Today is Monday, March the 13th, 2023.

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

Today's article is written by Denison Forum, co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins.

As predicted, everything, every square, all at once, won last night's Academy Award for Best Picture.

The Best Picture nominee's total box office gross was $4 billion, the highest in 13 years.

The show was three hours and 40 minutes in length.

By contrast, the first Academy Award ceremony in 1929 lasted 15 minutes.

Here's something all the Oscars have in common. The winners thank people who help them win.

Axios analyzed more than 1,800 Oscar acceptance speeches and found that 97% thanks someone.

As they should, making a movie is among the most collective of all experiences.

Take Top Gun Maverick as an example.

By my count, there were 97 members of the cast,

48 members of the makeup department, 74 members of the sound department,

and several hundred visual effects contributors just for a start.

When I scrolled through the full credits on my laptop, they filled the screen 39 times.

It turns out, everything, everywhere, all at once, is more than a movie title.

It describes the interconnectedness of life today.

This theme is illustrated by a second story dominating the morning news, the failure of Silicon Valley Bank,

which could have precipitated a catastrophic banking crisis. U.S. regulators took

control of the bank yesterday and announced emergency measures to enable all depositors to have

access to all their money today. Customers withdrew $42 billion from their accounts with the bank

last Thursday, the largest bank run in history,

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