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Tua Tagovailoa On Partnering with Truist to Give Away $50,000 Through The Tua Foundation
Feb 7, 2021
Tua Tagovailoa joins the Sway In The Morning team to give his picks for the Super Bowl and talk about the great work he is doing through his foundation in partnership with Trust.
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yes indeed ladies and gentlemen he is
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here
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tuatanga vailoa is here the quarterback
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for the miami dolphins
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representing getting ready for this
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super bowl give him a big round of
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applause to him what's popping
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guys thank you guys very much for having
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me
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come on man bro i really uh
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are you like an unsung hero to me young
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man i i really like your play
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i really like your game man and and
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really importantly bro i watch you a lot
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and i watch your interviews and stuff
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and i i'm very impressed by um your
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mannerisms and how you conduct yourself
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in front of the camera so it was when
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the opportunity came i
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i said man we don't you know this guy
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don't really know us but i love to have
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him
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on the show you know because i think it
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is scoring some points you know to us so
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welcome to sway in the morning brother
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that means a lot thank you very much
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thank you guys for having me
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absolutely say hello to heather b and
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tracy g what's up tour thank you for
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joining us today we appreciate you
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hey to uh i also love your name bro
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very sweet thank you guys thank you yeah
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tracy what you don't understand tua is
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the nickname though his
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we i can't pronounce his first name
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correctly so i i opted out for just tour
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okay okay so let me hear it let me get a
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full name
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hey tua uh let's talk about the origins
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of your name before we talk about
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football
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now your family is originally is it a
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polynesian name
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yeah it's a samoan name so i
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i am you know i i've been uh very
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blessed i'm a purebred
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both mom and dad are someone so i'm i'm
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i'm only one thing i'm only samoan so
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that's that's i i was named after my
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my dad's brother so that was pretty
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cool have you been to samoa
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no i haven't actually i haven't uh-huh
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that means it's time to go to her
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no you're you're right it is time to go
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but i i think
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uh next year's off season would be
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would be the best time to go okay
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um welcome to the show man um how
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excited are you about this super bowl
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i mean can you still get excited if you
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don't make it
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well i i think you can um but i think
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you have a different level of
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appreciation
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for the teams that make it you know it's
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it's a long season first off and then
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i mean just being able to to win you
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know those those big time games in
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december and then also in january you
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realize how tough it is and
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i mean you know really i i just hope to
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see a
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a really good game between these two um
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you know i think it'd be a pretty cool
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headline to
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you know see tom get his seventh super
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bowl but
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you know i gotta stick with pat i gotta
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stick with the younger guys
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oh that's ageism right there man i don't
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know about that
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hey i i gotta stick with the younger
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guys i gotta stick with the younger guys
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i'll go with tat
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okay well i'm going with brady um i'm
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going with pat to tour
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that's heather i'm going with brady you
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know cause uh he's from the bay area and
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we had ty law legendary hall of famer on
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cornerback on the on that line with us
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earlier he said if
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for one game i would never bet against
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brady but i also heard you talk about
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what makes uh kansas city so difficult
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to play in terms of their defense you
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you i heard you mention that normally in
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the first two plays you kind of know
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what a defense is going to do and by
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the third play you kind of can't guess
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what they're going to do but with kansas
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city
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every play as a quarterback is really
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hard to read
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why is that bro
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i i think a lot of credit um you know
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definitely needs to go to their dc um
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you know i think their dc doesn't get
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enough credit in that aspect
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but you you look at the veterans that
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they have on their defense
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i mean these guys have been playing with
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each other for quite some time so
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you know any last-minute adjustments i
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mean they can make those on the fly with
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a single
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um you know hand motion a signal
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or they could say a word and they'll get
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into a totally different defense
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so you know i think when you've been
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together for such a long time and
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you guys build that chemistry whether
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it's offense or defensively
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i mean it's going to be hard to to score
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or it's going to be hard to stop you
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know that that team
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and that's why you're going with the
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kansas city chief that's part of the
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reason why
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uh yeah i i guess you could say that
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it i'm on him he got a young mind i'm on
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them i'm on them man
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i'm on them um let me let me uh
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heather you asked ty law a great
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question about preseason
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and how um you know it's been really
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difficult during this culvert time
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and we saw a lot of injuries uh and you
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asked tai law do you feel like because
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people didn't have enough time to prep
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for the season two you've been injured
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before
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uh as well what is how hard is it to
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heal
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uh when you're injured uh and you're
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active
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well i i think um you know everyone's
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different
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first off with how they go about their
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you know their rehab but i i would say
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it takes a toll more so on the mental
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aspect of things than it does
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the physical um yeah because as football
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players
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we're doing the physical almost you know
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every time you know every day we step
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out on the field we're running we're
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you know guys are hitting um and then
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you have
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mental gymnastics with that but then you
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know
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when when you're doing the same thing
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over and over for
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six months you know eight months ten
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months
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you know and you're you're not able to
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go out there and practice and do what
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you love
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things pop in your head and you start to
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think like man
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am i really gonna be the same when i go
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out there
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you know just just a lot of things come
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to mind that that can kind of throw
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off um a player and i to me
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it's more so the the mental part than it
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is the
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mm-hmm physical you seem like you you
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you got
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mental foundation man the way you talk
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you should be reading children books too
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on the side you can make a good money on
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doing your work
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voiceover voiceover work
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yeah disney plus
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series or something listen to us doing
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something really great fans
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fans gonna actually you're doing
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something with you
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people fans your fans can win a video
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call with you and talk football and
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fortnite and whatever they want to ask
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right tell me about this
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uh yeah so we we actually did a call
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um i believe it was two nights ago
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uh we did a call and we also were able
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to play
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um you know on fortnight with some fans
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uh thanks to verizon
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um you know and that that was cool um
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you know but i guess today you know i'm
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i'm really excited to be working with
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truist
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um and i don't know if many people know
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but they recently announced that
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they're an official retail bank of the
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nfl um
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you know and also today i'm launching my
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foundation which would be the tua
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foundation
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and you know i'm working with truist in
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this because we both have a shared
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passion
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and you know that's inspiring and
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building better lives and better
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communities
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talk about that give me an example what
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you guys hope to accomplish that's great
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yeah so um you know the reason i i
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worked with jewish
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is you know like i said where we have
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shared passions you know and to me
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truist is one of the partners
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you know that you know if you share
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something like that you know you
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definitely want to jump on board with
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with those guys
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and so what um you know i'm looking at
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doing for my foundation
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is you know i'm i'm going to be giving
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out three grants
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uh today for uh totaling of fifty
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thousand dollars
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um to you know communities in my
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hometown in hawaii
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i'm in tuscaloosa and also my current
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home uh here
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in miami uh to to try to help out with
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you know youth initiatives health
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wellness and
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then also other charitable causes
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and how can people find out more uh
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where can they go to learn more about us
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yeah they can uh go and visit the
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website
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um that we have here let me actually
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pull up the website um okay
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but yeah you can also follow follow us
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on instagram facebook
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uh and twitter at tua foundation
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okay uh real quick man you got a lot of
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callers on the line i know you gotta go
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but i'll go real quick art in ohio grand
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rises how you doing
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what's up everybody swag rising y'all
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realizing i'm a long long time long time
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listener
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and and two i just want to say man
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congratulations on that heisman you won
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a couple years ago bro
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thank you very much appreciate it i i
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get
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i guess right okay i'm sorry all right
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in florida go ahead that's all he has
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uh the tour got to go hey what's up sway
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heather b tracy
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hey tour man i just want to make a real
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quick man i just want to wish you
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i just want to wish you man the best in
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your career man
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and um man make miami great bro you know
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like one question for you though bro hey
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you play with some great receivers and i
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honestly
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have never seen a better receiver in my
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lifetime than
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who devonte smith best receiver you ever
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through to man in your career
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at alabama
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well i i appreciate what you said um you
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know that means a lot
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uh but to answer your question it's hard
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when you have guys like jerry judy you
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have guys like henry ruggs
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uh devante smith and jaylen wado all on
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the same team
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um you know really it it's pretty much
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all those guys that i mentioned
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um you know they they made my my career
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a lot easier
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um at alabama and you know i
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i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the
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success that um you know they had on the
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field
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as well
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you say what i'm sorry hey i think you
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should advocate to get your boy devonta
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smith from miami man
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anybody want him yeah yeah good luck
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with that all right
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hey taz thank you you're a citizen man
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you're a citizen
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[Music]
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it's really great to talk to you bro uh
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big fan uh continued success
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you got a lot of people in your corner
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that believe in you and
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and keep stay the course man stay the
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course okay
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guys thank you very much for having me i
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appreciate it you guys enjoy your day
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hey guess what you was you a citizen bro
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a sway in the morning
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[Applause]
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thank you guys all right my man i love
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it man
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cool
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you
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