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The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Michael Berry chats with Houston icon Mattress Mack to discuss life after open-heart surgery, retail shifts, and the power of community. Plus, candid takes on ivermectin, Texas laws, media bias, and a salute to America’s truckers.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.7	It's that time.
0:09.5	Lock and load.
0:12.9	The Michael Vary Show is on the air. popped up on my calendar, or memories, I guess it's called, an email I received a year ago today that said, good mornings are.
0:49.6	Three days out from open heart surgery, and here's Mattress Mack serving a celebrity grand marshal of the
0:54.3	League City Christmas parade on Saturday evening. He never stops. He never stops supporting the
1:00.1	community. May God watch over him and his medical team. We have been able to track him down. He was
1:07.3	somewhere between couches and love seats on the sales floor, I'm sure.
1:12.6	Our guest is the honorable mattress Mack.
1:16.0	How are you, sir?
1:17.6	I'm doing great, Mr. Barry.
1:19.1	How are you?
1:19.7	Good.
1:20.1	One year and three days after open heart surgery, how do you feel?
1:24.7	I feel great.
1:25.9	You know, the recovery time was the first couple months were a little rough after that.
1:31.9	Great.
1:32.7	I was taking 30 meds a day.
1:34.6	Now I'm taking zero.
1:36.0	So Bobby Kennedy would be proud of me, I guess.
1:39.6	You were taking what per day?
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