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On Point | Podcast

The real history of REAL ID

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Starting May 7, you will have to have a REAL ID to board a U.S. domestic flight. But so much has changed in the 20 years since Real ID was first proposed, is REAL ID 20 years out-of-date?

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box.

0:03.0

I've painted it silver and Daddy helped me make it.

0:05.0

At Amazon, we're actually using paper bags for more of our deliveries.

0:08.0

And now I'm making a paper hot air balloon

0:11.0

and I even made a little brown basket

0:13.0

and I'm making a dog that looks just like Monty.

0:16.0

Just one of the ways we've reduced the weight of our packaging by more than 40% since 2015,

0:20.0

which is still good for playtime.

0:22.6

Mom, where's the scissors? To learn more, visit aboutamason.com.com.com

0:28.3

of sustainability. Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken? A podcast from

0:34.6

B.U. Questrum School of Business. Follow wherever you get your podcasts,

0:39.0

and stick around until the end of this podcast

0:41.0

for a preview of a recent episode about executive compensation.

0:46.0

WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

0:53.2

This is On Point. I'm Magnetakrabardi.

0:56.5

On the morning of September 11, 2001, flight attendant Betty Ong was working American Airlines Flight 11.

1:04.8

Barely 15 minutes after the aircraft left Boston Logan Airport,

1:09.4

Ong alerted ground-based authorities that something was very, very wrong.

1:14.9

The cockpit's not answering. Somebody stabbed in business class. And I think there's mates that we can't breathe. I don't know. I think we'll get in hijack.

1:24.3

It's been almost a quarter century, but hearing Ong's brave calm still gives me chills.

1:33.3

Well, shortly after Ong's alert, someone from the cockpit began communicating with Boston ground control.

1:40.3

Is that American 11 trying to call?

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