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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Austin Romero - WWE's Mike Rome On Ring Announcing, Tattoos, Comics & Geekdom

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Austin Romero (@austinmromero) aka Mike Rome is a WWE ring announcer. He joins Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about how he got hired by WWE, his approach to ring announcing, memorizing everyone's name, weight and hometown, working at Universal Studios before his WWE job, his love for comics, the meaning behind his tattoos, his favorite wrestler to announce and much more! For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: http://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests.  Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bleed.

0:07.7

Oh, it's so good to see you here, my friends.

0:10.0

Welcome back to another one on Insight.

0:12.4

I'm CBV, Chris Van Fleet, and, man, we've been on a roll lately.

0:17.4

I mean, come on.

0:18.8

The Undertaker, L.A. Knight. Yeah. Austin Theory, Will Saso, Natalia,

0:26.1

so many great episodes and so many new listeners who have joined us over the last month or two

0:31.2

because of those big names. So I appreciate you. And for all the OGs, who have been around

0:37.1

since the very beginning. And here we are in episode number 464. I'm so grateful for you. So thank you. It would mean the world to me if you clicked follow or subscribe on the app that you're listening on right now. It really does mean a lot. I know you hear a lot of podcasters talk about that. Yes, it does mean a lot.

0:55.4

But I also want to make sure that you don't miss out on any of the big episodes that we have coming up,

1:00.3

including some really big guests like this Thursday's episode with Stone Cold Steve Austin.

1:08.2

What?

1:09.1

I said Stone Cold Steve Austin. What? You know what I'm doing here. Big

1:14.7

guest today as well. You know him as Mike Rome. You see him. You hear him every single Monday night on

1:20.6

raw. And of course, during the premium live events, he is the voice that brings your favorite

1:26.2

superstars to the ring.

1:30.9

Mike Rome, though, is simply a version of Austin Romero.

1:32.0

That's his real name. And while you're usually used to only hearing him announce names, weights, and hometowns,

1:37.6

there is so much more to Austin and everything that he does.

1:42.7

So it was great to be able to dive into his process and do this in

1:45.9

person, by the way. We got into so many things and there's so much of Austin Romero that you don't

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