Crypto Scams, Lucky Pants, and Real ID (Hour 1)

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Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm Tal Alba, along with a healthier Aaron Zommers on the board, our producer and engineer.

It is Tuesday, May 6th, 2025.

It is a great day to be a Wisconsin.

Wisconsinite.

I suppose if you're the state of Wisconsin, it's a great day to be a Wisconsin as well.

It's a beautiful day.

Gorgeous, boy George Day.

The skies are blue.

The sun is out.

Temperatures in the low 70s, at least less so along Lake Michigan, as they say, cooler near the shoreline.

Cooler by the lake is what they say.

Cooler by the lake, yeah.

Mr. Zahars, welcome back.

How are you feeling?

You know, better.

I got home from the show on Thursday and was thinking, oh no, here it comes.

You can

tell.

Yeah.

Yeah, sometimes you can just tell.

And then Friday through Sunday, pretty much just slept and had a fever.

And yeah, it was not fun.

Can still tell your voice a little bit.

Oh yeah, definitely

still a little stuffed up, but it's just getting rid of the crud that's still there.

Well,

thank you for coming in today and many thanks to Sam Davison who filled in for you.

Yes.

Thank you, Sam.

While you were under the weather, but glad to have you back in the rotation today, Mr. Sommers.

Glad to have your long big day today.

Coming up in hour number two, we're going to talk to more members of the Main Street Alliance here in Wisconsin, a great group.

We're going to be talking to Matt Roben, or Reuben, we'll find out how to pronounce that when he comes on, from Bricks Cider and also Corinne Hendrickson of Corinne.

little explorers, I believe her business is in Mount Horrib in beautiful, or either Mount Horrib or Nucleus.

We'll figure that out.

And she's gonna be here and talking about childcare.

Now, this is something that I know we've talked about on our show.

Other programs have talked about it as well.

But this is a real issue for Wisconsinites all across the state.

Finding childcare.

the cost of child care.

And so we're going to explore this with Matt and Corinne a little bit.

In our communities across Wisconsin, what's the situation and what can be done to improve it?

So all that coming up in hour two, looking forward to that.

Timely, timely indeed, today is what's worse, having to deal with temperature, sweaty or shivering.

We don't have to ask the Saunders which is worse.

Yeah.

Well, what's really worse is both at the same time when you have a fever,

which is what you had.

Yeah.

No, I'm glad you're no fun.

No fun at all.

So all that many phone calls as well.

I'm going to talk about what tomorrow, by the way, the Brewers, Brewers playing tonight.

Again, once again, the Astros in town like Brewers got to win last night.

And so a 605 broadcast for the pre-game show tonight in Richland Center, Oshkosh, Bagosh, Racine, Kenosha, Park Falls, and now in beautiful Hayward, Wisconsin, Civic Media's newest Milwaukee Brewer's affiliate.

So again, Houston taking on Milwaukee at Ampham Field.

605, your broadcast time tonight.

Gonna talk a little bit about, I know Jane McNair, I'm Matt Nair on air this morning.

Talked about this, I was listening to her great program.

But I think it's important enough that we I plan to talking about it.

I heard Jane and Greg talking about it like well, should I do it or not either?

Well, I I think it's a big enough thing that it bears repeating tomorrow May 7th a big day if you're a traveler Or if you have any business to do with the federal government gonna talk about that in a minute as well, but I want to begin with this

And this is important across the entire state of Wisconsin, but WEAU News, Channel 13 and beautiful Eau Claire Chippewa Valley, who incidentally won a number of Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Awards on Saturday night when I was there.

In addition to our own Maggie Dawn, the Maggie Dawn Show, which follows us every day, Maggie Dawn, named the top radio show in Wisconsin, Large Market,

at the WBAs, that's the big award.

With a second year in a row, right?

Well, last year, I believe it was for her socials, which she also won again this year.

But no, this is either way, this is kind of like the entertainer of the year award in Wisconsin radio.

And Maggie won the whole thing.

So congratulations to her.

By the way, I know you were not there.

We did not win anything.

We did.

Well, I mean, we in the third place out of three nominees.

Oh.

I did not know that.

Yes.

I mean, you know, nobody, nobody celebrates the third place winner the Kentucky Derby's offers.

We ain't, we ain't go into the winner's circle or get into your roses.

Fair enough, fair enough.

But no, but, but no, we did not win anything.

But W-E-A-U for TV, they won a number of awards.

Well, here now, and, and this is in Wood County, but it bears repeating for all of us.

headline Wood County Sheriff's Department warning about cryptocurrency scam.

As the Wood County Sheriff's Department continues to work with Wisconsin state representatives and Wisconsin state senators to create a law to restrict cryptocurrency kiosks, members of our great community continue to be victimized through scams.

These cryptocurrency kiosks

are located in local gas stations or public places where individuals can buy large amounts of cryptocurrencies, which is unrestricted for a large fee.

Normally, the fees are as high as 20 or 30 percent per transaction, which is completely ridiculous when the cryptocurrency can be purchased for free on a cellular phone or home computers.

Have you have you seen these summers driving around?

I have not.

And knowing that they exist has lowered my opinion of humanity.

I

I've seen them.

The whole thing is you can just

go and buy this stuff.

Right.

I've seen these kiosks recently in Wisconsin gas stations.

I'm like, oh, this is new.

And at first I thought it was like a like a slot machine.

I'm like, I don't think we can do that here, can we?

And then no, no, no, it was cryptocurrency.

Back to the story from WEAU in Eau Claire says scammers have taken full advantage of these kiosks and trick people into putting large quantities of US currency into the kiosks.

When cryptocurrency is purchased, a digital wallet is created and quickly stolen from sometimes.

the most vulnerable individuals within the community.

The Wood County Sheriff's Department has executed numerous search warrants on the cryptocurrency kiosks and seized US currency from them.

This money is held in Wood County evidence until interested parties can go through proper court channels to obtain the money.

Recently, a cryptocurrency company has been attempting to bully the Wood County Sheriff's Department in their efforts

to secure the stolen money.

Bitcoin Depot, be aware of that name.

Bitcoin Depot is well aware that cryptocurrency kiosks are being used for money laundering and scams because the Wood County Sheriff's Department moved forward with a valid search warrant on one of the Bitcoin Depot kiosks.

They stopped all refunds in the state of Wisconsin when someone is scammed.

According to the story of EAU news, it'll clear.

They say we believe Bitcoin Depot is taking part in these scams crimes because they know the kiosks are being used as a tool for scammers and they failed to prevent the crimes from taking place.

Bitcoin Depot could hold the transaction for a few days like banks do with large checks or put daily maximum on cash deposits in the kiosks.

But Bitcoin Depot knows that restrictions would cut into their profits even though it's at the hands of criminals.

The Wood County Sheriff's Department will not be bullied, they say, by a company who continues to assist in victimizing individuals within the community.

They say we invite them and other cryptocurrency companies to work with us in creating long-term solutions.

Please contact your local representatives and support laws that will restrict.

Cryptocurrency kiosks.

That's from the BEAU channel 13 news in Eau Claire So I bring this up because again, I Just it's funny this came up on my radar yesterday because I've seen these in different parts of Wisconsin I would say oh over the last month or so And like and what they're doing is they're placing them right next to guess where the AT the ATM machine

Or as we used to say back in Richland Center, the time machine.

You're too young, but they used to be called... No, I know.

Really?

Remember that time?

I

didn't see them, but I know about it.

They were called... It was time.

T-Y-M-E,

yeah.

Right, T-Y-M-E, take your money everywhere.

Clever.

So many of us still call them time machines.

Anyway, so people are placing these crypto machines right next to a time or ATM machine.

So you get your dollars, you get your dollar bills out, and it's like, oh, wow, for only 20%, you could buy cryptocurrency.

And again, to make it overly simplistic for those that might not know, cryptocurrency is basically like the cloud on your phone or your computer.

Oh, it's in the cloud.

You can't see it, you can't touch it.

It's even worse than the cloud, because at least some things in the cloud

You can download on your phone or print them out on your computer.

This stuff, it's not based on the gold standard.

You can't have it in your hands, in your pocket.

It's just digital.

And it's a great way to be scammed.

Now, the Bitcoin, I think, which is the original crypto, right?

Or at least the first one that took off.

Right.

And that's gone up and down.

And some people made a lot of money on Bitcoin.

Some people have lost nearly everything.

My advice and I'm no financial planner.

I'm not here to give you financial advice But just good old-fashioned Wisconsin neighborly advice Stay away from the crypto.

It's a scam.

It's a ripoff These this is the Wild West.

I mean, I guess I guess if you're one of those people who's done very well in life and

You go to Vegas, you go to Ho-Chunk or whatever, and you take $5,000 with you, and you say, yeah, I don't care.

If I lose $5,000, it doesn't matter to me.

If you have that kind of money, OK.

I guess it's like they say with gambling, don't risk more

than you can lose.

Additionally, if you have access to a different kind of time machine spelled with an I, and you can go and buy Bitcoin in 2010, absolutely do that.

Yeah,

absolutely.

You can make a lot of money now.

But on this cryptocurrency,

It's it's dangerous and many things W. E. A. U. News and Eau Claire for bringing us this story and to the Wood County Sheriff's Department as well for cracking down on this stuff.

Because as they point out in their press release, oftentimes it's the most vulnerable, vulnerable people in our communities who, you know, they're trying their best to make ends meet.

And they're like, oh, my gosh.

This must be legitimate because it's in my local gas station and I can turn this around and I can pay my healthcare bills or I can pay my back electric bills.

And it's like mom used to say, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

So just be aware, don't use these crypto currency machines if you see them in gas stations around the state of Wisconsin.

What to move on to tomorrow, today.

It's like it's like the the promos they have for the today show tomorrow on today on NBC On

CBS mornings this morning,

right?

Tomorrow's May 7th May 7th tomorrow the first day that commercial travelers must present a real ID compliant license or another accepted document to board an aircraft in the United States of America and incidentally to go into many federal buildings as well

In 2005, Congress passed the Real ID Act, which sought to improve identity verification to airports that is, in the wake of September 11th attacks.

However, implementation of the law was delayed several times, and the enforcement deadline was last extended in 2022.

However, the Trumpster

not going to extend it by all accounts.

We'll tell you how to make sure you can still fly again into courthouses, don't go anywhere.

It's a Tuesday edition of the All Ball Show.

You're listening to Cross Wisconsin on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Back to tell all about show on the civic media radio network glad to have you long on a Tuesday May 6 2025 glad to have zombers back at the board as he recovers Little chicken soup.

That's what you need zombers.

Well homemade chicken soup.

I should have made some for you.

I'm sorry.

I had some some canned chicken soup the other day Well, that's the best better than

no soup.

It is I think I'm convinced as a combination of the steam and And the salt

and then just the psychological wellness.

Yeah, I think it's all of the

above, I would agree.

Yeah, nothing but mom, grandma always said, little chicken soup will go a long way, and they were right.

All right, talking about tomorrow.

Again, Jane, Matt, Nair, and Greg were fantastic this morning.

Listen to them every morning, nine until 11, Matt Nair on air.

And whatever I hear Jane do a story, I think, well, I can't match that.

And here's the topper.

The only thing I can do better than Jay McNair, I can deliver it without pants.

No, just relax.

Relax out there.

Don't call the FCC.

I have pants on.

Don't worry.

I have no way to rotate the cameras.

Approve

it.

By the way, I got a new pair of pants.

This I was going to talk about this yesterday.

I forgot I'm a reach in my in my pocket.

So I went.

I haven't bought a pair of pants at full price in years.

I discount.

So I go to, uh, I go to one of the outlets the other day over the weekend and I got a pair of lucky pants.

That's the brand called lucky.

And, and I don't know why, but they fit me pretty well.

So I bought a couple pair of them.

They had, they had like half price.

It's like 40 bucks for a pair of pair of jeans.

And I, so they're brand new.

And so I reached inside.

I don't know if they just started doing this or not, or they always have.

They have a fortune in the pants pocket of your lucky jeans.

I'm sure it's because they're lucky.

You're right.

And then they give you lucky numbers.

This is exactly like, it's like a fortune you get in a fortune cookie.

Now they're coming in pants.

That's amazing.

It really is.

And so mine was, and this is pretty good actually, here is my.

My lucky fortune.

It says always expect the unexpected.

That's not a fortune.

It's advice.

It's not exactly a fortune, but it's more than a statement.

That's true.

Because that's my big beef with a lot of Chinese restaurants now.

And they've gotten away from fortune cookies.

I'm not sure they got sued because the fortune didn't come true.

But now it's just like, you know, life is good.

Well, that's not a fortune.

And I've often wanted to debate with the owner of the Chinese restaurant.

Well, they don't make the cookies most of the time.

Well, they buy

them.

That's true.

I mean, come on.

But what are their options?

And by the way, are

we going to be able to get fortune cookies anymore with the tariffs?

Probably not complimentary.

Because if they're made in the United States, they're American

cookies.

They're not Chinese fortune cookies.

Chinese style fortune cookies with style in a very small font?

I don't know.

Thought that was I thought that was fantastic a fortune in a pair of pants Certainly not what I expected Always expect the unexpected

and there's a problem

which by the way is basically the the theme of big brother on CBS expect the unexpected

I'm sorry, I'm not sure how that happened, but we got delayed there This has the story has nothing to do with pants.

You understand except that you have to wear them on planes They do not let you on planes pantsless and starting tomorrow You can't get on a plane unless you have a real ID

According to the Transportation Security Administration, that's TSA to you and me, travelers without a real ID will need to provide an acceptable alternative form of identification, such as a passport or permanent resident card, better known as a green card, and should prepare for additional identity verifications and screenings at the airport.

This from Axios now, it says, brace yourself.

if you're flying in the coming days or weeks for long lines and delays at airports.

And this is great advice.

So if anybody's flying out for the next couple of three weeks, allow it, I would say at least an extra hour of what you normally would, because what you're going to have are people who show up at the airport without a real ID, without a passport, and there's going to be yelling and screaming and gnashing of teeth.

And there's going to be conflict.

It ain't going to be fun.

So tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7th is the first day of real ideas.

We say compliant licenses or another acceptable document to board aircraft.

The new identification requirement also applies when visiting military bases and secure federal buildings like courthouses.

So what is a real ID?

A real idea is a state issued driver's license or identification card that meets federal security standards.

Compliant IDs are typically marked with a star in the upper right corner through the specific design, although a specific design may vary by state.

All right, let's go Zombers.

Here we go.

Reach it over to get my, by the way, I got to go to Texas because I got my, see this great, this great money clip and it's leather.

It's leather.

It has a flag on it.

And you know where I got it?

I got it in Dallas, Texas, or a suburb thereof.

Years ago, I went down to some of my friends, Alex and Kristen, at this great little shop.

And it, unfortunately, it's been years and years, lasted well, but the problem is I stuffed it with too many things.

And so now, I either got to, I either got to find some place here, I got to, I have to go to Texas to go shopping.

Well, you better have a real ID,

right?

Yeah.

Nicely done.

And as a matter of fact, I don't.

Here's, uh, you know, so here's my license.

I don't know.

That's not really to steal or anything, but, uh, up my upper right hand corner, mine says not for federal purposes.

Oops.

Let me do that.

Says not for federal purposes.

Right.

Mine that I held up just a moment ago has a star in that spot.

So you have a real ID?

I

do.

Did you get it when you.

renewed your driver's license naturally, normally, or did you go make a special trip?

No, when I got my driver's license, I think it was when I got it the first time.

They were like, you can pay a couple bucks more and we can make it a real ID.

You have to fill out like one more sheet of paper.

And I was like, well, why not?

This is going to be a requirement someday.

You were smart.

as you normally are.

Welcome back.

Talk to you, talk to more about, because this is really, even though we're having some fun with it, it's a real thing if you're traveling or need to get in a courthouse or military base.

We'll tell you how you get your real ID after this.

It's the towel ball shelf for a Tuesday, a sunshiney Tuesday, sunshine on my shoulder.

Call in John Denver, Civic

Media.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy Sunshine in my eyes can make me

cry Going off by request to the lovely and talented Juni

W.R.C.O.'

's Filney, his lovely and talented wife in Richland Center.

John Denver, sunshine on my shoulder.

Look outside, Thomas.

This is the perfect song for today.

Think about that, whether you're in the Rocky Mountains or whether you're in Northern Wisconsin by a lake, whether you're by Lake Michigan.

By the way, when they're trying to take out that big boat I heard, Dan Schaefer, I heard about one of the shows.

Maybe it was like Krait Loaves this morning.

And...

They're that big boat.

The it's like the SS minnow from Gilligan's Island.

This is it got shipwrecked on the shore.

I saw it when I was down there doing our show at You Don't Be Walkie here a couple of weeks ago.

It's shipwrecked.

Then they brought in another boat.

That boat got shipwrecked.

And it was very embarrassing because they brought the the mayor out there and everything.

So now that I think they're bringing in a crane.

So anyway, if you're on the shores like any where anywhere you're at today.

It's absolutely beautiful weather forecast for today in Madison, Wisconsin, looking for a high of 74 degrees that that's pertner.

Perfect weather, my opinion, 74 and sun tomorrow.

A few more clouds, a high of 69, which.

Perfect weather for some afternoon delight and then Thursday cools down a bit more to 62 Friday a high of 67 and then get ready for the weekend Mother's Day weekend 74 and son on Saturday 75 and son on Sunday 78 80 80 82 in Delight next week.

I mean, that's just I mean spectacular weather in my opinion now Milwaukee a little bit more cool

70 today, then in the 50s for the next couple of days, then rebounds by Monday to 72.

So as you said, cooler near the lake.

Let's check out, as long as we're doing the weather here, let's check out what's happening in Southwest Wisconsin and the RSC.

I'm going back to Richland Center for the weekend.

Now, why don't, I can tell you the weather of Copenhagen, I can tell you the weather in Bremerton right now.

In Pasadena in San Salvador For some reason originally center has disappeared.

Well, it'll be closer.

It'll be close to Madison But anyway, it's a it's an absolutely beautiful day all across the state of Wisconsin So get outside enjoy the outdoor weather and and enjoy yourself by the way off the text line here Dave listening to New Berlin another great John Denver song.

Thank God of a country boy, right?

How about that?

Uh, let's see here.

Uh, Casper says friends with boats for tomorrow's weather.

That could be well indeed.

Uh, Chris in Jamesville says it's nice even if you're stuck inside selling furniture.

Well, Chris, you're absolutely right.

Offer to carry something out to a customer's car or truck.

Maybe I don't know.

That's that's fantastic.

Thanks for listening, Chris, down in Janesville via MDX as you're selling there on the floor, helping people get the right furniture.

David New Berlin says it's 75 and sun right now in Milwaukee.

How about that?

Now, this is great.

The Chuckster from Racine was listening a few minutes ago before the break.

I was talking about, I bought these new pants, Lucky Pants, and they put a fortune now in Lucky Pants.

And I was complaining about too many Chinese restaurants.

They don't give you a fortune anymore.

They give you a statement cookie.

And the Chuckster in Racine says, before reading your Chinese fortune cookies, you need to first say, between the sheets, then the fortune probably would work for the new pants too.

So let's try this out.

Between the sheets, always expect the unexpected.

Well, you better be very prepared there, Todd.

That's all I gotta

say.

My grandpa used to do that in church, and it drove my grandma crazy.

He'd say, you know, I say, put under the bed, read something out of the hymnal, and then put under the bed.

So, you know, up from the grave, he arose under the bed.

That's just funny.

And my grandma would say, honestly, Warren, and he'd say, well, I am being honest.

All right, enough of this silliness.

This is serious.

Serious news, if you're a flyer, if you're a traveler, lots of people now have summer plans.

Maybe you're going to a graduation, you're flying to a graduation, a destination wedding, perhaps down in Markle Island, Florida.

That could be a possibility as well.

Make sure you have a real ID.

According to Axios, a real ID is a state-issued driver's license or identification card that meets federal security standards.

Compliant IDs are typically marked with a star.

in the upper right-hand corner.

Now what I thought I'd do to make this, the new word they like us to use, hyperlocal.

This is hyperlocal.

Here we go.

This now according to the Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

They have a great story here.

Let me get you the author.

This is...

Maya Pandey and Alex Groth wrote this story for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Says, what is a real ID?

Well, we've talked about that a little bit already.

Says, what if you don't have a real ID after May 7th, 2025?

It says, you will have to use other TSA-approved identification to fly domestically or visit certain federal facilities.

Other TSA approved alternatives include, I'm not gonna, well, we'll get through, there's a bunch of them actually.

Let me give you some of the top ones.

Easiest, simplest, if you have a current valid US passport, that works.

So if you have a US passport, you don't need a valid one.

You don't need a real ID.

A state issued enhanced driver's license, we talked about that.

A DHS trusted traveler card.

I know a few people have these, but not many.

It's like, this is the global entry, Nexus, all that stuff.

US Department of Defense ID, including the department's ID, a permanent resident card, a border crossing card, an acceptable photo ID issued by a federally recognized tribal nation, Indian tribe.

And then there's a button, a foreign government issued passport.

And there's a bunch of if you have a US merchant Marine or US merchant mariner credential, you're in luck.

I'd like to know how many of our listeners have a US merchant mariner credential.

I'd like to see that.

That's fantastic.

If you have a US passport, no, you do not have to have a real ID card for travel domestically.

You can still get your driver's license after May 7th, 2025.

Your driver's license will remain valid just for driving around Wisconsin after tomorrow, and you could continue to use it to drive, but you'll no longer be able to use it to fly domestically or visit federal buildings.

So here you go.

How to get the real ID in Wisconsin, this from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, to obtain a real ID in Wisconsin, you'll need to go to your local DMV and will not be able to complete the process online.

You can visit the DMV's website at DLGuides.

Really?

DLGuides.wi.gov.

I'll spell it out.

G-U-I-D-E-S.wi.gov.

What's the DL for?

Probably driver

license.

Oh, I was thinking down low.

You have to go to the DL guys that wi.gov to start filling out the necessary forms The

price.

Yes, I went to it.

It says driver license guide.

So that is what it stands for.

Fantastic.

I mean, you wouldn't need to be DL just to get a real ID, right?

Nothing to be secretive about that.

The price to get a real ID in Wisconsin is the same as getting or renewing a regular driver's license 34 bucks.

A regular photo ID card costs $28.

So here's the thing.

All right, here's the important stuff.

What you should bring to the DMV to get a real ID.

You'll need to bring the following documents with you to get the real ID in Wisconsin.

Some documents may be used for more than one category, whereas others only satisfy the requirement of a single category.

Here's what you need.

One, proof.

of name and date of birth.

All right, so you click on that, what does it say?

It says, read through here, the hear nots, the dots, the periods, and so forth.

A certified birth certificate.

Well, number one, you can bring a valid US passport, that's the easiest, or a certified birth certificate or equivalent document from the state, territory, or

certificate of birth abroad issued by the US State Department in accordance.

There's things for Puerto Rico as well.

Wisconsin, this is important, will not, not accept any Puerto Rican birth certificate certified before July 1st, 2010.

And then for Canadians, birth certificates are not acceptable.

and then it goes on and with more information to that.

So you need your basically a certified copy of your birth certificate, proof of legal residence in the US, proof of name change if your name is different than what's on your birth certificate.

So particularly women, but I know there are some men that take different names as well.

They have a partner, significant other and they get married.

So if you've changed your name, which is different on your birth certificate, you need proof of that.

proof of your address and social security number.

You can use the DMV's interactive driver licensing guide for personalized checklist of the required documents.

Zomers, when you went in, did you bring all this stuff?

I'm pretty sure I got my real ID when I got my first driver's license at 16, so I don't exactly remember what I all had to bring with me, to be honest.

You got, you got a real driver's real idea at 16.

I

think

so.

Like 10, nine years ago.

I believe so.

Wow.

All right.

Cause I, I remember, I mean, if I didn't, it was the first time it got renewed, but I think the first time it got renewed is the one I have now.

So I'm pretty sure I got it the first time.

And see this, this one, uh, this one point here, proof of name change, if your name is different than what's on your birth certificate.

This is particularly pointed towards women and I don't want to get too far down this road right now because that's not what the the main part of this segment is But this is where it gets real complicated and real dangerous What do you have people the Trump administration and manga Republicans of Washington said?

Hey unless you have proof of your name change We're not gonna allow you to vote because we don't know whether you're a real citizen or not

Yeah, I've seen a lot about that.

Yeah, you need you need a lot of extra verification with that.

Yeah, exactly So when you hear things When you hear things like it just makes you at first you think well, it makes sense only citizens should vote.

What's the big deal?

On the face of it, I agree, right?

But then you start digging down to what that means and what that means is that Trump and some of the people in his administration the modern people and the Trump administration

they want to use this to make it more difficult for women who have gotten married or anybody who's changed their name since birth to vote.

So just a heads up on that.

But anyway, what the hand here is this real ID.

So we're going to put all this in the show notes.

Summers always does a great job of that.

You can go to Wisconsin DMV as well, because what you don't want to do.

And I renew my driver's license last fall.

I had I had needed to get that done and I I was like, well, can I just do with a real ID now?

And I couldn't because I didn't have my birth certificate with me and my passport is expired and So but I had to get a I just wanted my driver's license to get it done.

So I got it done But what you don't want to do and and Zabras brought this up.

I think over the commercial break

Yeah, if you if you're gonna travel the next few days You better play and like take off a day of work and go stand in line all day because the DMV lines are gonna be out the door So pack your patience give the people at the DMV office your consideration and get ready to wait, but if you can hold off I would just get outside and enjoy the sunshine because it's gonna be a long line Come on back.

It's the all-bolts show in civic media

Fun doing it.

Welcome back to the title of all show on the civic media ready network eight minutes before the hour of three o'clock the top of the hour ABC CBS News little weather sports for you.

I believe Clemens is off today and Jimmy Cusco in on the sports desk today and then our number two which will include a what's worse for today.

Sweaty or shivering.

We'll talk about that in a bit.

And then we have Matt from Bricks Cider.

and Corinne from Corinne's Little Explorers from the Main Street Alliance talking about health care, childcare, pardon me, childcare in hour number two.

So looking forward to that.

Right now, talking about tomorrow, which is May 7th, which is the day that they're going to start enforcing, you have to have a real ID, driver's license, or a current U.S.

passport to fly domestically and internationally.

And of course, get into some federal buildings, courthouses, and military bases.

Megan, listening on WMDX in some prairie, says I got my real ID a few years ago.

After I got married, I already had a lot of those identification documents with me, so just got the real ID part done at the same time.

I had to update my Social Security card first before I could update much else.

This was in 2021.

Can't imagine how that looks now.

All right, thank you very much, Megan.

I appreciate that.

Also, Troy in Montorrem, let me say, I'm not sure what happened.

My phone's been acting weird lately.

I tried to find the forecast for the old hometown of Richelon Center.

Here, Troy sends it to us.

That's very nice.

79 today.

79 and sunny in RC.

Fantastic.

74 tomorrow.

69 on Thursday.

Friday, 74.

And then Saturday and Sunday.

spectacular son in 80 and 83 for mom's day.

I love it.

I love it.

Zomers is not.

You

love it.

And I won't

hold that opinion against you.

I appreciate that.

Uh, Joseph, watching on YouTube.

Remember, you can watch us on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Twix, all those things.

Uh, Joseph says, hello guys, are these civic media t-shirts available for purchase?

I remember Todd wearing one recently with the station coverage area graphic.

Joseph, thanks so very much for watching and listening.

You're absolutely right.

Very, very astute.

That's my favorite civic media t-shirt has all the circles on of our coverage area.

Yes.

The answer is yes.

Go to our website, civicmedia.us, civicmedia.us.

And then click on shop, merch, purchase.

I don't know what is it?

It is store store.

That's what it is.

And also, if you're currently watching on YouTube, Tony did the Lord's work.

He provided the link.

Oh, God,

look at Tony Zimmerman.

He's the best.

All right.

Thank you very much.

Talking about this real ID going into effect tomorrow, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.

I'm very excited now.

We're going to stoten.

which next weekend, 16th, 17th and 18th, it is sitting to my days in Stoughton.

And I hear now the honorary chairman of this year's festivities, CJ in Stoughton.

Is that true, CJ?

Are you the honorary Norske of sitting to my this year?

No, they bypassed me again.

Why is that?

Why is that

for 60 years?

Well, they're a pretty good judge of

character.

Are you Norwegian?

My family, my parents moved there when I was five and they took me with from the east side of Madison.

You're North Kiesk.

My sibling brothers told me I was adopted my whole life.

What do you got?

That's because I was mom's favorite.

Oh, look at that.

And I was a Norwegian dancer.

Really?

Yeah.

All right, that's cool.

It was performed at Disney World.

No way.

Did

you really?

I saw a Mark Lodge every year for the Birkenbeiner.

Wow.

And I actually, my mom loved it more than I did.

I actually told her my junior year I was going to quit and she said, the hell you are.

Tough Norwegian Lutheran love right there.

Yeah, she didn't mince many words.

Let me tell you.

But you know, as you're speaking, Todd, you were your producer, Mr. Dahmers.

Dahmers

said he got his real ID.

I don't know nine years ago.

Doesn't that speak highly to the efficiency of our government that people are now waiting to the very last minute?

Trump's getting criticized for putting the hammer down and doing what the government says, kind of like the department of education.

We sure haven't done that either, have

we?

I think there's two different issues.

I'll correct you.

You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I mentioned Trump in this whole thing.

I guess

I

guess.

But I am because people are criticizing him for it.

This got

put in place after this got put in place after 9 11.

It went through Bush for Bush to his administration, Obama's administration, Trump won Biden Biden's administration.

It went it kept getting delayed because people and part of it was because of COVID and we can't implement it.

And so no, I mean, I mean, Trump had little if anything to do.

with this being implemented tomorrow.

This has been in the works for a long, long time.

And it's just that it's finally going to take effect.

Yeah, kind of like moving our embassy to Bethlehem.

They didn't move it

to Bethlehem.

They didn't move it to Tjrcj.

They moved it to Tel Aviv or to Jerusalem.

They

went from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, not Bethlehem.

No, they didn't.

Let's not promote

fake news.

All right.

Well, we appreciate you being here and celebrate Sitting to My Force.

There's a small chance we may make it down there for Sitting to My, but if we don't, you celebrate it for us.

It's a great,

great, great.

It's one of the best in the state.

Tons of marching bands.

It's a lot of fun.

If the weather's great, you better get there early because that sidewalk on both sides is plumbful.

Thanks, CJ.

I appreciate it.

Got to sit into my, and also sit into my up and Vespi.

Westby, Wisconsin, just south east of La Crosse, two of the great Sit In My Festivals in the state of Wisconsin.

All right, come on back.

Zomers is going to do a jig.

No, he's going to be here for what's worse.

And we have a great guest from Main Street Alliance.

All that hour, too, is the All Ball Show for our Tuesday on Pacific Media's Ready Network.

Live from the Civic Media World Headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba Show.

And now, pursuing truth wherever it may lead, here's your host, Todd Alba.

Across Wisconsin

on the Civic Media radio network and streaming worldwide on the Civic Media app,

Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm Todd Alba, along with Mr. Aaron Zommer is our producer and engineer on the board.

It is Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite.

Welcome to our number two of the big broadcast.

It is six minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Glad to have you along over the airwaves all across the state of Wisconsin on the network, as well as on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twix.

That's a combination of.

Twitter and ex Twix the the stream the stream always glad to see you in person You can see Zommer's eye on the stream.

Oh, let's come up with an hour number two in just a minute We're gonna have another edition of what's worse for you having to do a temperature all temperature And then at the bottom of the hour we have Matt from bricks cider and Corinne

from Corinne's little explorers from the Main Street Alliance program here in Wisconsin.

They're gonna talk about childcare, a very, very important issue for many of us, for many families all across the state.

Gonna dive into that issue, childcare on a Wisconsin level.

All right, now first of all, we're gonna do a little business on the air here, because as many of you have noted, and we appreciate David Newberlin,

Putting his expression out there saying he can't hear enough the program now since we changed time slots And I apologize for that Dave and I had nothing to do with it You can always find this of course on the podcast on civic media dot US You can listen to us on demand as they say But there's been a lot of changes around you like all the time changes and stuff and then I appear on Pat Crite low show on Wednesday mornings

and then he comes on our show on Wednesday afternoons.

Now, last week, I came a day early, which I think is embarrassing for all of us if we've ever been there.

But anyway, I was on early, I was on early on Tuesday last week, and then I called in on a Wednesday, I was on two days in a row.

Now, while I'm on the air here, I get a message from Crite Low, it's my calendar.

And it says, canceled event, Todd Albaugh on Wednesday, May 14th, 2025, 7.45 to 8 AM.

Wait, do you say 14th?

The 14th.

That's not tomorrow.

Oh, no, no, that's right.

It's in two weeks.

But still, I've been canceled now.

So have I done with that spot now?

Or have I done something to offend the man?

Why have I been canceled?

I think we should call him up and find out.

Well, we certainly

can.

All right, let's call Kratlow.

This is live on the air.

He has no unless he's listening, which I doubt he really he doesn't listen.

He doesn't have time to listen to this program.

He's out there cruising Lake Wissota on his on his pontoon boat.

Boy, the dial Zomers is dialing up Kratlow right now.

We'll see if we can get him on the air live.

Pat Kratlow, host of Mornings now with Pat Kratlow, his new time.

His new time is 6 a.m.

to 9 a.m.

Oh, this is fantastic.

This is this is great.

Here we go.

Does he take a nap in the afternoon?

We don't know.

He probably won't recognize the number.

This is why.

Hi, this is Kat Whitewell.

Leave me a message.

Thanks.

Pat, you're live on the air.

It's 10 minutes after the hour of three o'clock on Tuesday, May 6.

We're discussing now.

I've gotten a memo, an email saying that I've been canceled for the show for 745 on May 14th.

We just want to know, did I do something wrong?

Have I ticked you off?

Give us a call.

We'd love to talk to you.

855-752-4842.

And now would be a good day to stop day drinking.

Talk to you later,

Pat.

By the way, I looked at the Civic Media Calendar and I have found why you were canceled that day.

You figured it

out.

Yeah, he's on vacation.

Oh, he's on vacation.

And so the feeling person doesn't want me around.

Who's filling in?

Do we

know?

I don't know that yet.

No.

All right.

Well, that was fun.

I enjoyed that.

Wouldn't have been great if you would have answered, though.

It would have.

It would have.

Pat's got things to do.

He's out in the boat.

Alright, well that was fun.

11 minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Time once again for What's Worst.

Let's go.

Time

once again for What's Worst.

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Nothing involved in terms of money or cash.

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By the way, I hear tell now, I actually made it to one of the staff meetings this week.

And this is exciting.

We're going to start doing a Friday fiesta.

Free ticket Fridays.

Yes.

That's what it's called.

I like, I like Friday fiesta better.

Free ticket Friday.

The Friday free ticket fiesta.

That's what it is.

And we're going to be giving away.

Brewers tickets every Friday for the rest of the Brewer's season.

The Brewers play today at 6.05, broadcast time start against the Houston Astros in Richland Center, Oshkosh, Bagosh, Racine, Kenosha Park Falls, and Hayward tonight.

But starting on Friday, you can listen to Quite Low's show, assuming he's there.

And then you can listen to the Jane McNair program from nine until 11.

And then I guess,

I've heard Tom Hartman's giving away tickets.

I'm not sure how that's going to work.

And then we're giving away tickets.

And then, uh, and then, uh,

Maggie.

I think Todd's, Todd's going through it today, it seems.

Maggie,

I'm sorry, Maggie.

I just, I was having one of those senior moments.

You realize I am a senior citizen now when you just, you, you know what you want to say and that it won't, it won't come out of your mouth.

And then Maggie's going to wait, give away tickets.

And here is the thing, every Friday, we're going to be asking you what each of our middle names is.

And if you could give us the middle names, you'll win free tickets.

That might not be exactly how it's gonna work.

I'll give you a hint.

Jane's middle name is not Todd, and Todd's middle name is not Jane.

No, no.

I think we do the text-to-win thing.

Yes, we'll give you a keyword.

You two can win four tickets to be in these civic media seats.

In beautiful and fan field having a having a Miller high life or whatever your beverage of choice is All right here once again category timely timely indeed Zomers was on the DLS for a couple of days Feeling under the weather and he got slapped for that.

But anyway, he's back now We're happy to have him the category today.

He went through both of these things.

What's worse sweaty or shivering sweaty or shivering

Zomers, I'm gonna, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.

Zomers, you've gone through both of these in the last 48 hours.

Yeah, I guess technically in the last 48 hours.

Although barely at this point.

We're moving past, but yeah, sweating and shivering at the same time, not fun.

Fevers are not a good time.

No, not a good time at

all.

But the quite a lot of people they sweat easily they're easy sweaters and Then some people get cold real easy because some people say oh, I'm like a reptile.

It was cold out of cold So what's worse shivering or sweaty?

sweaty or shivering, 855-752-4842, 855-752-4842, or you can also text us on the old Civic Media app, download it today on your Apple or Android device, because you're gonna need it for the big Brewer's Ticket Fiesta Friday coming up on Friday to win that.

So get ready for that.

What's worse, sweaty or shivering?

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.

Let's go to the phone lines.

Back out to Richland Center, the old Driftless W-R-C-E.

Listening is Whizzler.

Whizzler, thanks for calling.

Whizzler, sweaty or shivering.

What's worse?

I would have

to say that shivering is worse.

Why is

that?

Because...

You have no control over your feeling your whole body is got it

are you

talking

When you're ill or like or like what just naturally Naturally, you're right.

Well, yes,

I

yeah, yeah

Yep.

All right.

Appreciate it, Whistler.

Thank you so very much.

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.

Let's go to Mount Horab and Troy.

Wait, we're forgetting somebody.

We're gonna

get to that in a

second.

Okay, gotcha.

Let's go out to Troy in Mount Horab.

Troy.

Are you sure now?

Yeah, yes, we're sure, Troy.

We're coming to you.

Sweaty or shivering?

No, my middle name is

Franklin.

No, my middle name is not

Franklin.

Wouldn't that be great though?

I'll go with sweating because it's easier to fix shivering.

See, I'm with you.

I'm absolutely with you on that.

I would agree.

I

can get warmer.

I can't get cooler.

Yeah, I agree.

Thanks, Troy.

I appreciate you playing along.

Have a great day up there.

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.

Sweaty or shivering.

Now here now.

Very special appearance because we called him on the air a minute ago because I got this I got this thing I've been cancelled and I don't think I'm important enough to be cancelled and so we called a few minutes ago on Crite Low's phone and I went to his voicemail and we left him a voicemail and here now not only is he calling back he's live and in person via the stream from beautiful Lake Wissota our very own Pat Crite Low Patrick how are you?

What the hell was on my phone just now?

I'm minding my own business.

I'm actually folding some stuff to put in a suitcase because I'm off next week, which is what the memo was about.

You might even recall I talked to you about possibly guest hosting.

I'm suddenly thankful that you're not available for that next week.

I found more responsible people who don't place prank calls to people and scare the bejesus out of them that they missed their regular on-air

date

with you.

This is like phone terrorism over here to scare somebody going, oh my gosh, I forgot.

I got to get back in.

And then I listened to the message, something about day drinking and being canceled.

When it was nothing more than the courtesy of reminding you, you didn't have to come on my show next week because I won't be there.

I appreciate it.

All I saw was canceled event.

And I said Wednesday, May 14th.

Is this

how you always react when somebody cancels a meeting on your Google calendar?

Do you go to DEF CON 1

that

easily?

if a meeting's canceled, like, oh, thank goodness.

I would like to say I did inform Todd that you are... After we called.

Yes, after we called.

You'll be on vacation next week.

David New Perlin says Krylo

is pissed.

I'm so puzzled.

And to make matters worse, because I was doing that in one room, I left the phone in the other room, so my watch is going off, and I'm like, where's my phone?

Where's my phone?

Where's my phone?

The

one time I lose my

phone is when I'm being called live on

the air.

So I just thought it would be fun because we thought, well, we

see what we have to do.

I figured I'm just going to click on, you know, click, come.

Why should I return your phone call when I've got the key to the front door to show up right here

for you?

Exactly the point.

Exactly.

Just

like I will tomorrow when it is my regular time to be here.

I was just concerned that maybe I had offended you or done something wrong to be careful.

I'm concerned that you no longer read your emails thoroughly and you right away pump off before you.

Point taken, Mr.

Thomas.

Point taken.

By the way, I'm not sure if it's the afternoon son.

You look fantastic right now.

Well, it's a lot different here than at six o'clock in the morning where the sun is.

Yes, the earth is kind of round that way.

And yes, the lighting is a bit different.

L.A.

Tom says, is this Pat's impression

of Bill O'Reilly?

We'll do it live.

We love you, Pat.

We love you.

We're always happy to have you here.

Right back at you, buddy.

Now we're both going to calm down

and you're going

to get through the rest of your show somehow without

me.

We'll look forward to seeing you tomorrow, though,

Pat.

Thanks.

We'll see you tomorrow more your phone calls always next to the all-ball show so confused

Welcome back

to the Dance Party on a Tuesday afternoon from Lake Wessota to the shores of Lake Michigan where they're trying.

They're trying to get the boat out of the water.

Apparently Cavalier Johnson is in waiters.

Mayor Cavalier Johnson has put on waiters.

He is doing his best to push the boat.

I believe that Yanis Anticompo is out there as well, trying to, with his height, lift it up.

So they're trying to get the boat

out

of Lake Michigan.

Welcome back to the Toddleball Show, the Civic Media Ready Network.

It is 23 now, past the hour of three o'clock.

Many thanks to Pat Critello.

What a guy he is.

I mean,

played along with our goofiness.

Great program.

I'll be on it tomorrow morning.

Packed right low six until nine and then quite low and Trigvie Olsen on our program tomorrow afternoon.

We're right in the middle.

That's why he's on his plate.

Who plays those things, that song?

That is Ed Sheeran.

Oh, yes, of course.

Ed Sheeran.

Sweaty or shivering?

What's worse?

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

You can text us on the Civic Media app.

Let's go up, pardon me, let's go up to the North Woods.

Ollie, listening in the North Woods.

Ollie, thanks for holding sweaty or shivering, Ollie.

What's worse?

Oh, well, first off, I have to say I love Pat's counter attack.

Life on.

On your

show.

That was awesome.

That right?

You don't want to mess with Crite Low.

He'll come after you.

Full gun.

That apparently so.

I listened to him in the morning.

I've never seen him

after.

It's a whole new side of Crite Low.

You're getting the afternoon version of

him.

Woo-hoo!

You know, it's not Crite Low after dark.

It's Crite Low after light, you know, because he's normally up before the sun.

Exactly.

So after sunlight, huh?

Exactly.

The battery packed.

Well, my, uh, what's worse is definitely being too hot.

You can always put on more clothes if you're shivering, but you, you can never take off enough if you're hot.

At least to get... Right, at least to get away with it, right?

That's right.

Appreciate the call Ali.

Thank you so very much.

Have a great day up there in the in the Northwoods Thank you eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five two four eight four two what's worse sweaty or shivering Korean who is coming up next our next segment She's already a listening in and she says that shivering is worse.

So I'm where you've had your peace I'll give you mine.

My my opinion is

that yes, shivering is worse.