PODCAST · sports
Mudville
by Brody Staub and Nolan Rabine
A podcast about baseball and cinema.
Episodes
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#73 - Jacob Wilson's WAR starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts
We take a look at the Home Run Derby participants (before they announced Matt Olson would replace Ronald Acuna Jr) and All-Star Game rosters, discussing who got snubbed, who should be starting, and other general stuff from the first half of the season. Also some trade deadline talk, a farewell to...
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#72- W'S ACROSS THE BOARD: OKC THUNDER ARE NBA CHAMPIONS, ZOHRAN DUSTS CUOMO, DEVERS TRADED TO SAN FRANCISCO
Mudville is BACK from a long hiatus and we're discussing a truly massive week in which the Oklahoma City Thunder won their first NBA title, Zohran Mamdani spanked disgraced pervert Andrew Cuomo in the NYC mayoral primary, and Rafael Devers hit his first few home runs as a San Francisco Giant…
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#71 - What's Real, What’s Fake? + Bold Predictions for 2025
Nolan and Brody break down the first ten days of the 2025 MLB season and predict whether emerging trends are legitimate or just a flash in the plan, before delivering five bold predictions each for the rest of the year. We discuss the red-hot NL West, a disastrous start for the Atlanta Braves…
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#70 - 2025 MLB Season Preview (AL East & NL East)
The Mudville season previews for MLB in 2025 wrap up with extended discussions on the AL & NL East. We analyze what should be two of the most competitive divisions in baseball, with at least three teams in both that could reasonably end up on top. Will the Braves rebound from a season of...
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#69 - 2025 MLB Season Preview (AL Central & NL Central) with Prospect Sauce
We're joined by recurring guest Nick aka Prospect Sauce for the second installment of our annual MLB season previews. Today we discuss 10 fascinating teams (well 8 fascinating teams plus the Pirates and White Sox) across the AL & NL Central. Will the Guardians and Brewers repeat as division...
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#68 - 2025 MLB Season Preview (AL West & NL West)
The third annual Mudville season preview kicks off with deep dives into the AL & NL West. We briefly discuss a trio of pitching injuries to Gerrit Cole, George Kirby, and Grayson Rodriguez, before breaking down the Angels busy offseason and if it'll make much of a difference, the Astros lineup...
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#67 - The Great Beard Debate
This is my well-groomed beard. It's a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom. We discuss the start of Spring Training, debate the reversal of the Yankees' longstanding facial hair policy, and lament Giancarlo Stanton having double tennis elbow. We then break down some…
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#66 - The Death of the Mid Sox (with Toney Brown)
The last major domino of free agency has fallen, with Alex Bregman headed to the Boston Red Sox on a 3-year, $120 million contract. Boston's off-season has baseball fans wondering if they'll be major contenders for the AL East crown in 2025, and perhaps even for the pennant. We're joined by...
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#65 - Luka Doncic in MLB Terms?
An attempt to make sense of the seismic, once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster trade that sent Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, and Markieff Morris to the Lakers and Anthony Davis, Max Christie, and a 2029 1st to the Dallas Mavericks. We discuss our initial reactions to the trade, assuming Shams was hacked…
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Top 10 Movies of 2024: Part Two (1-5)
In the second half of our annual Best of the Year episode, Nolan and Toney conclude their conversation by discussing their five favorite films released in 2024. Movies discussed include new releases from M. Night Shyamalan, Bertrand Bonello, Jane Schoenbrun, Aaron Schimberg, Ryusuke Hamaguchi…
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Top 10 Movies of 2024: Part One (6-10)
In the first half of our annual Best of the Year episode, Nolan and Toney share their favorite films of 2024 and how they approach their lists. Movies discussed include the newest releases from Harmony Korine, Denis Villenueve, Pascal Plante, Luca Guadagino, Leos Carax, Brady Corbet, and more.…
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#64 - Are We Cooked?
Between Tr*mp, David Lynch dying, the pitcher from Japan, and general chumpfuckery, this has been one cromulent fuckcrustable of a week. Nolie and Brody needy drinky. We discuss Monday's inauguration, a decade of maddening incompetence, the loss of a great American filmmaker, this year's…
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Top 10 First Watches of 2024
Nolan and Toney discuss their favorite discoveries of 2024, including films by Jonathan Glazer, Josef von Sternberg, Peter Watkins, Bertrand Bonello, Brian De Palma, Milos Forman, Oliver Stone, Ken Kwapis, Dennis Hopper, and many, many more. Subscribe at Patreon.com/Mudville to receive updates...
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#63 - A Complete Unknown (with Morgan Staub)
How does it feeeeeeel? The boys welcome back frequent guest and Dylan-ologist Morgan Staub for a discussion on the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring ball-knower Timothee Chalamet as the man himself, Ed Norton as Pete Seeger, and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. We dig into Dylan's…
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#62 - Rap World / The Virgin Suicides (with Molly Thomas)
Some of the best nights of our lives were spent in parking lots. We discuss a double feature for the ages as Molly (@angelinrealtime) joins the three-timers club by bringing Conner O'Malley's RAP WORLD and Sofia Coppola's THE VIRGIN SUICIDES to the show. Also: Robbie Williams, Helen Keller, the...
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#61 - Crochet and Tucker and Fried, Oh My
It's been a chaotic offseason. Garrett Crochet was traded to Boston, Kyle Tucker is a Cub, and the Yankees pivoted away from Soto by bringing three All-Stars to the Bronx. There are so many trades and free agent signings to discuss, and we've got you covered for all of them. Subscribe at...
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#60 - Juan Soto to the Mets & the Future of New York Baseball
Step aside, Kevin James, for there's a new King of Queens. Steve Cohen had a much better week than other NYC-based CEOs, as on Sunday night he finally landed a superstar and signed Juan Soto to a record-shattering 15-year, $765 million contract. We break down the contract, what it means for the...
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#59 - Red Rocket
We discuss Sean Baker’s 2021 film Red Rocket. Simon Rex stars as Mikey Saber. a D-list porn star who returns to his hometown in rural Texas, steamrolls the lives of his family and neighbors, grooms a 17-year-old girl he meets at a donut shop, and lies to anyone and everyone. Thought of upon…
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Local Legends: Bloodbath - Mudville at the Movies #5
In 2013 Matt Farley and Motern Media created Local Legends, a film that has since achieved a cult status as one of the definitive works about working as a creatively and financially independent artist in the 21st century. Eleven years later, he returns with Local Legends: Bloodbath, a metatextual...
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#58 - You Will NEVER Be Pope (2024-25 Free Agency Predictions)
We review Conclave, a new Oscar contender starring Ralph Fiennes that asks questions old and new about the consolidation of power and the intersection of religion & politics. Did they Trojan horse a Politics Movie into a Pope Movie? How does this fit into the canon of religious cinema? Then, we...
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#57 - The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series, beating the New York Yankees in 5 games on the backs of Freddie Freeman, dominant pitching, and catastrophic "Yankee defense." We react to the series as a whole, the birth of what seems to be a Dodgers dynasty, what that means for these two teams as...
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2024 Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series Preview (with Morgan Staub)
The 2024 World Series kicks off on Friday, and the coastal elites are rubbing their hands together and cackling as the New York Yankees head to LA to take on the Dodgers in one of MLB's all-time most anticipated matchups. Morgan's back as we preview the upcoming battle, dive deep into both…
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#55 - The Day After Big Christmas
The Mets won a do-or-die Game 5 at Citi Field on Friday to force a trip back to LA, while late-game heroics from Jhonkensy Noel and David Fry kept the Guardians alive in a wild Game 3 in Cleveland. We recap the past week, including five consecutive NLCS blowouts and a possible turnaround in Aaron...
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#54 - Vision of Divisions (with Morgan Staub)
The Divisional Series are coming to a close, and both the Yankees & Mets have locked up spots in the final four. As we await Games 5 in Los Angeles and Cleveland, we try and make sense of the playoffs thus far. Detroit continues winning with only one real starting pitcher, Emmanuel Clase is…
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#53 - 2024 Postseason Predictions & Wild Card Preview
The playoffs are here! Nolan & Brody discuss the Mets-Braves doubleheader that became one of the most shocking days in recent memory, and look ahead to the Wild Card matchups for this week (Tigers vs Astros, Royals vs Orioles, Padres vs Braves, Mets vs Brewers), predicting the rest of the...
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#52 - A Built Different Man
Shohei Ohtani went nuclear on Thursday and we're still trying to make sense of it. Brody got to see a movie he worked on for a long time, Aaron Schimberg's A Different Man! We discuss his experience on set and in the theater, as well as the future of the expanded playoffs. Also, we celebrate the...
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#51 - Happy Birthday from the Mets (with Toney Brown)
Brody’s on vacation in Italy, so Nolan is joined by Toney Brown for a marathon conversation about a nightmare birthday series at Citi Field, the surging Mets and a heated NL Wild Card race, MLB debuts for Dylan Crews and Rhett Lowder, the biopic Ronald Reagan deserves, the Fennell-ification of…
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#50 - Heat Check
For our 50th episode special, we're giving our raw thoughts on all 30 MLB teams with a max time of 90 seconds each. Split into contenders and non-contenders, we ask what the struggling teams need to do to get back into contention and how the contenders can bring home a World Series title in 2024....
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#49 - Is the Sky Falling? (with Molly Thomas)
We're joined by our London/Philadelphia correspondent Molly Thomas to discuss the 2024 Phillies, the trade deadline, the ups and downs of a long season, and why even the best teams in baseball can have long stretches of near-unwatchability. Plus, no-hitters from Dylan Cease and Blake Snell, and a...
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2024 MLB Mock Draft (with Prospect Sauce)
The 2nd annual mock draft from Mudville and Prospect Sauce! The MLB Draft will take place on Sunday night, and the next crop of young big-league talent is nervously waiting to hear their names called. We break down various factors that go into the draft process and mock drafting as a concept,...
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#48 - A Terminal Case
We're past the 4th of July, which means its time to do a few things: come to terms with the fact that fireworks are overrated, and cook up hypothetical trades for MLB teams to make at the deadline. We discuss Gus Weyhing, a struggling DJ LeMahieu, a surging Garrett Crochet, and a few teams that...
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#47 - Say Hey to the Greatest
Celebrating and remembering the life of Willie Mays, one of baseball's greatest superstars who passed away last week at the age of 93. Mays hit 660 home runs, made 24 All-Star games, and etched his name into the fabric of the game forever. We gaze in awe upon his impenetrable legacy, and wonder...
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#46 - 6:16 in Omaha
It's the College World Series! We're psyched to break down the first few days of action in Omaha, especially the electric Day 1 matchup between Tennessee and FSU. We're less psyched to discuss the five gambling suspensions handed down by MLB, including a lifetime ban of Tucupita Marcano. We ask…
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The Beast - MatM #4
We discuss Bertrand Bonello's THE BEAST starring Lea Seydoux and George Mackay, a beautifully nightmarish odyssey across time and reality. Have we reached the post-Twin Peaks: The Return era of cinema, or is this a one-off achievement? Nolan and Toney share eerily similar real-world interactions...
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#45 - Part of a Fascist Breakfast
We review the most obscene entry yet in the 2020s Brand Movie canon, and potentially the nadir of American cinema: Jerry Seinfeld's UNFROSTED, before paying tribute to the good kind of cultural document: Inside the NBA on TNT. We then break down the first 3 starts of Paul Skenes' big league…
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#44 - April Showers
Highlighting a few major storylines from the first month of the season, including Gunnar Henderson's MVP pace, Home Runs being way down across MLB, the epidemic of long-term arm injuries amongst the league's best pitchers, and which traits we're looking for in the next generation of young…
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#43 - It's All Over For Me (with William J. Cooper)
For the past month, baseball media has been dominated by a gambling scandal involving Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, and some of the most cartoonish figures in the greater Los Angeles area. This week, a criminal complaint was filed against Mizuhara, and we brought on our legal...
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#42 - 2024 American League Preview
The 2nd annual Mudville AL Preview is here, and we're breaking down all 14 teams across the country and one weird one in Canada. We banter about who will win the daunting AL East, Juan Soto's effect on the Yankees, why we want the Rays to fail, if Brody will predict Cleveland to win 100 games...
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#41 - 2024 National League Preview
Brody's back, he brought his brother/SBNY co-host Morgan per our annual tradition, and we're previewing all 15 teams in the National League & analyzing their potential for the 2024 MLB season. We look back at past successes and failures, our favorite breakout picks and prospects, some noteworthy...
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About Dry Grasses - Mudville at the Movies #3
Let's talk Turkey. We discuss Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new 197-minute drama About Dry Grasses. Also: Toney skipped the Oscars to watch Audition (1999) and Freddy got Fingered (2001); Jonathan Glazer's speech condemning the genocide in Gaza drew a loud, manufactured shrieking from the internet's…
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#40 - DUNE: PART TWO (with Erik Nielsen)
It's Dune season! Nolan is joined by Erik Nielsen for a recap of the 96th Academy Awards - a night dominated by Oppenheimer and Poor Things - and a celebration of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic DUNE: PART TWO. We discuss the careers of Denis and Timothee Chalamet, the balance of star-power and...
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2024 Prospect Preview Pt 2 - Top 100 Risers (with Prospect Sauce)
Nolan and Nick are here once more with the back half of our 2024 Prospect Preview! This time we're discussing guys we expect to graduate to the big leagues in 2024, prospects in this year's Top 100 we expect to see at least in next year's Top 25, and some deep sleepers we like to break out in…
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2024 Prospect Preview Pt. 1 - Top 10 (with Prospect Sauce)
Mudville & Prospect Sauce are back at it again, baby. For the first part of our 2024 Prospect Preview, we're breaking down the Top 10 names across lists from MLB Pipeline, Fangraphs, and Nick's recent Top 250 (which you can find here), plus a few extra names we feel belong in the conversation.…
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Top 10 Movies of 2023 (with Seamus Mulhern) - Mudville at the Movies #2
Mudville at the Movies is back with our friend Seamus Mulhern and we're counting down our favorite films of 2023. Support the show at patreon.com/mudville Timestamps: Mudville top 10 timestamps (00:04:25) Honorable mentions (00:18:03) Passages (00:20:19) Spaces of Exception (00:26:35) History of...
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If You Don't Beat 'em Now - SBNY #10
The Boys are recapping a fantastic week of wild card football and getting you ready for another fantastic week of divisional football. Go Bills! 00:00:00 - 00:29:33 Hader/Wild Card Recap 00:29:34 - 00:34:53 Bills Chiefs Preview 00:34:55 - 00:38:28 Lions Bucs Preview 00:38:29 - 00:46:08 49ers...
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#38 - Mudville Pod Dot Com
Real Hoops this week: We're breaking down all the trades & signings we've yet to get into. Chris Sale is a Brave, the Red Sox are retooling (and bringing in a pitching wizard), the Mariners are Rays are moving a bunch of pieces/money around, IKF is a Blue Jay, the Cubs and Dodgers made a fun…
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He Caught Me Eye - SBNY #9
We are BACK. Yankees signed Stroman, NFL Wildcard Weekend is here, every coach in the NFL and CFB got fired or retired, the knicks may never lose again, the mets and nets exist, and Aaron Rodgers is a bigger moron than anyone thought possible. Lots to discuss, buckle up! Also check out our brand...
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Top 10 First Watches of 2023 - Mudville at the Movies #1
Nolan and Toney kick off the new show and new year with a special episode: Our 10 favorite first watches of 2023. These are movies that are new to us, meaning we hadn't yet seen them, and new releases are not included (until next week). Check out the films on our lists, especially if you haven't...
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#37 - Heard She Got Murdered (with Matt Farley of Motern Media)
It's Motern season on Mudville once again, and we're honored to have Matt Farley stop by to answer questions about his new film, Heard She Got Murdered, the unforgettable Boston Johnny, and Motern Media's upcoming slate in 2024 and beyond! We get into Farley/Roxburgh's artistic evolution,...
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#36 - Moneybagg Sho (with Toney Brown)
Shohei Ohtani made $700 million, or at least he will by the end of 2034, and Toney Brown is back to help us break it all down. We promote Nolan and Toney's upcoming film-based series and ask some of the tough questions, like "Is Sam Kennedy ruining the Red Sox?," "Are the Rays bad for baseball?,"...
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