Hey, this is Outside In. I'm Nate Hedgy, and it is officially spring. You can probably tell my voice is kind of crackly. My nose is stuffy. My eyes are watery. That's because it's also allergy season.

Are you allergic to anything? I'm kind of allergic to peanuts. I have a shellfish allergy.

I think it depends on the year. Beginning of the end of lobster for me.

So in honor of the hives, the sneezing, the itching.

Our executive producer, Taylor Quimby, asked folks around the NHPR office what people are allergic to.

I have an allergic reaction to an antibiotic called Cypro.

I didn't know that I was allergic to anything until I moved to New Hampshire.

So like seasonal, fall, spring kind of thing?

Yeah.

I used to be really allergic to poison ivy.

I'm actually physically itching right now, thinking about it.

Are you allergic to anything?

Not that I know of. I feel like I'm at the doctor's office.

So you've never taken Zyrtec?

No, I don't think so.

Allegra?

No.

Claritin?

No.

All right.

Well, you can't answer any of my follow-ups, so I'm moving on.

So what did we learn from all this?

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