- Take a picture of me with this and send it to me.
Okay, ready.
What's up GQ this is Michael Strahan,
and these are my essentials.
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All right, my first item is this Ice Shaker.
I'm always on the run, I'm always on the go,
trying not to eat bad stuff so
I gotta have a protein shake, and see this thing right here,
that breaks up all the little things in there
to make sure you have a smooth drink.
So the Ice Shaker is one of my essentials, it's heavy duty,
keeps things nice and cold, it's very sturdy, holding handle
For like a bartender at the same time
but instead of the alcohol it's usually a protein shake.
The next item is something that your friends may
be afraid to tell you that you need.
Mints, people!
When somebody asks you, "Would you like a mint?"
Just take it, even if you don't think you need it,
'cause they're asking you for a reason.
But you know, I'm around people all day,
all I do is talk, I talk for a living now,
so you gotta have some fresh breath, Altoids keep it fresh.
Nice and minty, you can chew 'em, if you want
to chew 'em just so have your [mumbles]
as I do, I chew my Altoids.
Look at that, 'cause my breath's so clean.
Altoids, an essential.
Being that I have a job where I have to keep up facts
of everything, I love the Wall Street Journal.
You get everything, you get politics,
you get sports, you get business,
you get technology, you get a little bit
of everything that is going on in the world
which is very important because I have to stay informed.
- During your playing days did you pay much attention
to the newspapers?
I do news now, so I have to be informed about everything
from politics, to technology, to business, to sports.
I have to be able to do everything.
When I was playing football, it was pretty much,
"What they saying in the sports section?"
Now, I very rarely get to the sports section for the most
part because all about everything else before that.
So I love the Wall Street Journal, keeps me, you know,
brings in the world, and I need to know
about the world now than I ever need to know in the past.
And it makes it awesome, so pick up the Wall Street Journal
if you get the chance, 'cause its one of my essentials,
it helps me do what I'm doing.
You know work hard, you gotta play hard, right,
Tequila, I'm a tequila guy, I love my tequila,
my favorite drink of all time.
Straight, on the rocks, with a lime, you could mix it.
Now this is a Don Julio 70, okay, I love the 1942,
I love Reposado, I love Blanco, I love Anejo.
But the 1970, is smooth, okay.
You could mix it or you can have it straight
and that's what I love about it.
It is the most versatile, tequila that I've ever had.
Always stocked up, in the house.
So, you come over we'll pop one open for ya.
This is a very special essential to me.
This is lotion, called If, I-F,
this is the best smelling lotion in the history of lotions.
I get more complements, on this, this is a must item
that I have to have and travel,
it's essential just even walking
around the house smelling good this does it all.
They actually make a body wash, too.
Do yourself a favor, you can get that as well.
But If, get this lotion, it's not If you smell good,
you know you smell good.
A lot of people like colognes, I like a lotion because,
you know, not ashy, first of all, and secondly,
it kinda wears off, I don't like the smell
if you walk past me, and 10 minutes later
you still smell me, ya hug me, 10 minutes later
you still smell me.
This does all those things where to the point you put it on,
you smell good but you don't leave a lingering smell.
So the people go, "Oh, yeah, okay, I can remember I saw him.
"because he's all over my clothing."
- This is amazing, trust me, do yourself a favor,
If, and I like smelling good.
Sunglasses, gotta have 'em, gotta have 'em.
Gotta look smooth, when you have 'em.
GiGi Studio they make these great glasses.
I love these, 'cause they're just, they're kinda simple,
and I got a simple face.
Look at it, simple face.
Simple glasses, for my simple face.
But I like these with the blue tint,
it brings out the skin tone, you know
the mocha tones come out with the blue.
So sunglasses are essential, because sometimes
you just you wanna be out in the sunshine,
it's not even about the sun, sometimes it's like
hazy getting a little dark, but you want a little mystery,
you don't want everybody to know where you're looking.
Kinda caps off your look, so if you're looking good,
you drop some sunglasses on
and it just takes it to a whole nother level.
And I love my GiGi Studio's,
essential.
A lot of people use sunglassses to disguise them,
for me it doesn't work,
'cause I am 6'5" with a gap in my teeth.
So no matter what I put on, I can't hide.
Now this is an absolute essential,
you got the Super Bowl coming up.
So here, see the tag, it says,
MSX by Michael Strahan, but it's for the NFL.
So this is an essential for me
because we got the Super Bowl coming up,
I'm hosting the Super Bowl on the panel for Fox.
Perfect fit, wear my own gear to the Super Bowl.
Essential for me, essential for you.
- What was it like to win a Super Bowl
in your final season with the Giants?
- To win a Super Bowl in the final season with the Giants,
was the most unexpected thing of my life.
Because no one thought we could win, no one thought
we should have made the playoffs.
But somehow we did, we capped of the greatest win
in Super Bowl history 'cause no one thought
the Giants had a shot, going against
the undefeated Patriots, we pulled it off.
This year I guarantee it's gonna be another
exciting Super Bowl.
Another essential that I have, the money clip.
Now it's very essential that you have money,
to clip it to the money clip.
That makes it worthwhile, don't carry a money clip
with no money in it, 'cause it's just like
a paperweight in your pocket.
But the great thing about the money clip,
which, I used to not appreciate the money clip,
is just how it holds your money together.
Like I'm really organized, all my money faces the same way,
the denominations go from big to small,
and then, you do that, that way you're not holding up
the line at the store, trying to figure out where your
money's at, you know where it's at,
baby, right there in the good ol' money clip.
This actually is a fancy money clip that was a gift.
And that to me is the better money clip,
a money clip that you don't spend your money on.
Money clip.
Well I'm actually wearing my next essential, a watch.
Okay, this is a Rolex Sky-Dweller,
very hard to get with a blue face.
I truly love watches, I probably have over 30 watches.
And they change with the mood, a watch to me is like,
your mood could be shown through the watch that your wear.
And for me I'm a big fan of all brands,
a big Rolex fan at that this is a great daily watch.
So one of the essentials, I feel naked without my watch on.
I'm not necessarily a big technology guy when it comes
to all these watches that do all the heart rate.
I'm more of an old school, mechanical,
sometimes even wind the watch everyday or so,
to make it work, kinda guy.
And the old classic watch kinda fit the bill for me,
so I'm a big, big watch guy.
No watch, I might as well sit here and do this
with no clothes on, I feel naked.
For my last essential you see I have nothing here
with me, empty table my last essential is too big
to have here because it's a whole building.
It's my man cave, I need it.
Its the one place I go, I can relax, do what I wanna do,
and I'll make sure we have a picture of it,
but it has a bar, it's got a fireplace, a TV,
it's got a golf simulator, a pool table,
a video arcade game, it has tons of cars in it,
and big projector screens, a basketball hoop.
You name it, it has it all.
Called the man cave for a reason.
But I love it, it's essential because it my one escape away
from work and everything else, and it hold's everything
that I really enjoy and to be honest with you
I have nothing from my football career or sports or TV
in my house, it's all in the man cave
'cause I go there to kinda relive what I've done
and kinda sit back and dwell on the past.
When I go home, I'm in the current.
So the man cave is absolutely essential.
If you like cars, watches, cigars, and tequila,
you're essentially my friend.
Hey, I wanna thank you guys,
for checking out my esssentials.
Thank you for watching, I really appreciate it.
Like I said, if you're in the neighborhood,
come hang out at my essential man cave, see you there.