TSA Self Checkout

TSA is trying out a "self-checkout" version for the airport. This is already proving to be a problem, but the guys hope it might stop TSA agents from yelling at them. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the TSA rolled out their first prototype self checkout
security system at the Las Vegas Airport. I don't know
if that's the right airport to check. You got a
lot of bleary eyed and not doing their best flyers
headed into that airport.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Who might be miserably depressed and thinking of ending at all,
what having lost their mortgage payments.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
You think that factors in.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
So this new TSA self checkout thing is you walk
up and there's a screen there. You walk up and
are greeted by a TSA agent on a video monitor
who can answer any questions. Well, really, the question I
want to answer it is is this the sort of
airport that you yell at me because I took my
computer out of the bag or because I left it
in the bag.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
That's what I'm wondering. You don't need to take it
out of the bag. You have to take it out
of the bag. Which of it is? Which is it
at this airport?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Anyway, you walk up there and you're greeted by a
tsagent a video monitor. Then you're asked to follow a
ser series of instructions, including loading bags into bins, stepping
into the body scanning device. Officers monitor the X ray
machines remotely, once cleared for travel, automated exit doors open
so travelers can grab the bags and head.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
To the gate. What's the purpose of this? You know
what the purpose of this is, and it's funny it
doesn't mention it anywhere in this article.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Who do you think you're trying?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
A kid?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
The tech is meant to make the secrety process easier
and safer for the public and officers who can spend
more time monitoring threats.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's cheaper. It's just cheaper, right, They.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Just can spend more time monitoring threats. Isn't that what
they're doing? Come up with me cheaper? Isn't that what
the searching is?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Anyway, CBS there was yesterday at Vegas to see how
it was working, and some people were complaining that they
never get flagged and they had to go through like
five times, or.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Other people saying it worked perfectly well.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
And then you had a whole bunch of comments on
the internet, which I want to, as a free speech advocate,
outlaw any news story that quotes any comment from social media.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I would like to outlaw that here here.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
As journalism, you can't cherry pick a couple of comments
on TikTok and Twitter and build a story around it
and call that journalism. That should be a capital punishment.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Wow, well harsh, but fair.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I love the idea of we can't waste all of
our time searching these people getting on planes. We've got
to spend our time looking into these threats. Like there's
a Toyota pickup full of isis guys doing you know,
donuts in the parking lot waving their big black flags
and everything.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
What are you talking about? That's what you do.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I can just imagine, though, you get there and it
just rejects you, and there's no human being around, and
the machine is just saying go through again or something.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
And is that one right?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Why?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
What didn't I do?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
This girl that went through four or five times, it
took her many many times to figure out was her
hair clip holding her hair up that was setting it off?
And it never has in the past, and just you
know that sort of thing. So I'm assuming it's just cheaper.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
So.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I had a TSA guy yell at me the other day. Essentially,
you gotta do what everybody else is doing. I'm like,
I'm the only guy in this line there's nobody doing anything,
So who are these people that I'm supposed to be
imitating that you've shouted at me about Armstrong