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 world-building, and what makes this one of the best blockbusters in recent memory.

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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 2024.

Check out Nick's Top 250 Prospects list here and follow him @Prospect Sauce! Subscribe to the Mudville Patreon at patreon.com/mudville and follow us at @mudvillepod!

Expected 2024 Graduates: Jackson Merrill, Colt Keith, Colson Montgomery, Chase DeLauter

Risers into the Top 25: Roderick Arias, Roman Anthony, Sebastian Walcott, Leo De Vries, Josue De Paula, Owen Caissie, Joendry Vargas, Colt Emerson, Noble Meyer, Aidan Miller

Risers into the Top 100: George Wolkow, Robert Calaz, Henry Lalane, Zyhir Hope, Emil Morales, Hyun-Seok Jang, Jonny Farmelo, Luis Morales

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. Look out for the follow-up episode next week in which we cover the rest of the lists, as well as our upcoming divisional previews releasing throughout Spring Training. Baseball is back, and so are we. Follow Nick on Twitter @ProspectSauce and Nolan @stuckinthecoil, and support the show at patreon.com/mudville!

Prospects discussed in this episode:

Jackson Holliday

Jackson Chourio

Wyatt Langford

Junior Caminero

Paul Skenes

Evan Carter

Noelvi Marte

Dylan Crews

Jordan Lawlar

Ethan Salas

Walker Jenkins

Mudville at the Movies is back with our friend Seamus Mulhern and we're counting down our favorite films of 2023.

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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 Minnesota Vikings

(00:30:34) Godzilla Minus One

(00:38:12) Yelling Fire in an Empty

(00:40:55) Boston Johnny, Heard She Got Murdered

(00:46:40) Showing Up

(00:50:55) JW4

(00:53:30) Zone of Interest

(01:03:57) Asteroid City

(01:08:45) Fallen Leaves

(01:13:30) Afire

(01:17:40) Ferrari

(01:23:19) May/December

(01:31:57) Anatomy of a Fall

(01:41:10) The Holdovers

(01:51:29) The Boy and the Heron

(01:57:00) Menus Plasirs Les Troigros

(02:03:50) Close your Eyes

(02:09:28) Unrest

(02:13:00) Pacifiction

(02:19:30) The Killer

(02:23:06) Miss Me Yet?

(02:28:30) Killers of the Flower Moon

(02:41:30) Other People’s Children

(02:43:43) Oppenheimer

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 Packers Preview

00:46:09 - 00:56:20 Ravens Texans Preview

00:56:21 - 00:58:55 Outro

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 trade, and the Royals are going for it. Also, we have a shiny new website: mudvillepod.com!

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 new website mudvillepod.com and support us on patreon for free at patreon.com/mudville. Time Codes:

00:03:18 - 00:05:58 The Bills and Coach from Survivor

00:05:59 - 00:21:07 NFL Coach Vacancies

00:21:08 - 00:40:52 NFL Wild Card Weekend Preview

00:40:53 - 00:44:14 Giants

00:44:15 - 00:50:35 Jets (Rodgers)

00:50:36 - 00:56:54 Stroman to the Yanks and Pitching Depth

00:56:55 - 01:01:24 Brody Pitches a Free Agent to the Yankees

01:01:25 - 01:01:53 Mets

01:01:54 - 01:10:38 Knicks

01:10:39 - 4 Seconds on the Brooklyn Nets™️/Outro

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 seen them; we hope you love them as much as we do!

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Films discussed on this episode:

Third Word, Third World War (Espinoza, 1970)

Local Legends (Roxburgh, 2013)

Gentleman Jim (Walsh, 1942)

What Time is it There? (Tsai, 2001)

Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957)

Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)

Fucking Amal / Show Me Love (Moodysson, 1998)

Millennium Mambo (Hou, 2001)

The War Game (Watkins, 1966)

The Long Day Closes (Davies, 1992)

Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies, 1988)

La Ceremonie (Chabrol, 1995)

Somewhere (Coppola, 2010)

Sideways (Payne, 2004)

Nothing But a Man (1964, Roemer)

JFK (Stone, 1991)

All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)

Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma, 1974)

Body Double (De Palma, 1984)

The Wobblies (Bird/Shafer, 1979)

Deep Cover (Duke, 1992)

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, incidental metaphors, Hong Sang-soo comparisons, Local Legends as an alternative to Tiny Furniture & Frances Ha, the desecration of the Red Sox, Cade Cunningham's Zen era, and the inherent comedy behind press conferences. Plus, whatever happened to Tom Brady's stand up career?

Follow Matt on Twitter @MoternMedia or give him a call at 603-644-0048!

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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?," "Should bad teams be relegated?," and "Why does every free agency controversy involve a Shark Tank billionaire?," before our recording tragically cuts out and we lose 30 min of conversation. Devastated to have to cut this one short but we hope you enjoy!

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(0:00 - 5:00) Intro/New Patreon show

(5:00-25:00) Diagnosing the Red Sox

(25:00-52:00) Shohei Ohtani to LAD

(52:00-1:06:00) Gettin' reeeeal conceptual

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Cover Art by Brody Staub