812 - Pitch Imperfect (w/ Melissa Kosar)
Middling with Eden and Brock
Eden Sher & Brock Ciarlelli
4.7 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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WE'RE DOING A LIVE RECORDING!! Friday, December 5th, 2025 @7pm at the Stray Theater in Los Angeles!! We'll be recapping one of our (and maybe your!) favorite episodes in front of a live audience! Trivia, behind the scenes clips and videos, and lots of laughs. Tickets are limited, get them here: https://buytickets.at/thestraytheater/1922627
We’ve got the fabulous director of today’s episode, Melissa Kosar (American Housewife, Abbott Elementary), joining us to break down Episode 812, “Pitch Imperfect.” She tells us how shadowing our in-house director, Lee Shallat Chemel, led to her first directing job. We also share some rehearsal videos and dive into what it takes to craft the a comedic a-cappella performance. Plus, Melissa helps us answer a voicemail from a fan who spotted Barry Goldberg in an episode from Season 6…
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| 0:00.0 | Eden's almost here. I'm nervous. I can't believe it. It's only what, 11 days away at this point. |
| 0:07.9 | I know. Are you doing your vocal exercises? Are you doing your stretches? No, I'm pregnant. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm going to get on that stage and I'm going to sit and you're going to get up and move around. |
| 0:19.4 | Well, this past week in our little intro opener, I did it just, I did it without you. |
| 0:25.7 | I hope that's okay about the show. |
| 0:28.2 | I did say if you, I think this is going to be like your last real full public appearance before |
| 0:33.4 | you pop. |
| 0:34.4 | And so if you're desperate to see that, honey, now you got to buy that ticket. |
| 0:38.9 | Honestly, I haven't made many public appearances. So this is like the what and only. If you |
| 0:43.5 | want to see that bump. We're talking about, did we say, we're doing our live show, Eden. |
| 0:49.3 | We're doing a live show on December 5th at the stray theater in Hollywood. That's what we're talking about, bro. That feels rich and fancy. So if you're in Los Angeles or you want to come to Los Angeles, Eden and I will be there 7 p.m. on Friday, December 5th. The link for tickets, it's obviously in the description of this podcast episode right here. I should say, wait, the most important part, it is almost sold out. |
| 1:31.3 | There are like, 10 tickets left or something. So get them while they're hot. Get them. We're recapping. Again, I hope you don't mind. I did this without you. We're recapping episode. I announced it already. 822, the final final. Well, I knew that. I'm gasping like I didn't know. You're gasping like you didn't know that we just like completely sat down and went through our rollodex. |
| 1:46.9 | Like, what should we recap? We were very strategic about it. We were like, yes, this is the one for the live show. So again, get those tickets. The link is obviously in the description of this podcast episode in our bio for all of our socials. |
| 1:48.6 | And we hope to see you there. |
| 1:49.8 | Hope to see you there. |
| 1:55.2 | Brockie Brock. |
| 1:59.1 | From this episode that we are recapping, |
| 2:02.1 | Brick got Cindy into books. |
| 2:02.9 | That's right. |
| 2:04.2 | Planet Nowhere, to be precise, yeah. |
| 2:05.1 | To be precise. |
| 2:08.0 | What is something that you have gotten Cameron into? |
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