Well, everybody and welcome back to another next lander podcast, Alex Navarro. How are you?

Oh, you know, I'm getting by. How you doing, Vinny?

Okay, got taking care of a couple of things. I'm changing out my ethylene absorbers for my refrigerator, of course. of You've never been more right as I look at the calendar.

It's everybody knows it's Ethylene absorber changing month.

All right, is that the thing I gotta do?

Do you have a newish or fridge that now has a fresh keeper, produce keeper, little pouch

or something in a produce drawer. This is a thing that came with our fridge when we got it a few years ago and we are as far as I can tell what we have is a pouchless

refrigerator I swear there are just sometimes it just seems like they are just putting things to just be like

almost subscription based where you're just like hey don't forget that you got to change this thing out every once and while it keeps you so I guess

ethylene is something that this is the this

is the pitch is that it's a thing that vegetables or fruits off gas that can speed up the rotting of a vegetable or fruit.

And if you have these absorbers in there, it's supposed to keep your vegetables and fruit preserved longer in the thing.

I have over the whatever it was, five years

I've had my fridge.

I have never changed these things

and we were cleaning out the fridge recently

and I was like, I was just go look these up and go see this sounds like a scam but we go look these up so I don't know

Sounds like you got a buildup of ethylene there's a problem I say there's it well there's a problem too much ethylene in the fridge along with the water filter in the fridge and I don't change the like air odor filter in our fridge either I just keep the stuff cold is really what I ask.

So that ethylene thing I guess that's the opposite of the thing where if you put like certain fruits together in a paper bag they'll ripen faster.

Oh, that's probably the opposite of it. One is probably off-gassing and yeah.

Yeah, what is it? It's like apples and but it's one is probably off-gassing and yeah yeah what is it's like apples and

it's one or the other it's like if you put bananas in a bag with apples

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