Does the State of California owe you money?

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Speaker 1: And we continue at one o five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy wags in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John and I sit down interview with Conan Nolan. La Mayor Karen Bess says she'll be depending on help from the federal government to keep Los Angeles safe during the big soccer tournament this summer.

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Speaker 3: You know, he wants to be front and center on the World Cup, and I do believe that the World Cup will be saved, as I believe the Olympic.

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Speaker 2: Where's the d's, Karen, she's a D dropper? She dropped, She dropped two d's. She dropped a double D.

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Speaker 3: You know, he wants to be front and center on the World Cup, and I do believe that the World Cup will be saved.

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Speaker 1: Will she got rid of two d's? Yep, that's one more than Caitlyn Jenner. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Is the telephone number one? Eight hund two two two five two two two. Well, we know that the government in California is committed to public transit. They don't want you in your car, they don't want you driving a truck, that's for sure. They certainly don't want you in an suv. They want you on their buses and murder trains. The problem is no one wants to ride their buses and murder trains for all the obvious reasons, but that's not stopping them.

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Speaker 2: Metro has a Lost and Found in Los Angeles County, and the things that are getting left behind on Metro buses and trains are interesting, to say the least. You don't say for mar Here is Fox eleven in Los Angeles five.

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Speaker 4: When you're on the go, it's easy to leave things behind. La Metro's Lost and Found as a system that helps reunite passengers with their personal belongings, no matter what kind. Fox eleven's Christie the Gonzales got a closer WOCHD. They enjoyed us live from Montacita Heights, Christina.

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Speaker 5: Yeah no. And when you say.

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Speaker 6: Everything, think of anything and everything, and they probably have it here. You leave your phone on the Metro train or the bus. In about three to five days, it ends up here, and you're not going to leave the kind of stuff they have in here.

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Speaker 5: Take a look.

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Speaker 1: It's a warehouse of oddities. I can only imagine what's in there.

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Speaker 7: We have a replica of the Eiffel Tower here.

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Speaker 8: What.

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Speaker 2: Like the Lego one that you get at Lego Land, or someone was doing a model kit on the train.

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Speaker 1: Who knows?

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Speaker 7: We have a replica of the Eiffel Tower here a customer left and behind on our public transit system.

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Speaker 5: We get that.

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Speaker 7: That's a question that we ask ourselves. We have a surfboard, a pretty well used surfboards.

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Speaker 1: I just ought of something. Yes, it's a good thing that the person who forgot the model of the Eiffel Tower on the bus, that someone didn't sit on it by accident. That is good. How do you forget your surfboard? Yeah, when you get to the beach, you go, you know, I know I forgot something? What was it?

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Speaker 7: You can also see a saxophone and lausd student left that behind on our public transit system.

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Speaker 1: And then deers well, I know who could have left the saxophone behind? Who's that? That could have been Rich Earles.

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Speaker 7: Student left that behind on our public transit system, and then.

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Speaker 5: Deersy items that who forgets?

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Speaker 7: The items that really leave you puzzled. For example, we have this prosthetic leg.

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Speaker 1: There's some what ooh, how do you forget your leg? Not half the many used to be.

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Speaker 7: For example, we have this prosthetic leg.

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Speaker 2: That's someone like, wouldn't you notice that you're hopping out of the station. How high on meth do you have to be to forget your leg on the bus?

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Speaker 9: For example?

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Speaker 2: We have this Maybe you took it off to use it as a weapon in defending yourself against some of the violence that occurs on those buses.

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Speaker 1: You think that guy was on his way to a soccer game, for example.

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Speaker 7: We have this prosthetic leg that someone left behind that one of our stations.

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Speaker 6: How did that person get out of the bus or train without the prosthetic leg is the question we want to know. Actually, the most common item left behind his bicycles.

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Speaker 5: People put them up on the rack in the front of the bus.

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Speaker 6: They get in the bus, they get off the bus to go to a connection, and they forget the bike.

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Speaker 5: They've got a buck.

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Speaker 1: Well, they probably stole the bike to begin with, so let'll just go get another one. Yeah, that is a hallmark of just about every homeless encampment in town. They all have about nine thousand stolen bikes.

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Speaker 6: They've got about five hundred of them downtown here at this location in Montecito, heights. They have a lot of phams, They have a lot of wallets and keys that kind of stuff. Now you have ninety days to pick up your stuff because after that they actually do have auctions.

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Speaker 2: Wait, they're auctioning off your keys. That doesn't sound very safe. Who's going to buy a prosthetic leg? Oh, there's somebody that's into that. If you get a good deal on it.

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Speaker 1: What's the going rate for a prosthetic leg that doesn't fit your body? Do I hear ten dollars?

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Speaker 5: And they do sell to stuff.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can fashion it into a cane. You know. I might have to go down there and buy it and bring that to our next KABC Christmas party for the Secret Santa game.

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Speaker 6: And they do sell the stuff you also, you can do it.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty easy to do it.

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Speaker 6: You can go online and file a report. You can call them on the phone.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I want them to go further in this. Christina Gonzalez needs to go to the Metro Lost and Found Auction next time.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if they have a full on auctioneer. You can I got a leg leg leg? Do you want the leg? Ten on the leg? Twenty on the leg?

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Speaker 5: You can come in here.

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Speaker 6: We're putting all that information on the website at foxlay dot com. Keep in mind, they're telling me that they process about fifteen thousand items a year, but they're expecting that number to go up because we have things like the Olympics and the soccer coming up, so we're gonna have a lot of tourists using Metro, and they expect.

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Speaker 2: That we're gonna have foreigners losing their prosthetic legs on the Metro.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully not too many, and they expect that.

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Speaker 6: Number to go off. So they really want to get it out there. They would like to get these things back to their owners. But more important, let people know that the system.

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Speaker 2: Is there, you know, right on like the back of your prosthetic leg property of so and so.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it says that, but it definitely says made in China.

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Speaker 6: But more important, let people know that the system is there.

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Speaker 5: If you lose something, you might be able to get it back.

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Speaker 6: So again, go to a website fox La dot com and you'll be able to find out more.

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Speaker 5: Love in Montcito Heights and Casina Gonzales Back.

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Speaker 4: To you, I'm like, you're trying to visualize how people leave behind a prosthetic leg or the bicycle that got them to the bus.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're handwalkers like in the circus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, if you've only got the one leg and you've got two arms, maybe you have such upper body strength that you can handstand your way out of the station.

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Speaker 1: Well, the people who ride those trains do look like carnies for.

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Speaker 4: The bicycle that got them to the bus station. Okay, I'm wondering what items stood out to you the most.

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Speaker 2: If it's something else besides the leg, I'd be surprised.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you want up that?

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Speaker 8: You know?

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Speaker 6: I mean, the percentic leg is amazing because you're trying to think, okay, how did the person get off the bus? But you know the surfboard, I want to know how they got it in the bus to begin with. That's not an easy thing to you know, probably on the way to send a monica.

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Speaker 5: But you can do that. I had no idea, you know.

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Speaker 6: And then there's the things that tug at the heart people's photos. He was telling me there was a lady who her ring fell off, and it was a ring her mother had given her. She didn't think she'd ever see it again. And they actually brought it here and she was.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't stolen. That's incredible. Yeah, how did that not get stolen?

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Speaker 5: And she was reunited you know, with it?

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Speaker 6: So you know, it's it's it's you know, don't give up. If you lose something on a bus or a train, it may be here. Yeah, but that that prosthetic leg, and you know, and if you need, by the way real quickly, and don't just.

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Speaker 2: Expect is anybody out there in the listening audience currently missing a leg?

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Speaker 1: I would hope not in this audience, And.

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Speaker 6: Don't just expect to come here and say, hey, I lost my wallet and give me a wallet. You need to prove you're on the bus, on the train that date the time.

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Speaker 2: It should be fairly easy to prove that you're missing a leg.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of verification outside of a one legged man at the window?

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Speaker 5: Do you need description?

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Speaker 6: And if it's something like a wallet, you're gonna need an ID So they're not.

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Speaker 2: Just if you're currently using a wooden peg like you're the first mate on a pirate ship because you lost your prosthetic leg, maybe they can take your word for it.

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine being that woman behind the glass, and you know what type of person takes that job. One with fingernails that go on for about eight feet and an ass that's so big you could take a trade full of champagne glasses, put them in a pyramid and fill them up with champagne from the top and not spill a drop. That type of woman, you know, the real surly type, the ones with the bifocals on the tip of her nose, like Chuck Schumer. And the one legged man walks up to the window and he goes, hey, I think I I left my missing leg on one of your buses, and she goes which bus, and then they go the one in Santa Monica. Was it going east or west?

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Speaker 5: Description?

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Speaker 6: And if it's something like a wallet, you're gonna need an ID. So they're not just giving out stuff to people who show up to pick it up, so they're being careful about it.

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Speaker 4: But the leg one might be easier than for it know who that went to, all right?

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Speaker 5: Fit it in the leg might be easier to know who that went to, just saying well, you have to des try it on. It's like Cinderella slipper, you put it on me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this leg doesn't fit. Do you have any others? Well, it could be like oj when he was trying on the glove us. If it doesn't fit, must have quit. What's going on in America?

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Speaker 5: Put it on? If it fits is yours? Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Glad they are reuniting some people with their stuff. Thanks Christina.

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Speaker 1: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: Metro has a robust lost and found department that includes wallets and keys and phones and surfboards and missing legs.

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Speaker 1: And there's another story about missing property in the news. Randy. This time Julie Watts from CBS News ask the question, why is it that the state of California doesn't notify you if they have money in their possession that they know belongs to you.

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Speaker 2: It's around this time of year that you see those notices online from the Controller's office that hey, check out this website. There may be property that belongs to you sitting in the State of California's bank. Well, Julie Watts wants to know, why can't they.

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Speaker 1: Just call you? Seems reasonable to me.

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Speaker 2: For mar here is CBS Sacramento and our friend Julie Watts.

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Speaker 10: Out of fifty eight counties, we are number fifty eight. We are the most food insecure county throughout California. I think the biggest challenge we face is trying to raise money.

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Speaker 11: For Yolo County Food Bank Director Karen Baker. Every cent count.

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Speaker 10: There could not be a more high need time than right now for any funds if you're a food bank.

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Speaker 11: So imagine what she could do with twenty five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 5: Do you have twenty five hundred dollars you would have? Hand me?

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Speaker 12: We don't, but the State Controller does.

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Speaker 1: Julie Watts is doing her best ed Bigmahn in this story.

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Speaker 5: Do you have twenty five hundred dollars you would have?

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Speaker 1: Hand me?

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Speaker 11: We don't, but the State Controller does, and it belongs to the Yellow County Food Bank.

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Speaker 5: Is my money?

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Speaker 11: CBS News California analyzed state data and found the state is holding on to more than ninety thousand dollars that belongs to California food banks.

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Speaker 2: So then why wouldn't the state just I don't know, send it out to the food banks.

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Speaker 1: If you're the Controller of California, you're an elected official, wouldn't that be a good look for you in your office? If you're being proactive about this instead of just sitting on it.

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Speaker 11: One point three million that belongs to children's hospitals and at least forty six thousand belonging to the Make a Wish Foundation.

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Speaker 1: They're keeping the money from the Make a Wish kids.

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Speaker 2: How many trips to Disneyland can forty six thousand dollars buy a lot? Not as much as they used to be.

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Speaker 12: Here we have gold bars. Trouble is, they had no idea some gold coins.

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Speaker 2: And they're not A lot by the State of California is lost and found is quite interesting, although I don't know if they have any missing legs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what if that food bank has a missing leg sitting in a vault somewhere that belongs to them and they're not alone.

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Speaker 7: We have fifteen billion dollars of Californian's personal belongings that we want to return.

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Speaker 11: Eight Controller Malia Cohen says the state is trying to get the word out that one in three people who search claim it dot CA dot gov find money or property in their name.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then you know whose it is, so why don't you just give it to them?

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Speaker 1: Seems reasonable to me.

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Speaker 11: Leftover from old bank accounts or overpayments were in some cases Family Heirlooms.

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Speaker 8: Which recognizes February twenty twenty six as unclaimed property month.

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Speaker 11: The Controller even sponsored this resolution, but somehow Karen missed that announcement on the assembly floor.

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Speaker 10: And it would seem like it would be more much more proactive to just send us the information, or better yet, send us the check of all unclaimed funds.

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Speaker 2: There are many Just give them the twenty five hundred that can buy a lot of cheerios.

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Speaker 1: Not as many cheerios as it used to be able to buy.

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Speaker 11: There are many states, as we were researching for the story, that will actually return funds automatically. And I mean, we're right here in Nurse Silkham Valley. Why not develop a system where at least some clayments can get their money back automatically.

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Speaker 2: It is fascinating how the state of California, the technology capital of the world, every government computer system is antiquated and old and broken and is not modernized. And this is even after seven years of Gavin Citizenville Newsome wrote a whole book on how to modernize government government and didn't use any of it.

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Speaker 12: You and I are on the same page. That's actually what my team and I that were actively working on you.

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Speaker 11: See, state law already requires the Controller to mail and notice to the address on file if they have at least fifty dollars of your property.

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Speaker 10: We used to be Yolo County Food Bank.

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Speaker 11: But the law limits how they're allowed to track you down and cash heer's checks.

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Speaker 2: Every single one of these organizations has to file a tax form, especially the five oh one c threes.

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Speaker 1: They know who these people are. It would be a great look for the Controller, and no one aspires to be Controller of California. You run for Controller because you want to be governor, you want to be senator, you want to be congressman, you want something else, which means you have to get your name out there. Isn't this an easy.

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Speaker 2: Putt should be, especially when we found out from other reports from Julie Watts that all the audits the Controller does, the state doesn't even pay attention to. So you might as well spend your time in resources giving people their money back and cashier's checks.

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Speaker 11: This bill would have made it easier for the Controller, but it stalled last year on the Senate floor.

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Speaker 12: The Children's Hospital.

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Speaker 2: Is okay, who's the lobbyist that tried to kill this one? We don't want to send the check that we have to Children's Hospital Orange County.

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Speaker 1: Maybe one of the banks.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Children's Hospital is DOE one point three million, and oh my goodness. So in the meantime, CBS News California is stepping in.

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Speaker 7: So we are going to go fact check your facts and if that's the case, then that's your next story.

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Speaker 12: So this is interesting helping.

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Speaker 2: So now Julie Watts's mission is to give everyone their money back. The best public servants right now are some of our investigative reporters.

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Speaker 1: She's the only one doing any of the work in the state.

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Speaker 11: Helping reunite nonprofits with their much needed money.

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Speaker 10: Wow, these are all the different food bank because is incredible.

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Speaker 12: For CBS News California Investigates.

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Speaker 5: Wow, they will be so thrilled to hear about this for.

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Speaker 12: CBS News California Investigates.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Julie, you got to do another edit on this video.

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Speaker 12: Baby, I'm Julie Watts.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't happen very often. So I just pulled up my name on that website. Unfortunately, I have the most I'm a name on planet Earth. There's no way I'm going to be able to figure out if they owe me any money, Yeah, that would make it confusing. This is when you want some weird name that no one else has, like Randy Wang. Oh wait, that's not my name either. What are you gonna do? Let's go to Ray and Manhattan Beach Ray. Hello.

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Speaker 9: Yes, the state does this thing they call is cheating. And that's if you have money sitting in an account for a period of time and if you don't take it, they take it. And so if you've got money sitting in a bank account a same ascount where they don't see any activity as far as deposits are withdrawals, they take your money. And my first job on a college was at Apple and I bought my little brother's five shares of applestock. They took it and they won't. They refuse to return it to my brother.

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Speaker 1: How much is that stock worth.

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Speaker 9: Today? Quarter million?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Well that's worth having a fight over. I'm sorry they did that to you, but I'm not surprised. Thank you for the call, sir Holy Cow. If you want to weigh in on any of this, give us a call at eight hundred two two two five two two two. Do you have unclaimed property that belongs to you that the state of California doesn't want to give up. I'd love to hear from you. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't Like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't Like Show at gmail dot com and Randy. If you want to listen to us on the weekends in the Central Valley, that's easy to do.

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Speaker 2: It's being called the most highly promotive weekend best of in radio history. Check out what everyone's talking about. The Fixed California Our Replay Saturdays at noon on our sister station, k Imjay and Fresno. That's five eighty on the AM dial, a signal that goes all the way down to Ventura County all the way up to the South Bay. It also can be heard on one to five point nine FM in the Central Valley and you can stream it at kmjnow dot com or get the KMJ now app. It is the most heavily promoted best of in radio history. The Fixed California Our Replay. Let's go to Dale at Long Beach Dale.

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Speaker 13: Hello, Hello, Hello Rambian John. The state is holding sixteen billion dollars in unclaimed property. They made four hundred million dollars in annual revenue just off the unclaimed property interest. In two thousand and three, they changed the law that if you have a claim and you're successful, they do not owe you the interest whatsoever. It's the fifth largest revenue stream coming into the general fund.

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Speaker 1: Have you put your name in that website to see if they owe you any money?

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Speaker 13: No, because I never had any money that was going to account.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, sir. Now, Randy, that would make sense as to why they're not trying to give that money.

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Speaker 2: Back, because they're making money on the interest and all this money they're holding in the bank that's not really theirs.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Henry and Anaheim. Henry, Hello, Hi guys.

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Speaker 14: I think I have a quick comment. I have a quick comment about the gentleman who called in from Buffalo and saying about the barbecue and and everything else. I'm a lifetime Californian, but I have an enormous amount of family that lived in Buffalo, New York. Yes, he's right. Buffalo has really great summers for two months and then you have to deal with the rest of the year, which is snow up to your eyeballs walking into the second floor of your house from the snow drifts. So yeah, I mean, Buffalo might be a really nice place to visit. But as far as comparing barbecuing whether California to Buffalo, get real.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like comparing ice cream to horse manure, isn't it.

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Speaker 14: I mean, Randy, you love barbecuing out there and everything else, But could you see out there barbecuing when it was like forty two degrees outside?

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Speaker 2: I could do forty two degrees, but I don't know if I could do actively snowing on me.

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Speaker 14: Well, yeah, see that's the other part. Like I said, I've grown up in California all my life been out here, and I love it, and I'm'm gonna fight it to the very very end because I love the weather and my family down here and my grandkids. But I have families back east. But every year at Christmas time, they're all jealous of us taking our pictures at Newport Beach and sending it back to them for our Christmas card.

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Speaker 1: So I think it was forty two degrees when Chuck Schumer was barbecuing hamburgers at his lesbian daughter's house. Wow.

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Speaker 14: John you kra I love listening to you guys. This show is great. Keep it up. Like I said, I'm a longtime listener.

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Speaker 8: Have a good day.

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Speaker 15: Talk to you all right.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, Sarah. Let's go to David in the Bay Area. David, Hello, Hey, John, Brandy.

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Speaker 14: You guys do a great job as always.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 16: I went up to the I did the I was at the State Controller office directly because I was given a notification to one of those third party services. I had money and I would I went directly to their office, showed all my ID and they said, we're starting the process. It's supposed to take thirty days. Well I just called them about two weeks ago and they told me they're only now getting through the September back blog.

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Speaker 1: So they're in no hurry to get you your money.

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Speaker 16: Well, the money would help me greatly, but it's like anything else with our dear boys in Sacramento. I think they're all I got earplugs listening to another radio station which isn't yours.

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Speaker 1: What's funny to me is that if they owe you money, boy, do they take their sweet time. If you owe them money, they will send a helicopter over your house. They'll have someone to send from a cable down your chimney and they'll take it right out of your safe.

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Speaker 16: Well, fortunately my house doesn't have a chimney. I've got a feeling to be coming in the front door.

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Speaker 1: Like a dea raid. Thank you for the call, Sarah, I appreciate it. Let's go to Junior in Los Angeles. Junior, Hello, Junior, are you there, Sarah? How about ja A j R.

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Speaker 17: J J.

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Speaker 1: Okay? Well, sorry, okay, no worries.

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Speaker 8: By the way, are you related to Mackenzie or Michelle by any chance?

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Speaker 1: I am not. However, however, when when Papa John Phillips, When when Mackenzie wrote her book about Papa John Phillips, and you were to type my name into Google True story, you know how Google will then put words on the screen that may you may intend to have come after those two words, the otto fil the auto phil. Yeah, okay, well, if you type in John Phillips right after her book came out, the first two words that came out were incest, rape. So I'd like to thank that family for that.

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Speaker 8: Oh great, Oh my god, I'm gonna be seen miss now we don't know Hollywood show you. Where are you located? Are you in the West.

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Speaker 1: Coast between noon and three?

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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Coast holding to do audio awards show on May on that Burbank Air Force.

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Speaker 1: What's happening right now? I don't know, but thank you for the call, sir. I think it's time to move on. I was really wondering where that was going. Are you on the West Coast? Well, I'm on a radio station in La and one in San Francisco, and as we talk about all the time, Saturdays and Fresno at noon for an hour. No, I think I'm in northeastern Canada. I mean, I'd like to be in Santa Fe, but I'm I'm in Culver City right now. All right, let's go to Dwight in Walnut Creek, Dwight.

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Speaker 18: Hello, good afternoon, Hello, everybody doing good. I happened to hop in the car to run to the store and heard you asking about people that have funs. Stuck in limbo at the controller's office.

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Speaker 8: Is me?

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Speaker 18: For about the last forty years or so, tried to get it out, sent all the paperwork, included copy of my driver's license, YadA, YadA. The last time I tried to do this was about thirty years ago, and I came back about a month later with a rejection letter saying that they couldn't prove that it was me, and where the money's from was a PG need deposit when I was in college at UC Davis. So I came back and said, what do you need proof to show that this is me? I have kind of an unusual name. There's not many Dwights out there, and they said, chose your transcripts. So I had to get my transcripts, resupply all the information again and still got rejected. And since then I've basically given up.

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Speaker 1: So now, sir as UC Davis grad, your school is playing my school, cal State Fullerton in the Big West Conference championship. I guess it's not the championship game, but it's the Conference fives, and that game is tonight at eight thirty and Henderson, Nevada.

00:28:06
Speaker 18: Well, I'm not going to be there because I'm on the West coast with you.

00:28:11
Speaker 1: So well, apparently I'm on the East coast.

00:28:15
Speaker 8: I don't know.

00:28:16
Speaker 18: I guess the radio waves travel fast or something. But yeah, it's just a n money from the government. You know, it's it's me. It's from the apartment I lived at when I was in Davis, but I can't go to the management and get it because the management's flipped, you know, god knows how many time times all the house is still there, So you know, good luck. And I don't know if you explained prior to me getting on the radio, but I know a lot of people get these notices in the meal saying hey, there's money waiting for you, and you sign up with us and we'll take twenty percent to process it for you. But you can go on the controller's website, download the paperwork and deal with it that way if you want. Chances are, you know, based on my experience, you're not gonna get in runny either way. But it's it's not that difficult. And you can check also on the website really easily whether you have any any funds locked up with the state and get it yourself if you want to deal with it.

00:29:15
Speaker 1: So yeah, we did. Actually, the website is claim it dot ca a dot gov. Claim it dot ca dot gov.

00:29:25
Speaker 18: Yeah, thanks thanks for mentioning that, because I think that might save some people some money, although it might increase their their angst. So I appreciate you guys. Thanks for taking my call and have a wonderful day. Keep doing what you're doing, all.

00:29:37
Speaker 1: Right, all right, thank you for the call, sir. I appreciate it. Let's go to Jeff Admission Vieho Jeff, Hello, Okay, John Randy.

00:29:52
Speaker 19: I just wanted to share my story about tactics like sales tax and things of that nature. I've bought a October twenty eighteen, I bought a piece of equipment from a used equipment dealer. It was a twenty five thousand dollars purchase, and when I did all my number crunching, I figured out eight nine percent tax on top so I could budget for it. And when I sat down and rated signed documents and the guy goes ten and a half percent, and I go, wait a minute, I go, what's this extra point and a half for? He goes, oh, that's this is in the city along Beach. He goes, oh, that's a homeless tax.

00:30:36
Speaker 1: And I.

00:30:38
Speaker 19: Went ahead with the purchase. But I've never been back to Long Beach too so much as buy a donut.

00:30:47
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir, we appreciate it. Let's go to Cheryl an Upper Lake.

00:30:54
Speaker 17: Cheryl, Hello, Hello, I wanted to tell about years ago, when cables and cable first came out. I was working for ge Cable Vision as a contractor and that's where I learned from staff that they paid their PG and E electric bill at the last possible day. And I always thought that, you know, poor people do that, but they said no, it was all about the interest in the bank there. And I think that the state controller, you know, they're earning the interest on everybody's moneys, and so that's very good motivation to not pay people easily what they're holding. They think it's theirs already. Plus the interest there.

00:31:37
Speaker 1: Well, if you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, which apparently we are, certainly the state of California is not going to want to give that up, especially if the money goes to the general fund. If the money goes to the general fund, that means the money goes to the public employee unions, and they're not going to do anything that takes money away from them.

00:31:58
Speaker 14: That's right.

00:31:58
Speaker 17: I would hope that the next governor, Steve Hilton, maybe could do something about this.

00:32:05
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call. Let's go to Alex in La Alex.

00:32:09
Speaker 14: Hello, Katie, John, how you doing.

00:32:14
Speaker 18: On the topic?

00:32:15
Speaker 20: Hits me right on the head here, because my mom passed away several years back, and I went to the.

00:32:22
Speaker 18: Website that you mentioned claimant dot CA.

00:32:25
Speaker 20: Dot gov, and I did find that I had some money coming to me, so I applied for it, and he sent me an email telling me that I had to send her a de certificate, my bank information, my contact information, and a letter explaining the details. So it might not be worth it if it's for a small amount.

00:32:44
Speaker 14: What do you think.

00:32:46
Speaker 1: Well, if the money is yours, it's yours. And if all it takes is filling out a form to get it, I would fill out the forum and try to get it because I rather have access to the money than the public employee unions in the state of California. Go out and have a nice dinner.

00:33:05
Speaker 18: Okay, all right, that's a good thought.

00:33:07
Speaker 1: Thanks, all right, thank you for the call, sir. Let's go to Tony Listening Online in Seattle, Tony.

00:33:15
Speaker 15: Hello, Hey guys, you guys got a great show. I've called a couple of times an away that website of property that st California has I claimed property that I found there, and I just heard about this website. I went on there. I was surprised to find that I had money from Glendell Federal Bank and a couple of other places that have since you know, closed out gone out of business. Anyway, it was a pretty simple process and I collected like just under ten grand. Although it required my ex wife's signature on there, and anyway, somehow or other, her signature ended up getting on there. I won't say how I ended up getting it on there, but I got it on there, and.

00:34:03
Speaker 8: They sent me the check, you know.

00:34:05
Speaker 15: And then subsequently I looked on there again and I found like some you know, petty amount of like ninety dollars that was available. This is like about a year later, and I tried to get that, and hell, they put me through the rigger to get that. I had to submit this. I had to submit that, and I just forget it. It's not even worth it, but for the large amount lo and behold, I got it quickly. It was pretty easy.

00:34:34
Speaker 1: There is no rhyme or reason how this state does run shop.

00:34:38
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's in or miss. You know, you get somebody who's who's willing to just send you the money, they'll send you the money. So just like that anyway, you guys have a great show, and you and Randy I love listening to you guys.

00:34:52
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for the call, sir, and I'm glad you got well most of your money back. Eight hundred two two two two is a telephone number. One eight hundred two two two five two two two. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com and Randy earmonitor In the mailbag, Kenneth.

00:35:23
Speaker 2: Writes in at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com on waiting till the last minute, Hey, Johnny, a caller pointed out how the state more than likely hangs on to our money as long as possible, collecting interest in all those unhurried holdings. That's why I get an extension on my taxes every year and file around October fifteenth with no penalties. Maybe all of us taxpayers, those who know they owe, should wait until the absolute deadline. Make them wait another six months before we pay one more cent.

00:35:54
Speaker 1: So I got a text message from a friend who's listening, and here's what he had to say. The steady California will not only hold onto your money without telling you, they reached their greasy hands right into your bank account and take it out without warning if they think that you owe them. I remember when a few years ago I woke up and checked my bank account and there was nothing in it because California had drafted all of it out of my account. They claimed that I owed the money in taxes because my name was on my brother's mortgage, which he fully paid, and based on the mortgage amount, they assumed I made more money than I really made. So they calculated how much they thought I owed, set notices to an address I no longer lived at, and finally drafted my bank account one morning for all of my funds. They did eventually give it back after going through a lot of calls and paperwork.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: Crazy Holy cow, how is this legal? Here's an email from Johnny and Hercules. Happy Thursday, guys. Your show must be going viral today because now the Claimate dot ca dot gov website is crashing from traffic overload.

00:37:05
Speaker 1: I can't even get on there. Well, I was just playing around with it, and apparently some outfit owes me money. Oh really, and it's listed on there. Yes, and it's the correct John Phillips. It's the correct John Phillips. They have my correct address, add my middle name. So I guess I now have the pleasure of jumping through all the hoops that the state of California wants you to jump through to get your money back.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: Let's see, I put in my last name, Sean Wong. No, that's not me, Chung Fu Wong, that's not me. James Wong, that's not me. Now there's no money for me. Put your wife's name in there. Okay, all right, let's see. Maybe you've got a little cash for the wifey. All right, Oh, last name first, I'm gonna do this backwards. Okay, last name and first name. Let's search. You got anything for me? It is thinking, Oh boy, no, no, no boy. There's a lot of people with my wife's last name in the state of California.

00:38:18
Speaker 1: Well, you could narrow it down to city and zip code if you want.

00:38:21
Speaker 2: All right, I'm narrowing it down. Let's see. No, I got nothing. Okay, Wait, what if I put in my fake name because I tried my legal name. But what if I put in the name that everyone knows me on the radio as Randy Wang. Wow, there's a whole lot of them. If you thought you were the only one, here's one for twenty six cents. I think that one is me.

00:38:51
Speaker 1: Does it have your correct address on there? Wait? Some of these are to a guy named Wang wang w A n G w A G from a long line of wings.