So.ĬONAN: You guys have written a book called "Time Bandit" which is, of course, the name of your boat. He drives off in the sunset with the boat, leave us at home. We always wanted to go with him, you know. Our dad used to crab fish, so we used to watch him leave. We'd pretend to be pirates and crab fishermen. We'd make rafts and anything that would float. we got salt in our veins.ĬONAN: You were saying, Johnathan, anything that would float? We were on boats since we were one month old. So I always - me and John always say we're like the Tom Sawyers of the ocean because, you know, we grew up in little skiffs and stuff. HILLSTRAND: Well, we grew up around the water our whole lives.
TIME BANDIT CAPTAIN JOHNATHAN HILLSTRAND SICK FULL
It's about a full day's worth of traveling.ĬONAN: Tell me, Andy, what is it about the place you grew up in - Homer, Alaska - that makes you, well, want to take on the incredible risks that you guys do every season? Good afternoon.ĬONAN: And we don't think of Alaskan fishermen living in Indiana, Andy. ANDY HILLSTRAND (Co-Captain, Time Bandit): Thanks, Neal. JOHNATHAN HILLSTRAND (Co-Captain, Time Bandit): Hey, thanks for having us.ĬONAN: And his brother Andy is on the phone from his home in Indiana. Johnathan Hillstrand joins us today from member station KUOW in Seattle. Email us, You can also join the conversation on our Web site, that's at npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION.
If you're a fan of "Deadliest Catch" and you'd like to talk with the Hillstrands about their difficult and sometimes brutal profession, give us a call. Two of them, Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, captains of the Time Bandit, join us today. The show "Deadliest Catch" documents one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, fishing for Alaskan King and Opilio crabs.
Each fall this fleets set out from Dutch Harbor in Alaska and millions follow them into the stormy, frigid waters of the Bering Sea on the Discovery Channel.
The Time Bandit, the Northwestern, the Cornelia Marie, and the Wizard.
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