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TSA Lines Have Been A Nightmare · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I want to six forty seven night event with Kubby
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  Speaker 1: and Christine. In the morning, producer Christen hanging out with us,
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  Speaker 1: and Kristen says, we have a call talking about the
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  Speaker 1: long lines with the partial government shutdown.
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  Speaker 2: Right. TSA told to go to the airport super early.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Elizabeth, are you there?
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  Speaker 2: No, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was in Florida yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay. I went to the airport like three hours before,
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  Speaker 2: thinking that was going to be bad, like stay sack. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I went to the line in ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, was it an early flight or like middle of
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 2: It was early. It was my flight was opposed to
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  Speaker 2: departure UT ten five. Wow, No, we weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was entire We have a friend of ours that
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  Speaker 1: works down the hall here and he said that in
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  Speaker 1: front of his posted a picture of the Jet Blue
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  Speaker 1: TSA line this morning at four thirty and it was
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  Speaker 1: like long as can be. So I guess it depends
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  Speaker 1: on the situation.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, and which airport were you in?
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  Speaker 1: What's prom Beach West Palm Beach. I mean, look, that
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  Speaker 1: is kind of a small airport. Yeah, but you got lucky. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing some terrible stories about long lines with the
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  Speaker 1: partial government shutdown. But welcome back home.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Yes, talk to you guys. Thank you. It's
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  Speaker 2: nice to talk to you. You'll bring me to work
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  Speaker 2: every single day. That is so great. Thank you. What
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  Speaker 2: do you do? I'm a pre school teacher.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Elizabeth. Appreciate you very much. And I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: she got lucky.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm nervous.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a TikTok video of a line going through
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  Speaker 1: a parking lot, a TSA line going outside, and you're
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  Speaker 1: nervous because you're traveling in April.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, I know you're traveling soon and then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to New Orleans in April. That was one of
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  Speaker 2: the airports that was mentioned in the news is being
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  Speaker 2: incredibly busy. So you know, like, I'm somebody who likes
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  Speaker 2: to go two hours early so I don't have to stress.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm always struggling with Eric because he doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to go early. He doesn't want to sit around the airport.
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  Speaker 2: And now I'm gonna have to try and get them
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  Speaker 2: out the door even earlier, like three hours. Yeah you should,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you should.
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  Speaker 1: I got an email from because my family, we're members
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  Speaker 1: of Clear and it was an email reminder that clear
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  Speaker 1: is not affected because it's a private company nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the government. So I hope that helps. But
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  Speaker 1: we're also we're going to Ireland at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the month and I thought about when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: are we going to have Global entry issues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just in the news this morning that
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  Speaker 2: Global Entry is up and running.
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  Speaker 1: Huh see, I can't know what to make of this.
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  Speaker 1: I know some stuff's working.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly because for a minute pre pre check and Global
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  Speaker 2: Entry they said we're not. But now they shifted employees
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  Speaker 2: so that they are working right now, gotcha. So the
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  Speaker 2: TSA pre check and the Global Entry is also working.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you've been in the airport in the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, text us at four four three six three.
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  Speaker 1: What is that you?
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  Speaker 2: It's just a list from the TSA from the people.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we're say the things that annoy them
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  Speaker 2: the most. Yes, so are just really quickly. The unprepared passenger.
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  Speaker 2: They hate when you get to the front of the
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  Speaker 2: line and then you start to take off your shoes
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  Speaker 2: and pull out the laptop and the liquids. They're like, please,
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  Speaker 2: you're holding everybody up.
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  Speaker 1: I call those people like rookies, like they they're not
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  Speaker 1: used to doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of pressure on those lines, though,
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  Speaker 2: I get nervous. The line cutter people try to sneak ahead.
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  Speaker 2: That just starts arguments. The overpacker, you've got a jam
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  Speaker 2: packed bag and now you can't get your stuff out
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  Speaker 2: of it. The rule ignore, they said, passengers who argue
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  Speaker 2: about liquids or refuse to remove items and then kind
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  Speaker 2: of look like, who what me? I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that many times.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. And the bin blocker, those are the
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  Speaker 2: people who take forever loading or unloading bins or leaving
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  Speaker 2: them sitting on the conveyor belt, clogging the flow behind them.
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  Speaker 2: I always pick them up and stack them, right, don't
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  Speaker 2: you do it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, after you're done, you kind of help the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I do it for everybody, kind of
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  Speaker 2: going to work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, airport struggles, but you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: to do what you have to do.
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  Speaker 2: And somebody texted in what's clear and that's another problem
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  Speaker 2: to get you through.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for texting. Yeah, clear is just if you
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  Speaker 1: google it. It's a it's like tsa pre screen on steroids.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit Okay, it's even more of a screening
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  Speaker 1: on you. Yeah, so you actually, I don't even pull
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  Speaker 1: up my ID. They do the eyes and they scan
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  Speaker 1: your few with them with biometrics.
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  Speaker 2: I want to do it. Anything to get us through
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  Speaker 2: there faster.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Type in clear Security, I guess, and you'll find
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  Speaker 1: it on Google. Coming up next, we have an all
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  Speaker 1: teacher edition of Trivia Battle. So Naomi goes to a
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  Speaker 1: school in East Brunswick, my daughter, Naomi, and she has
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  Speaker 1: a teacher named is Chris. She's gonna go against another
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  Speaker 1: kindergarten teacher in the same school. Okay, and we're gonna
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