Suds and the Squared Circle...Wrestling and Soap Operas together at last!
Suds and the Squared Circle

Suds and the Squared Circle

Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the only podcast to bring two somewhat different worlds together: Soap Operas and Professional Wrestling!

Recent Episodes

May 8, 2024

Episode 32-Suds News-Jason and Dex Talk, WWE News, Sonny Warns Dante

On this week's episode, Vinnie (@VinnieSuds) and Christy (@creativefan15 / @liasonradio) talk about the first meeting between Jason and Dex. Sonny warns Dante about Dex becoming a cop. Before Christy joins in the conversatio…
April 30, 2024

Episode 31-Suds News-Haley Pullos going to Jail, AEW dropped, BLQ's Bachelorette Party

On this week's episode, Vinnie (@VinnieSuds) and Christy (@creativefan15 / @liasonradio) talk about the Breaking News regarding Haley Pullos' DUI sentence and AEW being dropped by two International distribution partners. The…
April 26, 2024

Squared Circle News-Episode 7-Interview with David Penzer

Vinnie (@vinniesuds) is joined by David Penzer (@davidpenzer) former ring announcer for both WCW and TNA. David Penzer just released a book entitled Sitting Ringside, Volume 1: WCW, cowritten by Guy Evans. We talk about the …
April 24, 2024

Episode 30-Suds News-Things are Heating Up in Port Charles!

On this week's episode, Vinnie (@VinnieSuds) is joined by special cohost Angela (@brookelynn74) as we talk about all the happenings on General Hospital. However, before we get into the stories, we talk about some of the cont…
April 16, 2024

Episode 29-Suds News-Back after #WrestleMania; Who Won #SoapSudsMarchMadness; Catch up on #GH

On this week's episode, Vinnie (@Vinnie Suds) and Christy (@creativefan15) are back after a week off for #WrestleMania. We want to congratulate John Black (@DrakeHogestyn) from Days of Our Lives for being the Inaugural #Soap…
April 4, 2024

Dockside at The Bay-Episode 12

Make sure to check out #SoapSudsMarchMadness! Vinnie (@VinnieSuds) and Kim (@misfit8690) are reviewing the main The Bay series now. In this episode, we review episodes 1 AND 2 of Season 1. There are a lot of flashbacks to Th…

About the Hosts

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Vinnie Apicella

Podcast Host

Vinnie is a 42-year-old fan of wrestling and soap operas. Born in New Haven, CT, he has lived in Connecticut for all of his life. His favorite soap opera is General Hospital, and he is an avid fan of the nWo. He is currently the reigning, defending, undisputed Heavyweight Division Kickboxing Champion at his gym, S.I.N. Fitness in Berlin, CT.

He started his broadcasting hobby in high school, when he and two of his friends started a public access television show called the vVb Sportswire. The show aired on Citizens Television in New Haven, West Haven, and Hamden, CT. At one point, that show became the longest running, sports genre, hour-long public access show in the country at 7 years. That show had been the passion of Vinnie for many years, and resurrected many times, as a YouTube show and as a podcast. Archived videos of the public access days are still available on the Sportswire YouTube channel.

Suds and the Squared Circle was developed when Vinnie felt it was time to change course and start with a fresh idea. After becoming a fan of fan podcasts, such as Pier 54: A General Hospital Fan Podcast, the GH Mini Spotlight with James Lott Jr, and the 10th Floor Podcast with Matt and Kat, Vinnie realized that he could bring his two loves together, wrestling AND soap operas, into one podcast. Vinnie had always felt that wrestling is a male soap opera, with more fighting, and there is a considerable amount of crossover in both fandoms. So he went out and did just that, he rebranded the Sportswire X (formerly Twitter) page, the Sportswire Spotify … Read More

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Christy Killelea

Podcast Host

Christy is a multitalented individual who works as an executive assistant. She is a cat mama, a video editor, a podcaster, and serves for a PR manager for her local Toastmasters district.

General Hospital is the first soap opera that she fell in love with and has been watching since February of 2006. She also loves watching Days of Our Lives and Bold & the Beautiful sometimes. Her favorite couples are Jason & Elizabeth, Spencer & Trina, Chase & Brooklyn, Stefan & Gabi, Ben & Ciara, and Xander & Sarah.