Caloroga Shark Media
June 24, 2025

Is a Costco Card REAL ID?

Is a Costco Card REAL ID?
Is a Costco Card REAL ID?
5 Good News Stories
Is a Costco Card REAL ID?

Uplifting stories including a contender for the world's smallest dog, a Sun bear's miraculous recovery from cancer, the recovery of a WWII Canadian naval vessel's bell, and a bear caught on camera stealing in New Hampshire. Johnny Mac also humorously clarifies that Costco cards cannot be used as Real ID.

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0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Man with five new stories. We have a new contender for the world's smallest dog. Kim thinks that Lulu the dog is the smallest. It's a Yorkshire Terrier. It's three inches tall. Now. An old engineer taught me that a dollar bill, if you don't have a ruler around, is exactly six inches long. That comes in handy sometimes when you need to measure on the fly. So fold a dollar bill in half. Now you have three inches. That's how tall this dog is. The dog weighs less than a pound. Kim told the CTV she's probably the sauciest dog I've ever had. When she had her first bath, she swatted it me a bit and told me, I don't like this. She's the tiniest teeth. Now. The official world's shortest dog is a Chihuahua named Pearl, who's a huge three point five to nine inches tall. However, Guinness won't accept official measurements until the dog turns one, and the dog is only about four or five months old at this point, so we'll see.

1:02 Maybe she'll grow. Maybe Gigantic who knows a bear in the Edinburgh Zoo was diagnosed with terminal cancer. This is five good news stories. Relax, I'm not going to sandbag you. The poor bear was given just days to live, but experts are stunned. The bear has gone into remission after taking medicine drenched in honey. Babu the bear is a thirteen year old sun bear. Professor Simon Gerling is the head of Vet Services at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland the RZSS, and was delighted that Babu has responded so positively to the medication. The news is better than we ever hoped for. We were able to stop her pain medication. Now we're gradually reducing her cancer treatment while closely monitoring her remission. In the wild, sun bears typically lived ten to twenty five years. In captivity, they can live up to thirty years. They're hoping Babo now has another decade. That's awesome. A diver has recovered the ship's bell from a World War II Canadian naval vessel. The bell had been missing on the shipwreck for eighty years.

2:00 Dom was searching for the bell on the HMCS Trntonian, which was sunk after being hit by a torpedo in nineteen forty five. The existence of the bell was kind of a myth because no one had seen it in eighty years. Dom found it on his third dive in late April. It took him a few hours to lug it up from sixty nine meters below the surface of the sea. He said another diver saw it and left it there for whatever reason, but since then no one could find it. The wreck is really broken after eighty years. It's covered in fishing gear, doesn't even look like a shipwreck. I think the reason people didn't find it is because it's buried under quite a bit of a rusty plate and fishing net. I saw the rim of it. It caught my eye, put my hand aside and knew exactly what it was. I got super excited. He handed it over to a government official. The government official has the wonderful title Receiver of Wreck. Police were investigating the theft of a trail camera on This happened in New Hampshire.

2:48 The Jackson Police Department shared video on social media showing the thief attempting to steal the camera using its teeth and claws. Yes, the thief was a bear. There seems to be an accomplice. In the we see another bear washing from a short distance away, perhaps at the lookout to see if any cops are coming. The police said, this morning we received a report of a camera theft in town. Fortunately the suspect was caught on the camera in the act. Does anyone recognize this bear? He's described as wearing all black, very suspicious. The post ads this kind of conduct is unbearable. Okay, I know the show's called five Good News Stories, but today I have four good news stories for you and one bad news stories for you. All right, Jonny Mack, what's the bad news? Look, guys, you cannot use a Costco card as real ID. You know the new real idea that you need to fly now?

3:41 You can't use your Costco card. The federal government has gone out of its way to make it clear. They went on social media. The TSA has posted, we love hot dogs and rochistry chickens as much as the next person, but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as real ID, because it absolutely does not. A spokesperson told the San Francisco Gate that the rumor of Costco cards being accepted as official ID pops up every year. Or so it seems some people are confused because both your real ID and the Costco card have a star on it. But just to be clear, Costco cards are not real ID. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you like the program, please tell a friend about it. Maybe they'll get into it too. If you'd like to support the show, a great way to do it become a premium subscriber go to cali roga dot com slash plus for five bucks a month. You'll get not only this show, but like twenty five plus others on the network.

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