Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray i WBZ Costin's new
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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone. My name is Dan Ray. I'm the
Speaker 2: host of this program, night Side with Dan Ray, and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about something that maybe some of
Speaker 2: you have experienced up close and personal. I was told
Speaker 2: by a couple of friends of mine this week that
Speaker 2: they could not get an appointment at the Registery of
Speaker 2: Motor Vehicles or at Triple A in order to get
Speaker 2: their real ID license. Now, if you're familiar with this,
Speaker 2: you'll follow along, but if you're not, let me explain
Speaker 2: that in the wake of nine to eleven, the horrific
Speaker 2: event of September eleventh, two thousand and one, when this
Speaker 2: country was shocked by planes flying into not only the
Speaker 2: Pentagon that Field in Pennsylvania skang Skill, Pennsylvania, but also
Speaker 2: into the World Trade Center, the two big World Trade centers,
Speaker 2: which had been the skyline of New York. People in
Speaker 2: authority said, well, we have to make sure that nothing
Speaker 2: like that ever happens again. And one of the ideas
Speaker 2: that they came up with was that every American who
Speaker 2: wanted to get on an airplane, either domestic or foreign,
Speaker 2: or any American who wanted access to a federal building
Speaker 2: would have to get a driver's license, which was called
Speaker 2: the real ID driver's license in all fifty states, didn't
Speaker 2: matter where you lived. So I'm looking at my driver's license,
Speaker 2: which I've had now for several years, because the first
Speaker 2: deadline for the real ID licenses were October was October
Speaker 2: of two, and of course what had happened earlier in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty was the arrival of COVID, so the deadline
Speaker 2: for the real ID driver's licenses ended and it was
Speaker 2: basically said, we'll put it off. So they've had four
Speaker 2: or five deadlines, but this deadline is an actual real deadline,
Speaker 2: and it has caused a lot of problems at not
Speaker 2: only the registry offices where in the year that you
Speaker 2: have to get a photograph on your license generally well,
Speaker 2: licenses are in Massachusetts. I can't speak for the rest
Speaker 2: of the country, but a five years so when you
Speaker 2: get a license is good for five years. If you
Speaker 2: get a license. Let's keep it simple. Let's say you
Speaker 2: get a license this year, you don't have to renew
Speaker 2: it for five When you renew it, if you haven't
Speaker 2: had a picture taken in ten years, you got to
Speaker 2: get a picture taken, and that means you've got to
Speaker 2: win the registry. Well, to turn your license into a
Speaker 2: real ID driver's license, you got to have a picture.
Speaker 2: They want to know who you are, they want to
Speaker 2: know what you look like. So the rush is on.
Speaker 2: The rush is on. And there has been a good
Speaker 2: friend of mine who told me that he spent the
Speaker 2: entire day one day calling registry offices around the Commonwealth
Speaker 2: in the hopes of getting a license. Again, just the
Speaker 2: idea that hey, it's got to get done now. If
Speaker 2: you don't have a real ID, you can't fly on
Speaker 2: an airplane unless you carry your passport. If you want
Speaker 2: to go into a federal office building, you can't get
Speaker 2: into the office building unless you have a driver's license
Speaker 2: with this in Massachusetts, it's a gold circle with a
Speaker 2: white star up in the upper right hand corner. So
Speaker 2: I have a real idea. It's a pain in the
Speaker 2: neck to get one, by the way, I'll get into
Speaker 2: that in a second. However, just to get an appointment
Speaker 2: has been nigh on impossible. So this friend of mine
Speaker 2: told me, I guess it was Monday, that he had
Speaker 2: spent much of the weekend just calling around to registry
Speaker 2: offices and there was nothing available. Finally got an appointment,
Speaker 2: but at the Registry office on Nantucket. Not particularly convenient. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're living in Nuntucket in the late winter, early spring,
Speaker 2: I'm sure that the population has not increased dramatically throughout
Speaker 2: the winters. Yere all set but everyone else. And so
Speaker 2: today the Registry said, we're going to now start taking
Speaker 2: walk ins. However, be prepared to wait. I mean the
Speaker 2: idea of setting up an appointment. If you set up
Speaker 2: an appoint for three o'clock, you arrive at five to three,
Speaker 2: and hopefully you're out of there by three point fifteen. So,
Speaker 2: as I understand it, people whose licenses are not expiring
Speaker 2: for a couple of months or even a couple of
Speaker 2: years because of this deadline, which is May seventh, seventh,
Speaker 2: so it's, you know, a little more than two weeks away.
Speaker 2: There's a on the Registry Motor Vehicles website there's this
Speaker 2: two page explainer and it's it's it's unbelievable. It's as
Speaker 2: beginning May seventh, twenty twenty five, you will need real
Speaker 2: idea or other acceptable ideas, such as a valid passport
Speaker 2: to fly within the US access certain federal facilities or
Speaker 2: military bases. So documents must comply with the following criteria.
Speaker 2: They must be originals. Photocopies will not be accepted. Eliminated
Speaker 2: documents will not be accepted. A single document cannot be
Speaker 2: used to meet multiple proof requirements when applying for real ID.
Speaker 2: If you're missing a required document, your credential will not
Speaker 2: be processed. So you have to have, amongst other things,
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about Massachusetts, but this is
Speaker 2: a federal proof of lawful presence, proof of date of birth.
Speaker 2: All documents must be valid and unexpired. One document required,
Speaker 2: so they give you a whole bunch of options here,
Speaker 2: proof of lawful presence, a US passport or a passport card, original,
Speaker 2: a certified vision of a version of a US birth certificate,
Speaker 2: and it goes on. You know, it has to list
Speaker 2: your full name, your parents, the birth certificate to parents' names,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Puerto Rican birth certificates. It gets into it
Speaker 2: gets into the weeds here, okay, consular reporter birth abroad
Speaker 2: a CRBA. Politicians or rather these these bureaucrats love acronyms.
Speaker 2: Permanent resident card issued by the Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 2: or US Citizenship and Immigration USCIS Form one DASH five
Speaker 2: five to one. In addition to proof of your birth okay,
Speaker 2: to prove who you are, et cetera. Your current name
Speaker 2: much matched the name on your lawful president documents. When
Speaker 2: applying for real ID driver's license. That could be a
Speaker 2: problem if you don't have your marriage certificate. What about
Speaker 2: if you're divorced the divorce degree your previous name must
Speaker 2: be included in the divorce degree a court document. Then
Speaker 2: on the other side, proof of Social Security number. Well,
Speaker 2: the Solid Security Number number card cannot be laminated. I mean,
Speaker 2: how many people have their original Solid Security card? I
Speaker 2: would bet not many. And if they haven't, the probably
Speaker 2: eliminated a W two form that displays a nine digit
Speaker 2: sold Security number that would work an SSA ten ninety
Speaker 2: nine form, on and on and on, and then proof
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts residency Massachusetts are in the issue documents current
Speaker 2: driver's license, current Massachusetts ID card, liquor ID not accepted,
Speaker 2: current learners permit, and on and on. It goes state
Speaker 2: and federally agency issued documents to prove your Massachusetts residency. Property,
Speaker 2: real estate tax for current year, excise tax for current year,
Speaker 2: Court correspondence stated within sixty days, so if you've been
Speaker 2: arrested within sixty days are okay. Bills must be data
Speaker 2: within sixty days. Utility bills, Medicare, hospital and health insurance statement,
Speaker 2: cell phone bill, insurance bill, lease a mortgage, financial documents,
Speaker 2: Federal tax documents from the immediate prior year, current pension statement,
Speaker 2: pay stump data within data within sixty days. School issued documents,
Speaker 2: including for any university, college, or trade school, official school
Speaker 2: transcript for current year, tuition for current year, insurance related documents. Look,
Speaker 2: this is so complicated. I know when I applied for
Speaker 2: mine several years ago, I showed up and I needed
Speaker 2: more documents. I had to go back home. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I want to open up the phone lines, and if
Speaker 2: you've been able to get your real ID card license,
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear how easy it was. If you've
Speaker 2: been in line most of the day, love to hear
Speaker 2: what the weight's been like. I'm going to open up
Speaker 2: the phone lines. I want to give you the heads
Speaker 2: up that it's not as if if you don't have it,
Speaker 2: I would say wait until after May seventh, because I
Speaker 2: think the crush that is on now would probably abate
Speaker 2: after May seventh, six, two, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. Feel free to join the conversation if
Speaker 2: you had an experience, good, bad, or ugly. Love to
Speaker 2: hear from you coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w BZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we have a bunch of lines lit up,
Speaker 2: only one line is opened. Six one, seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. Let me start it off with Bob
Speaker 2: and Raynham Massachusetts down in the southeast corner of the state. Bob,
Speaker 2: have you got your real ID yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Dan, I actually got it yesterday.
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 2: It was How easier? How difficult was us? Was it?
Speaker 2: Tell us the truth?
Speaker 4: It was a piece of cake.
Speaker 2: Really, I I was.
Speaker 4: I was actually running errand and I saw the the
Speaker 4: RMV sign and I said, oh boy, I got to
Speaker 4: get a real ID. So I walked in the front
Speaker 4: door of the as a kid. At the counter, I
Speaker 4: waited like three people. I said, Hey, how do I
Speaker 4: get a real ID? Can I make an appointment to
Speaker 4: get a real ID? He said, can you come back
Speaker 4: later today? I said, yeah, sure, And I went back
Speaker 4: at three twenty and I had my real ID by three.
Speaker 6: Now he gave me.
Speaker 4: He gave me a he gave me a form at
Speaker 4: noontime that I had to fill out. And I knew
Speaker 4: about all the pieces of ID I needed, and I
Speaker 4: brought all those and yeah, it was a piece of kick.
Speaker 2: How tough was it to pull the pieces the I
Speaker 2: d pieces together. I went to a triple A office.
Speaker 2: This would have been at least three or four years ago.
Speaker 2: It might have been the first or second deadline. And
Speaker 2: they were very, very particular about what what type of
Speaker 2: document you brought back. I brought my passport, I brought
Speaker 2: my birth certificate, but apparently all I needed was one
Speaker 2: or the other, so it only count the passport and
Speaker 2: birth certificate only counted for one. But I needed, I
Speaker 2: don't know, you know, a real estate bill to prove
Speaker 2: that I lived where I lived although the address was
Speaker 2: on my license. Did you do it in one that
Speaker 2: one visit? Did you bring? Were you small enough to
Speaker 2: bring everything back you needed?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I actually I actually did. The hottest thing for
Speaker 4: me was finding my birth certificate. But I as soon
Speaker 4: as I found that, I used that. I used a
Speaker 4: utility bill I used. I do actually have my original
Speaker 4: Social Security number believe it or not, Social Security CAD
Speaker 4: and really.
Speaker 2: When you were a kid, you mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty counted and torn, but it's behind
Speaker 4: my license and my wallet, so I always know where
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, that's good. That's you know, you get it
Speaker 2: replacement card for that. By the way, if you if
Speaker 2: you write to sold Security or you called SO.
Speaker 4: Security, yeah we'll give you.
Speaker 2: They'll give you a nice, clean, new copy that you
Speaker 2: can keep as a you know, as a as a
Speaker 2: as a backup. So it worked for you. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: great to hear, Bob. That's a good story. Now I
Speaker 2: believe that they give you a temporary license and then
Speaker 2: your final I D Real ID license comes to you
Speaker 2: in the mail. Correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. I got a paper paper photo ID
Speaker 4: and the real ones coming in like two weeks.
Speaker 2: I guess, gotcha. Perfect? Okay, Well, you did it. You
Speaker 2: did it. You You struck while the iron was hot.
Speaker 2: You saw an opportunity, and I congratulate you on it.
Speaker 2: I really do any other tips you would give was
Speaker 2: was the was the R and V location that you
Speaker 2: went to? Was it crowded or did you just happen
Speaker 2: to luck?
Speaker 4: I think I lucked out a little bit. I went
Speaker 4: right before lunchtime and it wasn't too crowded. Then when
Speaker 4: I did go back to get my appointment though, it
Speaker 4: was a zoo. But I mean I got to give
Speaker 4: the I got to give the registered credit. They really
Speaker 4: cleaned up their act over the years and it's very
Speaker 4: well organized and it's yeah, I give them kudos. Sounds
Speaker 4: well the one I went to.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, Bob, thank you very much for checking in.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thanks so much. So I have a
Speaker 2: good one. When we were talking last night with Mark
Speaker 2: shield Drop of Triple A, I have some sound from him. So, Dan,
Speaker 2: if you would go to cut number twelve for me. Uh,
Speaker 2: this was a bit of a conversation I had with
Speaker 2: Mark a shield Drop of Triple A, because Triple A's
Speaker 2: offices also can be a place that you could go
Speaker 2: to get your real ID. Play for me cut twelve
Speaker 2: if you'd be so kind, Dan.
Speaker 7: It's May seventh, and yes, we are seeing very strong,
Speaker 7: very high volumes at our branches, and I know the
Speaker 7: Registry is also experiencing that. So getting an appointment on
Speaker 7: those reservation systems that we offer maybe a challenge. You
Speaker 7: got to keep checking throughout the day. Slots do open up,
Speaker 7: so people are grabbing slots, but there's a lot of
Speaker 7: demand people. I think some folks are maybe a little
Speaker 7: bit more panicky than.
Speaker 8: They should be.
Speaker 7: There's some misinformation out there, some confusion, and I take
Speaker 7: ownership for some of that too, because it's hard to
Speaker 7: get the messaging right. But there are folks who think
Speaker 7: that they're the driver's license in their wallet's going to
Speaker 7: be no good after May seventh, and that's not the
Speaker 7: case at all. A lot of people don't realize that
Speaker 7: it's literally to board a domestic flight or go into
Speaker 7: a federal building. Your old license is perfectly fine. That
Speaker 7: will still work as a regular driver's license. You don't
Speaker 7: need to rush in unless you have a trip plant
Speaker 7: after May seventh. If you're going to be flying, you know,
Speaker 7: May tenth, and you don't have a real ID, yeah,
Speaker 7: you should probably get that done if you can, or
Speaker 7: you should have already gotten that done. The thing is, though,
Speaker 7: if you have a valid passport, that will also work
Speaker 7: on getting on a plane. So what we are seeing
Speaker 7: is there are folks that want to get the real
Speaker 7: idea before the deadline because they do have travel there's
Speaker 7: a lot of folks that think they have to get it,
Speaker 7: or it's a real sense of urgency. But when you
Speaker 7: talk to them, it's like, no, you still have a passport.
Speaker 7: You use that passport. Just wait till it dies down.
Speaker 7: I think after May seventh we will see numbers kind
Speaker 7: of get back to normal and things settle down a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 2: As Mark she dropped last night during our eight o'clock
Speaker 2: hour from Triple A, and what Mark said was good advice,
Speaker 2: no question about that. However, if I'm traveling domestically, I'm
Speaker 2: not interested in walking around my passport in my pocket.
Speaker 2: I really am not. I I like to put my
Speaker 2: passport away and when I have to use it for
Speaker 2: an international flight, I use it. Uh. So that's why
Speaker 2: there is a pressure for for for your real ID.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna take a quick break here for some
Speaker 2: news at the bottom of the hours nine thirty week
Speaker 2: come back. Got Maria, got Doreen, got Bernie, and I
Speaker 2: got Tim and I got some room for you. One
Speaker 2: line at six one seven nine B right back on
Speaker 2: Night's side, talking about the rush to get real IDs licenses. Uh,
Speaker 2: this is a real deadline. They've had previous deadlines which
Speaker 2: they have changed and delayed. This is the real deadline
Speaker 2: May seventh. Can you get the real idea after May seventh? Yes,
Speaker 2: but depending upon when you get it, you might have
Speaker 2: to carry your passport with you to fly on airplane,
Speaker 2: so to go onto federal buildings. You know your schedule.
Speaker 2: You you you know your needs better than me. Join
Speaker 2: the Conversation.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phones here. We're going
Speaker 2: to go to Maria in Tewkesbury, Massachusetts. Hi Maria, thanks
Speaker 2: for calling in and thank you for holding on. How
Speaker 2: are you tonight?
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 9: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great. So what has been your experience?
Speaker 2: Have you been in a in a real id line
Speaker 2: today or this week?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 9: Uh no, I think your previous caller is very lucky
Speaker 9: to get in.
Speaker 8: This was actually my son.
Speaker 9: And who needed to get his real life d and
Speaker 9: his license was expiring, so you know, he went through
Speaker 9: the process of doing the application online and once you're finished,
Speaker 9: they send you a link to make your appointment.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the.
Speaker 9: Link was worse than trying to get concert tickets. It
Speaker 9: would be he would click on the link, and all
Speaker 9: these registries would show up and none of.
Speaker 10: Them would have appointments available.
Speaker 9: They just say no appointments available, no appointments available, and
Speaker 9: they tell you that every hour more appointments are released,
Speaker 9: So you need to go back to this link every
Speaker 9: hour and just keep clicking on it. And it's almost
Speaker 9: like you'd see an appointment and then you'd go to
Speaker 9: Brabit and it would be gone.
Speaker 3: It was insane.
Speaker 10: So what we ended up doing is I ended up
Speaker 10: adding him to my Triple A and we did get
Speaker 10: an appointment at Triple A, but it was still two
Speaker 10: weeks house, so it was okay.
Speaker 2: So he's got the appointment for two weeks. Uh does
Speaker 2: will will he get a license before before his old
Speaker 2: license expires? Is will he cut that close?
Speaker 9: He got his license on April ninth? Okay, so yep,
Speaker 9: but he his license had expired ten days and there
Speaker 9: was nothing we could do about it. He actually walked
Speaker 9: into a registry just to make sure he couldn't just
Speaker 9: walk in, and he was turned away at the door.
Speaker 7: Nope, you need to make an appointment.
Speaker 2: So even telling them that hey, my license has now
Speaker 2: expired at the registry, they said, no, you got to
Speaker 2: get out of here. Basically they knew that he was
Speaker 2: going to drive home with an expired license exactly. The
Speaker 2: Registry has never been the epitome of efficiency in Massachuset sits.
Speaker 2: But this, this has been a tough, tough few weeks.
Speaker 2: And I suspect it's only going to get worse between
Speaker 2: now and in May seventh. And if people can hold off,
Speaker 2: you think the best advice I could give them would
Speaker 2: be to hold off until after May seventh, because I
Speaker 2: think some of those those those locations might may loosen up.
Speaker 2: Then congratulations in helping your son. That you're a good
Speaker 2: mom to do that. Get him under, Get him under.
Speaker 2: Can I make a suggestion to you. I have all
Speaker 2: my kids under my triple A because even if they
Speaker 2: are a passenger in a car and and and they
Speaker 2: and and the car has a flat tire, Uh, they're covered. Uh.
Speaker 2: It's really a pretty good deal if if you can.
Speaker 2: You know, it costs a little more, but it's not
Speaker 2: that much more.
Speaker 4: And and it's great to have children.
Speaker 9: They're they're both under it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a great I think it's great suggestion,
Speaker 2: And I make it again. You know the cost of
Speaker 2: a single membership. Then you add the rest of the
Speaker 2: family on. And what I found out is that they
Speaker 2: don't have to be in their car or a car
Speaker 2: owned by my family. My understanding is that they're driving
Speaker 2: with their buddies up to Maine or down to the Cape,
Speaker 2: and their friend's car, you know, runs out of gas
Speaker 2: or has a flat tire, they can use their Triple
Speaker 2: A car to get them to get everybody back on
Speaker 2: the road, which is a great deal when you think
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 8: I agree.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Thanks Maria, very nice to talk with you.
Speaker 2: Have a happy Easter if you celebrate Easter.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, hid you as well.
Speaker 2: Bye, Thank you much appreciate it. Good night. All right,
Speaker 2: let me go next to We're going to go next
Speaker 2: to doren In. Yeah, Dorena is in Chelsea. Hi, Doreen.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 11: How are you?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Did you get your new license or no?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 8: Because I belong to Triple A Okay, and I can
Speaker 8: wait a couple of years because I'm not traveling. I
Speaker 8: don't travel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's that makes sense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and the only thing I would travel on, well,
Speaker 8: I like buses, cars and trains.
Speaker 2: You like to have your feet or at least the
Speaker 2: vehicle you're riding in on the ground. I understand that.
Speaker 8: Yes, and I like ships, but I already went to
Speaker 8: Nova Scotia, so I don't need to see it anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, you got some pictures, right, got some postcards? You're
Speaker 2: all set? Uh?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: In the end, I wanted to say something to you
Speaker 8: before I leave.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not I'm not kicking out of it. I
Speaker 2: was going to tell you one thing before you say something.
Speaker 2: If it's okay, The only thing is that you're going
Speaker 2: to need. If you have to go to a federal
Speaker 2: office building, it's the same as flying on a plane.
Speaker 2: So without the the real ID. If you've got to
Speaker 2: go to the JFK building or the o'neio building downtown
Speaker 2: for any reason, bring a passport with you because you
Speaker 2: got to got to have something to get in.
Speaker 8: After me, Well, I have a birth certificate and my
Speaker 8: Social Security number and.
Speaker 2: That I hope that would work. I hope that would
Speaker 2: work for you.
Speaker 8: Well ahead of time, I have to walk up, you know,
Speaker 8: walk up to the real you know, I usually go
Speaker 8: to Saugust.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what were you going to tell?
Speaker 12: You?
Speaker 2: To ask me something? And I interrupted you, and for
Speaker 2: that I apologize. Go ahead you.
Speaker 8: I know a future a mutual friend of yours store
Speaker 8: painting or painting company that found a baseball card of yours.
Speaker 2: A baseball card of mine.
Speaker 8: Yep, three baseball players on the card baseball and he
Speaker 8: works for the company. Mister Rossy. He did your apartment
Speaker 8: in Boston. I think, well, I had apartment.
Speaker 2: Huh, okay, uh. I got to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: I lived in Boston back in the seventies and eighties,
Speaker 2: that's when it was okay. Yeah, And did I give
Speaker 2: him the car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I talked.
Speaker 8: I talked to him.
Speaker 4: I gave him your name, your number to.
Speaker 8: Call in, I says, because you know I love to
Speaker 8: talk to car show.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love to talk to him. Thanks, Doreen. That's great.
Speaker 2: I should give you like you should become my my public,
Speaker 2: my pr representative. You're you're outspreading threading the word of Nightside,
Speaker 2: and I really do appreciate that.
Speaker 8: Yes, thank you, Thanks Dorene.
Speaker 2: We will so I'm not on a baseball card. I
Speaker 2: don't know what baseball card.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, it's three three baseball people on a
Speaker 8: cat and one I'll say CALIU scrampsky.
Speaker 2: And I gave it to the guy.
Speaker 8: No, he found it in your apartment, okay did he?
Speaker 2: He was?
Speaker 12: He was painting.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and you have you are a lawyer, attorney, yes,
Speaker 11: I am.
Speaker 8: And he founded around amongst the books. It fell on
Speaker 8: the floor.
Speaker 2: Okay. I I hope he gave it back to me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, good, great, Well that's great.
Speaker 2: All the more reason have him give me a call
Speaker 2: because I want to thank him. Okay, thanks, thanks, Dorry,
Speaker 2: and I loved your call. Thank you so much. Have
Speaker 2: a great weekend and happy Easter.
Speaker 11: Okay you too, Bye bye, Thanks.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dory, and good night. Okay. I had to figure
Speaker 2: that one out. Okay, all right, six one, the only
Speaker 2: line opened, six one, seven thirty. I got Ellen, I
Speaker 2: got Bernie, and I got Tim, and I got a
Speaker 2: little room for you. If this continues, we'll take it
Speaker 2: into the ten o'clock hour. If it doesn't, we're going
Speaker 2: to switch to President Trump versus Harvard University. It is
Speaker 2: a match of the Titans, that is for sure. We'll
Speaker 2: break it down for you back on Nightside right after
Speaker 2: this quick break at nine, You're.
Speaker 1: On night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna get everyone in. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Bernie up in New Hampshire. Bernie, how things in New
Speaker 2: Hampshire are the real id?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 3: How are we doing tonight?
Speaker 2: Dan? I'm doing great. Great to hear your voice. Bernie,
Speaker 2: you got real idea up in New Hampshire as well,
Speaker 2: I assume right deadline looking at Yes.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I got mind the same as you, probably three
Speaker 3: years ago when my license was due.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The way I got it is I have this wife
Speaker 3: who keeps records and everything in boulders and everything is
Speaker 3: like anything you need.
Speaker 5: She said, Bernie, you take this stuff to the registry,
Speaker 5: you go up to the town, you give.
Speaker 3: Them this stuff and you'll get the real I D.
Speaker 3: And thankfully, my wife is so meticulous that stuff like this.
Speaker 3: That's all I had to do. I walked up and
Speaker 3: I gave the nice lady at the counter my stuff,
Speaker 3: and next thing I know, I had a real I D.
Speaker 8: Because I'm Bernie.
Speaker 2: Bernie, You're you're You're one lucky guy.
Speaker 5: Don't believe me.
Speaker 3: Believe Dan you that was the understatement of the evening.
Speaker 5: Because I tell my friends and work when when you
Speaker 5: know what, the day my wife dies she's gonna go
Speaker 5: to heaven and beat a paint and saint of wives
Speaker 5: and pull their hands out because of their husbands, and
Speaker 5: they all Saint.
Speaker 3: Bernie, she's already a saint living with you.
Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say that, I I I sometimes
Speaker 2: say that to friends of mine, their wives, and I'll
Speaker 2: and I'll say their name, and I'll say you're a saint,
Speaker 2: or or I'll say to someone like you, Bernie, you've
Speaker 2: married well, and you know what I'm saying, you've married.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, yeah, you don't have to explain that quick story.
Speaker 3: We went passports three years ago, Brus and she had
Speaker 3: a she had an envelope for Bernie, an en below
Speaker 3: Fort Frank and en below for Olivia. And she just
Speaker 3: handed us the envelopes and we walked up to the couch.
Speaker 3: That's how it works in my house.
Speaker 2: You're blessed. You're blessed. You you must have done something
Speaker 2: right in this life to deserve your wife, Bertie. Let
Speaker 2: me put it like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, no, I believe me when I tell you
Speaker 3: I am the most blessed man alive.
Speaker 5: Dan.
Speaker 3: You have a great Easter holiday you.
Speaker 2: Too as well, Bertie. Okay, have a have a safe
Speaker 2: and happy and uh and holy ees to thank you
Speaker 2: so much. We'll talk so thanks Bertie, thank you all right, say,
Speaker 2: how do you send for us? Okay? We oh, I will,
Speaker 2: I will hands of that young marine. Okay, thanks so much,
Speaker 2: but good night, we're gonna go next. That got Tim
Speaker 2: and Wilburn. Tim, do you get your your ID, your
Speaker 2: real ID yet? Or no?
Speaker 4: Yes I do?
Speaker 11: Anyhow, here is my experience. I went to the registry.
Speaker 11: I went to the registry right. I was there for
Speaker 11: almost three hours to get an appointment to get the license.
Speaker 11: So any three hours I was breathing fire. So I
Speaker 11: got the appointment like it was two weeks later.
Speaker 4: I went home.
Speaker 11: Breathing fire and I start on a friend of mine.
Speaker 4: He said, go to Triple A. I went to Triple
Speaker 4: A up in Burlington. All I needed for I showed
Speaker 4: them my ID, my draft card and my SO security number.
Speaker 4: I was there for twenty minutes.
Speaker 11: I got my picture ID. I'm all set.
Speaker 2: Well, Tim, that was that was my experience. You had
Speaker 2: a better experience than I did. But I did do
Speaker 2: Triple A. This was two or three years ago, but
Speaker 2: it's still when you look at the materials and they
Speaker 2: give you all these options. It's like looking at a menu.
Speaker 2: I just want to see your top three items on
Speaker 2: the menu. I don't need to see salads, appetizers. I
Speaker 2: know what I want to eat, you know, And that's right.
Speaker 2: You look at the menu and it's like what you know?
Speaker 2: Or or you look at you say do you have
Speaker 2: a beer menu? They hand you a beer menu and
Speaker 2: there's eleven hundred beers you know, I've never heard of.
Speaker 2: It's like, do you have cause light?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, we do. I'll take a course light. Simple as that,
Speaker 2: you know why? Kind of a simple guide, Tim, I'm
Speaker 2: kind of a simple guy, you know.
Speaker 11: So I why does it say on my license?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Not for the Federal ID.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I'm looking at my license here
Speaker 2: and I don't see that, my friends.
Speaker 11: For federal ID.
Speaker 2: Set on the front.
Speaker 11: I don't need one anyhow.
Speaker 2: No, but is that on the front of the back
Speaker 2: on the front. Nope, like that I got? I got it,
Speaker 2: says Massachusetts driver's license. It has the date of issue
Speaker 2: as the date of expiration. It tells me, you know,
Speaker 2: I have an S number, my date of birth and
Speaker 2: that's about it. You know, when my picture birthdate, I
Speaker 2: don't have anything that says not for federal ID. Maybe
Speaker 2: you've got a different type. All right, Tim, bring it,
Speaker 2: bring it to the to the big Brunch on April
Speaker 2: twenty seventh. I look at it for you.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'll be well on my night's side, tea shooting.
Speaker 11: Happy Easter.
Speaker 2: Happy Easter to you as well, Tim, Thanks much, stock
Speaker 2: soon have a great night, good night. All right, let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling. You're gonna go to Ellen in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Ellen,
Speaker 2: you're next do nights. I go right ahead.
Speaker 12: I just had a question.
Speaker 8: Sure I have jewelry duty.
Speaker 12: Yes, May fourteenth, I don't have a federal ID.
Speaker 6: Doesn't matter, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't matter because you have your driver's license,
Speaker 2: which is a regular driver's license, right, and you'll show
Speaker 2: up and they will welcome you with open arms. You know,
Speaker 2: are you going into a federal grand jury or into
Speaker 2: a state grand jury?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 12: It's Brockton Court.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's state. So you're all set. That's state. If
Speaker 2: you had been subpoena to appear, you know, for a
Speaker 2: jury being possible in a jury in a federal courthouse,
Speaker 2: you would need the federal ID.
Speaker 12: I would and could I just comment on but not
Speaker 12: for Brockton.
Speaker 2: You're all set for Brockton. Go ahead, make your comment,
Speaker 2: go right ahead.
Speaker 12: On my license, it does say not for Federal ID.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, maybe Tim is. Yeah, that's why I asked.
Speaker 2: I'll have to look at Tim's license when when I
Speaker 2: see him in a bunch of other Knights that listeners.
Speaker 2: In April twenty seventh, at the Newralei Restaurant in Westwood,
Speaker 2: we're doing a Sunday brunch there for night side listeners,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 12: Have to say, long time listener, first time call.
Speaker 2: We got to get your round of applause. I hope
Speaker 2: that Dan Kadana has the Yeah, he's got the digital
Speaker 2: studio audience with a with a round of applause. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much, Allen. That's great, love your call. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much, and.
Speaker 12: Please thank you, thank you for answering my question.
Speaker 2: Ye're very welcome. Thanks. Okay, good luck on jury duty.
Speaker 2: Thanks good night. Let me go to Joe and Boston.
Speaker 2: Joe your next time nights. I go ahead, Joe, Okay,
Speaker 2: if Joe is not there, we'll put Joe on hold
Speaker 2: and try to get him back. And let me try
Speaker 2: to get Abraham and New Report. Abraham, how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 6: I'm doing great. Dan, how about you?
Speaker 2: I'm great. We're a little tight on time. I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna be the last caller of the hour. What's
Speaker 2: your question or comment or experience?
Speaker 6: My own experience. I'm a renta and I get most
Speaker 6: of my mails sent to my PO box just because
Speaker 6: it's safer, and in order to get my federal or
Speaker 6: my real ID bring my whole basic file cabinet with
Speaker 6: me to the register. It's pretty hard because when you
Speaker 6: get stuff to your PO box, it doesn't have your
Speaker 6: residential address. I have a cable bill going to my
Speaker 6: PO box, but it has the service address is my
Speaker 6: residential address?
Speaker 2: That don't work?
Speaker 6: But you won't accept it. They won't REGISTERY doesn't accept it. No,
Speaker 6: same thing. What's renters? Same thing? What's renters insurance? The
Speaker 6: policy goes to my PO box, but the insured address
Speaker 6: is my residential address. Wouldn't accept that either. That's the
Speaker 6: last thing I wanted to say. Oh, it was frustrating.
Speaker 6: Luckily I brought my file cabinet at three, so I
Speaker 6: was able to. But the last comment is, you know,
Speaker 6: I remember years ago the Republicans were against the National
Speaker 6: ID yep, and now it seems like that's what we
Speaker 6: have as a national ID.
Speaker 2: I think that the Republicans after nine to eleven were
Speaker 2: convinced that we had to have something, and that's that's
Speaker 2: what I think happened. I think that they changed their
Speaker 2: mind on that, to be honest with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I've changed their mind on it. Anyways, Dan,
Speaker 6: hope you have a nice night. Thank you for taking
Speaker 6: my call.
Speaker 2: You too, Thanks very much. Abraham, we'll talk soon. Do
Speaker 2: you celebrate Passover Easter? What's your holiday this week?
Speaker 6: I'm nationally more Native American. I use it a ne
Speaker 6: Abraham because it's the father of all three religions.
Speaker 2: I gotcha.
Speaker 6: Okay, Christianity. So enjoy your weekend karaoke or when I
Speaker 6: call it for radio station.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, all right, very nice to meet Abraham. I
Speaker 2: hope you call it again. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For those of you on the line, Scott, Joe, and Tony,
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