The controversial and award-winning actor/director opened up about the experience during an interview with NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports." "I was kind of ill at ease while we were talking [on the podcast] because I knew my neighborhood was on fire.

Mel Gibson’s Malibu house was burning to the ground in the California wildfires while he was on Joe Rogan’s podcast predicting the end of civilization, the actor said Thursday. “I was kind of ill at ease while [Rogan and I] were talking because I knew my neighborhood was on fire,