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Speaker 1: Right, Cam Newton has joined us. We're gonna start with joking,

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Speaker 1: how do I followed by Mike Reas, Thank you, Stacy,

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Speaker 1: Hello game. Just some wanting to know about the excitement

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Speaker 1: level and what's going on in your mind right now.

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Speaker 1: Is you prepare for your first game with the Patriots

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Speaker 1: and how excited are you to hit that field comes

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Speaker 1: on day at one? Excitement level is on a thousand.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited and happy just to get back into the

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Speaker 1: the rhythm of game week, you know, the preparation, just

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Speaker 1: a little, the little nuggets that you can often forget.

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Speaker 1: You know, you have to remember, I've been away from

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Speaker 1: football really for a full year, sixteen games. I missed

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Speaker 1: the last games of twenty and eighteen and and only

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Speaker 1: played two games of two thousand nineteen, so that's equivalent

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Speaker 1: of sixteen games. So I haven't really had this whole

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Speaker 1: process for a long time now, So you know, being

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Speaker 1: around taking notes, watching film, finding out about different players

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Speaker 1: each and every day, locking in, you know, excited about

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Speaker 1: newness of either play calling, the coaches and even the

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Speaker 1: players so it's safe to say you still get the butterflies,

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Speaker 1: especially before this one. I don't get butterflies. I give them.

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Speaker 1: How's the joke? Thanks question Mike Reeves fall by Ben Born.

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Speaker 1: That's a good one. Cam Yes, hairspray handshake. I gotta

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Speaker 1: ask you about Nakill Harry. He loved that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just keep finding ways to tap into, you know,

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Speaker 1: the little personal informations. Everybody got a handshake. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: Ni kid, I always always teasing to Kill about the

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Speaker 1: grade of his hair, and he say it's natural. I say,

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Speaker 1: he got a kid in it, you know, and we

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Speaker 1: just go back and forth. So to remove all doubt,

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Speaker 1: our handshake, you know, kind of ties into the sole

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Speaker 1: ghost soul gloss bright. Who does he remind you of,

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Speaker 1: you know, in terms of like body type receivers that

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Speaker 1: You know? From me, I'm not I'm not big into comparing.

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Speaker 1: You know, Nick kills his own his own person, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think he's made leaps in in in strides from

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Speaker 1: to second year. Um, everything else. You know, it's pretty

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Speaker 1: much smooth man. You know, he's gonna get coached hard,

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Speaker 1: He's going to practice stream Lahard. He's been having great habits,

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Speaker 1: building great habits along the way, obviously looking at a

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Speaker 1: to find ways to get better daily. Next question Ben Volan,

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Speaker 1: followed by Bilbert. Hey, Cam, thanks for doing this today. UM,

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Speaker 1: I'm very intrigued about your vegan diet that you've been

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Speaker 1: can you give us some examples of what you're diets

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Speaker 1: like now just eating vegan food. Honestly, it has been

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Speaker 1: a lot of things after watching documentary after documentary, UM

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Speaker 1: I try to incorporate as much green as possible. The

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Speaker 1: and so that's you cannot eat enough green veggies. Next

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Speaker 1: question Bill Bird, followed by Mike Cherry. Hey, Cam, You've

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Speaker 1: been very complimentary of Julian Edelman in a lot of

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Speaker 1: he probably deserves. Well. One thing about Jews howway eleven,

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Speaker 1: He's just doing this because he's a competitor. And every

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Speaker 1: So you know, from playing or from watching him for

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Speaker 1: How briefly, how talented is a talent. I'm good. How

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Speaker 1: good is it? I don't know what more you want

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Speaker 1: let's go, man, let's go, let's go. What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Can hey, Let's get it again.

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Speaker 1: Let's get it again and again, you know, And to

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Speaker 1: keep that standard that that he set. Thank you. Next

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Speaker 1: Is a game changer for sure. Everybody should watch that

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Speaker 1: feel like it's it's second nature for you now when

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Speaker 1: setting that bar to you know, as as people would

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Speaker 1: The standards already set. We see it every single day

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Speaker 1: That's just it's just you know, prerequisite, you know, something

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Speaker 1: I extremely excited. I are you done? Yes? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Josh is Um he's in large part one of the

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Speaker 1: But yet at the same time he makes it relatable

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Speaker 1: the field. Your last game against Tampa was September twelfth,

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Speaker 1: and this weekend's game against the Dolphins will be September thirteenth.

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