Trevor Corson
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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You know, I I still get emails about this episode of the show Friends where Ross and Rachel, the characters, finally hook up after this long emivalent romance and Phoebe, who's kind of the tree hugger in the group, she's like, Oh, look, I knew it.
He's her lobster.
Because she has this kind of pop culture idea going that lobsters make for life.
My grandparents were, you know, summer visitors to Maine when I was a little kid, and we would go visit them there.
And as a very small child, I was completely entranced with the lobster boats when they would come into the dock.
So and watched them unload their lobster catch.
And uh to me the lobstermen were were like these cowboys of the east, you know, they were these romantic, uh, rugged individualists and I was so enamored of of them and their boats that I had decided already
Pretty early on when I was a kid that, you know, I was gonna grow up to be a lobster man.
And um that didn't plan didn't pan out at all.
And so I I actually moved to this small island, you know, with seventy people on it year round in the winter and lived there for two years and became what's called a stern man on a lobster boat.
And fishermen use often the term fisherman or stern man in a gender neutral way.
There are females who call themselves that as well.
Lobsters go back a long way.
I mean
We're talking hundred and fifty million years ago, you would see a lobster that would look almost identical to what we see now.
So Jurassic Park times, basically.
And this American lobster, you know, hasn't changed much since then.
It's a really, really basic creature.
But then this unfortunate thing happened where they kind of gave rise to their own, you know, most serious competitor, the lobster body type evolved into a new type where that tail shrunk down and that's what became crabs.
The problem is if they don't have any protection around, if they happen to get caught without a rock nearby they can hide under, that tail, even with that big heavy shell, is a really yummy meal for a large predatory fish.
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