# Toby Stuart - Anointed Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-book-with-legs-4895595/toby-stuart-anointed Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-book-with-legs-4895595/toby-stuart-anointed.md Podcast: [A Book with Legs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-book-with-legs-4895595) Published: 2025-09-15T06:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://smeadcap.com/episode/toby-stuart-anointed Audio file: https://p.podderapp.com/1491119697/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86614722-3dd3-4f6c-ba6e-378f93f57819.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-book-with-legs-4895595/episodes/toby-stuart-anointed Duration seconds: 5880 ## Resource In this episode, author and professor Toby Stuart sits down with Cole Smead to discuss his book “Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World.” Together, they explore how social status shapes perception, drawing on examples from the art world to show how value has shifted from the object itself to the identity of its creator, various forms of uncertainty, and more. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-book-with-legs-4895595/episodes/toby-stuart-anointed/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-book-with-legs-4895595/toby-stuart-anointed.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.