Luke Hemsworth: From Manual Labor to Hollywood + The Hemsworth Work Ethic

Summary

Adam Carolla Show: Luke Hemsworth – From Manual Labor to Hollywood + The Hemsworth Work Ethic

Date: April 9, 2026
Host: Adam Carolla
Guest: Luke Hemsworth
Additional voices: Alicia Krause (news), Producer Dawson

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Episode Overview

In this engaging episode, Adam Carolla interviews actor Luke Hemsworth—known both for his roles and as part of the famous Hemsworth family—about the values of hard work, lessons from manual labor, Australian upbringing, family dynamics, and the transition from rural life to Hollywood. Luke, calling in from pre-dawn Australia, shares his upbringing in the outback, the roots of the Hemsworth work ethic, tales of childhood daredevilry, and perspectives on raising kids with resilience and discipline in today’s world. The conversation frequently veers into broader cultural commentary: delayed gratification, the loss of craftsmanship, and how modern society grapples with adversity, work, and reward.

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Main Themes & Discussion Highlights

1. The Value of Manual Labor and Craftsmanship

[02:21 – 06:49]

• Early Routines and Work Ethic:
  Luke and Adam recollect their years in construction and floor sanding, focusing on early start times, the necessity of discipline, and “rolling out” for work before sunrise.

  • Luke: “I worked as a floor sander for years... I'd be lucky to leave at 7—that was a late day... You’d be leaving at 6 to drive an hour and a half…” [03:05]

• The Satisfaction of Tangible Work:
  Both reflect on the psychological rewards of seeing a physical task completed—a reward they feel is missing in much of today’s digital work.

  • Adam: “People don’t really experience that [sense of satisfaction in finishing a project] in our new digital world... There’s no beginning, no middle, and no end...” [04:38]

• Delayed Gratification:
  A recurring motif. Adam rails against instant rewards, using Ozempic and next-day deliveries as symbols of cultural impatience.

  • Adam: “Delayed gratification is really about the most important thing you can teach a young person, especially a young man…” [07:30]

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2. Growing Up Hemsworth: Outback Life & Family Values

[14:00 – 29:00]

• Aboriginal Community in the Outback:
  Luke recounts his early years in a remote, predominantly Indigenous Australian area, where his parents caught wild buffalo and ran the community’s only store.

  • “We spent our early years in the middle of nowhere... catching buffalo. They were bull catchers...and then they’d hit them with the car very gently... with a mechanical arm which gets the bull in a big headlock.” [14:38 – 15:54]
  • Living in extreme weather—in DIY houses without AC, dodging snakes and dingoes.

• Scarcity, Creativity, and Storytelling:
  Limited media access meant VHS tapes from the supply truck were a big event; kids spent days outdoors roleplaying.

  • “It was kind of a big event...Us as kids were just role playing, making all sorts of death traps. We had the Hemsworth death traps...” [15:54 – 18:16]

• Being the Only “Extra White” Kids:
  He reflects on being a minority in the community: “Surrounded by little black fellas and your parents... But it was never a big part of being a kid up there...” [18:40]

• Daredevil Hemsworths and “Death Traps”:
  Homemade zip lines, massive rope swings, and sibling “warfare” with pellet guns, knives, and axes.

  • Memorable: “One kid broke a rib... This one kid slipped and fell from the top of the swing and he landed... Both his arms.” [27:49]
  • Luke would shoot Chris with a pellet gun: “The closer you are, the more it's going to hurt... He would do a big, you know, platoon death...” [28:12]

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3. Daredevil Genes, Resilience, and Modern Parenting

[28:56 – 44:53]

• The Daredevil Gene:
  Adam and Luke relate on childhood thrill-seeking, explaining it's not about showing off—it's internal compulsion.

  • Adam: “If you have the daredevil gene, it bothers you...” [28:56]
  • Luke: “My daughter has a trampoline now… I can't…I have to show her how to do a backflip... But I'm 45 years old!” [30:46]

• Contrasting Generations:
  Luke notes his kids are more consequence-aware and risk-averse than he was, while Chris’ kids are “50 times more” intense than their dads.

  • “I don’t think I was missing that part of the brain, that consequence part, but it was very quiet…” [32:23]

• Building Grit Through Discomfort:
  Both men extol the virtues of doing hard things (e.g., cold plunges) for building mental toughness.

  • Adam: “I do it just because I don’t want to do it. I don’t care about the benefits. I make myself do it.” [40:34]
  • Luke: “Discipline is freedom… The mental toughness, that's what comes from the plunge...” [41:26], [42:43]

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4. From the Outback to Hollywood: Fate, Family, and the Unique Hemsworth Brand

[45:21 – 52:03]

• The Odds of Three Hemsworth Actors:
  Adam and Luke marvel at the statistical unlikelihood:

  • “It still seems pretty low percentage that any of the Hemsworth brothers are going to make it in Hollywood...” [45:21]
  • Luke: “We have no other skills in any area… I loved drama…I always loved drama… [But for Chris] he was always in high school—I’m going to go to Hollywood.” [45:41]

• Drawing on Real Life for Roles:
  Luke credits time in rough, blue-collar jobs—like pearl farming among “misfits and the dispossessed”—for shaping his approach as an actor and his understanding of people.

  • “It was a wonderful character study…from meeting these weird, wacky, wonderful people.” [48:17]
  • He strives to find the humanity in villains: “No bad guy really thinks he's bad. I try to approach them… grounded in someone I’ve known who is dangerous but inspiring.” [52:04]

• Comparing Hollywood to Manual Labor:
  The code on construction sites is “way more honest” than in Hollywood: “They tell you exactly what they think of you… Hollywood is…based on a lie. Everything is a facade.” [54:54 – 55:46]

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5. Food, Culture, and Australian Identity

[60:14 – 66:54]

• Family Meals & Healthy Habits:
  Luke’s family values sit-down dinners, no screens, adventurous eating, and getting kids to make their own lunch as soon as they can.

• Distinct Lack of ‘Australian Food’ Abroad:
  Adam notes, “Australia has to be the biggest place with zero representation of restaurants [in LA].”

  • Luke: “There’s the Aussie Pie Company… [and] the meat pie. But all our culinary experience is an amalgamation.” [63:23 – 64:29]

• Vegemite:

  • “You gotta start sparingly… it’s basically liquefied brown salt…” [65:31]
  • (Amusing exchange about Adam’s misperceptions of Australia vs. New Zealand.)

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6. The Hemsworth Clan—Family Ties and Community

[66:01 – 67:14]

• The family all lives close in Australia: “Chris is seven minutes away… My brother lives next door renting while fixing his house… Our parents are eight minutes away.”
• Adam: “It really sounds like heaven—is Australia... How are taxes?”
  • Luke: “Terrible. Absolutely horrendous. Kind of like California.” [67:03]

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7. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Delayed Gratification:
  "If you could snap your fingers and have whatever you wanted… you would kill yourself in 11 days. That’s basically how we work. You gotta work to get that Ferrari and dream of that Ferrari." — Adam Carolla [08:20]

• On Craftsmanship:
  "There’s something really beautiful about watching someone who has spent an enormous amount of time perfecting something.” — Luke Hemsworth [10:50]

• On Family & Risk:
  “We had the Hemsworth death traps… One kid broke a rib. Both arms. At the Hemsworth house." — Luke Hemsworth [27:49]

• On Acting and Humanity:
  “No bad guy really thinks he's bad…It's the dualism; where you can be super dangerous and still be a great protector…I find those interesting.” — Luke Hemsworth [52:04]

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8. Other Segments & News Highlights (with Alicia Krause)

[34:56 onward, skipping ads and non-content breaks]

• Riotous “Innovation” Among the Homeless in LA:
  Describes mini-houses being built and sold on the street from scrap (“If you can parallel park a 32 foot Winnebago in downtown Portland and climb a telephone pole for power—you’re more employable than anyone in this building!” — Adam Carolla [83:36])

• Commentary on Modern Parenting, Youth, and Safety:
  Discussion of parental over-protectiveness and misplaced fears (“My ex-wife was more scared of my kids drinking tap water than drowning in the pool where the gate was always open.” — Adam Carolla [75:35])

• Media Narratives:
  Critical commentary on public murals, crime, and the role of political narrative in news coverage, especially high-profile criminal cases.

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Key Timestamps for Notable Segments

| MM:SS | Segment | |-------------|--------------------------------------------------------| | 02:21 | Start of main interview: work ethic and manual labor | | 03:05–04:38 | Luke on floor sanding; pride in transformative jobs | | 07:30 | Delayed gratification lesson | | 14:38 | Luke describes childhood in the bush/outback | | 18:16 | Being the only “extra white” kids | | 27:49 | Hemsworth “death trap” stories—kids getting injured | | 28:56 | The daredevil gene | | 40:34 | Cold plunges and mental toughness | | 45:41 | Odds of all three Hemsworths “making it” in Hollywood | | 51:34 | Grit learned from manual labor; character study | | 54:54 | “Rules are easier in construction than in Hollywood” | | 60:14 | Family meals and adventurous eating | | 63:23 | No Australian restaurants in LA; the Aussie Pie | | 64:48 | Vegemite talk | | 66:01 | Hemsworth family still living close | | 67:03 | “Australia’s taxes? Terrible.” |

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Tone & Style

Adam delivers his signature blend of irreverent wit, blunt realism, and insight into human (and especially male) psychology. The episode is a playful but poignant dialogue between two men who value hard work, family, and adversity as engines for growth—but who aren’t above busting each other’s chops over cultural misunderstandings (see: Queenstown, gophers, and Vegemite).

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Conclusion

This episode is a rich, heartfelt—and frequently hilarious—exploration of what it means to grow up wild and translate that wildness into adult discipline and creative ambition. Whether reflecting on blue-collar days, the reality behind movie roles, the demands of modern parenting, or the joys and perils of Australian childhood, Adam and Luke deliver a potent reminder of the value of earned reward, humility, and real human connection.

[Beast, starring Luke Hemsworth, opens in theaters April 10.]

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, Luke Hemsworth. Plus the news with Alicia Krauss. And now, Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Luke Hemsworth all the way. You're in Australia right now, right?

[Luke Hemsworth]

I am. I am. I'm in Australia. My, my backyard. It's 6am trying to keep quiet because everyone's still asleep. Cause they're super lazy.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, it is funny. I, I know I spent.

[Luke Hemsworth]

We'll get to see, we'll get to see the, the daylight break. We won't see the sun, but it'll get light back here, which will be cool.

[Adam Carolla]

I've spent a lot of my life tiptoeing around not to disturb lazy people. When I was up to do work. I worked as a carpenter for a million years and the hours are 7:00am you start at 7, you know.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, I worked as a floor sander for years, sanding and polishing floors and installing timber floors. And. Yeah, I'm gonna be lucky to. Lucky to. To leave. Leave at 7. That was a late day. We'd be leaving at 6 to drive an hour and a half to jobs and. Oh, yeah, back at 6 and 7,

[Adam Carolla]

the rule foreman had is you guys were rolled out, he would say. Rolled out meaning your extension cords and hoses and stuff was all plugged in and you were working at 7. So however long it took you to get there, you'd have to leave at 6. Something from your house. So you're working a drum sander, a disc sander. You'd have like an edger and then you'd have a big drum in the middle. And if you left it too long in one place, it would gouge the hardwood.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. There's a real. There's a real art to that as there is the carpentry. Right, Is you gotta go through your process. You gotta be a. You gotta be a learner. You gotta. You gotta stuff things up in order to learn the hard way. But I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed going to a job that, you know, kind of looked shitty or disheveled or, you know, in need of some love. And then a couple days later, you have this beautiful finished timber grain floor. And it's. It was almost like having a blank canvas and then, you know, finishing the. Finishing the artwork was. There's something really satisfying about that.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I know. I agree. And by the way, the movie is beast. It is out in theaters. That'll be April 10th. It's got Chris. I'm sorry, brother. It's got Luke in it, Russell Crowe, and it's got the other brothers and brother Chris and Liam know all about them. But back to this. Back to this. I feel like standing back and having a sense of accomplishment and seeing what you've done and seeing what your labor has created is really satisfying. And in our new digital world, people don't really experience that. They sit in a cubicle. They do data logging. There's no beginning, there's no middle, and there's no end. That part at the end, when you see what you've built or seen what you finished, it's really satisfying and it's important to the human experience. And we're not really getting that anymore.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, I think it's really Important as an artist too. You know, I think that's. That artistic drive is that it's quite often not even about the end product. The end product is, is. Is, you know, sometimes vindicating, but sometimes it's not. Sometimes the most enjoyable part is actually, you know, the, the doing of the thing. And that's a big part of acting for me, is that why would you do it if you. If you didn't love, you know, being in the trenches and being at work and, you know, sitting in your trailer and having to entertain yourself? You know, that's, that's. That's all part of the rich tapestry. The good part, obviously, is being on set and being able to dig into a character to do all that stuff. You know, that's what you do for free. You get paid to wait around. But yeah, this idea that, That you can get things easy now, right, Without. Without much effort.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Things that are. Things that are created by another brain on a. On a computer or whatever. I, I don't see the attraction of it. It's never been something that's, that's. That hasn't, you know, has piqued any interest in me. I definitely rather get the paintbrush out, rather. We'd rather be, you know, on my hands and knees, so to speak, with the dust in my face. Yeah, I guess. I mean, it's that. It's. It's that thing about if anything's. Things that are worth doing are. Are hard. Right. You know, it's the. Yeah, the dope, the dopamine that comes from stuff that's easy.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, here's. Here's what I think. Here's what I think it is in a nutshell. Delayed gratification is really about the most important thing you can teach a young person, especially young man, delayed gratification. And you fight delayed gratification because as a human being, we want everything now. And it used to be you'd order something through the mail and they'd say, allow six to eight weeks for delivery. And you just had to sit there and. And wait. Is this the day this thing shows up in the mail? And everything took a while. Places were closed on Sunday. You had to wait. Everything was delayed gratification. If I ever got anything, it was for Christmas or my birthday, so I just had to wait. You go, you want a bicycle? Well, Christmas is four months away, so it was delayed gratification, which is basically foreplay for sexual. But everyone wants to get right to the humping. Right. Which we all want as human beings, but it isn't good for us. The process is important and we've. But the people who make money figured out if we can eliminate this and have next day delivery and overnight delivery and delivery of food, your house, and get a sex robot. Everything is right there all the time. Any show you wanna watch, any movie you wanna watch, it's right the time that makes people unhappy in a weird way. Like, if you could just snap your fingers and have whatever you wanted in front of you, like, I want a steak dinner. Snap there, I want a Ferrari, snap there. You would kill yourself in 11 days. That's basically how we work. You got to work to get that Ferrari and you got to dream of that Ferrari.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah. Do you think that that's disappearing in this day and age? Do you think people are coming back around? I feel like it's kind of go, I don't know, maybe for some people. I'm trying to teach my kids that, you know, that lesson that, that you can't. That you have to put in some effort. And the things that you have to put in effort for are worth putting in. In the effort for. The things that you get without the effort are. They're the things that are usually bad for you. Right, Right. These, these quick hits of dopamine. These, the. Oh, yeah, I think it was human. Huberman said that the faster the dopamine response, the worse it is for your mental health, for your. For your body. Things like. Things like drugs, things like, you know, sugar.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, now everyone's, everyone's on Ozempic. You know, you want to, you want to lose weight, there's a way to do it. It's going to take six months, and you got to work at it. You know what I mean?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And they're not. No one wants to do the work. But my argument is the ozempic may take the pounds off, but you're not learning any discipline or work ethic. You're not working at it. So you're not getting the full benefit of the weight loss. The weight loss is part aesthetic, but the other part is knowing you can do it and discipline yourself. But it's delayed gratification.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah. Yeah. Also, you're not learning any skills as well, I think, you know, and that's a big thing with this, you know, this generation is, is, is. No one is a master anymore. It's like, why, why all these people who are craftsmen have come back into being, you know, incredibly absorbing to watch these people who are masters of, you know, knife forging and painters and there's Something really, really beautiful about watching someone who, you know, has spent an enormous amount of time perfecting something.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Luke Hemsworth]

It's a wonderful thing to see someone who's at the top of their game as opposed to gaming the system in order to the hits and likes and

[Adam Carolla]

all that stuff, you know, it's interesting. Cause I've never thought about this, but when you watch a masterful musician play the cello, you're just watching muscle memory. You're watching someone who's got their 10,000 hours in. And when you're seeing a master carpenter putting up crown molding, you're also looking at that. Or you see a guy who's old school and can do plaster really well with the hawk and the knife and the broad knife and all that kind of stuff, like really moving fast with it. But you're looking at muscle memory, you know, and when you see a guy surfing and really nailing it, you're looking at muscle memory, you know, like, that's what we're watching. We're watching this person who has 10,000 hours of this. And there's something super satisfying, you know, when you see a great athlete boxing or doing MMA or playing a sport, you're really just watching 10 years of repetition.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah. Also, also, I think there's an appreciation of, you know, you know, like as, as you get older, as you get better at a thing, you realize how hard it is to do that thing. And that's, that's what the appreciation is for people who, who are masters at this, who are athletes. If you've spent any time as an athlete, you know that it's years and years of failing and going backwards and hurting yourself in order to get to this place where you look like it's all muscle memory or it is muscle memory. Right. But these people, these people are, are so finely tuned after, after, you know, after failure, after failure. It's a very, it's very similar to, to acting. I think there's, you know, the, the. The athletic journey and the, the acting journey seems to be, seem to be some great parallels. There's a lot of, A lot of hard lessons that are learned along the way in order to make it look effortless, right? In order to make it look like you are saying, saying this thing that you've said 50,000 times, like it's the first time you're saying it again, you know, and to have those, those undercurrents of emotion and intention. Excuse me, what's that?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, there's a whole. Everyone in your family acts, right? There's Three of you, you all act. I'm very interested in your family. Cause they seem very super Australian to me. Like outdoors surfing, nature, like moving, sweating, sort of funny but smart, kind of pushing themselves. A little element of danger and risk involved is everyone does it. What do your parents do? Like, did they instill that?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah, my dad for sure. We grew up in a part of Australia, the northern part of Australia. We were born in Victoria, which is down south, but we spent our early years in the middle of nowhere. The Australian sort of equivalent to a reservation kind of thing. So entirely an Aboriginal, you know, indigenous Australian area. So we were one of two white families in this community. And my, my mum and dad went up there originally to fix fences on, on my mum's sister's property. And then they ended up catching buffalo. They were, they were bull catchers. Which is, which is a. I don't know whether you've ever seen it, but it's like a jeep with a cut off, cut off top. So it's an open air jeep. And what they do is they'll, they'll round up, you know, they'll, they'll muster this cattle and then the ones that get away, they'll go and rather than rope them with a, you know, with a horse and, and rope, they'll go and they'll hit them with the car very gently like, gently. They'll, they'll bash them, they'll stun them and then the car has this mechanical arm which gets the, the bull in a big headlock.

[Adam Carolla]

Whoa.

[Luke Hemsworth]

And then they, and then they just walk it into the pen. So, so they started, they started doing that and then ended up running this, this community store in this little, in this little community which was the one stop shop for mail and food and guns and, and you know, us two little white fellas, me and, me and my brother Chris. Liam wasn't alive at that stage, but we went to this little, this little, this little school there that was our, we started on School of the Radio, which is school of School of the Air over the radio. Getting taught by a teacher, you know, across the airwaves, and then eventually ended up at this, this little school. And yeah, my, my dad, my mum and dad were both, you know, very active people, very outdoorsy people. But they, they also had a big, a big love of the arts and a big love particularly of film. And what was interesting about that place was because it was so remote anyway, this is very early 80s so we're lucky to get three TV channels, especially out there. I don't know if there actually was any TV out there. I don't remember watching tv, but I remember watching videos of VHS back then because the truck driver who would bring all of the supplies would bring a selection of vhs. And so it was kind of a big event, right? It was like you'd be starved for any sort of content and him arriving every two weeks with this new treasure trove of vhs. And some of it was absolute rubbish. But there was some great things that were sort of, I think, seminal to kick starting that creative fire or something. And then you mix that with having very little access to that. And all of a sudden us as kids are just role playing. We're, you know, we're doing, we're leaving it sort of Saturday morning and coming home Sunday evening, basically, you know, after. Or coming home to eat, basically, and then going back out and making also all sorts of death traps. We had, we had the Hemsworth death traps, they would call it. And kids would come to our, our house and, and hurt themselves.

[Adam Carolla]

What. All right, I have a million questions. What was it like? I mean, you guys are not only white, but you're extra white. Like, I'm, I'm white, but I'm Italian looking. I might be able to pass myself off as something, but you guys in an aboriginal environment really stood out. And then how was that? How were you guys treated?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, well, it's, I mean, yeah, very interestingly because you are, you are the minority. You are the, you know, the outsider and you are called, you know, the little, the little white kid. And, but, but really, I mean, it didn't, you know, I think in hindsight it was, it was very normal. I had my friends and occasionally you'd have an altercation which would, which would turn into them calling you the white bastard or whatever it is. But, but it was never, it was just never a big part of being a kid up there. It was just, it was just, you know, we would run around with anyone who wanted to run around with us. That was, that was sort of the big part of it. But, but yeah, we were very, very, very white, blonde, blue eyes, you know, surrounded by little black fellas and the, your parents.

[Adam Carolla]

With the buffalo. It was a buffalo that would get stray, would come up. I'm picturing the Jeep. It would come up in, hit it like. Yeah, with the car.

[Luke Hemsworth]

It's the bull bar. They got a big, big thick bull bar on the front.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it's a bull bar.

[Luke Hemsworth]

They chase these things and give it a thunk and it would roll and then Sometimes. Sometimes if. If they were. If they were brave enough, the guys would actually jump out of the jeep and pin the thing and get the, you know, the leather around the feet before it could stand up.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Luke Hemsworth]

That was. That was another way they did it, but very, very dangerous.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a rowdy job. And. And then they put the clamp around its neck and sort of walk it back to the pen or the herd or whatever.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah. Just put it back into the pen where it would get trucked off to be become, you know, dog food or meat or wherever it was going.

[Adam Carolla]

But eventually they had the store and. And it was like, eventually the.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah. And where we. Where we lived was, you know, it's very, very hot. It's always, you know, it's rare that it's below the, you know, 100 degrees over there. And so I just remember being in that store and being in the cool room for, you know, anytime we were there, we would. We would sort of skip down the red dirt road in our. In our bare feet, you know, dodging. Dodging the big bindis, these giant things that would go through. Through your feet in a second and. And then sipping on, you know, creamy soda or whatever it is in the. In the cool room to escape the heat. Take your homework in there.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's pretty. They had a refrigerated room for, you know, cheese or meat or whatever sitting there.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Did your. Your house didn't have air conditioning, though, did it?

[Luke Hemsworth]

I don't think it did. I think it was all fans in those days, I remember.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Luke Hemsworth]

You know, and. And. And house is kind of a loose term. It was more like. It was more like 4 posts a roof and some, you know, some tarpaulin, some.

[Adam Carolla]

Some blue top there. Really.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dingo's going past snakes everywhere. It was. It was a pretty wild place. Very, very. When you go back there, it's like going back in time. You really feel the age of the land. But it's, you know, it's that rugged, stunning beauty that is rare, for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

I was. You said dingo, and it sparked something I was thinking about a million years ago when I was working in radio. I was working with Jimmy Kimmel, and we weren't famous or anything. We're pretty low on the totem pole. But we were doing bits for morning radio, and I brought in a bit called Dingo Boy where I was. The premise is I was a young guy who lived basically where you lived as a baby, and my parents were killed by an evil Guy And I was raised by dingoes. And at some point I broke off from the dingo herd to go find the killer of my parents. And was the adventures of Dingo Boy as he traveled through Australia, always one step behind the people that killed his parents. But in the song which I will play for you that we created in 1994 with Jimmy Kimmel orchestrating and singing and me singing the song, it will tell the story of Dingo Boy in the song. So here it is.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Incredible.

[Adam Carolla]

Found by wild dingoes in the outback they lived in. His parents have been murdered and now dingoes are his kin. Dingoes taught him hunting and dingoes taught him pride. Dingo's made his diapers out of gopher hide. Run, run, dingo boy. Run, run, jingle boy, jingle boy. Oh, run, run, dingle boy. All right. That was the beginning. As a matter of fact, it was short, that was shortened for radio. The real song was found by wild dingoes in the outback he lived in. His parents had been murdered. Now dingoes are his kin. Dingoes taught him hunting and dingoes taught him pride. And dingoes made him diapers out of gopher hide.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Gopher hide.

[Adam Carolla]

He grew into adulthood. His memory drifted back. His human nature told him it's time to leave the pack. He searches every city, Queenstown, Melbourne and Perth to find his parents killer and put them in the earth. So the extended one had the whole story and he just wandered around Australia looking for people who killed his parents. I love it.

[Luke Hemsworth]

I'm gonna pull you up though. There's a couple of things that don't make sense there. One, we don't have gophers.

[Adam Carolla]

No gophers. Damn it.

[Luke Hemsworth]

And two, Queenstown's in New Zealand. It's not in Australia.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, see, we didn't have Google back then. We were just trying to remember stuff.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Britannica. Where is Australia?

[Adam Carolla]

Queenstown is in. Man, when I tell Jimmy, he's going to be devastated. I guess to us, living out, I mean, living in the United States. So living in the United States, you don't know much about the rest of the world. But living in California, you know almost nothing about the rest of the world. And then living in Hollywood, you don't care about any other place. You know, Cleveland, Ohio. Who gives a shit? Like you don't know anything. It's all you guys come here and ask us questions about us.

[Luke Hemsworth]

You know the question I used to get all the time, do you really. Do you really ride kangaroos to school?

[Adam Carolla]

So you move. You moved out of this place that was a, you know, a fun adventure place to grow up in. I want to hear about the death traps, though. The Hemsworth death traps.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So we actually moved from that place back to Melbourne, back to an outer suburb of Melbourne, which was kind of at the three quarter mark of this, you know, kind of mountain. And we were, again, quite remote, surrounded by, you know, giant gum trees. Massive, massive gum trees. And so everything was made out of rope. And we did a Ziploc line, and the zip line consisted of, you know, tying it around that tree and then tying it around, tying that around that tree and then a giant knot at the end. So no gradual. That just right. And. And the hems, the Hemsworths. You know, Chris. And Chris and I could handle it quite easily. And we would always be saying, you know, make sure you grab onto that thing. Don't let go. But. But invariably, every kid would end up splattered around that tree. One kid broke a rib. And then we had one of the greatest rope swings ever that we shot up over this big bow that was sort of bending. And it must have been a good. I don't know, it was about probably 100ft in the air. It was enormous. We shot it up with a bow and arrow and then pulled the rope up and tied the line and we would swing out around this sort of embankment over this. Over this kind of cliff. Cliff almost. And this one kid just. He just went and slipped and fell from the very top of the swing and he landed kind of like that. Both his arms.

[Adam Carolla]

Both arms. At the Hemsworth house.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Both arms. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, that was an interesting call, I think, to the parents from the. From the hospital room. Come get your. Come get your son who's broken both his arms at our place. There's that. And then. Then there was various throwing knives, ninja stars, pellet guns.

[Adam Carolla]

Sure.

[Luke Hemsworth]

I used to. I used to make Chris put a motorcycle helmet on and gloves, and I would have the pellet gun and I would say, you know, you better start running because the closer you are, the more it's going to hurt. Yeah, yeah. So he would. He would run off and pink and plink him as he was. As he was running, and he would do a big, you know, platoon death.

[Adam Carolla]

Well,

[Luke Hemsworth]

there's that. And then there was always kind of various wood chopping, axe throwing and chainsawing going on as well. But no one ever. No one ever lost a limb doing that, which was. Which was pretty interesting. I think most of that stuff was supervised by my dad, you know, I

[Adam Carolla]

don't think kids will, like, ever really experience that thing. I did the same kind of stuff. I had the daredevil gene, and the daredevil gene is a thing that makes you do stuff you're scared of, but you're almost compelled to do it. You know, you're kind of forced to do it, and it bothers you, and it sort of gnaws at you. You know, like, if there's a high bridge and it was over water, said, jump off that bridge into that water, and you think, I'm too scared. I'm too scared. It would bother the shit out of you until you did it. Now other people just go, I'm not jumping off that fucking bridge. Are you nuts? And they just go home and sleep like a baby. But if you have the daredevil gene, it bothers you, and it's a weird thing. I remember I had a friend, had a house and had a pool underneath it, and we would climb up on the roof and then stand on the chimney. It was probably about 4ft high. And then you could jump off the chimney into the pool. But you had to clear a little bit of the roof and you had to clear a little bit of the cement patio to hit the pool. It wasn't a big deal, except for I decided I needed to do a flip off of it.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And I stood there and it bothered the shit out of me. It just kept bothering me. And at some point, I forced myself to do a flip over the patio and over the thing. And I don't know why. It didn't seem to bother anyone else that they weren't doing a flip. They didn't want to do a flip. It was too weird, scary to do a flip. For me, I had to do it. And it's a thing. I don't think people understand it. I know you understand it. It bothers you.

[Luke Hemsworth]

I still have it. My daughter has a trampoline right now, and I can't. I'm like, let me show you how to do a backflip, kid. And they're like, you got to do a backflip, dad. Like, watch me. But, yeah, the terror going to. And the. You know, the bounce before you go, I'm like, I shouldn't be doing this. I'm 45 years old. I don't need to be doing backflips on this trampoline just to impress my daughter. But there's something in your brain that just says, you have to do this. And we were the same. Everything that you could jump off if there was water underneath it, we would be jumping into it. If there was, if there was a swing, we would be, we'd be going upside down. And fortunately my kids are adventurous, but they don't have that need to. They're a lot more consequence based than we were. And my, my brother's kids are more, more like us. He's got twin boys and the, the rate of the pace that they approach everything with is like 50 times more than us. They are so scary when I look at them, but they're so fearless and they're his, his son Tristan is just an absolute, like a phenomenon. His spatial awareness is. He could do a backflip with, on a motorcycle off a jump. Like that's. He's 11 years. He's 11 years old. Like, it's, it's just incredible. There's not many people in the world that could do that. But, but yeah, there's. I, I don't think I was missing that part of the brain, that consequence part, but it was very quiet. Yeah, Tristan, Tristan, Chris's kid, I don't think he has that consequence part.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it needed, it was something that needed to be slayed. Like that part that was going, you're going to hurt yourself. Shut up, shut up. I'll do the talking. You know what I mean? Like, you need to beat that part down. Whereas other people are just like, I got that part running. That part of my brain runs my life. I'm not doing anything that I don't. That's scary.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Was it, was it worse when people were watching or. It didn't even matter. It was just, it was just there, that, that, that need to just have it done.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

I, I remember super clearly graduating the sixth grade at Colfax Elementary School, which had a big church across the street, which had a set of stairs that were 12, 13 stairs, pretty big drop in a tight sort of corridor with cement stucco walls on each side. And I've been thinking, I gotta jump my bike down those stairs. I've got, got to jump my bike down those stairs. And it bothered me and I never did it and it scared me. And when I graduated Colfax in the sixth grade, while everyone else was eating cupcakes, I got my bike and I was like, this is graduation time. You go get those stairs. There's nobody around. I didn't want anybody to watch. I didn't care. I just went alone and I jumped the stairs and I ate shit and went against the stucco wall and road rash all over the place. Why it was important to me to jump those stairs, I have no idea. There was no money in it. Nobody filmed it, nobody knew it, it bought, but it was gnawing at me. And that's a danger gene. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't exist in most kids these days.

[Luke Hemsworth]

No, no, no, no. Although I think now isn't. There's something being replaced now where, where there's gnarly stuff being done if someone's filming. Right, that's what's giving the, giving people this, this bravado, this bravery, this, you know, this, this fear of, you know, maybe jackass is responsible for some of that. But you Know, but although Jackass was always good because, you know, they did everything to themselves, they were quite good at hurting each other, but they were pretty gentle with people around them. Although this. Now there seems to be this obsession with hurting other people or embarrassing other people, which I don't really understand myself.

[Adam Carolla]

But I'm with, yeah, yeah, I don't like it at all. It's weird. Someone was saying to me, oh, did you see the footage of Tiger woods that got the body cam footage of the cop who arrested him? I go, I don't want to see. I don't want to see it. I feel bad. It's embarrassing. He doesn't need me watching him getting arrested by the side of the road. And he shouldn't enjoy that kind of stuff, seeing other people in distress or misery. But you now do you find because of your background, it's hard with your kids when you gotta say, I mean, start the interview by you saying, I'm up at 6. Cause everyone else is lazy. But I know what you're saying. I'm that dude too. But those weren't the people around me. And now you're in a weird position where you're kind of, you don't want to be a drill sergeant, but on the other hand, you know what you're capable. What they're capable of. And sometimes they're too soft. You know, they go, the coach doesn't like me, so I'm quitting. You know? And you're like, come on, man. But you don't want to be that guy. But you lived it and you know it.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah. Yeah. The balance is really hard to get right. And it's also, the balance between the kids is really hard. You know, my eldest one, Holly, was kind of a golden child. She was, she was just right from day one, was like, oh, my God, this parenting. Parenting is so easy. And. And then the next two became, you know, exponentially harder in terms of any sort of rules that we. We'd come to discover with Holly,

[Alicia Krause]

I,

[Luke Hemsworth]

I, I push them. I push them. There's two things I love my morning time. So, so I'm okay with being up early when no one else is. It gives me a great opportunity to sort of do the ice bath, take the dogs for a walk. I'll do any of the, you know, the email stuff and talk to any of the American agents and all that sort of stuff super early. But. But yeah, just. But lately I'm really at them to, to I either come for a walk with me or do some kind of exercise. In the morning to get their, get their bodies going. To get their. Because when you, you know, when you get that body going in the morning, that's what, that's what I think really helps your mental health. And my girls are, you know, they're teenagers and so it's a, it's a gnarly part of being a teenager right now is, is, is mental health.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Luke Hemsworth]

And, and so I, I know the answer.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Luke Hemsworth]

But they just don't, they don't want to hear it from dad and so have to be very, I have to be very, very gentle about the way I go about it. Otherwise they just go, nope, fuck off.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you. I have a cold plunge tub as well. And, you know, it's kind of interesting. I do it just because I don't want to do it. I don't really care about the benefits. I just do it because I don't want to do it. So I make myself do it. You're awake when you get out of that tub. I will tell you that right now.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

But I did try to, you know, where I lived during the winter, the pool would get really cold and I'd just do the whole. I'd do the pool. But I was trying to get my son in there, but he didn't want to do it because it didn't feel good and it sucked. And I was like, yeah, that's why I need to do it. But it's a tough sell because you're telling a kid who's used to doing what they want to do. Here's this thing that's miserably uncomfortable now. Come do it for free.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's, and that's a throwback to what we were saying before, right? That, that doing these things that are hard are actually, they're good for you, they're good for your, they're good for your brain, they're good for your self esteem. That, you know, freedom, it's. Discipline is freedom. I'm the same as you. Where we grew up, once we moved back from the Northern Territory where it was hot, where we lived was really, really cold. And we had a pool cover over the pool for most of winter because it was just too cold to use. But we would, we would swim under the pool cover. We would, we would go in and do the ice bath under the pool cover, pretend it was ice and fight each other under there. And it must have been, you know, it must have been 10, 12 degrees Celsius, which is not much, much warmer than a regular plunge. And I think I, and I think that the, the, the mental toughness, that that's what comes from the, the, the plunge. It's not, not necessarily. I don't do it, I don't do it for any, you know, anti inflammatory or anything like that. It's, it's literally about doing something that I don't want to do. And then I think there's a, there's a big mood shift. That's what I noticed. There's this. I get, I get, I get happier or I get more motivated to go and do other things. That's what I feel like.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Yeah. And it's a. Well, I mean. Yes. Well, what it is, is you did the right thing. And there's always a moment where in life you're staring at a donut and you're staring at a hard boiled egg and it's breakfast time and you stare at it and you go, man, I'd like that donut. Another party goes, no, have the hard boiled egg, don't have the donut. Then you go, but I want the donut. If you eat the donut, you realize you were weak and you made the wrong decision. And as soon as the last bite goes down, you go, I wish I didn't eat that donut. And then you kind of walk around going, I'm a little weak and I just didn't make the right decision. The thing about the cold plunge is it's really three minutes, maybe more. I don't know if you do more, but you'll die after five minutes, right?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, I don't do more than three.

[Adam Carolla]

It's three minutes. So you go, there's a part of me that would go, and I'm moving now, so mine's not set up. So I do the cold shower thing, but there's a part of me that would look at it and go, come on, you don't got time for this. This morning, you gotta get going. And I go, you don't have three minutes. You don't have three minutes. And I go, yeah, but I gotta go downstairs and then I gotta dry off. You don't have five minutes. You don't have five minutes. You don't have five. You've been doing that. You've been arguing with yourself for two minutes. You could have just went and done and you go, fuck it. You just go down there. But really what it is, is you wanted to get out. You wanted to grab the donut and get out, but you didn't like you beat or. So that's kind of the battle. And if you can win that battle, you end up going through the day and you're like, I didn't eat that donut. I didn't eat that donut. I feel good that I didn't eat that donut or I grabbed the donut. Now I'm walking around that day, too. So it's kind of that for me, it's not, it's not an inflammatory thing.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, no, and I think, I think also once you have the donut, it makes you more likely to have another donut.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it definitely does.

[Luke Hemsworth]

When you abstain from that first donut, it's easy to go, sweet. Yeah, I'm going to stick to sardines and eggs today. That's great. Right? But yeah, the cascade effect is, is the, is the killer.

[Adam Carolla]

It's true. Because you then a little shame kicks in and you go, all right, who cares? Now I busted this thing and I'm just going to keep going. Yeah, it's like a gateway donut.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

So you. Now it still seems pretty low percentage that any of the Hemsworth brothers are going to make it in Hollywood. That just feels very low percentage, you know, when you're hanging around on rope swings all day and living with Aboriginal people.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, well, I, what, what is it? I don't, I've thought about this a lot. I don't, I don't really know, other than we have no other skills in any area, maybe. But I, I, I don't know. I, I loved it. I, I always loved drama. I was, I was in all the productions I did drama in, you know, 11, year 11 and 12. My final years of high school drama. And then I took a year off and then I actually went to drama school as well because I just, you know, I, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I just did. It didn't even, it didn't feel like it was going to be a career at that stage either. It was just like, it was just fun and I didn't have to, I didn't have to, you know, do regular schoolwork. It was, it was more fun to play games and play, play drama games. But I think I, I think there was always a deep love of, of a visual art as well. But, but, but, but film, film and, and TV later. But yeah. Why, why we all went down that road is another question. Chris was a lot more single. His approach. He was always in high school that I don't want to do homework because I'm going to go to Hollywood. And we would all, we would all laugh and say, you know, yeah, of course, of course you are, idiot. Good, good luck working in Home Depot, you know, after you've graduated. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I don't, I still don't know. I don't know what it, maybe, maybe it comes from, from actually not being exposed to so much tv, right? So much, so much screen. You know, I just, I remember always role playing because it was fun and then the things that we were exposed to were, you know, were thematically grand. Were you technically beautiful, like, like some really, really great stuff early on. But, yeah, I, I, I, I went. After I finished high school, I went and worked on, again, this incredibly mundane job in the northwest part of Australia. I was working on a pearl farm where they get, you know, pearls from pearl meat chip and shells, cleaning pearl shells. It was basically a conveyor, a conveyor belt on the water.

[Adam Carolla]

The cultured pearls.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Cultured pearls, yeah. Yeah. And so we were on these little sort of worker drone boats. You'd live on the boat for two weeks at a time and the little drone boats would go out to these, these panels that are suspended in the water by, you know, by buoys and they would come onto the boat and you would have to scrape off any of the barnacles and all the fireweed and stuff. And you're in crocodile, jellyfish, shark infested water in the, in the middle of nowhere again. But what was, what was really interesting, I think, was the people that this kind of work attracted you talking about the, you know, the misfits, the dispossessed, the people who are running from something. And it was a wonderful, it was a wonderful character study. It was just this, it was this, this. And I think from that I was like, I think I need to go back, go back to school and actually learn this craft properly so that I can implement these ideas that are coming to me from meeting these weird, wacky, wonderful people in the middle of nowhere. And so, and so, yeah, so after that year, I went back to university and back to drama school, which was pretty, pretty funny. Drama, dance, art was all kind of mixed into one and the university was getting pulled down around our ears as well. It was sort of, it was the last years that this university was alive and running and you'd turn up one week and there'd be another building that just trucked out or they demolished and wow, it was cool. It was a great learning place.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. People. You know, it's interesting if you have a job, which is a job that nobody really planned on doing. They sort of end up there. I've found that way working with construction crews. A lot people think, oh, they do it because they love carpentry. They don't. They can have no other job. They don't have money. They cannot work in a corporate environment. They can't put a tie on. They can't. The sexual harassment charges would be the first day they showed up. They're the kind of people that would punch people who said something to them they didn't want to hear or something like that. It's not a group of people that love pearl farming or carpentry. It's a group of people that are essentially unemployable in other. In sort of modern civilization, but need to feed themselves. So then you end up with these people and you work with these people and, you know, they're rough around the edges and they can be a little violent and things like that, but they turn out to be kind of salt of the earth. Like, the stories are interesting, their backgrounds are interesting, and once they decide, they're always standoffish for a little while because they don't like new faces, you know, but once you've broken through that, then they really embrace you. Is that your case?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yes, that's my experience. And they're very good at what you see is what you get too. Right. They don't tell you one thing and feel another thing. They tell you exactly what they think of you very, very early. And you're right. Once you get under. Under that armor, then they're quite often fascinating, poignant, you know, caring people.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Luke Hemsworth]

That's 100% what I found. And I think I try to. There's a lot of that in my work. I'm always trying to find the humanity in a character. Right. Because I seem to be playing a lot of bad guys. Well, you know, bad guys lately. But no bad guy really thinks he's bad. Right. So I. Sorry. I always try to approach them from a point of view of a real grounded and someone who I've known along the way who is dangerous, but also kind of an inspiring man in a lot of ways. You know, it's very. I guess. I guess it's. It's a. That's the human. The humanitarianism that. It's the dualism. Right. Where you can be super dangerous and still be a great protector or a great provider. I think those are the ones that I find interesting. But, yeah, I mean, we've done so many of those jobs. I've done so many of those because when you're auditioning, you have to have the time. You have to be able to leave your job at the drop of a hat. And so I quite often found myself in warehouses, packing boxes and floor standing was great because it. It actually provided me with a decent income. But. But because I was my own boss, I was allowed the time, you know, when I needed it, to go and do auditions or go and go and do various parts and stuff. But. But invariably all of these jobs seem to attract these people who are kind of psychotic but, I don't know, lovable, I guess.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. The exteriors, real rough.

[Luke Hemsworth]

But there were some real soccers, though, as well.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, no, there are. I mean, there are. Some of the guys are. Yes, I agree, they're sort of a little bit dangerous, but you also had to learn how to navigate with those guys. Like, you had to know, you don't fuck with Russ Russell. Hit you with a hammer. It was a good little lesson for a young man to kind of know who you could fuck around with, who you could joke around with. Who wouldn't understand it. Some guys might get violent. You had to work. It was a little, I guess, like being in prison or something. He had to kind of figure out who to not to with, you know.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, but the, the rules are easier to understand, don't you think, than. Than the rules in. In Hollywood than, you know, like.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they wore it on their. Yeah. I mean, they were up front with their. You knew who they were. Like, up front, you know, they. Yep. Would basically, like you said they would tell you who they were. And Hollywood is, you know, everything's a facade and everything is great and fan. Then they say what they think of you when you leave the room. You know, it's based on a lie. It has to. I mean, you're creating fantasies, you know, where your name isn't your character's name. And you know, you come in, you audition, they say, oh, that was excellent. Best we've seen all week. And then you leave. And then they go, that was embarrassing. That guy sucked. You know, it's all a lie. It's kind of baked in. They're not. You're not going to audition. And they go, that was super weak. We know what, he liked it, so you should leave now.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're really not right for this part. You've wasted everyone's time.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I found? You know what I found out sitting and auditioning tons and tons of people for roles over my lifetime? I know it doesn't sound like it was my job, but I had sitcoms and stuff where you just had to audition tons. You had to sit there and just, you know, you gotta find your sitcom wife, you know, so you have to. I look at 50 women to be my sitcom wife. Here's what I figured out. Cause I just sort of sit there with the producers and everything. When somebody clearly wasn't gonna get the job and they weren't that good. They'd go, that was excellent. Thank you so much for your time. This is amazing. We'll be in touch. That was excellent work.

[Luke Hemsworth]

We'll call.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. When someone actually did a really good job, they just go, are you in LA or New York? Where are you? Where are you living? And they've gone, oh, okay. All right. What's your availability for? They wouldn't even praise them because now they're thinking the praise was to get rid of the person. You know what I mean? Excellent. Excellent job. We'll be in touch. Thank you so much. Thank you. Was great. Did a great job. Thank you for coming down. When a person was actually right for the part. They were in business mode, not in bullshit praise mode, you know?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, yeah. I've heard a lot more of the praise mode than the business mode.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, as long as we're. You brought up your brother Chris that. I don't know. I don't know what you thought of the movie Rush, but I just thought that was some of his best work. And for me, Pound for Pound, Rush is a much better film than F1, the Brad Pitt film. Brad. That F1's the Hollywood sort of version of Rush. But Rush was like a great character study. First off, it's based on a true story, so. Come on now.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I loved Rush. I actually just met Niki Louder's son a little while back when we were in Dubai. Wonderful. And what was crazy was I was sitting at lunch with Niki Lauder's son, and James Hunt's. James Hunt's son texted Niki Lauder while I was there. Really, really kind of a weird amount, you know?

[Adam Carolla]

Wait, James.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Crossing the stream.

[Adam Carolla]

James Hunt's son texted Niki Lauda's son.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah. And he was. He's like, I haven't heard from this guy in five years. And now he's. Now he's texting me when. When you're here. But. But, yeah, I looked at that film. You're right. It was a. It was a. You know, Daniel Brule was amazing.

[Adam Carolla]

He was amazing.

[Luke Hemsworth]

So, so good as Niki Lauder. I think it's some of Chris's work. Best work as well. I actually, I loved crime 101. I thought he was really, really beautiful in that as well. Yeah, that's the. You know, that's. That's what every actor wants. You want a meaty role. You don't. You know, you don't. The rest of it not. And I'm not taking anything away from, you know, the Marvel stuff, because it's. It's. That's all incredible as well, but it's kind of like fast food, right? It's like, yeah, yeah, we'll go and do that, and it'll taste good for a while. And I think everyone who. Everyone who has those jobs wants to do the rush jobs, and everyone who's doing the rush jobs wants to do the Marvel jobs because you can make the bank.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's like all the comedians want to be rock stars, and rock stars want to be comedians, and that's just kind of. That's kind of the human wiring. It's fun, by the way, to see the sun come up behind you.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, right. That's weird.

[Adam Carolla]

It is, it is.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Oh, yeah, I forgot. There's the. Got the big inflatable slide here. It's my. My daughter's birthday, so. Oh, big slide. Good.

[Adam Carolla]

You're gonna deliver.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yesterday.

[Adam Carolla]

God, kids. Kids in their bouncy castles, and you had nothing but a hemp rope and a knot on the end of it.

[Luke Hemsworth]

It's the best. I mean, it's the best. Most economic use of the kids time, though. You know, the kid. These guys drop it off at, you know, yesterday, Thursday, and they'll come pick it up Monday. And, you know, it's a couple hundred bucks.

[Adam Carolla]

It's.

[Luke Hemsworth]

It's a. It's a beautiful way for them to. To spend a weekend.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you. I know you guys are all. The Hemsworth are. You know, they're into the physicality, and I'm guessing diet is involved with that. Do you have to. You eat right, I'm guessing, but kids don't want to eat right, you know, so then how do you work that out at the house? Because that can be a challenge.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, My. My kids are pretty good. They're pretty. They're pretty adventurous eaters, and they're pretty. You know, they eat what we eat. And so. So, you know, the dinner time is always very important for us. We. We. We very early set down that this is what we want to do. We want to eat dinner together. We want to have no screens and phones. You know, we will sit across from each other, talk, and we'll. And it's still to this day, it's, it's that place where, you know, we will bring up problems, we'll sort out problems and we'll. We're still getting to know each other and, and, and, and figuring, you know, the, the vagaries out. But it's always done over meals that we cook as well. It's very rare that we will order takeout because it's just not, it's just not very. Although with Ubereats, I seem to be noticing a lot more Guzman and Gomez arriving at the house. Yes, but, but yeah, you know, like it's classically, it's, it's, it's some sort of protein. And my wife is a wonderful cook as well. So I'll do the protein, she'll do the salads, and we'll, and that's the way we sort of, you know, we bring our meals together. And then their lunches are usually. I try to get them to do as much as they can. Sometimes it doesn't work out timing wise in the morning with getting everyone to school. But yeah, it's usually pretty good, pretty healthy. They're pretty on it.

[Adam Carolla]

I just had this thought. I live in Los Angeles. I've always lived in Los Angeles. And there are every single kind of food in Los Angeles. Like, we probably have more Indian places and falafel kebab, Greek. We have tons of Thai food. Australia is a big place and there is no such thing as an Australian restaurant in Los Angeles. I've never, as a matter of fact, you know, there's Chinese, Japanese, there is Ethiopian restaurants in Los Angeles. I have traveled this country, I've eaten at every restaurant. Polish, German, Hungarian. Only place I've never seen. And I'm trying to, I mean, obviously la. Tons of Mexican restaurants. I've never seen Canadian food, restaurant and I've never seen in Australia. Australia has to be the biggest place with zero representation of restaurants, isn't there?

[Luke Hemsworth]

There's the Aussie Pie Company. That's probably the closest thing to an Australian, you know, restaurant. And we have the meat pie. It's a, it's a very specific to us. It's a, it's a, it's a pastry pie. You have to be able to eat it with one hand while you're driving. You know, that's the closest thing, I think, to classic Australian, you know, culinary experience. But because we're, you know, we're, we're like, you know, we're like the States. We're an amalgamation of everyone around us, but we're a lot younger as a, as a, as a country. I mean, same in this town. We have, we have Indian, Thai, you know, there's no Ethiopian, but there's, there's basically everything else, Everything else you can think of. And in fact, Melbourne has, I think, the biggest Greek population outside of Greece, Huge Vietnamese population. So you sort of, it's all of our, all of our culinary experiences and amalgamation of all of that, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Do you do, do you do Vegemite?

[Luke Hemsworth]

I. I used to, but not, not a lot anymore. I don't eat a lot of bread anymore. I don't know why. But occasionally, occasionally there's a bit of sourdough to toast around, but it's not a staple in my current trajectory.

[Adam Carolla]

Vegemite is tough, man. I worked with a guy named Frazier who is from, well, I think he was from New Zealand actually, where Queenstown is. But they must, Queenstown. They must do a lot of Vegemite in New Zealand, right?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah, they have another thing called. I think it's Marmite. It's kind of like a sweeter version. He promite or something.

[Adam Carolla]

He. I went to his VW camper van during lunch when we're working construction in la and he made me like some Vegemite. And you know, you gotta, you gotta start early with Vegemite. You gotta start when you're young.

[Luke Hemsworth]

You gotta start sparingly as well. It's like, it's kind of like salt, right? It's just basically liquefied brown salt or jellified brown salt. But if it's really good, if you do, you gotta, it's gotta be made, right? You gotta have the toast with heaps of butter and then you gotta have this, the Vegemite, just sparingly. It's not like you don't put it on like peanut butter or jelly. It is like scraped over just like a condiment, like a, like a little bit of like a, you know, off the tip of the elbow.

[Adam Carolla]

Is, is, is everybody in Australia? You, your brothers, families, ever? Everyone full time? Australia?

[Luke Hemsworth]

We're all here. I mean, in fact, Liam's living right next door to me right now. He's renovating his house and so he's renting the house literally right there. So I tend to yell out to him every. Or actually he yells out to me. I've been using the, you know, the blower a bit and he's like, you've got a lot of problems. You know that guy. Stop using the blower. You can't get rid of your problems by using the blower. But mom and dad are here. Mom and dad live eight minutes away. Chris is seven minutes away. And then Chris's little his PA, Luke Zocchi. And he, he's just around the corner. And it was great. It's great. It's great. It's like there's one pub in the middle of us and that's where we, that's where we get all our meetings done, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. It really sounds like heaven. His Australia. How is Australia for taxes?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Terrible.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it's terrible.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Absolutely horrendous. Yeah. It's kind of like, it's kind of very similar to California. They will get you every which way they can. And then some more just at the end.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I'd never really heard but I assume the movie, by the way, Beast. I will tell everyone. I'll tell you what, just go look at the trailer and if you're not impressed, then you don't need to see it. In theaters April 10th. But when you see that trailer, I think you're going to want to go see that movie. Luke, this was fun. It was fun watching the sun rise behind you.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah. Yeah. That's a cool effect. It's not real.

[Adam Carolla]

Have fun in the bouncy slide.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah. Thank you. Absolute pleasure, Mike.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, hope to talk to you soon.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

[Adam Carolla]

Thanks. Luke Hemsworth, everybody. We'll take a quick break. We'll be back with news right after this. Home Chef. Well, after the holiday chaos, the last thing I want to do is overthink dinner. Home Chef has been great for that. Fresh food shows up pre portioned and the recipes are simple enough that even I don't screw them up. Home Chef makes cooking simple, fresh food delivered, easy recipes to follow and meals that actually taste great. I've had everything from easy sheet pan dinners to heavier cold weather stuff. And it all feels like real food, not a science project. Good, real honest food. It's Home Chef. Am I right, Dawson?

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[Adam Carolla]

Ace man Tom from Chicago here. I think our wonderful mayor may actually be a listener of your podcast. After the fourth straight week of street takeovers by the kids here in Chicago, our mayor actually said, said I'm asking the parents of the youth of this city to make sure their kids no longer participate in these actions. Maybe there's hope.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Get it on.

[Producer/Assistant (Dawson)]

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[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I mean, you can keep hiring cops and school teachers and counselors or parents could act like parents and then we wouldn't need all the cops and the counselors and all that. They could actually do their job like just parents. Raise your goddamn kids. How about that? Because it's this like, it's an insane thing where they go years back and in Chicago and Andrew can even find the story. I, by the way, was in Chicago about five years ago and a street takeover took place right there on Lakeshore, wherever it is. The highfalutin nice part, sitting outdoors, eating a nice expensive dinner and everything. And I've been to Chicago when it was nice. And a whole group of ATVs and dirt bikes and everything just came rumbling down the main drag in Chicago, you know, restaurant row. I think it's lakeshore or lakefront or whatever. The point is is I remember sitting there going, oh, Chicago's lost it. Because what that means, that doesn't mean you have a problem with mini bikes. It means you have a problem with order. Yes, you have been taken over when

[Alicia Krause]

that can occur and there's these teens out there just doing that and running rampant.

[Adam Carolla]

What it means is they're not scared of the cops so they can do it with impunity. So they think it's a good idea on a Friday night at 8 o' clock just to go rumbling down. Now they're not being chased by cops, they're not looking over their shoulders. They're sitting in the middle of the intersection and throwing revs and doing donuts because they know they have a DA and a mayor and a city council to protect them. They aren't gonna do anything, so they're not gonna do anything. So they're just gonna take over the street. And then you get lawlessness and then you get people killed. There was a story out of Chicago, I believe, and it's probably about six, seven years old now. It was a cop shooting and they shot some 13 year old kid I believe who was brandish a gun. But the story was it was like on a Wednesday at 3 in the morning and it's like what the fuck is this kid?

[Alicia Krause]

Was a 13 year old kid doing

[Adam Carolla]

forget about where to get a gun. It's like what the hell, where's the parents?

[Alicia Krause]

I'm the millennial that remembers the. It's 10:00pm do you know where your children are?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

And I remember at like 10 years old thinking why should the television be asking a parent that? Like a parent should know at 9pm and 8pm and 6pm and all the other times where their kids are.

[Adam Carolla]

I am old enough to remember. Am I right? What do you. Let's see. Chicago youth shooting. It's gotta be six years now. It's right in there.

[Luke Hemsworth]

I'm seeing a lot of articles, there

[Adam Carolla]

are a lot of incidents. It's tough to parse through. This one is. Yeah, this one's tough. But anyway, we got to defund ice. I think this is what this all means. It was wee hours. It was cop shooting. Young. Are you sitting down, black man? But the story, the part was the guy was like 13, he was shot in an alley and yes, where the parents. I am old enough to remember.

[Alicia Krause]

And then Al Sharpton went out there and blamed the cops.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's how it works. And then the cops back down, you get the Ferguson effect and then you get more black kids dead. Thank you Al Sharpton. Nice job. But that is his business.

[Alicia Krause]

Isn't it crazy? My 8 year old makes her own eggs. She makes her own eggs and toasts

[Adam Carolla]

and stuff your 8 year old does.

[Alicia Krause]

And my 12 year old makes ice cream and bakes all the time. And the 8 year old told me the other day about a girl in her class whose mommy doesn't let her use the stove unless like the mommy is standing right there too dangerous. And I'm like, but doesn't that girl's mommy also let her play Roblox with strangers and have access to the world wide web?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh God.

[Alicia Krause]

Like it's so weird that we're going

[Adam Carolla]

to you know, food you give your kids an eating disorder.

[Alicia Krause]

You're, you're going to get like, you're going to get like hate for saying the obvious of maybe if these children were in loving two parent homes and there was like accountability for their actions and it would better like the community. And then I, you know, and then also. But I see it like it in all communities of parents just kind of being lazy and giving up or being irrationally fearful about things that their children should be learning to do.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, my ex wife was more scared of my kids drinking tap water than drowning in the pool where the gate was always open. I was like one of, historically one of this water, one body of water is going to kill them, the other's not. But that's the way a confused mind might think.

[Alicia Krause]

Statistically that pool is definitely more likely to kill them than then getting kidnapped if you drop them off at the

[Adam Carolla]

mall or even tap water.

[Alicia Krause]

Tap water I don't think is going to kill them.

[Adam Carolla]

That was my argument when I was trying to make my argument. But women get a little emotional sometimes.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, why does this always. Why does it, why can't it be like anecdotally that single woman dealing with all women.

[Adam Carolla]

Not because into statistics as much as guys are. So it's into feelings. There's more feeling based than statistical.

[Alicia Krause]

That's why we're better nurturers.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, it's why, but it's why you have a gate open to a pool. And no, I don't. You are not wired like most women.

[Alicia Krause]

I am.

[Adam Carolla]

Yet you defend them so vigorously.

[Alicia Krause]

I cleaned my pool yesterday.

[Adam Carolla]

Now what does that mean?

[Alicia Krause]

What does that mean? Well, my husband and I, he is kind of OCD when it comes to how things run. You guys are like this. You're both like this. You like to know like how things are made and how things are run. And he got sick and tired of like these young pool guys that didn't know what they were doing coming just shocking the pool.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

And he's like no, there's something else going on with the system. So he got to the Pool Shock.

[Adam Carolla]

I just bought Pool Shock.

[Alicia Krause]

It's expensive.

[Adam Carolla]

It's. It's when the pool starts going south, you gotta shock it. And with a bunch of chlorine doing

[Alicia Krause]

it like once a week. And he's like, no, no, no. So when we clean the pool, we pull out the filters. You got to clean and you got to do the diatomaceous earth and you got to like scrub it, vacuum and do all that. That's what it means.

[Adam Carolla]

I drained a pool, a deep pool, once. And what was left. The pool was so far gone that what was left at the deep end, where it really gets that deep bowl, was about two and a half feet of viscous mush. Like dawn of civilization, kind of weird goo from that life began. And I got down there. You're like, not with a shovel. And I stood in it and I shoveled it over my shoulder out of that pool. And every half of it would get out of the pool and the other half would come running down onto me.

[Alicia Krause]

Why don't you put it in a wheelbarrow and like roll it up to the shallow end?

[Adam Carolla]

And then the way the pool was, it was real deep bowling right in that one part. You couldn't have wheelbarrowed it up. And then if you did, you would have got it to the shallow end, but you couldn't have got it past the. Couldn't have got it past the stairs. That would have been a shit show too. All right, so yes, I shoveled physically, this muck too thick to go into a pump. It was too viscous to be pumped out. I pumped out the whole pool. But what was left at the end could only be shoveled out by me standing 10ft deep in shorts with like flip flops on in the goo.

[Alicia Krause]

You need some better gear.

[Adam Carolla]

And throwing it over my shoulder. I didn't have any money. We rented a house.

[Alicia Krause]

You got to do what you got to do.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so that story then, Dawson, is what? Am I right? Like three in the morning, am I right? Like 13 year old? 2:38, but like a weeknight, right? Anyway, doesn't matter.

[Producer/Assistant (Dawson)]

A 13 year old Latino boy on March 29, 2021, was shot and killed by Chicago Police Department officer Eric Stillman in the Little village neighborhood at 2 2:38am on April 10, during a proper reading in court, Criminal charges filed against the adult who gave Toledo the handgun involved in the incident. A Cook county assistant prosecutor.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, thank you. The point is, it's a 13 year old kid. It's 2:38 in the morning. But here's the point. Where's mom and dad? I've been screaming about this. Dawson's been hearing me scream about this. You go back, listen to Loveline 1996. You can hear me screaming about, where's the mom and dad? Now? No politician on the left will ever talk about it. And most on the right won't talk about it either because it eventually becomes racist in their mind. Inevitably they get called racist at some point, which is the problem. And so no one ever brings it up. But it's the only problem we need to talk about because the crime and all the things everyone hates. Everyone hates addiction, they hate homelessness, they hate crime.

[Alicia Krause]

They don't want to get to the root cause.

[Adam Carolla]

They failing schools, they hate all of it. All. All emanates from this one subject that no politician will ever talk about. And then everyone on the left just goes, we need more money. Okay? I don't know how much more money would keep that kid off the street. And then they go, we gotta get rid of guns. Oh, some adult gave him that gun. Okay.

[Alicia Krause]

Anyway, news along those lines, spending lots of money and government not being very good at dealing with things. The California Post, our friends right down here in downtown la. I love how they are like, the New York Post has California division now. They're doing some good reporting over there. So now there's a rogue mini town. The other day you showed me that creepy video of the guy, like, living underneath the sidewalk, like in the storm shelter, amongst things. That looks like what you pulled out of the pool.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

Now there's a rogue mini town that's rising inside Los Angeles's billion dollar homelessness crisis, where the homeless are building tiny homes, including televisions, air conditioning, and selling them on the street for as little as 100 bucks. They talked to one guy, 38 years old. He lives in this burst of bright orange, green and yellow building that he's. He's made in this small structure. He says he's really proud of his space and he cleans it up every single day. He even has air conditioning. Before living in this home, this gentleman lived a block away in a tent and a tarp. But he said it was too much fighting and drugs. This provides him more protection and he's made almost 10 houses so far that he sells for about 100 bucks a pop. Here's a video of it.

[Adam Carolla]

Show me what you have here. How do you get.

[Luke Hemsworth]

How do you get.

[Adam Carolla]

How do you get that? It's got a tv? What are you connected to.

[Alicia Krause]

Got an air conditioner.

[Adam Carolla]

It's nicer in the room I grew up in. I've got to be honest with you. I didn't have an air conditioner.

[Alicia Krause]

Does the rain come through the roof?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So it gets wet.

[Alicia Krause]

It's supposed to rain on Thursday. You cover it with the tarp or.

[Adam Carolla]

First off, the guy doesn't speak English and she's doing an interview with him. And secondly, turn down the Telemundo. We're doing an interview here.

[Alicia Krause]

Bring an interpreter next time. Oh, your speaker. Got it.

[Adam Carolla]

Got it.

[Alicia Krause]

Your bed.

[Adam Carolla]

How. How long you been here? Almost two years.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Does city leave you alone?

[Alicia Krause]

No problem.

[Adam Carolla]

Sometime.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

What else?

[Luke Hemsworth]

Where do you get all this stuff from?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, listen, here's the whole thing.

[Alicia Krause]

People can't understand them.

[Adam Carolla]

People will do whatever they're gonna do and whatever you let them do.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So if you start saying, well, I'll tell you what, taxes are on the honor system now. Well then no more taxes. That's how it works. And paying parking tickets are on the honor system as well. Well, then no more paid parking tickets.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

And sleep live for free. Park your RV wherever. Well, then people are going to do it. I remember being in Portland, guy had like a 32 foot RV. He had the thing hooked up, pulling power off the power pole. He had water running to it.

[Alicia Krause]

I mean, it's innovative.

[Adam Carolla]

I will say this. If you can Parallel Park a 32 foot Winnebago in the city, downtown Portland, and then climb up a telephone pole and pull power off it and then tap into a water main, you are more employable than anyone in this building.

[Alicia Krause]

So why don't you go get a job?

[Adam Carolla]

That's what I'm saying.

[Alicia Krause]

Apparently this guy. So now he's made this a business. He's built 10 of these little homes out of scraps and trash. Clearly. And he's selling them to his neighbors for 100 bucks. He also said that he does work odd jobs and that's how he pays for his food.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But Nithya Raman, the woman who's second in the mayoral race in Southern California, is not gonna do anything about this in Los Angeles yet. If you wanna build a custom tree house that delights the neighborhood kids and has been a landmark in your neighborhood for 25 years, she will make sure that that is torn down because you don't have the proper permitting for it. So that's la, everybody. Don't you love it? Running a business? I used to dread the payroll and the HR stuff. Switching to gusto felt like cleaning out a junk drawer. That's been bugging me for months. Payroll, hr, benefits. All the admin chaos finally organized in one place. Gusto is online payroll and benefits software built for small businesses. It's an all in one remote, friendly and incredibly easy to use. So you can pay, hire onboard and support your team from anywhere. Unlimited payroll runs for one monthly price. No hidden fees, no surprises. Save time with built in automated tools. Offer letters, onboarding docs, direct deposits, and more. Am I right, Dawson?

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All right, Alicia, what else we got?

[Alicia Krause]

We have a very, very disturbing update in the story of that poor UK refugee, the 23 year old woman that was fatally stabbed last year. Remember this happening in North Carolina? Well, now a North Carolina court has ruled that the offender and murderer Decarlos Brown Jr. Is incapable to proceed on the state murder charge in the killing of that refugee Arena Zarutska on the Charlotte Light Rail. They're saying that he is mentally incapable and that as of now, the trial is at a standstill. X Instagram, TikTok. Everybody's blowing up talking about this. It's like, I get that justice is blind and that we need to give everybody the benefit of the doubt until proven guilty. But it's like if the court proceeding, if the prosecution can't even proceed, how is there justice in this situation like this? This is insane.

[Adam Carolla]

Agreed. I mean, there's lots of disturbing stuff about this, which is. One is the murals that they put up with her on it always get defaced.

[Alicia Krause]

There was an update on that earlier this week. Yeah, they were like, well, we don't, you know, we don't like what it stands for. It's upsetting the community.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, no, no, that's two separate stories. One is it got taken down. The other is it just gets spray painted over by folks who can't tolerate. Also kind of says who you are, where you are and how you Vote. So what the left has. All they have is narratives. That's all they have. They don't have facts. They don't have tangible stuff. They just have narratives. And when they sit down with AOC and they're like, January 6th, you are this close to losing your life, or worse, oh, you were gonna be raped and then they were gonna kill you. Right? Except for I wasn't in the building, but other than not being in the building.

[Alicia Krause]

And she has no comment on the women that. That happened to at the Nova Festival, right?

[Adam Carolla]

No comment. So all they have is narratives. That's all they have is narratives. This poor kid wearing his. He got his Yoda backpack on, and his dad is being chased by ice, and ice has left him alone. This guy, what's his name? He's a pediatric nurse who just went out to help, and he got shot by. All they have is narratives. Hands up, don't shoot. He's a gentle giant. Everything, George Floyd, all they have is. They had the Baltimore dad, whatever. All they have is narratives. And so when all you have is narratives and you don't have any facts or anything works in your direction, anything we can put on paper, it's all narratives. And you think about everything with ice, everything is ice. They're kicking open doors. There's no badges. They don't identify themselves. They're grabbing citizens and they're disappearing them into sweatshops in Honduras. Okay? It's all narratives. Well, so with narratives, you got two narratives. You got our bullshit narrative about January 6th. Insurrection, armed insurrection, bloody armed insurrection, deadly insurrection. Okay? Narrative, narrative, narrative. And then once in a while, shit pops up that fucks with your narrative, which is a Ukrainian blonde girl being brutally killed by a black man who goes through your system. And by the way, you're the system that created the school to prison pipeline. He fell through the cracks. We need no cash bail. These people are being warehoused and blackmailed, and you're. Your narrative now has been destroyed by this. And you hate it. You hate it.

[Alicia Krause]

That's why the mainstream media doesn't cover stories like this, right? Because it doesn't fit.

[Adam Carolla]

They're all narrative based, and they hate this because you're either helping the narrative by you take Kyle Rittenhouse and turn him into a rogue racist assassin who went down to the George Floyd parade and started shooting people for no reason or whatever. You have your bullshit narrative, and then you have ones like these, and these bother you. And so what you have to do with these narratives and your two narratives, you have your Bullshit narrative that you need to boost, which is body counts and January 6th and all the other bullshit. And everybody came here, you know, hardworking

[Alicia Krause]

mass incarceration and wrongful incarceration.

[Adam Carolla]

You got all that, and then you got ones you need 20 tamp down. And the ones you need to tamp down were like, joe Biden has lost his mind. Oh, that's just a cheap fake. That's just a little slice. Somebody took that at the Juneteenth celebration. Doesn't mean anything.

[Alicia Krause]

Away at the G8 summit, right.

[Adam Carolla]

He was helping out a paratrooper that landed in a sandbar. Yeah. Okay, so this is bad for them. Needs to be tamped down. And the murals remind people of their broken narrative. So then the person who runs the city where the mural goes up, if he's a lefty, and he probably is, has to get up there and explain. People are upset. We need to take. Well, they're upset because it's hurting their narrative. So we'd like it taken down. Now, you don't put. And half major cities in New York, they have a big thing that's a big counter that says, how many people die of smoking every year? That would upset Dawson. But he's not part of your narrative, and he's not on the happy side of this thing, so that stays up. The thing that shows how many people die of smoking every year because they

[Alicia Krause]

want to shame Dawson.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Alicia Krause]

They don't want to shame. But this one stabbed an innocent Ukrainian woman.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. There is a clip of that mayor, and I don't even know where it was. Yeah, he's just like, it was insensitive.

[Alicia Krause]

It was making people uncomfortable.

[Adam Carolla]

I would be upset if I lived in Minnesota and I see the George Floyd mural. I'd say, that guy is a felon. That guy is a thug. That guy's a bad guy, and fuck that guy. So I would be upset.

[Alicia Krause]

If it's on a private business, though. It'd be like a high roll and move on. Like, it's their First Amendment right to, like, have that on the side of their business. And I think that that was what happened.

[Adam Carolla]

There is a guy. I don't know why it upsets Rudy, who's from Minnesota, because they have, like, a walk of fame and they have Prince and they have, you know, Paul Bunyan or Bud Grant. Yes, yes. And it's like, for the guys who live there and appreciate the music and the culture and everything that lump this fucking felon in with that guy.

[Alicia Krause]

Surprised Prince isn't rolling over in his grave.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Over.

[Adam Carolla]

He may have.

[Alicia Krause]

Sheesh.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let's listen to the mayor, I guess. I don't know. Where's the mayor of? I can tell by his haircut. I don't like him.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Every community member that calls Providence home feels safe. And we can both agree that this mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values, nor does it reflect the creativity that we want to see in our city. Old smoke.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, so he's a representative, is he?

[Adam Carolla]

Rhode Island? Is that.

[Alicia Krause]

No representative from Providence, but it's Providence, North Carolina. So it's the district in which the mural was painted. Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

So it makes people feel unsafe to see a waif model who's dead portrayed on a brick side of a building.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Adam Carolla]

Unsafe, it makes people. And by the way, what is this I feel unsafe murals can't make you feel. By the way, Poly High, which is in very Hispanic part of Sun Valley, California. There's a big mural up there. We gotta see if it's still there. Dawson. Cesar Chavez is on that mural. And I feel unsafe now that I've heard about what that guy was up to.

[Producer/Assistant (Dawson)]

Although somebody did make a really good point. We could just change all CVCs or Chavez named buildings to Julio Cesar Chavez.

[Adam Carolla]

It's good. But Mario Lopez did call me a couple days ago and he likes my idea. Oh, yeah, Mario Lopez Junior High. Mario Lopez Boulevard.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Mario Lopez Auditorium, Mario Lopez Library.

[Alicia Krause]

Famous Californian hasn't raped 12 year old man.

[Adam Carolla]

Allegedly. All the man does is. I think the thing that pay taxes

[Alicia Krause]

pissed me off the most about that story is how the lady waited for so long. And this is the leftist glimpse into the leftist idea of, oh, this mural of a dead immigrant, which, wait, I thought we were okay with Ukrainian immigrants and we supported Ukraine. At least that's what the left said they did for so long. Like Russia bad. Ukraine good. Her story only matters if it aligns, like what you pointed out with their perspective. But then it shows how they are willing to sacrifice all of the things that they claim to be true. Like rape is wrong. Me too. Pay attention to it. All of this stuff. Trump hates women, Republicans hate women, Republicans hate children, yada yada, Epstein list, et cetera, et cetera. But then when A woman waits 60 years and covers up for a guy like Chavez who they think are like, yay, our guy. She literally said in the interview with the New York Times, I didn't say anything because I didn't want to mess with the movement.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Alicia Krause]

Like that is messed up. Like if you are Willing to set aside your self preservation and morals for the movement left, right and center. That's really. That's cultish behavior.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's real simple with the mural. If the guy who stabbed her was wearing a MAGA hat, then you guys would be fine with the mural, be sommelier. But the guy was black and looks like he would vote for you and the kind of guy you're trying to claim as a victim. So now you're not okay with the mural. I want to hear what this retard had to say one more time.

[Alicia Krause]

Because it's not what his community stands for. A mural for a dead woman is not what his community stands for.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's dangerous, too. All right.

[Luke Hemsworth]

Ultimately, we want to make sure that every community member that calls Providence home feels safe.

[Adam Carolla]

And we can put the ones who get stuck.

[Luke Hemsworth]

This mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values, nor does it reflect the creativity that we want to see in our city.

[Adam Carolla]

By the way, we're now at the point with Democratic politicians where they're speaking gibberish. It doesn't reflect creativity.

[Producer/Assistant (Dawson)]

They want creativity that doesn't paint white people on buildings.

[Adam Carolla]

But versus nothing. I would argue murals are all creative because they're murals. They're paintings. So it's just a creation and it's part of that process. But they all have values. By the way, leftists don't even know what they're talking about anymore. They just go, values, seat at the table. I'm literally safe. Yes, Andrew, I wanna make. I sit around and I think about this all the time, but I wanna make a faux campaign ad for me running for senator where it's just me listening to black people. And it's all pictures of me listening to black people, different events listening. You know, lots of shots of me listening while black people talk. And it's Adam Carolla, he listens and he's gonna fight Trump. And I think that's about all you need. Pictures of me nodding and listening.

[Alicia Krause]

You could probably win a mayoral race in this state.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, Adam Carolla, he listens to black people. Look at the film. All right, so sorry. Another story.

[Alicia Krause]

Another first story.

[Adam Carolla]

And by the way, if you kill someone randomly, viciously and violently, who's just sitting around, I need to put you down. You're rabid dog at this point. Sorry. Listen, here are the rules of society. I got room for you driving drunk and clipping someone at night when the rainstorm or something. I don't need you executed if you're just gonna randomly execute other citizens. For no reason whatsoever, then you need to be executed.

[Alicia Krause]

It's so ironic. It's like she's on public transportation. She is an immigrant from a nation that they say, that they claim to support. And a woman. I guess maybe she's a white woman. It doesn't matter as much to them. But like. And she's like, unsafe. They've made the city completely unsafe. And now this guy, I mean, tbd, if he will be, you know, up for a retrial, I don't know, maybe they'll try a different charge. Maybe they'll try to get a second opinion. I bet you the process, prosecutors just live it at this point. It's insane. But in a legal win for those of us that love freedom in the First Amendment, an attorney, Connor Fitzpatrick, represented a student. Remember the San Diego High school student that had the pro ICE posters and then he was suspended from his school down there in Torrey Pines.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

17 year old Torrey Pines High School junior who's gone unnamed, of course, because he's a minor. He had the we heart ICE signed Real American during lunch. The flyers were quickly torn down and days after the incident, the student was hit with a one day suspension for what the school officials allegedly called, quote unquote, demonizing and hateful speech.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you know what's great about them? It's always funny to me, it's like if you're a flight attendant for American Airlines, you can wear a little badge with the gay flag on it, but you can't wear a badge that has MAGA or Republican or anything.

[Alicia Krause]

Or you can't wear a cross or sort of St. James or starve David.

[Adam Carolla]

So you can. Why not? They go, we don't allow any kind of political. And it's like you don't because you're organizing anti ICE marches.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep. Teachers were. And students were doing the walkout. So this is what attorney Connor Fitzpatrick, who represents fire, which stands for the foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, they do some really great work. He said that the school administrators, of course, to your point, can't pick and choose which opinion students are allowed to express. Yes. Voicing an opinion which makes others upset is not harassment or intimidation. It's American democracy in action. And turns out it's protected by the First Amendment. So the district has now had to reverse this decision. They've wiped the suspension from this kid's record. Good, good, good.

[Adam Carolla]

And let me say this as well. Listen, pussies, if you are fearful or scared of a mural of a blond chick, or you can't hold down your lunch because someone is down with ICE who's trying to protect your scrawny ass anyway, then fuck off. And like, these people go. People come in here, there's a uniformed cop in this donut shop, and some of the patrons feel threatened. Fuck off. If you feel threatened by law enforcement

[Alicia Krause]

or ice, you should only feel threatened if you're doing something bad.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. If you feel threatened by a mural or law enforcement, get the fuck out of this country then. Sorry, you have a problem. And by the way, if you can't travel without your dog, fuck right off, too. You have a mental disorder. We don't have to make it a flying kennel, and we don't have to get rid of cops and kick them out of the donut shops. And we don't have to paint over the mural. That's your problem. There's something wrong with you. And by the way, I don't really think you're scared of cops, because when shit goes down, you call cops or

[Alicia Krause]

you threaten to call. Right, Like Central Park, Karen.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Alicia Krause]

I'm gonna call the cops.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm scared of the Chupacabra, but I'm consistent. I don't threaten to summon the Chupacabra if someone's giving me a hard time.

[Alicia Krause]

You know, I was talking to some minority girlfriends of mine this week, and two of them, on two different occasions, called me to vent about how they were like, how come the most racist people are the rich, white liberals in corporations that speak down to the minority woman and, like, pretend that they know better. Like, they were like, without. And these women are more on the left, and they're like, without fail, it's always like the white Karen's or the legalese HR guy in corporate America that tells you how he loved Biden and Kamala, but then says something racist and speaks down to you because he thinks you're an idiot.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's the soft bigotry of low expectations. I mean, when Gavin Newsom was sitting in there going, how these people supposed to get checking accounts? It's like, you're talking about them like they're animals and you're a zookeeper. You should expect how they supposed to get IDs to vote. You know what I mean? Like, you want to talk about that? Ultimate, ultimate racist is not thinking somebody is up to something. That is very basic.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

All right.

[Adam Carolla]

Taking care of themselves tomorrow night and Saturday night, Salt Lake City, everyone. Utah Wise Guys Comedy club. Chuck and Chris are coming out there too. So it's gonna be a party, six o' clock show, 8:30, two nights. And then Sunday, Salina Beach, Belly up, which is a fun rock and roll club. Jonathan Kite's gonna be out there as well, doing a couple shows there. Six, 39, 30, Phoenix. After that, Desert Ridge improv, five shows. Wow, that's an elite. Alicia Krause gonna be there.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, It'll be fun.

[Adam Carolla]

17th through 9th, you go to AdamCroll.com for all the live shows, the merch store and all that kind of stuff. Alicia Krause, lifestyle writer from oh, from Daily Wire. I don't know what's this at, but it's good. Plug it, baby. AliciaCrause.com yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

AliciaCrause.com the Gram Daily Wire for my take on I wrote my first album review.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, good. Yeah, I want to hear it. Okay, but not now. Listen, Luke Hemsworth, everyone. Beast in theaters tomorrow. And until next time, Sam Krolf, Alicia Krause and Luke Hemsworth saying mahalo.

[Producer/Assistant (Dawson)]

Leave us a voicemail at 8, at 8-634-1744 and get tickets to see the Ace man at AdamCorola.com.

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