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Tommy Vietor is best known as co-founder of Crooked Media, co-host of Pod Save America, and the host of the foreign-policy-focused Pod Save the World. The mother was trapped by her generation and wealth and surrounded by alpha males. Just as Charles and David had elevated their fathers midsize Midwestern oil company into an international behemoth, they have carried the familys political torch into the 21st century in a way that Fred Koch would find hard to comprehend. "Blood and money is a very explosive issue," Bill once mused. Mary Robinson Koch helped to nourish Fredericks artistic side, and when he grew up they often took in plays and attended performing arts festivals. The pipelines transport oil and refined petroleum, as well as natural gas. No, were not, Bill said. It was Charles Koch, for instance, who came up with the idea, in 2003, of pooling political donations with like-minded wealthy conservatives, creating a huge, centrally controlled war chest for what is, in essence, a conservative millionaires movement. In their first anniversary post, Tommy wrote on his Instagram, One year ago today we were (almost) officially married and squinty. David and Bill both took roles in the company. After eight years at MIT and a consulting firm, Charles returned to Wichita to learn the intricacies of the family business. The Koch Brothers Want To Scare The Obamacare Out Of You Dem Leader Admits Koch Brothers Make 'Me Toss and Turn at Night' "I think the Koch brothers are really expecting laws to go in their favor," Karen says in the new 30-second ad, first obtained by ABC News. He highlighted Bills efforts to extract money from Koch Industries, even if it meant breaking up the company his father had started by selling his holdings to a corporate raider such as T. Boone Pickens, or to Saudi investors. While David Koch emerged as a Fifth Avenue philanthropist and bon vivant, it was Charles calm, modest and analytical who over the last 50 years transformed an obscure Wichita oil company into a $110 billion colossus. Bill, meanwhile, would become best known for his flamboyant escapades: as a collector of fine wines who embarked on a litigious crusade against counterfeit vino, as a playboy with a history of messy romantic entanglements, and as a yachtsman who won the Americas Cup in 1992, an experience he likened, unforgettably, to the sensation of 10,000 orgasms. Koch Industries made its money the old-fashioned wayoil, chemicals, cattle, timberand in its dizzying rise, David and Charles amassed fortunes estimated at $41 billion apiece, tying them for sixth place among the wealthiest people on the planet.