From the Middle
Comedy
About
"From the Middle" is a podcast hosted by Dillon Hubbell, Kendall Eilola, and Kory Hubbell. They're middle-class guys, living in the middle of America, in the middle chapters of their lives, with a point of view that's somewhere in the middle. FtM is a comedy, entertainment, and culture podcast with new episodes released every Wednesday! Want to reach out to the guys? E-mail fromthemiddle@protonmail.com , they’d love to hear from you!
Episodes
- From the Middle - Fatigue, Fights, and Flopping
This episode of From the Middle reflects on childhood sports experiences, contrasting unorganized play with the character development found in organized sports. It touches on the entertainment derived from watching professional athletes an…
- From the Middle - Persona Virtuality, Pura Vida, and People Viewing
Episode #328 features a discussion on ChatGPT, followed by a recap of Dillon's vacation in Costa Rica, detailing experiences with coffee tastings, massages, and local cuisine. The hosts also raise questions regarding airplane food policies…
- From the Middle - Vegetable Bracketing, Vintage Bulls, and Vivacious Bubbles
The hosts discuss whether carrots qualify as vegetables, the merits of seasonal drinks like pumpkin spice and Mt. Dew, and review various media including Trust Me, Mission Impossible 7 and 8, Daredevil, and Maul.
- From the Middle - Life and Loss, Housework Hierarchy, and Stadium Stroll
This episode of From the Middle covers the hosts
- From the Middle - Long Beards, Limp Boards, and Little Bites
Kory returns to discuss meal strategy and his recent trip to Spain, covering experiences with tapas and a Spanish home improvement store. The conversation also explores decision-making regarding travel plans and flight experiences.
- From the Middle - Bad Tickets, Bomb Tortillas, and Banqueting Tactics
#324. Ever feel old enough to get scammed but young enough to know better? Kendall does. Ever find tortillas so good you need to stow them away for a flight home only to wish a week later you would have bought more luggage to smuggle more?…
- From the Middle - Biological Leaps, Bitsy Lies, and Blind Love
#323. I’m not sick, but I’m not well. It turns out those words were probably meant to help us understand our middle-aged existence as we ponder our aches and pains, overthinking, and refreshed interests. But all of it seems to be heading s…
- From the Middle - Sad Flopsicles, Sick Foods, and Sunsetter’s Fellowship
#322. Happy Birthday to two of our favorite young people with such bright futures! One can look forward to the freedom of driving, another can look forward to figuring out pizza. Nowhere to go but up! There’ll be some bumps along the way.…
- From the Middle - Snowmageddon, Sent From Mobile, Safe Motoring
#321. The thaw is underway and we came out of our dens to record another episode! Ever find yourself showing off for nobody? If you throw a snowball into the air and perfectly roundhouse it into bits but there was no-one around to see it,…
- From the Middle - Chopped Subs, Crab Stuffing, and Crazy Software
#320. It’s snack time, folks! You thought sandwiches and egg rolls were perfectly fine the way they were. And they are. But why not make them more fork friendly? It worked for burritos! Maybe the crab rangoon burrito will become so popular…
- From the Middle - Backup Meal, Backdoor Mafia, and Bovine Mania
#319. Cracking ribs, roasted mashed potatoes, and hold the bacon. If that doesn’t turn out how you hoped, maybe just order up another episode! Also on the menu is the mobster special. It comes with a trip to the back where you’ll encounter…
- From the Middle - Holiday Recaps, Healthy Resolutions, and Humble Rock Stars
#318. Happy New Year! We’re back after a fun OR relaxing holiday break with our families, and we catch up on what made this holiday season special for us. Are you glad to see 2025 end? Does a new year feel like a new start to you? Do you m…
- From the Middle - Christmas Sensations, Customer Service, and Classroom Sharks
#317. Christmas is about a week out and we’re so ready and living in the moment. Our kids are winding down school and Kory and his wife are looking to invest in the cookie business. White elephants are alive and well and the laundromat is…
- From the Middle - Yappin’ Yogurt, Dillon in Disney, and Funday Football
#316. If Martha Stewarting your own yogurt isn’t for you, just give us like three minutes and we’ll dive into a magical conversation led by Dillon and his recent family trip to Disney. From tear-inducing moments with his daughter to Dillon…
- From the Middle - Kendall’s Kinks and Kory’s Kwirks
#315. Now that the youngster is on vacation, Kory and Kendall can talk about backs, shoulders, and knees acting up. AI can’t yet give us newer versions of ourselves, but it sure can give new life to old music! Or perhaps you prefer good ol…
- Happy Thanksgiving 2025
- From the Middle - Race Surprises, Rude Spectators, and Reality Series
#314. Wanna hear what three middle class guys sound like when they’re bird watching? How about if Kory is still alive after running a 5k? Or what happens when a guy known to avoid confrontation finds himself challenged by drive-thru worker…
- From the Middle - Climate Control, Careless Cars, and Considered Canter
#313. How warm to you keep your house this time of year? November in Ohio brings two things: some freezing cold temps making you worry about whether or not you disconnected your garden hoses, and a lack of guarantee that you’re finished mo…
- From the Middle - Beggar’s Night, Bad with Names, and Baseball Nuttiness
#312. Happy HalloWEEN!! Between the way we emphasize particular words and acknowledge a punnily named fudge factory, the first half of this episode would be likely to get us kicked out of 3rd grade. Thankfully we’re adults and can do whate…
- From the Middle - Pork Butt, Purdy Banff, and Pistol Barns
311. Kory is getting into candy corn and peanuts season with some Halloween festivities, as is Kendall, the World Series is going into the history books, and the Steelers look like a bunch of pale dorks. We hit a solid six/seven topics in…
- From the Middle - The Snacks That Made Us
#310. Is Dillon a shotgun on his truck rack kind of guy or a designer chromed pistol in his roadster kind of guy? Maybe he’s more of a nail clippers in the console of his reliability machine kind of guy. We find out! Someone at Kory’s loca…
- From the Middle - Droid Takeovers, Dating Troubles, and Downfall Tales
#309. Someone call Will Smith just in case we need someone to slap around the invading robots. We might not see them much where we live, but we know they’re out there and we have thoughts. But maybe they could make an emergency Halloween c…
- From the Middle - Ride Situations, Logo Iterations, and Fancy Aspirations
#308. Perhaps some of us had dreams of becoming radio broadcasters when we were kids. Having a middle-class podcast is the closest we’ve come to “making it” as far as that’s concerned, but here we are! Kendall shares a wonderful weekend aw…
- From the Middle - Midwest Phrases and Math Phases
#307. Happy candy corn season! It’s officially October in the midwest and we are gearing up for the weather to do its bi-polar thing. Speaking of which, Dillon created an AI game with potential midwest phrases and it’s astounding how many…
- From the Middle - Meal Conversation, Memorable Cut, and Midlife Crisis
#306. Just three middle class guys sharing their mid-life crisis together! Kory starts by eating his way through it as he had some catching up to do. Dillon and Kendall got started on their favorite dishes last week. Then we talk about may…
- From the Middle - Savory Foods, Smoothie Foibles, and Superior Fields
#305. We did it. Dillon and Kendall threw caution to the wind and literally just listed foods we like and want to talk about. It’s basically that simple. We had a ton of fun doing it and it led to a new drive-thru story from Dillon. Also,…
- From the Middle - Barbers, Burritos, and Bug Battles
#304. From barber advice to pest control, we have the conversations that could help millions of people figure out their problems. If only they’d listen.But YOU! You are here, and you get to toe the line of cultural appropriation with us, a…
- From the Middle - Cocky Fowls, Cool Firearms, and College Farewells
#303. Maybe the chicken crossed the road because it was being chased by an old Red Ryder. And if you must begin to pick to choose which kid’s sports endeavors to follow more loyally, is it automatically the middle child who gets less atten…
- From the Middle - Online Sales, Offline Sips, and Old-timer Styles
#302. Going once, going twice, SOLD (for free) to whoever will come get it. Unless they can’t. And no, I can’t hold on to it for 2 days. You all know the drill. We get into a bit of online sales etiquette with more questions than answers.…
- From the Middle - Staggered Starts, Summer Supervision, and Streaming Stockpiles
#301. Just as our staggered start is beginning to level out, the kids are all back in school after staggering themselves! Some of us miss them. Others are glad they don’t need to pay for childcare and camps anymore. Shout out to the workin…
- From the Middle - 300
#300. We’re back again with more good tales but with less entrails! We’ve been waiting so long to record our 300th episode that Dillon came up with a bunch of 300-related would you rather questions. From our favorite foods to starring in l…
- From the Middle #299.5
#299.5. Hello friends! Our first upload in a little while is here and we are glad to be back with a short episode discussing life and logging some of it on our little podcast before we dive back in to business as usual. We appreciate your…
- From the Middle - Nugget Ice, Lasagna Slice, and Allergy Advice
#299. We’ve got your zero calorie drinks to wash down your choriqueso. And trust us, you want ice with that. From our favorite type of ice, to hot finds at the grocery store, to lasagna portioning, it’s a very Midwestern overweight dad kin…
- From the Middle - Easter Recap, Emergency Rooms, and Etiquette Roundtable
#298. Happy Birthday to Dillon! And Happy Easter to all of you! Both things are late, but we mean it anyway. Speaking of Easter, Kory got to try out his acting chops…guess who he got to be in THAT story. During our weekend recap, Kory shar…
- From the Middle - Overt Ocular Oppression, Befriending Buff Bobby, and Minecraft Movie Mania
#297. “Turn your head and cough.” “Open wide and don’t bite down." "Don’t blink and don’t move your head.” What makes you nervous about seeing medical professionals? Let us know that and also what YOU would have done in Kory’s later-mentio…
- From the Middle - Relaxing Beaches, Regional Bistros, and Refined Beats
#296. Taking a bite out of crime just to become pirates as we fight off the albino ghosts of extinct wolves. That was too long for the title, so it’s the first sentence of this thing. Kendall is back from vacation and shares some stories,…
- From the Middle - Cook-Off Culture, State Stereotypes, and Travel Trades
#295. While Kendall is out on vacation, the Hubbell brothers bring friend and co-host of Grab’em in the Brisket Podcast back onto the show. Jon serves as third chair and we get a chance to pick his experienced brain about the culture of co…
- From the Middle - Bracket Picks, Live-Action Flicks, and Haters in the Mix
#294. Did the basketball battle break your bracket yet? Say that out loud. Now wipe the spittle off your phone and let’s get serious. When watching film and tv it’s very important that you develop a strong political or otherwise extreme op…
- From the Middle - Opinionated Servers, Omelet Stuffings, and Old Sauces
#293. Think twice about the last of the fish and don’t eat the corn chowder. Dillon continues our recent experiences of interesting hotel restaurant dinners, and it’s not a great experience. But he was warned. Do you take advice from serve…
- From the Middle - Dirty Cuts, Dreaded Calls, and Dads Cleaning
#292. Go ahead and listen to this one. When nobody is looking, you can wipe your phone on your jeans and slide it away like that knife you used to slice a bagel. Speaking of bagels and things with holes, sometimes you find a day in your we…
- From the Middle - Froufrou Fruit, Fancy Food, and FeatureD Films
#291. Groceries are expensive right now anyway, so might as well just go ahead and splurge on some luxury fruit from Japan! Or perhaps you’d rather save on the grocery bill and spend a couple hundred bucks on a steak dinner at a linen-napk…
- From the Middle - Lotto Signs, Logo Stealing, and Leaking Strangely
#290. Do you ever daydream of running into a billionaire who is feeling extra generous that day? Or maybe you dream about being on a podcast and hoping to hit the viral lottery. Or perhaps, and hopefully not, you spend hours in gas station…
- From the Middle - Fake Keyboards, Fancy Kutters, and First Knuckles
#289. Have you noticed AI getting a little too cute? Perhaps in automated phone calls? Is technology ruining your banking? We have thoughts and would love to hear yours via the LinkTree below! Also, Kory might have happened upon a new tren…
- From the Middle - Spicy Bribes and Poké Bowls
#288. We lived! Over two million Scoville units later, the three of us are back to talk about our Hot One’s experience. Kory received the box of sauces for his birthday, we ate some crappy wings, we sweated on camera, and now we’re describ…
- From the Middle - College Finale, Choral Fluke, and Columbus Fury
#287. ALERT! We will be doing our knock-off Hot Ones episode SOON! Be on the lookout in the socials for ways to submit questions without us knowing them beforehand. Follow the LinkTree below! On to this week: We reprise our hotel restauran…
- From the Middle - Hotel Restaurants, Happy Relationships, & Home-field Reactions
#286. Dillon and Kendall are running the show this week which means two things are certain: food and football. We compare styles of hotel restaurants as Kendall shares a confusing experience. We also discuss the difference between attendin…
- From the Middle - Murmuring Hearts, Moon Howling, and Missing Hair
#285. Is that thumping in your head a cardiovascular condition or is just our voices pumping through your earbuds? Some of you might be listening to this while shoveling snow, and you probably just decided to take a break. Also, wolf t-shi…
- From the Middle - Doing Disney, Dangerous Dining, and Dumb Drivers
#284. Kendall is away, Dillon is stuck in the snow, and Kory is overthinking his (Florida) Disney stories while in sunny California. While his family trip was mostly good, it wasn’t without hiccups, but we enjoyed hearing of the immersive…
- From the Middle - Truck Story, Taco Bell Glory, and Basement Lavatory
#283. It’s 1993, Super Mario isn’t loading correctly, you take the cartridge out, and then what do you do? Every respectable elder millennial is doing the same thing and we talk about that. We also complain about Starbucks drink ordering a…
- From the Middle - Reviewing Soda, Restaurant Suggestions, and Robot Servants
#282. We’re reviewing pop flavors and talking basements again! Only the pop is a seasonal comeback from Starry and the basement is Kendall’s. One basement story leads us to discuss how we react to mildly startling events. Speaking of mildl…