Neckgate

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "Neckgate"

Date: March 30, 2026
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand (iHeartPodcasts)
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

Episode Overview

In "Neckgate," Armstrong & Getty dive into the recent "No Kings" protest movement sweeping across major U.S. cities, dissecting the motivations, messaging, and media coverage — or the lack thereof — surrounding these demonstrations. The hosts also explore the organizational and financial mechanics behind left-wing protests, connections to foreign actors, and media hypocrisy. The episode pivots mid-way to discuss Chinese espionage on American campuses, before closing with an extended, pointed, and sometimes humorous dissection of Tiger Woods' legal and personal woes, and tech gripes about Apple autocorrect.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The "No Kings" Protest Movement

• Core Theme: The anti-war, anti-Trump, and vaguely anti-authoritarian "No Kings" protests have erupted across the country, but their messaging appears unfocused and their impact questionable.
  • "Millions on the streets" in places from New York, Austin to Los Angeles ([03:49]).
  • Armstrong & Getty suggest the protests lack clear purpose or achievable political aims.

The Vague Nature of Protester grievances

• Notable interaction with a protester who could not specify what she was protesting:

  B: “Why are you protesting?”
  Protester (clip): “How much time do you have?”
  F: “A couple minutes.”
  B: “What’s the main reason you’re out here?”
  Protester: “Well, I don’t even think... I don’t even think it’s appropriate for me to have this interview.”
  ([05:00]–[05:27]; replayed [13:33]–[14:16])

  • The hosts mockingly dub this a parody and liken the rallies to “bad group therapy” ([05:45], [14:36]), which offers validation but little real impact.

• Quote:

  “The rallies will likely generate energy, visibility and a sense of shared purpose. But they will also illustrate a familiar trade off. When politics becomes organized around emotional validation, it can feel more satisfying even as it becomes less effective.”
  — B (reading a piece), [05:45]

Communist Factions in Protests

• Audio highlights significant communist presence at the New York protest:

  Chant: “There is only one solution: Communist Revolution!” ([07:50])

  • Hundreds of marchers carrying communist symbols.

• Hosts point out the uneven press scrutiny, contrasting lack of coverage here with hypothetical right-wing fringe at a Republican rally ([08:30]–[09:02]).

• Quote:

  “Good God, that the name journalist is ill applied to these people. They are propagandists. They are utterly, utterly dishonest.”
  — F ([09:02])

Lack of Diversity and Rationale

• A white protester justifies the overwhelmingly white makeup of the protests by saying it’s “not safe” for people of color in “Trump's America” ([11:22]–[11:40]).
  • The hosts decry this as fantasy: “Boy, they live in a fantasy land.” ([11:59])
• Explains college professors’ glorification of protest culture as a misguided legacy of the 1960s, now detached from efficacy ([12:02]–[12:34]).

Critique of Messaging

• Hosts express bafflement over the term “No Kings” as opposed to direct anti-Trump messaging, arguing the theme is fuzzy and feels more like a festival than a focused political statement ([12:55]–[13:09]).

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2. Funding and Organization of Protests ("The Demonstration Industrial Complex")

• The episode takes a determined look at the groups orchestrating these events.

  • Identifies the Answer Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) as a central organizer, along with groups like Democratic Socialists of America, Code Pink, and others ([19:26]–[21:00]).
  • Raises concerns about their radicalization, shared infrastructure, and links to foreign adversaries, specifically China.

• Details on financier Neville Roy Singham:

  “Who’s that is definitely a name you ought to know. He’s an American born tech entrepreneur…with strong connections to the Chinese Communist Party…This guy’s money is everywhere in radical leftist and pro-communist politics.”
  — B ([22:38]–[22:47])

• Quote:

  “The demonstration industrial complex is powered by foreign funds. Many of the group in Answer’s orbit are linked through partnerships, funding relationships and shared media ecosystems to Neville Roy Singham…with strong connections to the Chinese Communist Party.”
  — B ([21:50]–[22:47])

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3. Media Critique and Political Coverage

• Hosts criticize mainstream media for ignoring or underplaying large communist contingents at these rallies, while quickly spotlighting far-right fringe at right-wing gatherings ([08:30]–[09:23]).
• Points out perceived media double-standards in interviewing politicians from the two parties about fringe support ([09:02]–[10:02]).

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4. Chinese Espionage on US Campuses

• Segment highlights testimony from Elsa Johnson, a Stanford student targeted by a Chinese agent posing online as a student ([27:06]):

  “A man calling himself Charles Chen reached out to me on social media…offered to pay for a trip to China…pressured me to move our conversation to WeChat…”
  — Elsa Johnson (clip) ([27:06])

• Johnson experienced intimidation after reporting on attempted recruitment ([28:10]):

  “Just this week, I received another call from a U.S. number. After exchanging hellos, the caller switched to Mandarin and asked whether I had finished dinner.”
  — Elsa Johnson (clip), [28:21]

• The hosts applaud her bravery, note university indifference, and criticize the complacency of American institutions ([29:19]–[30:32]).

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5. Tiger Woods' Ongoing Troubles

• Extended mockery and serious discussion of Tiger Woods’ repeated vehicle accidents, history of substance abuse, and lack of accountability ([32:12]–[41:04]):

  • Outlines timeline: 2009 (crashed into hydrant), 2017 (four flat tires at a stoplight), 2021 (nearly lost his leg in crash), 2026 (newest incident).
  • Discuss implications for his golfing career, his refusal to get a driver, the privilege he may receive, and the danger to the public.

• Quote:

  “He needs to freaking go to jail before he hurts somebody. You self-centered, selfish, lying scumbag.”
  — F ([34:01])

  “There are good people to root for. And since Tiger came along, I’ve never rooted for him because he’s an A hole.”
  — B ([35:55])

• Hosts compare Woods’ behavior to more admirable sports figures (e.g., Gary Woodland).

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6. Tech Talk: Apple Autocorrect Frustrations

• Hosts and crew air grievances with Apple’s declining autocorrect and Siri performance, noting its deterioration over time ([44:43]–[47:10]).
  • Crew member Katie reports her phone now removes intended punctuation, compounding user frustration.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On protest inefficacy:

  “It’s bad group therapy. It’s a get together. It’s doing the wave at a ballpark, those protests.”
  — B ([14:35])

• On college protest culture:

  “Their college professors, many of whom are old hippies, and the greatest period of their life was when they were protesting in the 60s, convince these college kids that the highest thing you can do as a human being is to protest.”
  — F ([12:02])

• On campus espionage:

  “She was a freshman navigating a foreign intelligence operation with no institutional support.”
  — B ([30:32])

• On Tiger Woods:

  “The very qualities that made him great are now his undoing. And his undoing is getting more and more complete.”
  — B ([39:09])

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Important Timestamps

• 03:30: Armstrong & Getty introduction, launch into “No Kings” protest analysis
• 04:34 – 06:42: Protester interview; “bad group therapy” discussion
• 07:50 – 08:30: Communist chants at protests, crowd size revelations
• 09:02: Media double standard discussion
• 11:17 – 12:34: Diversity and “fantasy land” in protest movement
• 13:33 – 14:16: Encore: Protester still can’t name a reason for protesting
• 19:26 – 23:16: “Demonstration industrial complex,” Answer Coalition, foreign funding, Neville Roy Singham
• 27:06 – 30:32: Stanford student Elsa Johnson on Chinese espionage/intimidation
• 32:12 – 41:04: Tiger Woods’ car crash history and critique
• 44:43 – 47:10: Apple autocorrect and Siri discussion

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Tone and Style

• Bantering, sarcastic, and sardonic tone – typical for Armstrong & Getty
• Frequent mockery of protest vagueness, media hypocrisy, and celebrity foibles
• Critical, sometimes polemical stance on mainstream news media and political protest culture
• Alternating seriousness (foreign espionage, accountability in addiction) mixed with humor

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Conclusion/Final Thoughts

The episode encapsulates Armstrong & Getty’s skeptical, irreverent style—questioning the substance and effectiveness of modern protests, highlighting media double standards, exposing foreign influence in protest organizing, and skewering public figures like Tiger Woods for their personal failings. The mixture of serious societal concerns and biting comedic banter offers both insight and entertainment, leaving listeners with a strong sense of the hosts’ worldview: distrustful of mainstream narratives, demanding accountability, and unafraid to poke fun at the powerful.

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.

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And now here's Armstrong, Armstrong and Yeti.

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An anti war message is central to

[B]

the latest no Kings protests.

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Millions on the streets across the country

[B]

from New York to Austin to Los Angeles.

[F]

So the anti war message is central to the no Kings protest.

[B]

That was one of them.

[F]

This isn't the first no Kings protest, though. So what was the, what was the central message last.

[B]

Last time? Was that ice or.

[F]

No, it's pre ice. What was the first no King protest?

[B]

Trumps the Russians.

[F]

I think it might have been tariffs, actually.

[B]

Tariffs? Yeah. That's funny. One of the accounts I read was that it was kind of difficult to get an idea of what these rallies were just by looking at the placards and the chance and the rest of it. It seemed to be a mishmash, which is exactly what it was.

[F]

Yeah, well, there were some communists. We got that clip coming up a little bit. We're going to check in on some of the RAL rallies around the country and things people are saying, including this woman here who was asked specifically what you're protesting about. So what brings you out today? No Kings Day and why specifically are you out supporting no Kings Day?

[B]

I think protest is important. Why are you protesting? How much time do you have?

[F]

A couple minutes.

[B]

What's the main reason you're out here

[F]

protesting President Trump with a lot of

[B]

the decisions that are being made?

[F]

Is there any decision in you disagree with where.

[B]

Okay, so I, I would start with, Well, I don't even think. I don't even think it's appropriate for me to have this interview.

[F]

She couldn't.

[B]

Wow.

[F]

She couldn't bring to the front of her mind one particular issue that she was out there protesting.

[B]

Dr. King would have punched her right in the face in the name of non violence. Oh, she is. That was hilarious. I almost want to hear that again.

[F]

I know.

[B]

It was like this parody and it brings me back to that great piece I featured on Friday that the no Kings rallies are like bad group therapy. And one sentence I didn't hit you with from it. I will now. The cycle of expression, validation and temporary relief can be powerful. Gives the impression that something meaningful has occurred. But without friction, challenge or genuine engagement with imposing views, little is resol. Participants are left with a sense of involvement but few tangible outcomes. On. Here it is. The rallies will likely generate energy, visibility and a sense of shared purpose. But they will also illustrate a familiar trade off. When politics becomes organized around emotional validation, it can feel more satisfying even as it becomes less effective. If that woman was asked, I'm sure she was asked the next day. I couldn't be there. How was the rally? She just said un real.

[F]

Right.

[B]

It was so amazing. Right? Lots of emotional validation. Zero effectiveness on any level.

[F]

You know, people always use community organizer as a slur against Barack Obama for whatever reason. That's. That's where it is. That's what you gotta do if you actually want to change anything.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Is the slow, boring, hard work of community organizing door to door, getting people to little meetings and the meetings grow and you get voters signed up, blah, blah, blah. These rallies don't do anything. Right?

[B]

Right. They just feel good. They're just. It's a party, it's a festival. I like parties.

[F]

How about the fact that she couldn't just throw off something off the top of her head?

[B]

I know. That was astonishing. And by the by, she may have had a youthful sound, but she's a middle aged gal.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Grown ass woman, as they say.

[F]

Which one do you want to do next? I can't wait to get to the communist clip because I like it so much.

[B]

Oh yeah. 42. Hit it, Michael. There is only one solution. Communist revolution. Communist revolution.

[F]

There is only one solution.

[B]

There is only one solution. Communist communism is gonna win, baby.

[F]

So as they pulled back on that, it went from just a couple of people yelling it, which I thought it was, was. No, there was a giant crowd of. It looked like hundreds of people marching with hammer and sickle flags and the big banner across the street and everything that's New York City.

[B]

Communism is gonna win, Barry.

[F]

And the fact that that doesn't make Any news coverage or nobody has to defend that. I was watching the Sunday show. This is on Saturday. I was watching the Sunday shows. I didn't see any Democrats have to defend the fact that you had giant groups of communists in new on the streets of New York City. And at least for them to have

[B]

to say, well, there are lots of

[F]

elements of the movement. I don't agree with that. But like they would do Republicans, if you had a rally for anything and you could come up with a racist or anything anywhere.

[B]

200 Klansmen, for instance. Right. Or 200 actual fascists sporting, you know, swastikas. You think Margaret Brennan would have ignored that? Good God, that the name journalist is ill applied to these people. They are propagandists. They are utterly, utterly dishonest. Oh, I hate them. That's hate. Yeah.

[F]

I was thinking that yesterday with the, the war coverage, which was so unbelievably negative. And it doesn't need to be. Well, some of it should be positive, but it doesn't have to be just neutral. I mean, they'd have the Republican person on there and just grill them, trying to put them in a, you know, position of gas. Is this much. How do you explain that to the American people and, you know, all the different things. And then the Democrats, they get on there and let them give a speech about how this is the worst mistake. Booker, Cory Booker said this. This is the biggest mistake any president's ever made. Taking out the Ayatollah.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. On the other hand, every time I'm cynical, I think they do have on their side not only an ancient musician, but an ancient irrelevant actress as well. Well, no Michael. 43. No.

[F]

Guess where we are.

[B]

Guess who's here.

[F]

No Kings do it.

[B]

Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen, ladies and gentlemen. Who's with me?

[F]

So Bruce had a scarf around his neck. And I was thinking, is it cold in Minneapolis? I mean, it's March, but it could still be cold. I'm from that area of the world. But he was wearing a T shirt. Hansen, our executive producer, believes he's now gone. Scarf around the neck to hide his waddle. His 80 year old turquoise neck.

[B]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, probably. So they're calling it neck Gate Jack scarf. Oh, boy. Now, next segment, I want to get to the financing behind all the left wing protesting we've seen in recent months, which is really interesting. But first, another sampling of the ideological geniuses there at the no Kings protest. Give me, give me White granny on the street. 44. Michael.

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There's a lack of diversity here today that it's mostly people who look like you and I, and I just.

[B]

This is not. It is not for black people, for people of color to be. To get out on the street. They're at risk when they do that. If anybody's gonna get arrested here, it's gonna be a black person. It is not safe for them. And they don't need to participate. We need to walk in their name. Gotcha.

[F]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

Gotcha. Okay. Well, okay. Oh, boy.

[F]

So the overwhelmingly white protest is because it's not safe for and Trump's America to even come out and protest. As we all know.

[B]

Boy, they live in a fantasy land.

[F]

They do. And as I've mentioned on the air, because I've read a couple of good pieces about this, their college professors, many of whom are old hippies, and the greatest period of their life was when they were protesting in the 60s, convince these college kids that the highest thing you can do as a human being is to protest. It's just so important to your life. So you got to get out there. So it's a lot of, you know, white, highly educated, wasting their time thinking they're doing something exciting.

[B]

Protesters, well, they need to wake up, and they need something loud and strange to wake them up. Michael 48.

[F]

Come on.

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Yeah.

[B]

Have we figured out what the hell that was? That was something at one of the protests.

[F]

Who came up with the whole no Kings thing? Why wouldn't they just go anti Trump? No Trump? At least then I would understand what your message was or what you were rallying around. I don't. I just. From the beginning, I've never understood the no Kings thing.

[B]

I would point out that it's all very vague and fuzzy and feel good and that it's got a bit of an American feel to it. No Kings. We fought the British and killed a bunch of them to prevent having a king. So I appreciate that. But again, it must have worked because we don't have a king. It deserves an encore presentation. Michael 49, please.

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So what brings you out today, no Kings Day. And why specifically are you out supporting no Kings Day?

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I think protest is important.

[F]

Why are you protesting?

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How much time do you have?

[F]

A couple minutes.

[B]

And what's the main reason you're out

[F]

here protesting President Trump with a lot

[B]

of the decisions that are being made?

[F]

Is there any decision in particular you disagree with?

[B]

Where. Okay, so I. I would start with.

[F]

Well,

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I don't even think. I don't even think it's appropriate for me to have this interview.

[F]

It isn't Actually, because you can't organize your thoughts well enough to.

[B]

It's interesting that she's reasonably well spoken. Ice anything. I mean, God, I could write those lines free if you'd like me to.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

And you know, most of the protesters honestly could probably have thrown out an issue or two, but it was such a mishmash. But again, it's bad group therapy. It's a get together. It's doing the wave at a ballpark, those protests.

[F]

It really is. We're gonna open the China cabinet a

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little bit later and then next segment for a couple minutes, talk about the financing of the rallies. And it struck me I was watching one of the bingy shows Judy and I like and one of the big scenes, big crowd scene was there was a protest as part of the plot. And what struck me about the protest was that they were all like individual handmade signs that were all unique. And I'm like, whoa, there are no protests that look like that. All the placards are professionally mass produced and handed out in the U.S. well, who's mass producing them? Who's organizing? Who's paying the costs? The rest of it is an interesting. Well, the answer to that question is an interesting one indeed. We'll have that for you next. Don't go away. Armstrong and Getty.

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treating our presidents too much like kings for quite a while now. So from that standpoint, I am in agreement with the no Kings rally. It's just odd that you focus only on Trump given the fact that among the things Joe Biden did, for instance, was like a week before he left office. From the official White House account he put out, President Biden declares the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land, which is one of the craziest things any president ever did. Everybody just kind of ignored it because he was senile and leaving but he declared an amendment to the Constitution on Twitter.

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Not a joke like a week before

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his left and everybody's just like rolled their eyes.

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It was a joke. Oh gosh, we don't even have time to scratch the surface of this in the time we have left. I'll give you the broad outlines. So the strikes in Iran have opened a new round of protests at home, including juicing up the whatever the hell they are no Kings rallies. Mere hours after the bombs began to fall, leftist activists took to the street with signs and chants denouncing American imperialism, demanding hands off or on, and no new US war in the Middle East. It's no coincidence, and this is from the free press, the very even handed free press, that these protests bear similarities to the anti ICE rallies, the pro Cuba rallies, the anti Israel rallies, and the pro Maduro rallies that have dotted the country in recent months. Behind many of these disruptions is the Answer Coalition A N S W E R which spells out act now to Stop War and End Racism, an umbrella organization composed of various far left groups. And if you operations it reveals a demonstration industrial complex, a coordinated ecosystem in which organizations lean into their respective strengths and complement each other's infrastructure, messaging or reach. These organizations in turn are closely linked with hostile foreign actors, including China and others, raising questions not only about their propriety but their legality because they are unquestionably funded by foreign adversaries. And they give a bunch of examples of how sometimes it's peaceful, often it descends into rioting and law breaking. Bunch of different examples, but skipping down to the relevant part. By contrast. Oh, here it is. Answers protest activity is the product of a rapidly growing network of affiliates. The primary coalition sponsors that endorsed the March 7th National Day of Action to quote, stop the war on Iran included American Muslims for Palestine, the Democratic Socialists of America, National Iranian American Council, the People's Forum, Code Pink, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Black alliance for peace and 50501, whatever that is. Some of these groups are becoming more radical as they grow closer together. Since the capture of Maduro in January, DSA is increasingly co organized with Answer, even calling them a partner. That's despite DSA's ostensibly mainstream reputation, in sharp contrast to Answer's association with the hard left organizations. By contrast, some affiliates look more like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the psl, a socialist political party that pursues, quote, the revolutionary overturn of the capitalist system, blah blah blah. They operate in more than 50 cities. The demonstration industrial complex is powered by foreign funds. Many of the group in Answers orbit are linked to through partnerships, funding relationships and shared media ecosystems to Neville Roy Singham. Who's that is definitely a name you ought to know. He's an American born tech entrepreneur who has a zillion dollars with strong connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

[F]

Oh wow.

[B]

This guy's money is everywhere in radical leftist and pro communist politics.

[F]

Bad enough to just be, you know, a whack job, fanciful, unicorn riding leftist, but. But you're actually in league with the Chinese.

[B]

Absolutely. Yeah. And the fact that our media ignores this is one more reason to just despise them. In 2021, the People's Forum publicly acknowledged receiving support from Singham reporting, referring to him as quote, a Marxist comrade who was following in the footsteps of his father Archie, a committed activist for national liberation.

[F]

You know, and it gets to the communist protests in New York City, which I'm sure he had a role in also. How are there so many people that believe in communism? I just, I can't wrap my head around it.

[B]

Yeah, I know. I couldn't be more astonished. It's like advocating setting yourself on fire. It's you're going to end up dead, right? No, no I won't. They say Armstrong and Getty.

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A man calling himself Charles Chen reached out to me on social media. He had mutual followers with me and photos of Stanford on his profile. Over the following weeks, he asked detailed questions about my background, offered to pay for a trip to China, sent me a flight itinerary to Shanghai, and pressured me to move our conversation to WeChat, an app that is monitored by the CCP.

[B]

That's a young woman by the name of Elsa Johnson. She is a Stanford University student testifying to something, a story that we brought you a number of months ago about how she was actively recruited by Chinese spies who are looking for more Stanford students and scientists and research assistants to, you know, do work for the Communist Chinese. I am struck by the fact that that was on CBS News. And for all of the idiotic yelling about when Bari Weiss took over as whatever executive editor, the just horrifically ridiculous muling by the far lefties. It's obvious to me what Barry is doing. She's saying, that's a huge story. Yes, we're gonna cover it to stuff that is obviously a huge story that ought to be covered. Like hundreds of Communists at no Kings rallies, for instance. That would be lovely, wouldn't it? Anyway, Ms. Johnson goes on to discuss how the Communist Chinese agent attempted to put his hooks in her.

[G]

He publicly commented on one of my Instagram posts in Mandarin, asking me to delete screenshots I had taken of our conversation. I do not know how he knew I had these screenshots.

[F]

Who?

[B]

Go on.

[G]

The FBI confirmed he had no affiliation with Stanford. He was likely operating on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security. I was one of at least 10 female students he targeted since 2020. After my co author, Garrett Malloy and I published our investigation, the incidents worsened. I began receiving intimidation calls where callers would switch to Mandarin. And in one case, the caller referenced my mother. Just this week, I received another call from US Number. After exchanging hellos, the caller switched to Mandarin and asked whether I had finished dinner. I have also received threatening scam emails attempting to convince me to take down my reporting on this issue.

[F]

That stuff about get rid of your screenshots. I have no idea how they knew I had screenshots or did you finish dinner? Which I assume is.

[B]

She was eating dinner at the time. Yeah.

[F]

Just to let you know, we're got an eye on you right now, which would be pretty strangling.

[B]

This sort of thing happens hundreds of times, certainly a week or a month in the US Especially on university campuses, which are teeming with Chinese nationals or Chinese Americans who have family back in the homeland, therefore have, you know, points of leverage against them. Yeah. She's an incredibly brave young woman, by the way. I salute her. It's just one more example of how we are the most comfortable, least aware superpower that's ever existed on earth. We just don't protect ourselves.

[F]

Yeah, man. It'd be.

[B]

In fact, a lot of us hate ourselves.

[F]

It'd be so easy to just, you know, copy some documents from whatever department you're in at the university and send them to whatever email address you're supposed to, just to avoid the whatever they might do to your family back home. You think, what, what good is this stuff from the college gonna do? It's no big deal. It's not like they're nuclear secrets or something like that. And yeah, to be so easy to go along with that stuff.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. This gal, she was,

[F]

she was just

[B]

reporting on what China was doing on campus trying to recruit students. And so she wasn't even like a target for recruitment. She was somebody who was talking about it. And then she bashed Stanford for failing to help her deal with the alleged foreign espionage, saying that she was, quote, a freshman navigating a foreign intelligence operation with no institutional support. Oh my God. So she ultimately the Hoover Institution, which is the conservative thinking, conservative leaning think tank that operates on Stanford's campus as like a weird. It's almost like East Germany back in the day, if you remember that it was this outpost of, in this case, sanity. In the midst of the insanity of Stanford. The university told her, yeah, we can't help you early. And the Hoover Institution said, wait, wait, what is happening? We'll help you. We're going to connect you with the FBI and get you some good advice and some good protection. Way to, way to go, Hoover Institution. Then the spokeshole for the ridiculous Stanford told the. Is it the New York Post somebody that quote, the university takes any allegations of undue foreign influence seriously and has robust policies and procedures to protect students. Okay. It's not what Ms. Johnson says. Anyway. I don't know what to tell you other than what we've told you many times before. China is actively trying to bring us down and a lot of American society doesn't really care. China is in short. Yes, sir, that's correct.

[F]

So the most disappointing thing that has happened to me in the last 72 hours is that Tiger woods rolled his SUV right after we get off the air on Friday and we didn't get to talk about it in real time and speculate it, have all the fun with it that we could have had. Anybody that didn't jump to the conclusion immediately that he was effed up again and rolled his vehicle is way too charitable.

[B]

Yeah, you probably ought to have some sort of conservatorship in place or somebody with the power of attorney to help you. Yeah, no kidding. It was obvious.

[F]

Can you believe that? How many years has he been doing this? I should have asked Grok or somebody. When was that? First incident of the sitting at a stoplight, passed out, four flat tires.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Gets woken up, he's in Florida and he Thinks he's in California. What year was that? Katie, could you look?

[B]

There was an ocean. Look, it was on his left, not his right. A guy gets confused.

[F]

But that spread out over a lot of years. That was a long time ago.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Then the infinite. Infinite. I'm sorry. Infamous. Chased down by his wife and beaten with an iron. Iron in which he probably had a head full of Ambien.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

And then his. I had assumed, ambient related crash in California.

[F]

Yeah, that one with the wife, when she chased him down. You could at least buy the idea that it was at night and he took Ambien to sleep and. And you know, they had a giant fight and he ran out to his car and blah, blah, blah. I tried to activate my glutes as best I could.

[B]

Tried to activate, but it just.

[F]

They never stayed activated. That's why.

[B]

You're right. Yeah. So right. Yeah. Because he reached for the brake pedal, but his glutes were inactivated. Then. You know how it goes.

[F]

I laugh about this and I want to laugh about it and make jokes while also keeping it clear that he needs to freaking go to jail before he hurts somebody. You self centered, selfish, lying scumbag.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Is Tiger Woods a bad guy? Oh, yeah.

[B]

By most people's measures. Yeah.

[F]

Yeah. So you follow golf more closely. You turned on Tiger way before a lot of people did. People that are like casual fans, like I am.

[B]

Yeah. Just for instance, yesterday, a guy made by the name of Gary Woodland won a big charity tournament in Houston. Supports the. The Texas Children's Hospital, which does amazing work. And. And he's really, really a beautiful human being who had brain surgery for cancer and is bonded with kids who fought brain cancer and supported them. And they're just all sorts of stories about what a good guy this is.

[F]

And he's only rolled his SUV in the middle of the day zero times on a city street.

[B]

And a couple of weeks ago, he came out, he asked to be interviewed, and he said, look, since I came back, everybody's saying, hey, this is great. You beat it. Great. It's behind you. He said, look, I suffer from numbing ptsd. Getting through a day is an incredibly difficult thing for me. I've almost walked off the course because I am damaged and I'm trying to heal. I want people to know that the people they care about who go through this stuff, they're not a. Okay. It affects you. It affects you deeply. And here's the situation. Very brave thing to. So anyway, he won for the first time in many years yesterday, and then

[F]

he had sex with the Perkins waitress.

[B]

You know what? He left that out. No. And there wasn't a dry effing eye in the house. It was unbelievably moving. And he hugged his wife, who was stuck by him, and he stuck by. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There are good people to root for. And since Tiger came along, I've never rooted for him because he's an A hole.

[F]

He does seem to be an A hole. That whole driving that way, he's gonna. It's amazing he hasn't hurt somebody yet. So what year did he have the four flat tires at the stoplight, Katie? Do we know?

[B]

I'm not seeing four flat tires at a stoplight.

[F]

That made the. The media.

[B]

I'm gonna say 2017.

[F]

That was a big one. He was sitting there at the stoplight and his Mercedes that he thought was in.

[B]

Yes. May 2017.

[F]

2017. So he's got almost a decade of this driving all messed up thing going and getting caught. Yeah. The first one was November 2009 when

[B]

he crashed into a fire hydrant in a tree at 2:30 in the morning.

[F]

Then 2017, then 2021 when he almost lost his leg.

[B]

And then this latest.

[F]

What if he's been driving on Ambien the whole time, like going 20s or whatever?

[B]

That's none of your business. It actually, it's about to be public record. So I believe he's. He's always had terrible insomnia. I believe the Ambien thing. But it's clearly painkillers now because he almost had to lose his leg. Cause he's banged himself up so badly from his other car wrecks. How many local cops, and I have no information to this effect, how many local cops having busted Tiger woods or pulled him over and said, holy f, it's Tiger woods. Accepted golf tickets or whatever to send them. Send him on home. Drive carefully, Tiger. All right. Good to meet you. Thanks for signing this for my kids. Said it's got to have happened a couple of times.

[F]

You would think. Well, I, like I was talking about earlier, I know something about the drug addict alcoholic community. And I remember saying this years ago after whichever one of these incidents, he didn't sound like a guy who was ready to take responsibility for what he was doing. He was still. Here's the reason why.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

And yeah. What?

[B]

Yeah, Wasn't he going to become a Buddhist there after his wife beat him with the nine iron?

[F]

Oh, he went to the sex addict

[B]

clinic and then became a Buddhist and became a clinic to a Buddhist sex addict. Pill.

[F]

He was like kind of a Buddhist, if I remember right. It was like his own creation of like part Buddhist, part something or other fit with his mixed heritage.

[B]

Right.

[F]

You're. You're a. Like the stereotypical super rich, pampered. Think I can do whatever the hell I want. People should get out of my way when I'm driving a hole.

[B]

And particularly. And. And he refuses to hire a driver because he doesn't want anybody to know where he is or what he's doing.

[F]

Well, I, well, it all fits together because that driver, unless they're really getting paid a lot and really a scumbag themselves, would at some point have to somebody. Yeah, he's always hammered and yeah, he's

[B]

banging waitresses all pilled up mostly or whatever he does. I don't know. He plays golf too.

[F]

And he's dating a Trump now.

[B]

You know, he is absolutely a Shakespearean tragedy or the very qualities that made him great are now his undoing. And his undoing is getting more and more complete.

[F]

Well, he's got to be. Is he done as a golfer?

[B]

Yeah, unless he decides to slum it on the Champions Tour, which is 50 plus guys. And Slummet is. Would be from his perspective because for him to accept that, okay, I can only now compete against older guys would be extremely difficult for his ego to take.

[F]

I'll tell you what I'm going to be.

[B]

Because they can. If they can ride carts instead of walking the entire way. Because the one thing he can't do is walk a golf course.

[F]

I don't watch much golf, but I don't want to hear any clips of people cheering for Tiger because like he goes to the senior circuit or whatever

[B]

and he's so brave.

[F]

Wins a tournament and he. Oh, the comeback and everything. He's worked so hard f him and his lifestyle. Unless he really, really comes clean and with serious contrition. I want to hear him talking about all the people he could have killed driving around the way he's been driving for the last 20 years. God, it's unbelievable. I bet he doesn't do any jail time though.

[B]

I'll bet he's got a lot of pain.

[F]

I'm sure he does.

[B]

I'm not sure he will ever be able to live a life without serious painkillers.

[F]

Probably don't drive well.

[B]

He got all that pain A B becoming obsessed with being a Navy SEAL and then B driving around all ambient up.

[F]

Could he had just continued at the level he was for a while as a golfer. If he would have not decided to be a Navy SEAL.

[B]

Oh, 100%. Yeah. I mean he's already the greatest that's ever been. He would have been. He would have passed Jack Nicklaus's majors wins and the rest of it. Yeah, yeah. Without question.

[F]

What a wild story that is.

[B]

Keep him out of a car. So obsessed it ate him somehow Keep

[F]

him out of a car. Okay, we will finish strong.

[B]

Next Armstrong and Getty.

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This is my new favorite app. It's called Slap Mac and. Basically you slap your Mac and it makes sounds the goat one. And it also counts how many times you've slapped it.

[F]

Okay, I've seen the headline a few times that they got a new they fixed the autocorrect or something on the Apple stuff. What's that all about? I just saw the headline. I'm very excited about this.

[B]

No, seriously, unless I have it in front of me, I can't explain it to you because it's inconsequential.

[F]

It's nothing.

[B]

It's it like it fixes one obscure problem when you're typing fast. I barely understand.

[F]

I was hoping that it was a big deal like they because we've been complaining about it for a long time.

[B]

No, I read the headline and then like three sentences into the story it

[F]

said, well, it really only partially fixed it. Well that's disappointing because Apple being, you know, one of the most innovative, richest companies in the history of the world, I keep thinking it's got to get better than this. But it hasn't.

[B]

Yet. One of the friends of the show who I swear could assemble a MacBook with the things he finds in his utility drawers junk drawer, he knows so much about Apple and computers and stuff, says it's amazing how it's gotten worse over time instead of better. Hoping and hoping. In the beginning of June with the Worldwide Developers Conference, they will announce finally a better Siri.

[F]

Yeah it has gotten worse instead of better, which is amazing.

[B]

Well, right. You know what it is? It's that it's no good at its job and it's tried to expand what its job is, including inserting practically random punctuation in my sentence.

[F]

Look, I'm not great, but I'm okay at talking.

[B]

And somehow you turn my talking into something completely incomprehensible. Final thought with Angie.

[F]

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

[B]

Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show. Michelangelo, will you lead us, please? That's what we need, leadership. Yeah, you know that leadership. Last clip that we played coming back? That was the new app where you slap your MacBook and it'll scream. But the key here is in three days, that that little app made $5,000. So it just shows you people like the dumbest things.

[F]

Okay, wow.

[B]

Katie Green, our esteemed news woman, has a final thought. Katie, you know you mentioned punctuation with the Apple iPhone. Mine has been removing it. So when I physically enter says no, that's not right.

[F]

Wow. So they went from putting a comma after every other word to now they remove the commas you put there on purpose.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Or it loves to remove apostrophes. That's its favorite move lately. Yeah.

[B]

Wow. Okay, Jack, a final thought for us.

[F]

We didn't mention this. This didn't get enough of news attention either. In la, for instance, the no Kings rally, they were throwing cement blocks, rocks and bottles at all officers. 75 people at least arrested.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. A bunch of arrests in New York too. Yeah. A lot of violence, a lot of mayhem and absolutely no effect other than those who would overthrow Western civilization. Capitalism got everybody fired up and convinced that if you're in favor of, I don't know, women's rights, you should be in favor of, I don't know, transgenderism and by the way, communism.

[F]

Armstrong and Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[B]

So many people. Thanks. So little time.

[F]

Good.

[B]

Armstrong and getty.com for the hot links. We've got all sorts of great video. If we refer to videos or articles or whatever, they're there at armstrong and getty.com. drop us a note. Is there something we ought to be talking about? You come across. It's amazing. [e-mail].

[F]

oh, I just saw the headline line, Vanessa Trump issues ultimatum to tiger. Oh, I wonder what sort of ultimatum. We'll have a deep dive on that for Tuesday's show. See you then. God Bless America.

[B]

I'm strong and

[F]

what is that?

[B]

Is that a language? She called for ISIS to to take action or what?

[F]

Where she stepped on attack by accident. I don't know what happened.

[B]

Or that's how you get the horses to come back to the barn. I don't know what was that? Armstrong and Getty?

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