Sam Koppelman

And hangs up right away.

And then he does something I've never experienced before as a reporter, which is that he then posts in the group chat my number and is like, warning guys, here's the number they called from.

They're very curious about our group chat.

Doesn't think to leave the group chat and instead keeps posting about it.

Yes, they tried to dox me by putting up a Craigslist post with my number on it.

Correct.

And I'm obviously watching this the whole time.

They are.

Until I put all of this in our investigation, which we published last Friday.

And then we finally got a response from Phil.

He did not, despite having my phone number.

He did tweet that he would have a lawyer reach out to us tomorrow.

Oh, on Halloween, Friday, last Friday.

No, we haven't heard anything from Phil Mickelson, who, by the way, as I mentioned...

had been tweeting about Sable Offshore every day.

After his tweets to you and me, he's gone conspicuously quiet.

So to our initial story, they said, this is AI.

Then on Monday morning, they scheduled an emergency press conference.

where they announced that they'd opened an investigation with a special committee to look into our findings.

And I will note that on that call, they did not refer to the leaked audio as AI.