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Welcome to a book with legs podcast.

I'm Cole Smead.

I'm the president and a portfolio

manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers and book junkies. It can be

said that leaders are readers and we believe books provide us a great source of information for

filtering what is and isn't important for us as investors. Investing is the last great liberal art and the best way to spend a lifetime of learning.

This podcast is for readers, thinkers, business-minded people and investors who want to grow

their knowledge from great authors and their writing.

Charlie Munger often talks about using multiple mental models and analysis.

Our aim for this podcast is to help listeners

test mongers theory in business, markets, and people. We're glad everyone has joined us for this

episode. We are going to learn about the history of what we all benefit from in the field of

cardiology. Thomas Morris is joining us to talk about his book, The Matter of the Heart. Mr. Morris is a

freelance writer and his journalism has appeared in publications like The Times in London and the

Financial Times. He also worked for the BBC for many years as a successful radio producer with a

particular interest, as we'll talk about, in scientific and medical topics. He is also the author of the Dublin Railway Murder,

a murder mystery book that he published late last year.

Thomas, I'm really glad you could join me today.

Your book is the story of 11 procedures that you talk to the history

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