🛂 “Enjoy your freedom to travel — it may be your last.” 📌 EPISODE SUMMARY: 📈 82M Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving (record high) 🚘 73M driving, flights & roads packed 💸 Gas prices inching up 📆 Busiest return day: Sunday, Dec 1st 🆔 Digital ID is rolling out — Apple Wallet + TSA partnership 📱 Scan passport ➝ selfie ➝ facial recognition ➝ TSA acceptance 💥 No REAL ID or passport? ➝ $18 fee + biometric scan 🇪🇺 Europe already requires full biometrics to cross borders 🎯 U.S. goal: 100% adoption by 2027 ❓Trump implementing system originally set up by Biden ⚠️ Concerns over privacy, surveillance & comparison to China’s social credit system This Thanksgiving will shatter travel records — 82 million Americans on the move, most by car 🚘 and a record number flying ✈️. But here’s the shocker: This may be the FINAL holiday you travel without a digital ID. A system combining TSA + Apple is rolling out requiring passport scans, biometrics, or REAL ID… and if you don’t comply? An $18 fee & mandatory face scan at a biometric kiosk. Europe’s system is already active. Fingerprint, iris scan, face scan — to enter or LEAVE your own country. It’s now coming here. Launched under Biden, implemented under Trump. Is this convenience… or control? 🤔 We break it down — travel stats, gas, digital ID, biometric systems, and why the goal is 100% digital ID adoption by 2027. Buckle up. Thanksgiving Travel, Digital ID, Biometrics, TSA Policy, Apple Partnership, National Security, Privacy Concerns, Technology Rollout, Government Regulation, Freedom to Travel