PJ Vogt

Boxes around body parts with no good explanation as to why they are there.

I told Doug McMakin exactly what it was that had led me to his door today.

I got an email from a listener who was saying that routinely when he went through the scanner, he was getting flagged and he was getting a false positive on his groin.

And then we got two more listeners in a very short period of time having the exact same thing happen to them.

It wasn't like they were leaving things in their pockets.

Because now...

for privacy there will be like as you know like a sort of stick figure avatar of a person right and there will be a box where it looks like something is going on but the box is always over their crotch and they don't understand what's going on right doug had a few theories could be a number of issues there could be the software not taken into consideration the geometry or what we call corner traps on the body that

create anomalies or artifacts that are not being compensated for.

What's a corner trap?

Corner trap in radar terminology means that under your armpit would be kind of a corner trap where it hits like your arm and then it bounces off your arm and then it bounces off the side of your body and then back to the sensor.

The corner trap theory.

This is the whole reason that when you walk into one of those body scanners, you raise your hands over your head.

It's to minimize corner traps, to stop the millimeter waves from ricocheting wildly between your arm and armpit.

You spread your feet apart for the same reason.

You don't want to create a corner trap by pushing your thighs together, which could actually be an explanation for all those well-endowed men on Reddit complaining about the body scanner.

It's possible that their dongs themselves are creating corner traps.

Doug said this was a possibility, or alternatively, Doug thought those men could be being flagged by the machine's algorithm, which was used to more average bodies and perhaps confused by theirs.

But for our listeners, all of whom reported average dongs, I didn't know what to make of this.

They didn't seem like they should be any more likely than anyone else to have a corner trap.

And besides, the machine in Travis's case was also lighting up his anus.