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Speaker 1: It's a really special day today, and I can't you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm not surprised that either of you have remembered,

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Speaker 1: because I I celebrate and I don't like gimmicky days

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Speaker 1: in the calendar.

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Speaker 2: Right, we celebrated.

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Speaker 3: We did celebrate Lasagni Day. That's not gimmicky.

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Speaker 2: Big on Shrove Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Pancake days.

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Speaker 4: Is this food related?

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Speaker 3: It's not.

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Speaker 2: You've lost me. Don't be so selfish.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, it's important.

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Speaker 1: And you'll understand why it's so important to me when

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Speaker 1: I tell you about it. Today is International Middle Child

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Speaker 1: Appreciation Day.

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Speaker 4: Here we go or the winding Child. I'm marrying.

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Speaker 2: Middle children because parents go. We'll go back in again.

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Speaker 4: It's not perfect.

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Speaker 3: What what are you the youngest?

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Speaker 4: You're the youngest because it's a family rotten family legends youngest.

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Speaker 2: After I came along, they were like, we've got.

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Speaker 3: Surprised, entitled. Now I have trudged. I had children.

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Speaker 1: I have trudged through life as the middle child. I've

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Speaker 1: got one on top, my brother Ryan. I've got actually

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Speaker 1: two sisters below, so there's two of us in the middle.

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Speaker 1: But I've trudged through life as a middle child, always

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Speaker 1: a middle child. Missed out on so much to Okay,

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Speaker 1: so here here's one for you. Mum and dad thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, we want to make our kids look beautiful,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the teeth is something that people always

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Speaker 1: look at. Ryan, you can have braces yet, no worries. Casey,

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Speaker 1: you can have braces because we want your teeth to

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Speaker 1: look really good. I had the most shocking, hideous, like

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Speaker 1: a dog's teeth growing up until I to get my

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Speaker 1: own teeth done later in adult life because Mum and thought, no,

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Speaker 1: you know what, middle.

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Speaker 3: Child, No one's looking at you, no one cares.

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Speaker 1: No one gives the rats about you. Well, today, you

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Speaker 1: know what, You're a middle child. We're here to celebrate

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Speaker 1: thirteen twenty four ten. I would like to open the

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Speaker 1: Nova middle Child Appreciation Hotline.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you've got a winging middle child in your family,

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Speaker 4: or maybe you're married to one.

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Speaker 1: In doing so, if you feel a greeved, if you

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Speaker 1: feel forgotten, today's your moment to feel seen.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Lonely Middle Child Day for all.

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Speaker 3: Those who celebrate in twenty four ten. Are you a

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Speaker 3: middle child? You don't know?

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Speaker 1: I haven't been so left behind you. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: understand what it's like to get everything in life. Jase,

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Speaker 1: tell me about it. What's it been like.

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Speaker 4: It's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Well being the youngest, we have to find for ourselves by.

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Speaker 4: The time we come up off, Yeah, we hunter and

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Speaker 4: gatherers by.

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Speaker 5: The time we come along. I was just put on

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Speaker 5: the floor, you know, to walk away, crawl around the house.

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Speaker 4: I'm so smart because we just learned.

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Speaker 3: Yes, opportunity, get what you want.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're and we're exactly pretty good.

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Speaker 4: We're exactly what they're looking good on the youngest side, Clint, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't want to hear it. Today is Middle Child Awareness Day?

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Speaker 4: Awareness or appreciation?

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Speaker 3: Both? Awareness appreciation? Did you make this?

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Speaker 5: Look at these sad little people? Ringing thirteen twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 5: number coming?

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Speaker 4: Were you left behind? Because you're a middle child? Today

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Speaker 4: the middle children fight back.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 5: You're on the air with Jason and Laura, and our

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Speaker 5: middle child Clint is here with.

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Speaker 4: Us as well, sort of a fake middle child.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he's the oldest.

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Speaker 4: Because you're the second oldest to four.

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Speaker 3: But where am I in the pecking order?

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Speaker 4: There's no real bull's eyes you are child?

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Speaker 1: There was there was for sixteen years when I was

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Speaker 1: the true middle child.

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Speaker 4: True because your younger sister came. So now you've pracked because.

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Speaker 3: You're not a real middle Just shut up.

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Speaker 2: See you're the middle child here too. I am.

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Speaker 3: That's why.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm not seen.

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Speaker 4: That's why you're getting no attention.

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Speaker 3: Middle children. Are you get.

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Speaker 4: Attention from the people who listen to this stereot.

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Speaker 3: Stereotype because of our birth?

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Speaker 2: There's I love you children get the most.

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Speaker 1: We just want to be noticed, We want to be heard,

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Speaker 1: we want to be seen. Thirteen twenty fourteen. Are you

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Speaker 1: a middle child? Have you felt aggrieved growing up? Now

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Speaker 1: is your time?

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Speaker 2: What did he says?

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Speaker 6: Like back?

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Speaker 4: Middle children?

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Speaker 7: Hello, Bridget, Hey, how are you guys feeling?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Because Bridget, it's our day.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, completely great middle children. I'm one of four on

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Speaker 7: the thirteen line, and oldest brother could do no wrong.

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Speaker 7: Youngest sister she's the princess of the family.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well I'm pretty sure you do it, Bridget.

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Speaker 3: Have you missed like me?

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Speaker 1: Have you missed out on a lot when you've been

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Speaker 1: going through the last music one hundred peacups from.

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Speaker 3: School, They just forget, They just don't turn up.

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Speaker 7: You name it Mary, Children you know, they can tend

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Speaker 7: for them.

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Speaker 5: So I got the school musical today. It's like you

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Speaker 5: go when the oldest kid, you know, it was at stage,

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Speaker 5: like this is exciting, and then you're like, oh god,

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Speaker 5: we're going to go again. And then when the third

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Speaker 5: comes along, you're like, I missed the school production.

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Speaker 4: Watching again one no one cares about it.

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Speaker 3: Sounds beout right.

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Speaker 4: Listen, Okay, sad middle children, today is your day? Thirteen

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Speaker 4: twenty four to ten. Give us a call and tell.

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Speaker 3: Us how how it was. We've got Belinda from Laura Belinda, Hello.

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Speaker 2: Hello, God, they've all got a tony.

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Speaker 3: Okay, are you okay? How was your upbringing?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Get the music, get the violin out in music whenever.

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Speaker 4: I had two.

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Speaker 8: Older siblings and a younger siblings, and they used to

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Speaker 8: push me out of the house, lock me out, throw

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Speaker 8: stuff from the top windows, tell me I was on

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Speaker 8: love and that they found me. And I was an

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Speaker 8: adopted child and no one really likes me anyway. So

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Speaker 8: now I just want to be seen. I want to

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Speaker 8: be heard on the radio.

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Speaker 4: And do you feel the energy of middle child day

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Speaker 4: to day? Getting wrapping its dat?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, but then we're going to move on middle caller.

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Speaker 2: Good one, Good morning.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Jill.

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Speaker 2: Are you're right too happy to be a middle child?

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Speaker 6: Well, I am now a favorite child, but back when

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Speaker 6: I was growing up, my grandparents, so my parents told

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Speaker 6: me on the Great Eventure to go stay with my

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Speaker 6: grandparents in the Gold Coast. Well, they took my older

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Speaker 6: and younger sisters to your Disney whey mout.

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Speaker 5: So what you're saying is they didn't want to put

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Speaker 5: you through that horrific long haul flight.

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Speaker 2: How about you be grateful because.

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Speaker 4: They need you'd winge the hole.

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Speaker 2: You know what I would have taken. You're putting you

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Speaker 2: in the middle seat.

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Speaker 3: Ye, yeah, that's that.

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Speaker 4: Did you ever make your revenge journey to euro Disney?

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Speaker 6: No I shouldn't, but I did move from New Zealand

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Speaker 6: to Australia, which has now made me the favorite child.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you might get your chance, you might become

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Speaker 2: the favorite child.

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Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, Yana. Today we hear you, We see.

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Speaker 4: Come on, you get a message to all the middle

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Speaker 4: children out there, That's what I'm saying. Will be quiet.

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Speaker 4: You can have one minute to talk to all of you.

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Speaker 4: One minute, thirty seconds.

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Speaker 2: We're running late.

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Speaker 1: Lauren, Lauren wake out feeling good, Following them on the

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Speaker 1: socials