A Book with Legs
Hosted by Cole Smead and Bill Smead · Smead Capital Management
4.3from 1,155 ratings
- 137
- Episodes
- 81
- Transcribed
- 1,155
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 94K
- YouTube views
About A Book with Legs
In each episode, we explore value investing through an entirely unique lens, bringing in authors to discuss books that have directly or indirectly influenced the decisions the Smead Capital Management team has made on their investments in stocks and equities. The podcast is for the curious-minded looking for worldly wisdom. Investing is the last great liberal art, and the team at Smead wants to learn as much as they can. Any level of investor, business person, or thinker, whether personally or professionally, will be intrigued and engaged by these discussions.
- Publisher
- Smead Capital Management
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Feb 2022
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
81 of 137 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Erwin Chemerinsky - Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Smead Book List - Fall Book List 2026
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kenneth Rogoff - Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
Inside a recent episode
Erwin Chemerinsky - Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What if I am wrong about what I've thought? I want to pivot. The Hamline case, Dr. Erica Lopez – Prater warned students in her syllabus that images of holy figures would be shown, invited them to raise concerns. This is one of the really good examples that you use where a faculty had done a great job of preparing and warning and advising and caring for the students in so many ways. She told everyone who wanted to leave the class they could. Nobody did. She showed this image. Her services next semester were no longer needed. How do you look at the – I mean that's a really good example of good guidelines, good communication, respect for the students from the faculty. […]
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- Erwin Chemerinsky
- Kenneth Rogoff
- Adrian Wooldridge
- Bryan Burrough
- Liaquat Ahamed
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- YouTube views
- 94,482
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 1,129 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 78
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts A Book with Legs?
Cole Smead and Bill Smead host the show. Published by Smead Capital Management.
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