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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-09. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson

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Alright, we're rolling. What's cracking?
Oh man, my back just now.
Fantastic.
What is going on with your back?
You've had back issues in the past, right?
We talked about that the last time you came out.
Well, I was born scoliotic, you know?
Yeah.
So it's like, I just bought my own pen along so I could click the shit you
remember.
Here, take all the vices away from me.
I can't believe you remember.
You remember clicking on the pen? That's hilarious.
Oh yeah, I'm a fidget, you know?
So let me take everything off.
It's not good.
Oh yeah, born slightly scoliotic.
And then, of course, I banged myself up over the years, you know?
Of course.
What can you, what, when the, do they do anything other than surgery for people
with scoliosis?
They do, because I don't want to do surgery.
Once you start opening stuff up and fooling with it, there's no going back.
Especially the back.
Yeah.
Back's a rough, I've never met anybody that had like fusions or anything where
it turned out good.
And like Hippocrates, you know, the father of medicine, he said, in any ailment,
look first to the spine.
And it was like, he's kind of right.
It emanates from the, from the core.
Well, if your back is fucked up, everything's fucked up.
Yeah.
You know, no matter how strong your arms and legs are, if your back is fucked
up, you're, you're in trouble.
Yeah, that's true.
Your brain, everything, everything goes to hell.
Well, you're in pain all the time.
People with back problems, like they can't think straight, because you're
always like, you know, it's always.
There's a gift to not thinking straight.
Hmm.
Tell me.
Tell me more.
I want to know.
Well, it actually takes you down some pretty weird paths, you know.
If you're happy all the time, I don't know, you don't have, you don't have to
strive to find thoughts to make yourself happy.
Right.
So it's like, it's a good, it's a good, it's a good predisposition, I think.
I agree to that.
Yeah.
I think being happy all the time is, it's kind of an unlikely scenario.
No, nobody is.
Yeah.
No.
But we all want it.
You notice we all yearn for it.
There's this, that's the only thing we all want, right?
Right.
Just happiness.
Little peace.
Well, it's also, we're shown it, like, in, you know, television, movies, like,
we're shown happiness as this goal.
Like, seek happiness.
Sure.
Should be happy all the time.
Happy.
Should never be upset.
Yeah.
Well.
It's not realistic.
It's completely unrealistic.
However, it's nice to have those little journeys through art where you can
actually explore those things.
You can explore your ids, you can explore happiness, and so you can experience
the opposite.
I look at situations around me, and I generally feel pretty grateful from what
some people go through.
Sure.
I'm grateful.
And everybody's got their crap, you know.
But, like, this morning, for example, I would be surprised if my home is still
there.
Yeah, we were just talking about that.
The Palisades is on fire.
Yeah.
My friend Tom, Tom Segura, his house is gone.
Yeah.
It's where he used to live.
He sold it, luckily.
Yeah, I have a son.
He's in a sort of volunteer fire brigade, Milo.
I call him the mayor of Malibu.
And he's running around, and I asked him, how's things looking there, Milo?
He says, not good, pops.
He says, you're in a neighborhood.
And he sent me a video of my neighborhood, and it's in flames.
It looks like an inferno.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You think this will get you out of California, finally?
Yeah, maybe, you know.
Where are you going to go?
Oh, I don't know.
I got a place in Costa Rica.
I love it there.
Oh, Costa Rica's nice.
Yeah, I bought there many years ago.
Yeah?
It's in a real nice spot.
It's not too touristy or, you know, dirt roads.
Oh, nice.
Off the beaten.
Does it feel safe out there?
Pretty safe.
I think, look, no place is safe.
I mean, you've got the Dariang down there, you know.
What's that?
It's kind of in the, what's the next country down?
Panama.
And there's this no man's land where the Colombians come through, and it's like,
you know, all kinds of dirty dealings in the jungle with, you know, who knows,
you know, drugs and mules and, you know.
Yeah, so, you know, it can be dangerous, and I've heard of danger happening
there.
You know, you hear about somebody getting chopped up by a machete.
And Costa Rica, it's actually a cool place because it never had a culture of
death.
Like a lot of the Central American countries did, they have a culture of death,
you know.
Even Mexico, I mean, they used to, you know, tear people's hearts out and pyramids.
Aztecs.
All that sort of stuff.
Yeah.
Aztecs were like the Romans.
The Mayans were like the Greeks.
But they all sort of dabbled in some stuff.
Costa Rica always had a policy where they, it was like the Switzerland of
Central America.
They emphasized education and health, and everybody's literate, and it's kind
of interesting in that way.
But it deals with its own little troubles.
Yeah.
Like every country, you know, corrupt.
Anywhere down in that part of the world is just like there's so much sketchy
shit going on all around you.
Yeah, there can be.
Yeah.
Yeah, one has to be forewarned, forearmed, all that, you know.
So I have a nice place down there.
Yeah, I have some friends that have a place in Mexico, and I'm always like, don't
you ever worry.
Yeah, I worked in Mexico a couple of times.
I was down there, and it was in Barracruz.
And apparently, you know, people were rolling heads into bars and stuff like
that, you know, rival gangs and stuff.
And they said, I'd go for a walk, you know.
And they'd say, you're crazy going for a walk.
You'll get kidnapped.
I said, I'm not going to get kidnapped.
I'm the guy that pays.
You're going to get kidnapped.
And I'm not going to pay your ransom.
I was like, I never felt insecure in that way.
And, you know, if something's going to happen, it's going to happen.
Yeah.
You know, if your number's up.
I know I used to watch guys who do what I do for a living, and they'd have a phalanx
of bodyguards around them, you know, and, like, for security and stuff.
And I used to have that stuff for a little while, but, meh, it doesn't make any
difference.
You're going to be okay.
Okay.
Or not.
Or not, right?
Until you're not.
Until you're not.
And everybody's going to be okay until they're not.
Yeah.
I got in a dodgy situation one night, and I act crazy.
Yeah?
Yeah.
What happened?
If you act crazy, everybody leaves you alone.
Especially if you are a little crazy.
You know?
Well, you're in a stress mode, so you actually get angry.
If I feel like I'm threatened, I get angry, which is what happens.
And then you get really in people's faces, and they think, this guy's crazy.
But all the old cultures thought that, like, when there were people traveling
across the Great Plains to go west, you know?
If you acted nuts, they'd leave you alone, because they didn't want your evil
spirits.
Oh.
So what happened with you?
Oh, nothing.
They left me alone.
But where was this?
Oh, man.
I was in a bad neighborhood.
I, um, was, it was when I first got into L.A., and I was to go to dinner with
Costa Gavris.
He was a Greek director.
I, uh, went the wrong way.
And it was before they had, you know, phones with, like, you know, all that
stuff.
The Thomas guide.
It was the Thomas guide.
Anyway, I wasn't guided well by Thomas.
I ended up in the wrong place.
And then my muffler fell off.
And I was driving a Mercedes, you know, pretty nice sporty car, you know?
And I thought, oh, and I had the wife in the car.
I pulled into a side street.
The sun was going down.
And as I got out of the car, I thought, oh, I've got to fix this muffler.
I can't just drag it.
People started coming from houses.
And they came up to me, and I saw them coming in the rearview mirror.
And I jumped out of the car and got in their face.
And I said, what the fuck do you want?
Because I thought, I felt threatened.
Right.
And the guy said, man, I'm just looking for some money.
You got any money?
He saw I was being mugged.
And it was like, I thought, I'll think about it when I'm fucking finished.
Like, you know.
I opened the trunk.
And this is the weird part, Joe.
I will never quite understand this.
I opened the trunk to see what I could find to help me put the muffler back on.
And sitting there, the only two things in the back of the trunk was a pair of
wire cutters and a coat hanger.
And it's exactly what I needed.
And I don't know why it was there.
That's weird, isn't it?
That's very weird.
So you used the coat hanger to wire up your muffler?
Yep.
I cut a piece of wire, wired the muffler up.
The whole time, more guys are coming.
Jesus Christ.
And they're standing behind me, and I'm feeling like, oh.
And anyway, I get up.
I finish the muffler, slam, and I'm acting mad and crazy the whole time.
And I think, this guy's nuts.
And I get back to the car, and my wife gives me a handful of cash.
And I thought, what's this?
She says, it's just 5s and 1s.
Give it to him.
So I threw it and drove off.
But it was like, it was looking hairy for a minute.
And you never know.
What year was this?
Oh, my God.
Back in the 90s.
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So things are more dangerous now.
I think they are.
Yeah.
I think so, for sure.
Yep.
Yeah, we were just talking about the wildfire situation and how crazy it is
that they spent $24 billion last year on the homeless.
Yep.
And what have they spent on preventing these wildfires?
Zero.
Zuff, Zip.
Zip.
And in 2019, I think Newsom said, you know, I'm going to take care of the
forest and maintain the forest and do all that kind of stuff.
He didn't do anything.
Didn't do anything.
And then on top of that, they cut the water off.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
It's all funny.
And then I think all our tax dollars probably went for Gavin's hair gel.
I don't know, but it's like, you know, it's sad.
It's like the place is just on fire.
Well, the whole state is just so poorly managed.
It's so frustrating and confusing.
And then he gets on TV and pretends like everything's great.
And California is the best.
We have the best state.
We have the most amazing economy.
I'm like, you're out of your fucking mind, dude.
You've ruined this state.
You've personally ruined it.
Well, it's the same team that was up in San Francisco.
And I came down to L.A. and they're doing what they did in San Francisco.
And San Francisco is kind of like apocalyptic now, you know.
Yeah.
I went there and it's just like people, you know, homeless.
You know, it's just a mess.
It's just unbelievable that society can crumble that quickly.
It really is unbelievable.
It doesn't take long.
No.
Yeah.
I read a book once by Jared Diamond called Collapse.
You ever read that book?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Crazy, right?
It says all the things you need for a civilization to cave in and collaps