Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - ERIC DANE Went Fishing on the Kenai River

Episode Date: August 13, 2024

Eric Dane joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! He takes all about his annual family trip to Tahoe, playing water polo growing up, going fishing in Alaska, and so much more! Family Trips is supported by Airbnb. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much more at airbnb.com/host to learn about hosting. So thanks again to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of Family Trips. Now go find your path, and enjoy the ride along the way.  Learn more at nissanusa.com Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code TRIPS for $20 off your first purchase. Get your free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/trips  Also try the new LMNT Sparkling — a bold, 16-ounce can of sparkling electrolyte water. Start converting your B2B audience into high quality leads today. We’ll even give you a $100 credit on your next campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com/familytrips to claim your credit. Terms and Conditions apply.

This episode is brought to you by Airbnb. Here we go. Hi, Pashi. Hey, Sufi. Awesome start to my morning. Can I tell you the start to my morning? Yep, please. So sometimes I'll hear the kids

rattling around, usually Axel. And because Alexi, obviously, I'm very burdensome to be a mom in any era. Sure. And she needs her sleep. And sometimes when I hear them rattling around, I try to get out and intercept them before they get to our room.

You know what I mean? Because there's no option where they come in and you say, go back to bed, and they do. They either, I either go downstairs with them or they crawl into bed and then she's up too. So. It's a classic head them off at the pass situation. Yeah, classic head them off at the pass.

So I did exactly that. And I went out my door and I expected to see Axel in the hallway. But instead I saw that he'd gone out on this little balcony. Oh yeah. And I had his back to me and he had his hands on the railing.

And it looked, I took a picture and I'll send you the picture because he just looked as though he was taking in the morning, you know? Yeah. Contemplative. Yeah. And I thought this is the sweetest thing.

I'm so glad I saw this moment of my son. Contemplative is how I would have said it. Yeah, okay. Well, you know, let us know in the comments. Either way. And you know what I am right now? Contemptative. That means I currently have contempt for you.

So then though, here's the reveal. He turns a little bit to the side. He's fully just whizzing, fully whizzing on the roof from the balcony. Not even onto the grass, like, because that little balcony, like, just, it's like on the roof. Yeah, it's going to go into the gutters. Yeah, it's going to go into the gutters. But it was, you know, genuinely very funny.

Yeah. I had But it was, you know, genuinely very funny. Yeah. I had a real nice laugh. Did you, did you share that with Alexi or is that something that you gotta be like, don't do that? I did, it's a good crowd, glad you asked. I did. Yeah.

Because I thought it was so funny. And what do you think, you know Alexi, what do you think she said? He's not allowed to do that? Well that, I knew that, but she said something even better. She said, did you stop it? Did you wash it off?

Oh, did you wash it off, yeah. And I said, you wait for the rain. I mean, it's a roof. I go, good news, he did it the one part of the house. No one, literally no one can see. No one's walking around town being like, you know who's got piss all over their roof? I also, we had a moment where I said, what do you think when you ask, did you wash it off?

Even because, you know, even if you believe in your heart, the right course of action is to wash it off. Do you genuinely think I did that before 7 a.m.? Yeah. Yeah, not a chance. a.m. Yeah. Yeah, not a chance. Not a chance. Yeah. But we had a really nice morning, I will say.

I mean, cause again, that put me in a good mood. I liked seeing my kid taking a big old leak off the balcony. I don't know what to say. It just put me in a good mood. I had a good morning. This last weekend, I was out on Friday night, which was the opening ceremonies as we're taking this.

It's probably some times gone by, but I'm a big fan of the opening ceremonies. I was kind of bummed I had something that was great that I got to do on Friday night. But so on Saturday morning, I woke up and threw on those opening ceremonies and just sat on my couch for three hours and cried no fewer than six times. Great.

What? Give us two examples of what got you. Celine Dion. Okay. I mean, that's one that I feel like got everyone. And then, I mean, I could keep going. There was like, there was a sort of Beyonce teaser for the US national team that really got me.

There was a Dick's sporting goods commercial that got me. So you were really in the pocket at this point. If the Dick's sporting goods. I was pretty primed up. Yeah, okay. Although, I mean, great commercial. At some point, the way the Eiffel Tower was being lit, there was like a laser show, that got me crying. Okay.

The Marseilles definitely cried. Great. Not even French. But yeah, come on. I mean, if there's, I mean, everybody's second favorite anthem, right? It's pretty good, yeah. Yeah, your own countries and then that?

Yeah, and yeah, I mean, there was, you know, there's some weird goofy stuff in that. I love the weird and goofy. Opening ceremonies, yeah. You gotta let the French be French. Like the host nation gets to show off. As you always say, you gotta let your French flag fly. Mm-hmm, Yeah. I do.

I say, I often say it. And yeah, I was just, yeah, I was just delighted. I was a little hopeful the kids would be more excited for it. But again, you know, the problem is, you know, the summer afternoon 1.30, you know, cause we didn't record it, but like it. But the timing is not great for like, hey everybody, beautiful summer day, come inside and watch a weird opening ceremony.

But yeah, hopefully, Ash is very excited about track and field. He wants to watch people run fast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully, to me, it's just the story, it's the human stories that make it so good. And so, I mean, I also, yeah,

I cried this morning watching, you know, a swim final. Cried last night watching the men's gymnastics team final. So yeah, a lot of tears being shed over in my house. But the good kind, the good kind of tears. Oh, the best kind. It would be a bummer if we found out you were crying because you had wagered heavily on different teams that were underperforming.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My big bet on the Brazilian handball team. Yeah, sorry about that. Not coming up the way I thought. It does seem like, you know, I know this will sound like I'm plugging the network, but it does seem like Peacock's doing a wonderful job with their Goldcast.

Yeah, perhaps. I went over to a friend's house and it was very, I thought it was very confusing. Okay, well, there you go. Now you know they're not a sponsor. Yeah, we wanted to watch the women's qualifying group two. Wet Blanket Jones is here again. I gotta cover up Frisbee with a blanket.

We've had a lot of comings and goings today during the pod record. I'll be right back. Actually, you know what? I'm realizing something. She can wait a second. Oh, there you go. You know, because we're basically, this is, you know what? We could just bring a guest on. Yeah, let's do that.

And then you can put your old dog, put a blanket on that old bag of bones. She is a real bag of bones. Sweet bag of bones. She is a sweet bag of bones. All right, this is Eric Dane, who neither of us had ever met before, but he's just a wonderful fellow to talk to.

Enjoy everybody. Family chips with the Mice Brothers. Family chips with the Mice Brothers. Here we go. Hello. There we go. Oh, you sat sideways straight up. We got it horizontal. I am. How are you guys doing?

We're good. How are you? I mean, I'm especially good seeing this mustache. All my questions, all my questions are gonna be about the mustache. I'm starting a job in September and I'm fooling around with facial hair because I just don't like working without it. Yeah.

So we're trying on different looks. And based on your reaction, Seth, I'm thinking I'm going to get rid of the mustache, man. No, I really like your first of all. And I'm in Austin, Texas right now, so I'm, listen, I am blending in. Yeah, you're in mustache country. Yeah. You are in mustache country. Now, I am blending in. Yeah, you're in mustache country. Yeah. You are in mustache country.

Now, I have a question. Does the director have to sign off on the facial hair look? I know you're trying them out, but ultimately, is this a group decision? Yeah, I mean, it's gonna come down to what FBI regulations are, because I play like this task force commander at the FBI, 22-year FBI task force commander at the FBI,

22 year FBI task force leader. And you know, it's gonna depend on what the federal Bureau of Investigations will allow. Right. Yeah. So no Raleigh fingers situation. No like full curly Q at the ends. Raleigh fingers? Yeah. Yeah.

Probably that doesn't meet. Probably doesn't meet regulations. That's a nice poll. If we were playing like the Keystone Cops, I could have that. Yeah, I feel like there's always some FBI officer who has a certain level of status and maybe he can have things that go beyond what's allowed,

but his underlings are not allowed to. I don't know what you're playing allowed, but his underlings are not allowed to. I don't know. I don't know what you're playing here, but yeah. You know, it's television and it's the suspension of disbelief. And, you know, I'm ultimately gonna make the decision, but I do wanna try to keep, maintain some integrity. We'll see what shakes out.

I like the mustache. Yeah. Do you trim the bottoms or are you like our father and just chew the ends off? Ha ha. No, I actually I was given a 10 minute break from my tech, from my little tech tutorial and I trimmed the bottoms. Just like you guys. It does. It's a straight line. I feel like you could.

It's good. It's symmetrical. Yeah, absolutely. We're all just searching for a little symmetry. Have you, is law enforcement, I feel like you've probably dabbled in playing law enforcement before, Eric. You have that authority, do you? I've played a naval commander,

which I feel is kind of like a similar vibe to law enforcement to a degree. But, you know, plastic surgeon and misunderstood, confused and maybe a little bit creepy father. All right, I wanna get to that. Cause I know this is what people say Seth is. Yeah, absolutely. Now, yeah, when I watch Euphoria and I see you,

I'm like, God, I see a lot of myself in Cal Jacobs. Yeah, I bet you do. I do want to say real quick, and I know we're not gonna talk. This is about family trips, but Euphoria is not a family show, but it does have a lot of stuff about family. And I just want to say, and I know you've hopefully received these accolades from people. It is such a fantastic performance.

And I want to say that season two episode I know you've hopefully received these accolades from people. It is such a fantastic performance. And I want to say that season two episode where you had your breakdown is so moving, so dramatic. And also it is so in parts, it is so funny. And I heard you once say that playing that breakdown was fun and I was so happy to hear that because there was, I feel like Euphoria works best

when it's all these different genres like squeezed into one television show. And that was just one of my favorite performances of that year. Oh man, thank you so much. That's so, thank you. Thank you, that's good to hear. And it was fun filming that.

Yeah. I mean, if you look at the circumstances surrounding that whole scene and the tenor of that piece, it was fun. As heavy as it was received by the audience, the guy acting the role was having a blast. Yep. I will say, I don't actually have anything in common

with Cal Jacobs. That was a joke. But there is a moment. Spoiler alert. I love how you really doubled down and clarified that. We all knew it was a joke. but there is a moment, spoiler alert. I love how you really doubled down to clarify that. We all knew it was a joke. I know, I know. But Cal, when you take, I will say, when you urinate in the middle of your family's home,

I have wanted to definitely do that. I have reached a breaking point with my wife and kids where I thought, oh, that would be such a fun thing to do right now. I'm just going to pee on the entrance way. Yeah, but then you're just gonna be, someone's gonna tell you to go get the little Bissell green machine. Yeah, that's true. And you're gonna be cleaning it up.

Yeah, absolutely. You're gonna be, you're gonna be swifting. Yeah, every time you snap a laptop in half, you know, two hours later, you're at the Mac store buying a new laptop. Be like, I don't know how this happened. Where are you guys at? You on the East Coast right now?

Yeah, East Coast. Josh is in LA. I'm in LA. I'm in LA. Oh, nice. Good. So you have a younger brother? I have a younger brother named Sean.

He's four years younger than me. We were just in Tahoe together. Wonderful human being. That's good. Well, my next question would be, are you close? But if you're still as adults going on vacation together, that would indicate you are. We went, our whole family went, yeah.

And we are very close. So, whole family, what does that mean with you and your brother? Who else are you bringing? There's like 22 of us. So, we have aunts and uncles and cousins and grandkids. And my kids weren't there. My kids are at, one is on their way to the Hamptons. The other one is at a ballet camp in Connecticut.

So I just went solo, but my, you know, mom and stepfather and brother and his wife and their kids. And I mean, it was dinner for 22 is like a thing. Yeah. Was this an unusual trip or do you guys do a semi-annual or annual or do you guys get together? Yeah, we go to Tahoe in July every year. Oh, that's great.

Yeah. And was this something that started when you were little? We used to have a place in Lake Tahoe that we'd go to. Since my earliest memories are from this place, winter, summer, and they, literally, the family got rid of it last year, so, but we still go up to this same location, and everybody spends a, you know,

a good week to 10 days there. And is this, is this canoe life? Is this cookout life? What are we talking? No, this is boat, wake surf. This is sit at the end of the pier, jump in the water, do nothing, eat an orange, maybe have a chip, drink some water and call it a day. Can you all fit in one place or do you have to get,

are you in houses or a hotel or? We get a bunch of different condos. Yeah, oh, that's great. Yeah, it's super fun. Your kids are, so your kids are probably at the age where they're actually not very burdensome, right? They're old enough that you don't have to worry about them every second if you're on vacation with them?

No, no, I don't have to worry about them. And they're actually, to their mother's credit, they're really great kids. She's done a really great job with them. So I trust them implicitly. Yeah. You know, there's obviously certain environments I wouldn't want them to be in. But you know, for the most part, I think they're they interface with the world pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty healthy about it.

Is there any part of you that when they can't make a trip like this, you're like, Oh, I just get to like not have to worry about where they are because I know they're in good places or are you bummed that they're not there? I'm sure there's part of you that's bummed, but is there also part of you that's like- I'm bummed because I spent such a significant part of my childhood and created so many core memories that were amazing core memories in Lake Tahoe.

I want them to experience the same thing. Now, that said, you know, one of them's dancing with the Bolshoi in an academy in Connecticut, and the other one is on her way to a fun vacation with her mom. So like at the same time, I'm happy that they're probably happy, but selfishly I'd love to have them with me. Yeah. They would have so much fun there. When you were a kid and you were heading out

to a summer vacation at the Lake Tahoe location, what were you most excited about? What was your jam? What was young Eric's jam? The young Eric loved to get down to the end of a pier and go fishing. Okay. And then it became about water sports and tennis.

What were you best at? Was there anything where you rose above the level of the competition of kids your age? Yeah, I was a very good swimmer. I was a very good swimmer. I played water polo in high school. I was a very good water polo player. Water polo, any anytime I watch it,

it just seems so exhausting. It seems like the most- There's also no appeal to it. I mean, like, I would love to be good at a sport. Let me just say, of all the sports, if you had me make a list, I would put that as the one I least wanna be good at. It just seems like treading water and being grabbed.

Is that accurate? And taking a ball off the face. Yeah. It's a little bit more aggressive than that. I have taken a few. It's a little bit more aggressive than getting grabbed and treading water, but it is a lot of swimming. It is a lot of treading water. And you'd be surprised how, you know, you can condition your body to do something like that. You know, as a spectator watching it, you're like, God, I could never do that. But, you know, if you put in the time, you'll be able to tread water for three hours.

I, you know, you have to wear multiple suits because you don't just get grabbed. You get your suits torn off. That's part of the deal. You're not selling this. I know the window for me to be good at this is closed, but you're not selling it. I just feel like you've already made up your mind. closed, but you're not selling it. What is the-

I just feel like you've already made up your mind. I have, that's very fair. I'm a 50 year old man. I'm probably not turned in by a decision around on water polo. No, no, no, when we're done with this, go tread water for three hours. And that's a good place to start.

Hey, what about this though? When do you, I'm also worried about, sorry, I've always wondered about this. Like what gets you into water polo? Is it just that you're at a school that has a water polo team? Because it doesn't seem like, it's not like a thing you sort of pick,

it's not like, oh, I played basketball with my friends and then I got better and then I played on a team. Like, how do you start playing water polo? It's kind of like, I think the progression would be similar to a track star transferring into the football team to be a wide receiver. If you're a really strong swimmer,

then you're sort of enrolled in, or somebody's trying to get you to recruit you to play water polo. Got it. I could see that. Because it's such a big part of it. Is this a Bay Area? You grew up in the Bay Area, right?

I did, yeah. Do you feel like there's more water polo in that part of the world? Not a lot of water polo in Southern California. Okay. I can't speak for the East Coast. Lacrosse is becoming such a massive sport. I think it's kind of taking over the mantle

what water polo was. But Northern California water polo was pretty big, yeah. When was your last water polo match? Was it in high school? It was in high school, yeah. Do you remember your last water polo match? I remember my last drive, Seth. Was it for something?

Was it for some metal? It was to advance in the CCS Central Coast section playoffs. in the CCS, central coast section, playoffs. And I had single-handedly put the team on my back and gotten to within one goal cherry picked, which meant that I stayed off defense and stayed on offense so that if we got a turnover, they could just throw the ball to me and I could score. That didn't happen.

And my season ended, it's been haunting me ever since. God, I wish I could go back and take that over. Sorry, Browden. He's done, he's all done. Do you remember who you guys lost to? I don't remember who we lost to, but it's so weird how you remember things like that and how they stay with you.

Could I care less? I could care less at this point in my life, but. But still, it is, we realized it mattered then, and it kind of is like, I'm gonna set up shop in the memory bank, you'll get over me, but I'm gonna still be here. Correct, I'm not going anywhere. I got a buddy that plays in a men's basketball league

out here, and they were playing in the championship a couple of weeks ago, and he had a three with eight seconds left to tie it, and he missed it, and I saw him, and I was like, how you doing? He's like, I just keep thinking about the shot that I missed. He's like, it's all I can think about. Yeah, how you doing? This guy, he's still drinking.

Yeah. He's still drinking right there. Were you girls, did either of them, obviously, you gotta be physically fit to do ballet and stuff, did they play sports? Did they still play sports? Georgia, my 12 year old plays volleyball. She's obsessed and she's great at it.

And Billy, my 14 year old is obsessed with ballet and dances six days a week. I would imagine volleyball is a fun sport as a parent to watch. It's fun to watch. I think it's fun to watch your kid be good at anything. Yeah. If pressed, would your mom say she enjoyed watching

you play water polo? If you weren't here. You know what's funny? Yeah, no, if pressed, my mom would say she did enjoy water polo. She wouldn't remember which one of her sons played water polo, but she would have said she had a good time.

If you're watching a game, do you like to chit chat with other parents and people in the stands or do you sort of get in your own sort of section of the bleachers? Laser focus. Yeah, locked in. Yeah, I'm locked in. Yeah, gotcha. Volleyball's a pretty fast sport, you know, the pace of it.

It moves pretty quickly. So there's not a lot of chit chat. I also think, you know, it's also, it might be good for the FBI agent. I also think a sports dad with a mustache is presenting to the other parents, I'm not here to chat. You know?

The mustache really says, I'm here for the games, guys. I'm here for the games, guys. I'm not looking to make friends. Did you guys, so Tahoe was a big trip when you were little. Were there other places? You would drive out there? I'm assuming. We would drive, it's three hours from San Francisco, yeah.

Yeah, and what was that drive like? Was it just easy peasy? What were you riding in? Was that a fun sort of road trip aspect of it? Yeah, when I was younger, it was always a station wagon and we kind of caravan up with my cousins. And we'd stop at this one sort of like dried fruit produce slash we also make cheeseburgers stand called I can't as and we we and

that was the route that was like the routine we'd stop at I can as on the way up every year and that's how we knew we were at the kind of the foothills of the elevation, and we had maybe an hour and a half left. So that was our... That was our marker. And kids need a marker. They need a thing. They need a halftime. Because otherwise, it's like, are we there yet?

Are we there yet? I mean, I'm sure you started asking that as soon as you left Icata's, but at least you knew you weren't there yet before you got there. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Family Trips is supported by Airbnb.

Hey, Pashi. Yeah, Sufi. You know we have an annual trip. Yeah, we sure do. We get a couple regular trips, but which trip are you talking about? I'm talking about the fact that you and I and 10 of our closest college friends

get together every September for our fantasy football draft. Such a trip. And very little of the trip is about a fantasy football draft. Yeah, I always feel a little nerdy saying that we're going on a fantasy football draft, but we're going to hang out with our buddies. Yeah, that's why I say it's a fantasy friendship draft.

Would that make it less nerdy or is that maybe worse? No, I think it's charming, it's sweet. So this year for our fantasy friendship draft, we have a fantasy location booked. And it's all thanks to Airbnb. We found a place that has enough space for all of us and enough bedrooms for all of us and has a lot of outdoor activities.

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Did you, these cousins, are these your mom's side or dad's side? The cousins that were a big part of your growing up. Mom's side. Gotcha. And so was she from the Bay Area as well, if she had family out there? Yeah, born and raised. And were you close, were your grandparents a big part of your upbringing? My grandfather died, I was relatively young, I think I was around four years old. My

grandmother died when I was relatively young. But yeah, my grandmother was she was like the matriarch of the family. And she was a huge part of my upbringing. And that was tough, man. That was tough, because that was on the heels of losing my father when I was seven. So that was difficult to follow that up with the loss of my grandmother who really kind of kept everybody together. Now that we're all kind of on our own and it's incumbent upon us to stay together. We've done a pretty good job doing that. I think that they'd be happy seeing us all in Tahoe together for that week once a year. But they were, for the time that they were around,

they were pretty strong influences on us. So you were very young when you lost your dad. Do you have a lot of memories, seven years old, do you have a lot of memories of being on trips with him? I do. His side of the family is from Alaska. They all live in Anchorage. And I remember vividly going up to Anchorage every summer with him. And we

did a lot of fishing, my father and I. Anchorage must be an incredible trip as a kid. Anchorage is beautiful. Yeah. Somebody recently asked me what the most spectacular place on earth I've ever been to and I would have to say it's Alaska. Yeah. It's absolutely stunning. And it's just a magnificent place. But so yeah, so I have a lot of memories of my father and a lot of them surround fishing. But you know, also just he was he was like this, this prankster, you know, and I remember him, he was always having a good time no matter what he was doing.

And that's, so the memories that I have of him, whether they be specific or, or, or a little bit hazy, they're all positive. Your, your, obviously your brother then was really young. Do you think he has a memories of your dad as well? No, I don't. I don't. Yeah. Yeah, he was, when my father passed away.

I don't think he remembers anything. I've been to Anchorage one time in my life. And it was, like, November, which I don't think is maybe the best time to go to Anchorage. But I was very taken with it. And my take on my brief, 24 hours in Alaska, is half of the people you meet look like they're on the lamb. Just feels like a lot of, like everybody...

Well, they are, Seth. Yeah. Everybody looks like they have a brand new haircut. You know what I mean? It's... Oh, man. It's a great city, Alaska's Anchorage is a great city. Have you gone back?

Is that a place you still made part of your life after you lost your father? Yes, so my grandmother died when she was 92, lived to be 92 years old. And I would go up in the summer and I'd visit her all the time. And do the same old routine, because my father has a couple of sisters and a couple of brothers

and I'm really close with them. And we kind of picked up where he left off and we, you know, I caught a 72 pound King salmon on the Kenai River when I was 12 years old. That's a spectacular feat. Yeah. I mean, you couldn't have been much more than that weight. Dude, the fish was bigger than I was.

Yeah. How long does it take you to, with the process of hooking and then catching a 72 pound salmon? It took 45 minutes to land that fish. Really? And you're on a boat? In the drift boat, yeah. I pulled this a couple miles downriver.

And who else is on the boat with you? You're 12 years old, so who's the adult? My little brother, my grandfather. All right. And my grandfather on my father's side. And the drift boat captain. And is everybody, like, I mean, I'm assuming this, unlike you when you blew it in the semifinals when you failed the cherry pick. I'm assuming this is one of those memories.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is one of those positive memories. Was everybody, was that 45 minutes of enthusiasm? Was everybody so excited for those 45 minutes? It was enthusiasm and it was electrifying and then it was boring as all get-out men. And I kept, it was just like tiring and it was just like, it was monotonous.

And I kept saying, well, somebody please, can somebody please just take over? And like, well, if you don't land the fish, it's technically not your fish. So you sure you want me to take it? Right, so I had to, I muscled through and persevered obviously, but I gotta say, it was fun for about 10 minutes.

The first five and the last five? I would imagine though, I'm going to say the dream, if you're a grandfather on a boat, the dream is a grandson pulling in a 72 pound salmon. Yeah. Was it thrilling? I mean, when it came out of the water, was everybody just amazed at how big it was?

Amazed, it was the second largest fish caught on the river that day. And my grandfather's never caught a king salmon. Wow. Do you have a picture of you next to it? I do have a Polaroid of me next to it. And it's interesting because I had to, you know, you know, when you have to pee really badly and you're a kid and you like cross your legs so that you can like, you know, I had to pee the whole time and they had to get this picture of me right when I got off the boat with the fish.

So I'm sitting here with the fish and my legs are crossed because I literally have to go. I've been waiting like 40 minutes to go to the bathroom on this drift boat. That's really funny. That's your greatest accomplishment. You look super lame. I look super lame.

Do your girls enjoy fishing at all? They haven't done any. Yeah. They have not done any fishing. Seth's son met a stranger who taught him how to fish because Seth doesn't fish. So now there's just some guy. Some random guy pulling up on Saturday.

It's actually better than that. His name is actually Guy. Tell me if this is good parenting. We had a lemonade stand. Guy comes up. Everything you want a dude to look like at a lemonade stand. Big, bushy, gray mustache, ponytail. Um...

It said a great, we built a guest house. Basically did this thing. He's like, sorry, the neighbors built that eyesore guest house. I'm like, that's actually ours. He's like, oh, man, I do tend to step in it, like super charming. And then he, I think maybe he had a fishing pole in his car. And my five-year-old at the time was like, what's that?

He's like, it's a fishing pole. He's like, I want to go fishing. He's like, all right. He goes, I'll come get you tomorrow. And so I went, I brought my son to this dock, and my son very much was like, as soon as you drop me off, you have to go. I don't want you here.

And I want you to just leave me with Guy. I'm like, here's the thing, I'm not sure. Like, just like, you just see the newspaper article where everybody's wondering why. But then we got there, and thankfully my son Axel said, actually, you can just stay at the end of the dock. So I had like one of the greatest two hours where I sat, could see my son and this one time stranger who turned into the most wonderful part of our family life. He's taking the kids fishing again. But just these two dudes, five-year-old talking to a guy and who was like an aeronautics engineer.

And it was just that other thing, when you can see your kid is talking to somebody and you can't hear it, but they just are engaged, it's the best. So, and he then said the sweetest thing, where he's like, somebody taught me to fish and I feel like it's my job to pass it on. I think that's excellent parenting.

Yeah. I think a mild sort of level of supervision over him getting to individuate and learn how to speak with adults and connect in a meaningful way over something as beautiful as fishing is a wonderful example of some great parenting so kudos to you and yeah hopefully more of it I will say guy had that vibe it's also nice when your kids

their sole purpose of being with a person, and this is, I think what's true about teachers as well, obviously, it's just to learn about fishing. And so it's almost, because my five-year-old knew he was the expert in fishing, he was so well behaved. Everything Guy told him about fishing, you know, he was doing, I mean, he was putting things away in a way I'd never seen. And it was just, joyous to watch.

Do you have any desire to go fishing with them in the future? I would go fishing. I went on a fishing trip in Florida, like deep sea where I got deeply violently ill. But I would fish in a lake or a river if my kids were into it. Yeah. I don't want to, because it's not my thing. I don't want to be out there with my kids while they're complaining about it. Because all I'd want to say is I don't want to be here either.

Listen, I can, I've done a lot of fishing. I've never gone deep sea. I've never gone deep sea fishing or trolling or fishing from Marlin or whatever you do down in Cabo. That doesn't appeal to me. Lakes, rivers, fly fishing. So you do fly fish. Is that a part of it? So if you're perfect fishing trip for you, where is it and what type of fishing?

One of my uncles had a float plane in Anchorage, and we would fly into these really remote locations, these lakes that you can only access via plane. They were infested with black bears, but also the amount of fish in these remote lakes was staggering. Just just tons of fish, right? It's almost like the game is like, let's try to not catch a fish. The second you throw your hook in the water, you got something on the line. And it's just super

fun. And it's kind of scary. It's a little bit adventurous. You know, somebody's got a shotgun on their back because you never know what's coming out of the woods. It's absolutely beautiful. And you just in my memories of that are just like spending time with my grandfather and my brother and my uncle just kind of sitting on a rock like, you know, casting a line into the water and pulling out five to 10 pound salmon. So how long a flight in the flow plane from Anchorage to where you're landing?

An hour. Okay, so you're in an hour, then you land on a lake. Yeah. And then what you have a, do you have like a canoe on the plane and you paddle out on that or? No, so a lot of these lakes you go to have already been set up for a float plane.

So there is a little dock and there is typically another plane there. Inevitably you're gonna find another plane there, another two planes, there are guys fishing there. They're actual fishing spots, but they are remote. And there are bears and every time you go out, you see bears. It's not like a Sasquatch sighting dude.

They're out there. Yeah. Yeah. I went to Alaska once and we stayed at this place that you had to take a float plane to like a Sasquatch sighting dude, they're out there. Yeah, yeah. I went to Alaska once and we stayed at this place that you had to take a float plane to and there were bears on the property, you know, a couple of times in the four days I was there. Yeah, it's very cool.

And so then was that, is that a day trip? You don't stay in Bear City, right? You get out of there? No, you can't camp there. Okay, gotcha. You can't camp there. And, you can't camp there. Okay, I gotcha. And were you guys the kind of fishermen who would cook and eat it day off? We, well, so we caught so many,

a lot of times my grandfather and I would smoke it, which was really fun. And yeah, we'd cook and eat it. Did you have, because of this connection to Alaska, do you feel like you had a more outdoorsy vibe than your San Francisco schoolmates? Oh, for sure. My San Francisco schoolmates did venture outside of the city.

Yeah. I mean, it seems like so unique that you're going out to get airplaneing. I was the only one. Yeah, okay. I was the only one. And so many of my memories of Alaska, man, I just, it's one of my favorite places. If I had to choose to live between two places,

I could live between Alaska and Lake Tahoe. Yeah. I could, and I love LA. What's the best time of year to go to Alaska? Well, the solstice is fun because the sun never goes down in the summertime. So if you're there June 21st, longest day of the year, you literally have a full day of, you just have sunlight. It's pretty spectacular. In the wintertime, it's nice to get to see the northern lights, which are, they look fake. It looks like a light show that, you know, you see at Disneyland.

Have your girls gone to Alaska? Do they feel a connection to it? So we took Billy to Alaska when she was really young. I don't think she remembers. Yeah, she was really young. She wouldn't have remembered anything. But eventually, I mean, look, after my grandmother died, the whole kind of, the whole ecosystem of our trip to Alaska was altered, you know, forever. Yeah.

And so now it's like a fragmented, like if I went up, like, I don't know who I'd stay with, I don't know. You know, maybe I'd go to a hotel and check in with my aunt or check in with... But it would be such a fragmented experience. It's different now, you know? When the matriarch of the family goes, it's tough to, like, hold it together.

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I was 14 years old, I went to Israel. Was it a birthright trip? Yeah. Oh, wow. It was 14 years old. I went to Israel. Was it a birthright trip? Yeah. Oh, wow. It was my confirmation trip. That's great. So now, how long was that trip? And did you go with a group of kids from other?

I was there for six weeks, and I went with all the kids from my temple. Wow. And I've heard from people who've done this, it's the greatest six weeks. The greatest. Yeah. The greatest.

Were you excited about it? Oh, yeah. Okay. Well because you know you're going on a trip with 30 of your friends. Yeah. So you knew you knew the group you're going with. Oh yeah. And then you meet up with other groups. So you have like four buses of teenagers going to all these these sites and you know and and I am a history freak. So learning about all this stuff in Jerusalem and some of the neighboring towns is- They got good history over there? They got some good history over there.

How's the history over there? They got some good history. That's fantastic. I've heard, I mean, again, yeah. I hope it's something my kids will do one day. And everybody who's ever talked about it says, it's a real combination based on how old the kids are of history and horniness.

Is that fair to say? The two blend together? I think I covered both bases when I was in Israel. Yeah, I did it all. That's great. Have you gone back? I have not gone back. Gotcha.

I have not gone back. I'd love to go back. It's a beautiful country. Yeah, I went, my wife, so we weren't raised Jewish. Our grandfather on her father's side was Jewish though. And then my wife is Jewish and we went 2011. And it was really something to see. But that's what a cool reason.

Where'd you go? Which part? Tel Aviv? We kind of went everywhere as well. We stayed in Tel Aviv, but we did, you know, again, it is, as people would be, I don't know, either shocked or expecting, no, not that big. So you kind of get around. Right. Right. You cover the whole country and, you know, a couple of days. How are your girls when they were young?

Did they vacation well? They vacation really well. I so they vacation really well. They flew. They always flew really well. They were always like. And I, you know, you feel like such a bad parent for doing this, but you throw a device in there and you download some movies

and you keep them preoccupied with an iPad on a plane. Yeah, okay. It's questionable parenting, but it beats the alternative, which is a kid who's, you can't sit still. Right. So they flew really well, they traveled really well. They're pretty easy going kids. They're they've become very self sufficient. They're good. They're at this point. They're like road dogs. Yeah, my wife really I know I've talked about this

because really tries to draw the line on not letting our kids get addicted to screens. So she'll bring like two full backpacks of arts and crafts, maze books, word searches, everything on an airplane. They're done with it in 15 minutes. I mean, they'll take out the clay and they know as soon as they've exhausted it, it's movie time. So like, make a clay owl!

And they're just going as fast as they can. And then I'm sort of like, I mean, what's, you know, you did better than any parent on this plane and we all applaud you. Now let's... Give them the iPad. Yeah, also you can't, it's not even the iPad, it's like there's screens on the back of the seats.

So like we can't tell them. Every other kid on the plane's watching a movie. You can't tell them not to. But they travel well. Do you travel? I mean, I would assume a fishing trip is sometimes some solo travel. Do you ever solo travel now? Like, outside of work and stuff? Yeah, a little bit. I'm not really, you know, I like

I'll travel, I'll connect travel to work. So, like, I just did, uh, I worked on a project in Athens, Greece, about a month ago. And we traveled around Greece, and then we went to, I had some friends come out and we went on to London and stayed in London for a few days just to decompress and I'll do stuff like that. But I'm not really like, hey, let's wake up and go to the Maldives and surf for a couple of weeks.

Is it exciting for you when you get a gig that's in a place like Athens? Yes and no. I really do love working at home and I've been very fortunate. The shows that I've worked on have all shot in Los Angeles. That's true. That's amazing. Yeah. I don't mind going out and experiencing a different culture and being a part of the traveling circus as it is. But that wears thin on you when you have a family at home and you're just kind of used

to being in one place and you have a routine. I like my routine. Did you ever take any family trips other than Tahoe or going up to Alaska? Were there any outlier trips where when you were growing up, it's like, let's go to Disney or let's go check out, I don't know, Asheville North Carolina. I think every kid has had that one moment, I hope, I don't know about every kid,

but where your parents wake you up at like four in the morning and they say, get ready and you're packed. And they're like, we're driving Disneyland, you know, or we're going somewhere. Yeah. So I had, I've had that trip and that's been fun. But to be honest with you, up until I went to Israel at the age of 14, the only traveling I did and I'm not competing was Lake Tahoe. It's such a built-in sort of destination that doesn't require a ton of effort. You know, you don't have to fly there.

You don't have to arrange for hotel rooms. We just, it was just kind of like, it was there. We had that and that was our escape. And it was a really beautiful time when we were kids growing up there. We were very fortunate to have had that experience. You mentioned winters as well. Were you a skiing family?

Yes, I love skiing. I ski every winter. I'll ski, I've skied everywhere. I love it. Yeah, same. Josh is a big skier as well. Do you have a favorite skiing locale in your life? Jackson, I think Jackson Hole, Wyoming

is probably the best mountain in the country. Josh? I still haven't been there. I'm in LA. I just get up to Mammoth a bunch of times every year. Mammoth is good. Yeah. And for most of the time I'm skiing, I'm skiing solo,

solo in midweek. And so, yeah, it's harder for me to go anywhere else. Also just to be able to get in the car at 3.30 in the morning and be on the mountain by nine. Yeah, Mammoth is not a quick drive. Mammoth is a four hour drive all day long. Yeah, but I love it. I love doing it and it's to start in the dark

and then when the sun starts coming up and those Sierras are on your left, that's, yeah, it's beautiful. And then if you guys are ever in Connecticut, me and the kids ski at a place called Mohawk Mountain, and that if Josh got on your shoulders, Eric, it's about that tall. Right.

It's a half a turn, you're down at the bottom of the hill. Josh, very sweetly, Josh, who is, you know, a real serious skier has come out with us a couple of times, and I'm so embarrassed. I'm so embarrassed. I'm so embarrassed. It's fun, it's fun. I just like skiing. It's perfect for the kids, yeah.

Do you take the kids skiing? Do you take the kids skiing a lot? We do, yeah. We take them every Saturday in the winter. And it's great. And you know, they go to ski school. And it's the same thing. It's a little bit like Guy at the end of the dock.

Like they're, you know, they're huge assholes. And you know, they're trudging through the parking lot, dragging their poles, just dead-assed all the way. And then all of a sudden, it's like young kids who are, they're like 22-year-old ski instructors, and they immediately just, their eyes light up, they listen to everything they say, and it's the best. And it's also, for me, it's like an hour,

it's an hour drive for us. And I love how much of the day it eats up, you just like get them in a car. That's an hour. It's just such a great activity. It's an eight hour, it's an all day affair. And then they're so done at the end of the day, like they have no fight, no fight left in them.

No fight, right. They're like, I wanna stay up. I'm like, you, go for it. Yeah, try it. See how long you can stay up. I'm like, you go for it. Yeah, try it. See how long you can stay up. Exactly, exactly. Oh, but I love that feeling. I love that feeling.

Do the girls ski? Billy does. Georgia does not like the cold. Georgia's like her mother. Georgia does not like the cold. Billy loves skiing. Josh, we split too. I'm like my mom and Josh is like our dad.

They love to ski. And I was happy to call it at lunch. I also, you can find warmer gear. You can get warmer stuff. It's certainly, things have changed since, I mean, we're all about the same age. Things have changed. The technology's there.

Yeah, the technology's there. As the Norwegians say, there's no bad weather, just bad clothes. Okay. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I. Okay. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I love that.

Yeah. So back to this surprise trip, was that Disney that you got woken up for to drive to? That was Disney, yeah. Back when they had tickets for rides. I don't know if you guys remember that. Disney used to hand out tickets and you had a finite number of tickets.

It wasn't just wait in line. It was like, you have, and you always had like in finite number of tickets. It wasn't just wait in line. It was like, and you always had like in this booklet of tickets, you had these things called e-tickets and the e-tickets got you on the really intense rides. Wow. You only had two e-tickets. So you had to pick which two you were gonna ride.

So is that like a space mountain is like an e-ticket? Space mountain and the Matterhorn was the one-two punch for me. Great. And were you with the, with the four-year age difference, do you and your brother sort of roll together at a Disney? Like, are you, is, or was he like too small for the, the, the E rides?

He was too small. Yeah. And, and on some of them, like I remember not making the hype, but I eventually, I think I covered that entire park. And then obviously revisiting it again when you have your own kids. Yeah.

And you do the same for them. And they just, I actually loved going to Disneyland with my daughters and seeing them experience it and my 14 year old Billy it was so funny. She was like she's she's five foot ten. So she has always been tall. So when she was five, she made the height requirement for the Matterhorn. And she was like, Daddy, I want to go on that. And I was like, Are you sure you want to go on this? I want to go on that. And I was like, are you sure you want to go on that? She's like, I want to go on that.

So I've recorded her on this ride and her head was down the whole time with her hands, but she did it. She did it. She got off the ride. She was like, I'm not doing that again, but I'm glad I experienced it. We're aiming for April this year to take the kids.

Yeah. I'm getting pretty excited. Not excited enough to tell them because I want to give us room to back out. But I think we're circling it on the calendar. All right. Oh, that's nice. That'll be fun. I remember when we went, do you remember this, Josh?

We went to the first time we went to Disney World, our dad, who's a bit of a ham, Eric, I'll let you know that. There were those street performers where there was somebody dressed up like Snow White, and she was started dancing around in the middle of the walkway, and dad stopped and started dancing with her,

and everybody, all the people were smiling and laughing, and I was so embarrassed. Yeah. When people say, what's the most harrowing ride at Disney World, everybody like all the people were like smiling and laughing and I was so embarrassed like when people say what's the most harrowing ride at Disney World I'm like when your dad oh my god I used to do that you know I'd take my girls to school and I would you know we'd they'd play whatever music they wanted to play in the car and I'd walk them into school and I would still be singing the song, holding their hand. And they would tug on me and say, dad, what are you doing?

Stop, you're embarrassing me. And finally I turned to him, I said, you know, honey, there's like, I'm like top three, one of the top three coolest parents in this school. I just want you to know that. You're telling me to shut up. Every kid here would love to walk in holding hands with Eric Dane.

Yes. Yeah. Well, that's really great. We're gonna let you go, but before you do, before we do, I should say Josh is gonna ask you the speed round questions we ask all of our guests here on the show. Okay.

All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train, plane, automobile, boat, bike. Train.

Train. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a family vacation with? I think I would like to take a, this is going to sound morbid, but I would like to take a trip with my family as it would have been had I not lost my father. That's a great answer.

Yeah, fair enough. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? My little brother. Great. And you are from- Who would it be? My little brother. Great. And you are from- Wouldn't it be nice to love your little brother that much? Wouldn't it be nice?

My little brother is very entertaining. Oh, wouldn't that sounds great too. And you are from, you're from San Francisco? I am from San Francisco, California. Would you recommend San Francisco as a vacation destination? Not right now. Yeah, we had a recent guest.

We just had Simon Rex on. Simon Rex said the same thing. Like if you know where to go, if you can tell people here, here, not here. San Francisco is very, it's a beautiful city, but I wouldn't go. Yeah, it doesn't sound like that. Right now is a hot time.

I do, I love San Francisco. But yeah, I'm not walking through it every day. Maybe I'd think differently if I was. And then Seth has our final questions. Have, Eric, have you been to the Grand Canyon? No. Do you wanna go? Absolutely.

Okay, great. I think you would enjoy it. Based on everything you've said so far, I think you would to go? Absolutely. Okay. Great. I think you would enjoy it based on everything you've said so far. I think you would like the Grand Canyon. I'm out here. It's spectacular. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they tell you.

But that's part of the that's part of the story. That's part of it. Right. Oh, sure. They tell you. Oh, it's majestic. Come out. It's majestic.

There's nothing nearby. Once you get there, it's not like, or we could go to the arcade. That's it. Hey, so we saw it. All right, let's go. It's like being on safari in Africa. Okay, I saw the animal. What am I doing now? Have you done a safari in Africa? I have done a safari in Africa.

I've done a safari. It is really funny because... It's pretty cool. The first giraffe you see is the most amazing thing you've ever seen. And then by the fifth giraffe, you're like, I get it. I felt that way about the elephant. Yeah you've ever seen, and then by the fifth giraffe, you're like, I get it. I felt that way about the elephant. Yeah.

The first one, I was shocked. And then by the 57th elephant, I was like, okay, there's another elephant. You're kind of like, this is a deer now. You now are a deer. Essentially, yeah. Essentially, yeah. Tell you this, I get excited every time I see a deer.

Yeah, well, there you go. Yeah. You're living a much fuller life than I am. That's an eight-point buck. What a delight it's been talking to you, Eric. Thank you so much for joining us. Likewise. Yeah, absolutely.

You know, both of us, not that we have any pull with the director, we're both obviously team mustache and we hope when we see you as an FBI agent, we're really hoping that we're gonna see that too. If there's any pushback, I'm gonna tell them exactly what you just said. Okay, good. Have them reach out. Have them reach out. We could also, our father would be happy

to talk to someone too, cause he's got the mustache and yeah. It's done him a lot of favors in his life. All right, be well. You guys, it's been a pleasure, be well. Thank you, thank you. When he hooked a king salmon And goddamn it was a heavy guy 72 pounds for the 12 year old Give a little slack brace yourself and hold Now you just reel him on in Put him on a dish

Yeah he landed the fish Took a Polaroid photo, crossed leg, cause he had to piss And a couple years later, a water polo player was a beast in the pool His arms would never weaken, but they were getting beaten and that wasn't cool So he started cherry picking, put the team on his back Got an outlet pass and went on the attack Then he rose up, took his shot, a flick of the wrist Ooh, he fired a mist When it comes to water polo, everyday never forgets. Ooh, ooh.

Oh, no. No, it never forgets. No, no. Mixed team it never forgets. Oh, yes Never forgets No, no it never forgets Thanks again, Nissan for sponsoring this episode. Learn more at NissanUSA.com.