#355 Do You Know Who My Dad Is? Episode 6: The Walmart Family & The Koch Brothers

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Betches Sup presents the sixth installment of the 8-episode limited series exposing the connections you never knew existed: Do You Know Who My Dad Is? explores dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on media, culture, and our current political system. Hosts Bryan Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles are talking all about the privilege that leads inexperienced and unaccomplished children of powerful people to get ahead. This week, we’re talking all about two of the richest families in human history, the Waltons and the Kochs. First up, Alicia tells us how Sam Walton and his Walmart empire led his children and their descendants to become the wealthiest family in the world. Next, Bryan tells us all about the infamous Koch brothers and how their family fortune enabled them to become one of the most powerful influencers of political policy on the planet. Finally, they close the show with a game of Walton family trivia called “Retail or Tall Tale” featuring a few facts that just may surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you know who my dad is? A limited series podcast from Betches Media.
0:08.0	Hosted by Brian Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles. Do you know who my dad is? A podcast about failing up.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to Do you know who my dad is? I'm Brian Russell Smith.
0:22.8	And I'm Alicia Angeles.
0:25.0	And do you know who my dad is
0:26.7	is a limited series podcast by The Betches up,
0:29.6	none of the true crime, and at Betches.
0:31.8	It explores dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on
0:34.9	media, culture, and our current political system. That's right. This podcast exposes
0:40.2	a privilege that leads to inexperienced children of powerful people, usually
0:45.4	white men, getting ahead despite lack of experience, intelligence, and mediocrity. Anepotism leads to privilege, which leads to a false sense of entitlement, which leads to unqualified people getting the most powerful positions in multiple facets of our society.
1:02.0	Let's get to nasty.
1:04.2	Hi, Lee here.
1:05.6	Hey Brian, happy Friday.
1:08.2	Happy Friday.
1:09.3	Oh, we're recording this right before a threeday weekend. I'm very excited to have a four-day
1:16.6	work week next week. Yeah and I'm getting my pup this weekend. I'm a good mood
1:21.8	things are gonna be fine.
1:24.0	Yes, and it's also surprisingly nice out warm for the time of year.
1:28.6	So today I'm going to be talking about the Coke family, but first, Lisey is going to be talking about the Koch family but first Lisa is going to go ahead and talk about
1:36.3	another family. Yeah I'm going to be talking about the Waltons and before I even get started I honestly never really grew up with
1:47.2	Walmart like did you you know there was there actually was a Walmart in the town over but we were more frequenters of Kmart
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