
(08:30):
I had a moment wake up and you see something
around you and you didn't know it, and however old
you are, that's the moment you realize it and you think,
if I hadn't known that X number of years ago,
(08:51):
how it could have changed my life. I was watching
a video of Odell Beckham Junior, and he signed a
five five million dollar, five year, one hundred million dollar
contract twenty million dollars a year, so one hundred million dollars.
He was on a podcast. It was pretty clear he's
(09:12):
burned through it without him saying it. And he said,
you gotta understand, people hear one hundred million dollars, you
don't actually get a hundred million dollars. You only get
sixty And they're like, oh wow, like you throwing knowledge, bro,
you throwing knowledge. So you got three black guys, all
of them have made good money in their lives, more
(09:34):
money than ninety nine percent of Americans talking about this. Okay,
So he says, you know, people think you know one
hundred million dollars, but it's it's only sixty million cause
of taxes, and the other two are going yeah, right, right,
stros real man. So and then and then you don't
(09:55):
get it all at once, Okay, Like they gonna give
you twelve million one year, and then they gonna give
twelve million and the other. So so you you're thinking, oh,
I got one hundred million dollars, but they're not gonna
give you all that. They're not gonna give you motht
of it. And so you get twelve million, you know,
and then and then about time you out of money,
(10:17):
you're like, I'm ready for that next one, you know,
and so they're like, now, oh no, you got two
months to go. So they continue this conversation and he explains,
without defending it, why the money is all gone, and
he says, the kind of things you got to spend
(10:39):
it on, you know, because I'm gonna buy me a call,
you know, by my car, you know, buy my mama house.
I'm buy my mama. I'm good person, I buy my
mama house. And uh, you know you gotta show off
boom stop the screen. That's it. No, no, you don't.
When you talk about aspects of culture that get people
(11:01):
into trouble, that moment right there is what gets people
into trouble. That is the difference between cultures and subcultures
that thrive, and those that barely survive are worse. I
was watching a video with Michael Dell and it says
(11:22):
he's going to invest six points six point two five
million dollars into these Trump accounts for X number of
babies when they're born. I was raised among working class people.
The concept of investing was alien to me. I didn't
know anyone who invested in anyone in anything. All we
(11:44):
knew was that you wanted to save your money, and
by save, I mean put into a savings account at
the bank. If you when you got paid your wage
from your employer, if you didn't spend all of that
and you put some in a savings account with almost
(12:07):
no growth by the way, then you were considered a responsible,
good person. When you look at a projection of the
difference between saving what you don't spend and investing what
you don't spend. With an average investment return over the
(12:31):
period of ten years, it'll surprise you. Twenty years I
I will be saucers thirty years. Will blow your mind.
Imagine if our first paycheck when we were fifteen years old,
(12:52):
scooping ice, scooping yogurt at Colombo Yogurt in Bridge City,
at the edge of the bridge off Tech Avenue, ten
dollars a pay check. What that would be today until
you understand that the power of compounding growth over time
(13:16):
and hitting it with just a few stocks over time.
And yet I don't ever remember that subject being taught
to me before I graduated high school. My parents didn't
know it. No shame for them. Why would they. Nobody
taught them. My high school teachers didn't know it. No shame,
(13:38):
nobody taught them. And as I got further along in
my career, I was a baby lawyer at JENKINSI Gilchrist,
and I started being exposed to investment bankers who would
come in and we were doing one hundred and six
billion dollars one hundred and six million, which was a
lot of money back then, one hundred six million dollar
bond debenture off for Swift Energy, and a fellow came
(14:03):
in from Oppenheimer out of la to be the lead
investment banker, and I didn't understand what the hell he did,
I mean, not really. And I started studying the financial
industry and the fact that there is a set of people,
not very large in this country who understand and take
(14:25):
advantage of this system and then there's everybody else that's
living like serfs, and I did for most of my life,
and it it used to make me mad because I
grew up with a You probably figured out a pretty
big chip on my shoulder which I inherited, come by it,
(14:46):
honestly inherited it from my parents, that the world was
out to get us, and the rich get richer and
the poor get poorer, and we'll never get ahead, and
the system is rigged against us. And I mean, you
could argue it is. But there are things available to
anybody and everybody if you just so much, just know it.
(15:13):
And so now I would like to offer to you.
I'm just kidding. I think about this often because I
think about everybody's life. To use the kind of therapy
lingo is a journey. But I think about where I started,
and I think about where I am now, and I
think about moments where things were revealed to me, where
(15:35):
I learned things, and I'm just amazed that, Wow, this
was the sort of thing. And the O'Dell Beckham Junior
clip and then the Michael Dell Investing Accounts for Children's
clip got me to thinking about that.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
You are listening to Michael Barry's Shaw.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
David, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Can you hear me? Yep? I can barely hear you.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I don't know what to tell you. I can hear you.
Soon the whole world will hear you. Nice.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Uh So, I have an ex wife that is just
as crazy as Lena Hidalgo. And at times when I
hear her on the radio, I kt r H when
you play the longer clips of her walking out of
the meetings, I'm like, that's like, oh my gosh, I'm
listening to my ex wife who is a mastermind of lies.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Like, give me an example.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Uh So, the big one was when uh, when we
were going through divorce, uh, which took about two years
too for the for the judge and the lawyers to
unweave her lives. That she she uh she just like
(17:21):
you said, was with you know, she's charmed. She has
this charming side of her that uh it is believable
until you get to know her. And then uh, I
watched her walk intoir car dealerships with with with with
no money and uh pour on the tears and come
(17:41):
out of the dealership with the with the car and uh,
you know with the with battlecard and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So well, then then your acts had something she doesn't have,
and that is charm, because I know people who do
and have worked with her. I know people who do
and have worked for her. I know people who had
to interact with her. It's a lot of people, in
(18:11):
excess of one hundred people who've interacted with her in
some capacity or not as her employee, as her peer,
as a vendor, any number of other capacities, and not
one of them has ever said, I know she seems crazy,
but she can be very charming. In fact, quite the opposite.
(18:36):
It's my party and now cry if I want to
vibe to her. Twenty four to seven. She's an angry,
little spoiled brat, and getting elected only made that worse.
She was living at home with her parents when she
was elected County judge. If that's not a red flag,
I don't know what is. You are an adult, almost
(18:58):
thirty years old, living with your parents without a job. No,
you can say, yeah, but she's been in a nutbin
at that point several times. All right, So she's coming
out of nut ben and her parents are saying what
parent wouldn't say, Hey, come live with me. Let's get
you backgrounded. Let's let's see if we can't. You know,
(19:19):
let's ease back into this and easing back into it
was I'll be the puppet of Rodney Ellis and I'll
run one of the largest counties in the country. And
while there, I'll be abusive to police officers, taxpayers. I'll
(19:40):
she might need a furniture dealer now. Now I spoke
too soon there, sister girl. You might need one now.
A thug who violently attacked an elderly man outside a
North Houston store is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Video of the attack went viral two years ago because
(20:03):
of the brutality of the attack the story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Even nearly two years later, this video is hard to watch.
It shows the violent attack in a parking lot off
Shepherd near Tidwell. The victim is Florentino Hurtado, a sixty
nine year old man with dementia.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
How could they do that to an old man?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Delilah Brown is hur Toto's granddaughter. She tells me the
injuries from that day worsened his dementia.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
Before the meeting, he was able to recall people's faces
his granddaughters, his great grandchildren, but now there's no recollection.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
On the day of the attack, Hurtado had been at
the meat market with his wife when he got lost
and tried to open the wrong car door.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
They were under the impression that he was trying to
break in the car.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Perry Bass represents the suspect, Trevion Lockridge, who was sentenced today.
Could the defendant have been more compassionate in this situation?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Well, yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There is several mistakes there.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Bess tells me Lockridge is sorry, but Delilah doesn't buy it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
There's no accountability, no remores.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Just to anybody watching this and they see an elderly
person who is confused out on the street, what would
be your message to them?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Social love and some compassion.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
That someone's father, that someone's grandfather, that someone's husband, brothers, sister.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
So I would just show some compassion.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Yeah, And they told me compassion is something that goes
a long way. Now there was another suspect in this attack.
That man is currently serving prison time for another crime.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, they told me that compassion goes a long way.
The response to this was, how could you do that
to an old man? To which my question is, how
could you do it to anybody? How could you do
that to anybody? Story ABC ten clip number eleven, ramon.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
What was supposed to be a joyful celebration for a
two year old's birthday party Saturday afternoon quickly turned to
terror when someone came into this building in Stockton and
fired several shots.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
All I heard was gonna shots. I didn't see anything.
I just fell to the ground with my baby.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I tried to hide behind the jumper.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
That's all I remember.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
The terrace.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
Williams was hosting her daughter's birthday surrounded by mostly family
and some friends. She says the shooting happened as they
were preparing to.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Cut the cake and in the party.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Her grandmother, Teresa Spivey, says she threw the cake table
down as soon as she heard the shots and used
it as a shield.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
All I see was kids dropping.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Somebody fell inside of me and they was hit. I
looked up and I see my granddaughter. I ran and
got her and I just started throwing kids in the
back room, putting them up under their table, and.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I just seen the other kids is dropping to the ground.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
Believing Spivey's sister Bernie spass A r I did the
horrific scene shortly after.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
She says she could.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
See people carrying out children and people laying on the ground.
The family shared this video from inside the building, taken
when the family visited the scene the following day.
Speaker 11 (23:13):
And the ones that lost their children, I am so sorry.
I have eight of my own and when I woke
up this morning.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Non it was Monday morning.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
You had to get up and get your baby's dressed
for school.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Four parents sex to parents out there.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Shouldn't get up wake their baby up.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
We asked the family if they knew of any possible motive,
but they tell us they know of none. And it
was hard to see who entered the building that night.
And it's hard to understand why anyone would want to
shoot up a child's birthday party.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I believe they just deserve to write in GI.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
The family now calling for justice.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
I want the city to know on today, if you
have any idea who pulled up and robbed us, stole
from us, and took from us lives. Tell it you're
(24:16):
not a snitch because the person that did it not
a gangster.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
You lost it if you thought you was.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And that says everything, doesn't it. You shot this house up.
You think you gangster, but you not, because gangsters don't
do that. Well, how did we start with the idea
that gangster was good in any capacity? Trench p plain rights,
apple pro absolutely nothing. Remember when limos were it? I mean,
limos were the absolute top of the stem on the
(24:48):
cherry on the cake. If you had a Limo for prom,
you were guaranteed second base, even if you took a
girl a year older. Renting a Limo was the epitome
of middle class division kids living outside their means. And
it was awesome. That's true, It is so true. So
(25:10):
this toddler story three toddlers, three sorry, three children. It
was a toddler's birthday party. But the children were at
the party. They were eight, nine, and fourteen, as well
as a twenty one year old. They were all murdered.
(25:31):
And somebody pulls up and starts blasted, and we heard
the mother say, if you know who did this, tell us,
And you go, okay, that's a mother wants to know
who killed her children. You won't be a snitch. Wait
(25:52):
a minute, Yeah, if I was aware of who killed
your children, I'd want to come forward and tell you,
so you could track them down and put them in prison.
I wouldn't hesitate and say, well, I know who killed
(26:17):
those children, but I don't want to tell because that
would make me an outcast from society, because in my
cultural paradigm, sharing that information is worse than killing kids.
And the mother is saying, I'll give you an exemp
an exemption. This is not a snitching. See, we don't
(26:43):
talk like that where I live. When you talk like that,
your culture is broken. That's how people walk down the
streets and shoot each other over some supposed gang turf.
We control this busted up corner of Cracknelan. You can't
(27:03):
have it. We're willing to risk going to life, going
to prison for life, to control this corner selling poison
to kids. Somebody's got to stand up and say, stop
blaming people outside your community. Start taking responsibility. You are
(27:26):
your own worst problem. Stop being a victim and feeling
sorry for yourself. Start standing up and taking back your culture.
And then the Vice mayor of Stockton, he's a he's
an authority figure. He redefines what being a gangsta is.
Speaker 13 (27:49):
It's never been gangster to kill kids. Never, It's never
been gangst to kill kids. You went in a in
a birthday party and shot people's children. So I just
want I know we're here, we want to if I
could just parents brought their children out and they left
with medical examiners. That is not human. That is not human.
(28:09):
And I will say to those who are thinking of retaliation,
when my brother got murdered, I thought about it too.
It's human to want to hurt people who hurt people
you love. But I had a choice of mak and
I hope that the people out there in our community
make the right choice and contact law enforced men. Called
me and called the mayor, Call whoever you know, called
the pastors, call your friend, turn yourself in, because at
(28:30):
some point, the redemption for what you did is gonna
happen when you see the person that created you. But
you could start that process by turning yourself in and
doing the right things.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Okay, the last part is actually really good. I like
it because I've seen boys in the hood and no
matter what you smoke somebody, you get smoked the next day.
So you went to all that trouble, you got the
lift package, you color the purple, the whole deal. You
remember when ice Cube got smoke. You're like, oh man,
(29:02):
it's not even any good without him. Yeah, but let's
go back to the original line. Play play that first
line of that again.
Speaker 13 (29:10):
It's never been gangster to kill kids. Never, It's never
been gangs.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
To kill We are defining the concept of what it
means to be gangster. This is as profound to America's
crime problem as anything we deal with. It's never been
gangster to kill kids. So killing kids is outside the
(29:39):
realm of this really cool thing. Now, if you think
this really really cool thing extends to killing kids, it doesn't.
There's this really cool thing over here that's being gangster.
And here's what being gangster means. Okay, how about this.
(30:01):
If being gangster doesn't mean killing kids, what does it mean?
Does it mean going through the neighborhood mowing lawns and
saving the money, Because that's what I did? Was I gangster?
Just the word boy in the hood, which is lawn
(30:23):
mow work? Is that gangster?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Ramon?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And then once I had everybody's yards mode, I would
go around and ask if I could wash their car?
Was that gangster? Li's sue cleaning the wheels? Got that
white wall shining? What's up? Gangstuck? Was that gangstap?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Was that cool?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Let me see riding my bike two miles away to
go see if I could mow their grass and wash
their car and save my money?
Speaker 9 (30:59):
Up?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Am I little safe in my room? Was that gangster?
That's what I thought was a good thing. That's what
I thought was noble. Did I have a different paradigm
when we have acknowledged that being gangster is the goal,
and we are attempting and this is actually, this is
(31:22):
actually progress to say, hey, killing killing kids not gangster.
Why is any part of gangster good? See, there's your problem.
You're not repudiating the entirety of it. Stop being a thug.
(31:45):
It's a dead end street. But that's not what we've done,
is it. We've got politicians trying to what was Joe
Biden doing with that corn pop story? When you get
right down to it, Joe Biden was signaling gangster. I'm
not kidding when you get into the deep, deep, profound
(32:08):
social message that he was conveying. Hey, all the white
people over here, they don't know about corn pop. They
run from corn pop, not me. I took a chain out.
I said, you might beat me, man, but I'll whip you,
and you need to understand how bad Corn Pop was
a bad dude by a new gangster
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