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H.I. #126: Team Woo Woo

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CGP Grey

Education

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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0:00.0

Brady, I'm traveling all over America on United because of my special relationship with United Airlines.

0:10.2

And this summer has been a new low for in-flight safety videos.

0:20.3

I didn't think I could go any lower, could I?

0:22.6

I agree. I too thought, how could this get lower than it already has?

0:29.6

We've discussed some terrible, terrible in-flight safety videos.

0:35.8

But here is the new low Brady.

0:38.2

Imagine you're watching a safety video.

0:41.4

A video that, in theory, is supposed to be a toolkit for how to save your life in an emergency.

0:49.9

But what if we could also advertise a movie to you at the same time?

0:57.7

So that the in-flight safety video isn't just vital life-saving instructions,

1:04.9

but it's also a commercial for Spider-Man that keeps interrupting the actual safety video

1:11.2

with nonsense.

1:13.4

Honest to God, I could not believe what I was seeing.

1:18.2

Product placement in safety videos.

1:20.6

It is not product placement.

1:22.9

It is a straight-up trailer for the new Spider-Man movie.

1:27.7

So talk me through how it would work.

1:29.1

Talk me through one scene.

1:30.6

The way the safety video starts is there's the usual thing.

1:34.1

There's like, oh, there's a captain and they're talking to you about,

1:36.9

oh, thank you for flying United.

1:38.4

Blah, blah, blah.

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