Joseph Coors

And sorry to bring it to all you guys, but the Coors family, awful people.

Joe Coors.

Terrible people.

And Joe Coors was one of the biggest funders of this conservative movement, especially like he would put in federal society stuff into the paychecks of his employees and say, well, I'm going to have to fire you and hire black people.

I would love for you to, when you're done with that, to like bring us like a little, give me like a little, an hour long.

Only when you do that sassy little.

Yeah.

And, you know, that doesn't happen without a one billion dollar influx of cash by that guy.

You got it, man.

Joe Coors cut the check-

Yeah

... to Paul Weyrich, uh-

It's like they don't just, like, not like Robinson-Patman.

They, like, fucking hate it, right? It's...

And it's a personal affront, and you see this throughout, like, when I'm doing research, like, when you read about, like, the old beer barons, like a Joe Coors, but also, you know, a, a, August Busch or, um, the Gallo family certainly, who runs Gallo in California, largest winemaker in the world.

They're-- It's a, it's a personal insult to them to imagine that they ought not be treated like economic and political elite, right? And, like, what you were describing is basically, like, there should just be two different tiers of business.

And Bork plays an influential role both in fostering the Federalist Society, but also, again, creating a system by which conservatives can basically enact politics on the bench.

The last guy is the unvarnished racist and beer magnate Joe Coors.

If you are old enough to remember buying beer in the 1980s, you may be old enough to remember boycotting beer in the 1980s.

Joe Kors is a deep-pocketed donor who ends up supporting some of these very ultimately important conservative organizations.

You know, Paul Weirich is answering mail one day because the secretary in his Senate office, not his Senate office, working for a senator on the Hill is is out.

And so he's answering letters, answering calls.

And Joe Coors is money guys calling around town trying to figure out, you know, how can we spend Coors's money on conservative causes? Right.

Side note, he starts a television station and hires a young Roger Ailes to be the executive.

Like, conservatives have been much more cutthroat about making, ensuring their justices pass a conservative litmus test.

So the book really traces the origin of these essential organizations who helped shape this moment and this court, including the birth of the Federalist Society, the birth of the Moral Majority, the birth of the Heritage Foundation, and it tells that story through the, the plot of four henchmen of the apocalypse: uh, Robert Bork, Ed Meese, Paul Weyrich, and Joe Coors, who together function as a kind of crackerjack squad that launches a strategy to make the Court in conservatives' image and to launch a ju- a legal theory by which they can unwind decades of social and civil rights progress with the deep pockets of Joe Coors and others who make it all possible.

It's really a heist story, Tim.

I like heist movies.

Because I grew up in Republican circles, I know quite a bit about Meese and Weyrich and Bork.

Those who don't should purchase the book, and they can learn more.

I wanted to talk a little bit more about Joe Coors, um, 'cause he's a fellow Coloradan.

I've drank their beer a few times.