- You can only be into so many things.
Like you can't be a car guy, a watch guy,
a, you know, a real estate guy, a jewelry guy.
That's how you end up being on "30 for 30."
You end up being broke out here
which is what I'm not trying to be.
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I'm Austin Rivers, and these are My Essentials.
First essential would be Byredo perfumes.
I love my cologne.
I feel like I always have to smell good.
I'm self-conscious about how I smell wherever I go,
even after I work out, after I shower, whatever,
I always had to spray,
and this currently is my favorite one.
When I was young, I used like Curve and Axe,
the cheapest things you could buy in like a Walgreen's store
or something like that,
and then once I started to get more in touch
with smelling different than other people,
I started trying to buy, you know, other brands.
I'd go to Barney's, Saks Fifth, you know, Neiman Marcus,
they have this whole cologne department,
and I will literally sit there for like an hour
like smelling different colognes
until I found what exactly what I like, and I always ask,
what's something that most people don't buy
'cause I don't want to smell like someone else.
Guys you all smelling like everybody else.
You gotta upgrade and be different, man.
Time to upgrade.
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These are all my Pateks.
I brought these today
'cause these are my favorite brands, Patek Philippe.
My daily watch is Rolex, stainless steel.
They're light, they're comfortable.
I do like watches.
I like the sophistication of it all.
Like the whole thing behind collecting watches
is very grown man-esque,
so it makes me feel more an adult.
This is my favorite one in the middle.
I got the rose gold
'cause I'm actually not a big yellow gold guy.
These two are a little bit more rare.
This one right here is super rare.
It's discontinued, which I'm happy about that.
Any time a watch discontinues, it goes up in value.
This is my favorite one just 'cause it has a black strap.
It's way more wearable.
I could wear this literally with anything,
a suit, I could wear it with something like this.
This is my thing.
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This next piece is a bracelet
that my baby mother got for me.
It has my son's name on it,
and it's my favorite piece of jewelry,
and I know I don't like yellow gold,
but she got it in yellow gold,
so this is the one exception I make.
I don't care even if I have rose gold on or white gold on,
and this doesn't match, I still wear it
just 'cause it's my son's name.
This is my favorite jewelry piece that I do have,
including watches and everything, just for what it means.
When does Kayden get his first watch?
He will be getting like a G-Shock or something like that
'cause he'll lose it, 'cause right now,
or he'll try to eat it.
Everything right now he eats or he'll lose
or he'll throw it on the ground,
so, yeah, if it's like a serious watch,
when he graduates high school.
If he graduates high school,
I'll get him like a really nice watch.
I gotta watch what I say in this video
'cause whatever I say, he's gonna hold it against me.
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This next thing right here is my just overall jewelry case.
I take this on every road trip and everywhere I go.
I'm not really into flashy jewelry,
but a lot of this stuff is kind of flashy stuff,
but I've just kind of had this over the years.
These are just some tennis chains.
I try to get 'em in every color,
and then I have, you know, like Cartier bracelets and stuff.
Oh, this is actually pretty dope, this is like a baguette.
This one is my favorite piece of all the jewelry.
It has a picture of me and my son when he was first born.
We did a whole photo shoot,
and I wear this one probably the most.
These are absolutely totally losses and a waste of money.
I would not recommend buying any jewelry like that.
As soon as you go to sell it back you're gonna get if half.
I do have quite a bit,
but I don't see myself buying any more.
This is probably the maximum amount of jewelry I'll own
in terms of like necklaces and diamonds and stuff like that
just 'cause it is a waste of money,
and you're not gonna get any of it back.
This is my toiletry bag.
Can't go anywhere without it, obviously.
This is where I have like my toothpaste, toothbrush,
brush, shave, everything you can name is in here.
This is my brush.
I'm always using my brush.
Gotta have your deodorant.
Facial hair grows so quickly,
so I always have my electric shaver, man, so.
There are my colognes.
Beard oil, you know, these are just regular oils
I put on my skin.
These are my essentials in my toiletry bag.
These are rubber bands.
My AU program, my basketball program is called Team MOAM,
and these are my rubber bands, and I wear 'em,
I mean, I still have some on right now.
I have, I literally wear 'em,
I'll wear 'em with a suit.
I wear 'em at every basketball game I play in.
Funny story,
second round versus Golden State Warriors this year
I was in warm ups and I realized
I didn't have my rubber bands on, and I panicked.
I had a hotel clerk go into my hotel room,
grab my rubber bands.
I called an Uber, and had them Uber the rubber bands
all the way from San Francisco to Oakland
because I felt like I was something was wrong.
I'm not like superstitious, but I have to have these on.
AR is Austin Rivers and two five's my number,
it's been my number since I was a kid.
It was my father's number,
and it'll be my son's number and his son's number,
and they stand for man on a mission.
I wear these bands everywhere I go.
Hand sanitizer.
I am like a germophobe to the max
to the point where it actually bothers people sometimes.
When I go in an airport or, you know,
you shake a lot of people's hands, you know,
you're touching things, you're eating, you know,
you're constantly touching your face,
I always have some Purell to clean my hands so.
I keep this wherever I go.
This usually only lasts like a month and it's out.
My next essential is some simple Carmex.
I'm one of those guys that always has to have
my lips feeling, you know, moisturized with some ChapStick,
and Carmex I think does the best job,
so I probably go through a million of these things
like we all do.
I mean who actually finishes the whole thing?
Every time I get a ChapStick,
it'll last like two, three days,
and I'll leave it in a pair of clothes,
I'll wash it, and then I'll take it out the dryer,
and it's like fried, so
but this will probably last another day or two
and then it's probably gonna have to die.
Carmex, whether I like it or not,
you guys are essential to my life, man.
Why don't you sponsor me so I can have this?
I keep losing 'em, so that would be great.
These are my Airpods, and they're like in a custom blue,
so it's not a case or anything,
they're actually like a baby blue inside.
ColorWare, everybody's like how do you get these?
I take 'em everywhere with me.
People are abusing the airpod though right now.
It's to the point now
where like people are just walking around with them
and not talking to anybody.
I think people use 'em
just so people don't come up to you and talk.
I use this when I'm traveling on a plane.
I think they're pretty dope just 'cause they're powder blue.
Even though I went to Duke, please don't hate me.
These are North Carolina colors.
I listen to everything.
I love Hip Hop and R&B,
and I love classical R&B and Hip Hop.
I love listening to old soul music,
so one day I could be listening to Travis Scott,
you know, Jay Z, to Al Green, you know, Marvin Gaye.
I have a huge variety range.
The next thing is what everybody has on them
is their wallet.
I used to have like the old school, you know, fold wallet,
and then you had to put it in your back pocket,
and if you wear skinny jeans or anything that's tucked,
I mean, you can't, it's just so unreasonable,
so I just got a simple card holder,
and it's made by Goyard.
It is, that it is.
I don't carry a lot of cash on me.
If you have a card in today's day in 2019, Apple Pay.
Cash is so dirty.
It's like the dirtiest thing you could possibly touch.
So like every time I touch it, like I want to eat
I have to pull out the Purell, so I just rather use this.
It's so much easier and convenient for me.
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This last essential is not exactly something I carry with me
because obviously you can't travel with your cars
all the time, but I'm a huge car guy,
and I like to buy investment cars.
So this right here are the keys to a Ferrari 488 Pista.
This is the one thing that kinda gets me away
from everything, you know, basketball's my escape,
but when times of basketball is hard
and things are stressful in my life,
I literally will go in my garage
and just be around all my cars.
They just, they help me relax, and it's definitely something
I see myself doing when basketball is over.
Not as a full-time job,
but definitely something a part of something cool somewhere
'cause I wanna share my car collection with everybody.
My first car was a Dodge.
I had a Dodge Challenger.
My pop said I could get one if I got a D1 scholarship.
He said, "You're only getting a car
"if you get a D1 scholarship.
"If you get a D1 scholarship," he's like
"I'll get you any car you want, American-made."
I know everything about any car, you know.
Like I'd know more about cars than, I mean,
people on the Speed channel, seriously.
You guys would go ape shit if you saw the cars I have.
Seriously, people don't know.
I just started like a car page and everything,
and people think like it's like just a typical Rolls Royce
and type shit like that,
but they're like some crazy-ass cars.
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