The Ben Shapiro Show - August 11, 2026


Tucker and Hunter Biden: Same World, Same Agenda


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00:00:00.000 Tucker Carlson, Hunter Biden, the besties with testes from way back when, who definitely are not 100% part of some kind of establishment deep state uniparty in DC and are also definitely not from wealthy families and are now fomenting idiotic revolution from behind their podcast microphones. 0.98
00:00:15.000 Hunter Biden and Tucker Carlson's recent podcast together is two spoiled brats saying spoiled brat things. 0.97
00:00:21.000 It's kind of hard to watch at times because the sentences take so long to form thanks to, you know, brain fail.
00:00:27.000 You'll never guess who they blame for all their problems.
00:00:29.000 You're never going to wait.
00:00:30.000 You'll never guess.
00:00:31.000 It is a shock.
00:00:32.000 You will not believe it.
00:00:34.000 You might believe it.
00:00:35.000 You'll find out soon enough.
00:00:36.000 Let's dive in and recap it all.
00:00:37.000 Hunter Biden is now doing a tour of the woke right, of the horseshoe right.
00:00:42.000 And he joins Tucker.
00:00:42.000 Now, again, this is not a giant surprise because it turns out that Tucker and Hunter are in the same world.
00:00:46.000 Remember, Tucker is the man of the people.
00:00:48.000 He's a flannel clad Maine boy who's just sitting over there in his cabin doing some hunting and fishing.
00:00:54.000 Except for the fact that Tucker Carlson is a silver spoon jacket who vacations in yachts on the Mediterranean and has known Hunter Biden for decades and is friends with him.
00:01:02.000 And we're supposed to pretend none of that happened.
00:01:06.000 Well, in this episode, Tucker acknowledges that he is, in fact, from the same world as Hunter.
00:01:10.000 But it turns out that both Tucker and Hunter want to lead the revolution against the system that has made them some of the most privileged people in the history of all human beings.
00:01:19.000 Here he was talking about his convergence of worlds with Hunter Biden.
00:01:27.000 I grew up with your high school girlfriend, I think.
00:01:30.000 So, I mean, I'm very familiar with the world that you're from because I'm sort of from it too.
00:01:36.000 And I noticed the change during Obama.
00:01:40.000 And I'm not blaming Obama.
00:01:42.000 I'm not blaming any, but the society changed. 0.80
00:01:44.000 It was like all of a sudden, if you didn't like Obama, you were a racist.
00:01:49.000 And I felt like in our neighborhood, that was the dividing.
00:01:52.000 You couldn't say anything about Obama that wasn't positive.
00:01:54.000 Do you remember that?
00:01:57.000 He's saying he got more divisiveness.
00:01:58.000 He's not blaming Obama for the divisiveness.
00:01:59.000 It just kind of got that way.
00:02:00.000 It just kind of got that way.
00:02:02.000 And it turns out, of course, that again, he has been friends with Hunter Biden for a very long time.
00:02:07.000 Jason Zengerly wrote an entire book about Tucker in which he openly reports that, you know, what was actually on Hunter's laptop?
00:02:15.000 Emails from Tucker Carlson.
00:02:18.000 Quote, Carlson's son Buckley was a senior at St. George's and applying to college.
00:02:23.000 George Washington University was his first choice.
00:02:25.000 So Tucker and his wife reached out to one of their Washington friends who was a well connected Georgetown alum, Hunter Biden.
00:02:33.000 In an email, Tucker filled in Hunter on Buckley's grades.
00:02:39.000 A year later, the London tabloid, the Daily Mail, was working on a story about how Hunter Biden's name was discovered in the leaked user list for Ashley Madison, a website for people seeking to have extramarital affairs.
00:02:48.000 Biden sought the help of Carlson, who's friends with the Daily Mail's Washington editor.
00:02:53.000 And Carlson wrote back, just lost my bleep on the editor over there.
00:02:56.000 He claims the London office forced him to do it. 0.95
00:02:58.000 He's a pig either way, and I told him so. 0.90
00:03:01.000 And Biden apologized to Carlson for troubling him, and Carlson responded, Are you kidding? 0.97
00:03:04.000 I'm glad you called.
00:03:05.000 What they did was repulsive and immoral, and I hope I wrecked their day.
00:03:08.000 I certainly tried to.
00:03:09.000 Let me know if there's any way we can help.
00:03:09.000 F them.
00:03:14.000 He is one of the people.
00:03:16.000 He's not a member of that Epstein class engaged in sexual perversion, like going on Ashley Madison or, you know, addicting your dead brother's wife to hardcore drugs or anything like that.
00:03:28.000 He's a man of the people, you see.
00:03:30.000 A man of the people.
00:03:31.000 Now, Hunter Biden did say that Tucker has not transformed, which I find absolutely believable.
00:03:36.000 I mean, again, I've been calling out Tucker's various anti conservative heresies since what, 2018, 2017?
00:03:43.000 Anyway, here is Hunter talking about his good old relationship with Tucker.
00:03:48.000 But the thing for me is that with you, the transformation, not transformation, because it's not a transformation.
00:03:57.000 Anybody that knows you realizes this is not a transformation is out on your own now and not understandably, like anybody that has a job, being beholden to corporate structure.
00:04:17.000 Fox News.
00:04:17.000 Yeah.
00:04:20.000 Is that I feel as if that combined with the incredible ultimate betrayal.
00:04:29.000 And what I mean by betrayal of the promise, the singular promise that was important to you as it related to Trump.
00:04:36.000 Yes.
00:04:36.000 That we would not get into the potential of ending up in a war, a World War III.
00:04:46.000 I mean, he's there with a drug addled derelict talking about their longtime friendship.
00:04:49.000 But don't worry, guys, they're not a member of an elitist uniparty.
00:04:53.000 Not at all.
00:04:54.000 In fact, Tucker is so non elitist that you know where he was when Mar a Lago got raided.
00:04:58.000 He's just like you, Tucker.
00:05:00.000 He was, you know, in the woods in his cabin where there's no running water or a toilet.
00:05:04.000 Just joking.
00:05:05.000 He was on a yacht in the Mediterranean when Mar a Lago got raided.
00:05:12.000 This is like such an impossible rich guy thing to say, but it's just a fact.
00:05:14.000 I was in Europe with my kids on the med in August of 2023, I think.
00:05:21.000 And Mar a Lago got raided.
00:05:24.000 And that was like, that was ridiculous.
00:05:26.000 On a documents charge? 0.94
00:05:27.000 Really?
00:05:28.000 And I'm from the city.
00:05:29.000 So like, I know a lot about the documents stuff.
00:05:32.000 And it was like, Transparently absurd.
00:05:34.000 They're literally sending armed FBI agents into his bathroom?
00:05:37.000 Like, no.
00:05:39.000 And so, to me, what that said was Trump is actually being persecuted by the Uniparty.
00:05:45.000 Therefore, he is its sincere opponent.
00:05:48.000 And my overriding feeling, since I wrote a whole book on this 10 years ago, is that the problem in Washington is that on the big questions of the economy and foreign policy, both parties agree.
00:05:57.000 It's the agreement that is the threat, not the disagreement.
00:06:01.000 Okay. 0.98
00:06:01.000 Now, I'm just going to point out here that if you're going to talk Uniparty, It might be a little uniparty to, for example, now posit that Hunter Biden never dropped off his laptop while being a drug addled piece of crap at a repair shop. 0.98
00:06:16.000 And actually, all of this was planted by, wait for it.
00:06:18.000 You're not going to believe who Tucker Carlson says planted the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:06:22.000 You're not going to believe it.
00:06:24.000 You won't believe it.
00:06:25.000 You're totally going to believe it. 1.00
00:06:26.000 It's the Jews. 1.00
00:06:27.000 You're not, I know. 1.00
00:06:29.000 It was the Israelis. 1.00
00:06:30.000 What can't they do? 1.00
00:06:34.000 I can't.
00:06:35.000 I can't.
00:06:37.000 It's just such slop.
00:06:38.000 It's such slop.
00:06:39.000 Okay. 1.00
00:06:41.000 Here's an idiot saying idiot things. 1.00
00:06:44.000 And one of the things that enraged me about the statement from those sleazy intel guys is that they blame the Russians for it. 1.00
00:06:51.000 Now, maybe the Russians had a hand in it, but it was the Israelis who were pushing that.
00:06:55.000 Fact. 0.99
00:06:55.000 Fact. 0.99
00:06:56.000 I mean, literally to me.
00:06:59.000 Okay.
00:07:00.000 I would love for him to name the names. 0.90
00:07:01.000 Which Israelis were pushing it to Tucker? 0.85
00:07:01.000 Who? 0.85
00:07:03.000 And by the way, Tucker made hay out of the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:07:05.000 It's hilarious.
00:07:06.000 You want to talk about a uniparty? 1.00
00:07:07.000 How about.
00:07:08.000 You go on your show at Fox and you start talking ad nauseum about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:07:12.000 And a few years later, you're sitting with Hunter blaming the Israelis for the laptop that Hunter Biden dropped off at a repair shop. 0.97
00:07:18.000 It's just pathetic. 1.00
00:07:18.000 It's just pathetic. 1.00
00:07:20.000 And again, it's all part of the same dumb op. 1.00
00:07:24.000 It really is stupid. 1.00
00:07:25.000 It's truly stupid. 1.00
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00:08:47.000 And Tucker says that the problem is not out there in the world.
00:08:50.000 The problem is here in America with, you guessed it, the Uniparty.
00:08:56.000 It tells you that you're putting your faith in the wrong thing, which is in a political system, whereas.
00:09:01.000 There's got to be a real solution that begins with changing people's hearts.
00:09:05.000 That's what I think.
00:09:06.000 Exactly.
00:09:07.000 Exactly.
00:09:09.000 Because it comes from us.
00:09:13.000 We're trying to find the problem out there.
00:09:15.000 Exactly.
00:09:17.000 And it's here.
00:09:18.000 Yeah, we're the problem.
00:09:19.000 Yes.
00:09:20.000 Right?
00:09:20.000 No, I've discovered that about myself.
00:09:24.000 I've discovered about myself that it's the.
00:09:26.000 No, it moves me.
00:09:27.000 Okay, also, by the way, they both love Candace Owens.
00:09:34.000 Shocker.
00:09:35.000 Shocker, by the way, Hunter notes that Sean Ryan set up the Candace interview with him. 1.00
00:09:40.000 I'm sorry, the exponential stupidity with which this country is collapsing is beyond reckoning. 0.99
00:09:45.000 I'm going to end up in the woods just to escape this stuff. 0.99
00:09:47.000 Like, my goodness.
00:09:50.000 I love Candace.
00:09:52.000 I do too.
00:09:53.000 I do too.
00:09:53.000 I've taken a lot of abuse for saying that, but I know her and I think she's a great person.
00:09:58.000 As a person, forget the politics and anything.
00:10:04.000 And largely why I'm sitting here, we've known each other for.
00:10:08.000 You know, quite tangentially for 30 years.
00:10:10.000 Yes.
00:10:12.000 Is that she, as a human being, is a really, really good person and thoughtful and generous and has a deep faith.
00:10:30.000 And I just vehemently disagree with some of her positions.
00:10:34.000 And it used to be that way.
00:10:36.000 I remember.
00:10:45.000 Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson said, Well, you know, I totally agree.
00:10:49.000 She's wonderful.
00:10:50.000 In fact, I've texted Erica Kirk and Candace Owens within an hour of each other.
00:10:52.000 That says something about Tucker Carlson, doesn't it?
00:10:55.000 Well, what a hero he is.
00:10:56.000 He has texted Erica Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, and also the woman who says that she murdered Charlie and everyone around him murdered Charlie within an hour of each other.
00:11:05.000 Wow.
00:11:06.000 The heroism, my goodness.
00:11:10.000 I can't. 0.99
00:11:11.000 The absolute utter imbecility of this. 1.00
00:11:16.000 If you are so stupid that you believe the people who stand for you are rich boy, Richie Rich, like grew up rich, rich boy, Tucker Carlson at his Swiss boarding school, living in a fake cabin in Maine with the Gaston Chandelier, talking to Hunter Biden, longtime drug addict and complete piece of about how America needs them and their human hearts, along with that of Candace Owens, to fix what ails the country. 1.00
00:11:42.000 Oh my God, man. 1.00
00:11:44.000 Oh, good Lord.
00:11:46.000 Good lord, here's Tucker.
00:11:48.000 My favorite thing that Tucker does here is he always does this. 0.98
00:11:50.000 He knows what he's saying is ridiculous. 0.92
00:11:52.000 It's my right. 0.95
00:11:55.000 No one said it's not your right. 0.99
00:11:56.000 It just makes you a douchebag. 0.99
00:12:00.000 It is now. 0.98
00:12:01.000 Not even on partisan lines.
00:12:03.000 I mean, the divisions are so intense.
00:12:06.000 I always thought of divisions as racial or religious.
00:12:10.000 You know, you're Protestant marrying a Catholic, you know, or black person marrying a white person.
00:12:16.000 I feel like the divisions now are ideological and political.
00:12:19.000 And that's, I mean, this morning I texted Erica Kirk and Candace Owens, both within like an hour of each other, not related to each other, but just because I really like them both and I'm not embarrassed of that.
00:12:31.000 And I've, and I, and that's my right, by the way.
00:12:34.000 I get to like people whether or not I'm fully aligned with their program, right?
00:12:37.000 That's my view.
00:12:39.000 I've taken so much abuse for that.
00:12:39.000 Yeah.
00:12:41.000 It's like, how could you be friends with two people who disagree with each other?
00:12:44.000 I am.
00:12:44.000 Well, I don't know.
00:12:46.000 Well, I'm, Two people who disagree with each other.
00:12:49.000 I mean, it kind of depends what they disagree about.
00:12:51.000 I mean, if they disagree about whether they like the Odyssey, that's one thing.
00:12:53.000 If they disagree on whether one of them murdered the others, murdered her own husband, that feels like a pretty big disagree. 0.79
00:13:02.000 But in the end, in the end, it's all about the uniparty.
00:13:05.000 Hunter says he likes Thomas Massey.
00:13:06.000 He likes MTG.
00:13:09.000 This is where we are.
00:13:10.000 This is where we are now.
00:13:10.000 Okay.
00:13:14.000 We are at an inflection point in this country.
00:13:17.000 Whether you, it's because of the technology as it relates to AI.
00:13:23.000 And as it relates to our debt and the fact that Donald Trump is responsible for what 20% of the entire debt of the entire nation over the course of the, you know, since its inception.
00:13:34.000 Yeah, it's bonkers.
00:13:35.000 Yeah, bonkers.
00:13:36.000 Yeah. 0.64
00:13:37.000 And we are in desperate, desperate need of leadership.
00:13:41.000 I agree.
00:13:42.000 And so I am, I, I want, I want to reach across to everybody and say, like, look, let's figure out what the things that we can agree on.
00:13:54.000 Instead of like pointing, you know, the constantly, and one of the things that I think that we can agree on is that we are, we have the exact wrong leadership at the exact wrong time.
00:14:07.000 Okay.
00:14:07.000 Well, I'm glad that you guys have the same exact thoughts on these things.
00:14:10.000 And probably in the back room, there's some Parmesan cheese that you can snort off the carpet.
00:14:15.000 Maybe some corrupt paintings you could try to sell at this point.
00:14:18.000 That's the way through.
00:14:20.000 They also, by the way, talked about their favorite Bible verses, but frankly, I don't give a sh what Hunter Biden thinks about the Bible, nor do I care what Tucker Carlson thinks.
00:14:26.000 Says about a book that he first completed in 2023.
00:14:29.000 So we're just going to not do that.
00:14:30.000 But again, I just want to show you these are two extremely elite people, like the elite of the elite in the Beltway, who are explaining to you that actually you have been betrayed by the system and only they know how to get through.
00:14:40.000 And the answer, presumably, is some sort of horseshoe revolution.
00:14:45.000 I mean, I can't think of a worse leadership class than Hunter Biden and Tucker Carlson together in a room.
00:14:52.000 It is very difficult to think of a worse leadership class, especially considering the other people that they hang out with and the people who they're willing to cover for and their complete lack of honesty and principle.
00:15:00.000 It is an astonishing thing, an astonishing, astonishing thing.
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