- These are my two traveling companions when I don't have my babies with me, which I normally do, but if I don't, these go everywhere with me. [upbeat music] Well, they're all essential to me 'cause they're essentials, but here we go. First essential, if I'm walking out the house, no matter what, I gotta have water. So I may get Mananalu. I dislike plastic very much, so I either got a water bottle or I got my Mananalu. That's number one. Aquaman needs water. All right, next essential. Healthcare, I mean, you know, like uh... Just the essentials, you know what I mean? I just carry in my bag. Toothbrush, spork. [snickers] I dig these things man, so, shampoo bar. So I just use that for... It's just a bar so I don't have to use plastic. Lip balm, Bite, so it's toothpaste,

and then this really good. I like this deodorant, by... it's called Palo Santo and Frankincense, but it's by Humble. Only problem is it's in plastic, so I'm gonna do my best to call Donovan up and change this. So, I want to make it so I can have everything plastic-free, which is my goal. Now that I've become Aquaman, there's just a lot of things I want to do to try to save the Earth. I think there was a moment where I was sitting on a plane and uh... there was a can of beer, there's a can of soda water, there's a can of Coke, and then there's this goddamn little bottle of water, that's like a shot of water with three different types of plastic on it, the wrapper, the top, and I was just like, This is insane. So that's why I started to make Mananalu. So we make canned water,

same thing, recyclable, and I was like, Why aren't we doing this? And I just think drinking out of plastic bottles is disgusting, and it's not good for you, it's not good for the Earth. When you travel as much as I do, it's just like, there's that single-use plastic everywhere, and I just get tired of it, and so I wanted to not [beep] about it, I wanted to do stuff about it. Next essential is, gotta be music. So I mean, this is kind of the only thing I- I had no [beep] to travel with. Tons of records. I probably travel with at least 300 to 400 records that are just like essentials. So I just brought out a record. This was just on record day. This is a Sabbath. I love vinyl, and I travel with record players. So I have a record player that's in my trailer when we get ready in the morning.

There's one normally in the gym. I love that. And then I kind of travel everywhere with these because the Marshalls, it's just, if I do want to hook up to my phone, this is perfect for me. It's like being a vagabond and traveling everywhere. It's like, I can be in the dirt and anywhere I want to. I can be climbing and I can just haul this thing around with me, it's a huge thing. And then, yeah, it's just obviously rock and roll, which leads me to my absolute next. I'm a big fan of playing guitar and slide, blues. And then I started learning bass, too. I mean, I kind of travel with a lot of instruments, not only for myself, but also for my children. So they can play a lot. Like, there's a piano right there, I like, my daughter's been playing piano. She's got a trumpet.

They both did violin. I started getting into bass when my son was getting heavy into drums, so we travel with the drum set. Probably bring about 12 guitars with me. [laughs] I don't rock and roll till night, baby. My next essential is the wallet I made. I can put my phone in there, cash and cards. So it's got everything I need in there. I made this wallet with, uh... on Aquaman 2. So it's just something that was made with a couple of different artists. It's got some carvings in there. It's got my tattoo and different things, so. This is just uh... it's my chain wallet. I make a lot of different chain wallets, so. My phone fits in there, so obviously this is about essential as it gets to stay in touch with my family, photos. We picked out this, it's a shark skin. And then this is from a bull ring that you use for bulls.

This is what I wore in Aquaman, and this is what I'll wear in Aquaman 2. I didn't sew this one together. I have many of them that I have made. This one right here, we had to make four or five of them. So production made it on Aquaman 1, but this is all the stuff that I picked and designed and all that kind of stuff. This is like a coin that was hand-carved by a friend. I absolutely love photography. My friend made these little cases for me for On The Roam. Pretty neat, but I just I um... This is my M2. I generally have an M2 or M3, that's a film camera. That's a 50mm lens. Yeah, it's just a beautiful workhorse. I love Leicas, and I love being able to shoot film, but at the same time, I love shooting digital too. I just fell in love with this camera,

It's a M10-P. It's shooting through like 1930s and 40s glass, but using digital, so my whole idea was to be able to take something that's so crisp and clear with digital, but be able to shoot through old glass. I enjoy experimenting with that kind of stuff. Damien, do you have the RED here? So this is like 6K. It's in the palm of your hand, it's insane. It's the RED Komodo. And they made me a brass one. I was annoyed by my mother at a very early age. She would pull over constantly. We'd be driving, trying to get somewhere, she'd pull over, need to take a picture and pull over, need to take a picture. Until I realized, when I saw my mother's pictures and I could see her eye and see how she captured things, and see how she saw the world. After I got into acting, then I really,

you know, it just kind of linked up with cinematography. So I uh... started shooting. My next essential is extremely important. It's all about Potato and Piggy Big Spirit. So this is my baby girl, Lola, and this is Wolf. And listen, if you have babies, you know, you got stuffed animals. And if you're not with your babies, then you're gonna be cuddling stuffed animals. I think it's a little too personal, So unfortunately I won't get into the stories 'cause that's just for me and my family. But this is for Lola, this is Piggy Big Spirit. And this is Potato, which is hilarious, 'cause Wolfie just [laughs] got this amazing character and then he called it Potato And I thought that was the most genius name for the stuffed animal. So they sleep in bed with me, yeah. My little babies are in bed with me right now, they're actually watching a movie right now.

But it's... it's... Yeah, I travel... Got to have Pig and Potato. Next item. This is kinda goes in hand with what I was telling you about. This is uh... a belt that my buddy made, Taber Nash. And we made these Knucklehead. So it's for my favorite bike. So I love bikes, obviously. That's one of my essentials. It's not here right now. So you can chalk that up to eight. I traveled with many motorcycles. But this is the Knucklehead, so it's like my... It's a Harley Davidson. And um, and then knives, I really love knives. I travel with a lot of knives. A lot of my friends make them. A buddy of mine, Chris, made this in Topanga. So it's a local artisan and I love supporting local. Gotta have a knife with me. So that's one of mine. And just the whole idea of just making handcrafted artisan

and local made is really exciting to me. My number eight essential is Harley Davidson bikes. I love them. They're my favorite. Greatest bikes in the world. My favorite. So that was kind of my example to go. I love Harley. I've always wanted a motorcycle my whole life. And I think, I mean... I made a piece about it and you can kind of watch it. It's called where the wild stomped in. So you can like go see it on YouTube. That's the one that we make. It's about my first bike. And then I made one for me and my children. Ultimately I just, I love, I love riding motorcycles and I love riding around, you know, the world on them. All right. This is kind of weird, but, but it's mine. So my next essential is uh... my Carhartt pants. [laughs] My dirty [beep] Carhartt pants.

I travel the world with them. They got my war stories. They'd been through everything with me and uh... they're my favorite. They're the most durable. I love them. Yeah. Number nine is it's literally my Carhartts. I mean, I've had these pants since high school, so they're, it's a, it's a long time. Another thing I made a, a little spot about called. It's called canvas of my life and it's a, it's about these pants. So, please do check it out. They've been with me forever. They've been through every up and down man. I'm Hawaiian. So I gotta have my slipper. I gotta have my flip flops and I got to have sunglasses. [chuckles] Mandatory. These are pretty rad. I started making 'em and I love them because I, It's, it's so simple. We're making them so as the algae bloom.

So my goal is that you can just take these things and just plant them in your garden, and you're not going to have all that waste going into the oceans and going into the landfills. And so my goal is to like, literally make a biodegradable flip-flop. I'm pretty excited about that. So my company, So iLL, makes these. They're pink and black, my favorite colors. And I got to have flip-flops, 2 sunglasses, as many as possible. I think I have a massive collection of sunglasses, and these ones I'm actually making right now with Electric. They're just a really cool company. They're doing it all recycled, so it's all, you know, environmentally conscious. Yeah, I'm doing my own little colab with them, and then I've been wearing them forever because my buddies are surfers with them, so. Um... a couple of motorcycle friends are sponsored by them.

A couple of surfer buddies of mine are friends. They should just hook me up, and I loved them. So, I wore them, and then eventually we were like, Hey, let's do something. And so now I got my own line coming out, and I'm pretty stoked about it, but got to have sunglasses. And that's it, bro. That's the 10. Thank you, GQ. I hope you guys enjoyed. That was my 10 essentials. And please, on August 20th, one of my favorite movies that I've ever done with my best friend and all my buddies, Sweet Girls, coming out on Netflix. I hope you love it. We worked our butt off, and also if you can help me stop single-use plastic. I love you, aloha. Thank you.

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