#1172 - Morgan Fallon

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Four, three, two, one. What's up, Mo?

Morgan Fallon (0:08)

What's up, man?

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Good to see you, man.

I'm glad we decided to get together and do this, you know, and talk, and, you know, it's a crazy subject, right? I mean, you and I have known each other since 2012, when I did Meat Eater. You were there filming when I shot My First Deer, which is a very important part of my life, man. And then you went on to direct and produce Parts Unknown with our late friend, Anthony Bourdain. And we just thought it'd probably be a good thing to come in here and just talk about them.

Morgan Fallon (0:44)

Yeah, man.

And I'm really grateful for it. You know, it's actually, you know, a lot of people have been saying to me like, Oh, it must be really hard to talk about that. It must really. But it's I actually find it kind of the opposite, like, I want to talk about him. I want to talk about who he was and what that experience was, you know, so thanks, man.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

My pleasure, brother. Did you did you know him before you guys started working together?

Morgan Fallon (1:10)

No, no, I met Tony 10 years ago, and I was called in.

He had a DP on a show who at the last minute canceled couldn't go to Egypt. So I got a call like a week before, you know, it's like, do you want to go to Egypt with Anthony Bourdain? Like, you're fucking absolutely right now. And and so I met him in Cairo, man, like, you know, it's kind of like perfect. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

Holy shit. That's like Indiana Jones.

Morgan Fallon (1:37)

Yeah, exactly.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

Is that the episode when you guys ate a camel?

Morgan Fallon (1:42)

No, no, we didn't eat a camel, no, but, um, you know, I met him there.

You know, we started filming around the streets of Cairo and like, you know, it's like all of a sudden it's thrown in these kitchens or it's like, we're eating pigeon, you know, it's like go and cover them cooking pigeon and, you know, I had seen the show like maybe once before, but I had I knew who he was and I knew what that adventure was. You know, and I was so amped for it.

Um, and then there was like this seminal moment on that show where we go out and we we go ripping across the desert with the bedouin and go out and cook a goat in the ground, you know. Um, and so as we're driving out over the desert, we're like, well, we need to we need some shots from car to car, right? And I was like, I'll get on the roof, you know, and, uh, and there's like this four for some reason there's a four post bed tied to the roof of this Land Rover. And so I get up there and kind of like, you know, latch my arm around it. And these guys take off at, I swear, 80 miles an hour across the desert.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

I mean, and you're on a bed.

Morgan Fallon (2:49)

Absolutely.

Absolutely. No regard for the fact that like, I'm on the roof, you know, um, shooting. And uh, and when we got there, we got to camp, I survived it. Um, I had this big black and blue where I was holding on to the four post bed and I go over and I show Tony and, um, that was it, man. From that moment on, he was, he was like, I like this guy and I started going out with him, you know, I started getting invited to do more shows. So that was it, man.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

How many years?

Morgan Fallon (3:23)

10 years. Wow.

10 years. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

That's crazy. I didn't realize that Parts Unknown was even, were you doing No Reservations first?

Morgan Fallon (3:31)

Yeah. So that was a No Reservation show and then we went to Parts Unknown, uh, five years ago.

Joe Rogan (3:37)

Yeah. So Parts Unknown has been on for five years?

Morgan Fallon (3:39)

Yeah. Yeah. And that, uh, you know, that transition, no, No Reservation was great.

And it really laid the foundation for what we do, what Tony did. I think it really built an audience and a following for him.

Joe Rogan (3:54)

That's what I found out about.

Morgan Fallon (3:55)

Right. Exactly. It was a great show. Yeah. You know, but that like that transition going on to CNN going into Parts Unknown, that really, that really changed things. That really opened up a lot of locations and stuff that we didn't have access to before. It opened up, you know, kind of CNN's logistics, Rolodex, and, you know, things that we didn't have at the other network, you know, and, and so that's, you know, No Reservations was awesome. We did some incredible shows, Parts Unknown got really fun.