LIVE SHOW! 822 - The Final Final
Middling with Eden and Brock
Eden Sher & Brock Ciarlelli
4.7 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Live from The Stray Theater in Los Angeles! 🎭 In this December 2025 live show, we revisit one of our all-time favorites: Episode 822, “The Final Final”—complete with our La La Land-inspired musical number. We’re breaking it all down with the audience, sharing behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage, demo audio, and plenty of stories from filming. We also spot a young Sydney Sweeney, revisit the moment that blew up on TikTok, and point out a sneaky Shawshank Redemption visual reference in Axl’s storyline.
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| 0:00.0 | Eden. |
| 0:01.0 | Prach. |
| 0:02.0 | What? |
| 0:03.0 | What's your favorite live performance you've ever seen? |
| 0:08.0 | PRA. |
| 0:09.0 | I actually have a few, like a serious one, and then the one that is the first one that came to my mind because i think it blew |
| 0:21.8 | my mind it changed me it changed me fundamentally yeah cats on broadway when i was like six |
| 0:31.7 | five memory changed your life it literally did i remember me like me like, whoa, this is a thing. |
| 0:39.3 | This is what you could dress up like a, like a cat. |
| 0:43.3 | You got to be like a fucking cat. |
| 0:46.3 | Yep. |
| 0:47.3 | Okay. |
| 0:48.3 | And then what's your serious one? |
| 0:49.3 | Probably, um, um, Cessaly, Cessley Strong when she did searching for signs of intelligent life in the |
| 0:57.4 | universe oh it was so she was so good it was it was great it was mind-blowing um my favorite have you |
| 1:04.8 | seen curious incident of the dog in the nighttime yes i did actually i saw it in lond loved it. Really? I absolutely was like enamored with it because I don't think I had ever seen. I think I've seen some sense, but like the way they used technology and the set in the way that they did with that storytelling, I was like transfixed. Because that was one of the shows that I think I got like the super discount to KTS tickets. |
| 1:29.2 | And so I was like I got a one off really in like a gorgeous seat and center orchestra. |
| 1:35.0 | And just it was mind blowing. That's the first thing I think of. |
| 1:38.3 | I hope whoever, I hope the lighting people got a Tony for that. |
| 1:42.8 | I hope so too. That was incredible. It really was. |
| 1:44.7 | I completely agree. |
| 1:46.1 | Well, Eden, this is all to say. |
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