This is the busted open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday

from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern on serious XM fight nation channel 156.

Welcome to busted opens the master's class a very special episode in the master's class.

The month of May is the month for mental health awareness and we do our part here on busted

open and it's something that's very important to this show and to this channel and what we'd

like to do today is talk to somebody who is definitely doing his part with motivational speeches

to talk about mental health and that is Mike Bennett myself and Tommy Dreamer talk to Mike Bennett

right now on busted opens the master's class and Tommy let's bring in Mike Bennett who joins us

here on busted open this morning Mike good morning to you and thanks for joining us this morning

good morning thank you for having me I really appreciate you guys mental health is something

that a lot of people battle with on a daily basis and you have such a great message to share so

I wanted to make sure to get you on to talk about it this morning no and that's I really appreciate

that thank you first of all because that hearing stuff like that I know this is a wrestling radio show

when we talk about wrestling and we talk about all that fun stuff and the stuff that entertains us but

to me personally this is the stuff that means the most to me the effect that I can have on people

knowing just like having you come up and say something to me a Baltimore and the amount of

fans that now come up to me and they're like hey I just I look forward to your videos or I follow

you religiously on social media not because of wrestling but because of just a positive message

that I'm putting out and it just it's gotten to the point where I almost feel I feel this

obligation to people where I'm like if you're looking to me for this message I'm going to keep

providing it to you and it's really kind of taken a life of its own and I'm really I'm genuinely

happy that it has because I feel like it's just kind of been this small grass mood roots kind of

...