Koch: Toxic Kings (Part 2)
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 ā¢ 655 Ratings
šļø 13 October 2023
ā±ļø 41 minutes
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Summary
This is part two of a two part episode.Ā
This week, Billy Koch turns into a corporate vigilante, as he takes the Department of Justice and the FBI on a private tour of the grounds where all the Koch corporate secrets are buried. We then tell the story of courtroom fight as dramatic as a Beverly Hills housewives reunion, with siblings rehashing decades-old conflicts and clawing at their share of billions of dollars. Then,Ā Charles Koch continues his campaign to be voted "most-miserly" in the 2008 Billionaire Yearbook by funding an artificial-grassroots organization to promote his libertarian big business-first policies. Meanwhile,Ā Bill Koch's son Wyatt asks the Sharks to invest $100,000 for a 10% stake in his palm-beach-boroque men's blouse line.Ā
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Timestamps:Ā
02:00 - Corporate Gossip #5: Woke up this mornin' and I got myself some oil from Native American reservationsĀ
11:30 - Corporate Gossip #6: Law and Order - Special Boss Bois UnitĀ
21:00 - Corporate Gossip #7: Profit is my religion and regulation is the devil!! Ā
24:15 - Corporate Gossip #8: It's a 45-day plan. 45 days! To get us back, on track. 45 points! It's a 45-day, 45-point, one point per day. We get 45 points, we're back in business! [cheers] And you can take that to the bank! And limo lady! We are going to completely destroy Barak OBAMA! [more cheers] I love you New York!
29:30 - Corporate Gossip #9: Charles Koch: Ooops! Did I do that????
33:00 - Corporate Gossip #10: Okay That was dark, let's end on a high note - Bill Koch's son's quest to create the ugliest t-shirts of all time
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| 0:47.5 | Okay, enjoy the show. |
| 0:49.5 | This is part two of a two-part episode. |
| 0:52.5 | Last week on the corporate gossip podcast, we met the Koch family |
| 0:56.1 | and the four brothers whose relationships with one another were as toxic as the pollution |
| 1:00.9 | created by the company that bore their name. When their father, who was a Logan Roy type executive |
| 1:06.2 | who enjoyed pitting his sons against one another, died suddenly. He left second boy Charles in charge. |
| 1:13.6 | Charles would grow his father's mid-sized oil company into a global behemoth, and he used the power |
| 1:19.6 | and wealth he extracted to act as a crown prince of the American corporatocracy, changing rules and regulations to fit his belief system, and funding a |
| 1:29.5 | misinformation campaign to rally public support. Meanwhile, the other half of the Coke crew plans a |
| 1:35.7 | coup that will expose family secrets in the old-fashioned way in front of a judge and jury. |
| 1:42.0 | This is part two of the corporate gossip podcast, Coke Brothers, Toxic Kings. |
| 1:49.1 | Okay, ready for the next piece of corporate gossip? |
| 1:51.8 | Piece of corporate gossip number five is, |
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