522 - Heck on a Hard Body (w/ Josh Brener)

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

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It's the last Wednesday of the month, which means we're jumping ahead! Today's episode is all about competition: spelling bees, hands on a hard body, and beer pong to win back a desk. Of course we're talking about episode 522, "Heck on a Hard Body." We're joined by Josh Brener (Silicon Valley, The Last of Us) as he helps us recap the episode and acts out an entire deleted story line (3 scenes!) that got cut from the episode involving Dr. Goodwin (Jack McBrayer) and Dr. Fulton (Dave Foley).

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0:00.0	Eden.
0:01.4	Brock.
0:03.2	I don't think we've ever started an episode any other way other than that.
0:07.3	Have you ever entered a contest and won?
0:12.7	Absolutely not.
0:13.8	Okay, great.
0:14.6	Never.
0:14.8	I remember staying on the phone for hours on my little like Nokia, you know, when I first got a cell phone and the brick.
0:23.1	Yeah.
0:23.3	Eighth grade or something.
0:24.4	Yeah.
0:24.6	How about you?
0:25.4	I guess it was a competition.
0:27.7	It's not like a radio contest or anything like that.
0:29.9	But there was this competition.
0:31.5	The first thing that comes to mind in middle school where you could give a speech and they would give you.
0:37.3	It was like you were competing
0:38.1	for a college scholarship so it was like $2,500 was the top prize and so you had to write a speech
0:45.8	that was my biggest struggle is and so a lot of people were doing earnest things about I don't know
0:53.9	how it's hard for them to do this or that.
0:56.2	And I went the other route and I made a comedic speech that said, my biggest struggle in life is teaching my mother how to use technology.
1:04.4	And I won.
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