“I was doing the Rogan podcast… And [I was] kind of ill at ease while we were talking, because I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so I thought, I wonder if my place is still there. But when I got home, sure enough, it wasn’t there.” That’s Mel Gibson speaking to Elizabeth Vergas of the conservative television station NewsNation on Jan. 9, 2025. He had just gotten back to Los Angeles after spending three hours in Joe Rogan’s Austin, TX compound to record an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
“Obviously, it’s kind of devastating. It’s emotional […] I had my stuff there, and it’s all like, I’ve been relieved from the burden of my stuff, because it’s all in cinders,” explained Gibson. “I had a lot of personal things there that, you know, I can’t get back.”
While those things were burning, Gibson was getting pretty personal himself on the Rogan podcast. He attacked California governor Gavin Newsom and Anthony Fauci, Donald Trump’s public health spokesperson; he discussed his love of alternative medicine and how Ivermectin and “hydrochloride something” cured three of his friends of cancer; and he shared his feeling that everything is collapsing and civilization is falling apart, mainly because of “environmental issues [and] human sacrifice.”
What’s that now?
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Comparing Abortion to Human Sacrifice?
It seems that Gibson, a self-professed Catholic, is referring to abortion here. He and Rogan got into a discussion about Gibson’s bold, unique, but sloppy 2006 film, Apocalypto. Gibson eventually compared the Mayan culture (mis)represented in his film to the current civilization and its discontents:
I think basically what I was doing was trying to do was talk about our time now and the civilization that we live in, and how close are we to collapse, and what are the things that lead to collapse? You know, it’s environmental stuff, it’s human sacrifice. I mean, we do do that. We do.
Rogan either wanted to spin what Gibson was saying or was simply not on the same wavelength, replying, “Kinda. We just dress it up. When you find out medications are killing people, and they keep prescribing them, and they do it for money. That’s kind of sacrifice.” Gibson kept going at it, though.
“It’s a mess. The human sacrifice aspect is alive and well in our society,” Gibson said.
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Rogan and Gibson did get on exactly the same page when it came to COVID-19, Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Methylene Blue, and other chemicals with a lot of suppositions. “I have three friends, all three of them had stage four cancer,” Gibson said at one point. “All three of them don’t have cancer right now at all, and they had some serious stuff going on. They took some of what you’ve heard they’ve taken. Ivermectin.”
The Rogan/Gibson interview garnered nearly two million views on YouTube alone within 13 hours, and brought in a cavalcade of positive comments. You can watch the entire interview on YouTube here. Check out Gibson speaking to NewsNation below.
Whatever you think of Mel Gibson, we’re all glad he and his family is safe. When speaking with NewsNation about losing one of his homes and many possessions, the Flight Risk director wisely said, “These are only things. And the good, the good news is that, you know, those in my family and those I love are all well, and we’re all happy and healthy and out of harm’s way, that’s all I can care about, really.”