An Interview With The Guy Who Counts The Pollen For The News
4 min readJun 15, 2021
Q: What got you into this line of work?
A: Growing up, I had really bad allergies. My mom always tuned into the local news to see the pollen count before I went to school. So I used to think, like, they probably use a pollen counting machine or something to get the count. When I found out it was just a guy with a notepad going out every morning I thought, “I…