"They have not done the cost benefit analysis. There's no budgetary space to translate those promises into actuals," he said.

But Monday actuals reported by the studios provided a clear winner: “Gran Turismo” ended up with $17.4 million from North American theaters against “Barbie’s” $15.1 million.

And I’m like, “Oh, sorry, sir, my mistake. This is the actuals, this is in ones.”

“We’re looking at actuals — and we’re making some assumptions if a place sent a lot of people to Sturgis,” he said.

“From our perspective, we say in our forecast that this is an economy resilient to shocks and the labor report bears that out. The fact that the actuals were well above what the estimates were suggests that the economy continues to be resilient.”