Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we are going to carry over our conversation from
Speaker 2: last hour talking about the necessity and the difficulty of
Speaker 2: getting a Massachusetts real ID driver's license people in every state,
Speaker 2: whether you're listening in Massachusetts or anywhere else, the deadline
Speaker 2: is May seventh. Now, if you intend to travel by airplane,
Speaker 2: you need to get a real ID. All it is
Speaker 2: is your driver's license with this insignia in the up
Speaker 2: right hand corner, which makes it a real ID. You've
Speaker 2: shown enough identification which convinces the Registry or the Triple
Speaker 2: A here in Massachusetts, which is an extension on this
Speaker 2: project from the Registry so that you could fly on airplanes.
Speaker 2: If you do not have a real idea and you
Speaker 2: just have a traditional driver's license, then what you're going
Speaker 2: to have to do is carry a US passport with
Speaker 2: you if you want to fly on an airplane after March,
Speaker 2: after May seventh, or you're going to have to take
Speaker 2: a passport if you want to go to a federal
Speaker 2: office building. Now, unlike one of our last callers last hour,
Speaker 2: Ellen from Marshfield, she has jury duty in Brockton that's
Speaker 2: a state court, so she's fine, you should bring a
Speaker 2: piece of identification with you, assuming you want to do
Speaker 2: jury duty. But that's another story for another time. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to continue on here. If we get another
Speaker 2: hour out of the conversation, great, If not, we'll move on.
Speaker 2: So if you've been at the registry recently and had
Speaker 2: a good, batter and ugly experience, let us know. I
Speaker 2: had an experience. This has been at least four years
Speaker 2: ago when I get my real idea. What happened was
Speaker 2: we had nine to eleven. We realized we had a
Speaker 2: tighten up security at the airports. TSA took over the
Speaker 2: airline checkpoints, as you know, and you have to really
Speaker 2: have identification even to get through the checkpoints. But they
Speaker 2: also now want to make it a little bit more
Speaker 2: difficult and make it a little more uniform across the country,
Speaker 2: which is fine with me. Whatever security they wanted with pose,
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it, because with them, when I'm at
Speaker 2: thirty thousand feet on an airplane, I want to make
Speaker 2: sure there's no nut job on the plane's going to
Speaker 2: do something really stupid like try to light his shoe
Speaker 2: or blow up his shoe on the plane as we
Speaker 2: had with Remember Richard Reid, the guy here in Massachusetts
Speaker 2: actually who was trying to light his shoe because it
Speaker 2: had I guess he had TNT in the shoe or
Speaker 2: something or some sort of explosive device. So we want security,
Speaker 2: and in order to have security, we got to give
Speaker 2: up a little bit of liberty. I get that. I
Speaker 2: get that. And at the same time, this is a
Speaker 2: deadline which has been delayed several times, at least once
Speaker 2: or twice because of COVID, and now this deadline is
Speaker 2: for real. So let's get back to the call, see
Speaker 2: what people have to say. I'm hoping that Joe in Boston,
Speaker 2: who we tried to get on last hour is at
Speaker 2: the phone right now. Hey, Joe, we're going to get
Speaker 2: you to the head of the line. Here, go right ahead.
Speaker 2: You're on night side.
Speaker 3: Hi, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: I could hear you? Find Joe? Where were you before?
Speaker 2: I think my producer said you had walked away from
Speaker 2: the phone. Not a good idea. Go ahead, Joe. What's
Speaker 2: been your experience with the real ID.
Speaker 3: Well, I haven't had to do it recently, but a
Speaker 3: few years ago I had to get a real ID.
Speaker 3: I wanted to get one, and just so you know,
Speaker 3: it only was good for four years, not five. That's
Speaker 3: one thing.
Speaker 2: Well, well it might have been the cycle of my
Speaker 2: real idea that I'm looking at right now. It was
Speaker 2: issued to me on June second, twenty twenty three, and
Speaker 2: it expires in July of twenty twenty eight, so it's
Speaker 2: actually good for a little more than five years. So
Speaker 2: it could have been that your license was only a
Speaker 2: year old when you got it, and maybe they said, well,
Speaker 2: we can only give you the balance of your current license.
Speaker 2: I think it depends upon we're in the license cycle.
Speaker 2: You you applied to get the real real idea.
Speaker 3: Well, it had expired, but it was less than two
Speaker 3: years expired, so that's why I could upgrade it and
Speaker 3: get a new one.
Speaker 2: And that might so you were you were driving on
Speaker 2: an expired license, expired license for two years, and no
Speaker 2: one grabbed You're good for you, but that you were
Speaker 2: lucky Joe.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I wasn't. I wasn't driving. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: I didn't have a car during then, Okay, okay I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well why you only got four years?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, but I'm sure there's some
Speaker 2: registry rule of regulation that they applied. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: they weren't trying to cheat you, but.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm not. I'm not worried about that. By
Speaker 3: the way. The guy from New Hampshire, he only mentioned
Speaker 3: the couple forms that he has summit, and that told
Speaker 3: me that he probably got a regular idea on a
Speaker 3: real one if.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think that was Bernie from New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: And Bernie said that his wife is like somebody who
Speaker 2: is somebody who really puts a folder together and gives
Speaker 2: him everything that he needs. And so he almost sounds
Speaker 2: like his wife takes care of that. He was making
Speaker 2: the point that she put in the license and put
Speaker 2: in whatever else you know, his his SO security card
Speaker 2: or whatever. So I'm sure that he got a real ID.
Speaker 2: He's a pretty sharp guy. By the way.
Speaker 3: Well, well, the guy who said he said not federal ID,
Speaker 3: I thought he was New Hampshire. He was the one
Speaker 3: who only mentioned a couple of documents, and it sounded
Speaker 3: like if it says not a federal ID, he must
Speaker 3: have gotten a real one. And he said it would
Speaker 3: have been good enough for him because he didn't need
Speaker 3: a real one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure if that I know it wasn't Bernie,
Speaker 2: that might have been Abraham from Newby put I my calls.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay, well the main, the main, the main
Speaker 3: reason I called. The main reason I called was that
Speaker 3: I was going to try and renew a license at
Speaker 3: some point, and if I didn't have to get an appointment,
Speaker 3: it could just walk in to be good. However, both
Speaker 3: TV and radio, including WBS, have mentioned walking appointments, and
Speaker 3: my I talked to a person on the phone and
Speaker 3: at the registry, and she said that if you don't
Speaker 3: need to fly before after May seventh, then they don't
Speaker 3: give you a walk in. If you're going to need
Speaker 3: to fly, then the walk in is available, but otherwise
Speaker 3: need to make an appointment.
Speaker 2: And what I heard today, and again there's always a
Speaker 2: lot of confusion here, but what I heard today was that.
Speaker 2: But what my producer told me was that they had
Speaker 2: decided that because a lot of people had difficulty getting appointments,
Speaker 2: as some friends of mine told me they the only
Speaker 2: appointment they could get was in Nantucket, that the registry
Speaker 2: late today decided that they would accept people you could
Speaker 2: walk in. So I'll try to check that in the break.
Speaker 2: If you're correct. That would make sense what you're saying
Speaker 2: that if they said, gee, you know, I got to
Speaker 2: take a plane on May eighth, can I get my
Speaker 2: real ID, they would take that person and give them
Speaker 2: a priority over somebody who had said, Gee, I don't
Speaker 2: have to fly in the next year, but I'd like
Speaker 2: to get my real ID. So I'll see if there
Speaker 2: was a statement that the Registry clarified that today. But
Speaker 2: I'll have that fra on the other side of that.
Speaker 3: I was talking to the Registry person and she said
Speaker 3: that that was the case, and I assumed that if
Speaker 3: you needed a real idea to get into some federal building,
Speaker 3: that would give you a chance for a walk in also,
Speaker 3: but we didn't discuss that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I've got here this is a story from
Speaker 2: Channel five, So let me read it to you. If
Speaker 2: you still have not gotten a real ID, good news.
Speaker 2: The Massachusetts Registery of Motor Vehicles is offering walking appointments
Speaker 2: for procrastinators at all branches. And then it goes on
Speaker 2: to say, as of May seventh, twenty twenty five, every
Speaker 2: air traveler eighteen years of age or older will need
Speaker 2: a real ID to come a real ID compliant driver's
Speaker 2: license or Identification card, another Transportation Security Administration acceptable form
Speaker 2: of identification for domestic air travel and to enter certain
Speaker 2: federal facilities. The new ID meets federal standard and is
Speaker 2: characterized by a gold star in the upper right hand
Speaker 2: corner of the of the license. If you still have
Speaker 2: an old ID and this is not going to let
Speaker 2: me roll up here, Oh this is frustrating. I wish
Speaker 2: I had a produce a sitting here with me, but
Speaker 2: that's okay. Here we go. This is from another station,
Speaker 2: the registery motor vehicles to see more and more people
Speaker 2: trying to get a real ID or identification card. I've
Speaker 2: head of next announced Tuesday yesterday, and it's now accepting
Speaker 2: walking appointments for people who need the real ID for
Speaker 2: imminent travel plans. So you're right, You're right, Joe. You
Speaker 2: gotta have a RE you gotta have an imminent travel plan.
Speaker 2: Good correction, Joe, I thank you for that.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks Joe, have a good one.
Speaker 2: All right. We'll keep rolling here. And the only line
Speaker 2: open we got full lines is six one seven, and
Speaker 2: full lines always music to my eyes. We'll be back
Speaker 2: on night Side right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, back to the phones, you go. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: to Scott in Quincy. Scott, welcome next on Nightside. How
Speaker 2: are you sure?
Speaker 4: And Yan not a great show you And I was
Speaker 4: fortunate enough that when I got my real idea a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago at the Triple A office in Quincy,
Speaker 4: and uh, it was it was easy for me. I
Speaker 4: had my passport, my driver's license, my Ham radio license,
Speaker 4: my Massachusetts firearms license, and just about every bill uh
Speaker 4: and piece of identifying literature I could bring with me.
Speaker 4: And it was like a slam dunk for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know. The person last hour who raised the
Speaker 2: concern was he said that he had a post office
Speaker 2: box because he wanted to have you know, the security
Speaker 2: and privacy and had and he said that post office
Speaker 2: boxes were not addresses were not helpful. But sounds to
Speaker 2: me like you had everything you needed in more. I'm
Speaker 2: not surprised Scott that, because you're a pretty thorough guy
Speaker 2: from my experience.
Speaker 4: Now here's the interesting question is there are going to
Speaker 4: be a bunch of people that will not be able
Speaker 4: to get a real I D because they have driver's licenses.
Speaker 4: But they may have been issued those drivers licenses and
Speaker 4: they may not be really who they say they are.
Speaker 4: Isn't the real ID program away for the for the
Speaker 4: FEDS to sweep up people who who who aren't who
Speaker 4: they say they are or I don't think.
Speaker 2: When it came into effect that was its intention, but
Speaker 2: it certainly might make it a little easier. I think, Look,
Speaker 2: the FEDS are pretty active right now, as I think
Speaker 2: we've seen. There was an arrest on in New Bedford yesterday.
Speaker 2: You have this guy down in Maryland who was flown
Speaker 2: down to the Seacott prison in El Salvador. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's coming back anytime soon. And yeah, there's there's
Speaker 2: this could be. This wasn't anticipated obviously when Joe Biden
Speaker 2: was president, no one was going around checking people's IDs. Uh,
Speaker 2: but if you can, if you have, you know, if
Speaker 2: you're here illegally, you shouldn't have a SOB security number,
Speaker 2: If you're here illegally, you shouldn't have a birth certificate
Speaker 2: saying you were born here. So those are the fundamental
Speaker 2: identification items that people need to get a real idea.
Speaker 2: So this might be one way to separate the wheat
Speaker 2: from the chaff. Yeah, I get your point.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Well, it's going to be interesting to see what
Speaker 4: Massachusetts does that if some people get caught up in
Speaker 4: that dragnet. And and well.
Speaker 2: I would assume that that if that if all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, someone comes up to you or me and
Speaker 2: we have a real ID and they say, okay, you
Speaker 2: know you're you know you're you're so and so, and
Speaker 2: you say, no, I'm not so and so. I'm Scott
Speaker 2: from Quinsy or I'm Dan from Nightside. Uh, and you
Speaker 2: can quickly say, I want to show you my license
Speaker 2: with my real ID.
Speaker 4: I think that's right.
Speaker 2: That would be something a piece of identification that would
Speaker 2: be on question show that we have proven to at
Speaker 2: least the registered motor vehicles that we are US citizens
Speaker 2: and we were born here and we have a SO
Speaker 2: security number. So there is that ancillary benefit, if you will,
Speaker 2: of the program for US citizens.
Speaker 4: Well, I bet there are some people shaking in their
Speaker 4: boots at the thought of they're going to have either
Speaker 4: try and get this and hope for the best, or
Speaker 4: they or they're not going to get it because they
Speaker 4: know they couldn't couldn't meet the standard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably would would not try to get it
Speaker 2: unless they could get some phony documents, but that becomes
Speaker 2: a little bit more difficult here. So that's a benefit
Speaker 2: that I had not thought of. Scott, great call, always thoughtful,
Speaker 2: Thank you as always, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good night, jam.
Speaker 2: Thanks belt, talk to you soon. I'm going to keep
Speaker 2: rolling here, picking up the pace just a little bit,
Speaker 2: going to go to Tony's and native Hey, Tony, welcome
Speaker 2: back next on night Saga right ahead, Tony.
Speaker 5: Hi, Good evening, Dan. I hope you will dult me
Speaker 5: for a few moments. The way my brain works and
Speaker 5: connect things connect. I'm driving to the airport as we speak,
Speaker 5: and we were talking about the real ID. You mentioned
Speaker 5: the access to federal buildings. Well, I happened to be
Speaker 5: going through my grandchildren in Oklahoma, so I'll be flying
Speaker 5: into Oklahoma City. And I just wanted to remind you
Speaker 5: all listeners that I know up here we were celebrating
Speaker 5: the battle Alexicon and Conkent on Saturday, but Saturday is
Speaker 5: also the thirtieth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Speaker 2: And that is correct that you're very that was April.
Speaker 2: That was April nineteenth. You're in nineteen ninety five. I
Speaker 2: remember exactly where I was with my family. I was
Speaker 2: here in Massachusetts. But that was a horrifying day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want everybody to remember one hundred.
Speaker 2: Actually, can you hold hold it fors for one second, Tony,
Speaker 2: if you know mine, I'm mistaken. I remember I was
Speaker 2: when the when there was that shootout with the UH
Speaker 2: at the ranch somewhere in Texas that that ended up
Speaker 2: engulfed in flames. But we were in Disney. We were
Speaker 2: in Disney World. What was the name of the place
Speaker 2: it was. There was a guy David sebody.
Speaker 5: Who was Yeah, it was the Branch Davidians.
Speaker 2: And Branch Davidians, Yes, And what was the guy's name
Speaker 2: that was the leader of the group, David Koresh.
Speaker 5: He adopted that name as I guess, I guess the
Speaker 5: Branch Davidians before the Yeah.
Speaker 2: And and my understanding is that the Oklahoma City bombing,
Speaker 2: which did occur in April nineteenth, nineteen ninety five, was
Speaker 2: in the mind of Timothy McVeigh in retaliation for what
Speaker 2: happened at that conflagration with the camp with the the Davidians.
Speaker 2: But when that happened, we were on vacation in Disney
Speaker 2: World and we had just come back, you know, go
Speaker 2: to the morning at Disney World. We came back to
Speaker 2: the to the little motel and I turned on the
Speaker 2: TV and all of a sudden, it was like a
Speaker 2: news conference. And it took me about ten seconds to realize.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what had happened, but I said, something
Speaker 2: really bad had happened. And indeed it was the bombing
Speaker 2: of the federal building, the Mara Building in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: And several years later, several years ago, I visited that
Speaker 2: site with a friend of mine who was being inducted
Speaker 2: into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, and I was
Speaker 2: his presenter and his wife and we visited and that
Speaker 2: was a very eerie place. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 4: Yes, I have.
Speaker 5: Well with their last last summer. Yeah, I'm staying away
Speaker 5: from it this Saturday quite busy.
Speaker 2: Good. Well, good for you. Thank you for reminding us,
Speaker 2: Tony uh and I hope you have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: You'll you're going to celebrate Easter, you said with your grandchildren.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, my my new Jersey raised. The daughter has
Speaker 5: adopted in Oklahoma as her state, and she.
Speaker 2: Loved It's a great state.
Speaker 5: That's all right, It's okay.
Speaker 2: There's some great restaurants in Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: What good steak, I'll.
Speaker 2: Tell you that exactly, exactly, Thank you, Dan.
Speaker 5: I won't take up any more.
Speaker 6: Of your time.
Speaker 4: Just prayer well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And and they were innocent children killed in that bombing.
Speaker 2: I think it was one hundred and sixty five souls
Speaker 2: who lost their lives. And McVay was eventually, rightfully so executed.
Speaker 2: He told his Lloyd to drop all appeals. He wanted
Speaker 2: to be executed. He was a weird dude.
Speaker 5: He thought he was going to be exactly do you
Speaker 5: want to talk about? Is that that Wago book that.
Speaker 3: I just read.
Speaker 5: There's a picture of mc bay down there old vigil watch.
Speaker 2: Okay, So so that even more solidifies the the connection.
Speaker 2: And then one of a couple of his co conspirators.
Speaker 2: I think they're still serving life in prison at the
Speaker 2: supermacs out there in Colorado.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, Tony.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Have you called me before?
Speaker 5: I have once in a while with some stocky comments.
Speaker 2: That's okay. You can call him and make pleasant comments
Speaker 2: or snarky comments. You're a good caller. You you recalled
Speaker 2: with with I think importance. The the incident that that
Speaker 2: horrified the nation. I mean it, it just seems that
Speaker 2: every five or ten years something comes along which is
Speaker 2: so horrific. Tony. Thank you for your time, and thank
Speaker 2: you for your call. And have a great Easter weekend
Speaker 2: with your family.
Speaker 5: Yes, have a wonderful weekend too. Take care, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, Tony. Good night. All right, good night, take quick break.
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Speaker 1: Back after this, it's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're talking about the real life, the real
Speaker 2: ID deadline, which exists. It's May seventh across the country.
Speaker 2: We're focusing on Massachusetts. Uh. The registery motor vehicle offices
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, we call it. The R and V registering
Speaker 2: motor vehicles here uh and the Triple A offices which
Speaker 2: take up really provide a very great service to augment
Speaker 2: the Registry of motor vehicles. Are overwhelmed. Let me go
Speaker 2: to George and Bridgewater. George, next on nightside.
Speaker 7: Welcome back, Hey Dan, how you doing. I'm going to
Speaker 7: be your part time producers tonight. You sure you were
Speaker 7: going to check you will? You were going to check
Speaker 7: out that gentleman's uh I D at the at the
Speaker 7: at the party you got coming up? So I checked
Speaker 7: my license and I also have not for real ID.
Speaker 4: So I don't use Google that much.
Speaker 7: I use uh, you know, on my laptop co pilot
Speaker 7: AI And I say what why real I D says
Speaker 7: not for Federal ID, and it simply says, uh it
Speaker 7: it does not meet the security standards set by the
Speaker 7: real ID Act.
Speaker 2: Okay, now hold on for let me ask you a question.
Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead, George.
Speaker 2: You're a You are a good listener and a good caller.
Speaker 2: So you have a Massachusetts driver's license. In the right
Speaker 2: hand upper right hand corner of the driver's license, is
Speaker 2: there a gold circle or a yellow circle with a
Speaker 2: white star in it?
Speaker 7: No, no, sir, I uh and I just found out
Speaker 7: tonight that I thought I had a real ID. Uh
Speaker 7: and I and I don't I have that, uh that
Speaker 7: saying on my license, so well not not the federal
Speaker 7: I d.
Speaker 2: No, right, So well, thank you for doing that, because
Speaker 2: I was a little confused. But I'm looking at my
Speaker 2: license right now, and I guarantee you, uh, I have
Speaker 2: in my upper right hand corner it's a gold circle.
Speaker 2: It's very small. I mean, it's not tiny, but it's
Speaker 2: not it doesn't blow your way, and it's on your license.
Speaker 2: I assume you have the silhouette of the of the
Speaker 2: Golden Dome at the State House, right Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so it's to the right of that as you look
Speaker 2: at your license, and inside the yellow circle is a
Speaker 2: white star, five pointed star, typical you know star that
Speaker 2: would look like on an American flag star. So that
Speaker 2: proves to me that I do have the real ID.
Speaker 2: And if it says on your license not for federal use,
Speaker 2: I should have asked Tim from Woburn if he had
Speaker 2: that orange that gold circle again, either gold or yellow
Speaker 2: with a white right, so you can't have them both.
Speaker 2: They got that and on my license you don't have that,
Speaker 2: and you have it. What is the language on yours?
Speaker 2: It says not for federal purposes? Is that when it
Speaker 2: says that you quoted.
Speaker 7: Ext but you know, you know then I want to know.
Speaker 5: Okay, I know.
Speaker 7: I walked up to the window. I said I don't
Speaker 7: want a real ID because I had my passport and
Speaker 7: I had a couple letters mailed to me or whatever.
Speaker 7: And she didn't want to talk too much, and she
Speaker 7: just took my picture and on my way. I didn't
Speaker 7: know that I didn't have a real ID. But these
Speaker 7: are the reasons why that AI would gave me Why
Speaker 7: you didn't get a real ID. You did not apply
Speaker 7: for real ID. Okay, that's a no brainer. Missing requirement documents.
Speaker 7: You've talked about that tonight, name mismatch issues, state specific
Speaker 7: policies that have to be complicated with this state.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's very.
Speaker 4: Choice.
Speaker 7: Anyway. Anyway, so I did my homework for you using
Speaker 7: AI Windows AI Copilot, And you know that's when you
Speaker 7: walk up there, if you're not pushing this lady didn't
Speaker 7: want to talk to me. She just took all my
Speaker 7: paperwork and took my picture.
Speaker 4: On off off I went.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, The other thing too, is the other thing too, George,
Speaker 2: is that did she hand you a license or did
Speaker 2: she hand you sort of a temporary license and then
Speaker 2: you got the the actual you know, license license a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks in the mail.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was temporary.
Speaker 2: Okay. So what happens is you walked out of there,
Speaker 2: you figured you were all set. She dropped the ball.
Speaker 2: She should have said to you, George, there's one piece
Speaker 2: of identification that is missing here that you need or
Speaker 2: whatever the whatever the problem was. She just took your
Speaker 2: application rejected. It never took the time of the courtesy
Speaker 2: to tell you, and and you walked out of there.
Speaker 2: Would be like if you if if you went to
Speaker 2: a store and you you went to the meat counter
Speaker 2: and you ordered liam chops and and the guy decided
Speaker 2: to put hamburg in there, misheard you, and you handed
Speaker 2: you know, and you went home and you didn't you
Speaker 2: open them order Hamburger or the lampshops. This one, whoever
Speaker 2: that person was, they failed you, and maybe they failed.
Speaker 7: Tim as well exactly. And then you know, I was
Speaker 7: just thinking, in a funny way, we need to eat
Speaker 7: on musk here in Massachusetts and camp a few of
Speaker 7: these people. I hate going to the DMV. I mean, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 7: it's but anyway, thanks for your show, because I just
Speaker 7: found out tonight I don't have real ID, even though
Speaker 7: I don't need it. I'm not going to be traveling
Speaker 7: and I have a passport, so I'm cool.
Speaker 2: When does your license? When does your license expired? George?
Speaker 2: If you know?
Speaker 7: It inspired about a year and a half ago. A
Speaker 7: year ago, and that's when I went. I said, I
Speaker 7: might as well get my real idea. At the same time,
Speaker 7: you know, I had all my paperwork with me, at
Speaker 7: least I thought I did.
Speaker 2: So your your license then is good? Is it good?
Speaker 2: Your regular license is good for another two or three years?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, three, three or four more years, yes, sir, Well.
Speaker 2: You probably if you wanted to, if you all of
Speaker 2: a sudden decided you want to, you know, fly and
Speaker 2: and well if you could when after May seventh, when
Speaker 2: the rush sort of slows down, go back there and
Speaker 2: explain what happened and see if they'll they'll adjust it
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Oh they will.
Speaker 7: And it went on to the last paragraph in this
Speaker 7: AI that I did for you. If you need a
Speaker 7: real ID, you can check with your state DMV and uh,
Speaker 7: see what documents you need and you're on your way.
Speaker 7: You know it's perfect.
Speaker 2: You are. You've been a good co producer tonight of
Speaker 2: the program. Thanks George. Your check will be the check
Speaker 2: will be in the mail, Thanks George. All right, thanks buddy,
Speaker 2: don't you soon? Quick break? Right back on Night's Side.
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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Back we go. Let me see, we're gonna go to
Speaker 2: quickly Chuck and Georgia Chuck next on nights.
Speaker 8: I go right ahead, Hi, Dan, how are you good?
Speaker 2: Chuck? You waited a long time here. I'm a little
Speaker 2: bit getting tight on time. I got four more calls
Speaker 2: once you got going on Georgia.
Speaker 8: License when I first moved to Georgia from Massachusetts almost
Speaker 8: nine years ago, and mine has a white star surrounded
Speaker 8: by black.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's gonna give me different states, I think, different
Speaker 2: states at different.
Speaker 8: Calico Boats, and here they give you a license for
Speaker 8: eight years. It's about thirty dollars I think, and.
Speaker 2: A little more expensive up here.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, the DMV up there is a cash cow.
Speaker 8: But here at seventy five, you have to go into
Speaker 8: the DMV and take an eye test. Yep, sure, and
Speaker 8: go ahead.
Speaker 2: I think that's the same. I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 2: seventy five or eighty, but I think that's something that
Speaker 2: people have to do on a more regular basis. But
Speaker 2: I assume it's an eye test. If you have glasses
Speaker 2: or contact lenses, it's an eye test that you know
Speaker 2: with correction.
Speaker 8: Well, the strange thing is they give you a license
Speaker 8: for another eight years.
Speaker 2: I thure that they figure if it's seventy five, your
Speaker 2: eyes just tou a reasonably good, they'll probably be good
Speaker 2: down the line. I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 8: I would have thought they would have given you one
Speaker 8: for two or three or four.
Speaker 2: But nah, I didn't have to charge you more money.
Speaker 2: As is the registery down there a little more friendly
Speaker 2: than in Massachusetts or what's the deal?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, even in uh there's two around here.
Speaker 8: One they're about twenty miles apart. But they're good people.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do Let's let one more question for the
Speaker 2: Georgia Chamber of Commerce as a Yankee going down there. Okay,
Speaker 2: will you wally welcomed or were you tolerated?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 8: They think that sometimes you bring a more democratic view
Speaker 8: than a Republican view, you know, I see they don't.
Speaker 8: They don't like that too much.
Speaker 2: But you just wait, you dissuaded that that with your
Speaker 2: mega hat or something. I'm sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, even if.
Speaker 2: There's one that you go ahead.
Speaker 8: If there's one thing that they give you the side
Speaker 8: I about is you know whether or not archer Republican
Speaker 8: or Democrat?
Speaker 2: Well, it used to be the democratic South. Was the
Speaker 2: South was the democratic stronghold. That has all changed, hasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Here where I live, it's mostly Republican. When you get
Speaker 8: out two hundred and some miles west around Atlanta, it's
Speaker 8: all Democrat. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it's good to have some diversity in every state.
Speaker 8: Well, all right, I'll let you go, than John.
Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice call more often. Will. I
Speaker 2: always enjoy talking to you, But I got three behind you,
Speaker 2: so I got to take care of them as well. Okay, buddy, No, worries.
Speaker 2: Thanks Happy Eastern, good you too. All right, good night
Speaker 2: We go next to Mark in New Hampshire. Mark next
Speaker 2: on Nightside.
Speaker 7: Yeah I did.
Speaker 9: One of your previous callers actually kind of stole some
Speaker 9: of my thunder as far as what's going on with
Speaker 9: this real id because it sounds like a couple of
Speaker 9: your previous listeners they have a tradition license, they don't
Speaker 9: have the real idea and I don't think they know it.
Speaker 9: And I think going forward there's going to be some
Speaker 9: unhappy folks when they go to Logan to fly and
Speaker 9: think they're all set, I just got my license, you know,
Speaker 9: they'll say six months ago and they're told, no, this
Speaker 9: isn't a really d what But I think you're right.
Speaker 9: I think it looks like the upright end corner has
Speaker 9: to have the star in the Hampshire. It's a silhouette
Speaker 9: of the old man in the mountain, but it's got
Speaker 9: that star. I mean, I think that's type of public
Speaker 9: service to people saying, hey, do you really have a
Speaker 9: real idea? This is how you have a check by
Speaker 9: looking in the upright hand corner. If you don't you
Speaker 9: know a real idea? If it says not a federal ID.
Speaker 2: What is the color star on your license? You have
Speaker 2: a New Hampshire license. Mine is it's sort of yellow
Speaker 2: or gold with a white star in the middle of that.
Speaker 9: In the Hampshire, it's like I said, the silhouette of
Speaker 9: the old Man of the Mountain with the gold and
Speaker 9: then it's got that white five pointed star in the
Speaker 9: upright end corner. That's the real ID for sure. And
Speaker 9: it's got a hologram picture of me about a third
Speaker 9: of the way over, which I didn't realize till tonight.
Speaker 9: Was playing with it under the light, and it's got
Speaker 9: two other pictures on the front of the license.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, I don't have enough light of that.
Speaker 2: But I know mine is fine. And I hope that
Speaker 2: some of our people tonight, they like George from Bridgewater,
Speaker 2: he told the story that you're referring to. He went
Speaker 2: up there expecting that he was going to get the
Speaker 2: right ID, uh, and no one the woman didn't talk
Speaker 2: to him behind the counter, and he walked out, and
Speaker 2: he's realizing tonight that he doesn't have a real ID.
Speaker 9: And that's I think be a lot of other people.
Speaker 9: I went to New Hampshire and the third twenty seventh
Speaker 9: of March. I forget, I'll do it in a few days,
Speaker 9: and they said, oh, our next appointments sometime in April.
Speaker 9: It was on my birthday. I said, well, I don't
Speaker 9: want to be here on my birthday. I want to
Speaker 9: do something with my wife. So she goes, well, you
Speaker 9: can take a chance and come and walk in, but
Speaker 9: it might be thirty minutes to two hours. I said,
Speaker 9: I'll take a chance, so I went the next day.
Speaker 9: I got there about eight fifteen and they opened at
Speaker 9: eight and I was in and out in fifty five minutes.
Speaker 9: But I'm so glad I waited because it was all
Speaker 9: The woman at the counter could have been more pleasant.
Speaker 9: And a friend said, well she smiling. I said she
Speaker 9: was smiling, and I said to her, it's nice to me.
Speaker 9: I'll tell him. I said, I'm really glad I was in.
Speaker 9: You're lying because you're a very pleasant person to deal with.
Speaker 9: She says, oh, thank you. But it was very smooth.
Speaker 9: Whereas while I'm waiting, some lady trying to get a
Speaker 9: real ID, the gentleman saying, hey, this isn't a Social
Speaker 9: security and we don't have a so security card. This
Speaker 9: isn't gonna fly. Oh well what about this. Nope, no,
Speaker 9: I have a utility bill. Goes, well, that's just building address.
Speaker 9: It doesn't say service address, so this doesn't count either.
Speaker 9: So she didn't get her real idea that day.
Speaker 2: That was the guy who was just giving her hard time.
Speaker 2: And I'm you know, it's like he probably you give
Speaker 2: some of these people a little bit of authority and
Speaker 2: you know they're going to use it. Yeah.
Speaker 9: I totally agree. It's like and the poor woman, I mean,
Speaker 9: it's it's pretty stressful and you think you've got all
Speaker 9: those information that's you don't have you need.
Speaker 8: Sorry.
Speaker 2: I brought my BROO certificate. I brought my uh my passport,
Speaker 2: my driver my current driver's license. But they said, well,
Speaker 2: we need to have two bills to show you live there,
Speaker 2: and I had brought on one, so I had to
Speaker 2: I had like an electric bill. I had to go
Speaker 2: and get a gas bill.
Speaker 9: So yeah, and I don't mean the laugh. That's the
Speaker 9: type of thing like I had a cable bill and
Speaker 9: a utility electric bill, which was perfectly fine. And she goes, no,
Speaker 9: you're all set. You got a passport, yeah, and you're
Speaker 9: good to go. Nice because I had it it's nice.
Speaker 2: To know that New Hampshire does have some jerks as
Speaker 2: well as nice people, because normally everybody in New Hamp's
Speaker 2: just nice.
Speaker 9: Right. He got what worked out right, got in the
Speaker 9: mail today. It took from the twenty seventh of March
Speaker 9: till today. They say within forty five days. It was
Speaker 9: on three weeks or whatever it's been in I'm holding
Speaker 9: my hand up. So it came plenty of time and
Speaker 9: it worked out very well. Experienced.
Speaker 2: So long. I love New Hampshire. Man, you have the
Speaker 2: greatest governor. Uh yeah, hopefully AOT does a good job too.
Speaker 2: I got two more. I got to get to March,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna let you run. Thanks man, talk.
Speaker 4: Soon, all right, have a good night, great one.
Speaker 2: Good night, Mary and jempshould Mary got room for you
Speaker 2: in one more.
Speaker 6: Go ahead and Mary, Okay, I'm gonna make it quick.
Speaker 6: I went to get last year, I went to get
Speaker 6: my license renoved, and I hope to get the real ID.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I bought everything with me and the woman looked at
Speaker 6: it and she said, you kind of get the real idea.
Speaker 6: I said, why not? She said, because your Social Security
Speaker 6: card is laminated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you ridiculous. Yeah, yes I have because in the
Speaker 2: instructions and I read it last hour, it's it said
Speaker 2: that on your Social Security card and laminated documents will
Speaker 2: not be accepted. Now, first of all, when you have
Speaker 2: a SOB security card, most people are going to laminate
Speaker 2: it to make sure that it stays in decent shape.
Speaker 2: How ridiculous is that, you know? I mean, just.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna let you go listen, have a happy
Speaker 6: stuff you toobe Mary.
Speaker 2: And by the way, there are other options. Do you
Speaker 2: have a passport, go back with your passport, okay, or
Speaker 2: your birth certificate and that will that will do in
Speaker 2: lieu of a Social Scurity card. And in terms of
Speaker 2: the Social Security number, if you bring a copy of
Speaker 2: your tax bill, you know, like your federal tax bill
Speaker 2: that has your SOB Security number, that will do it
Speaker 2: in lieu of the SOLDI you do not have to unliminate.
Speaker 2: You Also, by the way, can order through the sold
Speaker 2: Security office. Tell him you lost your card and they'll
Speaker 2: send you a replacement card. I have a replacement card
Speaker 2: which is you know, looks like that. Well it is
Speaker 2: brand News. So that's another way you can do it.
Speaker 6: Okay, just the license that I have does say not
Speaker 6: to federal I D yeah.
Speaker 2: Well that you get that. You gotta have that in
Speaker 2: the upper right hand corner. It's a circle that's for
Speaker 2: us here in Massachusetts, yellow gold and mark for Mahampshire.
Speaker 2: Said the same thing. Thank you, Mary.
Speaker 6: I appreciated plain find it. So that was all right, Dan,
Speaker 6: have a hairy, nice easter.
Speaker 2: You too, Happy easter. Good night. Let me go to Jim.
Speaker 2: Jim you were next on nights that you're gonna wrap
Speaker 2: the hour for us.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Jim Man, have a hairy easter.
Speaker 10: Here are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Hope you have a good one out
Speaker 2: there as well. So have you got your your real
Speaker 2: ID yet?
Speaker 6: Dan?
Speaker 10: I'm a big, big truck driver, so I've had it
Speaker 10: for three years. About three years. I got it like
Speaker 10: like I think all responsible people about six months before
Speaker 10: the deadline, because who wants to wait till the deadline
Speaker 10: to get pulled over? And you can't, you know, and
Speaker 10: then your your load is i'll call it total. So
Speaker 10: I got it. Then they've extended it. Then they extended
Speaker 10: it again. And since they extended it, I got additional
Speaker 10: certifications or whatever you want to call them. So then
Speaker 10: I had to have my license reissued. Well, in this state,
Speaker 10: every certification is a sixty dollars, so my license cost
Speaker 10: me one hundred and eighty bucks. So it's cost me
Speaker 10: a lot of money because of the fact I've had
Speaker 10: to pay quite a bit extra because of the fact that.
Speaker 2: They Well, the good news is you're up to date.
Speaker 2: And guess what that is a part of your living.
Speaker 2: So hopefully it's a tax deduction.
Speaker 10: I want all these bozos without the real id off
Speaker 10: the road gone long, and then.
Speaker 2: All the boos up the road, there'd be no people
Speaker 2: on the road.
Speaker 3: Jim, come on, well, anybody who doesn't the thing.
Speaker 10: Is, I mean, people are gonna find out you don't
Speaker 10: need it.
Speaker 3: You need it.
Speaker 10: You need it because if they can't make a positive
Speaker 10: ID on you. The reason why they're doing this is
Speaker 10: because there could be like fifty three Ricardo Valdez right right,
Speaker 10: and so you get pulled, you get pulled over. There's
Speaker 10: a guy named Ricardo Valdez with fifty three warrants out
Speaker 10: for their arrest, and they can't you know, and they
Speaker 10: can't be sure that it's you. You're not here.
Speaker 2: You called really late. I'm flat out of time. We'll
Speaker 2: have more time, next time we chat. Thank you, my friend,
Speaker 2: gotta go. Here comes the eleven. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: Donald Trump versus Harvard University on the other side.