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Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too,

and guess who's lurking around with chains of doom rattling from him. That's Dave. He's here in

spirit is what I'm trying to say. And that makes this short stuff the Achu edition.

Hold on the edition. That's me, man. As you know, I've been dealing with this for two plus

months. Allergies that never used to get me are getting me now. My doctor said sometimes that

happens. Yeah, you grew into him. That's fantastic. Oh, it's great. We did a very robust episode on

pollen back in the day that was really popular because there are so many allergy sufferers

in the world and I guess that listen to our show. But we want to thank House Stuff Works and

a PhD here, Carrie Whitney for this article. But we're not talking about just pollen. We're talking

about you hear pollen count all the time. And I never stop to think, like, is someone counting

pollen? Like how did they even get that number? The answer is absolutely yes. In that nuts. It

surprised me. We'll get to that. But just a little brush up on pollen. Paulin is the gamete fight,

the sperm, essentially, of the plant. It comes from the anthors, which is the male part. And then

it fertilizes the carpal, the female part. And pollen, I mean, especially you Chuck, I'm sure you

see it everywhere because it's affecting you. You want to get away from it. Hold drifts of it.

Just coat the cars in Georgia like seriously, everybody. If you have never really

experienced pollen come to Georgia in the early to mid spring and you will be like, what is going

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