Speaker 1: I want the fairy tale. I want the prince charming.
Speaker 2: She how do I put this? Isn't a fan of
Speaker 2: my kissing style.
Speaker 1: With a boyfriend and girlfriend for about twelve hours.
Speaker 2: He's in a trash bin.
Speaker 1: He's non recyclable. Catching him up.
Speaker 2: I love being love. I love love. On today's episode
Speaker 2: of Where's Your Head Out, we are celebrating Father's Day
Speaker 2: and we are pleased to welcome Ana's dad, Brian McAvoy
Speaker 2: to the studio.
Speaker 3: We will be asking my dad what he has thought
Speaker 3: about my previous boyfriends and what are his thoughts on
Speaker 3: Michael two.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned.
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Speaker 1: Hey Dad, Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Happy Father's Day. Welcome to the studio.
Speaker 4: It's good to see you.
Speaker 2: Good to see you too.
Speaker 1: You're looking good. He's all he's in his suit.
Speaker 2: I'm a lot better than the last time you saw
Speaker 2: me at an it's thirtieth I was incohesive at that point.
Speaker 2: We're having a long chat and I can't remember.
Speaker 1: You were both pretty drunk in my thirties to be.
Speaker 2: Honest, so you don't remember it, then I do remember.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of Red Warrior. We had to get
Speaker 5: rid of someone shirts some good drug good night.
Speaker 2: Thought it was good for it was a good out
Speaker 2: on a park bench and got my phone and stolen No,
Speaker 2: that was the winner of the night. Yeah. So I
Speaker 2: ended up the passing out and didn't have a phone
Speaker 2: or anything and kiled a cab on Chapel Street, got home,
Speaker 2: climbed through the window and just passed out. All right.
Speaker 2: So do you guys have much plan for Father's Day?
Speaker 4: No, not the year because that was on a weekend
Speaker 4: trip to the country.
Speaker 3: I'm actually Missing's Day. So Father's Day is this Sunday.
Speaker 3: Little reminder for any of ours, your head out listeners
Speaker 3: who haven't got their data present, this is your queue
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we're actually going up to Moldura to see Michael's
Speaker 3: sister's baby because we haven't.
Speaker 1: Seen him in a while.
Speaker 2: Will Michael's father be there, No, so we're not. We're not. See.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a double fail this year. But we will
Speaker 3: celebrate Father's Day on Monday. If that's okay with.
Speaker 4: You, It's not as good as some people.
Speaker 1: The guilt trip has garden.
Speaker 2: Well, you better get him a good present.
Speaker 3: Then I might have to give him like an extra
Speaker 3: good present. What is the best Father's Day present?
Speaker 4: I've got?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 4: Being with me on Father's Day it is probably the
Speaker 4: best present.
Speaker 1: Now I'm actually feeling good.
Speaker 2: He's really all right. Well, let's let's dive straight into
Speaker 2: it because we're a dating podcast here, so we want
Speaker 2: to talk about your dating history as well as anna
Speaker 2: dating history and what your history.
Speaker 4: I wasn't expecting that draw.
Speaker 2: Well see where it goes, but and what your opinion
Speaker 2: on Anna's dating history has been. So, how did you
Speaker 2: feel when Anna started dating?
Speaker 4: Nervous Detective.
Speaker 2: Did you put any rules in of what age she
Speaker 2: could start dating or were you just like, go out
Speaker 2: of your own thing?
Speaker 5: We did, but she wanted to negotiate when we said
Speaker 5: twenty five, so we moved it back down to twenty one.
Speaker 4: Still, she was seventeen seventeen eighteen, if I.
Speaker 1: Remember right, But you were quite strict growing up.
Speaker 4: We were strict.
Speaker 2: I think there was a rule, wasn't there She couldn't
Speaker 2: date while she was studying or am I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the plan? That was the rule. Wasn't
Speaker 4: always said that a.
Speaker 1: Bit of a rebel. Things didn't always go to plan.
Speaker 4: She's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Did you out going on dates or sneaking out?
Speaker 5: No, it was just the old ones where all the
Speaker 5: girls told someone else they were staying at someone else's house.
Speaker 4: When you folded it out, you could never just there
Speaker 4: was a bit of that going on.
Speaker 2: Why do we think the parents never clicked on to that.
Speaker 2: It's so obvious as well when you think, yeah.
Speaker 1: I know, I know there was.
Speaker 3: There was definitely a couple of times where I said
Speaker 3: I was staying at friends houses and we would go
Speaker 3: out clubbing and my parents didn't know about it. But
Speaker 3: I mean it only happened like twice, So I feel
Speaker 3: like in general I was actually very good.
Speaker 1: And I think it was because.
Speaker 3: They were so strict that like even just doing a
Speaker 3: little bit felt like really bad and like really naughty,
Speaker 3: like I was really doing the wrong thing, so like
Speaker 3: I wasn't going like full ham at the club every weekend.
Speaker 2: Were you as strict on Chris as you were with
Speaker 2: Anna or by that point were you just like we.
Speaker 5: Were kind of strict, but I think Anna encouraged him. Well,
Speaker 5: she used to take him out.
Speaker 1: So I was a bad influence, was.
Speaker 5: Trying to bring Chris because she would take him out.
Speaker 3: It's also like I reckon, Like when you're the first child,
Speaker 3: you have to break your parents in.
Speaker 2: You reckon Like I was the oldest in the first
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you have to you have to feel like
Speaker 3: you have to set the standard. And I set the standard.
Speaker 3: And like Christopher and my brother, he just got an
Speaker 3: easy run through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, family, I got it well as strict as my
Speaker 2: parents could have been there. We were with me and
Speaker 2: now with Emma. She she's the ruler of the house.
Speaker 2: She's a matriarch.
Speaker 3: But Emma, his younger sister, is so mature, like she's eighteen,
Speaker 3: eighteen eighteen, and like I mean sometimes she seems a
Speaker 3: bit more mature than you now.
Speaker 2: Well growing up she if she did anything immature, Lara
Speaker 2: and me were like straight onto her for it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: giving her a hard time.
Speaker 1: And it's good.
Speaker 3: It's worked because she's like she's unreal, Like I think
Speaker 3: she's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she is a great girl. So there were there
Speaker 2: were no ground rules set for Anna. She had to be.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we Actually we went everywhere together, didn't we. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we went over together, we went for dinner together.
Speaker 1: We traveled together.
Speaker 3: Side of it, I was constantly on family holidays and
Speaker 3: all my friends around, my friends and another. But I like,
Speaker 3: I'm obviously very grateful for it now looking back, like
Speaker 3: it was amazing and that's why I'm a daddy's girl.
Speaker 1: Well, I've always been a daddy's girl, that's true.
Speaker 2: So would you say you're closer with your dad then
Speaker 2: than you?
Speaker 3: I think that me and my dad are very similar
Speaker 3: personality wise, wouldn't we say?
Speaker 1: I think so, And I think.
Speaker 3: That's why we click and bond more because I think
Speaker 3: like he can probably see a little bit of himself
Speaker 3: is always rebelliousself in me, and I kind of like
Speaker 3: look up to him, and I think, like, you're very
Speaker 3: successful and that's inspiring to me.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think we respect one another.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nice. So would your mum be closer with
Speaker 2: your brother than you?
Speaker 3: Reckon, I'd say so, would you, although you're quite close
Speaker 3: with my brother as well as both of us.
Speaker 5: This was my best Yeah, I was just when you
Speaker 5: said we were very somewhow it reminded of the time
Speaker 5: when we had an argument.
Speaker 4: You're about seventeen.
Speaker 2: Oh god, don't tell the story.
Speaker 4: I think we drove. I think we drove around the
Speaker 4: car for three hours.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it was about, but it was
Speaker 5: about something about taking the car or doing something, or
Speaker 5: she hadn't understudies.
Speaker 4: You take the car and we both and I jumped
Speaker 4: in the car.
Speaker 3: He said to me, he said to me, I'm taking
Speaker 3: the car off of you.
Speaker 1: I said, no, you're not, and I'm going to stay
Speaker 1: in here all day.
Speaker 3: And it was just like this Mexican standoff where we
Speaker 3: both sat in the car for like three hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we started driving and for three hours in the car.
Speaker 2: Given would you say you get your stubborn side away
Speaker 2: from your old man? Yes?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, but in fairness, so imagine us like we're both
Speaker 3: like in the car and then my dad all of
Speaker 3: a sudden goes, should we go get a drink? He's like,
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm stubborn, but I need a beer at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 4: Too much three hours of arguing.
Speaker 3: The thing is is like, it's all good and well
Speaker 3: to have an argument with someone else, but you were
Speaker 3: arguing against yourself because I am here.
Speaker 4: But I didn't give him you never give him, but
Speaker 4: we settled on I'm.
Speaker 2: Just too much pressure and well, Anna's stubborn side will
Speaker 2: be the vein of my existence.
Speaker 1: You're as well.
Speaker 3: We're on a table here with three very stubborn people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess all right, Well let's dive into what
Speaker 2: have you thought of Anna's previous boyfriends? Is there any
Speaker 2: that stand out to you that you've gone an absolute
Speaker 2: twat or any that you've gone you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You had to sit from afar and let Anna realize
Speaker 2: that this wasn't the one.
Speaker 4: I felt if I did that was that she probably rebel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can't really so I didn't.
Speaker 5: Want to say he's really bad because which you would
Speaker 5: have rebelled. But there's some odd ones, not that it's
Speaker 5: really three people are remember, but Michael's top of the
Speaker 5: tree is doing well.
Speaker 4: He's Michael. He's good.
Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts on Michael? Then?
Speaker 4: I think it's a good bloke. I think he's intelligence.
Speaker 5: I think he's he looks after Anna, which is the
Speaker 5: most important thing. And he has a common influence on
Speaker 5: which is Anna, which is hard to do. There's some
Speaker 5: previous boyfriend.
Speaker 4: It was just explosions so it did no name. So
Speaker 4: he's quite charming in that way.
Speaker 5: He's quite charming in that way. So I think it's good.
Speaker 5: I think I think it's great.
Speaker 4: I like him, Yeah, I like him.
Speaker 3: It's so true, Like I feel like when you're around
Speaker 3: different personalities, like you can really clash before someone can
Speaker 3: really have a positive impact on you. And I think
Speaker 3: that was one of the reasons where I really it
Speaker 3: was like Michael is like it for me, Like he
Speaker 3: is amazing because even with like little things that I
Speaker 3: would normally be like a bit like agitated or aggy about,
Speaker 3: Michael just has such a soothing influence on me. And
Speaker 3: I think that's one of the reasons why I do
Speaker 3: love him so much.
Speaker 2: I think that's something that you need to look for
Speaker 2: in a partner as well, someone that like finds, like
Speaker 2: understands your quirks and instead of antagonizing it and making
Speaker 2: it worse. And like I like to say to Jen,
Speaker 2: when you're in a spiral, because you and me both
Speaker 2: spiral very very bad, not to like add to the
Speaker 2: spiral and make it go quicker, to rip you out
Speaker 2: and be like you've been in a fuckhead, like come
Speaker 2: back to reality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's put two feet on the ground and let's.
Speaker 2: Just get grounded and understand what's going on.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Look, I've got to admit, if I'm ever blessed enough
Speaker 2: to have a daughter, I think one of the hardest
Speaker 2: things would be them dating. I reckon watching them go
Speaker 2: out and you know, your precious little girl going out
Speaker 2: and into the big bad world and dating. It would
Speaker 2: be really confronting and hard. So bit of respect for that.
Speaker 5: I'm watching that smack on your face, But that's because
Speaker 5: you know what you all like. That's that's a that's
Speaker 5: a bit of guilt factor. It's called right.
Speaker 2: I was literally about to say, mate, I am I've
Speaker 2: said that a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that a thing? Dad?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. I think.
Speaker 5: Quick to answer your question, I think with that and
Speaker 5: she's very strong and yeah, I was actually more worried
Speaker 5: about Chris when he was going I was not the
Speaker 5: decent side of the board going to the club and scene.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was moorried about him than because I was.
Speaker 2: I think my mom. Yeah, my mum was the exact
Speaker 2: same like with me and my sister. She knew that,
Speaker 2: like they're strong, independent women and that I sort of
Speaker 2: have a mouth me and I have said this before.
Speaker 2: Chris and myself, I think have a lot of common
Speaker 2: in that sort of way. I don't want to call
Speaker 2: Chris out or anything, but have taken a while to mature. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that like we've learned the hard way and through
Speaker 2: life lessons and that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, My mum was the same. She was worried about
Speaker 2: me going out more than my sister.
Speaker 1: Which is so interesting. Hey, like you that you worry
Speaker 1: more about like a son.
Speaker 3: But I guess if like you have a daughter who
Speaker 3: is a strong woman, exactly right.
Speaker 2: But then, like you know, other people weren't brought up
Speaker 2: the same way as us, So that's what you're going
Speaker 2: to be more worried about, you know, which brings me
Speaker 2: to my next point. You've done a very good job
Speaker 2: at raising Anna. I mean I did say that a
Speaker 2: stubbornness is annoying, but we worked through it. We come
Speaker 2: out the other end.
Speaker 1: Don't make out like we work through it. From my sub.
Speaker 2: We've come out the other end quite well.
Speaker 3: You know how you asked my dad a question before
Speaker 3: about like guys that I've dated that are bad. I
Speaker 3: actually just thought of his story and it actually makes
Speaker 3: me laugh so much. It's actually probably one of my
Speaker 3: funniest stories of you. And it was when my dad
Speaker 3: picked me up from the airport and I was seeing
Speaker 3: a guy at the time, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: can we pick him up on the way because me
Speaker 3: and him are going to go out after my Dad's
Speaker 3: like okay, like if I have to.
Speaker 1: He was out.
Speaker 3: He had been at the races all day, so he
Speaker 3: was like a little bit drunk.
Speaker 2: A little bit drunk every day every day the race.
Speaker 3: And so we picked him up in the car and
Speaker 3: then I'm going to throw it to you because do
Speaker 3: you remember what he said when he got in the car.
Speaker 5: This is the guy that we'd actually just previously in
Speaker 5: the UK And we got the train from Glasgow to
Speaker 5: Liverpool and you spoke to him all the way for
Speaker 5: like three hours. You know, I'm thinking this guy must
Speaker 5: be interesting if you speak to someone for three hours,
Speaker 5: like talking talking the phone anyway, use a long story sideways.
Speaker 5: What happens is says he wants to pick this guy up.
Speaker 5: He gets in the car, he's in the back of
Speaker 5: the car. He did a few jakes, and I thought, well,
Speaker 5: we'll allow for that.
Speaker 2: The races.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but this guy was like, your daughter is the
Speaker 5: most beautiful girl. The wells she did, she can do this,
Speaker 5: she could do everything. She's fantastic. You're so lucky that
Speaker 5: that you brought this beautiful.
Speaker 4: Girl as the world just going on and it was
Speaker 4: just too much. And in the end, I just said,
Speaker 4: you're full of ship.
Speaker 5: And I've never said that to anyone, never mind Anna's boyfriends.
Speaker 4: But he was really bad and it was it was painful.
Speaker 2: So what happened after this thing?
Speaker 5: It was dead silence, laughed and then someone got a
Speaker 5: nervous laugh to take the heat out.
Speaker 3: To Can you imagine your parents saying to someone you're seeing,
Speaker 3: you're full of ship?
Speaker 1: I was like, Dad, you're a subtle as a brick.
Speaker 4: Well, I've never ever said that.
Speaker 3: You haven't actually said that to anyone, and I kind
Speaker 3: of understand where you were coming from, kind of. I
Speaker 3: still think maybe it could have been a bit more
Speaker 3: subtle about there you're full of ship comments.
Speaker 2: I remember when you first met over zoom Josh on
Speaker 2: my violence. Didn't you do that? I think to him, done, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember that was quite Have you been intimidating then
Speaker 2: to Anna's partners when she's brought him home, because that's
Speaker 2: too intimidating counters.
Speaker 5: So maybe, yeah, maybe I'm just trying to weed them out,
Speaker 5: but obviously not Diflent.
Speaker 1: We needn't weed out the ones.
Speaker 2: He's had a good job of yourself, all right, So
Speaker 2: then if that didn't work to win you over, what
Speaker 2: would win you over? And found the one? But yes,
Speaker 2: what would be some tips of people that are listening
Speaker 2: and they want to win their partners father over, just.
Speaker 5: Be natural, bringing lots of gifts, not the wine known
Speaker 5: again good wine of.
Speaker 4: Course, top shelf.
Speaker 5: I think for me it's the fact if you forget
Speaker 5: everything else Michaels, let yourself full of job and personality.
Speaker 6: I have to agree with that you It gives me
Speaker 6: a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, excives me.
Speaker 5: But I think it's the most importantly the fact that
Speaker 5: the way maker looks after Anna and calms it down
Speaker 5: and keeps a ground.
Speaker 2: The main point is just be good to the daughter
Speaker 2: or the partner and then you.
Speaker 5: Yeah you think, I think, yeah, that should be part
Speaker 5: of the deal anyway, if you're not, if it's false,
Speaker 5: it's what I reckon.
Speaker 2: Like you said, a father knows best, so they know
Speaker 2: if their daughter or son is not happy in a
Speaker 2: relationship like they can see through you.
Speaker 1: Can see it a mile away.
Speaker 3: Like even with friends, Like you see your friends and
Speaker 3: they're in toxic relationships and they're like, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I really love them.
Speaker 1: I love them, but like you.
Speaker 3: Know, ninety percent of the time they're like crying and
Speaker 3: having a meltdown in a terrible mood. Like it's not
Speaker 3: hard to see someone who is in a bad relationship,
Speaker 3: and it's not hard to see when someone's not making
Speaker 3: someone happy.
Speaker 2: You've got to look into their eyes. They could be smart,
Speaker 2: but their eyes they help me. Please.
Speaker 1: That's it, all right.
Speaker 2: So we've spoken a lot about Anna's dating history, so
Speaker 2: after this, let's speak about yours.
Speaker 1: Okay, my dad is in the studio.
Speaker 3: He's just talked about how it has been for him
Speaker 3: dealing with having a daughter dating.
Speaker 1: But what was your dating life like?
Speaker 4: It was probably a bit like yours. Everyone else's boy
Speaker 4: beats girl.
Speaker 1: Or yeah was it wild?
Speaker 3: Was there toxic relationships before you met mum?
Speaker 2: Not really?
Speaker 4: A few relationships but nothing.
Speaker 2: So you grew up where'd you grow up?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 1: In Liverpool and England you might hear from the accent.
Speaker 2: So what was it like over the dating road?
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it was just like anywhere else. There's no
Speaker 5: difference in dating. You went to the pouview and the
Speaker 5: night club. Actually usually where you met someone. There was
Speaker 5: no apps, there was no phones. When I first met
Speaker 5: your lovely mother over in a southern part of Spain, Yeah,
Speaker 5: beautiful little village.
Speaker 2: Were out the other day about meeting people on vacation.
Speaker 2: So you go.
Speaker 5: And the points get that was when we first started dating.
Speaker 5: I had to go to a phone box and call
Speaker 5: at a certain time with loads of coins. And sometimes
Speaker 5: when your granddad or your papa John a dancer, sometimes
Speaker 5: you'd see she wasn't in, but she was in, and
Speaker 5: they had to send a letter, write a letter the
Speaker 5: pen and paper, I assure you, I'll give you an
Speaker 5: example of what though, if you've never seen what a
Speaker 5: stamp on putting the postbox and used to get there
Speaker 5: about four days later, that just.
Speaker 3: Seems like so much effort, right, Like, obviously you're not
Speaker 3: dating people who you don't really like, because you're not
Speaker 3: like looking like spending your coins at the phone box,
Speaker 3: so you're not penning out a letter to someone who
Speaker 3: you just like.
Speaker 2: Maybe, like I feel like that's a definition of like
Speaker 2: true love. Like I think that's lost on this generation. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: so easy to ask, so extendable that we can just
Speaker 2: message whenever, call ever and have that ability that you
Speaker 2: forget how much hard work our parents put in.
Speaker 3: Also my parents, like my dad's from England, my mom's
Speaker 3: from Scotland. So they met on holiday. But then obviously
Speaker 3: they're living in like separate would you call it states
Speaker 3: countries country?
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm thinking Australia.
Speaker 2: Well, at least they're still in the same like they
Speaker 2: are posts in the UK. My dad was in Australia
Speaker 2: and my mum was in Bahrain. Wow, I had to
Speaker 2: really make it work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of coins.
Speaker 4: And how did they go? How did they meet up
Speaker 4: with it?
Speaker 2: My mum was a flight attendant, so she was on
Speaker 2: a stopover in Melbourne and she went to remember Bobby
Speaker 2: McGhee's were you around here now? Okay, yeah, because you
Speaker 2: guys came to Melbourne in like two thousand, didn't.
Speaker 4: You eighteen years ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So they met at a nightclub and then my dad
Speaker 2: went home together and my dad, yeah, fell in love.
Speaker 2: And I think this is why mum's version of that.
Speaker 2: He was head over heels and just flew over to
Speaker 2: Bahrain and was like, You've got to come back with me,
Speaker 2: live with me, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Very cute.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think, did you ever do that?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 5: I think I think Scotland was fine enough for me
Speaker 5: because I was living in London at the time, so yeah,
Speaker 5: it was, it was. And we used to meet for weekends,
Speaker 5: so I'd go to Scotland, I'd get a drive up
Speaker 5: sometimes sometimes I'd get a coach or the trade and
Speaker 5: then sometimes we meet in Liverpool halfway.
Speaker 3: So we started having kind of like a long distance relationship.
Speaker 3: How long did it take for it to turn into
Speaker 3: you guys being together?
Speaker 1: I guess I suppose.
Speaker 5: I suppose the first you kind of know, the first
Speaker 5: few months you kind of know and yeah, it's going
Speaker 5: to happen. And then within two years two and half years,
Speaker 5: we were engaged and married.
Speaker 4: So wow. And then you're after a little little a
Speaker 4: little Chrystopher. Yeah, as kids usually a little true.
Speaker 2: Naturally. Actually.
Speaker 3: Okay, So it's Father's Day this weekend, so for all
Speaker 3: of our listeners who are going to be doing some
Speaker 3: last minute shopping, we thought we'd ask my dad, what
Speaker 3: is a good Father's Day gift? Obviously before you did
Speaker 3: touch on the fact that spending time with your dad
Speaker 3: is probably the best gift. But what is like a
Speaker 3: physical gift that you can give your dad, that something
Speaker 3: that maybe you would like and appreciate for ourselves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I can actually throw it up a level.
Speaker 5: You can go for the buttl of Grange red wine,
Speaker 5: no nu joke. So the what you got the last.
Speaker 3: Year, Yes, was it like a track suit, the gray
Speaker 3: track suit.
Speaker 4: It was great because we've kind of in lockdown and it.
Speaker 3: Was like oversized track suit, it's actually unreal.
Speaker 4: And a pair of sheepskin slippers look slippers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's way.
Speaker 2: Better than what I gave me and my sister's normally
Speaker 2: right my dad, iou actually said us the other day,
Speaker 2: please don't get.
Speaker 4: Another let them all together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all stuck stage. But I also get him
Speaker 2: like because he loves Star Wars the same as I do.
Speaker 2: So it's a cheap gag to get him a dart
Speaker 2: Fader I am your father sort of or something solid.
Speaker 3: Another idea is also to do kind of like an
Speaker 3: experienced gift, so like maybe gold class tickets where you
Speaker 3: can both go see a movie together and kind of
Speaker 3: like hang out together.
Speaker 1: Things like that where you can actually you reap.
Speaker 2: The awards as well. Yeah, I mean why not?
Speaker 4: I think that's right. Assure me where you do together
Speaker 4: a ballue and ride or Blue Rise.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to deep in the pocket this year.
Speaker 2: No track suit. Yeah, well even for someone another thing
Speaker 2: that if you don't it doesn't have to be expensive
Speaker 2: for that. Just cook him a nice you know, invite
Speaker 2: him to your house, you know, write them a meaningful card,
Speaker 2: or cook them breakfast in bed, something like that. Something
Speaker 2: that's like has a bit more thought and a bit
Speaker 2: more sentimental value in it as well.
Speaker 1: I think I love that.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, look we are going to talk all things
Speaker 3: why we date people who are like our parents next?
Speaker 2: Okay, So, and is it true that we date people
Speaker 2: that are like our parents? Because I'm not show off
Speaker 2: the bat that I look for quality in women when
Speaker 2: I was well, when I was dating that they needed
Speaker 2: to be very nurturing and mothering like my mum. So
Speaker 2: I think there is some truth to that statement.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So people tend to be attracted to specific features that
Speaker 3: resemble those of their opposite sex parent. Interestingly, Matt, a
Speaker 3: sample of six hundred and ninety seven participants found that
Speaker 3: men and women were both likely to have romantic partners
Speaker 3: and opposite sex parents who have the same eye color
Speaker 3: and hair color. Does Jen have the same eyes and
Speaker 3: hair as your mum?
Speaker 2: No, Jen has beautiful blue eyes, but her hair is brunette,
Speaker 2: And that is equality. I look for my put. Do
Speaker 2: you go for a brunette if you love a brunette, Well.
Speaker 1: Michael doesn't really look like nothing.
Speaker 4: That's the theory of the window.
Speaker 1: I mean they're both tall. You're how tall are you?
Speaker 1: Six three? Six three? Michael six four?
Speaker 3: I mean you both have brunette, but I mean the
Speaker 3: eye color, and I.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't say your dad's brunette gray.
Speaker 1: You were brown at one point in the middle. We're
Speaker 1: in the middle now.
Speaker 4: About I look nothing lately.
Speaker 1: I was trying to.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 2: That's well, that's Anna's main point that she looks for
Speaker 2: in her guy is the high like we said, hit
Speaker 2: on him multiple times. Sorry to all the short kings
Speaker 2: that try.
Speaker 1: But it's not just looks white.
Speaker 3: So it also is a personality thing. So we look
Speaker 3: for personality traits that are very similar to our opposite
Speaker 3: sex parents. It's actually called imprinting. So we actually learned
Speaker 3: to associate the traits of our caregibers with those of
Speaker 3: a desirable mate. And I guess that's kind of just because,
Speaker 3: like as a kid, our parents are people hopefully who
Speaker 3: we can rely on and trust, and then we associate
Speaker 3: that with someone who we potentially want to be with
Speaker 3: long term.
Speaker 2: So that definitely happened to me with the nurturing motherly
Speaker 2: side of absolutely. Do you reckon it's happened to you
Speaker 2: with your old man?
Speaker 3: I think for sure, Like I think personality wise, Michael
Speaker 3: and you are like the closest in personality I reckon
Speaker 3: that you've ever been to any boyfriend. There's been a
Speaker 3: couple who have been similar to you personality wise.
Speaker 1: Are those not so much? Okay, Well, look, I think.
Speaker 3: It's that time of the show that we love. It's
Speaker 3: time to find out where our heads are at.
Speaker 2: It's our favorite time of the show again, it's called
Speaker 2: Where's our Heads At? So we get you to ask
Speaker 2: us where our heads are at, and we have our
Speaker 2: special guests with us and as dad Brian. All Right,
Speaker 2: so the first question Anna.
Speaker 3: Okay, Kerrie has written into us and said I don't
Speaker 3: have the best real life relationship with my dad. We
Speaker 3: don't have much in common, and I don't know how
Speaker 3: to organize things for us to do together because he
Speaker 3: is always busy, stress or tired. How can I improve
Speaker 3: our relationship?
Speaker 2: Well, I know that I didn't have the best relationship
Speaker 2: with my old man growing up. We were two different
Speaker 2: like we were just I will cut from different cloths.
Speaker 2: He didn't understand me. But now we're actually good mates,
Speaker 2: Like we'll chat on the phone now. And I think
Speaker 2: I think it took both of us realizing that, like
Speaker 2: he is Mike, I'm his son, he's my dad. And
Speaker 2: I think as well, I saw a shift of the
Speaker 2: relationship when I went on Love Island and he saw
Speaker 2: me in a different line. I think he saw me
Speaker 2: from like that side of things and hell I got
Speaker 2: to know you, yeah, and how like the world, how
Speaker 2: the world sees me. And I think he understood that.
Speaker 2: So I know, obviously you're not going on Love Island
Speaker 2: in that, But I think the best way is is
Speaker 2: to spend time like me and my old man actually
Speaker 2: went to like canceling together, Like we fully went to
Speaker 2: couples canceling counseling. Yeah, we fully like we put in
Speaker 2: the work to get where we are.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the number one tip we had was to
Speaker 2: spend time together and put ourselves outside of our comfort
Speaker 2: zone where we have the ability to hang out and
Speaker 2: we'd do things that he wanted to do, things that
Speaker 2: I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot of parents or maybe people
Speaker 3: aren't open about it, So thank you for being open
Speaker 3: about it. So you think that's something that can really work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we would. The cancellor would tell us, like, you
Speaker 2: guys should do something on the weekends. Every Saturday. We
Speaker 2: put time aside. One was a his spin class, another
Speaker 2: one was I think we watched Star Wars together, like
Speaker 2: just stuff that we're like, we bonded over.
Speaker 3: So maybe that's something that we can tell the listeners
Speaker 3: to maybe find things that you have in common and
Speaker 3: maybe do them together. Find commonalities that you guys have
Speaker 3: and maybe try to bond over those things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 5: Mark the counselor was not because guys used to do
Speaker 5: the wrestling together before that or.
Speaker 2: It was around the same time. So the wrestling actually
Speaker 2: did help us as well because he was a big
Speaker 2: fan of wrestling. He was the reason I got into wrestling,
Speaker 2: so he we just speak about that and it was yeah,
Speaker 2: it was literally the same time. Yeah, and then that
Speaker 2: was a good thing as well. So now when we
Speaker 2: call each other week, we can chat for like half
Speaker 2: an hour, chat to him for half an hour the
Speaker 2: other day. Like I remember one of the first times
Speaker 2: we started actually chatting. I was like after, I was like, gee,
Speaker 2: we is Like that wasn't that was weird? I've wanted
Speaker 2: this like twenty four years, five years, and I got it,
Speaker 2: and I was like, fuck, that was weird.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I met your dad, if you remembers at
Speaker 5: the airport, Yes, I remember we were.
Speaker 4: We were talking to your mom and dad and your sisters.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you get along with him then? Did you guys click? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he had a common thing. We've both been on TV
Speaker 2: for us coming out common ground to chat about.
Speaker 3: Okay, our next listener, Riley has written in and said,
Speaker 3: my dad doesn't accept any of my boyfriends and makes
Speaker 3: my dating life extremely difficult.
Speaker 1: Help Dad, do you want to do? You want to
Speaker 1: take this one away?
Speaker 4: I think the first question is how old is Riley?
Speaker 1: Sue Riley?
Speaker 3: How old?
Speaker 4: She said itself?
Speaker 3: When do you think that like people should be allowed
Speaker 3: to start dating as a dad.
Speaker 5: I think eighteen is pretty you know, standard, pretty standard,
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't know the detail, but obviously, yeah,
Speaker 5: I do feel for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely a fine line. Like obviously, dating is
Speaker 3: such an important part of like socializing as like a seventeen,
Speaker 3: eighteen year old, and it's like these life lessons that
Speaker 3: you need to learn, and if you have a parent
Speaker 3: who's just completely stopping any of that from happening, then
Speaker 3: it's kind of stopping that progression. But in saying that,
Speaker 3: like you can totally understand from a parent's point of
Speaker 3: view that they're just trying to be protective.
Speaker 2: It's life lessons that to be honest, a father can't
Speaker 2: teach a daughter when they go out and date exactly,
Speaker 2: you know, and they have to learn it for themselves.
Speaker 2: Like I said before, it would be the fucking hardest
Speaker 2: thing to see your daughter go out there and date,
Speaker 2: Like fuck.
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, that would be one of those people like.
Speaker 1: How are you seeing?
Speaker 3: Like I think I saw in a TV show and
Speaker 3: like the kids go to like the cinema and.
Speaker 5: The dad like in the back and he's in the
Speaker 5: middle of the popcorn.
Speaker 1: No, he's at the back.
Speaker 3: As soon as he sees it like going in for
Speaker 3: a kiss, He's like throwing popcorn.
Speaker 2: Popcorn. Oh, I think that's all part of it. But
Speaker 2: have you seen Anna's heart be broken? It's as a father.
Speaker 2: How is that as well? How do you find that
Speaker 2: to see because obviously that would be heartbreaking for you.
Speaker 4: I've never seen a heartbroken and such.
Speaker 5: I know her first relationship. I think that was a
Speaker 5: really good relationship. But she was upset after the break up.
Speaker 5: But she knew dig down, she did how's happened, but
Speaker 5: she was upset about that was the first time I
Speaker 5: seen upset.
Speaker 3: Okay, Dad, thank you so much for coming into the studio.
Speaker 3: It has been so amazing having you in. We've actually
Speaker 3: spoken obviously we've had your mum in the studio and
Speaker 3: that I've been excited to have my dad in.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad we got to do this interview with you.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening everyone, as always, make sure you give
Speaker 3: us a five star review.
Speaker 1: It means the world to us. And until next time. Bye.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in. Happy Father's Day, Thank you
Speaker 1: Happy Father's Day.