2:00 – State debates: Oklahoma, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Idaho
8:00 – Mortgage situation & refusing to give up that 2% COVID rate
12:00 – BlackRock's rent-to-give-back communities / modern sharecropping
16:00 – Wrestling Soup intro
17:00 – Sol Ruca on Stephanie McMahon's podcast; toxic masculinity & male vulnerability in wrestling
24:00 – WWE's boomer creative problem & Kirsten's promotion to Raw writer
30:00 – Ricky Saints' concert segment pulled from YouTube (w/ clip)
37:00 – Zoe Stark promo comparison; conspiracy theory: creative sabotaging indie darlings
43:00 – WWE's financial machine vs. creative bankruptcy; WrestleMania apathy
50:00 – Nostalgia as WWE's only product (Blink-182 analogy, Reese's cups lawsuit)
55:00 – UFC vs. WWE audience divide; WWE trying to be Applebee's
1:02:00 – WrestleMania card breakdown: Dominik, Finn Bálor demon, Grande Americano
1:07:00 – WrestleMania Vegas attendance concerns; Wrestlecon ticket sales tanking
1:12:00 – WWE casino slot machine "Road to Gold" announced
1:18:00 – Idea for a "Why Did They Get Fired?" wrestling card game
1:22:00 – Dan Hausen debut/interview clip; WWE setting him up to fail
1:31:00 – Cody Rhodes losing momentum; Jar Jar Binks / Star Wars prequels analogy
1:37:00 – Sam Roberts' transformation; Joe Rogan's moral drift
1:42:00 – Dave Chappelle & Bill Cosby extended riff
1:29:00 – Sign-off / Patreon & Spitball Media shoutout

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JUST ANOTHER WRESTLEMANIA (Wrestling Soup 3.12.26)