1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. I've often said, and I believe 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: it to be true, that people are fascinating. Many times, 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: it's the people that think that they are boring or 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: simple who turn out to be the most interesting, the 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: most fascinating lives and stories to tell. But they think, oh, 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: it's nothing much. I'm just a fella in the blank. 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: A few years ago, we had a woman named Nicky 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: Johnson Coons, also known as the Texas Shrimp Diva. She 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: runs a shrimp boat in Galveston with her father in law, 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: who I think you're just going to fall in love with. 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: We certainly did. Everyone calls him Pops. He was recently 12 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: profiled in Texas Monthly. He's an interesting, interesting fella. It's 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: an interesting story, and I think you're gonna love it. 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you after you hear this story, 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: and I'll forward it on to Nicky and she'll share 16 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: it with Pop. You can send me an email at 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: any time at Michael Berryshow dot com. You can buy 18 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: our merch there, you can sign up for our daily 19 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: e blast, and you can send me an email directly. 20 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: And I read all of them. I can't respond to 21 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: all of them, but I do read every single one 22 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: of them, you know. I love to do human interest stories. Yeah, 23 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: we got to talk about elections, and we got to 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: talk about culture, and we've got to be mad at 25 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: DC and how stupid Biden is. But at the end 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: of the day, who we are as a people, how 27 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: we mark our civilization when we're gone, And we're all 28 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: going to be gone, whether it's in a week, a year, 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: or fifty years, we're all going to be gone. When 30 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: you look back on our civilization the way you do 31 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: the Romans degree, we're going to ask how did we 32 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: treat each other? How did we treat our children, What 33 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: did we do to educate them? What did we do 34 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: for leisure? What were our pastimes? What were our great joys? 35 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: What did we do for our elderly? How did we 36 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: treat people once they grow old? What were our professions? 37 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: What was our commerce? What were our houses of worship? 38 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: These these are the important things. And I like to 39 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: tell stories about people who may not be famous. Although 40 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: our next guests used to qualify for that, but I'm 41 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: not sure that's true anymore. He's become rather famous, uh, 42 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 1: and he's not. Just as they say in Galveston, island famous. Uh, 43 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: he's he's famous north of the Causeway as well. Let 44 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: me start, Ramon. We were supposed to do Popeye the 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: Sailor Man to start, Okay, so hold on, folks, we're 46 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: gonna restart the segment. Okay, here we go. We're restarting 47 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: the segment. 48 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 2: Here we go, not doing the pop by the ceremony. 49 00:02:46,280 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 3: Lay wowe. It is to make those big. 50 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: N what I am bet out to make you think 51 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: of Popeye and olive oil and the whole deal. So 52 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: I see this, uh, this story that keeps swirling around. 53 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: There is this very spunky, feisty lady who's posting on Facebook, 54 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 1: and people are always sending me show ideas, which is 55 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: where I tell you, folks, all the time, I'm constantly mining, 56 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: constantly trolling as trawling for you, Ramon. But you don't 57 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: understand fish speak like our next guest, and I do. 58 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: You're not the fisherman that we are. I'm always looking 59 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: for interesting people, interesting stories, interesting things to talk about, 60 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: and I keep hearing about this woman. She posts on 61 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: the name of Texas Shrimp Diva and her name is 62 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: Nikki Johnson Coons, and she posts every day about her 63 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: and her father in law and they're out on a 64 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: shrimp boat, going out shrimping every morning, and she posts 65 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: videos and she makes it almost look glamorous, but if 66 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: you watch closely, it ain't glamorous. It's hard work, it's dangerous, 67 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: it smells bad, it's tough, it's brutal, the winds blowing 68 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: the net doesn't work. I mean, it's not easy. So 69 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: she posts about her father in law, and if you 70 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: don't fall in love with her father in law at 71 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: the end of the second or third post, if not 72 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: two seconds into her, then you have you're not alive. 73 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: Because we've either known this guy or someone like him 74 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: in our lives or we've always hoped to. They did 75 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: a story on him in Galveston, the Galveston Chamber of 76 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: Commerce or Tourism Board. I'll play that for you to 77 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: get started, so you get a sense of who we're 78 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: talking about. 79 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 4: The water is an amazing thing, you know. It always 80 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 4: relaxed me. So working on the water was right up 81 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 4: my alley. I've been doing this so long now that 82 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 4: I thought I was gonna give it up about two 83 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 4: years ago. It did work. I'm still working. So I 84 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 4: was ten years old. My daddy started, went to school 85 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 4: for a while to quit. Don't it every since? I 86 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 4: always got work to do, never run out of it. 87 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 4: Nineteen thirty three. I was born in Gallaton. My daddy 88 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 4: before I was ten years old, he bought a whole 89 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 4: boat out of the yacht base and made a massed 90 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 4: out of wood. Stuck it on. Now, he said, you're 91 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 4: gonna try a shrimp it. We had to do everything 92 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 4: by hand. Didn't have no wins, no nothing. Its hard 93 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 4: to tell you how what kind of lived it was, 94 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 4: but it was all right. It was a good life. 95 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 4: Before I got married, we'd always go to drive, Yet 96 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 4: you don't drive the beach and check the girls out. 97 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 5: And all this. Well. 98 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 4: I met her she was sixteen, I was eighteen. We 99 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 4: tried to get married in g I wason too young. 100 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 4: We got ten kids in twenty years. It's a good life, 101 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 4: you know. I had a great life. I had no complaints. 102 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,119 Speaker 4: I'm still there to talk about, so it ain't too bad. 103 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 4: You ain't gonna last long. You got to get out 104 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 4: and move. Work won't kill you, because I wouldn't be 105 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 4: a talk to you. But I can tell you that 106 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 4: I'm about eighty seven years old, born nineteen thirty three, 107 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 4: and I'm playing on to be in here. I hate 108 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 4: to head tail. 109 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: We will talk to the man they call Pops, the 110 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: captain coming up. Well, I probably took longer intro in 111 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: our next guest. Then he feels comfortable with. But I've 112 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: been really excited to talk to him because I follow 113 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: him now by way of his daughter in law, who 114 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: is the most made up woman on a shrimp boat 115 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: you've ever seen. That's why she calls herself Texas Shrimp 116 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: Diva because she looks like she's a runway model and 117 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: recently was because I follow the feed and there's her 118 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: and her father in law out on a shrimp boat 119 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: before most people are awake, and the daily accounts of 120 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: their struggles and joys, and it's a pretty cool deal. 121 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: So Jerome Coons is our guest. Welcome to the program, sir, 122 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: Now you do it. I'm good. May I have the 123 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: honor of referring to you as Pops, which it seems 124 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: everybody else. 125 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 5: Does, right, good, very good. 126 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: Okay, that's roder that I'm the permission to come aboard granted. 127 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 6: Any come aboard he wants to come onboard the boat? 128 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, anytime. 129 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: Hey, Pops, They told me that you wouldn't be able 130 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: to hear me. But you can hear me, can't you. 131 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, boy, hear him a little bit. Yeah right, I'm 132 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 5: harder here and so we're working on it. 133 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: Hey, don't you worry. Don't you worry one bit. So 134 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: I understand that you've been shrimping in Galveston Bay for 135 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: more than eighty years. Tell me how you got started 136 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: in shrimping. 137 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 5: Well, my daddy started. I was ten years old, and 138 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 5: I went to school for a little bit and then 139 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 5: he just said, oh hell, just get on the boat 140 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 5: with me, and hell with the school. You don't need 141 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 5: no education, just need the work. And that's what I 142 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 5: did all my life up till working. I'm a workaholic, 143 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 5: I guess that's what they call me. And I enjoy 144 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 5: I worked that part of my life. 145 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: So they said in the video that you were eighty seven, 146 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: but that's a few years ago. 147 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 5: How old are you now, I'm ninety years old. 148 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: Ninety years old, man, that's a good run. 149 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's a nice round figure. 150 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: Hey, tell me something that you've learned about shrimp from 151 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: being a shrimp boat captain for all these years that 152 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: people wouldn't know. 153 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 5: Well, I tell you one thing. I didn't think that 154 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 5: Benny Swemp left right now. But they're still here and 155 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 5: I'm still here, and they reproduce a whole bunch we 156 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 5: know lose when they have it. When they have a spawn. Well, 157 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 5: there's so many eggs that come up into the estuaries 158 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 5: that they get in by in the grass and round 159 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 5: the roots of the grass, and they stay there till 160 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 5: they grow up a little bit and then they start 161 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 5: my grating out. But they are really amazing little creature. 162 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 5: I tell you that they I didn't think that be 163 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 5: anyth today, but they're still here, and so am I. 164 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: When you look at a shrimp, you got a whole 165 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 1: boat full of shrimp, and you look at a shrimp 166 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: to decide whether that's going to be good to eat 167 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: or you're looking at it? What can you tell when 168 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: you look at that shrimp? What are you looking for? 169 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 5: Uh? Well, they're all good deed, there's no problem. But 170 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 5: there's a there's one of them called a man of shrimp, 171 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 5: and they got a lot of stickers, but there's not 172 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 5: much meat in there. And the Orientals love them. They 173 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 5: I don't know what they do with them, but they 174 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 5: cook them and eat a bunch of them. And I've 175 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 5: never tried them because they're too hot on you on 176 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 5: your lips. Man. They tell you you got to get 177 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 5: that shell off and then get down to the meat, 178 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 5: which ain't very much. But we have a brown shrimp, 179 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 5: white shrimp, and that I catch. You know, there's there's 180 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 5: some red ones off shore. The further you go, the 181 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 5: further deeper they get deeper red. And anyway, I catch 182 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 5: brown shrimp and white shrimp, and the brownies come, oh, 183 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 5: in the last part of April, they'll start showing up, 184 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 5: or maybe the first part of May, and they're just small. 185 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 5: They'll be one hundred and twenty to the pounds something 186 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 5: like that. And then they grow and they we catch 187 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 5: them for about the old couple of months, two or 188 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 5: three months, and then they migrate out to the girlf 189 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 5: and then the white shrimp show. They start showing. Even 190 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 5: when the brownies are here. You catch them about sometime 191 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 5: half and half. But they they're tail wise, they they're 192 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 5: a little heavier and the brown sramp blues less or 193 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 5: less got a smaller head, so it's less uh, less waste. 194 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 5: But they all they both good. They's no problem with them. 195 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: How many days a week do you eat shrimp on average? 196 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 5: Well, right now I'm only working two days they want 197 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 5: them and go out by myself anymore. 198 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 6: So, uh, we just picked up Friday, go down, just 199 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 6: pick up a third day. You need to calm down there, Captain. 200 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, but anyway, I'll just work on the weekends now 201 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 5: since I hit ninety years old. But anyway, now, the 202 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 5: past week, Nikki, she was going with Ben. We were 203 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 5: making five six days a week, and then she kind 204 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 5: of got bored out. 205 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, Pops, Pops, what's happening? Pops? Let me ask you 206 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: if this is what's going on. I think what's happening 207 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: is they're saying, you know, Pops is ninety, will only 208 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: go two days a week. I think they can't work 209 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: like you do, so they use you as the excuse 210 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: because they can't keep up. 211 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 6: You might be right. 212 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 5: Uh yeah, Well she's started getting aches and things and 213 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 5: this and that. 214 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 6: So okay, telling me you just had major back surgery 215 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 6: for the love of. 216 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 5: God, Yeah, well I did have surgery, but that didn't 217 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 5: hurt nothing. 218 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: But part of your recovery. You like to be out 219 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: on the water, you like to be working. I find 220 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: for your generation people don't want to just sit down. 221 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: They want to get out there and work. It's like 222 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: work is therapy. That's what mattress Mac says. 223 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I love the work. I'm crazy old guy, 224 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 5: but anyway, I still do pretty good for my age. 225 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 5: You know, I'm not what I used to be, but 226 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 5: I'm still here to talk about it, so it ain't 227 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 5: too bad. 228 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: Pops, Pops hole with me for just a moment. I 229 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: want to bring your daughter in law in because there's 230 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: two parts of the story I love. There's your passion 231 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: for shrimping. There's you as a character, and there is 232 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: your family, your son and your daughter in law, and 233 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: how everybody pitches in to help you continue to do 234 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: what you love to do. And I think that's a 235 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: great story. His name is Jerome Coons. He's known as 236 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: Pops or the shrimp Captain in Galveston, Moore with him 237 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: and her coming up. He's ninety years old and for 238 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: the last eighty years since at ten years old, his 239 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: dad took him out of school and said, everything you 240 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: need to learn, I'll teach you on the shrimp boat. 241 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: Eighty years later, he's still on the shrimp boat and 242 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: his son Jason and Jason's wife, Nicky. They love Pops 243 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: and he still wants to go out and shrimp and 244 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: it's a big job. I mean, if you go to Facebook, 245 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: she's on there as TX Shrimp Diva Texas Shrimp Diva, 246 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: and she tells the stories. And a lot of listeners 247 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: were forwarding me links to this, and so I started 248 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: following it, and I was watching the tale of them 249 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: going out and shrimp, and and she's all dressed up 250 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: in her couture, and there's Pops. He's got his old 251 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: rubber boots on. He looks like Forrest, an older version 252 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: of Forrest Gump in in Forrest Gump, and he looks 253 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: like a shrimp boat captain. And you could tell he's happy. 254 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: But what I loved about this story was not just 255 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: what a character he obviously is. I love the fact 256 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: that his adult son, and more importantly, because his adult 257 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: son has a very important job at Kirby Marine, that 258 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: his daughter in law, who was an executive with the 259 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: Finger Apartment companies, she retires and still still gets up 260 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: every morning and puts all her makeup on and dresses 261 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: in her fancy clothes. Just a little more, just a 262 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: little more functional now she goes and picks up Pops 263 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: and they go out and shrimp. And that's probably not 264 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: where she expected to see herself because if you watch 265 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: the video, she's got her nails. She's all dulled up, 266 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: as my mother will say, she's got her nails perfectly. 267 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: French Man and these two are out there. This is 268 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: like a seventy sitcom, Like these two You're Chico and 269 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: the Man kind of deal. So Nicky Koons, Nicki Johnson Coons, 270 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: the daughter in law Texas Shrimp Diva. I wouldn't know 271 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: who Pop says if you hadn't taken to Facebook. Now. 272 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 1: I noticed that you had your own page before you 273 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: started Texas Shrimp Diva. I can't imagine that you ever 274 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: expected it would grow this big, not just in Galveston, 275 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: but but far beyond. Uh, why did you do this? 276 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 6: You know what? Michael Hey, By the way I started, 277 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 6: I think I started overwhelming my friends on my personal page, 278 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 6: and they got to the point where it was like, 279 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 6: oh my gosh, enough already of the shrimp. 280 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 5: You know. 281 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 6: And I know someone had said you need to do 282 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 6: a reality show and post and I had talked about it, 283 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 6: and we were like, you know what, it's not for us, 284 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 6: not interested, and we're approached again and we kind of 285 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 6: started doing a little bit and in the end just 286 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 6: decided we just wanted to do our own thing and 287 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 6: on our own time schedule, and we work well that way. 288 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 6: And I don't know, I just started the own my 289 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 6: own page, Shrimp Diva, Texas Shrimp Diva, and that way 290 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 6: people in Galveston that were not on my personal page 291 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 6: they could kind of see what was going on. You know, 292 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 6: I like to keep personal personal with my family, my mom, 293 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 6: my nieces, and then I like to just share parts 294 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 6: of pops in my life together. So I think there's 295 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 6: probably more interest there. So that's why I started my 296 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 6: own page. 297 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 1: Why do you think people have responded? Because you have 298 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: developed an incredible following about this this deva, this woman. 299 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: I mean you you a few weeks ago you said 300 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 1: he was on your bucket list to you know, I 301 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: can't dance, and you probably typically didn't do runway model stuff, 302 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: and there you were being this runway model in Galveston 303 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: and you agreed to do this, and it's like you're 304 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: having fun with this, You're profiling him. And I feel 305 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: like a lot of people from different walks of life 306 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: in different ages and age groups well beyond Galveston are 307 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: following along even though nobody's ever been on a shrimpboat. 308 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 6: No, you're right, we have people. Oh sorry about that. 309 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: What's the dog's name? 310 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 6: Bailey? Okay, and that's pop Son's dog. But she's hanging out. 311 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 6: I need to throw a colachi at her. So you 312 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 6: know what. Most of our followers are of the older generation, 313 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 6: and I do have a lot of women, and I'll 314 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 6: say at first, when I started the private page, I 315 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 6: did have some haters, and I had women who would say, 316 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 6: I can't believe you're out there with those fingernails, and 317 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 6: you know, why are you wearing tank tops? And who 318 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 6: are you trying to impress? And I'm like, number one, 319 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 6: it's Texas and it's one hundred and thirty five degrees 320 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 6: on the shrimp boat. I have never not had nails 321 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 6: in my life, and they're faster to pick shrimp with 322 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 6: my lashes. By the way, keep out the fish scales. 323 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 6: So I am fully covered in like taking care. 324 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: And p end like, well this is functional as well. 325 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 6: Okay, absolutely absolutely. Pops would beg to disagree because I've 326 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 6: already been in the hospital twice for shrimp, shrimp scales 327 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 6: to the cornea, major injuries along the way, but. 328 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 5: Stinger ray. 329 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 6: He called it a skingerrey. I had a stingery barbed 330 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 6: straight through the knee when Pop's told me not to 331 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 6: pick up a sting ray, and I did it, and 332 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 6: I nearly passed out and vomited on the deck, and 333 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 6: Pop said, oh, baby doll, it'll just hurt for a second. 334 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 6: And I think he turned whiter than I did. But 335 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,919 Speaker 6: I ended up in the in the hospital UTNB for 336 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 6: seven days. Anyway, I think it's just taken off because 337 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 6: they have such a love and admiration for Pops and 338 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 6: his age and what he stands for, and the fact 339 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 6: that he raised ten children on a shrimperman's salary, and 340 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 6: that he was out there every single morning, you know, 341 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 6: getting up at two o'clock in the morning, and sometimes 342 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 6: he didn't come home, he'd stay overnight. But I don't know. 343 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 6: I think that's just a bond and a connection that 344 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 6: people have with our Facebook page, and they think about 345 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 6: their great grandfather or their grandfather and how hard they 346 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 6: worked and the blisters, the blood, the sweat, and you know, 347 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 6: it's it's hard out there and they just all appreciate 348 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 6: what he Yeah it is, it is. I mean times 349 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 6: are tough, you know, but he made it happen with 350 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 6: ten kids and there was a great life for him. 351 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 6: And I just I'm just there along the way. So 352 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 6: he's killing me, but I'm still out there. He'd be 353 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 6: out there seven days right now if we could. I 354 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 6: just said, I'll give you Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So baby steps, 355 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 6: baby steps. But yeah, we we love our fan base 356 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 6: for sure, and I think I'd have more. I think 357 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 6: i'd have more if I wasn't kicked off Facebook for 358 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 6: a couple of days. But so I think we're up 359 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 6: to fifty eight thousand. Pops, you had fifty eight thousand 360 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 6: followers right now. 361 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 5: Oh god, it's a lot of people to say hi 362 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 5: to it is. 363 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: That's a lot of shrimp fans. 364 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 5: Yeah boy, yeah. 365 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 6: So off of the haters. After the women actually we 366 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 6: started seeing Oh, the main question I got was, well, 367 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 6: what I heard was she didn't shrimp. She ain't out 368 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 6: there working those lines. She's she had the accountant. What's 369 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 6: she doing just counting the money? So once they saw 370 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 6: videos of the whole perception started to change, and there 371 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 6: was like lack of judgment. 372 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 5: So well. 373 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: I think it might have been the juicy couture sweatpants 374 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: with shrimp across the bottom, and the manicured nails and 375 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: the fully applied makeup. I think that might have you know, 376 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: let's not call the haters, you know, absolute haters. Hold 377 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: with me for just a months. This shrimp is the 378 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: fruit of the sea. 379 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 7: You can load to it, ball it, brawl it, bake it, 380 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 7: sutic days on, Trump gloves, triump, creole, trimp, gumbo, paying fry, 381 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 7: deep fry, her fries, pineapple shrimp, limon shrimp, coconut shrimp, 382 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 7: pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, 383 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 7: shrimp berger shrimp sandwich. 384 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: That's that's about it, Pops. Have you seen Forrest Gump 385 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: the movie? 386 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 5: Yes? 387 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 3: I have? 388 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: Did you? I mean, was that exciting when you saw 389 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: the whole shrimp boat stuff or did you say they 390 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing? 391 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,159 Speaker 5: Yeah? It was. I had to go see it again. 392 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 5: It was so rested. You know, boy, what a show, 393 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 5: what a shell. 394 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: That was a heck of a show. That was Uh. 395 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: I think that probably did more for shrimp Boat captain 396 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: awareness than all the other movies about shrimp boat captains 397 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: that I can't think of right now. 398 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 6: Do you want a fun fact? Yeah, about Forrest Gump. Yep, 399 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 6: so fun fact the shrimp when Captain or when Lieutenant 400 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 6: Dan and Forrest Gump were out in the water and 401 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 6: they brought in that huge, huge hall. Every single shrimp 402 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 6: that they jumped out of that net, probably about two 403 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 6: thousand pounds, were dead and headed. 404 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: So fun fact if you have, oh they must they 405 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: probably went and bottom right and. 406 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 6: Just and I have receipt. I have the receipt on 407 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 6: my Facebook page. Yes, like they bottom head and headed. 408 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 6: So that ain't how it works. 409 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: You mean you got to go to all the trouble 410 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: to take the heads and the shells off and the 411 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: vein out and all that, Nikky, I have to tell you. 412 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: And Pops, Pops. When I was a kid, it was 413 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: a real treat when I would stay with my grandparents. 414 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: Is my grandfather on the drive home on Friday evening, 415 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: he would bring home fried chicken. And on Saturday, my 416 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: grandmother and I would sit outside and we would we 417 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: would devein shrimp all day and then fry them that night. 418 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: And that is my very very fond nostalgia of shrimp. 419 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, yeah, we don't do that, do we. No, 420 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 6: we don't devein or head them. 421 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: No, no, I know. But but before you cook them, 422 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: you do when you when you make them for your 423 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: own do y'all eat a lot of shrimp? 424 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, no we well we had them. We make 425 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 5: them home to eat, but we get off the boat. 426 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 5: We we wollam cooked already. We don't have to go 427 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 5: home and take them. 428 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: But anyway, So, Nikki, I have to ask you when 429 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: you get home every day and you smell like shrimp 430 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: and you're supposed to be retired, but instead you're very 431 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: sweetly going with your grant, with your grandpa, with your 432 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: father in law and taking him out on the shrimp boat. 433 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: And you come home to Jason and you probably have 434 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: tales to tell about his father. What does he say? 435 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: I don't need to hear about my dad right now. 436 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 6: No, he just says, well, you know, you know how 437 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 6: popsy is. You ain't gonna stop him. And that's exactly 438 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 6: what he says. He's like, Babe, I've known this my 439 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 6: entire life. And you had asked how many times you know, 440 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 6: when do we bring shrimp home. Jason's allergic to shrimp, 441 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 6: so I am very I brought shrimp home like three 442 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 6: times in a year. It's horrible. I wish I could 443 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 6: bring it home more. But that man braced out and hive. 444 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: Oh that's awful. So you know, I think what I 445 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 1: love about y'all story, which, as you know, based on 446 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: input I make on your page, is the intergenerational interplay 447 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 1: because there's obviously a lot of love. I mean, this 448 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: is this is a show of love from you to 449 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: your father and all, but this is also a show 450 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: of love to your husband that you take care of 451 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: his dad. And I think that's that's a that's a wonderful, 452 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: beautiful story. I'd like to see more of this, you know, 453 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: when you go back and look at the Golden Girls 454 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: and what that what that TV show? That show exploded. 455 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: People love the inner generational stuff, and there's not enough 456 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: of that on TV. It's it's it's neat stuff. But 457 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: you learned a lot about what your husband, Jason, how 458 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: he was raised in terms of values and and strictness 459 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: and punctuality. When one day you showed up six minutes late. 460 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: I saw the post about this, tell that story. If 461 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 1: you would. 462 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's funny that you bring that up, Michael, 463 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,239 Speaker 6: because you had mentioned that our phone call was going 464 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,959 Speaker 6: to run a little bit late today. So when I 465 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 6: told Pops, I'm telling you he is a stickler for time, 466 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 6: and I'm like, well, how dare we tell Michael Barry 467 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 6: he's got to be on time, you know, I said, heck, 468 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 6: you left me at the boat dock, and that day 469 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 6: Pops and I were just talking about it. That particular day, 470 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 6: I called three boat captains to have them call Pops 471 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 6: on the CB radio and call me, and each boat 472 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 6: captain said, Nikki, he ain't answering. He ain't answering, and 473 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 6: I said, he is pissed off. I know he is. 474 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 6: But Michael, I was leaving Pops a note on his car, 475 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 6: and I was writing so hard with that pencil that 476 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 6: the lead broke, and I wanted Pops to know by 477 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 6: having that hard lad on the paper how mad I 478 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 6: was that he went out without me. Anyway, I showed 479 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 6: back up to the dock around the time that I 480 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 6: saw Pops coming in, and Pops looked at me and 481 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 6: just started laughing from the boat, and I was fuming. 482 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 6: I was so upset but I just looked at him 483 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 6: and I just started laughing. I could both of us 484 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 6: just started laughing, and we embraced. We hugged each other 485 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 6: with two hands, the tight two handed hug, and I said, Pops. 486 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 6: He said, I know, I'll never do that again, and 487 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 6: I said, neither will I. But then I chewed him 488 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 6: out because I could have. I could have died on 489 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 6: the way there. He didn't leave his cell phone on 490 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 6: because he thinks leaving his cell phone on is going 491 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 6: to cost more money, you know. So anyway, we haven't understanding. 492 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, God, it's such a great line because 493 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: it's so I. 494 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 6: Have not been on Like, I've not been late in 495 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 6: four years. I'm not a late person ever, So if 496 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 6: I am late, there's a reason. So I said, you 497 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 6: better call me or pick up that phone. 498 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:46,479 Speaker 5: Yeah. 499 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 6: So anyway, he's never gonna leave me again for sure. 500 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: Hey, Pops, can I get you to do me a 501 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: favor and record something we can use on the show. Yes, Look, okay, 502 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: I need you to say this. Okay, you can. You 503 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: can take a couple of I need you to say 504 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: this is the Shrimp Boat Captain Jerome Coons, And you're 505 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: listening to the Michael Berry Show. 506 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 5: This is the Shrimp Boat Captain Jerome Coons on the 507 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 5: Michael Berry Show. 508 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: Can you change it to and you're listening to the 509 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 510 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 5: To the Michael Berry Show. 511 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 6: This is Captain Jerome Coons, and you're listening to the Michael. 512 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 5: This is Jerome Coons and you're listening to the Michael 513 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:34,959 Speaker 5: Berry Shows. 514 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 6: Perfect. 515 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: No, it's okay. We can edit that. We can edit that. Yeah, 516 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: that's enough. Hey, pops, can. 517 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 5: I also anyway? 518 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: Can I can I also get you to say it's 519 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: hard out here for a shrimp. It's what it's hard 520 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: out here for a shrimp. 521 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's hard out here for shrimp. 522 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: At'll work, that'll work. You two are absolutely wonderful. I 523 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: love everything about y'all. Keep doing what you're doing. You're 524 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: inspiring to the rest of us. And much bigger than shrimp, 525 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: and much bigger than all that is that you're reminding people. 526 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: If you're fifty four years old and your father in 527 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: law is ninety, and you're lucky enough to have them, 528 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: then if they like the garden, go dig in the 529 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: garden with them. And if they like to play bingo, 530 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: go play bingo. 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