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

Speaker 1 So, if you saw one like just on a hike, would you pick it up?

Speaker 2 Hell to the no,

Speaker 2 would you? Nah, no, I'm not picking up snakes, no.

Speaker 1 But I see some freaks with these snakes just walking around Vegas.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 But I'm not going out of my way to take a snake out of its element

Speaker 2 to pick it up. No, that's not there's viral videos of it.

Speaker 1 I see them all.

Speaker 1 All right, guys, celebrity poker tournament Dwayne Howard. You made it pretty far, man.

Speaker 2 Yeah, man. This is my first time playing.
Ever? Ever. Damn.
In my life. I never played before.

Speaker 1 Dude, you did really well.

Speaker 2 I didn't know what I was doing.

Speaker 1 Were you just going all in?

Speaker 2 No, what I was doing was just kind of just watching the numbers. And then I was just

Speaker 1 feeling the vibe.

Speaker 2 Feeling all the vibe. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You just balled with Devontae Frigo yesterday, right?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 How do you get you out there to do that?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 So, you know, I went out there to recruit. So I first started.
I went out there undercover. Yeah.

Speaker 2 My head, like, on a fro

Speaker 2 and a mask, and I was at it like I was security. But then everybody was like,

Speaker 2 That's the way I learned. I was like, fuck, it didn't work.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 You find anyone worthy of joining?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I did. I found some pretty good guys.
They've got some good talent. With anything, you just need an opportunity.

Speaker 2 So hopefully we can provide them guys with a good opportunity. Let's go.

Speaker 1 What made you want to start it in Asia?

Speaker 2 Well, I've been going to Asia since I was 18.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I just have a love for the people there, the culture.

Speaker 2 They love sports, they love basketball, and you know, I thought it was a great place. Let's go.

Speaker 1 I'm half Chinese.

Speaker 2 You? Yeah. No, you're not.
I am. Me too.
You are?

Speaker 1 No. No, you're not.
You got me there. Fuck.

Speaker 2 Damn, that was slick. You have Chinese for you? Yeah, I am, though.
Yeah. What part?

Speaker 1 My mom grew up in Beijing.

Speaker 2 Beijing. Okay, I love Beijing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've been there. It's nice.

Speaker 2 That's where they had the Olympics. Yeah.
I was in the Olympics in Beijing. Oh, yeah.
How was that? It was crazy.

Speaker 1 Nuts.

Speaker 2 It was unbelievable. It was insane.

Speaker 1 How was the food?

Speaker 2 Amazing. I love Asian food.

Speaker 1 Fire, right? It's not like here.

Speaker 2 It's not like here. Like the fruits, the vegetables, everything is like fresh.

Speaker 2 Taiwan is one of my favorite places, so they have the best fruit I've ever had.

Speaker 1 Yeah, way to put Asia on the map, man.

Speaker 2 Always, I love Asia. Let's go.

Speaker 1 Most dunks in NBA history.

Speaker 2 Most dunks in NBA history? That's you. Me? Yeah.
I got the most dunks in NBA history.

Speaker 2 Shit. That's a lot of damn dunking.
No, I knew that.

Speaker 1 Who's the best dunker of all time?

Speaker 2 The best dunker of all times. You mean like,

Speaker 2 like, you got to have, I think now you got to have, what's the criteria for best dunker?

Speaker 1 Right, that's a good point. We should clarify.
I guess most impressive looking dunks.

Speaker 2 Well, anytime you have a shorter guy, there, dunks are going to look impressive. So I'm going to go with Vince Carter.
Who?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Okay.
My teammate, the best dunker I've ever seen besides myself.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he'd be jumping over people.

Speaker 2 He'd be going crazy. Yeah.
That's a good question. We had a dunk contest.
Oh, yeah, where? Me and him.

Speaker 1 Just you two, like no one watching?

Speaker 2 In the gym. Everybody was watching.
Okay. Who won? It was the tie.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 Damn.

Speaker 2 How crazy is that?

Speaker 1 Nuts.

Speaker 2 So that's what we was doing, stuff like that.

Speaker 2 Just trying to do some half-man, half-amazing, Vince Carter type

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 I think you do got, I think he is the best dunker of all time. Yeah.
Like,

Speaker 1 I'll give it to him for sure.

Speaker 2 Who else dunked better than him? I know I got the most dunks, but like, as far as flare and glare,

Speaker 2 I'm going with Vince Carter.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think people are arguing with you on that one for sure.

Speaker 1 You got a farm, 750 acres?

Speaker 2 756 acres.

Speaker 1 What's on it?

Speaker 2 A lot of fish. I have a lake out there.
My dad loves fishing. Nice.

Speaker 2 But I do

Speaker 2 do a lot of gardening at my house. Not at my farm, but my farm has

Speaker 2 everything.

Speaker 2 But I do... I have corn, squash, eggplants, watermelon, fig,

Speaker 2 all the herbs, lavender,

Speaker 2 sunflower, squash, eggplant, yellow pepper, green pepper, green tomatoes, red tomatoes, oranges, peaches.

Speaker 2 I don't think it's a holy crap.

Speaker 1 So you just live off the lay of the land out there.

Speaker 2 I think that's the best way to live.

Speaker 1 That's awesome, dude. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 I still like junk food.

Speaker 2 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,

Speaker 2 teach my kids. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you still have 20 pet snakes?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 He's about 19 feet. His name is George.

Speaker 2 George, like Curious George. He's super curious.
When he was a baby, he broke out of his cage.

Speaker 2 And came and laid on my chest in the middle of the night. What? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you were cool with it?

Speaker 2 Yeah. that was my baby.
Wow. Yeah, I wasn't scared.

Speaker 1 What would happen if something like that bit someone?

Speaker 2 They just bite them.

Speaker 1 Are they poisonous?

Speaker 2 No. Oh, okay.
No, anything with teeth can bite you.

Speaker 2 Yeah, true.

Speaker 1 No, I just don't know which snakes are like the scary ones.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Okay. So if you saw one like just on a hike, would you pick it up?

Speaker 2 Hell to the no.

Speaker 2 Would you? Nah. No, I'm not picking up snakes, nah.

Speaker 1 But I see some freaks with these snakes just walking around Vegas streets.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 2 to pick it up. No, that's not that.

Speaker 1 There's viral videos of it. I see them all.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Do you do that? Hell no. Okay, I'm not doing it either.

Speaker 1 No, I'll never do that. I'm good.
I don't do anything that will put my life in danger.

Speaker 2 You shouldn't. Yeah.

Speaker 2 People who do that are crazy. People say that.
I did do some stuff like that before, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, skydiving and shit.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 It was the most ridiculous, craziest, amazing thing I've ever done in my life. Wow.

Speaker 1 What made you want to put yourself in those situations?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Was there any of those that broke you mentally?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 I was sick. That is crazy.
Would you do do that?

Speaker 2 What, burn myself? No, like, you didn't, we didn't burn. Would you do the show? It's like a,

Speaker 2 you got to survive. We got kidnapped.
We had to jump off a helicopter backwards.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. What do you mean kidnapped, though? Like, you're sleeping at your house and they kidnap you?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 Damn.

Speaker 1 Oh, so you know they're coming, though, with guns?

Speaker 2 They got guns, Black Hawk helicopters, dogs.

Speaker 2 Holy crap. We just got each other.

Speaker 1 Nah, I wouldn't do that, man. I would go on Survivor, though.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 No, I feel like Survivor is more like in your control, you know?

Speaker 2 Would you?

Speaker 2 I would do it.

Speaker 1 I would do it too. I would do it.
Amazing race, I would do.

Speaker 2 Probably after my kids get out of high school. Facts.
So they won't be worried about me so much.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your kids are hoopers too?

Speaker 2 They are hoopers, volleyball, rugby. Oh.
Yeah, football. Everything.
Yeah. Nice.

Speaker 1 Did you want to persuade them towards basketball? Or?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 You know, try to put them in positions to where they can win. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We'll end off with this. Are you a better defender than Brudy Gobert?

Speaker 2 Hell yeah, let's go.

Speaker 1 Peace, guys.