#2254 - Mel Gibson
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What is the Joe Rogan Experience?
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All right, 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 on.
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 devices away from me. I can't believe you remember.
What are Mel Gibson's health concerns?
You remember clicking on the pen?
That's hilarious. Oh, yeah. I'm a fidget. 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.
Of course. 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. No.
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 core. Well, if your back is fucked up, everything's fucked up. No matter how strong your arms and legs are, if your back is fucked up, you're in trouble. Yeah, that's true. Your brain, everything.
How does Mel Gibson feel about surgery for scoliosis?
Everything goes to hell.
Well, you're in pain all the time. People with back problems, they can't think straight because you're always like, ugh.
There's a gift to not thinking straight.
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 to strive to find thoughts to make yourself happy.
Right.
So it's like it's a good – It's a good predisposition, I think.
I agree to that. Yeah, I think being happy all the time is kind of an unlikely scenario.
No, nobody is.
Yeah.
No. But we all want it. You notice we all yearn for it. That's the only thing we all want, right? Right. Just happiness.
Little piece? Well, it's also we're shown it, like, in, you know, television, movies. Sure. 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. 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. My friend Tom, Tom Segura, his house is gone. 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. I asked him, how's things looking there, Milo? He says, not good, Pops. He says, your neighborhood. And he sent me a video of my neighborhood. And it's in flames. It looks like an inferno.
You think this will get you out of California finally? Yeah, maybe. Where are you going to go?
Oh, I don't know. I got a place in Costa Rica. I love it there. 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. So it's 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. 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.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Joe Rogan Experience?
0:03–0:41
2
What are Mel Gibson's health concerns?
0:41–1:36
3
How does Mel Gibson feel about surgery for scoliosis?
1:36–14:29
4
What is the significance of the spine in health?
14:29–27:26
5
What are the impacts of societal expectations on happiness?
27:26–34:47
6
How does Mel Gibson view his filmmaking process?
34:47–2:26:35