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Welcome to a book with Legs podcast.

I'm Cole Smead, CEO, and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management.

At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help shape informed investors.

In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings. The late great Charlie

Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis. We analyze their work through the lens of

business, markets, and people. Hosting this episode with me is our resident Irish citizen,

our chief operating officer, Connoror O'Callahan.

Connor, thanks for being here.

Great to be here, Cole. I'm very excited. We have a very special guest here with Patrick

Scanlon. So in this episode, we will discuss economic policy, the failure of markets,

public welfare, and just about every unenjoyable, unimaginable thing that you can think of that happens in the

roughest economic and civil moments in a population, Podrick Scanlan is joining us to discuss

his new book, Rott, an Imperial History of the Irish Famine.

Podrig is an associate professor at the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and the Center for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto.

He is also a research associate at the Center for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.

He has authored two other titles, Slave Empire in 2020 and Freedom's Debtors in 2017.

He received his bachelor's degree in history at McGill University in Canada and his PhD in

history from Princeton University. Quite the resume. Yeah, quite the resume. Patrick, thanks for

joining us today. So you're joining us from Toronto,

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