The Middle

And of course...

The pilot of the middle.

She has got one more Emmy nomination than both Brock and I combined.

Please welcome to the show, Julianne Robinson.

But I'm very excited to talk about the actual logistics of what directing a pilot versus what directing episodes of shows already existing are.

But we do have to ask the very first question that we ask all of our guests.

How did the middle come into your life?

The middle came into my life because I had recently directed a show which was considered a very big deal.

But what I think really, really kind of made it go really big was when we started having celebrities talk about their testimonies and share Bible verses.

And at one point I had read that Attica Schaefer from the TV series, The Middle, was a Christian.

And I was able to reach out to him and he shared his testimony.

And that's when it really blew up.

Kids are out of the house.

My two very long running shows, Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, gone.

When I would cook and drink, I would get to the end of the night and I would think, oh my gosh, I drank almost that whole bottle by myself.

That led to what Patricia calls a mortifying family night that was her sign she needed to quit.

I've written it down.

Click the link in the show notes.

It will give you the PDF.

This is how to actually solve a problem in your marriage.

Here's the stories I'm making up.

And here's what I would like to be different in our home.

Click the link in the show notes for the Connected Conflict Framework.

Let's go to New York City, New York, and talk to Sally.

Well, I want to jump right into it because you're known to most people for your acting.

Everybody loves Raymond, The Middle, so many other great entertainment projects.

But what we want to talk about today is very timely, particularly when we're seeing what's happening in the world right here in Colorado as well.

We had the Boulder, you know, the Boulder Molotov cocktail throw.

It doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything that an Israeli government is doing or whatever particular administration is in charge, or even with the particular political opinions of various different kinds of Jewish people, because just like with Republicans or Democrats, there's a wide range of opinions and beliefs

amongst people.

But it really is the macro picture of what this means for us as westernized democratic republic and Israel is the only one holding down that fort in the Middle East and it's very important and so on many levels I felt like somebody had to say something and I believe that God blessed me with an incredible career and a great platform and I felt called to sort of help Christians, our motto is to be activated, to be visibly and vocally supportive of Jewish people, of Israel's right to exist and to fight anti-Semitism.

So that's what we've been doing for the last few years.

So let's get to middling.

welcome to middling with eden and brock where brock and i break down our episode of the middle each and every week brock i do just need to know really fast i didn't get to you because i would like to know what do you bring to the carpool

no you don't want to know that yes i do good vibes i don't know i actually don't know that was the first thing that popped in my head um

honestly you would bring good vibes you'd bring the pop culture

That was like a limited run that got then picked up for other.

It's like how Big Little Lies was meant to be a miniseries.

You were the Big Little Lies of the middle.

I got the back nine.

But I think there should be consistency throughout in recognizing that Ukraine is the country we should be supporting.

Zelensky is the one who offered us assistance when Iranian Shahid drones were hitting American targets in the Middle East after the war started there.

The Ukrainians have been the ones who are fighting for their freedom, but they're also fighting for our freedom, given what Russia has been doing to the rest of Europe, even in the United States.

And so supporting Ukraine, I think, serves U.S. national interests and is something that every Republican and every Democrat, for that matter, should get behind.

He's perhaps best known for playing an anxious product manager in the 1999 cult classic Office Space.

With his trademark mustache, an average Joe charm really logged more than 400 film and TV credits during nearly five decades in the business.

Those included movies such as Glory and The Fugitive, and TV shows like The Middle and The West Wing, among others.

Reilly's management company announced his death yesterday, saying he was a, quote, exceptional talent and a truly wonderful man.