00:45:36.400starred by the same guy who played Jesus in The Passion.
00:45:39.340Gibson was serving as executive producer
00:45:43.260and recorded a promotional video warning people about child trafficking.
00:45:47.000Originally, the film was acquired by 20th Century Fox,
00:45:49.700yet it was shelved after Disney acquired Fox in 2019.
00:45:53.080It had a budget of just some $15 million
00:45:55.020dollars and accusations that Hollywood was trying to blacklist came flooding in when it launched,
00:45:59.940with some saying that showings of popular cinema chains were cancelled or even sabotaged.
00:46:04.260I'm down to watch this for the first movie night, like I'll have to turn KPP off but
00:46:08.000it's a great film, I've already seen it, I'll watch it again. Great, great, great movie and
00:46:12.020anybody who hasn't seen it should. We'll see how long I'm live tonight but yeah I'll do that one
00:46:17.100for the free. The film itself leans heavily into the idea that influential people are involved in
00:46:22.780trafficking and the problem is just being covered up internationally. Something Gibson has certainly
00:46:27.560alluded to over the years. One of the most disturbing problems in our world today. You are richer than everyone in chat and you are playing victim? So funny.
00:46:35.320Yeah, but okay, look, how behind are you where freedom and playing victim? The mayor of Miami Beach said I'm not welcome in Miami Beach.
00:46:44.140There's nothing to do with wealth. So everyone in here is able to do something that I'm not. You are allowed in the hospitality groups in America.
00:46:51.000you can go to the fancy restaurants you can go to the nightclubs i cannot
00:46:56.600it's human trafficking what what if i oh you have more buddies first off that's probably not true
00:47:03.640there's definitely people in here richer than me but also that's just like what a stupid thing to
00:47:08.200say and particularly the trafficking of children many scoffed at the notion that pedophile rings
00:47:13.240were being run by rich elites but as jeffrey epstein's operation has come into the light
00:47:17.640the flight logs, the witness testimony, connections to world leaders and billionaires,
00:47:21.800this conspiracy theory has just become a fact the establishment tried to ignore for years.
00:47:27.320Around the films release viral quotes started spreading about Gibson's conspiratorial view,
00:47:32.120claiming he exposed elites drinking children's blood, Andrew Combe harvesting and satanic rituals,
00:47:37.480QAnon type stories. Every single quote attributed to Gibson is fake, they trace only to yournewswire.com,
00:47:44.040a notorious misinformation site. Maybe it's part of yet another smear campaign designed to
00:47:49.400Marty Gibson's rehabilitation and feed tabloid headlines to keep his reputation questionable.
00:47:55.000Or maybe it's a manifestation of him becoming a symbol onto which both sides of the culture war
00:47:59.560paints their narratives. For some he's a martyred truth teller to others a cautionary tale of when
00:48:04.360mental health issues and anger take hold of someone. Either way the fake quotes spread
00:48:08.680because they sound like what people already believe about him. That was Southbark's parody
00:48:13.240too. They were saying Gibson made this very public monster out of himself. In reality,
00:48:18.080the truth behind Gibson's criticism of the establishment is probably more of a case of
00:48:22.220something simpler yet no less horrifying. The banality of evil. Thousands of people making
00:48:27.360small, cowardly decisions that add up to systemic abuse. Which is far more disturbing because it
00:48:33.220implicates everyone through their daily choices in supporting and protecting the industry.
00:48:37.740I haven't seen Passion of the Christ yet. It's between that and Sound of Freedom.
00:48:43.380Oh, there's eyes wide shut, but I'm down to watch Passion of the Christ.
00:48:46.320Unlike blood-drinking rituals, everyone is capable given the right incentives.
00:48:50.780When asked at the Hacksaw Ridge press conference to describe Hollywood in one word, Gibson laughed.
00:48:55.800Just one word? Then he gave his answer, survival.
00:48:59.680You know what he really wanted to say?