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Hi everyone. You're listening to After Hours. I'm young me. I'm Felix and I'm here. And you guys are looking well tonight.

Because there is a special reason. Yes, because this is our wellness episode. We decided to do a wellness episode because is it because we're obsessed with wellness because we've been stuck at home for so long?

Maybe. Well, in a way, there's nothing more important, right? Yeah, but it was one of those things where I think most people had developed a routine on how they take care of themselves. And then that was disrupted.

And so then you had to proactively come up with a new routine, which is not easy to do. Well, I was unsuccessful.

So yeah, it's hard, but you know, we've done food episodes in the past. We've done entertainment episodes, but it felt right to do a wellness episode, which is a way of saying we need some advice about how to be well.

Well, that's what I'm looking for. So three things I'm really interested to know. One is, what do you find most compelling, cool, interesting happening in the wellness space?

The second thing I'm going to ask you is, what are you more on the fence about in the wellness space? And the third is, I want to know what you're down on in the wellness space.

Can I just say that this corresponds roughly in my world of a fourth grader to a rose, a bud and a thorn, which is a rose is something that's great. A bud is something that you're hoping for that happened in your day.

And the thorn is the nasty thing that happened in your day.

So Felix, you weren't here, but not too long ago. I chastised me here for not being poetic enough because Rawi was on and Rawi was being super poetic.

Exactly. And so look at me here with the rose, a bud, the thorn.

Yeah, it's positively fixed. I know.

Okay, what do you find cool, interesting, compelling happening in this space? Who wants to go first?

I think you should go first. You go first.

Oh, okay. So what I think is interesting is the fitness wars.

We've spoken about the rocket ship that is Belleton, which continued to grow like crazy during the pandemic.

But a couple of things happened along the way, one of which was some severe supply chain problems.

They couldn't fulfill their orders, created for the first time negative word of mouth around the company.

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