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 the

busted open podcast, the masters class. And here we are with our masters of the ring.

Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, Bully Ray, Mickey James, what an all-star cast for our class

today school is in session. So it's time for class and the theme of our class today, ladies

and gentlemen, is respect your elders. I'm going to ask each of each one of you a piece

of advice that a veteran wrestler gave to you that influenced your career. And then I'm

going to ask all of you for a piece of advice that you wish the younger generation would

follow. So Tommy, we'll start with you a piece of advice a veteran gave to you that

influenced your career. As you know, I have kind of always go by my own rules and I've

been blessed to travel along with a lot of veterans. I was the guy, the kid who would pick

up the vets and get in the car and drive them to the shows when I was first starting out

on indie shows. Hell, I still do it when I can just because I love that knowledge. I was

blessed and I'm not anybody's parent, but I was blessed to talk to Tony Atlas and the

Iron Sheik, telling me kid, don't do drugs, save your money. Those are two massive things.

And I know people talk about the Iron Sheik and all the stories of her as chic, the sheik

literally told me that story. While we were driving and it really did stuck with me

or Tony Atlas, telling me kid, I was a first black man to make a million dollars and I was

sleeping under a park bench in a main in the winter. And I'm like, yeah, why am I picking

him up at a YMCA when this is Tony Atlas. So blessed to have that. And then through

ECW, you know, Paul Heyman, Mick Foley, Terry Funk, all helping me to become me. If I have

two things that I guess have influenced me the most, both by Terry Funk. When I was struggling

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