What a Crab House Taught Him About Growing Up
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Brent Timmons didn’t expect much when he took a summer job at the Fenwick Crab House. He figured he’d get just a paycheck and maybe a little work experience. What he got was something else entirely. Between steamed clams and daily prep, he learned how to lead, take correction, and push through exhaustion without giving up — but also about love, family, and the truth about coming of age.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
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| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
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| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | You're a podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | No. or wherever you get your podcast. And we return to our American stories. |
| 0:47.8 | And for many of us, our first job is one of our most memorable. |
| 0:52.0 | Which makes sense, first jobs help shape people, and for many of us |
| 0:56.1 | become our first taste in real adult responsibility. Up next, a story about a first job. Here's |
| 1:03.0 | our regular contributor from Delaware, Brent Timmons, with his story. |
| 1:19.4 | During my high school and college years, I worked at a restaurant, the Fenwick Crabhouse in Fenwick Island, Delaware. |
| 1:22.4 | The restaurant was owned by Casher and Mabel Evans from 1962 to 1983. |
| 1:29.9 | In February of 2006, I sent this letter to Mrs. Evans. |
| 1:35.7 | Mr. Evans had previously passed. |
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