#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
The Tim Ferriss Show
<!-- HTML_TAG_START --><p><strong>Brought to you by </strong><strong>Athletic Greens</strong><strong> all-in-one nutritional supplement</strong>,<strong> </strong><strong>Helix Sleep</strong><strong> premium mattresses, and </strong><strong>Gravity</strong><strong> weighted blankets. </strong></p><p><strong>Morgan Fallon</strong> (@diamondmofallon) is a nine-time-Emmy-nominated executive producer, director, and cinematographer. He was born and raised in New England and studied film at Emerson College in Boston. After graduating, he spent three years working for his mentor, director Michael Mann, and in 2007, he began a long-term working relationship with producers Chris Collins and Lydia Tenaglia and their New York-based production company, <strong>Zero Point Zero Productions</strong><strong>.</strong></p><p>Through his tenure at ZPZ, Morgan focused primarily on work with ZPZ creative partner Anthony Bourdain on several episodic series and documentaries produced by Bourdain, including the Emmy-winning <em>Mind of a Chef</em>, the theatrically distributed documentary <em>The Last Magnificent</em>, and the Emmy-, Peabody-, PGA-, TCA-, and ACE-award-winning series <em>Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown</em>, which Morgan shot, directed, and produced throughout the series’ one-hundred-and-three-episode run.</p><p>Currently, he is a director and executive producer for the Emmy-winning series <em>United Shades of America</em> with W. Kamau Bell.</p><p>He lives in California with his wife and production partner Gillian Brown and his two children.</p><p>Please enjoy!</p><p><strong>This episode is brought to you by </strong><strong>Gravity</strong><strong>! </strong>I place sleep at the top of my list for optimizing health, energy, and performance. If good sleep is in place, it helps everything else; if not, it hurts everything else. I’ve had sleep issues almost my entire life, which is why I’m always experimenting and adding great sleep aids. One of my new favorites is the <strong>Gravity Weighted Blanket</strong><strong>. </strong>72% of Gravity users have reported better, more restful sleep, and 76% have reported falling asleep faster and feeling more rested in the morning.</p><p>Gravity has been named “Best Weighted Blanket” by CNN, Business Insider, <em>Good Housekeeping</em>, and many more. <strong>Gravity is offering my listeners a special discount: order a blanket of any size or weight and receive 15% off your order. Just go to </strong><strong>GravityBlankets.com/Tim</strong><strong>, and the discount will be automatically applied.</strong></p><p>*</p><p><strong>This episode is also brought to you by </strong><strong>Helix Sleep</strong><strong>! </strong>Helix was selected as the #1 overall mattress of 2020 by <em>GQ </em>magazine<em>, Wired, </em>Apartment Therapy, and many others. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that</p><!-- HTML_TAG_END -->