Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - Review of 1172 Morgan Fallon

Episode Date: September 25, 2018

Morgan Fallon worked with Anthony Bourdain on his show “part unknown” for many years and was also apart of the MeatEater crew. Such a great conversation for both Joe and Morgan. Was a pleasure to review it.     Enjoy..   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hello guys and thanks for listening to another episode of the JRE Review, where each week I review as many of the Rogan podcasts as I can and kind of, you know, throw down a summary and give my opinions and occasionally I have guests on that were inspired by different podcasts of the week. And we talk about it and really it's just a homage to say thank you to Joe Robin and that show and Jamie for inspiring so many people. And that message needs to be talked about. You know, other than it just being a really popular

great show, like I say a million times, this isn't like watching late night with Conan O'Brien or any of those guys. I mean, yes, that's entertainment. And so as Joe's show, but Joe has a deeper message that is different and it's important. And it needs a voice and we should talk about it. So, I love to do it.

That's why I brought this podcast. And that actually brings up an important point that I want to give a shout out to a guy that makes YouTube videos called Samuel Rivera and he runs Samuel Rivera Films. And the reason I want to give a shout out is because I like watching those motivational videos, you know, on YouTube to kind of get your pumped for different things that are difficult, you know, or if you're

just feeling down or you're feeling frustrated or you're kind of beating yourself up, they, I don't know, they seem to work, they seem to do something. Some really good ones out there that just exist on their own, Jocco Willinks, good, all caps. If you haven't seen that, it's's only two minutes long that one's a great one That's a great one for like picking yourself up dusting off and just kicking ass again and Jaco is you know The thieves are legend if you know Joe's podcast you know Jaco, but Sam you're a Vera does this one called growth and it's a Joe Rogan kind of Splice together montage thing.

It's only three minutes long. I listen to that one almost every day. I think it's, I just haven't found a better motivational little video that I would want to listen to all the time. Obviously, you know, I'm a fan of Rogan and I like the podcast or the rest of it, but you know, I listen to him enough. It's not like I need to hear that voice again. It's just such a well-placed little video that I really wanted to give a shout out and, and, you know, make sure you guys know about it so you can listen to it. I want to read just real quick his little Sammy Rivera's little blur on YouTube just about himself and it says somewhere around 2008 I'd hit rock bottom. I was a hundred pounds overweight

going through divorce. I was drowning in debt, living in my parents' spare bedroom and I didn't know exactly how to turn things around. Not long after, I came across to Joe Rogan experience and started listening to his show, hearing his positive words and thoughts that you can change your current circumstances no matter what, became the blueprint for the way that I live my life and who I have become as a person. It's never too late to improve your life and head down a new path. Make the most of this journey because we only get one shot at it. Be inspired. And then it says Samu Rivera films. That's really cool in so many ways because not only did I see this

video and think, hey, this is great. This is super motivating. It must have been made by a super motivational person. And obviously he is, but at the same time, 10 years ago, he was in a completely different place. So yeah, I mean, it does, it does a few things. It shows that no matter where you are now, you can create a better tomorrow. That's an important message for anybody, but also the that's the voice That's the message of this podcast is the somehow what Joe does on this show Could really change people circumstances and it's it's incredible It really is but anyway, it's enough of that. Let's get on to the podcast of the week

So many great podcasts like Joe went hunting for a week somewhere, probably Utah where it usually goes. And kind of gives everyone who's a big fan, time to catch up on podcast. But he also likes to squeeze in as many as he can before he goes. You know, he's getting paid for these. So he likes to get all the guests in. So there were a lot, a lot, but a lot of good ones, a lot of great ones. Podcast 11.72 with Morgan Fallon was really fantastic and one that it was just a really important conversation and discussion that in so many ways I've been waiting for. So basically Morgan Fallon worked on parts unknown with Anthony Baudin. Anthony Baudin obviously

just a few months ago he committed suicide in France and you know it's been very difficult for obviously the people that know him and fans of his show and that show was amazing. I mean, it was less about food and more about the beauty of human beings all over the world. And his poetic narration was just next level. I mean, he's, yeah, the guy's on real. It's such a good show. And if you guys haven't checked it out, watch it.

It's so good. It's such a good show and if you guys haven't checked it out watch it. It's it's so good It's so good, but Morgan found work with him for 10 years and New Joe from Wayne Joe first went hunting on the meaty to show because he also used to work on meaty to now I've had friends to work on meaty to and I'm in an organization where the guy used to produce it And one of my old roommates actually had worked on that show so so just seeing how many cool people have been apart of it and and then listening to this guy I never met Morgan but he sounded like a great guy and he just wanted to sit down and talk to Joe and really kind of like get

get some of that energy out and that frustration and and pay his respects and hearing so much about the parts unknown show was really pretty amazing. So like I said he worked on it for 10 years and how he met Anthony was a really cool story because so I guess meet he's finished or he just decided to do something else. So they said more than fly out to Egypt, meet Anthony and start the show. So he heads out to Egypt and as soon as he gets there, it's like, right, we're gonna shoot some stuff driving through the desert. So he's like, okay, so he hops up on the roof, which is bourzy as hell. So now they're like riding through the desert. He said they were going like 60, 80 miles an hour. Like insane speeds. Probably wasn't that fast and then on the sand, but you know, I'm sure why you're sat on a roof. Anything feels fast.

Well, the crazy thing was on the roof was a bed like a you know like a double bed frame that was just tied to the roof. Now it sounds weird but like I used to live in Sri Lanka and when you travel over to places like Asia and Africa and these different places you know they do stuff differently there they do some things. Like you'll see somebody riding down the road on a bike and they've got like a motorcycle and they've got like six crates of chickens on the back and you know people are just doing what they need to do to get stuff done. It's not like it is around here. So hearing that they had a you know a bed frame on the roof of a car and he's holding onto that while filming. It's crazy, but it didn't surprise me at all.

And when they arrive at their destination, this guy Morgan Fallon is bruised up to hell, bouncing around and that was when he showed Tony. And Tony was like, OK, this motherfucker's on board. He's cool. And then they were tight ever since. That's cool. I like hearing those sorts of stories.

Like that to me is just, I don't know, it says a lot about character or something. I just like the lunacy of those guys, but Anthony was an incredible explorer and he was willing to do what it took to make that show and you know, I'm sure he held the rest of the staff to that same standard. I mean you kind of have to right to make good shows but yeah so they talked a lot about how Anthony's narration really made the show. When you watch the show it shows him going different places, eating with fascinating people, great restaurants, street food, whatever. But it was the way he put his narration together. So poetically, so beautifully, like it just really changed the way that really anyone sees food.

And that was something Joe was saying because Joe had spent some time with Anthony and they'd hunted together. And he said it was the first time somebody made me realize that Food can be art, right? Like temporary art and then it's to this Something more to it and you know, Anthony was in a snobby that he didn't just eat at the best restaurant so that we did he also ate it You know Huckbuck stands and just wherever like he he followed the food And and there's just something really beautiful about it. It obviously this podcast was touching and moving and it was sad and and

You know everyone got choked up the day of Anthony's suicide or the day after the lead singer at all a text Joe and Anthony's suicide of the day after the lead singer at tour, a text Joe, and basically said so much for the celebrity Giu-Jitsu match because the lead singer of the tour was brown belt, he's a good Giu-Jitsu guy and I guess Anthony Bourdain was a huge Giu-Jitsu fan and trained all the time and they were gonna set something up and that was when Joe Stomach was aacked. He said that he cried and it was very emotional. And just tough, you know, so tough for these guys that knew each other and just hearing great people and imagining their pain and, yeah, really difficult.

And like I said, Anthony, he loved G Gigi's and he trained all the time. Even when they were shooting the show up in Montana, when they went hunting together Joe and Anthony, I guess Anthony left and went to somewhere in Bozeman to find a school and train, which is really cool because I have friends who live in Bozeman and I've been up there. And just to do that in such a small town, I mean, it really shows that you you are incredibly passionate about about that and it's yeah, I mean that it just speaks to him. I mean, his passion, for knowledge and exploration and food and people, it was really what made that show people, it was really what made that show absolutely incredible. And I mean it just, it just, it just was so inspiring, I guess, is the best way to describe that show. I mean, just everything about it was like uplifting and interesting, but there was just this like no bullshit thing about it too,

where it wasn't overly produced in the standard, you know, BS TV way. I mean, it was as real as it could get. And, you know, you get pretty trashed a lot of times. And, you know, be like fucking chain smoking and just drinking and having fun. And that was what the show was. It was like, look at me doing this.

I mean, yeah, crazy. Something they did talk about is the Anthony started smoking again, which came as a bit of a shock because Joe remembers him saying that he had quit smoking after many, many years of smoking. Because of his daughter, he wanted to he had a daughter, a young daughter, and he's older, and he said, I want to be around. You know, I don't want to be on an iron lung. And so to start smoking again was, was a bit of a shock to people

and came as a bit of a surprise. And then he also had to stop training, jujitsu. And, you know, along with that, I mean, when you stop training, when you were so obsessed with that, says something as well. That says something about what kind of way you mind that and and you know, that I don't think Joe or Morgan were like trying to find, you know, oh, what, what were the causes and what were. But I mean, you know, things do slip in certain directions and, you know, some of those dark thoughts can creep in and the person

doesn't always realize and the people around don't either. And I think that was all they were just trying to talk about and get to it. And towards the end, they talked really about the positive areas of things. Going back to meat eater which Morgan worked on, just saying how working with Steve Ronello, there was this one episode where the episode was about hunting a bear and he got to the end of it and at the end of the episode and there was the bear and he went to take the shot and he didn't take it, decided not to. And it just felt right, you remember this gut and that's different than how old shows would be made. Old shows, they would have shipped the bear in in a cage and threw it into a field

and then had people shoot it, or something ridiculous. This was just more real and more touching. And moving from the meaty to show, to Anthony's show and seeing that same energy. Like, there was this one episode where Tony is, I can't remember where he was, but they were supposed to be hunting octopus. So he gets in the water, and he's snorkeling around,

and they're throwing dead octopus off the boat into the water, and it's just floating down, and he's supposed to pretend to catch it, and he's just like, this is the biggest pile of bullshit I've ever seen in my life. Like you just can't have fake shit like that and make it like a show. And the fact that CNN of all places gave Anthony the opportunity to make something so real and so powerful and so good. I mean it just changes television and I'm I'm excited to see what other shows you know get inspired from this and what other networks allow it would

networks like Netflix you know you're getting some good stuff because they're no bullshit as well and they're gonna allow people to put their best foot forward and really come up with some great shows. And, you know, Anthony's gone, but his legacy and what he brought to entertainment and just the world is, it carries on. And it's fucking cool. And I miss that show and I miss the idea of him being around. And yeah, it was cool these guys got to talk so check this one out it's really good it's always cool when you know you get to hear the really emotional side of what people are thinking and and it's really beautiful but anyway there we go that's a great show

thanks for tuning in I love you guys I'll keep this going it's gonna be quite a few this week so check them out cheers It's going to be quite a few this week, so check them out. Cheers.