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The Gist

Checking Bags and Attitudes

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The TSA is finally starting to phase out its decades-old shoe removal policy. We take a look back at the post-9/11 panic that made bare feet in airport security lines a national ritual—and wonder how we went from hypervigilant to oddly indifferent about terrorism. Plus, from the vaults: A classic Spiel from July 17, 2017, revisits Ann Coulter vs. Delta, Day 3. Yes, it somehow made it to Day 3.

Produced by Corey Wara


Production Coordinator Ashley Khan


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. We bring you one from the vault and one from the week.

0:08.1

And I think there's the best news of the week. I don't know. It wasn't a great week for news unless you're a fan of 50% copper tariffs.

0:16.0

Who knows? Maybe you are a domestic copper producer or someone who just likes to pay a whole lot for a

0:21.4

radiator.

0:22.0

Maybe you hate the Brazilians and their ability to actually enact punishments against

0:28.5

Bolsonaro.

0:29.5

But that's a side point.

0:30.4

The greatest thing that happened this week was that TSA said, you could keep those shoes

0:36.9

on, baby. Not everywhere. Not all at once. could keep those shoes on, baby.

0:38.0

Not everywhere, not all at once, but the little outlines on the ground that look like shoes now can be worn by people actually in shoes.

0:46.1

So we talked about this on the show, in a spiel, and I ended with a quiz trying to ask you to figure out, can you take it on the plane? Can you check it?

0:55.7

Someone did point out, I think I say that, well, not just me, but all of TSA says you can take a

1:00.8

live fish on the plane, but they're not letting you take more than three and a half ounces of

1:05.4

liquid. That's kind of odd, isn't it? I guess as soon as you get there, you should ask for your poland spring. So that is the best of the week, that spiel. And I'm going to give you an old spiel, an aeronautical

1:17.1

spiel. I actually forgot that I did it and was searching through the archives, newly spruced up

1:22.6

by Leo Baum. And it turns out that in July, July 17th of 2017, so we're almost at the fantastic eight-year anniversary.

1:32.2

Anne Coulter got in a fight with someone on a plane and she took pictures and she said the person had sausagey limbs.

1:38.5

Anyway, it was a whole thing.

1:40.4

And I spieled about it because that's what I do.

1:42.5

That's how I process.

1:44.4

So enjoy this spiel and that spiel and that spieled about it because that's what I do. That's how I process. So enjoy this spiel and that spiel.

1:47.6

And think of the skies.

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