TSA Treasure Chest: What Happens To Your Confiscated Stuff?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Every year the TSA confiscates millions of pounds of pocket knives, sunscreen and snow globes from airport travelers. Where does it all go? ELT investigates. Plus, tips for sneaking your weed onboard from a former TSA agent. Guests: Ex-TSA “Taylor”; TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein; surplus agents for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Patrick Knight and Mike Starr; press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of General Services Troy Thompson. Thanks to caller Kimberly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to E.L.T.'s Summer Survival Series.
0:05.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Summer!
0:08.0	Summer Sky.
0:10.0	Summer Sky. Summer Love and Happen Happen, so Podcast.
0:15.0	That's Lyrrhic, right?
0:18.0	For Summer, we're bringing back some of our favorite E.L.T episodes to help you celebrate
0:22.4	slash survive.
0:24.0	Summer vacation wouldn't be complete without waiting in a long, slow moving security line at your local
0:32.4	hellscape, I mean airport.
0:34.0	Here's something to listen to while you rethink that decision not to wear socks
0:38.0	and frantically sort your liquids.
0:40.0	Today we find out what happens to all those confiscated pocket knives and sunscreen bottles.
0:47.0	Hi, this is Kimberly and we're at Airport, and we just had our snow globe confiscated.
0:56.0	Yeah, we're so pissed.
0:57.5	And we want to know who gets all of the confiscated stuff?
1:00.5	Where does it go?
1:02.0	And will we ever be able to even get our snowglow back?
1:06.0	Hey, thanks for coming into the studio.
1:11.0	Super happy to be here. Tell me about the incident. Okay, this is what happened. My wife
1:16.7	and I were traveling out to Arizona to visit my folks who live out there and in one of my carrions I had wrapped all of my parents
1:23.6	Christmas presents and I'm known for my wrapping, you know ribbons, beautifully
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