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now with your host adam thorne this might either be the worst podcast or the best one enjoy the show hey folks and welcome to another episode of the joe rogan experience review this week mel gibson gibbons what a legend star of such hits as braveheart the lethal weapon series it goes on so many good ones

And yeah, he's back on. Opened up with a joke about clicking his pen, because the first time he was on, the whole time, nervously, just clicking a pen when he was on. I think he was on with his dad, and...

They were talking about stem cells and different therapies and these sorts of things. Mel seemed more relaxed this time. He was better on the pod, a little bit more focused. You think he seemed relaxed? Well, I mean, he's an intense dude. Yeah, I guess. But the first time around, he was jittery, a bit more jittery. And I don't know. He just seemed to be bro-ing out pretty good with...

With Rogan. Yeah. Which is always a good start. You know, he's getting older now. He's talking about his chronic pain.

and just kind of dealing with that. You know, he refuses to do surgery, so it's chiropractic, stem cells, all different types of therapy, just kind of trying to keep himself going. Yeah. Well, he's 69 years old, so... Yeah, he's no spring chicken. No. It's gonna happen. You know, everyone... And they were even talking about once your back goes, it's like you almost can never get it back. Nothing's ever the same. The rest of your body starts to fall apart. And...

Yeah, but I mean, he didn't seem sickly by any means, but you could tell he's aged. It looks good for 69. He actually does. Yeah. Seems just a bit. He's holding it together. He has that kind of Hollywood youthfulness that some actors keep. Not all of them do, but some of them just kind of get it together. Yeah, but you said he's intense. He's excited about things. He's like really...

you know, the things that he wants to talk about, like he gets really pumped about, like jumping out of his seat, trying to like express himself. And so it's interesting. It's very interesting to watch. I wonder when he was talking about concussions and he got that bad concussion at his daughter's wedding, his Australian friend somehow knocked him out. I wonder if, if like he brought that up, you know, if he's getting any kind of memory issues from that or any more long-term issues.

things happening because they do say that even minor concussions can cause some real problems you know um later in life with kind of like mood swings and and um memory loss and

I just wonder why you brought that up. Yeah. I mean, I think, I think it makes sense. I mean, concussions are really bad for your brain and that's why after you've had so many, they're like, stop doing what you're doing. Like whatever it is. Change career. Yeah. You really shouldn't have anything else to do with whatever it is that's giving you these concussions. But, um, yeah, no, they didn't really, they kind of stopped talking about that at some, like they sort of cut that off. Yeah. I mean, I mean, Joe covers things like that quite often. And, and, uh,

But yeah, I wonder if he's just feeling something more long term. And he's like, yeah, I think those I think those fucked me up back in the day. But it's interesting because I think a lot of things can play into your cognitive health. And, you know, even like, for example, my dad, I mean, he's 60, 60 and he.

He started expressing a few years ago before he like started on down his path to retirement that he felt like his memory was going. And he's like, it's so, I feel so much, I feel too young for this. Right. And we sort of boiled it down to stress and like lack of sleep. And obviously like, you don't want to have concussions and things like those things definitely play into it. But I think the,

a combination of nutrition and stress and sleep, and that all is really playing into the early, the lack thereof, those things, is playing into early onset dementia that we're seeing. - Yeah, well, there's a lot of elements that play into it. I mean, you can take a very healthy person and really stress them out if they're feeling a great deal of anxiety. Your memory is not working very well at all. You're just so distracted.

And yeah, as soon as he basically stopped, you know, stopped working full time, it went away. You know, he started sleeping better. He was stressing less. He was working less, looking at screens less, you know, doing more activity physically. And yeah, and he feels like he can talk, have a conversation without like forgetting his words, essentially. He still lost the key, though.

Yeah, he did lose a key, a very important key, and he has no idea how. So, I mean, he's still 60 and he still has his things, but, you know, it's...

What do you think about this new announcement? Trump just announced that Mel Gibson and a few other people, I can't remember who was on there, are going to be special ambassadors for Hollywood. Number one, nobody for sure knows what that means. If it means anything, nobody knows. But what do you think the play is here? He's just kind of like scooping up a bunch of Republican A-list actors to do what? Leverage

right-leaning movies? I don't know what the play is there. I mean, Hollywood typically is pretty left-leaning. Yeah. So, you know, is there like this desire to kind of balance that? Or I don't really get what it could be for. I'm trying to like...

Trying to just guess. Yeah. It's not coming together. Yeah, these are all great questions. And as you know, I'm an expert on all things that you don't know. Well, that's why I ask you. Yeah. So let me tell you. I actually have no clue. And I think...

I think like you hit kind of the nail on the head. He's just sort of like pulling names, like his supporters together and making them feel these like big names that have sort of come out in support of him, giving them these positions, like obviously his cabinet positions. He's like filled. I mean, what is Mel Gibson going to do in the cabinet? Right. Like, so he, he's looking for these ambassador positions or, you know, whatever. He's going to loop in all these celebrities, all of these CEOs, all these people who are influential, right.

And I don't think it's a bad move, but there was like not a lot of direction as to like what he was trying to get at other than he said, you know, um,

It's like, I don't know if I'm saying John Vaught, John Voight. Voight, yeah. And Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson, special ambassadors to Hollywood. They're essentially going to be his eyes and ears. And I think what, you know, I could see it from two perspectives. One being sort of the loss of economic opportunity.

and GDP that's left California and Hollywood, you know, due to cost of housing, the economic, you know, the, sorry, like the ecological issues they experience, like fires and everything, you know, sort of the polarized climate

political climate in California with Gavin Newsom and all of his craziness. Like, so I think he probably is like thinking, you know, we let's try to revive it. Let's this part of this like great piece of America that we want to bring back to life. And then, you know, on the other end, it's like with everything that's happened with the fires right now in LA, which we can get back to Mel Gibson's, you know, issue there, but the he's, he's looking to, uh,

I think tap into like, you know, the people that are really upset about how, how it was handled, how it was prevented or was not prevented. And basically saying like, this is the best I can do right now. Cause like, I'm, I'm not in office. I'm not in a position at this moment to like make any changes. And going forward, we're going to see what we can do. What would them being ambassadors have to do with the fire? I don't think it's,

I think it's just the people that are upset about it. And like Mel Gibson lost his house and everything in the fire. So, you know, getting people kind of riled up about like, you know, we're going to fix this. We're going to bring Hollywood back to life. We're going to make sure that California has better sort of management of this. And I'm going to step in. I'm going to do, you know. I mean, that was a bit of my suspicion, too.

you know obviously mel was just on the news just on rogan he's been on fox complaining about what happened and you know he obviously agrees with with trump and supports trump so it might just be one of those things where trump's like let's give him a bigger voice he seems like an ally yeah let's give him a voice another thing also is like you know maybe a lot of republicans

in the US are just kind of fed up with Hollywood and therefore turning their back on wanting to watch the movies or just be a part of the culture of, you know. From the first whistle to the final drive, FanDuel takes the NFL playoffs to the next level. Because right now, new customers can bet $5 and get $300 in bonus bets if you win. That's $300 in bonus bets if you win your first $5 bet.

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for 24-7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8-HOPE-NY or text HOPE-NY in New York. Watching these movies and this kind of could help pull them back in. I don't really know. Yeah. If that's a thing, but... I don't know if I have that impression at all.

But, you know, basically said they're going to be my eyes and my ears. Whatever they say needs to happen, I'm going to make happen. That's how he talks. You know, that's how Trump says, whatever. I'll make it. I'll do it. You know, it's like, is that your Trump impression? Can you like fix there being no fires in California by next year? Probably not. Right. So, like, I don't know exactly what he thinks these three celebrities and directors, whatever, are going to be able to do next.

Like, I have no idea how it fits together. But, I mean, it probably feels... Maybe make a really good movie about the fires? Maybe. I bet it feels really good to be those guys. I mean, they said that it wasn't even, like, an official, like, announcement or, like, a point... Like, the appointment was just, like, made through social media. Like, it wasn't even...

Like a ceremony of any kind or like a proper acknowledgement? They might get a certificate, though. Maybe via email. I don't know. Honorary degree. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I'll be really interested to hear from anyone out there who has more insight on what they think Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone can bring to this event.

Yeah, if you have a theory, doesn't matter how wacky, shoot us an email. Let's hear it. I'll read it. I'll read it on the next episode. I'll read it. Well, you know, bigger news really, and it was something that was wild, is during this episode, Mel Gibson's house burned down. I don't know if it like exactly aligned, but it was very close. Yeah. And to be fair to him, he knew this was happening. He didn't cancel it.

the the um podcast you know not that he could have done anything anyway but you could imagine that's like i don't know i don't know if i could have done a podcast that would have been so on my mind it's your house burning down but he kept pretty good composure and was like i think yeah it's probably burning down now and just cracked on and i'm like wow that's that's something

Yeah, I'm trying to remember exactly how many days ago this podcast came out and when that happened, when it was recorded, you know, and like perhaps he had time to prepare his home and he took his valuables and he was like... He said he didn't take a lot. They interviewed him afterwards. He just accepted that it was going to happen. I think his son went in there and just took some documents, passports, some paperwork. I heard that he, they did some of his awards there.

Some stuff. Were saved. I'm sure he grabbed some things that were, you know, important. But how much can you get out? I mean, if you know the place is going to burn down, the roads, the bushes around are on fire. Like, you're not taking a moving truck up there. Yeah, they give you, a lot of people, if you're given enough time, you have like, you know, it's like, oh, it's coming your way or you're at risk. So it's an evacuation notice, right? So that's when people start moving.

Have you ever been near like a wildfire and had to evacuate? I haven't had to evacuate, no. But I used to live in Santa Monica. So it was not uncommon when the hills would catch on fire. Like you could see it all. I've driven down the freeway before where one side of it was just all like...

scorched earth, like red and glowing and on fire. And the freeway was just, we were just driving down it. I'm like, this is crazy. It's wild, right? I lived in Hawaii and the lava fields have this like really dry brush that

grows through it and I mean it's like I lived on the big island so it's like 90% like lava fields I don't know how much it really is but as a young preteen we lived there and yeah we got evacuated from our house and you know you had to put rags over your face like there was dust and ash flying through the air because as soon as the wind picks up you know it's becomes it spreads so fast yeah and it burned all the way up until like the golf course and

on the, like our house was like on a golf course and it burned up to like the edge of the golf course. And the golf course was just, you know, watered enough that it didn't burn. And, um, but you know, bushes around some of the bushes kind of caught fire and, you know, they were like, you know, obviously like evacuating. So they were able to put them out. There was fire engines in the neighborhoods and stuff, but

I mean, it's scary. And, you know, it's like in that panic, it's like, what do you take? You know? You would think that you would have kind of a bit of your plan together. You know, I guess saying that is unreasonable because I've never had a plan, but I've never been in a place where there could be tornadoes or massive storms or floods or, you know, not that I was really aware of. And, you know, even where we were in Santa Monica, it was like...

Just, no, we are too far south for the fires to really reach that. And, you know, even seeing with what happened recently, they evacuated like the street Montana and above. So kind of north of there. But, you know, that's a good ways from where my place was. But my point is, if I lived in a place where there could be fires or floods or tsunamis or whatever, you would think that

that you would kind of have an idea of like right these this is what i grabbed this is my go bag yeah stuff like that or at least have a list like a running list in your phone of like so you can just sort of get it all and go as fast as you can or a fireproof safe you know those gun safes are not that much money these guys are all millionaires but you know what i i learned or maybe it's not every one of these fireproof safes but it's like the

the safe itself doesn't disintegrate, but the stuff inside of it still gets hot enough in a fire to burn up. I don't know if that's true or not, but I saw that somewhere. Yeah, I thought they were insulated. I don't know. It would depend though, right? If the fire was on the safe long enough, it would heat it up. Yeah. Yeah.

So maybe like papers and documents and things will get destroyed. But I mean, if you had other stuff, watches, maybe your guns, trophies, like, I don't know, just some keepsakes. You could just jam it in three of those gun safes. Yeah. You know, they're all multi-million dollar homes up there. Spend $1,500 on a few gun safes. Yeah. Fireproof ones. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, it's interesting. It's sad what happened up there. Obviously back to Mel Gibson, like he can replace everything. Like, so it's probably not that big of a concern for him. I mean, yeah, someone went in, they got the important things out for him and you know, any movies going to move on with his life.

He can afford to go live somewhere else. He probably has another home somewhere. You know what I mean? Like he's going to be fine. But even saying that people often will do that. They're like, oh, these rich people like that. And it's like, I get it. I do. They are. It's not like they're stood up.

looking at the rubble, you know, like war-torn people in Ukraine would do. Like, they got nowhere else to go. The house is gone. But it's like, he lived there 15 years. Like, a lot of memories. You know, that's your comfortable place. He's probably living out of a hotel now. You know, like a lot of those people. In fact...

What is part of the evacuation or is it like does the state put you up in hotels? Do they have like hotels put aside for places for people to go or is it like on you to just hope you got a friend that you can stay with?

I think you just personally try to find a place, hotel prices, rent prices in other parts of California. I've heard have gone up significantly because people are trying to find places to live with their families and make outrageous 25 grand a month and stuff like that for a, you know, an apartment. And I don't know. I mean, you know,

Someone who came up a lot for me, like celebrity wise on the fire discussion on the fire topic was Paris Hilton. And I know love or hate or whatever. She's had two kids in recent years. They're very small. And it was really moving to see even Paris Hilton with everything she has and being this heiress to the Hilton empire, like talking about, like they said, living in this home, building it, you know, her children's

still have memories there. They have artwork there. It's where they brought their babies home. And like, that's all really important. You know, she didn't talk anything about like her hyperbaric chamber and her red light bed and all of the stuff that like is really valuable, like monetary wise. It was all of the things and,

maybe it was for social media purposes only, but I genuinely like got choked up reading about it. And she's just one person who again has like options. And well, I'll tell you what, since she's a Hilton, she could have hooked up everybody with some Hilton stays. Well, she did. Yeah. They opened up the Hilton to families who lost their homes and she bought toys for the children. And they, you know, so like her,

Her and her resources was able to do something impactful, even though she also lost a lot. But I don't know that ever. I mean, she couldn't house everyone forever. Right. So I don't know exactly what the long term.

are. I mean, Joe Biden gave out, what, $700? Oh, yippee. Well done. To each person? Yeah, it's kind of a joke. What's that, one night in a hotel in LA? Yeah, probably. Unbelievable. I mean, look, the criticism of Gavin Newsom, they got on this and you've been hearing about it online and if you've ever listened to this podcast or Rogan's, you

You know, you know what we think of Gavin and what he's done to that state. But, you know, not just to kind of get on the bandwagon and pick on him. Yeah, this fire was crazy big and the weather was just unbelievably bad and there was limited they could do in the heavy winds. But things like the fire hydrants running out, you know, that reservoir being empty and

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Hi, it's Mike Peska, host of The Gist and now host of Funny You Should Mention. Our tagline is unpacking the profundities in Punchline. Did that confuse you? Let me explain. So, as you know, stand-up comedy makes us laugh, but it also has a

point comedians go to the stage and they make an argument they express their worldviews so i decided along with the comedy seller to talk to a couple of the more profound comedians and to figure out what their thesis is to maybe press them a little bit to put a finer point on their arguments we're going to talk to nemesh patel sam j roy wood jr rachel feinstein and more funny you should mention it'll show up on fridays in the gist's podcast feed

massive tax cuts to the fire department while they're like inflating the homeless pot of money. It's like, there's some real problems there. And I think this has been massively highlighted and I'm pretty sure a lot of the people in the Palisades or lost their homes, you know, I'm sure a bunch of them were left wing.

And they're losing their patience with this guy. And I wonder what the impact will be and how long it will be before elements of the state are like, we either need to replace him or we are kind of going to start leaning right because we need stuff to work. These taxes are out of control. They pay so much money that the least you could do for them is give them services to put their...

home out when it's on fire like that to me is just it's just shocking it really is yeah i mean it was a perfect storm no pun intended of of wind and fire and you know obviously lack of water resources there um and high density you know population density like there are so many variables that make fires in california like that much more

difficult to control and to you know and then make them that more more like the death toll high and stuff like um yeah i mean it'll be really interesting to see what is the term limit in california for a governor do you know i don't i don't know if they have i think you can just keep being the governor if you keep getting um re-elected and i'm yeah i'm pretty sure their election is is it every four years like most politicians

I think it's something like that. I mean, they tried to recall on Newsom not that long ago, but it just did not gain anywhere near the votes they needed to get rid of him. I mean, again, the state is so blue because of the cities that it was just impossible to replace him, but...

You know, how long can it go for? How long can things really be mismanaged? There's going to be investigations. Obviously, once Trump gets in, he's not going to go easy. He calls him Gavin New Scum. Scum. I mean... Brilliant. Yeah. It'll be really interesting to see when and if and when it turns over, if someone can come in. And I don't want to say...

if they can do it better, but how they do it better, right? Like what is it that he actually has failed to do? I mean, everyone sort of has speculation. I do agree that things could be done differently, but I don't pay a ton of attention. I mean, I don't live in California. So, but I think it's, yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see. And, you know, and I have a feeling that,

This whole like, you know, appointing ambassadors and like Trump sort of like tuning into what's happening in California might have something to do with that. Like his, him trying to like,

find the powerful and influential people that are supporting him and how do they sort of like influence the governance in the state to like support him i mean it's a big state it's a big governing state and it always goes blue yeah it's like how does he have an influence to turn that around um i mean if republicans started to win that state um

That could be, that would be wild for elections because it's just, it has, I mean, a ton of electoral college votes. I mean, that feels like, that feels like,

almost like for California to go red, but it's not impossible. I suppose. There's a lot of rural areas in California. Yeah. It's like, if you look at how they vote, the blue is just around the cities. Yeah. And everything else is red, but they just don't have the population there. Yeah. Because it's just spread out. Let's talk about his movies. Okay.

Oh, yeah. He talked a bit about Apocalypto 2. Obviously, the new one coming out. I genuinely never saw Apocalypto 1. Oh, it's so good. We'll have to watch it. Yeah, we should have watched it. I know. This week. It came up, obviously. Yeah, I think we were planning to. Well, we spent three hours listening to Joe Rogan. Nine hours this week listening. So anyways, how much more viewing time do we have?

More. Our whole life is viewing things. Let's try to fit it in. And then talking about it. All my flexible time that I have. Yeah, the first one was cool because, I mean, it was a long time ago now. I think, God, when did that come out? Like 2006 would be my guess. A while ago. Yeah, I think you're right.

And as far as I remember, there was no English speaking in the whole movie. And it was really about this cool point that in a lot of ways had not been covered in Hollywood before. It was like before the Spanish and Columbus got to America. So it was like, what was happening there? And, you know, this is part of kind of, in a way, the unknown history of that area because so much of it, you know, grew over after...

The Spanish got out there, kind of gave everyone smallpox. Whole swaths of land and tribes were just completely wiped out. And then the forest just took it all. But...

I mean, there were just mega structures, you know, pyramids everywhere, really complicated civilizations that have been there for ages. And it's just like, wow, what a cool time period to kind of go over and imagine. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I bet they've got to fill in a lot of blanks to like how their cultures were because I don't know what the record keeping was like, but... Yeah, you say that. I would think so too, but also these like...

What are they? Like the people who dig stuff up and find old things? Archaeologists? Yeah, that. They're pretty... They're like find like really thorough explanations amongst all of the stuff that they find. Like they're like, oh, I found this like tiny tool and that makes me know that they had this and this and this and they made this. So it's like they can really put together like a quite a vast...

vivid picture of life through what they find what they're finding sure but things like understanding kind of like their politics or maybe how they express their religion yeah you know they knew there was some human sacrificing going on and there was just the these sorts of things but

without a really detailed written history. Yeah. And it's just hard for them to piece those things together. Yeah. And I mean, even saying that, it's like hard for them to figure out how they kind of even built those pyramids there and, you know, just did a lot of that. I mean, again,

they can guess, they can find some tools, but it's a lot of filling in the blank and hoping for the best. Yeah. The movie itself was pretty gory, supposedly. Banned in a lot of countries because of the gore. It's another part of what made it so great. I mean, it was. It was just like hardcore. It was just like, holy shit, what is happening? Yeah. And yeah, really cool that they're coming out with a second one. I'm glad he's making...

making that i think uh when is it 2026 they think it's going to come out let's see i don't know how how long let's look that up real quick

So maybe, yeah, maybe the second one is once there is some European colonization. Maybe it kind of covers some of the first interactions. That could be cool. There's a lot of directions they could go with this that would be really interesting. It just says it'll hit theaters in 2025. Oh, okay. So it's probably already done then. Yeah. That's not bad. Yeah.

Yeah. And then, I mean, he had some other movies. What was it? Passion of the Christ. Oh, yeah. It was quite controversial. Yeah. So that movie, I mean, number one, made him a shitload of money. Yeah. It was a very popular movie. And it was a really powerful depiction of Christ and like what happened. I mean, for a religious movie, it's very watchable. Yeah. You know, it's like a lot of those movies just aren't.

You watch the old Moses movie and the Ten Commandments, and it's like, all right, guys. But yeah, it was really good. And brave of him to tackle that because I think he did get a lot of pushback from it. Obviously, Mel's had his own controversies with some of the things that he said in the past while drunk. And so he has his opinions on things.

And yeah, I don't know if the movie was stopped, but I know it was difficult, or if people tried to stop it, but I know it was tough to get funding for him. Distribution was difficult. And the fact that he pushed through with that and got it out like he did, made the money that he did on it, impressive stuff. He's a brave guy when it comes to making movies.

And you kind of forget the movies that he's directed. You know, you just think of him in like Braveheart and those other action movies he's done. But he's really been making some great movies. Yeah, I never saw Passion of the Christ. I was definitely too young when it came out. And then, you know, had other better things to do, I guess. But yeah, some of these are classics. Of course, Patriot, Braveheart, Daddy's Home 2, you know, the classics. Classic.

Daddy's Home 1 actually was really good. I don't know if you saw that. I don't think he's in that one, though. No, he's not. But it's Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. It's just incredible. Good movie. It does say he's in it. But anyways, yeah, some great ones. And I think that he's a true talent that is worth...

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staying, you know, memorializing as a pillar of Hollywood. I mean, he's worth half a billion dollars. Wow. You know, that's a lot of money. And he's been A-list famous since probably the 80s. Yeah. So that's, you know, very famous for a very long time. That must be a bizarre life. It was interesting to hear him say that he's not into bodyguards.

he doesn't have any there's no security at his house he doesn't have bodyguards he just does things on his own obviously joe

uh was more skeptical of that and was like whoa well i mean maybe it's good to have some joe has like a small army of navy seals around him so yeah but how he describes is like i just act crazy and no one approaches me yeah i don't know if that's the best plan i mean you're still mel gibson maybe get a couple of guys around you sometimes but here's the thing he's done it long enough now he knows how to kind of navigate and yeah uh maybe it just works for him

And he just kind of likes to have his time alone. And let's be fair, he's a little eccentric. I mean, it's not unreasonable for celebrities of that level to be a little bit. I mean, even going over what he was saying about evolution. He's not a big fan of it. Doesn't really believe in it. Feels like we were just placed here as humans and maybe the other...

uh hominids that they find just mutated humans i i'm not really sure where he was getting out with that like simulation level no no no just like placed by god i guess okay i mean yeah he there's a religious aspect to him even though

And he and Joe talked about it, that he is a Catholic, but he is also very aware of the state of Catholicism and the problems with the church. But it seems like he does have his religious element to him, for sure, which is often where some of these ideas come from. I don't think there's many non-religious people that also don't believe in evolution.

Maybe. I don't know what their angle would be, but it seems to coincide is what I'm saying. Because those two things, because, you know, believing in creation and believing in evolution are very contradictory things. Yeah, it's kind of a harder leap to make when you don't believe that there's a God, but humans just...

appeared in this form it's like where would how like by magic whereas you know if you're not religious and you know you can kind of like think through the idea of the big bang and therefore evolution it just kind of it lines up better with that thought process but yeah he's mal was saying that he thinks the earth might only be like a few thousand years old like that kind of thinking

Which is really fascinating when people get there because it's like, well, if you're willing to go there, you know, because like the Himalayas took a long time to push up from the ground with tectonic plates to make it. It's like you could count that backwards and you're like, well, that's a million years right there. But if you only think the earth is a few thousand years old, then it was placed there.

In this condition, it was just like made to look like. Yeah. Like stuff had been happening for a long time. That's the only way that idea could come together. And if you're willing to think that far, then are you sure yesterday even existed? It's like maybe we all the memories were just implanted. It's like, why not?

If it was just placed there anyway. If you think the Earth is 5,000 years old, you don't think the dinosaurs ever existed. So the bones just were in the ground. It's like, what are you, setting up a scavenger hunt for us? It's a tough leap for me, anyway. I think he should probably stick to movies, and I'm feeling dumber now.

having this conversation. I'm really dumber by the second. Yeah. I think there might have been a part of him that was like, oh, I wish I hadn't gone over. Took that too far. It's a little too much. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think he's very talented. He really should stick to directing, you know, sort of thinking deep and sort of proposing ideas is one thing, but like coming on a platform with as many listeners as Joe Rogan, I don't know if you should maybe, I mean, I don't know that you need to

But you know what? You don't need to not, but filter. Also have your ideas. It's like, you know, just because someone has a wacky idea, it doesn't mean his movies suck or other things that he's doing are not important. It's just like, okay, he's got some different ideas than me. It's like, you know.

All right. I mean, very sensible people that are well-respected that could be like theologians would come on and tell you that Jesus is the son of God and died for our sins and being very serious. If you're not religious, you don't believe any of that. What is a theologian? It's like someone that studies religion. I don't know if that's how you say it, but... I think it is. Maybe I'm wrong. You say words sometimes I have no idea. Yeah.

Well, we Google it. We Google it. Yeah, it's just a bit of that. It's just like, it's an opinion. That's what he thinks. And, you know, we'll go from there. Yeah, I was just looking up to some stuff about his independent filmmaking.

And, you know, some of the obstacles he faced while producing and distributing the films outside of the traditional studio system. And, you know, it really highlights the difficulties in, like, funding any kind of distribution, marketing, because mainstream Hollywood and their projects really, you know, if you deviate from that, their kind of conventional narrative, you've got, you know...

not to say that they're actively pushing against you, but if they're not on, if you're not on the side of that machine, it's much harder to kind of make those movies. And I think that led into some of the frustrations and, you know, kind of drunken outbursts that Mel has had in the past because it's just kind of, you know, through his frustrations, uh,

or whatever, but it's still really nice to see occasionally those independent films kind of make it out. I mean, really, they're some of the most classic movies. Think of like Napoleon Dynamite, you know. I'm pretty sure Quentin Tarantino's first couple were seen as more independent, like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. I mean, they had studios behind them, but they were wild movies, you know, and...

You got to work hard to make those work. It says a lot, I think, about a director that's brave enough to attempt that. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you also have to be pretty confident in yourself and in your story and in your skill to...

self fund a movie, especially something with a budget like passion of the Christ, like apocalypto where it's like, you know, destination type thing. It's probably not so much in a studio and you know, like there's a lot of it that, um,

Yeah, you got to have a lot of faith in yourself to say, I'm going to put this much of my own money on the line and my own name entirely. But if it works. But if it works. That really pays off. It's worked for him. I mean, this is why he made so much money off Passion of the Christ, because he put so much of that together. It wasn't, you know, a bunch of big movie studios that reenacted

Reap the rewards. Yeah. It was, it was Mel that did it. So big risk, big reward on those. Exactly. And, you know, I can see as a creative person wanting to like hold as much integrity with your work as possible. Um, but that doesn't mean that movies that are studio collaborated aren't, don't have integrity and that aren't worthwhile. It's just, um,

Um, it's really interesting when someone is so passionate about something being done a certain way or just being done in general that they're going to do everything they can by themselves to make it happen exactly how they, how they envision it. Um, I mean, that's like true art. That's not just entertainment, right? That's like someone who's probably, he's probably invented, envisioned a lot of these movies for a lot of his lifetime and wanted them to come to fruition. And, um,

He, I mean, they probably take longer to make. They're a bit more labor intensive. And yeah, it worked for him. Yeah. Great for him. And he had a really candid moment also when he was kind of reflecting on his past controversies that, you know, when you think about it, it's like Mel Gibson wasn't canceled for some of the things he did in the past. And it sounds like he's got his drinking under control. He's kind of...

stayed out of that controversy and still been able to make movies, show up in movies and come back from, from laying low for a while. Yeah. You know, I mean, he was the butt of a lot of jokes for some time and, um,

You know, seems to have worked through it. Yeah. And, you know, he's reflected on what it is that he went through and how he can learn from it and change. And that's a very, you know, it's not just like apologizing to stay relevant. It's like, you know, it sounds genuine. Yeah. Sounds like he's actually done that. So...

Anyway, that's about it for Mel Gibson. Looking forward to Apocalypto 2. It's going to be great. I can't wait. I'm glad it's 2025. I don't like waiting too long for movies. It's too annoying. I get frustrated and then I forget they exist. It's a whole thing. Anyway, thanks a lot for listening. As always, we appreciate it and we will catch you next time. Cheers.

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