From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

In 1970, the 21-year-old heir to a margarine fortune set off a national frenzy

when he vowed to give his money away to anyone who needed it.

A new film tells the nearly forgotten story of Michael Brody,

who was deluged with letters asking for help.

Most of that correspondence sat unopened for years until documentarian Keith Maitland and his team started reading them.

We started researching people and we started tracking them down,

and over and over as we finally found people, we kept discovering

that almost nobody remembered having written these letters.

When we'd reached them, we'd let them know that we had something that they had mailed,

but that we wouldn't tell them what it was, because our goal was to experience them

reconnecting with their own words, with their own handwritten letter, you know, on camera.

Maitland, and executive producer Ed Pressman talk about exploring a strange, poignant,

and all but forgotten story with the film Dear Mr. Brody.

But first, we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my associate on the banter, Matt Bellany.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So it's pretty obvious.

We're going to be talking about Netflix, which sent shockwaves through Hollywood, through Wall Street, with losing subscribers, 200,000 subscribers in the last quarter.

You know, if you look at the overall, they had to give up 700,000 because they stopped doing business in Russia.

And so the net balance of what they lost for the quarter was 200,000, but they haven't lost subscribers in 10 years.

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