Why: both Bridge Cut films lose ~half the room by 45s; YouTube grants no suggested traffic until the first minute holds. The research says: claim in sentence one, artifact on screen by 0:05. No new renders, no new VO — these are your own segments re-ordered (each hook paragraph is its own VO file, so this is free). Each preview = the new hook + the first 20s of Part One so you can judge the hand-off. Music will jump at the seams in these previews; a real rebuild remixes it.
Order: coin → law → "set aside" → "there is a law at all" → somebody decided → ruler/thermometer → sit with it → boring object → believing → 91 years → 1935 (arrives at 1:34) → Supreme Court + 153 years → why the same year → last film recap → this film.
Order: "In 1935, two things happened to the dollar at the same time" → Supreme Court finished the break with gold + the image from the drawer, 153 years → "almost nobody has asked why" → July 2026 coin → the law → set aside → … (the philosophy run unchanged) → last-film recap → this film. Dropped: seg 9 ("Ninety-one years before that coin…") because 1935 now opens the film and the line would repeat it.
Same open as A, then coin → law → straight to "money has never really been a measure… the part that does the believing" → last-film recap → this film. Cut: the six-paragraph run "set aside what you think of the man / there is a law at all / somebody decided / ruler, thermometer, kitchen scales / sit with how strange that is / the most boring object" (52s) + seg 9. This is your authored copy, so it is flagged, not decided: it's good writing, but it sits exactly in the 0:20–1:10 window where the room empties, and every point it makes is restated by the "believing" paragraph.
If you pick one: I rebuild the full 16-min film with that hook (one density/remix pass, no renders), re-upload, and re-point the cross-links. Retention data for the current upload lands ~08-30; day-7 curve on the re-cut is the measure.