Mel Gibson
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441 appearances
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4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3 Mar
Mel Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It personally ruined it. Well, it's the same team that was up in San Francisco. They came down to L.A. and they're doing what they did in San Francisco. Yeah. 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 it's a mess.
Mm hmm. It really is unbelievable. It doesn't take long.
Yeah. I read a book once by Jared Diamond called Collapse. Have you ever read that book? Yeah. Yeah. Crazy, right? It says all the things you need for a civilization to cave in and collapse. And a lot of the things are present. All those earmarks, the precursors of a collapse, they're present in our time. So it's an interesting observation. Yeah.
And we're no smarter than our grandparents, I don't think.
In fact, there's something because it's interesting. Somebody was flying by what they thought was a volcano in the 30s, some buzzboy. And he thought, hey, somebody built that. Wait a minute. There's four by eight foot bricks. That's man-made. And it is literally the biggest pyramid in the world. It's bigger than the ones in Egypt. And it's in Guatemala. Guatemala.
Yeah, we talked about that the other day. It's a recent discovery, right? Well, not that recent. Maybe 20 years ago, I visited. I went down there with the archaeologist, the guy named Richard Hansen, who's from Idaho or someplace. And he's down there with his family. He's been working tirelessly for like 30 years. trying to extract this pre-classic city from the jungle.
And there's not a bunch of tourists. All the pyramids in Tikal would fit inside the one big pyramid in El Mirador.
It's a monster. And so that tells you that the pre-classic civilization was bigger and grander and more sophisticated than the civilizations that came after it.
Yeah. Disease. Yeah. Disease. I don't know if it was disease or what. I think the people were pretty dissatisfied. It would have been hard for Cortez with his limited numbers to actually take over a civilization like that unless they kind of happened upon a civilization that was pretty dissatisfied with the way things were going. So I think they had people to help them sort of rebel.
Well, because I think it's scary because nobody's speaking your language. And you're looking at indigenous peoples who you... And because they're not speaking the language, you totally kind of buy it. And you can buy the horror and... and the primal nature of the story you want to tell.
And really, it's just a series of fears, one after the other, you know, being chased by scary guys or eaten by wild animals or, you know, hit by blowguns. It's all like a series of these things. But I think basically what I was doing was trying to 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?
It's environmental stuff. It's human sacrifice.
I mean, we do that.
We send our young people over there to die, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for not. I mean, I love the warrior. I do. I love the warrior, but I hate the war. Yeah.
Yeah. Anyway, it's a mess. But the human sacrifice aspect is alive and well in our society, I think.
Yeah. Yeah. Rhetoric around it. But they've always been able to justify it. Like in Apocalypto, it was like, yeah, so the crops will be better. Hey, we'll just, you know.
Yeah. And then I had all these people come out of the woodwork. Hey, we're... We're archaeologists and scientists, and that never happened. So there's this revisionism about it, too, that it didn't happen. But there are accounts from the time where, yes, people did witness these things.
And, of course, I had a bunch of battery of archaeologists and scientists and professors on my own that say, yeah, well, this stuff did happen, and here's the, you know, The depictions of it in paintings and images. It did happen.
It just came from in here. And I was working on something and a buddy of mine said, so what do you want to do next?
I want to direct something. I always want to direct a chase film. He said, what kind of chase? I said, a foot chase. He said, what? I said, yeah, people chasing you. I mean, there's something kind of primal and scary about a foot chase. And I think in order to have a foot chase, you can't have a society where there's any kind of cars or anything like that. Otherwise, you have a car chase.
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