I use multiples of these everyday. First of all, I make pancakes for my kid. I pour the mix and the milk in this. I shake it up — you don’t have to stir it — and then pour it right in the pan. It comes out of this little spout and makes perfect circles. Second thing I use it for every day is that I drink this wretched vegetable soup out of it. I don’t really like vegetables, so the way I get my daily intake is a 20-ounce thing of vegetable soup. I heat the soup up and then I pour it in this thing. Like with the pancakes, the way the spout is done, it comes out not too fast and not too slow, so I can drink down the soup with the least pain as possible. The third thing is that after I have coffee I drink tea until lunchtime, and I always have a big thing of just English black tea in one of these. And the fourth thing I use it for is that five days a week I work out, and after I work out I have this drink, which is a powder and water mix, and I always use one of them to drink that. I have some in the gym, some in the kitchen, some in the office. They’re everywhere.
This is the post-workout drink I put in the Blender Bottle. I started doing CrossFit before it was called CrossFit, like 20 years ago. I had an incredible CrossFit trainer. His name is Logan Hood. For a while Logan had a space where you did what eventually became CrossFit by the airport in L.A. So I would always go to the airport and do my CrossFit with him. And at the end he would always make me this Hammer orange vanilla protein powder thing. And I loved it, I would look forward to it. So for 20 years I’ve had it.
My silk sleep mask is very important to me. I do not use this every day. Almost all the objects on here I really use every day, but my silk sleep mask I use when I nap, which is usually on the weekends. I actually nap almost every day, but some days when I nap I don’t use a sleep mask. But when I have a real nap, they last for an hour and they’re very deep, and I always wear my sleep mask. And whenever I travel on the plane I always wear my sleep mask because I always nap on the plane.
These are very, very important. When people ask what to get me for a present, I often say Todd Snyder Japanese tube socks. I tried to bypass Todd Snyder and get them directly from the brand — but that’s very hard to do. Whatever genius works there found these incredible socks in Japan, and they just make your feet feel fantastic. The problem with socks is that they are either very breathable but too thin, or very comfy but too hot. And these socks are incredibly cool, and airy, and very plush, and I don’t know how they do that, but they check both boxes. I have about 25 pairs, I would say. Not enough.
The best way to measure your heartbeat is on your heart — not with a Whoop, not with an Apple Watch, not with an Oura Ring, but with a monitor that’s on your heart and talks to your phone. Now, it’s incredibly finicky, and hard to make work. I am sorry to my dear friends at Polar, but it is not a good product. But I use it all the time. My poor assistant over here is usually the one who has to make it work because it’s so buggy and annoying, but when it works — when you have another person who can help you make it work — there’s nothing like it. The app on the phone gives you exactly the information you want: not too much, not too little. I mean the Whoop, it gives you 50 pages. It’s so complicated. This is one page. And it is more accurate, in my view, than your wrist or your finger.
For some reason Apple stopped making these, which is a disaster. I listen to audiobooks when I swim. I only swim usually when I’m injured because I find swimming very boring, but it’s a lot less boring when you have a book. You have to put them in your ear and then you have to wear a rubber cap around them to keep them in your ears. I have a whole thing that I’ve worked out. I did a triathlon and for training, I never could have done the swimming without listening to my audiobooks in my ears. They’re much better than any other ones I’ve tried.
Waterskiing is a big part of my life. I was a huge water-skier when I was young, but I injured my back about 15 years ago. In the last couple of years miraculously I’ve been able to water-ski again. But when you get older, your grip is not quite as strong as it used to be. These are special gloves with a metal hook inside them. When you hold onto the handle of a water ski, the hook is designed in such a way that it really helps you pull yourself out of the water with your grip. But it’ll also release. You couldn’t actually hook your hands onto the handle; that would be too dangerous. Now I can pop right out of the water with my magical gloves. And also even when I’m just riding I can ride a lot longer with my gloves because all the pressure is not going into my grip.
My crêpe pan dates back to when my daughter was born, so ten years. (It’s not the same crêpe pan because a crêpe pan only lasts about two or three years.) I use it every morning. It’s a little sad because in the old days when I only had one child — and I have four kids now — but when I had one, she really loved these crêpes. I learned how to make them extremely well. I used whole-wheat flour so they were a little healthier. Now as anyone will tell you, by the time you have a lot more kids, health goes out the window. So then I moved to white flour. And now I cook every morning, mostly chocolate-chip pancakes on my crêpe pan, from my Blender Bottle. I fit five pancakes on this pan. It’s extraordinary. No matter how bad the burner is, the heat is so evenly spread over the pan. Now on a weekend I will still make a big crêpe batter, especially if my kids have friends over. I’ll turn out 30 crêpes. It takes a while though. It’s a real commitment.
My wonderful friend Barbara, who when I do an interview like I’m doing with you — although she didn’t do it today — she sometimes helps me look younger and she helps with my hair. Anyway, she made this terrific oil, which comes in a dropper bottle, so it’s very easy to squirt the exact right amount. It feels great on your face. And I’ve now used it for quite a long time — two or three years. An actor friend of mine who’s much younger than me — I will not say his name — about a month ago, he said to me, “Your skin always looks so good. What do you use on your skin?” I said, “Barbara’s magic oil,” So it seems to be working.
I am very fixated on lighting. If the lighting is not good — and this drives my wife insane — but if the lighting is not good at a dinner, I can’t hold my train of thought. It’s not something I’m proud of; it’s like an ADD thing. But the lighting has to be right for me to enjoy conversation at night, and it rarely is right. So I was once at dinner at my friend Graydon Carter’s house in Connecticut (I’m doing a lot of name-dropping for you on this to make your story good), and he has these amazing little lights. So I say to his terrific wife, Anna, “Where’d you get these lights?” She’s not really taking me seriously; she thinks I’m just being polite. The next day, I call her and I’m like, “I know you think that I was just shining you on about your lights, but I’m really into them. So where are they from?” They’re from this place in Australia where the customer service is terrible. You know you have a great product when the customer service is mean but you still come back. They have all these rules, like you can only get one charger. So then I said, why don’t I just order one light a week for four weeks, and then every time you’ll send me a light with a charger? Seems like a waste. They said that’s the only way to get a charger for every light. I was not deterred. They’re pricey, but wow, are they worth it. I use them inside and outside. The trick with lighting is that I want enough light to see my food and see the people across from me, but I don’t want too much. I also put them up my driveway and they look like little lanterns.
I’m so lucky I get to live in Los Angeles and still ride my kids to school in a bike every day, and pick them up in a bike every day. All of us fit in the Bunch Bike. I have a long hill on my way up to work, and I’m only so strong, I can only pedal so much. It’s battery powered, and you pedal with the battery, but the more children we have — and my wife goes in it, too — the harder it is to get up the hill. So I’m on my third Bunch Bike, which is a little custom-made. I have an extra power boost in it. I carry my baby on my stomach, and then my wife and my other three kids sit in the Bunch Bike part, and up we go to school. It’s about a mile and it’s one of the best parts of my day. In L.A., drop-off and pickup is a nightmare because everyone does it in their car. I get to cut the whole line, and I speed by everyone, and they all look at me very, very judgmentally because they think I’m endangering my children and I’m also cutting the line, which I’m allowed to do.
I am so determined never to do anything close to the house in a vehicle. I don’t like riding in a car. My wife owns a regular car, but I don’t own a car to drive around. I don’t like how it pulls you away from the world. It took me 25 years but I really figured it out. Every so often I need something a little bigger and a little more substantial than the Bunch Bike. So then I have my Moke. You do have to get a license for it but it’s called a low-speed electric vehicle. It doesn’t go more than 25 miles an hour, and if the Bunch Bike is not working, or I have to go a little bit more than a mile, I use my Moke. It’s much more golf cart than car.
I used to have these gray shirts. I loved them and always wore them. Then someone who works for me had the idea to make a Blumhouse gray shirt, and it was just a dream come true for me. I use them mostly to work out. But a lot of times when I work out the shirt will stay on me, much to the dismay of those around me. They’re soft, they fit a great way, they’re the right cut for me. Obviously it’s hard to find your favorite T-shirt, and everyone’s favorite T-shirt is different. But I just found this place that makes them perfectly for me.