Hunter Biden, Matt McCusker & Duncan Trussell - Mostly Wise #2 - #1136
August 13, 2026
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5 min readWhen Hunter Biden was a few months into sobriety and had a new baby, he got a call in Palm Springs that a laptop repair shop story was about to break. He had no idea it would become a single word—“Hunter’s laptop”—that would define him for years. The data dump wasn’t from one laptop. It came from his cloud, spanning twenty years of digital life: deleted voicemails, texts, photos, everything. Ninety percent of what went online was real. The other ten percent, he says, was fabricated and pushed by a network that included a Chinese billionaire (now in prison for fraud), Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer working with a Russian operative sanctioned by the U.S., and Steve Bannon. The New York Post ran the story. Social media platforms initially took the content down because it violated revenge porn laws—nude images posted without consent—but that only amplified the narrative.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Timestamped Navigation Outline
- 2 (00:00) **Opening Banter & Peter Thiel Jokes** - The hosts riff about changing a wife's contact name to "Peter Thiel" and mock the tech billionaire's apocalyptic views
- 3 (02:47) **Surveillance State & Data Extraction** - Discussion of drone proliferation, Pokemon Go as surveillance, and the total data surrender via smartphones
- 4 (06:54) **Hunter Biden's Addiction & The Laptop Dump** - The moment of the laptop story breaking, the scale of the data leak, and the feeling of total exposure
- 5 (12:11) **The Orchestrated Disinformation Campaign** - How Russian operatives, Rudy Giuliani, and a Chinese billionaire coordinated to weaponize the laptop story
- 6 (15:23) **Presidential Power & Constitutional Overreach** - Discussion of how much power a president actually has, with historical examples of going beyond constitutional authority
- 7 (19:15) **America's Original Sin & Permanent Confederacy** - The systemic rot from slavery, the failure of Reconstruction, and the ongoing class manipulation
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Show Notes
I spent a really long time putting this together, I really hope you enjoy it! In this second episode of Mostly Wise, we explore:
- Hunter's true version of the laptop story
- The best conspiracy theories that are (maybe) real.
- If it was Hunter's bag of cocaine that was found in the White House.
- What the next two years for the Democratic Party will look like.
- Hunter's unfiltered thoughts on the Trump family.
- Matt gifts a ceremonial "pipe" to Hunter
- And much more...
Guests
- Hunter Biden is an artist, former attorney, and the son of former US President Joe Biden.
- Matt McCusker is a comedian, writer, author and podcaster.
- Duncan Trussell is a comedian, actor, writer and podcaster.
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