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Speaker 1: dot com. Now my guest, who's on the phone? Correct?

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Speaker 1: Great Uh is a cornerback in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: He played collegue football for the Townsend Tigers as in Maryland.

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Speaker 1: I was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks, one of my

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Speaker 1: He now plays for the Tennessee Titans. Tensee Titan used

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Speaker 1: like I'm balanced between I love hate them. They kind

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Speaker 1: love hate relationship with him already. And Uh. He's on

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Speaker 1: the show to talk about staying focused and overcoming the

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Speaker 1: ours and professional football is program Simple Greatness is a

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Speaker 1: youth outreach company that focuses on the uplifting of the

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Speaker 1: youth in our communities. Please welcome to money making Conversation,

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Speaker 1: Ty Smith. Hey, how are you doing? Wait? Are what

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Speaker 1: city are you calling me from right now? I'm in

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Speaker 1: Santa Cruz, California. I'm I'm out your training to your training?

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Speaker 1: What's uh getting ready for? What? What? What's? What's okay?

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Speaker 1: I was. I had to get them. I had to

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Speaker 1: the other day when I was interviewing a anohing young

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Speaker 1: man from the National Football League, I said, PTO, so

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Speaker 1: But so does it ever stop? Does the training ever stop?

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Speaker 1: His year round? Huh? Here's yeah, it's really it's really

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Speaker 1: So it's it's definitely a year around. So the O

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Speaker 1: to get didn't shape and training, But you're saying that

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Speaker 1: then O t S is to prepare you for preseason

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Speaker 1: and preceded to prepare you for the football season. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Really when do you rest, sir? When do you rest?

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Speaker 1: You might you might rest uh of a year, a

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Speaker 1: right after the season, most guys take like, you know,

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Speaker 1: offseason like for you? We're gonna talk about the many

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Speaker 1: programs you're involved, but I would like the people know

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Speaker 1: you know, you weren't you were not a high first

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Speaker 1: National Football League? Um? Really just not not giving up,

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Speaker 1: not uh not quitting, um, just just pushing and understanding

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Speaker 1: So that's that's pretty that's a pretty nice check. Fifth round.

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