March 27, 2025 • 9 mins
Allergy season has fully taken hold in SMNTY world, coating us in yellow pollen, and it is not going away anytime soon. Samantha talks about the disruption the (long) season can cause.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this Sanny and Samantha. I'm looking the stuff I
never told you production if I heard you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour where I'm gonna complain.
I'm a wine and beach without the wine once again.
This time I have satron tea with throat coat tea
with citron. Actually, that has been my favorite thing as
of late. Annie, are you sipping on anything? Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, just I mean nothing interesting? Is my water? It's lemon.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm gonna get you some citrone. I think you'd like it.
It has no tea in the one I get because
it's Korean. Also, that's a ginger version, like nice ginger
honey version that my partner loves. I don't like it
as much as it's not. I like the sweet versus
like citrusy versus like spicy, although spicy is nice sometimes.
But yes, I am complaining today because if you can't tell,
(01:06):
my voice is just a little off and I'm making
unpleasant noises into the mic for our fortunate producer as
well as any listening and on me. But yeah, it
is allergy season, y'all. And my allergies are not your
typical allergies, I will say. My partner suffers horribly that
(01:26):
he cannot breathe half the time, his eyes swell up.
He's sneezing constantly, like it's bad. When it hits him,
it hits him fast, and like everything in his face
is swollen. His eyes are swollen. Like it is not cute.
I mean, he's cute, but I'm just saying the sickness
is not cute. But for me, I do this once
twice to three times a year. Thing where if there's
(01:47):
a sudden change in temperature, like quick changes, which Georgia
is constant, like literally it was thirty two the other
night and now it's seventy. Yeah, what in the world,
And just recently purchased a car, which y'all, adult things
are not fun. That's what I discovered. And we decided
to wash it because I'm gonna take care of this
(02:07):
one for real, for real. And immediately after washing it,
it was covered in yellow like it's like the trees
and the flowers have vomited and shown that they are
displeased with our well everything, and rightly so so therefore
it's gonna make us sick. And that's that's what where
we're at. So yeah, it is ridiculous. Actually my friend
(02:31):
who just moved back from the UK. She's been suffering
with some stuff too. She was like, how long does
this season last? And I was like forever, it doesn't,
it doesn't end, and she's like, no, no, for real,
for real. It was like, okay, it lasts still September.
She didn't believe me. She really thought I was like
being you know, facetious and being like, you know, sarcastic,
but no, it really really does. And actually I was
(02:53):
looking it up and it says that from Windley dot com,
w Y and d l Y the allergy season and
Georgia starts in the spring. Because Georgia has mild winter
seasonal allergies will come only begin in January. January, and
this is a longer allergy season than most other states.
(03:14):
Because Georgia has a longer allergy season, it can be
in less than ideal place for allergy sufferers. So I
should warn anyone who was thinking about coming to Georgia
if you have bad seasonal allergies, don't come here.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Be prepared.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Like the medications. I don't know you would have thought
by this point, as advanced as everything has been, that
we would have a little more you know advancement for
the advancing, ah just.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Have more advancement or the advancing I.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Mean, am I wrong? Though?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Am I wrong? So it says the com counts are
the highest in like April, May and September. Once again, yes,
it goes all the way into September. It talks about
how you should have a plan, an allergy treatment plan.
Rightly so and then all of these things. I will
say for me, it's like postnatal like drainage. So my throat,
(04:22):
I get coffee, and I get very hoarse and I cough,
but like it's not awful awful. Like again, the way
that my partner suffers. His mom gives him allergy meds
as stocking stuffers, like at least three bottles you know
what that comes in handy, So thank you, he needs this.
(04:45):
She's also a pharmacist, so she knows. But with all
of that, it's not cute because I was just thinking
about how you and I have talked about our voices
are so important for our job, and the fact that
we've had like ads and things. I'm like, they're gonna
be mad, and I sound like an eighty year old
woman talking about their product. And I'm thinking like what
(05:09):
do I do because we also have a time limit,
and then they want us to predict who's doing what
and everything was gonna be okay, and of course there
are ways that we can, you know, work it out.
I've got you, I got you, and people who are
so amazing to advocate for each other. But just like,
how like disruptive this is as a profession, Like when
(05:31):
I was just doing social work, it would just be
kind of be funny and I'd just be like, you know,
I can't talk right now, I'm sick whatnot. We don't
really call out sick. That's not a thing. Like even
when I'm like half feverish, I'm like, I have to
finish watching this movie. And again we're privileged in that
that we're at home and I'm still isolated and not
(05:52):
having to get other people sick, but also in that
level of like, but we have to get things done.
There's no real substitute, and like we can't disrupt the
flow necessarily just because we don't feel so great that day,
and these stupid allergies doesn't go away unless we move.
(06:12):
And now I'm sure we'll find another thing that I
don't like, and I get sick.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
From that's true.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do you have bad allergies?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Uh? No, but they have gotten worse since I stopped running.
I think because I was outside all the time and
a lot, I really didn't have them. And now when
I wake up, I sneeze a lot and my nose
might run. And I've been told I have not verified this,
but I've been told that's kind of a thing of
like your body not being able to do that while
(06:42):
you're sleeping. So it goes away for me pretty quickly.
But I am very familiar with people who have a
lot of allergies. Laura and over on Saver has a
lot of allergies. My older brother growing up, I had
to have like specific sheets because of the allergies. So
I'm very aware of how I annoy and how much
(07:02):
it interferes with your life.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Right, I mean, like I can't imagine going through I
can't like my partner when I say, his face swells
up when it's a bad day, and again that's a
really bad day, but like the way his eyes my
parents My mom was the same way. Her eyes were
always bloodshot and she was constantly using eyedrops because they
(07:27):
were so itchy and red, which causes other problems again,
like for me it being a throat thing. I'm like,
oh this this is very inconvenient to the job in
every way. I just find it fascinating that we live
in an area that it's constant, Like people don't realize.
I just watched a TikTok video where they were like,
(07:49):
they're from the north and then they came down. They're
like what the like literally the fact that they can
just stand still and find patches of yellow, Like I
think someone was really confused about why the yellow while
the water or a puddle was yellow and like floating
with the yellow said, They're like, what is this? What
is this toxic stuff? And where everybody's like boo, that's
(08:12):
called pollen. Welcome to Georgia. It literally covers everything, like
we left something outside to let it dry, covered in yellow,
covered and yellow. And this amount of pollen that is
here is incredibly dense. It's like there's and there's nothing
(08:32):
you can do about it until September and even then
it's still maybe around.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But yeah, So this is the happy hour is dedicated
to my voice and why I sound so off, Like
listening to the qwas, I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's worse.
So thank you for your patient Sanny, and to Christina
who also has to deal with the fact that I'm
sniffling and coughing and all these things on the side,
(08:58):
So sorry, I love you. You're the best.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yes, yes, Christina is the best, and we wish you
all the strength in this battle against the allergies. Samantha.
Well listeners. If you have any thoughts about this, you
can email us at Hello at Stuffwenever Told You dot com.
You can find us on Blue Sky at onsup podcast,
or in Instagram and TikTok at stuff on Never Told You.
(09:23):
We're also on YouTube. We have a tea pop that
story before. We have a book we can get wherever
you get your books. Thanks as always to our super producer, Christina,
our exact your producer, My anderg in Church or Joey.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Thanks to you for listening. Stuff I've Never Told You
is production of my Heart Radio. For more podcast from
my Heart Radio, you can check out the heart Radio app,
Apple podcast, or if you listen to your favorite shit
Hey, this Sanny and Samantha. I'm looking the stuff I
never told you production if I heard you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour where I'm gonna complain.
I'm a wine and beach without the wine once again.
This time I have satron tea with throat coat tea
with citron. Actually, that has been my favorite thing as
of late. Annie, are you sipping on anything? Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, just I mean nothing interesting? Is my water? It's lemon.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm gonna get you some citrone. I think you'd like it.
It has no tea in the one I get because
it's Korean. Also, that's a ginger version, like nice ginger
honey version that my partner loves. I don't like it
as much as it's not. I like the sweet versus
like citrusy versus like spicy, although spicy is nice sometimes.
But yes, I am complaining today because if you can't tell,
(01:06):
my voice is just a little off and I'm making
unpleasant noises into the mic for our fortunate producer as
well as any listening and on me. But yeah, it
is allergy season, y'all. And my allergies are not your
typical allergies, I will say. My partner suffers horribly that
(01:26):
he cannot breathe half the time, his eyes swell up.
He's sneezing constantly, like it's bad. When it hits him,
it hits him fast, and like everything in his face
is swollen. His eyes are swollen. Like it is not cute.
I mean, he's cute, but I'm just saying the sickness
is not cute. But for me, I do this once
twice to three times a year. Thing where if there's
(01:47):
a sudden change in temperature, like quick changes, which Georgia
is constant, like literally it was thirty two the other
night and now it's seventy. Yeah, what in the world,
And just recently purchased a car, which y'all, adult things
are not fun. That's what I discovered. And we decided
to wash it because I'm gonna take care of this
(02:07):
one for real, for real. And immediately after washing it,
it was covered in yellow like it's like the trees
and the flowers have vomited and shown that they are
displeased with our well everything, and rightly so so therefore
it's gonna make us sick. And that's that's what where
we're at. So yeah, it is ridiculous. Actually my friend
(02:31):
who just moved back from the UK. She's been suffering
with some stuff too. She was like, how long does
this season last? And I was like forever, it doesn't,
it doesn't end, and she's like, no, no, for real,
for real. It was like, okay, it lasts still September.
She didn't believe me. She really thought I was like
being you know, facetious and being like, you know, sarcastic,
but no, it really really does. And actually I was
(02:53):
looking it up and it says that from Windley dot com,
w Y and d l Y the allergy season and
Georgia starts in the spring. Because Georgia has mild winter
seasonal allergies will come only begin in January. January, and
this is a longer allergy season than most other states.
(03:14):
Because Georgia has a longer allergy season, it can be
in less than ideal place for allergy sufferers. So I
should warn anyone who was thinking about coming to Georgia
if you have bad seasonal allergies, don't come here.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Be prepared.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Like the medications. I don't know you would have thought
by this point, as advanced as everything has been, that
we would have a little more you know advancement for
the advancing, ah just.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Have more advancement or the advancing I.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Mean, am I wrong? Though?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Am I wrong? So it says the com counts are
the highest in like April, May and September. Once again, yes,
it goes all the way into September. It talks about
how you should have a plan, an allergy treatment plan.
Rightly so and then all of these things. I will
say for me, it's like postnatal like drainage. So my throat,
(04:22):
I get coffee, and I get very hoarse and I cough,
but like it's not awful awful. Like again, the way
that my partner suffers. His mom gives him allergy meds
as stocking stuffers, like at least three bottles you know
what that comes in handy, So thank you, he needs this.
(04:45):
She's also a pharmacist, so she knows. But with all
of that, it's not cute because I was just thinking
about how you and I have talked about our voices
are so important for our job, and the fact that
we've had like ads and things. I'm like, they're gonna
be mad, and I sound like an eighty year old
woman talking about their product. And I'm thinking like what
(05:09):
do I do because we also have a time limit,
and then they want us to predict who's doing what
and everything was gonna be okay, and of course there
are ways that we can, you know, work it out.
I've got you, I got you, and people who are
so amazing to advocate for each other. But just like,
how like disruptive this is as a profession, Like when
(05:31):
I was just doing social work, it would just be
kind of be funny and I'd just be like, you know,
I can't talk right now, I'm sick whatnot. We don't
really call out sick. That's not a thing. Like even
when I'm like half feverish, I'm like, I have to
finish watching this movie. And again we're privileged in that
that we're at home and I'm still isolated and not
(05:52):
having to get other people sick, but also in that
level of like, but we have to get things done.
There's no real substitute, and like we can't disrupt the
flow necessarily just because we don't feel so great that day,
and these stupid allergies doesn't go away unless we move.
(06:12):
And now I'm sure we'll find another thing that I
don't like, and I get sick.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
From that's true.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do you have bad allergies?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Uh? No, but they have gotten worse since I stopped running.
I think because I was outside all the time and
a lot, I really didn't have them. And now when
I wake up, I sneeze a lot and my nose
might run. And I've been told I have not verified this,
but I've been told that's kind of a thing of
like your body not being able to do that while
(06:42):
you're sleeping. So it goes away for me pretty quickly.
But I am very familiar with people who have a
lot of allergies. Laura and over on Saver has a
lot of allergies. My older brother growing up, I had
to have like specific sheets because of the allergies. So
I'm very aware of how I annoy and how much
(07:02):
it interferes with your life.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Right, I mean, like I can't imagine going through I
can't like my partner when I say, his face swells
up when it's a bad day, and again that's a
really bad day, but like the way his eyes my
parents My mom was the same way. Her eyes were
always bloodshot and she was constantly using eyedrops because they
(07:27):
were so itchy and red, which causes other problems again,
like for me it being a throat thing. I'm like,
oh this this is very inconvenient to the job in
every way. I just find it fascinating that we live
in an area that it's constant, Like people don't realize.
I just watched a TikTok video where they were like,
(07:49):
they're from the north and then they came down. They're
like what the like literally the fact that they can
just stand still and find patches of yellow, Like I
think someone was really confused about why the yellow while
the water or a puddle was yellow and like floating
with the yellow said, They're like, what is this? What
is this toxic stuff? And where everybody's like boo, that's
(08:12):
called pollen. Welcome to Georgia. It literally covers everything, like
we left something outside to let it dry, covered in yellow,
covered and yellow. And this amount of pollen that is
here is incredibly dense. It's like there's and there's nothing
(08:32):
you can do about it until September and even then
it's still maybe around.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But yeah, So this is the happy hour is dedicated
to my voice and why I sound so off, Like
listening to the qwas, I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's worse.
So thank you for your patient Sanny, and to Christina
who also has to deal with the fact that I'm
sniffling and coughing and all these things on the side,
(08:58):
So sorry, I love you. You're the best.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yes, yes, Christina is the best, and we wish you
all the strength in this battle against the allergies. Samantha.
Well listeners. If you have any thoughts about this, you
can email us at Hello at Stuffwenever Told You dot com.
You can find us on Blue Sky at onsup podcast,
or in Instagram and TikTok at stuff on Never Told You.
(09:23):
We're also on YouTube. We have a tea pop that
story before. We have a book we can get wherever
you get your books. Thanks as always to our super producer, Christina,
our exact your producer, My anderg in Church or Joey.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Thanks to you for listening. Stuff I've Never Told You
is production of my Heart Radio. For more podcast from
my Heart Radio, you can check out the heart Radio app,
Apple podcast, or if you listen to your favorite shit
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