Why are TSA rules so confusing?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We just got back from a little weekend trip, which got us thinking once again about how confusing and terrible it is to deal with the TSA. Despite all their yelling—the TSA does not make it clear about what you can or cannot bring on a plane, or what items you actually have to take out of your bag. So I spoke with Darryl Campbell, an aviation safety writer for The Verge and author of Fatal Abstraction, who did a deep dive on The Humiliating History of the TSA.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.8 | And this is Devin, and this is no such thing. |
| 0:04.1 | The show will resettle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:08.7 | On today's episode, we figure out what is actually going on with the TSA. |
| 0:13.2 | I think the TSA's blanket response is always either we're following the procedure exactly |
| 0:17.9 | or we're preventing the next 9-11 so just deal with it. |
| 0:23.7 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:25.6 | No such thing. |
| 0:28.6 | No such thing. |
| 0:31.7 | No such thing. |
| 0:34.4 | No such a thing. |
| 0:44.0 | So we're all about to take our first trip together to undisclosed location. |
| 0:45.2 | First trip? |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.1 | First flight? |
| 0:49.3 | We've never been on a trip? |
| 0:51.2 | No, not all three of us. |
| 0:52.0 | Whoa. |
| 0:52.6 | Where are we got? |
| 0:54.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:55.5 | You're right. We've done like day trips, but we haven't done like overnight. Yeah, we went to the horse. New Jersey is our first out of state. That's actually shocking. Yeah. So this is going to be, well, by the time this comes out, we would have been on this trip. Yeah, that's true. So, you know, got me thinking about the TSA. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah. |
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