David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yes. And today we are going to share how Claude saved us on recording day a couple months ago on our Disney Part 1 episode. So David, do you want to set the scene? Yes. So we were in the middle of recording Part 1, and recording days are always very time-crunched. The whole thing feels like a high-wire act. And right when we got to Snow White's box office numbers, we realized that a bunch of authoritative sources listed $8 million as the revenue for Snow White's box office in its original release. But we also had Disney's actual 1940 financial statements in front of us. And they showed 4.5 million. We'd immediately thought, well, those can't both be right, and started reconciling the 2 numbers. We couldn't. And so we had to pause recording. So this was actually the day that Fable 5 came out. So while David and I were trying to sort through, I figured I'd let Claude kind of give it a shot. We uploaded photos we took of the original financials along with another annual report that we had showing how the revenue breakdowns actually worked, and Claude untangled the whole thing for us. There are actually 2 different ways to report movie revenue: gross box office, which was that $8 million, and film rentals, which is Disney and the distributor's share after the theaters take their cut. That is the $4.5 million number. All the sources we found saying $8 million in revenue to Disney were actually wrong, and Claude figured that out.…

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