Chris Yogerst - The Warner Brothers
A Book with Legs
Smead Capital Management
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Chris Yogerst joins Cole and Bill for a conversation about his book, The Warner Brothers. Yogerst’s book chronicles the lives of four brothers – Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack and how they built one of Hollywood’s most distinguishable studios, which now stands as one of the largest media conglomerates in the world. The discussion covers how the family’s values shaped the movies they created, the successful investments they made in technology, and the legacy the brothers left behind.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management. |
| 0:08.0 | At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure. |
| 0:12.9 | You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead. I'm the CEO and a portfolio |
| 0:24.7 | manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers and book junkies. It can be said |
| 0:29.9 | that leaders are readers, and we believe books provide us a great source of information for filtering |
| 0:34.2 | what is and isn't important for us as investors. Investing is the last |
| 0:38.4 | great liberal art and the best way to spend a lifetime of learning. This podcast is for readers, |
| 0:43.0 | thinkers, business-minded people, and investors who want to grow their knowledge from great |
| 0:46.7 | authors and their writing. Charlie Munger often talks about using multiple mental models and |
| 0:51.1 | analysis. Our aim for this podcast is to help listeners test |
| 0:54.5 | mongers theory in business, markets, and people. Joining me, hosting this alongside me, is my dad, |
| 1:01.0 | Bill Smead. Thanks for joining me, Dad. Glad to be here. Our audience, I think we're going to have a lot |
| 1:05.9 | of fun today looking back into really the 20th century in the last 100 years of movie making as we actually |
| 1:12.1 | just came up on the really the 100th anniversary of what we know knows warner brother studios |
| 1:16.6 | thank you for joining us for this episode chris yoghurt is joining us to talk about his newly |
| 1:20.7 | released book the warner brothers chris has published two other books hollywood hates hitler in |
| 1:26.2 | 2020 and from the headlines to Hollywood in 2016. |
| 1:31.1 | A little background on Chris. |
| 1:32.5 | Mr. Yogers is a film and media historian who focused on the social and cultural impact of popular culture. |
| 1:38.4 | He has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, and the Hollywood Reporter. |
| 1:43.3 | Chris is an associate professor at the University |
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