318 - Leap Year (w/ Mackenzie Aladjem)
Middling with Eden and Brock
Eden Sher & Brock Ciarlelli
4.7 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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SUCH a fun episode today! We have Mackenzie Aladjem (Nurse Jackie, All My Children) and she helps us breakdown episode 318, "Leap Year!" First Eden tells all about filming her Hallmark movie (A Keller Christmas Vacation). Then we talk about the episode where we find out the cat storyline was lifted directly from Neil's life! Plus, a listener calls in with a very glaring plot hole regarding Sue's birthday.
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| 0:00.0 | Eden, Jeff, Jeff Probst and I have a question for you. |
| 0:05.0 | Yes, Jeff. Oh, yes, yes, Jeff. What is it? Yes, Uncle Jeff. |
| 0:09.0 | I hate it. I know. The season is. |
| 0:12.0 | Has anyone ever thrown you a surprise party? |
| 0:16.0 | As a matter of fact, yes. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, tell me. Wait, tell me. Yeah. Nick one year threw him a surprise party, and I was genuinely so surprised. Okay. How did he get you out of the, where was it? How did you do it? It was at our house. It was just like at our house because he, I was like, I don't want to do any planning. I don't know. All I want is like a dinner. |
| 0:56.7 | I'll just do a dinner. And he planned this actual wonderful dinner. And it was with like 10 people, which is a party to me. Yeah. And so we went to this. We went to what is now, Boccurry. This is, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that was in. Of course. like um um, which was like a nice, ooh, hip place. |
| 1:00.5 | And, and then I was like, okay, well, that was great. |
| 1:02.5 | Like, I don't know why we went so early. |
| 1:04.9 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm okay for like a 6 p.m. dinner. |
| 1:06.2 | I love it. |
| 1:06.9 | Like, oh, and now we get to go to bed early. |
| 1:08.5 | Let's do, let's do this thing. |
| 1:10.1 | And then I got home. And there was a part of me that was like, oh, I'm tired. I already had two glasses of wine. Like, okay, but I was so, I was like, I didn't know we knew this many people. Oh, that's so sweet. I know, or that this many people would want to come to a party for me. |
| 1:28.5 | Of course they would. |
| 1:29.1 | It also made sense why there were a handful of people who did not text me. Happy birthday. Oh. And I was like, yeah, I'm not offended. Like, no ego. Like, I guess they just forgot. And then I was like, oh my God, you didn't forget. Oh, wait, that's so sweet. I know. I love that. Someone, um, my, uh, one of my best girlfriends, |
| 1:47.2 | Hannah, I brought her to a couple rap parties before, but she had, when I did my, |
| 1:53.1 | uh, one man show, um, in 2018, I think, she, I got, because my parents flew in for one of the weekends for it. And so I was like, when I picked him up from the airport, I was like, do you guys want to see the apartment before we go to the hotel? Like, because they hadn't seen the apartment yet. And they're like, oh, no, no, we don't want to. And I was like, well, we're going to have to backtrack. So we might as well just see it now. my mom was keeping like, no, let's just go to the, let's just go to the hotel. |
| 2:20.0 | And I was like, no, let's just go to the hotel. |
| 2:20.0 | And I was like, okay, okay, fine. |
| 2:23.2 | So by then, after the show, they're like, let's go see your apartment. |
| 2:29.2 | And I was like, okay, Priscilla. |
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