CLASSIC: A Long Shadow: Life and Times of David Koch

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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When philanthropist, business magnate and political activist David Koch passed away, the media scrambled to address his legacy - but what is that legacy, exactly? Join Ben and Matt as they explore the life of David Koch, and the bizarre, insidious ways the political engine he helped create still welds enormous influence on the U.S. after his demise.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the show fellow conspiracy realist.
0:03.0	Back in 2019, a real-life character, straight out of Atlas shrugged, passed away.
0:10.0	You have doubtlessly heard of the Koch brothers.
0:13.0	You have probably heard of David Koch.
0:16.0	He was a philanthropist, real-life business tycoon,
0:19.0	and diplomatically put a political activist.
0:25.2	And do you guys remember how it was similar to Luigi Mangione?
0:29.7	The public discourse on social media was incredibly different from the establishment media's eulogies and the awards and analysis they heaped upon this guy.
0:45.4	Yeah.
0:46.7	Reminds me of the more recent one with Kissinger, a bit.
0:50.4	Indeed, RIP, that guy.
0:53.2	Isn't it funny how somebody like this that is so influential on the planet, people just don't
1:01.2	know much about him?
1:02.7	But, you know, they could tell you much of the life story of, you know, their favorite pop
1:07.9	singer or something.
1:08.8	And, you know, I could do that with some of the Dave Matthews band members.
1:11.9	But I couldn't have told you much about this guy until we did this episode.
1:16.5	Yeah.
1:17.4	What are you saying?
1:18.1	You don't know all the backstory and bios of every member of the Dave Matthews band,
1:22.0	past and present, Matt?
1:23.5	Oh, no.
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