Your Story with Mike

Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with SoCal independent professional wrestler and student of the Millenium Wrestling Academy, Auntie Hydie! Hydie has had a breakout start last year in 2021 where she has wrestled in promotions such as Santino Bros, Millenium Pro Wrestling, and Compton Mania. Even at the start of her career in 2017, she has also embraced her love for art into her character. She has also had top tier matches with the biggest names in the SoCal wrestling scene such as Macdaddy Mylo, Miggy Rose, Johnnie Robbie, and so much more. Additionally, Hydie embraces the fun aspect of training in professional wrestling and shares her story of finding helpful strategies to process new information as well as help perfect her craft.

In this episode of Your Story, Auntie Hydie showcases her story by describing her journey in professional wrestling and how she fell in love with the sport. Furthermore, she highlights how wrestling has positively impacted her life as well as how valuable the connections she has made.

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Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with Southern California born professional wrestler Jacob Tarasso about his story throughout his independent wrestling career! Tarasso was born and raised in Colton, California where he trained under Jesse Hernandez at the School of Hard Knocks. He then decided to make a life changing decision and travel across the country to showcase his passion of professional wrestling. Tarasso now wrestles in the East Coast, primarily in the state of one of the hottest wrestling spots in the country, New Jersey.

In this episode of Your Story, Jacob has a discussion about his journey in professional wrestling from training to pursuing a degree in college. In his first on-screen interview, Tarasso shares memories of his home abode of Colton California and the Inland Empire as a whole. Additionally, he explains what his future holds!

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Your Story with Mike Wexler: Season 2: Episode 17 with Johnny Gargano
Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with his hero and friend in professional wrestler and new father, Johnny Gargano live at Jimmy’s World Order in East Los Angeles, California! Johnny Gargano, otherwise known as “Johnny Wrestling”, is a professional wrestler who started his career in 2005 in CAPW. The Cleveland native started out with independent wrestling appearances as well enhancement matches with WWE as Cedrick Von Haussen on SmackDown in 2005 & during dark matches in Impact Wrestling. Gargano would travel the world to various wrestling companies before ultimately signing with WWE, under the NXT brand, in 2015, alongside Tomasso Ciampa. During his career in WWE, he became a three time North American Champion, a tag team champion, and the WWE NXT Champion, becoming the first ever NXT Triple Crown Winner. Johnny’s passion for professional wrestling came from an early age and has showcased that passion and love inside and outside the ring. His connection with the fans is extraordinary as he shares the same passion for professional wrestling as they do.

In this episode of Your Story, Johnny chats with me about doing his first meet and greet in California and hearing the fans’ individual stories. Gargano also speaks on the possibility of making appearances at other professional wrestling promotions such as Game Changer Wrestling and All Elite Wrestling! Additionally, he responds to “All Heart” Blake Christian after his call out at GCW’s Paranoid event in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 9th from the Ukrainian Cultural Center.

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Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with one of professional wrestling's greatest minds in Danny Divine! From tweeting to pursue training to living his dream to become a professional wrestler, Danny has made a name for himself in the Southern California wrestling scene. Whether that is being in a tag team alongside his brother Brendan Divine or a trios as apart of the Millenials, Danny creates chemistry with not just tag team partners and opponents inside the ring but also fans and viewers outside of the ring as well! Growing up as a wrestling fan, Divine grew a better understanding for the business as time went by. After training, he became the heart and soul of Millenium Pro Wrestling, leading the next generation of wrestlers through training and having fun.

In this episode of Your Story, Danny showcases his story by discussing his in-ring career, his injury and recovery process, why Triple H is the greatest to ever do it inside the ring and so much more!

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Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with Royce Isaacs, a professional wrestler and tag team specialist within the West Coast scene, most known to the pro wrestling scene as one half of The West Coast Wrecking Crew and as apart of Team Filthy in New Japan Strong. The Mile High Samurai from Denver, Colorado made his debut in professional wrestling in June of 2014. From competing on major SoCal wrestling companies such as West Coast Pro to Prestige Wrestling in Pomona to worldwide exposure in New Japan and All Elite Wrestling, Royce has become a household name around the world.

In this episode of Your Story, Royce shares his story about his journey in professional wrestling as well as his insight on how important tag team wrestling is in today's world. Additionally, he speaks about his team chemistry with Jorel Nelson as apart of the West Coast Wrecking Crew and his various appearances in Josh Barnett's Bloodsport. Also, he pulls back the curtain as he speaks about being humble and sharing his passions in life with those around him.

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Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with longtime friend, YouTube content creator and social media influencer, Brandon Collymore, otherwise known as Brandon Does Everything. Brandon Collymore started his journey doing content early on as a child, which then transitioned into becoming a huge YouTube personality. His love for professional wrestling inspired him to showcase that love with his content. From Draft Wars to Cutting Promos on Your Ex, Brandon has created a wide variety of content for fans of all ages and genders to enjoy.

After creating BDE, he has became a voice of the wrestling game community and a contributor to the newest WWE 2K22 video game. Additionally, he has recently collaborated with WWE 2K as apart of the NextMakers program. Correspondingly, Brandon is one third of VYBE, a YouTube team of collaborators (more particularly, pro wrestling content creators) that showcase funny skits, reddit videos, and gameplay alongside Simply Better Aaron Matthews and Phoenix Nitro. In the same fashion, Brandon has interviewed and collaborated with big names such as The New Day, Chris Denker (DenkOps), Xthreeee, Chris Van Vliet, pro wrestler Samantha Heights, and many more!

In this conversation, BDE speaks about his beginnings as a content creator and his journey to making YouTube content a dream job. Additionally, he speaks about traveling to wrestling shows such as Deadlock Pro Wrestling events and even interviewing The New Day at SummerSlam's Red Carpet event in Brooklyn, New York in 2016. Also, he gives insight of the WWE 2K22 game and how he feels about the game!

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Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with longtime friend, YouTube content creator and social media influencer, Brandon Collymore, otherwise known as Brandon Does Everything. Brandon Collymore started his journey doing content early on as a child, which then transitioned into becoming a huge YouTube personality. His love for professional wrestling inspired him to showcase that love with his content. From Draft Wars to Cutting Promos on Your Ex, Brandon has created a wide variety of content for fans of all ages and genders to enjoy.

After creating BDE, he has became a voice of the wrestling game community and a contributor to the newest WWE 2K22 video game. Additionally, he has recently collaborated with WWE 2K as apart of the NextMakers program. Correspondingly, Brandon is one third of VYBE, a YouTube team of collaborators (more particularly, pro wrestling content creators) that showcase funny skits, reddit videos, and gameplay alongside Simply Better Aaron Matthews and Phoenix Nitro. In the same fashion, Brandon has interviewed and collaborated with big names such as The New Day, Chris Denker (DenkOps), Xthreeee, Chris Van Vliet, pro wrestler Samantha Heights, and many more!

In this conversation, BDE speaks about his beginnings as a content creator and his journey to making YouTube content a dream job. Additionally, he speaks about traveling to wrestling shows such as Deadlock Pro Wrestling events and even interviewing The New Day at SummerSlam's Red Carpet event in Brooklyn, New York in 2016. Also, he gives insight of the WWE 2K22 game and how he feels about the game!

Follow Brandon on social media here:

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Twitter - https://twitter.com/itsbrandonde?s=20...

Subscribe to his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrandonDoes...

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In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with longtime friend, YouTube content creator and social media influencer, Brandon Collymore, otherwise known as Brandon Does Everything. Brandon Collymore started his journey doing content early on as a child, which then transitioned into becoming a huge YouTube personality. His love for professional wrestling inspired him to showcase that love with his content. From Draft Wars to Cutting Promos on Your Ex, Brandon has created a wide variety of content for fans of all ages and genders to enjoy.

After creating BDE, he has became a voice of the wrestling game community and a contributor to the newest WWE 2K22 video game. Additionally, he has recently collaborated with WWE 2K as apart of the NextMakers program. Correspondingly, Brandon is one third of VYBE, a YouTube team of collaborators (more particularly, pro wrestling content creators) that showcase funny skits, reddit videos, and gameplay alongside Simply Better Aaron Matthews and Phoenix Nitro. In the same fashion, Brandon has interviewed and collaborated with big names such as The New Day, Chris Denker (DenkOps), Xthreeee, Chris Van Vliet, pro wrestler Samantha Heights, and many more!

In this conversation, BDE speaks about his beginnings as a content creator and his journey to making YouTube content a dream job. Additionally, he speaks about traveling to wrestling shows such as Deadlock Pro Wrestling events and even interviewing The New Day at SummerSlam's Red Carpet event in Brooklyn, New York in 2016. Also, he gives insight of the WWE 2K22 game and how he feels about the game!

Follow Brandon on social media here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bcollymore/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/itsbrandonde?s=20&t=S2myb4mSpP-UdMhCNoHlxQ

Subscribe to his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrandonDoesEverything

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Your Story with Mike Wexler: Season 2: Episode 13 with Nick Wayne
Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with the youngest professional wrestler to get signed to AEW, Nick Wayne! Nick discusses his match of the year candidate for 2021 against "The Bad Boy" Joey Janela, juggling school work and traveling for wrestling together as well as being the youngest pro wrestler to sign with All Elite Wrestling. Additionally, he speaks about having Buddy Wayne's influence on his career and showcasing his story.

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Welcome back to #YourStory with Mike Wexler, the podcast where stories are highlighted and told. This podcast focuses on conversations from people of all ages, talents, races, and gender who have a passion that they showcase to the entire world. Originated as The Sock Monkey Mike Show, Mike Wexler is a sports broadcaster/host who has been passionate about connecting with people around him. Ever since the age of eleven, Mike has been pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, being inspired by world famous Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

In this episode of #YourStory, Mike speaks with professional wrestler, tag team specialist, and The Hysterical Shane Haste! Shane discusses recently getting engaged to longtime girlfriend Kimmy from Smosh, returning to New Japan and working with Millenium Pro Wrestling while on his 90 day no compete clause as well as his plans for 2022.

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