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Morgan Fallon

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“Very, very precise endeavor. This is different. What we do on these shows initially starts with like a ton of research, right? So we're just trying to get our head around the environment. We're trying to understand the dynamics of what's going on. Trying to understand what we can and can't do. And we have to be also in a place like Ethiopia, especially you have to be sensitive to the environment. That is a totalitarian government that is 100% watching everything you do. And the people that we work with there are going to be left with the repercussions of what we do and how we behave there. So you know certain things off the bat where you're like, there's certain stuff that we're not going to do. There's certain boundaries we're not going to try to push. And again, hats off to all the people that go and do that. I hope they do it carefully and with respect to the people that they're leaving behind. But we were going to be very careful going into an environment.”
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
“Directing is like an interesting word to use for these because, like, and you typically think of a director, you're working in narrative, and so you're working with actors, you're working with the crew.”
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 was amazing. That was the first show I directed. It was a huge moment. And Tony was very kind to me. He gave me the benefit of the doubt.”
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 all things. He said he found his kryptonite. And so he was basically starving to death during the show. I'm begging him to eat cliff bars and stuff like that because he wouldn't need anything. He was just like wasting away.”
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 Africa totally misunderstood one of the more dynamic environments that you can step into. It's got a young population there that is just totally plugged in, totally driven, super hardworking. You know, it's one of those places where you're like, man, if the corruption at the top can ever get out of its own way, these people are going to just kill it. It was amazing experience, an amazing experience to go and go back into Maya's home village to find Marx's father. The funniest part of it was for all the shit that Tony ate through his career, he just cannot handle Ethiopian food. I love Ethiopian food.”
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
“Don't know, you know, it just. Just respected Tony so much. I love the show so much. And I'm someone I suffer from anxiety disorders. I'm bipolar. I have a few things in my bag like everyone does to kind of deal with. And it set those off pretty good. But I went, I did it. We had this incredible show. Ethiopia is an just in totally.”
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
“Just an absolutely incredible person and just simply one of the most gorgeous human beings you'll ever meet was also from Garage and from one of the more prominent tribes in Ethiopia. So it was a return to her village. It was a return to find his father and reconnect with his father. It was a big show. And I was terrified. I don't even know why. It seems irrational at this point, but it was, I was totally terrified.”
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
“He does every tons of cooking shows. He's an incredibly magnanimous, huge smile, wonderful person, tons of energy. But Marcus's story is that he was born in Ethiopia. And during a, oh, God, I want to say it was a cholera outbreak. It was an infectious disease outbreak in Ethiopia, tuberculosis. tuberculosis. And Marx's mother walked he and his sister when they were just, you know, little, little kids, like something like 75 miles from her village into Attis and got them to an orphanage and then died. And so Marcus in his sister were adopted and grew up in Sweden. So this show was his return to Ethiopia. And he had been there before, but also his wife, Maya, who's...”
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 incredible. But I did that. Tony saw it. Tony liked it and agreed to let me direct. And it was Ethiopia with Marcus Samuelson. So if you know Marcus, Marcus.”
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
“He's like with Steve. Just an incredibly dynamic person. I mean, someone who had created one of the best restaurants in the world out of what was a moose fondue restaurant in central Sweden. Imagine what he started with, created one of the best restaurants in the world by his mid-20s and was already a master psalm at that point.”
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 when I came on the show, I was just a camera operator and then worked my way up where I was like the lead camera and a DP on the show. And then I was like, if I don't take the opportunity to try to direct this show and produce this show and do everything that I can on this show, I'm going to regret it. And so around, I guess it was around like 2014, I started asking and being like, I really want to direct the show. And I did a season of mind of a chef with Magnus Nielsen in Sweden, which was a show that Tony produced. That allowed me to really like showcase like, hey, I can go out there. I can make eight episodes. I can like lead a show. I can get it done. And it turned out really well, partly because Magnus is like an absolute genius and one of the most fascinating people you can hang out with.”
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
“From that moment on, Tony liked me. I got called after that. Like I said, Lydia was like, this is a benchmark moment. He actually knows your name after one show. Do you want to come back? You want to do another? I was like, dude, as many as I can for as long as I can. And that's what I did. So that was the introduction to Tony. It just took an act of, I don't know, I didn't have kids at the time, so I don't consider it too selfish, but I wouldn't recommend it to any young shooters.”
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
“Got great footage and also what I think did it for me is by the time we got to camp, I had a hematoma the size of like a small nerf football on my bicep where I was holding on that was like deep purple where I had been holding. That's how hard I was holding on to this thing. And that's the kind of beating that took up there. And I think that that act of he's like, oh, this is a cat who's like likes it. I mean, I'm a physical shooter. This is a cat that's going to throw himself completely into this. And it's like a light switch went off. I landed in camp. He's like, hey, all right. That was a pretty rough ride. I was like, oh, yeah, look at this. I showed him the bruise.”
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
“One of those things was broken down into pieces. They had broken it down into the pieces and strapped it to the roof of the car. I think that they thought that Tony would want to sleep in a fourth post bed like out in the desert, which is absurd. You know, and like Tony, if you know Tony, like all Tony wants to do is go off and pass out in the sand. Anyways, they had this ridiculous thing on top of the car and it saved my life because I was able to hold on to the car. Whoever the driver was must have been like, I am going to show this white boy, you know. And so they go barreling off across the desert and it is harrowing. And I see Tony looking out the window at this big, ridiculous, grim looking at me and like, oh, yeah, look at the new guys suffer, you know, like this is 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
“And we go, we drive a few hours outside of Cairo, we meet them in the desert, and you're like on a paved road with just sand on both sides. We meet this group of Bedouin all in their late 70s, Toyota Land Cruisers, which is the car of choice in the western desert of Egypt. And we're just going to go drive off in a desert. And I was like, well, okay, so we're driving across the desert. I should get up on the roof of one of these cars and just film a bunch of car-to-car stuff. Like we're driving across the desert. How bad can it be? Five minutes later, we're going like 80 miles an hour across the desert. I am absolutely terrified. I have one hand on the camera and my other arm, my right arm was around a four post bed that for some reason they had strapped to the roof of the car. And so I have my arm.”
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
“He plays a cool and the other thing is if he doesn't like you, like you are just simply not going anywhere on that show. And there's a lot of people he didn't like. He had pretty kind of like particular, I think if you were honest, I think if you weren't addict to people, I think that if you carried yourself in a respectable manner, I think that if you saw that you worked hard and I think that if you saw that you could like hang out and have to admit there was a lot of drinking on the show. If you could hang out and not become just like a sloppy drunk, then you were kind of cool and you could hang out. But initially he wasn't going to give you anything. The thing that changed it for me with Tony was we were going out, we were going to go out and spend a night out in the western desert with the Bedouin.”
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 got the call I was waiting for, which was hey, you know, one of his shooters can't go to Egypt. I think he got sick or something. And is your passport up to date? Can you go like next week? And I was like, you know, absolutely. There's no way I'm missing that. So I went to Egypt. I kind of jumped in. You know, that show had been going already for a while. And so they had ways of doing things. I tried to do my best to similar.”
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 I think for me, that was the greatest thing that I took away from that is keeping your headspace, keeping your mood elevated, keeping the possibility of something amazing and beautiful and brilliant happening and keeping grinding is the way to do this specific line of work because again, we don't have the resources to control all the variables and we're working with real people in all the work that I do. So you're kind of at the whim of a lot of dynamics and you got to learn how to see the things that get in your way as gifts. You know, you got to learn how to take them and operate around them and move off of them and use them. That's what I learned out there with Steve.”
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 you don't have the option because you're out alone. I mean, you know, you know how it, I mean, from the Brooks Range show. You get dropped off by like a Piper Cub in the middle of nowhere and they're not coming back for 10 days or however long you were out. And so you got to figure all that shit out in between. And yeah, we go out with like a lot of tools and stuff. But it's hard not to feel defeated when you're freezing, when you're soaking wet, when you roll out of your sleeping bag in the morning and the reality you're facing is that you got to put on your soaking wet wool underclothes that have been out in 40 degree weather all night and it's going to suck and it's going to hurt and it's going to be miserable and cold and depressing and you got to push through that anyways. I think for me and I don't know that this is the same for everyone else you know but”
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
“Psychological game is everything. I think we have a tendency to shut down when we feel defeated or to shut down when we feel like we've reached an impasse. And what's amazing about being in the natural environment like that and really doing it is that you're forced to face the landscape. You're forced to face The elements. You're forced to face weather. You're forced to face all these things that are incongruous with producing television and achieving your goal.”
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
“Make TV and how to not bullshit people. And trust me, we did a little bit of eye rolling bullshit and wild within. But by the time we got to mediator, we weren't bullshitting anymore. We were just going out and doing it and grinding and we got really good at it. And I just have watched recent episodes now and they're beautiful and smart and just excellent high quality TV and like very, very proud of that, that that something I was involved in like on that ground level has maintained that kind of quality is like incredibly rewarding.”
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 earned. I mean, sure, like born with a predilection for writing, sure. I'm sure that's true. But he's a writer. I mean, he writes from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon every day. He does the job and it has made him a great writer. And I would say that his voiceover and his writing is some of the best in the industry. He's just excellent. And has built that initial show while the first season because like no network was ever going to be able to really wrap their head around what we were doing. And so we launched a self-financed endeavor, which was Mediator, which has now grown into this big company that Steve owns, or partially owns or whatever. I don't know exactly what the ownership structure is, but it's grown into this big thing. When we actually went out and did that, that was like the fully formed version of the show. I feel like Wild Within, we were just kind of like learning how to be outside and how to.”
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 every part of that story, including him destroying his cell phone, it rings so true to Steve. That's exactly right. I mean, to be with Steve Vernella is you're with someone who is so surefooted and so competent in their environment. It is really something to behold. And he kind of shrugs it off when you try to compliment him, but that is one of the toughest, smartest, most solid people I've ever met in my life.”
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
“Doing something that Just felt so raw and real and unproduced and unscripted that it was very refreshing and once kind of figured out, oh, this you put your feet here, you walk this way, you hold the camera like this. This is how you don't get yourself killed. This is how you don't get yourself hurt. Once we figured all that shit out or once I figured all that shit out, then you were left with just this incredible canvas to paint on. And I think we did something really special. I think we really put people in that sensory environment, what it feels like to be out there and to be a predator and to be part of this whole dynamic that's always going on around us, but that we have largely excised ourselves from. And we were there with a camera to capture 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
“Right, I had never connected with the natural world. And I had no idea that within me and within all of us was this ability to navigate the natural world by simply connecting with stuff that we are born with. Steve brought that out to me. And once I realized that, then the whole world opened and you're like, oh my God, I'm in the middle of this highly dynamic, highly visual thing that we can just run with. And we can like, no one's, I don't want to say no one's ever done that style, you know, of production before, but truthfully, honestly, in the hunting world, they did a lot of like, you know what it is. They sit in a blind, they shoot a bear over a 55 gallon drum of donuts. I find all that disgusting. A lot of these shows won't even finish the episode unless they get a good kill shot. And we were like, fuck kill shots. I don't give a shit about the kill shot. We were.”
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
“We don't call the Coast Guard over this. Trust me, you're going to be okay. And it was an incredible, an incredible realization to be like, oh, wait, I am going to be okay. I've got all the stuff is innate in being human that I need to survive this and to figure it out and to deal with it. Whereas I think a lot of my career up to that point had been like how to navigate the human world.”
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 you got to figure it out. But figuring all that stuff out was incredible. Again, just I was just like, I'm just a dude. I didn't come from any kind of special background. I'm not a green beret, you know. I was dropped into this thing with no understanding of what my capacities were when I was put into an environment where you have to rely on like your natural instincts and your ability to do shit and your ability to like not get yourself fucking killed when you're out in the woods. And at first I was like, I can't do this. And by the way, got a 50-pound pack on in a camera all the time. So I got one hand. Everyone else got two hands. At first it was terrifying. I remember that first time we got a little bit cliff hung and I'm like, where's the sapphone? Let's call the Coast Guard. And they're like, they're like, dude.”
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 Cliff Hung, if you're, I think it usually happens when you're descending. But basically you're descending through heavy cover and you get out to a cliff and you make a decision which is like I can get down this thing and you go down. Drop that you can't come back up, then you realize that the drop, the next drop, isn't 15 feet, it's 60 feet. Then you're cliff on.”
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've never been off a trail. I've never been off like a well-marked trail, and all of a sudden you're standing in the middle of like Prince of Wales Island with Steve. It's fucking pouring rain, you're freezing cold, your cliff hung because it's Steve and something always happens. What do you mean?”
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
“Not at all. Never. What I realized is like growing up in New Hampshire, I felt like I was outdoorsy. And then I went with Steve to Alaska. And I was like, oh, I'm not outdoorsy at all.”
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 know that that can be very difficult for some people to hear and understand, but for me, I had this moment where I was like, I feel incredibly connected to like the human experience, to the natural experience. I feel like a part of kind of the whole dynamic. And we ate pig and we used all of it and we were responsible about it. And so I could kind of, from a philosophical standpoint, I felt like I could get my head around it and like understand, oh, this is why this person does 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
“If you want to build a legacy, you want to build one of his legacy shows, you got to be honest with your audience. That's what they will come back for year after year after year. That's what they're looking for. And that's what Steve provided. And so we went and we did this show that was really unique. And I felt like we had moments that were unlike anything I had ever seen on TV before. We were in it, man. Hunting pigs in Hawaii, having the pigs run up this coolly and get in this little, they got in this little stream there where we found them. They're like in a fight to the death with the dogs that had run them down. Steve's like in there with a knife trying to stab pig and not dog. Blood screaming. There's mud and shit flying all over the place.”
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
“No one's dropping off the moose to present that to a network and be like, how are you going to assure us that you come up with something here? We're not going to go out and actually do it. That was a lot for a network to get their heads around, but it allowed us to be genuine about what we were doing. And I really believe when you watch these shows, people know. They know when they're being bullshitted and they know when it's honest. The bullshit is fun to watch. I get it. It draws numbers and people enjoy 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
“On like a producer came on. They're like, okay, where's the line item for the animal wrangler? It seems like animal wrangler. It's like there's no animal wrangler, dude. We're going to Alberta to hunt moose. And he's like, well, how do you know you're going to be successful? He's like, I don't.”
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 just unbelievable. And so it had all of everything was there. You got all of the information. You got something that's really smart. You got a philosophy behind it that makes sense. And yet you're doing stuff that's highly physical, that's really cinematic, that's really kind of gripping and kind of hits on like a root human level. You're out doing it. You're out like getting food, you know? So I met him in that swamp and just started a journey with him. We went on to film eight episodes of a show called Wild Within, which was an early attempt to make a hunting show and figure out what a hunting show could be in terms of also telling a story and having a narrative progression. It was really unique in that we were just actually doing the stuff that we said we were going to do. I remember early.”
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 just like this moment of like, oh my god, this is it because this is like super experiential. It's super visual. He's incredibly smart. Just a fountain of information, as you know, from hanging out with him.”
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
“Learned how to shoot on that thing because you're just grinding out. You have a camera on your shoulder for like 10 hours a day and you are just grinding out shooting. It's the same stuff over and over again, but you're like, you really learn it. I got a call and they're like, we have this guy, Steve Ranella. He's got a really interesting story. He lives in Brooklyn, but he hunts for his food. He's a conservationist and a hunter and a writer. And he's a really smart guy and you should meet him. I think you'd get along with him. go and meet Steve in a parking lot in Michigan. And within 35 minutes, I am this deep in a swamp, you know, up to my shoulders in a swamp.”
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 I came in on foodies and then did a couple of no reservations with Tony. Those were great. So the first one I got called to replace someone on the Egypt show with Tony and I got along with him, which was kind of amazing, I guess. I didn't know at the time. I didn't know it was anything special. But I got a call after from Lydia. And she's like, he knows your name. This is a benchmark moment. I was like, oh, okay, cool. So I went to Egypt with them and we had a great show. I did a few other no reservations. Was like getting to know Tony. But then they called me. I was working at the time again for my buddy Todd, who was showrunning Biggest Loser. And I had shot 96 episodes of Biggest Loser, which is real formatty reality TV with a little more puking than normal reality TV. But I had gone in like, I'd done that for three years and really, I”
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
“Contributed as much to that as anyone else through my interview, you know, but it is not the defining characteristic of who Tony was. There are so many others that I feel could have, I guess, played a little bigger. It's well done, though.”
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
“Person who had like weighed into a room and pick up a baby and sit in someone's living room and really actually kind of be there and be with them and be with them on their terms. And that was one of kind of the intangibles about him. He was a very connected person to the world for someone who is like as strangely agoraphobic as he was he had an amazing ability to be truly like connected and in the moment and see the beauty in things that are often passed up in the like the beauty in people and in the small nuances and details of their life and i guess that a little more of that and a little less of the kind of whodunit aspect of tony suicide i understand going down that road for sure and who am i to talk i'm 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
“Missed, but I think that there are things that you kind of had to really be there and know him and have gone through that experience to really fully grasp and understand. And I think they did a really good job of getting who he was and getting what that journey was as far as things I wish they had leaned into more and away from more. I do wish they had gotten a little bit more of who Tony was in terms of his relationship to people and the way he approached people, the way he approached the world. Yes, he was a champion of the underdog, and they mentioned that in the film, but it was more than that. Tony really, really deeply felt, I think, a connection to people whose environments he was walking into. And he felt that connection as a guest. But he was the kind of.”
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 Roadrunner, it was directed by Morgan Neville, who's one of the great documentary filmmakers out there right now. By the way, I should specify it. There were a lot of people that worked for Tony and a lot of people that were really close with him. It is in no way am I the person or a singular kind of thing there. There was a lot of people that were really close to Tony and went on the ride with him. And I'm sure a lot of them have different opinions about Roadrunner. For me, When I watch a film and I've only seen it once, I may only ever see it once. It's hard. It's hard for me to watch it again. What I saw, I think, did what they did was as good a job as you could do with that subject without having been on the inside of it, which I guess is in some ways, I mean that in as kind of the greatest compliment I can give because I think that there were things that were”
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
“Stoked to talk about Roadrunner. We should back up at some point on the ZPZ stuff because there's a bunch of stuff that happened in between there, which is Steve. And we should talk about Steve. 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
“First thing I did for them was a show for PBS called Diary of a Foodie, which was a great show. It was a beautiful show. And so, you know, what did I do? I show up on time, work your ass off, shoot good footage, don't be a pain in the ass. Keep your head low, figure out the lay of the land. Don't come in like you own the place. I don't know the basics. Luckily, learned how to do that shit from my dad, you know, he taught me how to work hard, and I don't think that I've been like someone in my career. I mean, there are people, a lot of people in this industry that are just way more calculated and Machiavellian about how they go about. So, I mean, that's, I guess that's it. Same thing with showing up at Emerson and telling them that I'm coming regardless of whether they have a bed from here or not, I guess.”
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 legitim It was stunning to me that he allowed that opening. And for Roger Waters, which like respect, but it's not Pink Floy Think that it's just knowing those moments, and like there are career changing moments, and it's sometimes just a phone call. It's out of the blue. And you're like, oh, this is the moment, this is the thing, this is the project. When I got turned on to ZPZ and Chris and Lydia, that was like very clearly it. And I was very aware of Tony and no reservations at that point and was like, that is what I want to do. I want to do that. And so when they came into the picture, I was like, oh, I mean, yeah. I'm going to do anything that it takes. Put me on any project you want, and I will prove to you that I deserve to be on that ride and working with Tony. And that's what I tried 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
“Definitely throw as much against the wall as possible, but I think that a marker of many people's careers is certainly not my philosophy or anything like that. But kind of like a trapdoor spider or something, you know, you sit there, like you're kind of like patient, you're grinding out the days and 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
“I lived in Buffalo for six months in the winter, which is, I mean, hats off to anyone in Buffalo. You are tough people. And the DP on that show was someone named Zach Zamboni, who is absolutely just a phenomenal, gifted DP who understands this genre better than anyone else I know. When I say this genre, I mean like the Verite documentary genre. He ended up giving my name to Chris and Lydia because he had been working for them and was at that time working for Tony on no reservations. They hired me for a couple of jobs and that's how I got in with them. And so I owe a tremendous amount to Zach. I still talked to him all the time. As much as possible, and what can you say about him? He's the master.”
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
“Again, in kind of working my way back up through the ranks by like 2000 and I guess it was 2006, I had shot this show in Buffalo called Tough Love. It was a dark, like romantic comedy about a matchmaker set in Buffalo.”
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 got to have a light touch. You got to go in. You got to figure out how to pull the most value out of things with the fewest amount of resources.”
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
“When you're working on the kind of stuff that I do, it's a knife fight, you're intentionally small. You don't operate with big crews. You operate with small crews. You don't want to freak people out. I don't work with actors, you know, or work with people.”
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