He's currently a Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Wade has published 295 scientific and popular articles, author of more than 20 books, including "One River," "The Wayfinders--" the one we'll talk about today-- "Into the Silence," and "Magdalena." He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and has received his PhD in ethnobotany
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I follow this story of Charles Ball all the way down the South Carolina where he sold to a man named Wade Hampton. Wade Hampton, who was at that point already one of the wealthiest men in the United States, and Wade Hampton put Charles Ball on his cotton plantation. Now at this point, 1805, cotton is a relatively new crop in the United States and it is just moving into the position
don't wanna go through somethin' and see a Z. Wade Twitter handle and Zaire takin' a picture in his own bedroom. presenter: Yeah. Dwyane Wade: They gonna do stuff like that, like they gonna try to be sneaky but it's gonna be a picture of them in they bathroom as you might--
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Please welcome Dwyane Wade. Dwyane Wade: How ya doin'? presenter: Have a seat, yeah.
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. presenter: You've never been here before, right?
presenter: You've never been here before, right? 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.
I myself I grew up on South Florida so I was like an original Heat fan, like Rony Seikaly, Glen Rice, all that stuff. Dwyane Wade: How many people here are from Miami? people in audience: Yeah, yeah.
people in audience: Yeah, yeah. 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 talk
story of the book? 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.
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 --
hopefully, like I said hopefully it can help them, hopefully it can give them a different perspective -- presenter: Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: on how to handle somethin' because when I was goin' through this custody battle, it was kinda like shootin' in the dark. You didn't know what was gonna happen and where the ball's gonna end up.
Were there parts of it that were difficult for you to sort of explain or put out there and share with the world? Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I mean anytime you're talkin' about your personal life in a sense is always difficult. I've had to live my life under the microscope in a sense and it's very public so a lot of things I didn't want to get out got out and I would love to deal with a lot of things
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. Dwyane Wade: you can go find out that kind of information.
Dwyane Wade: it was hectic but, and at the same time it was public so -- presenter: Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: you can go find out that kind of information. I didn't wanna really get too much into it in the book.
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? Dwyane Wade: Yeah, not easy but the lesson learned tale made me really feel comfortable tellin' it, but it's still not easy today. We was on The View the other day, my mom and my sister came, and we had a segment and my mom was talkin', I put my head down in there 'cause I almost lost it, I almost went in
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 she always told me, "Son, you life," she still tell me this day, "Your life is bigger than basketball, your life is bigger than basketball."
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? Dwyane Wade: Well it's very important to give them their time together and apart.
Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter: And how important is that in your relationship with them? Dwyane Wade: Well it's very important to give them their time together and apart. Like I said I had to learn this stuff too, takin' parenting classes, my kids are in therapy as well, going and sit down with them in therapy sessions and tryin' to learn about them not
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.
So I don't know how to -- presenter: Yeah. 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.
Do you ever worry about that perspective? Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I worry about it a lot. Everybody so much when you're young and you get older you start thinkin' about your family, you wanna give your family everything you didn't have and so I worry about givin' 'em
That big and small, more money, more problem stuff -- presenter: Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: that, it makes it a little harder. I think my parents, I think it was very simple to be my parents.
presenter: Yeah. And Zaire likes to play basketball, right? 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 --
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. Dwyane Wade: Yeah,. presenter: Do you think that that's going, I mean in the book you talk about how you like to play for fun but there are times when you're not, you're clearly not playing just
Dwyane Wade: Yeah. presenter: like he had to play because he wanted to be having fun. Dwyane Wade: Yeah,. presenter: Do you think that that's going, I mean in the book you talk about how you like to play for fun but there are times when you're not, you're clearly not playing just 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.
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 what is your perspective on the whole going pro early I mean is it purely an economic decision or? Dwyane Wade: I haven't, I haven't really gotten to that conversation with them yet about me leavin' early. For me, the decision, I think everyone has a different reason why.
Do you think that that portrayal is fair broadly? Dwyane Wade: I think, I think it's fair in a sense the one's that they focus on. I think just as much negative, just as much as we focus on negative just as much positive.
presenter: But do they like know, is the team a part of your life with the kids. Dwyane Wade: Yeah, yeah, they yeah. All of our, we have a family atmosphere in Miami so all of our kids are friends of each other's and they play.
So we got to the finals and I'm like, "So who you rooting for?" Dwyane Wade: They's like, "Dad it's gonna be tough." It's crazy. presenter: Because you guys are, you say in there that you guys are pretty close right now on the team, there's a family atmosphere, like you said, down there, do you feel like
this championship was any different from the last one? Dwyane Wade: It is different, obviously it's a different -- presenter: Yeah. Dwyane Wade: total different team -- presenter: Um-hum.
Dwyane Wade: It is different, obviously it's a different -- presenter: Yeah. Dwyane Wade: total different team -- presenter: Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: from the standpoint of what we've dealt with.
Dwyane Wade: total different team -- presenter: Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: from the standpoint of what we've dealt with. When Shaq came to Miami, it was a love fest – presenter: Um-hum.
When Shaq came to Miami, it was a love fest – presenter: Um-hum. Dwyane Wade: everybody loves Shaq and the Miami Heat and that team and we was able to win the championship. That was my third year in the league and I was like still young and just excited and felt on top of the world and untouchable and then reality set in.
What's the role that it plays for you right now? Dwyane Wade: Well, I use it so many different ways. I mean social media's a good thing and a bad thing 'cause you really have no private life.
I mean I get talked about a lot on Twitter so -- presenter: Yeah. Dwyane Wade: it's not easy to read all the comments but I try to make light of it. Someone say somethin' negative I say, "You need a hug?" "It's not my fault you're angry." So, but I enjoy it, I'm amazed that that many people will follow me and wanna know anything
presenter: Yeah. When you, I mean, a lot of this stuff is pretty recent, when you started in the league this stuff didn't exist Dwyane 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? Dwyane Wade: No question it has.
Dwyane 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? Dwyane Wade: No question it has. I mean this is a different time for professional athletes.
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. presenter: Yeah. Dwyane Wade: And so.