Is that teal? Walkin' down the street with this lady with curly hair with a teal shirt and took a picture of us backing in lookin' like we goin' into a hotel but we're really comin' to Google. presenter :Dwyane Wade: It's -- That's the way the world is so -- it's the privacy is really, you really have no privacy at all.
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Dwyane Wade: How ya doin'? presenter : Have a seat, yeah.Dwyane Wade: How y'all doin'?
How y'all doin'? voices in audience: Good, good. presenter : And welcome to Google.Dwyane Wade: Thank you.
Dwyane Wade: Thank you. presenter : You've never been here before, right?Dwyane Wade: No, I've never been here before only been on the website.
Dwyane Wade: No, I've never been here before only been on the website. presenter : Cool, cool. Now we're really, we're really excited to have you here today.There's a lotta big fans.
Dwyane Wade: Alright represented, we've got a few. presenter : But so I read, you have a new book out this week and this is part of the Authors@Google series and the memoir is called A Father First and I thought we could talka little about that today and your experience and some of the stuff you discuss in that book.
Four and all that, but I think -- Dwyane Wade: I'm still that person. presenter : Yeah. I think that story which you definitely tell in the book is sort of almost secondary to this other sort of set of tales about you.This kid who grew up in a tough life in a rough part of Chicago and who learned to be, learned he was going to be a father at 19 and I think that, that, do you feel like that's
Dwyane Wade: Well, yeah, I think it would have been easy for me to write a book about basketball but I also think y'all can Google it. presenter : Nice, nice. Dwyane Wade: That was so corny.I didn't even think about that one it just came to me.
Oh a little basketball's in there, too. presenter : Yeah, yeah, definitely.So why did you decide, I mean the book opens with you getting full custody of Zion and Zaire -- Dwyane Wade: Yeah.
So why did you decide, I mean the book opens with you getting full custody of Zion and Zaire -- Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : and so why did you decide that you wanted to get this out there?Dwyane Wade: It just, I really don't know.
I've never really thought that I was gonna write a book, I never thought I'd be an author before I always looked at it as hard work, which it is -- presenter : Dwyane Wade: but I just felt that I go through everything in life for a reason.It's some reason I went through this process for many, many years and still going through it today.
can see this is how hard it's supposed to be, this is as hard as it's gonna be, just so many different things so. presenter : Yeah. You describe yourself as an introverted guy in the book but there are some very personal things that you share in there.Were there parts of it that were difficult for you to sort of explain or put out there and share with the world?
But I kept a lot out. presenter : Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: I like to tell people that what you read in here is a little mild version of my life --presenter : Dwyane Wade: especially the divorce and the custody battle -- presenter : Yeah.
presenter : Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: I like to tell people that what you read in here is a little mild version of my life --presenter : Dwyane Wade: especially the divorce and the custody battle -- presenter : Yeah.Dwyane Wade: it was hectic but, and at the same time it was public so -- presenter : Um-hum.
I didn't wanna really get too much into it in the book. presenter : I mean there's also some very emotional stuff from when you were a kid growin' up and some of the experiences with your family and the relationships that you had with them.Do you think it was easier telling some of the stories especially about your mom and stuff because it was also sort of a lessons learned tale that you were telling?
So some of those emotions, some of those memories come back in a sense so writin' this book was like my therapy, it was kind of therapeutic -- presenter : Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: in a sense.So it's like bein' in a dark room and talkin' to my writer about my life.
And I remember so much, like it started coming back and I remember things like it was yesterday as well so it was very, very therapeutic. presenter : Yeah. The subtitle of the book is How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball and that came from something that your mother used to say to you.Dwyane Wade: Yeah, she's always, she know I loved basketball, she know I wanted to be a basketball player but she didn't want that to be my only dream.
But I lied I was like, "Yeah, mom I wanna be a doctor -- is that good?" But I didn't wanna be a doctor. presenter : Dwyane Wade: presenter : One of the things you talk about in there is with your two sons and your nephewis man time and man talks right – Dwyane Wade: Yeah.
is man time and man talks right – Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : where you have like these serious conversations about important things with them.Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : And how important is that in your relationship with them?
So that's one thing that consists of man time, it consists of obviously doin' fun things. presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: My kids are they're simple in a sense like my youngest son if I put him in the car on the expressway and drop the top and we rollin', he great, that's amazing.He like, "Faster, faster." I'm like, "I don't wanna get pulled over but," -- presenter : Dwyane Wade: but, so I got to drop the top to make it seem like we goin' real fast and
So it's like certain things is just to me when we spend time together and no one else is involved in that moment. presenter : Yeah. Are there things that you feel like you haven't been ready to explain to them yet that they've kind of come to you with the man talks?Dwyane Wade: Not really, I mean, like I said I'm pretty honest with 'em.
I think it's things that they not ready to ask me yet. presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: Most anything I don't think they still tryin' to make sure they get as comfortable as possible to be able to open up in a sense.They still a little guarded on certain things.
Dwyane Wade: When I grew up everybody Dad sucked, it was -- it was it was the way of the world. presenter : Dwyane Wade: and so it's a lot different different now.But so it's tough, it's tough man, he deals with a lot of emotions that I've never had to deal with and that I don't really understand and I'm tryin' to teach him how to handle
things in a certain way, so. presenter : Do you ever worry about that they'll have a strange perspective on the world that's, because, I mean their life is so different than yours was when you werethat age and there is a difference between being the son of a famous person.
world and I gotta try to do my best job that I can to hopefully raise 'em to be better men than me. presenter : Yeah. And Zaire likes to play basketball, right?Dwyane Wade: Yeah, it's just sickening.
Dwyane Wade: Yeah, it's just sickening. presenter : So you said in the book that you made this deal with him when he was nine that he could play but he had to play for fun only --Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : like he had to play because he wanted to be having fun.
for the fun of it -- Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : you're fiercely competitive.Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : Do you feel like you worry about that with him, like do you feel like that's goin' well?
Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I got double, it's like I got double standards. presenter : Dwyane Wade: I'm tellin' him just to play for fun and like leave the refs alone and don't have an attitude out there and I know he's like, "Dad, I watch you play --and like what are you talkin' about?" So, but I do this, I told him I don't want no pressure, I don't want him to put pressure
I mean, he's in fifth grade now, I mean, you're not workin', you're not makin' no money off this -- presenter : Dwyane Wade: so why stress yourself. presenter : So I mean I'm payin' all the bills I ain't get no help.presenter : Dwyane Wade: So I just try to tell him that.
presenter : So I mean I'm payin' all the bills I ain't get no help.presenter : Dwyane Wade: So I just try to tell him that.He had an episode one time where he, and this was the moment where I became that dad.
I never thought I'd be that dad. presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: I calmed myself but then I went to talk to him at half time, "Hey, you wanna got get in the car?You wanna go? 'Cause you not doin' what we say you're gonna do.
Second half he came out he was back to his dancin' ways and -- presenter : Dwyane Wade: and playin' -- doin' all those things. presenter : When -- Dwyane Wade: presenter : when you were in school you talk about your sister used to push you academically and I know that Coach Crean pushed you to finish strong in school even though you leftearly. But do you ever talk to your kids about how you didn't finish, how you decided to go pro early?
So everyone has their own journey and their own path to the reasons why they have to do that. presenter : Um-hum. Professional athletes have this, have a pretty bad stigma when it comes to being fathers and fatherhood and you talk about, that's one of the things you mention in there.Do you think that that portrayal is fair broadly?
But professional athletes anything we do is gonna get a little bit more and rightfully so. presenter : Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: So I think it's a lot of great fathers as well and I think that's one of the reasons that I wrote this book as well to kind of shed light on those positive fathersout there. Goin' through this process I get it, I get situations why certain dads are not in the
So I understand certain fathers to move on, but I don't accept it, I'm not sayin' that's what you should do, but I get it. presenter : Um-hum. There's a funny anecdote in there about your kids are out playin' basketball and they're callin' each other Lebron, right?And you were kind of like -- Dwyane Wade: It's crazy.
they -- I'm one of their top players -- but it's, they got they favorite players -- presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: and everyone does.presenter : But do they like know, is the team a part of your life with the kids.
presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: and everyone does.presenter : But do they like know, is the team a part of your life with the kids.Dwyane Wade: Yeah, yeah, they yeah.
I believed in me but I continue to work because I was written off so many times since then and just kept fightin'. presenter : Um-hum. So since you are at Google, I thought we'd talk a little bit about technology and the Web.You're one of the 50 most followed profiles on Google+ right now, I think you have two million followers or somethin' and you have millions of fans that follow you on other
about me. I've never thought that someday roughly all these millions of people gonna wanna know that my life is that interesting, I don't think it is, but I guess somebody does. presenter : Yeah. When you, I mean, a lot of this stuff is pretty recent, when you started in the league this stuff didn't existDwyane Wade: No. presenter : So I'm curious to get your perspective on has all this stuff changed the sort of public life of a star professional athlete?
I'm like, "I'm not out there." presenter : Dwyane Wade: But for the majority of the time most people know where you at. presenter : Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: You can walk by and say, "Oh I just seen D. Wade at walkin' into, walkin' down the street with his young, what color's that, is that teal?Is that teal? Walkin' down the street with this lady with curly hair with a teal shirt and took a picture of us backing in lookin' like we goin' into a hotel but we're really comin' to Google.
Dwyane Wade: It's -- That's the way the world is so -- it's the privacy is really, you really have no privacy at all. presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: And so.presenter : Well, so there's the privacy aspect right and then there's the other aspect right which is you have this instant communication platform to every fan, journalists, whoever.
presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: And so.presenter : Well, so there's the privacy aspect right and then there's the other aspect right which is you have this instant communication platform to every fan, journalists, whoever.Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : So you have these younger guys who are comin' like you that are pretty young when they're comin' into the league and now they have, they can just talk to a million
people by -- Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter : the push of a button.Do the more veteran guys see that as liability or like a concern for the team dynamic?
Dwyane Wade: It could be dependin' on the young guy comin' in. presenter : Yeah. Dwyane Wade: You had a, if anybody had, if Michael Beasley, Mario Chalmers and those guys when they was rookies when they came in together, if social media was big thenoh, we would have been in trouble.