Naturally Combining Wrestling and Soaps

Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the only podcast network to bring two somewhat different worlds together: Soap Operas and Professional Wrestling! I’m a huge WWE fan and I love General Hospital, so that’s the majority of the content, but I dabble in other areas as well. It’s definitely a network you should be listening to!

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Email: Vinnie@suds-media.com

About the Hosts

Vinnie Apicella

Podcast Host

Vinnie is a 43-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 Squared Circle Media 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 for Podcasters (formerly Anchor) page and RSS feed, and created a new YouTube channel to launch his brand new podcast.

Kim Pinto

Dockside at The Bay Co-Host

Kim is a film school grad based in Chicago who works in communications, co-hosts the Dockside At The Bay podcast, and spends her free time catching up on her shows and catching up on lost sleep. :)

Christy Killelea

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.