Dwight Howard: My Wild Snake Stories & 750 Acre Farm | Dwight Howard DSH #712

So, if you saw one like just on a hike, would you pick it up?

Hell to the no,

would you?

Nah, no, I'm not picking up snakes, no.

But I see some freaks with these snakes just walking around Vegas.

Yeah, I mean, I would, I would definitely, if somebody had a snake, I would take it, you know, put it around my neck and stuff like that.

But I'm not going out of my way to take a snake out of its element

to pick it up.

No, that's not there's viral videos of it.

I see them all.

All right, guys, celebrity poker tournament Dwayne Howard.

You made it pretty far, man.

Yeah, man.

This is my first time playing.

Ever?

Ever.

Damn.

In my life.

I never played before.

Dude, you did really well.

I didn't know what I was doing.

Were you just going all in?

No, what I was doing was just kind of just watching the numbers.

And then I was just

feeling the vibe.

Feeling all the vibe.

Yeah.

You just balled with Devontae Frigo yesterday, right?

I did.

That was crazy.

I haven't played in the park in 20 years.

Damn.

That's my first time in 20 years playing in the park.

How do you get you out there to do that?

Oh, he hit me up.

He hit me up.

He asked me to come out.

I was like, yeah, of course, man, I'll do that.

And I have a league in Asia.

So, you know, I went out there to recruit.

So I first started.

I went out there undercover.

Yeah.

My head, like, on a fro

and a mask, and I was at it like I was security.

But then everybody was like,

That's the way I learned.

I was like, fuck, it didn't work.

But I went out there to recruit some players for my league.

I have a tournament, a league in Asia.

And I wanted to check out some of the talent in the Las Vegas area.

You find anyone worthy of joining?

Yeah, I did.

I found some pretty good guys.

They've got some good talent.

With anything, you just need an opportunity.

So hopefully we can provide them guys with a good opportunity.

Let's go.

What made you want to start it in Asia?

Well, I've been going to Asia since I was 18.

And

I just have a love for the people there, the culture.

They love sports, they love basketball, and you know, I thought it was a great place.

Let's go.

I'm half Chinese.

You?

Yeah.

No, you're not.

I am.

Me too.

You are?

No.

No, you're not.

You got me there.

Fuck.

Damn, that was slick.

You have Chinese for you?

Yeah, I am, though.

Yeah.

What part?

My mom grew up in Beijing.

Beijing.

Okay, I love Beijing.

Yeah, I've been there.

It's nice.

That's where they had the Olympics.

Yeah.

I was in the Olympics in Beijing.

Oh, yeah.

How was that?

It was crazy.

Nuts.

It was unbelievable.

It was insane.

How was the food?

Amazing.

I love Asian food.

Fire, right?

It's not like here.

It's not like here.

Like the fruits, the vegetables, everything is like fresh.

Taiwan is one of my favorite places, so they have the best fruit I've ever had.

Yeah, way to put Asia on the map, man.

Always, I love Asia.

Let's go.

Most dunks in NBA history.

Most dunks in NBA history?

That's you.

Me?

Yeah.

I got the most dunks in NBA history.

Shit.

That's a lot of damn dunking.

No, I knew that.

Who's the best dunker of all time?

The best dunker of all times.

You mean like,

like, you got to have, I think now you got to have, what's the criteria for best dunker?

Right, that's a good point.

We should clarify.

I guess most impressive looking dunks.

Well, anytime you have a shorter guy, there, dunks are going to look impressive.

So I'm going to go with Vince Carter.

Who?

Yeah.

Okay.

My teammate, the best dunker I've ever seen besides myself.

Yeah, he'd be jumping over people.

He'd be going crazy.

Yeah.

That's a good question.

We had a dunk contest.

Oh, yeah, where?

Me and him.

Just you two, like no one watching?

In the gym.

Everybody was watching.

Okay.

Who won?

It was the tie.

Yeah.

Well, we both was like trying dunk.

So we would do stuff like stand at the half court, take two dribbles, and then jump.

Yeah.

Damn.

How crazy is that?

Nuts.

So that's what we was doing, stuff like that.

Just trying to do some half-man, half-amazing, Vince Carter type

shit.

I feel that.

I mean, he's got some of the best dunks of all time and the best dunk contest of all time.

I think you do got, I think he is the best dunker of all time.

Yeah.

Like,

I'll give it to him for sure.

Who else dunked better than him?

I know I got the most dunks, but like, as far as flare and glare,

I'm going with Vince Carter.

Yeah, I don't think people are arguing with you on that one for sure.

You got a farm, 750 acres?

756 acres.

What's on it?

A lot of fish.

I have a lake out there.

My dad loves fishing.

Nice.

But I do

do a lot of gardening at my house.

Not at my farm, but my farm has

everything.

But I do...

I have corn, squash, eggplants, watermelon, fig,

all the herbs, lavender,

sunflower, squash, eggplant, yellow pepper, green pepper, green tomatoes, red tomatoes, oranges, peaches.

I don't think it's a holy crap.

So you just live off the lay of the land out there.

I think that's the best way to live.

That's awesome, dude.

Are you kidding me?

I still like junk food.

But no, I think that's the best way to live, man.

Live off your own food, learn how to...

you know, till the land, grow the land,

teach my kids.

Yeah.

Do you still have 20 pet snakes?

I have close.

I have 10.

Damn.

Yeah, I have an anaconda.

She's humongous.

Holy crap.

I have the biggest snake that I have right now is a reticulated python.

He's about 19 feet.

His name is George.

George, like Curious George.

He's super curious.

When he was a baby, he broke out of his cage.

And came and laid on my chest in the middle of the night.

What?

Yeah.

And you were cool with it?

Yeah.

that was my baby.

Wow.

Yeah, I wasn't scared.

What would happen if something like that bit someone?

They just bite them.

Are they poisonous?

No.

Oh, okay.

No, anything with teeth can bite you.

Yeah, true.

No, I just don't know which snakes are like the scary ones.

But they have the different types you have.

Just look at their heads.

If it's shaped like an arrow head, and I think they're poisonous.

Got it.

Yeah, something like that, yeah.

Okay.

So if you saw one like just on a hike, would you pick it up?

Hell to the no.

Would you?

Nah.

No, I'm not picking up snakes, nah.

But I see some freaks with these snakes just walking around Vegas streets.

Yeah, I mean,

I would definitely, if somebody had a snake, I would take it, you know, put it around my neck and stuff like that.

But I'm not going out of my way to take a snake out of its element

to pick it up.

No, that's not that.

There's viral videos of it.

I see them all.

Nah, I can't do it because what if it bites you?

I'm not trying to go viral for dying over a snake bite.

There's people that all they do on YouTube is they lift big ass rocks, pick up a snake, and hold it for the camera.

Do you do that?

Hell no.

Okay, I'm not doing it either.

No, I'll never do that.

I'm good.

I don't do anything that will put my life in danger.

You shouldn't.

Yeah.

People who do that are crazy.

People say that.

I did do some stuff like that before, though.

Yeah, skydiving and shit.

I did a show called Special Forces where I got set on fire.

What?

Yeah, I got set on fire.

Are you serious?

With a blowtorch.

I got kidnapped.

It was the most ridiculous, craziest, amazing thing I've ever done in my life.

Wow.

What made you want to put yourself in those situations?

I wanted to test myself.

I wanted to see, you know, how far I could push my mental, spiritual, and physical limits.

Wow.

And it was fun.

I had a good time.

Was there any of those that broke you mentally?

Hell yes.

I had to write a death letter.

Damn.

You had no will?

To my kids, to my family and all the people that I love.

Wow.

I was crying the whole time writing it.

Dude.

Yeah.

That's nuts.

I was sick.

That is crazy.

Would you do do that?

What, burn myself?

No, like, you didn't, we didn't burn.

Would you do the show?

It's like a,

you got to survive.

We got kidnapped.

We had to jump off a helicopter backwards.

Oh, my gosh.

What do you mean kidnapped, though?

Like, you're sleeping at your house and they kidnap you?

No, they came into the army barracks with guns, blazing guns.

We had to run away, try to get away from them.

We lasted, me and my partner lasted for a minute.

We got captured and it was over with.

Damn.

Oh, so you know they're coming, though, with guns?

They got guns, Black Hawk helicopters, dogs.

Holy crap.

We just got each other.

Nah, I wouldn't do that, man.

I would go on Survivor, though.

It's about the same thing, except it's really intense.

Like when I finished, I had PTSD.

Damn.

Yeah, it was only 10 days.

Holy shit.

No, I feel like Survivor is more like in your control, you know?

Would you?

I would do it.

I would do it too.

I would do it.

Amazing race, I would do.

Probably after my kids get out of high school.

Facts.

So they won't be worried about me so much.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Your kids are hoopers too?

They are hoopers, volleyball, rugby.

Oh.

Yeah, football.

Everything.

Yeah.

Nice.

Did you want to persuade them towards basketball?

Or?

Let them do what they want to do.

I think you should try to persuade anybody to do anything.

Let them live their life, do what they want to do, especially kids.

Yeah.

You know, try to put them in positions to where they can win.

Yeah.

We'll end off with this.

Are you a better defender than Brudy Gobert?

Hell yeah, let's go.

Peace, guys.