In space…. no one can help you solve a demonic Rubik’s Cube. That’s why you build a robot that will eventually get exploded (to it’s hilarious surprise)! We’re talking Cenobites in space this week with HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE (1996), and there are a lot fewer corsets in the Age of Enlightenment flashbacks than Scott remembered. We console ourselves though with some demo-dogs and the less-well-known Twisted Twins, which are actually pretty progressive for a couple mid-90s security guards – good for you, Twin Cenobites! Strap in for one hell of an afterburner with your favorite masters of pain on another episode of Horror Movie Night!

The fearsome fivesome is back in the groove with another high octane episode. We talk the upcoming weekend’s shows and put over the US Women’s National Team, Westside Gunn’s new album, Jay Z purchasing a cannabis company, the movie “Booksmart,” and a Chemical Brothers classic. There’s too many PPVs this weekend, so decisions have to be made. What are you guys watching? We also bury fake fighting at concerts and much more! Thanks for tuning in. Questions? Hit us on Twitter at @matmaniapodcast. #WrestlingIsFun!

Rok hooked y’all up with a Mos Def playlist that you’re gonna love, peep that here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1260670929/playlist/5tm9y7oWDQL7z10S33m0Pa?si=Jwvorb3hS3KoGZgdM20MYQ

Hello and happy Independence Day! We are back from Fyter Fest, tanned and ready to bring you the latest. We take a walk through the “new and improved” RAW, twitter apologies, preview the G1 Climax and we bury unprotected chair shots. Thanks for listening and keep your shoulders off the mat!
Catch Mega Ran this weekend in Chicago at Anime Midwest. Tickets at megaran.com

Put Over:

Ran: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Bandana 

Rok: Nas’ Lost Tapes 2

G1: Halle Bailey being selected as Ariel on The Little Mermaid

Teek: Spider-Man Far From Home

Happy Pride Month! As we work the kinks out for new format live on air, The Mat Mania crew discusses the week in wrestling from a unique perspective. What is going on with the internet wrestling community??! Subtweets, not so sub-tweets and more this week. Who should just stop tweeting and meet up in Tokyo? WWE put on a solid PPV so we give them props for that, and we talk Fyter Fest, which is this weekend! Your boys Mega Ran and Neoecks will be in the building reporting live, and conducting a special Mat Mania Podcast onsite at CEO Daytona! See us on Friday at 3PM at the Ocean Center! Also, is the WWE universe ready for a mature LGBT+ storyline? We say it’s time.  Get the full episode on Patreon! As always, thanks for listening!

Put Over:


Ran: Gato Roboto for Switch

Teek: Benny The Butcher’s album “The Plugs I Met”

Rok: The Queen of Hip Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige

Check out his awesome “Northern Exposure” Playlist :

Neo: AGDQ, going on now at gamesdonequick.com

G1: BEATS on Netflix

In our continued efforts to discuss every killer doll movie ever made, as well as to coincide with the reboot now in theaters, your hosts revisited some kinder-trauma with 1990’s CHILD’S PLAY 2! We come to a general consensus that this is the best entry in the series, though maybe not everyone’s favorite (ahem Brian), and spend the entire episode gushing over how good the Chucky effects look. We’re all smile because we have a friend til the end this week and forevermore here on Horror Movie Night!

It seems so many horror movies are kicked off with a mistake – smacking an old bucket full of zombie chemicals… letting a disfigured boy drown while you’re dry-humping… watching CURSE lll: BLOOD SACRIFICE… Tale as old as time, amirite? This boring drama-with-two-quick-shots-of-a-sea-monster-in-the-last-3-minutes boasts Christopher Lee’s terrible lower teeth, a surprising level of racism for a movie released in 1991, and an even more surprising lack of rubber suit monster for a movie that ostensibly got made due to the moderate success of Screaming Mad George’s awesome Curse ll: The Bite. This is easily the most boring movie we’ve ever discussed on the show, but we somehow manage to enjoy each other company while ripping it apart. Travel back in time to apartheid South Africa and horrible racist stereotype with your hosts on this week’s episode of Horror Movie Night!

It’s summertime and your HMN boys are downwind of something stinky, so of course we need to investigate. Following our noses, we stumble across the underappreciated 2005 remake of the Vincent Price classic HOUSE OF WAX. While we may not all agree on the merits of this film, we do agree that the practical effects and kills are delightfully gruesome. Also, props to whoever made Elisha Cuthbert look like a Plain Jane here… that is no small task. Wax poetic with us on the first episode of Year Five of Horror Movie Night!

Put Over

Rok: Happy Birthday Father Rok!!!

Neo: E3

Cap: Sega mini

Teek: John Wick 3 – 4 1⁄2 handguns out of 5

G1: Microsoft – Project Scarlett

Hello all of our beautiful Mat Maniacs! Thank you for tuning into this special Patreon episode. It is more than 30 mins! We get into the state of E3. We talk about FF7, Cyberpunk 2077, Xbox
Scarlet. What are you excited for? Would you like our gamertags?
Sports! Basketball specifically. Injuries and playing balls balls in the Dominican Republic! Did you know? The playoffs are happening! Go team do the thing! And win the sports! Aaaand WRESTLING TIME!!! We talk about NJPW Dominion in Osaka-Jo Hall. What a phenomenal PPV. The best matches were Osprey vs Dragon Lee, Kota Ibushi vs Tetsuya Naito, & Okada vs Jericho. We hope all the competitors are well. We are looking at you Kota.

Please be careful in the future!

Mat Mania will be at Fyter Festival and CEO 2019. https://ceogaming.org/fyterfest/ be sure you get your tickets and come say hi. I think we will have a panel and can’t wait to watch Fyter Festival with you all.

How’s WWE doing guys? We share our thoughts. Lots of very interesting perspectives about Undertaker and Shane McMachon. Should Undertaker be wrestling still? Do you believe Shane will defeat our beloved Champion Kofi Kingston? Please share.

Oh and Neo & Cap get into a yelling match. Please adjust your volume. Sorry!

Snack of the Week – Carla Gugino

Enjoy the relaxing sounds of the West Coast! Keep your shoulder off the mat!

We are back once again recording live from the illustrious DigiLabs Studios!  We are joined by frequent guest and neeeeeeeeeeeew member of the Mat Mania Podcast G1totherescue. Tonight the boys talk the mess that is ROH, they dive into Jon Moxley’s IWGP US Title Win as well as breakdown the phenomenal NXT Takeover 25 that took place over the weekend. All of that and so much more on this weeks episode!  As always thank you for listening and thank you to all of Patreon members who support us each month by paying that money!  

Put Overs:

Ran – Brightburn

ROK – Jim Jones “El Capo” album

Teek – Detective Pikachu

G1 – Kelis “Wanderland” album


Back from a wild Starrcast/Double or Nothing weekend, the boys talk about AEW’s first PPV, highlights of the weekend in Vegas and much more! We go over our best matches of the show (22:00), and highly recommend Kenny’s doc “Omega Man, A Wrestling Love Story (38:00) and get into the HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL Jon Moxley interview on Talk Is Jericho (42:00) that confirms so many of our suspicions. Is Jon right? Is the war on? Strap in!

Put over:

Ran & Teek -Aladdin Movie

Rok – Dessa

Neoecks – Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild (sorta)

In a world full of hot scientists (aka actress/models wearing glasses and a tight bun), be a dumpy retired psychic detective in earthtones, like the protagonist in THE BONEYARD (1991). While most of the movie is like celluloid Lunesta, there IS a giant mutant Phyllis Diller monster, a giant mutant poodle monster, and some pretty gross-looking zombie children. Lots of gooey goodness to be had as long as you’re diligent with that fast forward button. Come cackle with us like crazy old women in wigs on another episode of Horror Movie Night!


If there’s one thing we love on this show, it’s John Waters and killer clowns. Wait, that’s 2 things. I guess you could say we hate math here too. In any case, we are tackling the fantastic and tragically forgotten OUT OF THE DARK (1989), which prominently features a clown-masked phone sex pervert, Divine’s last film before passing away, and a totally unrealistic photo-shoot replete with fog machine and seizure-inducing freeze frames. It’s even better than it sounds, and we want to…shed some light on the darkness surrounding this piece of cinema. Save up your quarters and grab some tissues, this week we’re dialing 1-800-HMN-BOIS


It’s Double or Nothing baby! Mat Maniacs we will be in Las Vegas celebrating the hottest wrestling promotion AEW. We will also be at Starrcast 2. This is this the go home edition for Double or Nothing. We also get into some post WWE Money in the Bank, Raw, and Smackdown Live. It’s a great time to be a wrestling fan, so be sure you like, share, and subscribe to hear our hottest takes in the world of pro wrestling. We also say goodbye and Rest in Peace to Ashley Massaro.

PUT OVER: Neo – Pen15 on Hulu

Rok & MegaRan – Wu Tang Of Mics and Men

General G1 – Mortal Kombat 11

He swore if we ever covered this movie he’d have no choice but to return as a guest on this show; and he’s a man of his word! This week we are joined by Kyle Kuchta to discuss his favorite movie TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION. The film is jam-packed with craziness as well as Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey for good measure.

We walk a thin line with the movies discussed on the show, one balancing nostalgia with the reality of b (and sometimes z) grade horror. Often, the former cannot even out the latter, but not this week. No, this week, we discuss CARRIE 2: THE RAGE from 1999 and it’s somehow better now than it was when it was first released. If you avoid comparing it to Brian De Palma’s original, this is a well-executed sequel with a LOT of great kills. Put on your party dress (red, of course) and cut loose with your bros in Horror Movie Night!


Greeting Mat Maniacs and welcome to another episode of Mat Mania Podcast episode 133. We have the world’s dangerous trio in Teek Hall Roknowledge and Neoecks, but Wild Card Rules are a thing now. So, from The Steel Cage Cap Kaveman must join us. Try out our different put overs this week and join us as we vent about WWE. Why is Wild Card rules a thing? How is Becky’s fire as of late? Will Andrade be Champion? All this and more.

PUT OVER:
Cap – I Think You Should Leave
Neo – The Promised Neverland
Rok – Congratulations @YayaMartinez! You Graduated from ASU!
Teek – The Gemini Man

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