Josh Harris of 'Deadliest Catch': 'This has not been easy'

In anticipation of tonight’s episode of Deadliest Catch — in which buddies and household say goodbye to Phil Harris — the captain’s son Josh Harris spoke to EW at this time around missing his dad, the outpouring from fans, and how he and his brother, Jake, hope to invest in the Cornelia Marie. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You stated on The Tonight Show that you are attempting to raise millions of income so you and your brother may perhaps acquire the other half of the Cornelia Marie. Have you set up some sort of fund in Phil’s name? Fans could need to have to aid out. JOSH HARRIS: Not but. I actually don’t know how to go around this stuff, and I genuinely don’t need to have to depend on our fans to assist us. I’m tough-headed. I’m attempting to figure all of this out. I need to have to be in a position to do it on my own. My old man got the boat on his own. I’m just going to check out a couple of avenues and if that doesn’t perform, we’ll go a distinctive route. The last factor I require to do is beg for assist from total, utter strangers. Talk around the outpouring of assist from fans. It’s been really distinctive. Considerably of individuals will come up to me who have by no means noticed the show, or they just began watching, and they are in a state of shock. They don’t even know the name of the boat. They just know the name of the captain who passed away. Everyone desires to give you hugs, give their condolences, tell you their stories. They attempt to comfort you in every which way. I’m very thankful for all the individuals who actually care. They don’t know something around me or my brother or our circumstance yet they definitely care. It’s honestly bizarre to me. Invest in A lot more EW: Subscribe to the magazine for only 39¢ an problem! How do you really feel around the way the show’s been edited this season? I believe they have performed a terrific process, I’m genuinely type of shocked. I have not been in a position to watch tonight’s episode. I’ve had the copy of it sitting on my table for 5 days now. I stare at it. I saw the commercials for it a couple of nights ago, and I just broke down and lost it. My largest fear is crying in public, and that was in public so it f—king sucked. I feel the story is becoming told in the very best way feasible. The old man wanted to go out large. The only various way he had in thoughts was to be 70 years old, popping around 50 Viagras and getting a 21-year-old Vegas hooker. That was the original way he wanted to go. Yet I believe this way will suffice for him. Leno showed the clip exactly where you heard your dad say he loved him. What was that like to watch? That f—ed me up a small bit. It’s a method, I’m operating by means of it. He was pissed. He thought he was a failure and that he f—ed up. That irritated me so considerably. He’s such a good guy, and he had such a huge heart. To be in the last moments of your life and feel you are a failure, just broke my heart. It completely crushed me simply because he wasn’t a failure at all. He created two good children and did the ideal task he may with the cards he was dealt. We weren’t born wealthy. Almost everything we’ve got, we earned. It’s not like Discovery has handed us a house complete of dollars. I assume I got $1,000 and a fruit basket that I have by no means noticed. They say they sent it!

Did you ever believe around telling the cameras not to film that hotel space shouting match you had with Jake? Oh you didn’t see the half of it, sweetheart. There was Alot more, all correct. They chose not to show it. They showed Jake leave nice and casual out of the area. It didn’t occur really that way. What’s your relationship like with Time Bandit captain Johnathan Hillstrand? He’s been such a large help program for me and my brother. I may’t thank him adequate. This has not been an painless process by any indicates. I’ve been in shock and so numb by way of this entire factor. Everyone has been type and gracious and patient. It’s nuts. I don’t know what to say at this time except this entire f—ing factor is crazy. I miss my dad substantially. I don’t know how you are supposed to really feel in a scenario like this. It sucks. I lost my hero, my top buddy, my friend. I don’t know what to do around that. What is the future of the show? I might tell you one factor: that I’m quite positive me and Jake will be battling subsequent year. What weapons come out among the two of us, I don’t know. Who gets the very first black eye, I could possibly’t tell you. What I do know is we will be back in complete force one way or a different, hell or high water. I might see myself generating confident that the boat sticks about — whatever it takes to make confident that f—er is running and my guys are applied, I will be ideal there every step of the way. Perhaps you might begin tweeting from the boat. Some of the guys at Discovery are definitely into tweeting. I don’t even know what this tweet factor is around. Apparently, you’re supposed to tweet “I’m taking a poop now” or “I just utilized 3 toilet tissues.” Sig Hansen [captain of the Northwestern] apparently is a tweet master. However Sig also has a mullet and thinks he may possibly go on Dancing With the Stars. I’ll leave that sh– to the Norwegians and folks with mullets. And Kim Kardashian. Back when the producers initially came to you around carrying out a reality show based on your lives, what did you believe? My initial reaction went a small anything like this: “Uh, cool.” They put the camera on me, and I didn’t know what to do. “Am I walking funny? Do I need to have to do my hair? Do I appear at the camera?” And they’d go, “Don’t appear at the camera, appear at me.” So then you discover your self talking and moving your hands seriously oddly. They just type of freely float about. It’s type of like a Ricky Bobby factor. “I don’t know what to do with my hands. The car was real rapidly and, uh….” That’s around how I felt. Did you be concerned around cussing too substantially on camera? F— yeah, yet I gave up worrying. It’s how I talk. I don’t have a honestly good mute button, and it actually sucks when I’m about kids. I go do school appearances and talk to children around drugs and stuff, and I appear to at all times drop the f-bomb by accident. The small children will appear at me and say “He just stated f—.” And I’d be like, “Sh– you are perfect!” Then they go, “He just stated sh–!” I’d say, “Dude, I need to have to acquire the f— out of here.” You wanna talk around a concern. Yet I got a good heart. I attempt honestly tough.