104. The TSA Wants To Know What's In Your Pants!

This week, Madeline and David talk about the TSA, 9/11, and what we could do with $8 billion per year! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared BOOK: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/ SOURCES: https://www.statista.com/chart/24599/passenger-screenings-at-us-airports https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/insulin-cost-and-pricing-trends/ https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover-airport-screening-tests/index.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shoe-bomber-richard-reid-flight https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/underwear-bomber-lawsuit-prison-treatment.html https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035131619/911-travel-timeline-tsa https://www.jstor.org/stable/24562556 https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellistalton/2019/01/28/is-the-tsa-really-necessary/?sh=354b2cf525e0 https://nypost.com/2019/09/08/save-us-from-the-pointless-burdens-of-the-tsa/ https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/wheelchair-bound-preteen-held-tsa-traces-explosives-found-161802927--abc-news-travel.html https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21075201/oig-tsa-ct.pdf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tsa-dumb-security-rules-not-science-based/ https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/business/yourmoney/17digi.html https://www.jobtestprep.com/tsa-training https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover-airport-screening-tests/index.html https://www.stratosjets.com/blog/skyhighsmuggling/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/6/tsa-failed-detect-95-percent-prohibited-items-minn/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/307057/ https://nypost.com/2024/02/01/lifestyle/tsa-sparks-privacy-concerns-amid-plans-to-install-facial-recognition-systems-at-400-us-airports/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/tsa-business-security-theater-not-security/357599/ https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1049814332/despite-calls-to-improve-air-travel-is-still-a-nightmare-for-many-with-disabilit https://tinyurl.com/yknz43cx https://www.rd.com/article/what-do-airport-body-scanners-see/ https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/new-documents-show-tsa-program-blamed-profiling https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/tsa-screening-racial-religious-profiling-aclu-study https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/millennial-media/201812/are-tsa-random-screens-code-racial-profiling https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/us/racial-profiling-at-boston-airport-officials-say.html https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-tsa-removes-nude-scanners-from-airports-20130531-story.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/us-no-fly-list-predictive-assessments https://smmirror.com/2023/01/california-homeless-housing-needs-assessment-finds-it-will-cost-303-billion-to-end-homelessness-in-the-state https://gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TSA-pages-5-8.pdf