THAT DON'T WORK FOR ME BROTHER (Wrestling Soup 8.21.25) w/ @julianexcalibur

WRESTLING SOUP

Wrestling Soup Network

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.4 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Wrestling Soup crew is joined by esteemed wrestling journalist and media influencer, Julian Cannon! We dive deep into the recent, shocking allegations surrounding Hulk Hogan's medical malpractice lawsuit and what it could mean for his legacy. Then, with WrestleMania 42 on the horizon, we break down the controversial ticket prices and the growing fan frustration, and impossible fan expectations. Finally, we can't ignore the heat in the podcasting world, as we dissect the latest drama making waves in the community, specifically covering both sides of the debate of WWE's success.

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0:00.0	A quick shout out to Drew Yari's show.
0:06.1	If you guys haven't had a chance to check out the experience, give him a like and a subscribe and a follow.
0:11.6	He's at 160 right now.
0:13.2	He's ranked 160 on the podcast charts, on the Apple charts.
0:20.1	Out of how many, though, three million, three bigillions?
0:23.1	So that's pretty good.
0:23.8	I mean, how many wrestling podcasts are there?
0:27.2	Yeah, that's not a bad thing.
0:28.7	It's not a bad number at all.
0:30.3	No, for sure.
0:30.8	Not really when you think about it.
0:32.5	Although I will say this, this is where it gets a little bit crazy for me.
0:36.3	Yeah.
0:36.6	Because say Drew gets, I don't know, 500, say 500 listeners a week, all right?
0:45.1	If you're 160 and getting 500, like just weekly downloads or whatever the fuck you want to call it then wow that's really
0:57.2	not great as far as like okay well what is podcast number 350 getting two two two downloads three
1:05.2	like that's well i mean dude at this point it sounds like i'm being dick to the kid, but we're just so much wildly at saturation point that now if it's like, oh, that person, you know, there's like a thousand streams on this podcast.
1:20.2	It's like, oh, yeah, that's pretty good.
1:22.3	Yeah.
1:22.7	That's good.
1:23.3	It's going to move you high up the list out of thousands and thousands and thousands of shows
1:28.1	because there's just too goddamn many of them, you know?
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