June 24, 2025

Is a Costco Card REAL ID?

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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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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Man with five

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new stories. We have a new contender for the world's

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smallest dog. Kim thinks that Lulu the dog is the smallest.

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It's a Yorkshire Terrier. It's three inches tall. Now. An

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old engineer taught me that a dollar bill, if you

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don't have a ruler around, is exactly six inches long.

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That comes in handy sometimes when you need to measure

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on the fly. So fold a dollar bill in half.

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Now you have three inches. That's how tall this dog is.

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The dog weighs less than a pound. Kim told the

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CTV she's probably the sauciest dog I've ever had. When

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she had her first bath, she swatted it me a

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bit and told me, I don't like this. She's the

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tiniest teeth. Now. The official world's shortest dog is a

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Chihuahua named Pearl, who's a huge three point five to

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nine inches tall. However, Guinness won't accept official measurements until

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the dog turns one, and the dog is only about

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four or five months old at this point, so we'll see.

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Maybe she'll grow. Maybe Gigantic who knows a bear in

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the Edinburgh Zoo was diagnosed with terminal cancer. This is

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five good news stories. Relax, I'm not going to sandbag you.

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The poor bear was given just days to live, but

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experts are stunned. The bear has gone into remission after

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taking medicine drenched in honey. Babu the bear is a

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thirteen year old sun bear. Professor Simon Gerling is the

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head of Vet Services at the Royal Zoological Society of

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Scotland the RZSS, and was delighted that Babu has responded

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so positively to the medication. The news is better than

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we ever hoped for. We were able to stop her

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pain medication. Now we're gradually reducing her cancer treatment while

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closely monitoring her remission. In the wild, sun bears typically

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lived ten to twenty five years. In captivity, they can

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live up to thirty years. They're hoping Babo now has

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another decade. That's awesome. A diver has recovered the ship's

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bell from a World War II Canadian naval vessel. The

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bell had been missing on the shipwreck for eighty years.

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Dom was searching for the bell on the HMCS Trntonian,

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which was sunk after being hit by a torpedo in

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nineteen forty five. The existence of the bell was kind

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of a myth because no one had seen it in

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eighty years. Dom found it on his third dive in

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late April. It took him a few hours to lug

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it up from sixty nine meters below the surface of

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the sea. He said another diver saw it and left

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it there for whatever reason, but since then no one

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could find it. The wreck is really broken after eighty years.

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It's covered in fishing gear, doesn't even look like a shipwreck.

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I think the reason people didn't find it is because

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it's buried under quite a bit of a rusty plate

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and fishing net. I saw the rim of it. It

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caught my eye, put my hand aside and knew exactly

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what it was. I got super excited. He handed it

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over to a government official. The government official has the

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wonderful title Receiver of Wreck. Police were investigating the theft

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of a trail camera on This happened in New Hampshire.

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The Jackson Police Department shared video on social media showing

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the thief attempting to steal the camera using its teeth

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and claws. Yes, the thief was a bear. There seems

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to be an accomplice. In the we see another bear

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washing from a short distance away, perhaps at the lookout

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to see if any cops are coming. The police said,

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this morning we received a report of a camera theft

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in town. Fortunately the suspect was caught on the camera

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in the act. Does anyone recognize this bear? He's described

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as wearing all black, very suspicious. The post ads this

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kind of conduct is unbearable. Okay, I know the show's

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called five Good News Stories, but today I have four

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good news stories for you and one bad news stories

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for you. All right, Jonny Mack, what's the bad news? Look, guys,

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you cannot use a Costco card as real ID. You

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know the new real idea that you need to fly now?

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You can't use your Costco card. The federal government has

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gone out of its way to make it clear. They

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went on social media. The TSA has posted, we love

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hot dogs and rochistry chickens as much as the next person,

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but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as

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real ID, because it absolutely does not. A spokesperson told

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the San Francisco Gate that the rumor of Costco cards

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being accepted as official ID pops up every year. Or

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so it seems some people are confused because both your

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real ID and the Costco card have a star on it.

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But just to be clear, Costco cards are not real ID.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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