THE MIDDLE PODCAST! SUE HECK AND BRAD BREAKDOWN THE SPINOFF!
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Sue Heck and Brad! The Middle stars Eden Sher and Brock Ciarlelli became fan favorites for their hilarious chemistry and heartfelt friendship throughout the series. Eden brought Sue Heck's endlessly optimistic personality to life, while Brock's portrayal of Brad added unforgettable comedic moments and one of the show's most lovable supporting characters.
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| 0:00.0 | You both were on the Sue pilot. |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:02.7 | So do you know, did you guys talk about, do you know any about this, what the plot is? |
| 0:06.6 | Fill it. |
| 0:07.1 | Okay. |
| 0:07.7 | Well, you say, you're the lead of it. |
| 0:09.7 | Okay, sure. |
| 0:11.0 | It was. |
| 0:11.7 | What's up? |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | My name's Joe. |
| 0:13.7 | And today's episode is brought to you by Fandul. |
| 0:16.1 | Season one, the debut. |
| 0:17.9 | What is your guys' impressions of each other? Did you hit it off immediately? Yeah, I'd say we'd have chemistry. Oh, for sure. For sure. But the friendship evolved. I think when you're that young also, like we're not that far apart in age, but at that time being, like I wasn't in high school at all. And so being whatever whatever I was, 17 and a half or 18, and you being |
| 0:38.7 | 16. Whatever age where you're still saying I'm a half. Yeah. I think it made a little bit of a |
| 0:44.6 | difference. It was like, once you graduated high school, I mean, actually, no, I really always loved |
| 0:51.1 | you. It just wasn't like, we weren't, I think we both have pretty healthy boundaries. Yeah. I mean, this was also my first acting job professional ever. And so me, bright-eyed, not really knowing how everything works. And so, I mean, looking back on it now, I know that it was cordial. Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Brock. We did some scenes and we were fun and we were doing all the things. |
| 1:13.0 | But like swapping phone numbers or going the extra step to start forging a friendship outside of what you saw on screen didn't happen until, you know, a season or two later. It was all professional at the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I also didn't know if I was just like, oh, what a fun guest star. |
| 1:28.8 | Like, what a great guy. |
| 1:29.8 | I didn't know he was going to come back for 50 somewhat episodes. Oh, honey. So I was supposed to be two episodes, a Thanksgiving episode of season one. Oh, everyone knows he's gay except Sue and Brad. And then episode, or episode two, the Christmas episode, they catch me smoking with another boy. |
| 1:46.2 | And then you go to camp. |
| 1:47.1 | Exactly. |
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