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Josh

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Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

So you were saying airplane movies are ones that you would normally never pay to see.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

I get that.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

There's also airline versions of movies.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

And they come in a bunch of different ways.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Sometimes the airlines like commission companies to edit the movies that they're going to show.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Other times the studios themselves will make an airline cut where they edit out, you know, the...

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

the sexiest stuff or the most violent or gory stuff or like jokes.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Like you probably couldn't show any of the Austin Powers movies because of all the mean stuff about different cultures.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

They figure out how to edit that out in the best way possible so that it doesn't screw up the plot, which was not what they were doing before when they showed the same movie to everybody at the same time.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

It was just really clumsy editing then.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Right.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Airlines that carry a lot of Muslim passengers will frequently have like any references to pig or pork or anything like that edited out.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

Singapore apparently is sensitive to scenes or movies with LGBTQ plus content, which means they can't get enough of it is what I'm reading.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

I don't think that's the case.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

And language, you would think like, well, they got to edit that out.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

But that's not the case anymore.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

It doesn't seem to have been the case ever since they started showing on demand individually selected movies because you listen to them through headphones generally.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

But apparently there is a guy who runs a company that HowStuffWorks talked to, Amir Samnani.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

He's vice president of content services for Global Eagle, which is like the big company that edits films for airlines.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

He had said, he wasn't saying this to contradict Delta, but he said like airlines actually have a lot of say in what gets edited out.