Said Mel Gibson...
... who did look oddly nervous on Joe Rogan...NEW – Mel Gibson's Malibu Mansion Burned Down While He Was Filming Joe Rogan's Podcast
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 10, 2025
"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. When I got… pic.twitter.com/TvknivxywB
Reflecting on his losses — in that first clip — he said it was all his "stuff — remember George Carlin, talking about his stuff?"
Mel: "I've been relieved of the burden of my stuff."
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Mel may have other homes. I remember the guys on the old TV show Jackass gleefully discovering that there was a town on Long Island called Mianus and filming a segment there. Someone was telling them about celebrities who lived there, and I remember Johnny Knoxville remarking, "Mel Gibson has a house in Mianus?"
It's like someone did it on purpose to really destroy every aspect of it.
Trust me, Mel. Stay away from the conspiracy theories just this once.
All these wealthy folks will be just fine. Their LA homes are just one of many.
Good thing Biden is ignoring Maui and the Carolina's - and all those folks who are suffering. Gotta help the rich dem voters first. well - after another 5000000000+ million to Ukraine.
Newscasters keep asking LA wildfire victims how they "feel" about the catastrophic destruction of their home by this wildfire, an intrusive question that requires predictable politically-correct answer of "it's just stuff, just STUFF; we're still alive". It's far more than "stuff" that is destroyed, and it will take a decade, if not more, to rebuild their life as it more or less existed pre-fire. In blue state California, in hyper-blue LA, many of these fire victim homeowners may never successfully reconstruct their lost houses, never reoccupy their property, given recently-cancelled homeowner insurance policies, enormous regulatory requirements and difficult permit processes, high construction costs, and inevitable predatory real estate speculation. Most LA fire-loss homeowners are NOT celebrities, NOT multi-millionaires, and their net worth was mostly their homes that they've owned for 30, 40, 50 years, stripped in last year of their homeowner insurance coverage protection. This is truly apocalyptic life-altering devastation for many people from which it will be very difficult to recover.
By rights, the Governor of CA, Mayor of LA and the CA Insurance Comisar should all be recalled from office.
Gibson is correct, in fact, if considering the gross mismanagement and blatant incompetence of local and state government agencies and elected politicians, to anticipate and execute actions needed to mitigate risks from frequent wildfires and related risk of fire-spread property damage. No firefighting game plan. No mandatory brush clearing. No increase in fire response capacities. No interagency preparedness. There was no anticipatory planning by LA Mayor's Office, despite week+ warning of extreme Santa Ana windstorm coming. Nope, Mayor Bass went to Ghana.
Today is happy corrupt Merchan makes Trump a Felon day. over a sham trial.
Talking point for hack-D press. $#$#$#$#$
Burden or "burden"? Carbon bodies. Organic stuff. It could be worse.
Tom T said: "I remember the guys on the old TV show Jackass gleefully discovering that there was a town on Long Island called Mianus and filming a segment there."
Mianus is in CT, and is a small village within Greenwich. It is named after the Mianus River. Years ago, the Mianus River Bridge on I-95 collapsed, causing a traffic nightmare.
Mel looks great for 68. And he'll do OK, he's got plenty of money. He made a fortune off his movies, including "Passion of the Christ" which the ADL and the left hated. The nerve of Mel Gibson, making a movie about Jesus Christ!
If he didn't lose his own house, Nic Cage is smiling somewhere.
Everybody else lost their castles this time, so he won't be hearing any jokes about losing his.
In the interview Mel goes on about his house in Costa Rica. I watched far enough to hear about his back-up living plan. His eccentric responses were too much for me, though, to continue.
Impoverished preparation, incompetent response, redistributive change schemes rationalized by critical Diversity theory with elements of political congruence forcing catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. Now there is joy in la-la land.
True enough, except for the part about "predatory real estate speculators". Real estate speculators buy property from sellers who wish to sell, nothing predatory about it. Sell, or don't sell. As for Mel Gibson's remarks about it being "just stuff", he was speaking for himself, which is all any of us can do. For him, it is indeed just stuff. He has more of it. Not everyone is so lucky, and I'm sure he is well aware of this.
I listen to his podcast last night. Early on they were talking about the fires and Mel said that he talked to his son who was a volunteer firefighter in the area and a sudden told him that it didn't look good so I think he knew that the house was likely toast.
Like Kate said, it was difficult podcast to listen to. I really really like Mel Gibson as a man, human being actor and film director but he seems to have a lot of demons and a lot of crazy conspiracy theories. He's also into a lot of woo woo medicine and a lot of strange beliefs about psychic powers and other strange things. But my god did he do a great interview with that ditzy reporter, that man knows how to tell a story and I think what is more heartening is that with all of his demons he is able to remain so calm. That was one of the things he talked about on the rogen podcast was his former life of always being in fight or flight mode and it was killing him. Of course then talked about some ridiculous cure including hyperbaric chambers and God knows what else fish oil vitamin d vitamin b that cured him.
But you have to admire somebody who is so willing to open himself up and who is obviously trying to make himself a better person everyday even though he has a lot of burdens running around inside his head.
His next movie project is about the resurrection and it will start Jim caviezel as Jesus once again using the anti-aging CGI techniques that are rapidly becoming better and better.
Kate, according to Rogan, you have to go an hour or more into an interview before the facade comes down and the guest begins speaking openly and honestly (he said this generally, not with respect to Gibson himself). Maybe skip ahead and see what it looks like?
I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of these fires was the result of arson, has happened in CA before. Plus would be a really easy and damaging attack by ISIS or the like.
I didn’t watch the Carlin bit. The notion that the total loss of one’s house — yes, I get that he has others — and possessions should be compared to a comedy routine is simply repulsive to me.
Bible clearly states on Gods word who can and does such targeted destruction
Mel is a Mensch. He is setting a great example of how to remain calm in a storm. I find it very sad that you find is very manly response is somehow repulsive.
Thanks, tommyesq. I may do that. I'm a little afraid, lol, of what Mel will pop out with about the Church. Don't know if I'm brave enough.
Tommyesq, one of the fires is already a confirmed arson crime scene. In the convening weeks and months I'll bet more will be confirmed as such. This will be confirmed as a failure at all societal levels in California.
But does he give Hamas a pass?
In a sane world, yes. California is not sane. Even if they did, I'd bet big money that some of them, if not all, survived.
California is a failed state.
Hunter Biden, the crackhead whose working class father held government jobs almost his entire life, had his Malibu home burned to cinders too. Nothing left but the metal plumbing and the fireplace.
True.
All of that priceless fecal artwork, gone. Torched like a flaming bag of dogturds left to smolder on a neighbor's front porch. Oh, the poomanity.
LA donated firefighting equipment to Ukraine, remember. And the US sent Ukraine over the past few years, $300 billion that we know of. Probably more as Biden emptied our arsenals and charged the expense off at the cost of acquisition, not the cost of replacement. No, ATACMS missile are not "Army surplus" they are the missiles we have in inventory in case we get into a dustup ourselves. Same with 6" artillery shells and Patriot missile batteries and interceptors.
We could have done some good with that money here in the US rather than flushing it down the rathole of a war that is now plainly lost.
There is a lot left to ruin in CA, they are far from hitting the bottom. But they are working on it, give them time.
Holding back the tears. Of course - Hunter's Malibu home was paid for by WE the tax payer. Money Laundered thru Burisma and China.
I'm sure the Hollywood crowd will be made whole at the expense of everyone else, even if their fire insurance was yanked last year. Look at who scooped up the lions' share of subsidies and handouts after the September 11 attacks.
It's those stump-toothed trailer trash in Appalachia and beach-bum potheads in Maui that get the $400 check and a kick in the teeth from their government.
Most LA fire-loss homeowners are NOT celebrities, NOT multi-millionaires, and their net worth was mostly their homes that they've owned for 30, 40, 50 years, stripped in last year of their homeowner insurance coverage protection.
They won't be left penniless. Most of the value of their equity is in the land and location. Houses of that vintage are often "scrapers" that would be replaced with something grander if they had been sold before the fire.
But now tens of thousands of them will go on the market at once, and there will be a glut of vacant lots with a snooty zip code and an ocean view. I would never buy any land under the jurisdiction of California politicians, who are in the running for the very most worthless on the entire planet, but those who would take that risk will find deals galore in the next couple of years.
Very thankful I have just completed building my new house, because the industry is already short-handed where I live, and there is now going to be a massive migration of construction workers from all over the country to California.
It was an interesting podcast. Gibson starts talking about the Church at the 30 minute mark. I'm sure the Vatican isn't pleased with him but he makes some valid points.
As for Mel Gibson's remarks about it being "just stuff", he was speaking for himself, which is all any of us can do. For him, it is indeed just stuff. He has more of it. Not everyone is so lucky, and I'm sure he is well aware of this.
There are different kinds of "stuff". I've scanned in all my treasured photographs and slides and home movies, and they reside on multiple physical and on-line backup repositories. I don't care so much about the pots and pans and bedsheets, or even some moderately valuable art and collectibles that can be replaced. What would grieve me for the rest of my life would be losing family heirlooms like the gun my grandfather gave me, or my dad's wartime medals and logbook, or the Asian bric-a-brac brought back by my missionary great-great grandfather a hundred and fifty years ago.
Movie stars (the famous and infamous) really have not lost much. Their 'wealth' is themselves. The vast majority of us, though, our ability to function is dictated by what 'stuff' we have. Plumbers, carpenters and so on require 'stuff' to actually do their job and earn a living.
Fireman on Joe Rogan predicted this...
https://x.com/TheBrandonMorse/status/1877411121512010209
"n.n. said:
Impoverished preparation, incompetent response,"
It's ironic that the so-called "nature lovers" do not recognize nature when it pays a visit. That's what's happening here. The whole set of events should be called The Reality Fires because the fires are the real and natural consequences of living in fantasy and voting for it. "Incompetent response" to a fire is the real consequence of DEI, the fantasy that we don't need competence at all levels and that's what they just voted for in California. "Impoverished preparation" is the real consequence of fantasy conservation principles, the drive for "pristine," which emphasizes destroying dams and leaving underbrush intact and, again, that's what they just voted for in California. It's said that: "God always forgives, man sometimes, nature never." At least we can see this much: a man pardoned Hunter Biden; Nature burned his mansion down.
I feel such pity for those people watching the flames devour their homes. Their homes! They aren't all Bidens. And yet - they didn't prepare for fire though they lived in a dry land. They even voted not to prepare. And then, they voted to hire people who wouldn't know how to prepare. And then, naturally - their home! burning! Will we all have to pay the natural price for ignoring reality? Or can we put it off and let it hit the children? Something, somewhere, there must be. Can we do something better?
This week's weather pattern in southern California is a pyromaniac's wet dream. With five gallons of gasoline, a motorbike, and the staggering incompetence of California's present governing bodies, you can burn large portions of Los Angeles down to the ground. How many pyromaniacs do you think live in Southern California? I wager the number isn't less than 10. This is why fire prevention management is so critical and its absence right now is so jaw-dropping.
I saw some asking about the use of seawater on the fires. The Canadian Super Scooper aircraft have apparently found the sea conditions calm enough to be scooping up seawater to fight the blazes. These are truly ingenious aircraft, I've seen them in operation fighting fires using the lakes in Minnesota, some years ago.
Of course, this is California, so naturally there's an idiot that just has to get his drone up there to take fire pictures for this TikTok videos. Guess what happened? They should bury him up to his neck in a hot ash pile. Same for the fire bug they caught that started one of the major fires. Same for the looters. The Kalifornia Dreemin' will keep happening until the 'No Mercy' part sinks in.
https://www.twz.com/air/one-of-just-two-cl-415-super-scooper-planes-taken-out-of-palisades-fire-fight-by-drone
Trump touted sweeping the brush, so they didn’t sweep it. Trump touted filling the reservoirs, do they didn’t fill them
Didn’t California remove a dam recently because the Indians (maize, not masala) said it offended the Great Spirit?
Brother Fish die, Brother Bear, Brother Beaver, no food. Happy Hunting ground, no good. Red Man heap sad, paddle canoe to shore. White Man throw trash at feet. Red man heap sad, tear run down cheek
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