418: David Alan Arnold—Dead Man’s Curve

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Multiple Emmy-winning aerial photographer David Alan Arnold has shot World Series, Super Bowls, X-Games, commercials, and movies. But he truly earns his paycheck risking his life on television shows like Survivor, Amazing Race, and especially Deadliest Catch, the show he worked on with Mike Rowe. Dave and Mike share true stories of harrowing flights, near misses, and fisherman funerals, all of which can be found in David’s book, Help From Above.

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0:00.0	Dude, that was fun.
0:05.7	Oh, yeah.
0:06.9	A fun and unexpected, another one of those.
0:10.2	It's micro, by the way.
0:11.1	The way I heard it, that's Chuck.
0:12.4	Owing and eyeing in the background because we, don't make it weird, because we just had a really, for me, unexpected conversation with a guy named David Allen Arnold,
0:23.4	who I hadn't seen in 20 years, maybe 21 years.
0:29.6	It'd been a while.
0:30.6	But David, I met up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, when we were filming the early episodes.
0:36.8	In fact, it was season one of Deadliest Catch.
0:40.1	That qualifies as an early episode, I would think. Well, I'm thinking, you know, people don't,
0:44.1	like, there's pilots. This show didn't technically have a pilot. That's true. It had three
0:51.5	episodes of something that aired the year before called Deadliest Season.
0:57.1	And during Deadliest Season, you know, the producer, Tom Beers, he shot it as best he could,
1:02.7	but he didn't have a deal with the network or anything.
1:05.3	So he kind of bootstrapped it.
1:07.2	And then he went on to sell the series, but we didn't know what the series was.
1:12.7	We didn't know what it looked like.
1:14.5	Network didn't know what it looked like.
1:16.8	They hired you on camera for it.
1:18.7	To hire me to host the thing, yes.
1:20.8	And I was later cut out of it, which kind of broke my heart.
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