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Morgan Fallon

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“Left side, I messed it up. Left hand side of the screen to the right hand side of the screen, right? The car is pointed to the right. Now, if you Go and you switch over and you shoot from the driver's side, and Direction is the car going when it goes on screen, it's going the opposite, it's going to left. You've crossed 180 degree line.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Passenger side is on the right hand side of the car, and you're moving along with them, and the car is going along. And so when you see that shot on the screen, the car is moving in a direction that is From the left hand side of the screen, sorry.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The direction of the car, then, if you're doing that, is moving from frame right to frame left. That is the way that the action moves. If you then cut to a shot from the driver's side,”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In understanding what they're covering and where they are, and you're reacting to that, or you're establishing your shot and they're reacting to you, right? When it's really good, it moves that way without conversation. And after you shoot with someone for a while, you really get into a rhythm where you both know what the other person has. You know what the other person's shooting. And as your characters move around the world, as they do their thing, you know how to move together to maintain that coverage. There's a variable in that which dictates a lot of this, which is called the 180 degree rule. So picture this. There's a car moving along a bridge, and you are shooting from a helicopter out on the passenger side of the car tracking along with it, right? You can picture that.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now you need to be shooting both sides of that interaction. You also need to be shooting your insert shots. You need to be shooting wider shots to give you a context of the environment. You need to be shooting all of the supporting footage that tells you where you are and what those characters are doing. And you need to have that in your head and you can't talk out loud. I mean, I can talk on the walkie a little bit to the other camera operator, but when you're really doing it well, you know, and I guess, again, there's a million different ways to do this. So there's all kinds of different ways that people achieve this. But when you're doing it really well with someone who really knows what they're doing, you know, inherently, I know because of the action, because of where the other camera is standing, I know what their shot is. I know where their lens is. I know where their background is. I know where not to cross into their shot. I know what they have. So you're simultaneously watching them.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Could just stand there and you could be in one frame size and whatever and you could cover the conversation and the editor will cut back and forth between those two cameras as they see fit, but it's going to be boring. You want to add dynamics. So you're going to need to add movement to that scenario. You're going to need to move your characters around the room. You're going to need to allow them to go on some kind of endeavor. They need to accomplish some goal. They need to do whatever. So they start moving. And now the geometry is always changing.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, if you picture it in a basic sense, right? Say you have two characters who are talking to each other. They're standing in a room and they're facing each other. This is like very simple setup, right? We are not a scripted show. There is no script. We need to capture as much of that conversation for the edit as possible in real time. When you're on a scripted show, you can shoot one camera on one angle of that conversation and then you can move the camera to the other angle of that conversation and shoot the other side. So you're shooting one character first and you move and you shoot the other character. When we're doing documentary stuff, you can't do that. You need to get it in the moment. So we have at least two cameras, right? And so one camera is shooting one angle on character A and one camera is shooting the other angle on character B. Now, that's the basic setup.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Rackapa is just fast. And for anyone who knows Racopol, it's a killer game. You're looking for kill shots. You're playing strategy. You're playing geometry and looking for opportunities to execute kill shots. And it's a blast. I don't know. I like aggressive shit and I like shit that like keeps your heart rate way up.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I like mountain biking because it's really physical. It's like a real grind. It really pushes your heart rate. But when also when you're doing like, you know, like I said, I like to kind of enduro style stuff, you know, you got a lot of shit coming at you fast and you're making a lot of calculations, a lot of decisions. I like that. It's very dynamic and I tend to like solitary kind of sports.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Surfing, mountain biking, and I was really into rackaball for a long time, but my knees are kind of knee has been a little tough on me with rackaball. Those things for me, when you're doing them, you're not doing anything else. Surfing's got a solitary element to it that's almost like meditation. Doesn't even matter if you're really catching waves. I mean, that's like a bonus, but you're sitting there, you have the rhythm of the ocean, you're thinking, you're processing things, but you're on liquid, you know, and you're staring out at the ocean waiting for waves. It's unbelievable. I mean, it's very, very centering. I mean, there's a reason that there are stereotypes of surfers. It's true. You get a surfer owned to you.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's very physical. There were days we were doing 15 miles of backcountry that may not sound like a lot. That's a fair amount when you're doing it day to day, when you're in snow, when you're in environments that you're not on a trail, you're in backcountry. Again, I'm not trying to pretend like I'm super rugged, but it definitely took some doing.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, probably 20 plus pounds. We were on slightly bigger cameras for Tim Ferris experiment though than what we use like with MeatEater. Meat eater with slightly smaller cameras, but it doesn't really matter.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, like I drank like a bottle of tequila, woke up on my lawn, scared myself. I have two young kids. And I was like, this must end.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would ride from my house up to the Nike station on Dirt Mall Holland and back in this, it's 10 miles each way. It's not the hardest 10 miles. I'm not like, I don't think I'm Lance Armstrong. I'm definitely not Lance Armstrong. But that's where I was. And I was alone at night riding and just trying to, I don't know, trying to make sense of shit. It was dark right after. Like the month after he died, I went pretty hard. I woke up on my lawn one night.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was frantic at first. I stopped drinking. I got a mountain bike and I swear for the first couple months, I was riding every night. I was riding 20 miles a night up on the fire roads outside of my house. And this is in the months after Tony died.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After he died, I could not separate alcohol from his death. I don't mean that he died because he had been drinking. I just mean that that was part of the calculus for sure. It was in there. And it's a dangerous drug. And it's severely underestimated in our culture. I just couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't. And I went hard for a long time.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want to be careful about not speculating. I want to be respectful to everyone in Tony's sphere. I will say this. It is impossible for me to separate alcohol from Tony's death. And that's kind of a reality for me is like, and I feel like other people on the show felt that way as well. Again, I don't want to speak for them. There's a lot of people involved in this. There's a lot of people that have their own journeys. There are people who are a lot closer with Tony than I was. But I was fairly close with him and”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Coffee, go on adrenaline and caffeine as far as you can and then start drinking again and come down. And that was the rhythm of the gear shifts every day. And that's kind of how we got through it.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything's okay with him, and he's not going to get it. And he didn't. And that wasn't prophetic on my part. It was just knowing that we had to embrace those things. And so, you know, you get to the end and what happened happened and all those things. And there's a lot of different ways to analyze that. But what's, I think, important to note is that those things that experience of pain and dealing with those things was a critical part of making the show and it came with a lot of shit that we were kind of all hot to trot on at the time, but that I look back and I'm like, you know, a lot of alcohol, Tim. There was a lot of like, and I'll speak only for myself, there's a lot of almost daily. I mean, yes, daily. Just drink yourself to sleep, wake up in the morning, hammer fuck.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I asked him a few questions. What's your favorite shows? What's your life like? You know, what do you do for what are your hobbies and stuff like that? And I called our showrunner Sandy Zwig and I said, I'm sorry, this isn't going to work. And she's like, why? And I was like, he's too fucking happy. His life's too good.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In terms of looking at the world through the lens that we were trying to look at the world through, where we were trying to see everything. We were trying to see the beauty, we were trying to see the pain, we were trying to see all of it. That's not a formulaic show. That's not a show that everything's going to end happy every time. It's not a show where you're going to hit happy beats every time. It's not like an upbeat travel show where we're like, oh, today we're, you know, it's not. It was an exploration of the world in all of the permutations of what that means. And if you don't understand pain, you don't understand fear. You don't know those things. You are never going to be able to see it. You're not going to be able to see it. And I don't mean to be dismissive of anyone, but I remember we, you know, at one point we had a new editor coming on for a show. And I talked to him for 10 minutes on the phone”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Most of the people on our crew did. We kind of were a collection of like minds. And I don't want to speak for anyone, but I think what we found in the end when we kind of looked around the room, and these are the people in my life that I hold with like the highest regard and like the greatest value that we were all people who had strong creative capacity and were all kind of for some reason or another kind of I don't want to say the island of misfit toys because it's so corny but it's got kind of an element of that you know everyone had like a thing that was broken A thing that they were struggling with, and you kind of knew those things, but those brokenness and the kind of pain that comes out of that, I think, was critical.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Work in progress bipolar. I mean, you can, I'm still trying to go unmedicated. I don't want to go on a mood stabilizer. They're pretty heavy consistency is really important. It's a hard thing to do when you're traveling the world is have a consistent schedule, but having a consistent schedule, I have no proof of this. This probably gets into your world and your expertise a lot more than mine. But I find techno, I listen to a lot of techno. Bluetooth head and I will listen to seven, eight hours of techno straight while I work. And it's like a metronome for my head. It keeps me planted on task, clean, you know. So those things exercise eating, right? Those are the ways that I'm trying to deal with my bag. But yeah, we all have them. Tony definitely had plenty of them. But I also think that.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is special to me. You cannot do this again. This is not replicable. And I think it's actually a lesson that the TV industry needs to learn because I hear a lot of it's the bourdain of this. It's the bourdain of that. It's the bourdain of that. And you're like, no, it's not because the first word you're using is bourdain and that is gone. And it's not coming back. We got to stop trying. This was a singular experience. And I think we're all very aware of that. So yeah, I decorate my house with the detritus of traveling the world with Tony and I'm fucking proud of it of junk all over my house.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know, man. It all means, you know, honestly, all jokes aside, it all means something to me. These are the things I decorate my house with. These are the things I want around. This is the greatest thing I ever got to do in my life was be with Tony that traveled the world with Tony to see a world that a tiny handful of people get to see because the price of admission as a civilian, as someone who just wanted to go out and do those things would be so extraordinarily high that you just can't achieve it. It wasn't like we got to go on some sweet vacations. It wasn't like, oh, I have the money to go to Maldives and stay in like a sick resort. It wasn't like that. We had access. We had things that no one else will ever get because of who Tony was. And that is why this”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Muzzle break from West Virginia, you know, I have a lighter that Josh Home gave us when we did the show with Queens of the Stone Age, you know. Collected crap everywhere.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Full of stuff. I mean, this is the piece of paper that he was typing. We needed a scene of when we did the Tangiers episode, we needed a scene of him typing. So he's typing and we're just filming him typing. This is what he wrote. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Call me Ishmael. This is the saddest story ever told. Jackie Brown at twenty six with no expression on his face said he could get some guns. You're watching CNN. You're watching mind of a chef. You're watching Tremay on HBO. You're watching the layover. You're watching repeats of no reservations. So this is him just freestyle typing. I don't know why I picked it up. It's on my wall. Like, life is full of these things. I have shit everywhere from just stuff that I picked up when we were on the road with Tony, like an Adobe brick from Martha.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was genuinely bummed, and the reason he was genuinely bummed is because he felt like it was a breach of exactly what we were talking about, of that authenticity, you know, and the thing that had really been the most important trading capital of the show up until that point was, well, not up until that point. I mean, there are other examples of that, and that certainly didn't break that. But he was bummed about it. I think it's also a testament to Sally that she was able to say, hey, no, this is, there's something here that's like really funny and really worth exploring. And then he wrote to it. And it ends up being this iconic scene. Lots of people talk about it. But what you're seeing there is a real response from...”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of a sudden, this dead fucking octopus floats down to the bottom of the ocean and I realize what's happening because the other diver goes and claims the octopus, the dead limp octopus off the bottom of the ocean and goes to the surface and holds it up as if he's found the octopus, you know, and so is a total setup. And I think it was actually like a really miserable moment for Tony because he was not when we got to Tokyo. It wasn't like, oh, I'm going to write this thing and it's going to be great and we're going to figure it out. And it's going to be funny. He was like, that was the worst fucking moment of my life. He went into like a whole of existential angst. He, as you know in the show, he goes and he downs like six negronies after that, you know. Oh, yeah.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She was directing that, and I don't think that wasn't premeditated on her part. I mean, they were going to go out, they were going to dive for octopus. But I think, as I recall, she said that she kind of knew they were fucked when they got there because it's like a popular beach. There's like tons of people in the water. It's like this whole thing. The guy shows up. You know, they go, they're puttsing around in the water looking for octopus. Or of course there are no octopus there because the, you know, water on that beach was probably 20% urine. And all of a sudden, so the way Tony described it, and we talked to him, we were in Tokyo with him like right after this happened. And he's telling us this story was sitting in the bar of the park Hyatt in Tokyo right where Bill Murray was in Lost in translation, soaking up just being in that space and being like, this is the spot where Bill Murray was. And Tony's saying like, you wouldn't believe it. I was in Sicily, I'm underwater.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I literally saw her in Finland in the hotel lobby say to the group wears shitcakes with Tony standing right behind her and then turned around and she says, oh, there you are.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You knew exactly what I was. Wasn't there, it was directed by Sally Freeman, who's an incredible director and one of my favorite fucking people in the world. She is just this ass-kicking, salty brit who doesn't take any shit from anyone. She's the only person I've ever seen. Be able to refer to Tony as shitcakes to his face without being summarily fired, which in and of itself is a tremendous achievement.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that comes from the top, and that was Tony. That's what you get from that impeccable nature of like, no, everything needs to be good. And also you just, Tony was so fucking cool that you really wanted to please him. On my wall, I have framed the best email I ever got from him. It was when I sent him the first act of the Nigeria show that we shot in Lagos. And it just says out fucking standing with two exclamation points. And then under it says, couldn't be happier. And I framed it and I put it on my wall”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Up against free solo punching way out of our class and that was because of the very high standards and that can only come from the top. We were down with it because over the time he was powerful enough and the show was magnetic enough to pull in people who were very talented, who were gifted, who really wanted to do like good work and push the genre as far as they could”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To the show and the kind of response that the show has gotten, which is really incredible, they're seeing a couple things authenticity, because we never did shit twice. We never faked anything. That's all real. Everything you see is real. We didn't set up shots. We didn't call cut. We didn't call action. We got fast. We did what he told us. We got fast. You see authenticity and you see just a very, very high level of production value given our resources. And I think it's something that I constantly want to point out to people is like, look at the weight classes that we were punching in. We were way out of our group. We're going out on shows where we're shooting for seven days in the field. We had a $3,000 external equipment rental budget. And we're getting cinematography nominations. My last cinematography nomination was up against Free Solo.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, totally. Right. 100%. To me, what he was more than anything else within my sphere of working with him was he was absolutely incredible television producer. And he understood story. He understood story structure. He understood cinematography. He understood using the tools of film to make something that was cinematic. Even though we were on making our little show on TV, it was like it always wanted to be a feature film. And so we were using our limited resources to get as close to that benchmark as possible. It should look beautiful. The framing should be great. The lighting should be great. The music needs to be great. The editing, the pace, the buildup, the way that you present subjects, you know, all of that stuff needs to be like at the highest level. And that's what people are seeing. I think when they respond.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“90% of the time he was right, and it wasn't up to the standards. What was cool about Tony is that then he would go on and work the material. You would start reforming it. You'd start working with him. He'd give constructive notes. And that's something that I tell people or try to explain to people. And I think that people should know about him. And something I do, you know, kind of wish they had said in Roadrunner 2. Tony was, you know, he's like, you go on his Wikipedia and it's like celebrity chef. And it's like, yeah, that's not how I think of him. And he wasn't that great of a chef.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, are we going to go in a constructive direction? But he would. And that was the thing about him is that the good ones are right, you know, Michael Mann is much of an asshole as he was to people. You'd have to kind of be like, well, he's right, though. He's right. He knows, and he's right, he's not wrong. With Tony, I also like.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a much more calculated thing. And like I would send him rough cuts and everyone has been through this. I would send him rough cuts where from the very beginning he's like, what? Possible reason do you have for presenting me with this piece of garbage I didn't work so hard dot dot dot in full caps you didn't work so hard to have your work flush down the toilet by this asshole editor And you're like”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that was a lot of the process with Tony in post for sure. In the field, it was more like things that were cumbersome or inconvenience, Tony. He didn't like messiness. He didn't like sitting around and like, you know that when shit goes south on a crew, I mean, my God, we just look like a bunch of chickens with our heads cut off running around trying to make shit happen or trying to make shit work. And there's a lot of reasons that that can happen, you know. He didn't like any of that. And you'd hear about unfucking yourself quite a bit in those moments. But when it came to posts, like.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those guys. He wasn't an asshole. He could be an asshole. He could be an asshole all the time. He could be incredibly frustrating to work with. But there was something under it. There was something very loving there. There was something very caring. And once you were kind of in his sphere, he really did care about people. So from that perspective, it was different. From the work perspective, though, he wasn't going to immense words in the same way that he wasn't going to mince words when a dish isn't right in the kitchen. Like you can't. It doesn't work that way unless you want 20 fucking risottos sent back. You better get the first one right. And when someone fucks it up, you better let them know that they fucked it up big time right now immediately and correct the problem.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I could do it. I was fast and I loved working fast like that. So, yeah, super high standards. With Tony, though, different than like Michael and James Cameron and I have not worked with James Cameron. I know a number of people who have though. I don't think you're ever going to get that moment with Michael or with someone like Michael Mann or someone like James Cameron where you're like sitting down and drinking beers with them out in the desert and talking about like life and things that really mean something. And like with Tony, you did. And that was the difference. He was actually, he was a friend in a very, very important friend who I miss every single day. He was not.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tony approached it from that perspective, at least initially. He had extremely high expectations that I think were based on his history of knowing how to run an effective kitchen. And at the same time, he had all kinds of his own neuroses and stuff that bled into that. And you see it in Roadrunner. Actually, one of the parts I really liked was when he talks about, hey, I'm not going to stop for the cameras. You guys learn how to get fast. You get fast, I do what I do. And that was, I loved”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, speaking at the very high end, he was speaking about the Michael Manns, the James Cameron, so the level of expectation is never achievable. It's never good enough. They do not have a level where it's good enough. It can always be better. You have to be that way. Yes, they are assholes. I will say it straight up. Michael Mann is an asshole. And he's known that way in the industry. But he has to be. That is the only way that you get that caliber of project done. You want to get through a Titanic. You are going to have to be an asshole. 100%. And the same is true in high caliber kitchens. You want to run a high caliber kitchen? There is only one way to do it and you are not friends with your crew. You are in charge and it's your responsibility. And I think that Tony”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely. I'm sure it drives them crazy because I have really high expectations because I was a very accomplished DP before. So a DP is a director of photography, cinematographer, shooter. kind of go by all those names i did really well that was my thing i was really good at it i did really well and i was known for it again in my little kind of subgenre so yeah i interact interact with the dps differently because i can see the shots i have a real advantage in that my wife is a director as well she doesn't come from a cinematography side so i spend a lot of time working with her on like how to see things from a photography standpoint and it gives you a real advantage when you can it also will drive your fucking dps crazy because i'm breathing down their neck all the time i'm like yeah is that the best shot maybe stand over there a little bit more you know over that way a little”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's basically the process of what we're doing. And then you're talking to the DPs about how we're going to shoot it and what style elements we're going to use, what that's going to look like, et cetera. And this was a show where you had a lot of film references that we were trying to pack in.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So like the amount of shit that I've heard about John Wick, I've never even seen it. I actually won't watch John Wick. I've heard Tony talk about it so many goddamn times in moments where I'm like, dude, I need content here. Like we're dying here. I don't have anything to put this scene together. And you're talking about fucking John Wick. Like I won't watch the movies. And I hear they're great”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think Zach Zamboni, who I Referenced before said it best, and he said, Like, when we make a show about Vietnam, Vietnam doesn't look like that, but Vietnam doesn't not look like that either. These are real things, but they are filtered through our process of trying to set them up in a way where we can then kind of just give the ship a little push and hope that it crosses the lake. And that's what we're really trying to do is pull those elements together. And that's the directing. In terms of if you're going to go in and direct Tony, like you think you're going to direct an actor, that was never going to happen. You maybe can get him to ask a couple of questions. And if you spend 45 minutes of his hour long interview talking about John Wick too, you're going to have to kind of like suck it and deal with that. Which happens a lot.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can't talk about politics, right? So we know we're going to, this is a cool thing. We're going to do a scene with them. Okay. Where are we going to do that? What's that going to look like? So you're finding different Ismari, you're looking at the locations, you're pulling people in. Okay, so we're going to do the Asmari, but we need some, you know, we want to bring some dancers in. There's another dance troop over here. We can get them to work together. This is a good environment, this particular place to shoot it. What you're actually trying to do is set up an environment that is simultaneously real and authentic and also constructed and in a way that we know that the apparatus of television making is going to work. We're actually going to walk away with something that works. The sound's going to be workable. The lighting's going to be workable. We're going to be able to control the environment and not have other kinds of background pollution or other things that are out of our control infecting what we're trying to do.”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like Ethiopia, because I don't want to end up that my PAs or my drivers or my fixer is sitting in some dingy prison because of something we did. And that's a reality there. So it's going in and assessing what you can and can't do, assessing what the boundaries are, knowing the landscape, and then starting to pull out, okay, so this is this very interesting thing. There's this culture of these Asmari there, and they are basically minstrels, right? Play this very kind of old-fashioned kind of music. It's kind of like a rap where they'll freestyle stuff from the room. They used to travel around from village to village. But what's really interesting there is they use the Ismari as a way to have these kind of coded political discussions, right? So they have all kinds of nuance and intricacies in the way that they do their freestyle rap that is actually talking about politics in an environment where”
2022-05-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #597: Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT