Cameron Hughes is a professional cheer guy. He whips crowds of all sizes into a frenzy of excitement, abandoning self-consciousness to create a shared high - moments of pure elation and connection. In conversation with Drea and Tom, he explains how loss in his childhood led to this unlikely calling, describes the 'cheer sense' that allows him to read a crowd of thousands in an instant, and how, through the pandemic period even the 'King of Cheer' sometimes needs a cheer.

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