SYSK Selects: How the MPAA Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 24 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

You may be surprised to learn those ubiquitous ratings, from G to NC-17, put on movies in America are actually handed down by anonymous employees of a secretive organization that serves as a lobbying firm for Hollywood's six biggest studios.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hey everybody, this is Chuck and welcome to this weekend's Stuff You Should Know Selects episode.
0:36.9	This one I picked out how the MPAA works.
0:39.9	From June 26, 2014, just a few years ago and I picked this one because, well, kind of
0:45.6	because I'm doing my new show Movie Crush where I talk to people about their favorite
0:50.6	all-time movie and my new episodes called Many Cresches where I don't have a guess but
0:55.5	it's just Noel and I in here kind of wrapping about stuff, recommendations and culling
1:00.7	Facebook questions and stuff like that.
1:03.3	It just kind of got me thinking along the lines of movies in this episode on the Motion
1:07.3	Picture Association of America.
1:09.3	It was a really good one.
1:11.2	If you are just confused by the MPAA what they do, this will clear it all up for you.
1:16.1	So please to enjoy how the MPAA works.
1:23.1	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
1:32.1	Hey and welcome to The Podcasts.
1:36.6	I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry.
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