About this episode

Montel Vontavious Porter discusses his life experiences, including wrestling, music, and personal growth.

American professional wrestler, manager of The Hurt Syndicate, the one and only Montel Vontavious Porter (aka Hassan Hamid Assad) joins us to talk about bad choices, good recoveries, meeting Zac Blair of Rise Against when Zac was still in his high school band, Japanese steak, Sasquatch, living in Hakeem Olajuwon's house... there is so much good stuff here, you've just got to listen. MVP's Linktree MVP's amazing TedX

People in this episode

Hosts: Benny Horowitz, Brad Worrell

Guest: Montel Vontavious Porter

Topics covered

• wrestling
• recovery
• music
• personal stories
• pop culture

Keywords

• Montel Vontavious Porter
• wrestling
• recovery
• Zac Blair
• Hakeem Olajuwon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rise Against

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