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Mr. Randy Wings in Culver City.

John and I sit down interview with Conan Nolan,

LA Mayor Karen Bassa,

she'll be depending on help from the federal government

to keep Los Angeles safe during the big soccer tournament this summer.

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 Olympics.

Where's the D's, Karen?

She's a D-dropper.

She dropped two D's.

She dropped a double D.

You know he wants to be front and center on the World Cup,

and I do believe that the World Cup will be saved.

Which she got rid of two D's.

Yep.

That's one more than Caitlyn Jenner.

800-222-5222 is the telephone number 1-800-222-5222.

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.

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 more, here is Fox 11 in Los Angeles.

If I, when you're on the go, it's easy to leave things behind.

L.A. Metro's lost and found as a system that helps reunite passengers

with their personal belongings, no matter what kind.

Fox 11's Christina Gonzalez got a closer look.

And they enjoy this live from Manacito Heights, Christina.

Yeah, no, and when you say

everything, think of anything and everything and they probably have it here.

You leave your phone on the Metro train or the bus.

And about three to five days, it ends up here.

And you're not going to believe the kind of stuff they have in here.

Take a look.

It's a warehouse of oddities.

I can only imagine what's in there.

We have a replica of the Eiffel Tower here.

What?

Like the Lego one that you get at Lego land or someone was doing a model kit on the train?

Who knows?

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

How did we get that?

That's, that's a question that we ask ourselves.

We have a surfboard, a pretty well used surfboards.

I just thought 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?

You can also see a saxophone and L-A-U-S-D student left that behind on our public transit system.

And then there's a car.

I know who could have left the saxophone behind.

Who's that?

That could have been Rachel's.

Student left that behind on our public transit system.

And then there's the items that

who forgets the items that really leave you puzzled.

For example, we have this prosthetic leg that's something...

Wait, what?

How do you forget your leg?

Not half the man he used to be.

For example, we have this prosthetic leg that someone...

Wouldn't you notice that you're hopping out of the station?

How high on math do you have to be to forget your leg on the bus?

For example, 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.

You think that guy was on his way to a soccer game?

For example, we have this prosthetic leg that someone left behind that one of our stations.

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 is bicycles.

People put them up in the rack in the front of the bus.

They get in the bus.

They get off the bus to go to a connection.

They forget the bike.

They've got a...

Well, they probably stole the bike to begin with.

So they'll just go get another one.

Yeah, that is a hallmark of just about every homeless encampment in town.

They all have about 9,000 stolen bikes.

They've got about 500 of them downtown.

Here at this location in Montecito Heights, they have a lot of phones.

They have a lot of wallets and keys, that kind of stuff.

Now, you have 90 days to pick up your stuff because after that,

they actually do have auctions.

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,

what's the going rate for a prosthetic leg that doesn't fit your body?

Do I hear $10?

And they do sell the stuff.

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 K-A-B-C Christmas

party for the Secret Santa game.

And they do sell the stuff.

You also think you can do it.

It's pretty easy to do it.

You can go online and file a report.

You can call them on the phone.

I, 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.

I wonder if they have a full-on auctioneer.

I've got a leg, a leg, a leg.

Do you want the leg?

10 on the leg.

20 on the leg.

You can come in here.

We're putting all that information on the website at foxelay.com.

Keep in mind, they're telling me that they've brought us about 15,000 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 going to have a lot of tourists using Metro.

And they expect that we're going to have foreigners losing their prosthetic

legs on the Metro, hopefully not too many.

And they expect that 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 is there.

You don't write unlike the back of your prosthetic leg property of so-and-so.

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

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

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

So again, go to our website foxelay.com and you'll be able to find out more.

Live in Montseito Heights, I'm Christina Gonzalez and back to you.

I'm like you trying to visualize how people leave behind a prosthetic leg

for the bicycle that got them to the bus.

Maybe they're hand walkers.

Like in the circus?

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.

Well, the people who ride those trains do look like carneys.

For the bicycle that got them to the bus station.

Okay, I'm wondering what items stood out to you the most?

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

Yeah, how do you want up that?

You know, I mean, I, the prosthetic 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 Santa Monica,

but you can do that.

I had no idea.

You know, 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.

And it wasn't stolen.

That's incredible.

Yeah, how did that not get stolen?

And she was a united, you know, with it.

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 prosthetic leg and, you know, and if you need, by the way, real quickly.

And don't just expect.

Is anybody out there in the listening audience currently missing a leg?

I would hope not in this audience.

And don't just expect to come here and say, hey, I lost my wallet and give me a

wallet. You need to prove you were on the bus on the train that date the time.

It should be fairly easy to prove that you missing a leg.

Yeah, what kind of verification outside of a one-legged man at the window do you need?

Description.

And if it's something like a wallet, you're going to need an ID.

So they're not 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.

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 tray 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

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?

The description, and if it's something like a wallet, you're going to need an ID.

So they're not just giving up stuff to people who show up to pick it up.

So they're being careful about it, but the leg one might be easier than for it.

No, who that went to. All right, fed it in.

The leg might be easier to know who that went to.

Just saying.

Well, you have to destroy it on. It's like Cinderella slipper. You put it on.

Oh, this leg doesn't fit. Do you have any others?

Well, it could be like OJ when he was trying on the gloves.

It doesn't fit. Mustaquit.

What's going on, America?

Put it on. If it fits, it's yours, maybe. I don't know.

Glad they are reuniting some people with their stuff. Thanks, Christina.

So there you go. Metro has a robust, lost and found department that includes

wallets and keys and phones and surfboards and missing legs.

And there's another story about missing property in the news, Randy.

This time, Julie Watts from CBS News asked 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?

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 just call you?

Seems reasonable to me. For more, here is CBS Sacramento and our friend, Julie Watts.

Out of 58 counties, we are number 58. We are the most food and secure county throughout California.

I think the biggest challenge we face is trying to raise money.

For Yolo County Food Bank director Karen Baker, every set counts.

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

So imagine what she could do with $2,500. Do you have $2,500? You wouldn't hand me.

We don't, but the state controller does.

And it belongs to the Yolo County Food Bank.

Is my money?

CBS News California Analyze state data and found the state is holding on to more than $90,000

that belongs to California Food Banks.

So why wouldn't the state just, I don't know, send it out to the state of California Food Bank?

Do you have $2,500? You wouldn't hand me.

We don't, but the state controller does.

And it belongs to the Yolo County Food Bank.

Is my money?

So why wouldn't the state just, I don't know, send it out to the Food Banks?

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?

1.3 million that belongs to children's hospitals and at least 46,000 belonging to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

They're keeping the money from the Make-A-Wish kids.

How many trips to Disneyland can $46,000 buy?

A lot.

Not as much as they used to be.

Here we have gold bars.

Trouble is, they had no idea.

Some gold coins, and they're not alone.

Boy, the state of California is lost and found is quite interesting.

Although, I don't know if they have any missing legs.

Yeah, what if that Food Bank has a missing leg sitting in a vault somewhere that belongs to them?

And they're not alone.

We have $15 billion of Californians' personal belongings that we want to return.

State Controller Malia Cohen says the state is trying to get the word out

that one and three people who search claimit.ca.gov find money or property in their name.

Yeah, but then you know who's it is.

So why don't you just give it to them?

Seems reasonable to me.

Left over from old bank accounts or over payments,

were in some cases family heirlooms.

Which recognizes February 2026 as unclean property month.

The controller even sponsored this resolution.

But somehow Karen missed that announcement on the assembly floor.

And it would seem like it would be much more proactive

to just send us the information or better yet send us the check

of all unclean funds.

There are many just give them the $2,500 that can buy a lot of Cheerios.

Not as many Cheerios as it used to be able to buy.

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 New York, Silicon Valley. Why not develop a system

where at least some claimants can get their money back automatically.

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 Newsom.

For a whole book on how to modernize government, government and didn't use any of it.

You and I are on the same page. That's actually what my team and I that we're actively working on.

You see state law already requires the controller to mail a notice to the address on file.

If they have at least $50 of your property, we used to be yellow county food bank,

but the law limits how they're allowed to track you down in cashier's tax.

With every single one of these organizations has to file a tax form,

especially the 501c3s, 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 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 and resources giving people their money back.

And cashier's checks this bill would have made it easier for the controller,

but it's sold last year on the Senate floor.

Hey children's hospital 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.

Maybe one of the banks.

Hey children's hospital is due 1.3 million.

And oh my goodness.

So when the meantime, CBS news California is stepping in.

So we are going to go fact check your facts.

And if that's the case, then that's your next story.

So this is interesting.

So now Julie Watts' mission is to give everyone their money back.

The best public servants right now are some of our investigative reporters.

She's the only one doing any of the work in the state, helping reunite non-profits with

their much needed money. Wow. These are all the different food banks.

This is incredible for CBS news California investigates.

Wow, they will be so thrilled to hear about this.

For CBS news, California investigates.

Oh Julie, you got to do another edit on this video, baby.

I'm Julie Watts.

It doesn't happen very often.

So I just pulled up my name on that website.

Unfortunately, I have the most common 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.

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Let's go to Ray and Manhattan Beach.

Ray, hello.

Yes, the state does this thing they call it cheating,

and that's if you have money sitting on an account for a period of time.

If you don't take it, they take it.

And so if you've got money sitting in a bank account,

a savings account where they don't see any activity as far as deposits or withdrawals,

they take your money.

And my first job out of college was at Apple,

and I bought my little brothers five shares of Apple stocks.

They took it.

And they want the refuse to return it to my brother.

How much is that stock worth?

Today quarter million.

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 went away in on any of this,

give us a call at 800-222-5222.

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 800-222-5222.

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Let's go to Dale and Long Beach.

Dale, hello.

Hello, Randy and John.

The state is holding $15 billion in unclaimed property.

They made $400 million in annual revenue just off the unclaimed property interest.

In 2003, 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.

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

No, because I've never had any money that was going to count its worth.

Thank you for the call, sir.

Now, Randy, that would make sense as to why they're not trying to give that money back.

Because they're making money on the interest and all this money,

they're holding in the bank that's not really theirs.

Let's go to Henry and Anaheim. Henry, hello.

Hi, guys.

Hi there.

I have a quick comment.

I have a quick comment about the gentleman who called in from Buffalo and saying about the

barbecue 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 barbecue and whether California to Buffalo, get real.

Yeah, it's kind of like comparing ice cream to horse manure, isn't it?

I mean, Randy, you love barbecue and out there and everything else.

But could you see out there barbecuing when it was like 42 degrees outside?

I could do 42 degrees, but I don't know if I could do actively snowing on me.

Well, yeah, see, that's the other part.

Like I said, I've grown up in California all my life.

You've been out here and I love it.

And I'm going to fight it to the very, very end because I love the weather and my family's out here

and my grandkids.

But I have family's 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.

So I think it was 42 degrees when Chuck Schumer was barbecuing hamburgers at his Lesbian daughters house.

Done.

I love listening to you guys.

The show is great.

Keep it up.

Like I said, I'm a long time listener.

Have a good day.

Talk to you.

All right.

Thank you for the call, sir.

Let's go to David in the Bay Area.

David, hello.

Hey, John.

Randy, you guys do a great job as always.

Thank you.

I went up to this.

I did the, I was at the state controlist 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, well, we're starting the process.

It's supposed to take 30 days.

Well, I just called them about two weeks ago.

And they, they told me they're only now getting through the September backlog.

So there ain't no hurry to get you your money.

Well, you know, the money would help me greatly.

But it's like anything else with our dear boys in Sacramento.

I think they're all, uh, got earplugs listening to another radio station,

which isn't yours.

What, 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 descend from a cable down your chimney.

And they'll take it right out of your safe.

Well, fortunately, my house doesn't have a chimney.

I've got a feeling they'd be coming into front door.

Like a DEA raid.

Thank you for the call, sir.

I appreciate it.

Let's go to junior in Los Angeles.

Junior, hello.

Junior, are you there, sir?

How about JR?

JR?

JR, not junior.

Okay.

Well, sorry.

Okay, no worries.

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

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 in the Google true story,

you know how Google will then put words on the screen that

make you may intend to have come after those two words?

The autofill.

The autofill, 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.

Oh, great.

Oh, my God.

I'm going to be seeing this now.

We don't know how it would show here.

Where are you located?

Are you in the West Coast?

I'm just...

Between noon and three, yes, sir.

I'm sure she's heading to West Coast,

we're heading to Hollywood show on May on that Burbank Air Force.

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 in Culver City right now.

All right, let's go to Dwight and Walnut Creek.

Dwight, hello.

Good afternoon.

How's everybody doing?

Good.

I happen to hop in the car to run at the store

and heard you asking about people that have fun stuck in limbo

at the controller's office.

That is me for about the last 40 years or so.

I tried to get it out, sent all the paperwork,

put a copy of my driver's license, Yada Yada.

The last time I tried to do this was about 30 years ago.

And I came back about a month later with rejection later,

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 whites out there.

And they said, show us 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.

So.

Now, sir, as you see 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 finals.

And that game is tonight at 830 in Henderson, Nevada.

Well, I'm not going to be there because I'm on the west coast with you.

So well, apparently I'm on the east coast.

I don't know.

I guess the radio waves travel fast or something,

but it's just a nice money from the government.

It's me.

It's from the apartment I lived at when I was in Davis,

but can't go to the management and get it

because the management's flipped.

You know, God knows how many times,

although 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 mail saying,

hey, there's money waiting for you and you sign up with us

and we'll take 20% 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 going to get money either way.

But it's not that difficult.

And you can check also on the website,

really easily, whether you have any funds locked up with the state

and get it yourself, it's you want to deal with it.

So, yeah, we did actually.

The website is climate.ca.gov.

Climate.ca.gov.

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 right. Thank you for the call, sir.

I appreciate it.

Let's go to

Jeff and Mission V.A. Ho. Jeff, hello.

Hey, John Randi.

I just wanted to share my story about

taxes, like sales tax and things of that nature.

I bought a, uh, October 2018,

I bought a piece of equipment from a used equipment dealer.

It was a $25,000 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 arranged a signed document,

and the guy goes 10 and a half percent,

and I go, wait a minute, I go, what's the texture point in a half for?

He goes, oh, that's, uh, there's in the city along beach.

He goes, oh, that's, uh, a homeless tax.

And I, I went ahead with the purchase,

but I've never been back to Long Beach to so much is by a donut.

All right. Thank you for the call, sir.

We appreciate it.

Let's go to Cheryl and Upper Lake.

Cheryl, hello.

Hello. I wanted to tell about years ago,

when cable vision, 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&E electric bill

at the last possible day.

And I always thought, you know, poor people do that.

But they said, no, it was all about the interest in the bank.

They're, and I think that the state controller, you know,

they're earning the interest on everybody's monies.

And so that's very good motivation to not pay people easily

what they're holding.

They think there's already plus the interest they earn.

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.

That's right.

I would hope that the next governor,

Steve Hilton, maybe could do something about this.

All right. Thank you for the call.

Let's go to Alex in the LA.

Alex, hello.

Katie, John, how are you doing?

The topic hits me right on the head here,

because my mom passed away several years back.

And I went to the website of that you mentioned.

claimit.ca.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 center a desertific kid,

my bank information, my contact information,

and a letter explaining the details.

So it might not be worth it if it's so far small amount.

What do you think?

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 form 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.

Okay. All right. That's a good thought. Thanks.

All right. Thank you for the call, sir.

Let's go to Tony, listening online in Seattle.

Tony, hello.

Hey, guys, you guys kind of great show.

I've called a couple of times.

Really, the way that website of property

that the state of California has,

I claimed property that I found there.

And I just heard about this website.

I went out in there.

I was surprised to find that I had money

from Glendale Federal Bank and a couple of other places

that have since closed that, gone out of business.

Anyway, it was a pretty simple process.

And I collected just under 10 grand,

although it required my ex-wife 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 they sent me the check, you know?

And then subsequently, I looked on there again

and I found like some, you know,

petty amount of like $90 that was available.

This is like about a year later.

And I tried to get that.

And the hell, they put me through the rigor

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,

low and behold,

I got it quickly.

It was pretty easy.

There is no rhyme or reason

how this state does run shop.

Yeah, it's intermiss.

You know, you get somebody who's

who's willing to just 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.

Well, thank you so much for the call,

Sir, and I'm glad you got most of your money back.

800-222-5222 is the telephone number

1-800-222-5222

800-222-5222 is the telephone number

1-800-222-5222

If you'd like to email the show,

you can do so at Johnny.

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That's Johnny.

Don't like show at gmail.com.

And Randy, your monitor in the mailbag.

Kenneth writes in at Johnny.

Don't like show at gmail.com

on waiting till the last minute.

Hey, Johnny, a caller pointed out

to have 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 15th 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.

So I got a text message

from a friend who's listening

and here's what he had to say.

The Stady California will not only hold

onto your money without telling you,

they reach 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 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 claimant.ca.gov website

is crashing from traffic overload.

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

and 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.

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.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Let's see.

Maybe you've got a little cash for the wifey.

All right.

Oh, last name first.

I'm going to do this backwards.

Okay.

Last name.

And first name.

Let's search.

You got anything for me.

Uh, it is thinking.

Oh boy.

Uh, no, no, no.

Boy, there's a lot of people

with my wife's last name

and state of California.

Well, you can narrow it down

to city and zip code if you want.

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 have I put in the,

the name that everyone knows me

on the radio as Randy Wang.

Uh, wow.

There's a whole lot of them.

If you thought you were the only one,

here's one for 26 cents.

I think that one is me.

Does it have your correct address on there?

Wait, some of these are two.

A guy named Wang Wang.

W-A-N-G, W-A-N-G from a long line of wings.