223 - The Bridge (w/ Roy Brown)

Middling with Eden and Brock

Eden Sher & Brock Ciarlelli

Comedy, Rewatch Podcast, The Middle, Rewatch, Abc, Brock Ciarlelli, Tv & Film, Eden Sher

4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We're almost to the end of season 2 and we can't believe it! Today we’re joined by Roy Brown, a key figure in the writers’ room for all 9 seasons, rising from staff writer to executive producer. He's here to recap episode 223, "The Bridge," with us! We talk about a Big Mike storyline inspired by Roy’s dad, 19-year-old Eden’s thoughts on her swimsuit plot, and how this episode was the only one that came in short on timing.

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0:32.9	Sweet little gorgeous baby Brock.
0:35.3	Guess my child.
0:42.0	What is a bribe that would work to get you to conquer a fear?
0:44.0	Um, um,
0:46.8	a domino's pizza,
0:48.4	probably something simple and basic.
0:50.1	Don't laugh at that.
0:51.8	You have never contorted your face worse than that.
0:55.7	That's it.
0:57.7	You don't have any phobias, do you?
0:59.4	Or a foot rub from Cameron.
1:02.3	Oh, so you're telling me right now you have no phobias.
1:06.0	Not that I can think of.
1:07.5	Of course you don't.
1:08.7	Good for you.
1:09.6	Good for you, Brock.
1:46.2	What would, okay, what would you, what would get you to conquer any sort of fear? I can tell you because it happened. Oh. Cash money. Sure. What was the fear? Balloons. Huh? Oh yeah. I had a deep, deep phobia of balloons. I hate, I still don't like balloons. I very much don't like balloons. Hot air balloons? What? Hot air balloons? Like balloons? No, balloons. Balloons. Balloons. What? That's crazy. It's not crazy. Because have you ever been around balloons popping? Or like a balloon popped in your face? face yeah i think something like that must have happened to me when i was very little i get so terrified around or i used
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