I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box.

I've painted it silver and Daddy helped me make it.

At Amazon, we're actually using paper bags for more of our deliveries.

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and I even made a little brown basket

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Just one of the ways we've reduced the weight of our packaging by more than 40% since 2015,

which is still good for playtime.

Mom, where's the scissors?

To learn more, visit aboutamason.com.com.combe, forward slash sustainability. I'm My guest today is a gym owner from New Jersey who refused to close his gym during the COVID lockdowns.

He is now running for Congress in the third congressional district in New Jersey.

Very pleased to welcome Ian Smith. Ian, are you ready to roar?

I'm ready to roar. Let's do it, man. Glad to be here.

Fantastic. Yeah, glad to have you here, man. And, you know, I want to talk about everything

that went on with the lockdowns in your gym and of course your congressional run, but I want to

start by just getting to know you a little bit better. So you can start wherever you think it makes sense. I'm kind of

curious how you ended up just owning a gym in the first place, how that became such a passion

that you kind of centered your whole life and business around it. And then I am also kind of curious

what your political thoughts were if you were even political in any way prior to all this COVID stuff?

Sure. So my name is Ian Smith. I'm one of the co-owners of the now infamous Tillis Jim Belmar in New Jersey, otherwise known as Governor Murphy's favorite gym. I have been a health

enthusiast and something of the fitness buff, I guess you could say, for quite a long time.

It was something that saved me during a very, very dark time in my life, where I didn't have a

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