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Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

I mean, it costs them a ton of money.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Apparently, some airlines spend like $20 million per year just on licensing the content.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Then you got to outfit the planes.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

That can cost about $5 million per aircraft.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

And it makes it a lot heavier.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

So there was a guy, an econ professor in Norway, that basically calculated all the weight and everything and said, if airlines got rid of this stuff, they can save about $3 million per year per aircraft by not having this on board.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Yeah, but they'd pass along the savings to us, I'm sure.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Yeah, of course.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

I don't know if this is for everybody, but I even call them airplane movies.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

It's sort of like a hotel movie.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

It's a movie that I probably wouldn't pay for or go see in a theater, but I will totally get like had enough interest to watch it.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

I will do that on airplanes almost 100% of the time.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

I won't watch either that or like an old favorite.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

But I watched F1, the Brad Pitt Formula One movie on this last flight recently.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

And it was okay.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

It was an airplane movie.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Yeah, there was a lot of that.