The Steel Cage Podcast Network

Get your THWIP on, with not one, not two, but a multitude of Spider-Men (and women), as we dive mask-first into the new animated feature, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Friend of the show, Mateo Morales returns to explain exactly why he named his son Miles (you heard us), Greig and Jared argue about... sorry, ‘ponder’ the future of the Tom Holland Spider-Man series, and of course, we gush over...

Are you ready to head Down Under? Because this week, for the first time ever, Greig brings along two IIconic co-hosts to make The Steel Cage an all-Aussie affair. We give some colonial opinions on the state of WWE, drop a couple of early Royal Rumble predictions, discuss the rise of Buddy Murphy and fawn over the IIconics. We even went on a Die Hard tangent. So grab a slab, throw a prawn on the ba...

This week on the DATEScast, Tim and Derek are fighting because Tim wouldn't eat crickets. So Derek enlisted the help of junior snackologist/daughter, Lilly Montilla, to help him sort though a giant box of Japanese snacks given to him for Christmas by his mother-in-law. After sorting through the pile, we are putting Corn Potttage and Sugar Rusk Umaibo through the PER system. We know...she's not cer...

The lights are up, the egg-nog is ready, the mistletoe has been hung and most importantly, the Jewish member of our team asked us to review National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. So we did. Our bah-humbug trio of Christmas elves set aside their year-long surliness to bathe in the glory of Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo. (Okay, mostly Bevery D’Angelo.) We reminisced about this beloved Holiday cla...

So, uh. We’re the authority now? That’s what Mr. McMahon told us, at least. More of what we want. Less of what we don’t want. We’ll see about that. We break it down – what they said, what we’ve noticed, and what we think is to come. Let’s not gloss over TLC, though. That show was fun! The last 2-4 matches had a solid double-quadruple main event feel to them, and we were left with a major statement...

This week on the DATEScast, our snackologists wrap up their Hawaiian vacation (and Cookie Day) with our final installment of their 5-part series, DATES Goes Hawaiian. Our duo discuss the nuances of cooking chocolate chip cookies and Derek reveals why he should probably stop saying yes all the time. They also rate their final item from professional surfer Danny Schlag's sack, Island Princess Mini M...

Josh Gavin returns to join Captain Jack (@JackHeartless), as they break down the 3 money matches from the World Tag League Finals, the line-skipping Jackson brothers, Jack’s very first Cage of Death viewing, and the glory that is “The Southern Psycho” Mance Warner (@ManceWarner). Sponsored by WrestleCrate (@wrestlecrateusa) and Lapel Yeah (@LapelYeahPins) Opening theme by Lemi and the Captain. Clo...

Nobody is ready for Asuka! Apparently, that includes Charlotte (The Woo-Man) and Becky Lynch (The Man). Between that match at TLC, The New Daniel Bryan vs AJ Styles, and the triple threat tag match – I don’t know what I’m most excited for. I’ll tell you what I’m not excited for: the glorified ___-on-a-pole match that is Bobby Lashley vs Elias. Yikes… Featuring: ‘Captain Kaveman’ Derek Montilla (@c...

This week on the DATEScast, our snackologists get back to their Hawaiian vacation with part four of their 5-part series, DATES Goes Hawaiian. Tim and Derek sing the songs of Moana and continue ranking Schlags while also PERing this week's snack from Danny's box, Hawaiian Original Flavored Taro Chips. Featuring: Derek Montilla (@cap_kaveman) & Tim Agne (@timagne) Music by: Polly Hall & Andrew Barka...

Hey yo, we didn’t hear no bell, so like... we thought we’d get together and go the distance to talk about the new films revital... reinvigor... uh, re-imagining the Rocky Series - Creed and Creed II. Special guests, Teek Hall and Mega Ran join us from the Mat Mania Podcast to help break down both films, gush over all things Philly and peruse those old photographs of Dolph Lundgren and Grace Jones....

We’re so excited, you guys. We’re doing a live stage show the weekend of the Royal Rumble. SmackDown is fun. NXT is fun. RAW is a television show, or so they say. TLC should be a fun diversion, and then we’re full steam ahead towards the Royal Rumble! Featuring: ‘Captain Kaveman’ Derek Montilla (@cap_kaveman) and Joshua Schlag (@thesteelcage / @schlizzag). Intro music by The Black Furies, courtesy...

This week on the DATEScast, our snackologists take a break from their Hawaiian adventure to join the founder and proprietor of TheSteelCage.com, Mr. Joshua Schlag, and his new wife on their honeymoon in Italy. No, Tim and Derek didn't sneak into their international check-in bags, but the fifth-best Schlag did bring back some wonderful treats to PER from his journey. The guys are doing the "a tre v...

This week, Captain Jack (@JackHeartless) invites Davie Hayes (@Davie06) to watch something truly, wondrously bad: the previously unaired home video for the AWA Team Challenge Series! Prepare yourselves for a dime-store Barry Windham, a very young and mullety Jerry Lynn, a very odd foxy boxing interlude complete with POV punching, and Sgt. Slaughter putting a whippin’ on a ripoff of a Road Warrior...

If you weren’t already convinced of what the true “A Show” is, RAW made it crystal clear – with most of the show either revolving around Baron Corbin or scenes in a hospital room. Between that and various recycled matches, it’s no wonder even the announce team lost track of what was happening by the time the main event came around. Meanwhile, SmackDown has somehow made Mysterio / Orton and Joe / H...

This week on the DATEScast, our snackologists discuss their Black Friday shopping successes and how wonderful Costco's return policy is. They also continue their Hawaiian adventure courtesy of professional surfer Danny Schlag with part three of their 5-part series, DATES Goes Hawaiian. This time around we combine the Big Island with Tim's love of the big warehouse store as we PER Hawaiian Host's A...

Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you. Also, spend some time in a hyperbolic chamber and you too could turn into a super villain. We're talking about all of the fallout from Survivor Series, including RAW's big sweep of Smackdown Live and why it happened, the New Day reminding us who the 1 is in 6-1, how Rousey vs Flair and Bryan vs Lesnar makes us forget about everything else...

After a fall break, Captain Jack (@JackHeartless) returns, and he’s bringing Henry Casey (@henrytcasey) back as well to talk more GCW. They discuss the national debuts of both Jungle Boy and Jacob Fatu, the travel woes of the Amazing Red, the broken leg of Marko Stunt, and the wildest, most unexpected main event of the entire year. Show photo courtesy of Esther Lin (@allelbows). Sponsored by Wrest...

This week on the DATEScast, our snackologists continue their Hawaiian adventure with part 2 of our 5-part series, DATES Goes Hawaiian. This time, they dive into Danny Schlag's sack to find something hard and purple. That's right! We are putting Hawaii Island Classic Sweet Potato Chips through the PER System. While they don't waste as much time on rating these snacks as they did on watching LOST, t...

Kick back, take it easy and settle into your five (or is that six?) superior senses, as we take a slow ride into Season 3 of everyone’s favorite Netflix Defender – Daredevil. We welcome back fan-favorite, Yoshi to the Unfunny Nerd Tangent team, as he and our trio of Foggy podcast Kingpins try to turn the (Karen) Paige and hit the Bullseye. Or Poindexter. Whatever. Thanks to Tim, we may have broken...

What a crazy couple of days in WWE! Becky Lynch becomes an ICON. Then she’s out of the match at Survivor Series. That may end up catapulting her to main event status at the grandest stage of them all. Crazy, huh? Then Daniel Bryan wins the WWE Championship. Except, he does it in nefarious fashion. Are we okay with this? We barely have time to process it prior to the big match against Brock Lesnar....

We’re living in a different world, folks. WWE puts out a minimum of 8 hours each week of original in-ring wrestling content. When special events like the Mae Young Classic or Mixed Match Challenge are going on, that goes up a couple. When there’s a PPV, we’re pushing 20 hours that week. It’s INSANE. But it’s not a bad thing. It just means a lot of us have to change the way we consume the product....

On this months show – Martin (@bushby01) is joined by Will Cooling (Wrestling Observer, Fighting Spirit Magazine) to discuss the first series of World of Sport. They chat the series as a whole, ratings and a possible second series. They also discuss the debut of NXT UK, Rev Pro on Freesports, Progress at Wembley and Fight Club Pro. Music by Glitbiter (@Glitbiter).

This week on the DATEScast, our snackologists set sail for a snacking adventure with the help of our buddy/professional surfer Danny Schlag on a special five-part series, DATES GOES HAWAIIAN. Danny brought us a wonderful bag of snacks that are considered to be island favorites, so we will put them through the PER system to see how they snack up. The first treat on the agenda is Island Princess' Ch...

As Thanksgiving approaches, your favorite Unfunny travel companions rug up in their winter coats and dive into a classic comedy from the 1980s - Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Our fearless trio share some of their own horrific travel stories, before the two Americans explain the importance of getting home in time for Thanksgiving to the lone Aussie. Greig and Jared may have inadvertently stumbled o...

With WWE bouncing around from one controversy to another, we wanted to focus solely on the success that was WWE Evolution. The WWE's first all-women network special was a ray of sunshine in an otherwise troublesome wrestling entertainment world right now, so we are just going to talk about that instead of anything else. Join us as we gush about how much we loved Becky vs Charlotte, an all-time cla...