The Best Streaker Ever Bares All (PTFO Vault)

0:00I'm Pablo Torre and this episode of Pablo Torre finds out is brought to you by Remi Martin, 1738, a cord royale, exceptionally smooth cognac for all your game day festivities. Please drink responsibly because today we're going to find out what this sound is. I wrote to the NFL and I told them I wanted to be a start on American football team in the UK, but I couldn't get any referees uniforms. The NFL sent me to. I said thank you very much, you d***heads. Right after the sad. Hey! Hello. Hello Mr. Pablo. Mark Roberts. Finally. At last. After all this time, man. I am so... It's going to be great if I'm telling you now. Oh no, no, no. The pleasure is all on this end. Can you explain where we are reaching you right now?

1:02Where are you, man? Yeah, I'm in Liverpool when I live. We choose. Not far from Manchester. We don't talk about Manchester around these parts. Well, the great exports from Liverpool, of course. It's the Beatles followed by, let me just say this objectively, the undisputed, greatest nudist in modern civilization. Not nudist. And entertainer, not nudist. I don't do beaches. There's not enough people on them. I'm a performance artist. You are a man with an unparalleled resume. Public in private. Right. Public in his privates. It is a remarkable delight, Mark Roberts, even though you're wearing a shirt to have you on public tour, I find out. I'm sorry, it is a surprise. What is the alternate timeline? What is the Mark Roberts who never streaked at the Rugby 7's final in Hong Kong? What is the life? What is the job you're doing right now, do you think?

2:04By normal job. Yeah. I'm a painter, painter decorator. I make people's houses looking lovely. Make them look nice. And a couple of people even asked me to do it naked. And the one thing I guarantee you, I never leave any streaks on my work. Am I painting name is Vincent Van Gogh? Just to get the visuals for people who are merely listening and not watching on YouTube, although I should tell them everybody listening, it is safe to watch on YouTube, at least for now. Your exhibitionism, your entertainment, your way of life. Typically, this is a characteristic that one might presume originates from a desire to brag, from a desire to flaunt what you got down there. Not at all. Nothing to do with that whatsoever. I just happen to find I can make tens of thousands of people laugh by running naked.

3:07For me, I don't even think about being naked to be honest. I mean, when I'm naked, it looks like there's nothing there anyway. I can make stadiums raw with laughter by doing something crazy in a space of a minute. It's not a case of look at me. It's a case of taking the piss out of authority, but also enhancing some kind of sport and event. For those who are wondering, your endowment is something you would describe as what? Chicken McNugget. It's a definitely a happy meal. Part of the reason I wanted to talk to you is because there was an article recently in

4:08the Atlantic called The Decline of Strieking in which academics declared it as such, a quote unquote, dying art that now remains, quote, on the sporting periphery. And I wonder how you feel about you being now yourself this endangered species? Well, I've always been an endangered species to be honest with you, Pablo. As far as Strieking's concerned, in the 70s, early 80s, it was a trend for a while, then I took it up in the early 90s to the present day. We're not so much now. I used to be very, very prolific every year. Every time I did something, it made news all over the world. Little disturbance here in the arena, there's a slight delay before the game resumes. It's up and doing it for now. What, what do you have? 33 years, 578 times in 27 countries. I've done everything. I've done three Olympics. I've raised you saying bolts. You know, I've done it all.

5:11I can't speak for Liverpool. But I have a hope that maybe we can make America streaky again. If America can't do it, who can? I will lead the way if you want. I will come and we'll do a mass streak in front of the White House. Let's do that ridiculous president that you've got. Let's streak him. I'd streak him full to the Queen three times and the third time she went, oh, look, there's Mark. Mark, I want to get into the history of this because you are a part of an ancient tradition. And you could date it back to, I don't know, Lady Gooddiva, right? Take it on a horse. I could go back to, certainly, the American college system at Harvard. There is a tradition before exams every year called primal scream in which all the Harvard students streak Harvard yard. My roommate streaked Harvard yard with goldenfallis.com written across his back in no small homage to

6:16the man that I am talking to today. But it's Princeton, it's Maryland, it's Michigan, it's Notre Dame, everybody has their version of streaking in college. So we're going streaky through the quad and into the gymnasium. Come on, everybody. Come on. I say, before I'd even thought about streaking going on this adventure, I didn't know anything about it. I remember vaguely America was at very, very instrumental in the streaking craze, as you know, in the 70s. And so I'm surprised it didn't happen in the 60s. A free love and all that, yeah. It seems Mark that the first streak at a sporting event was on your side of the pond, it was 1974. Twickenham, otherwise known as the International Home of Rugby. Michael O'Brien, he was an accountant, not very iconic because he looks like Jesus. But the policeman with his government's over his willy, the guy is 10 round and said,

7:16it's the worst thing he ever did in his life. He had a costume, his job, caused problems with his relationship. But you know what, I'd lose my job for something like that. There's a lady called Erica Row. Erica Row 82, Twickenham. And a big rugby game in the UK. She had very big, big breasts. She ran on the field with a cigarette hanging out of the mouth. She was smoking a cigarette. I met the lady actually years later. The police officers here, I assume, are a lot happier to see her, all of her than they are to see Mark Roberts. Well, I don't know. Every time I get arrested, the police tell beg me not to stop. The police love what I do. Allegedly. And this is straight up serious. They love it. Why do they love it, Mark? Because they laugh in the heads off like they say to everybody else in the stadium. And they're chasing me. They're absolutely in stitches. I want to just ask you about one of the other famous 70s episodes, the Oscars Strieker.

8:22The award for the best picture is never lightly given. Right? So you're familiar with his work? I am. I've seen it a few times. It's 1974. And contributed to world entertainment. And someone quite likely... He flashes the peace sign on national TV. And it's just like a very awkward cutaway, but we do have this still frame in which this mustachioed long hair gentleman is flashing the peace sign over the right shoulder of David Niven, the host. That's great, man. And David Niven says... Probably the only love that man will ever get in his life, and by stripping off and showing his shortcomings. That's up there. That's near the top. He's getting on stage at the Oscars. That's a feat in itself. But doing a peace sign, that's got to be... It's not a 10. That's it. It's 8.5, 9. The statistics here, right? So it's been more than 33 years you've been doing this. 578 streaks. Since you popped your streaking cherry as it were.

9:26That first time. How vividly do you remember your first time? Where were you? Like it was yesterday. Literally like it was yesterday, man. That day changed my life. 1993 on Kong, man. Yeah. It was... That was the island on Kong Island then, was... That was the place to be in the hole on the planet. I mean, it looked from a drunken deer in the bar the night before. To get dragged out to the apartment. I had no intentions of streaking. It was... I was drunk talking... Talking shit, basically. Get home 4 a.m. Told everyone who's going to streak. The final, there will be sevens. Coma toast on the couch at 4 a.m. Next thing is banging on with the apartment door. Come on, we're going to sevens. I couldn't get my eyes. I was gone, still gone. Now open the door. I'm going to kick this fucking door in. So as I've opened the door, I'm still dressed from the night before, because I was lying on the couch.

10:27The French has grabbed hold of me. Through me in the elevator. Straight into a waiting taxi. Straight to the stadium. So I've gone in the stadium and I'm like, what the fuck is going on? I wasn't together. I couldn't hardly open my eyes. Take me to the bar. So I've gone straight to the bar. I've had a beer. That's made me feel worse. I've had another beer. It didn't do any good at all, man. So I had a shot. That sort of got me a little bit level. So I'm going to look into the stadium because I hadn't even seen it. But as I've stuck me head in to the stadium. Wow, man. One of the first things I saw was a guy with a French flag around his shoulders, swinging a live chicken around his head. I go, what the fuck, man? Everyone's partying. Throwing beer to reach your deck was a carnival. Full of energy. Everybody was buzzing. So I've woken up from this drunken stupor. That's it for me. Friend, I'm going to do it now.

11:28So I've gone down the main stand with 65,000 people in the stadium. Tuck me clothes off. And I've ran on. While the museum and all blacks were playing South Africa. The two biggest rugby teams in the world. So I've ran on backwards. Waved to everybody OK. I've done it. But as a team round, there's the ball. So I'm the head just running. Get the fucking ball. So I've run, picked up the ball, run a whole lens of the field, and scored a try, scored a touchdown in between the post. The whole crowd went absolutely nuts. Everyone's on the feet screaming the heads off. I was like, wow, man. I was like, I'm just starting to wave. So I've run, running back to my seat. Some of the all blacks with a applaud in. I've took the ball and the best team in the world scored against them. Jump back over the barrier. So next thing, I've got to be killed. So I'm covering myself up. Gales a goal with kissing me, hugging me, people of poor and bees of me at the end.

12:30No, this is fantastic. I didn't give a shit. So there's a famous policeman walking along and he's going with motion in for me to go. I'm going, no, because I'm now feeling the energy. Now I wasn't. Now I'm staying in. No, he comes to me and said, listen, and give the opportunity to go. I'm going to have to throw it off the stadium. I shouldn't give a shit. As he's taking me out, the whole stadium leave him alone, leave him alone. 65,000 people. He's taking me down a tunnel ahead. Strieg, I've looked up. The guy with two jugs of cars big, bang. One one over me, one one over the cup. Cop is laughing and said off. As he's taking me out the door, somebody shook me hand and put something in the palm of my hand. So the policeman said, have I seen you here? Again, I'm going to rest you. I said, no, no, I'm done. So as he threw me out one turn style, I've looked at my hand. It was a free pass. So I've come back in the next same style, come straight back in. Jumped on and did it again. You streaked again? Did it again, man?

13:30Yeah. Didn't just go to try the second side, though. I just legged it. I just need to acknowledge here and jump in that this formative revelation begins with you seeing this almost biblical symbol of a guy waving a live chicken over his head. And it culminates, it climaxes in you swinging your own c**t round in public. Swinging my c**t round? Yeah. Just, are you swinging a c**t, I'm swinging my c**t? I want to just get into your psychology just for a second here. Your intentions when you hit the field, the court, the track. What's the physiological kind of description you would give? Man, the adrenaline before I go on Pablo is nuts. My heart is beating like you would like bongo drums, man.

14:33But I've got to look normal, ready, calm. Just like every other member of the public, I can't bring any attention to myself. What I'm doing is watching security, I'm decorumey eyes. I've picked a place to go on. If that place is taken by security, I've got to go and find another place, all in the time that I've picked to actually go on. But the main thing is you want to hear 70,000 people, raw, scream, cheer. And when that goes off, the energy I get from all that gives me that extra speed and then the chase. I've got to be chased, man. I want to see how many police in security takes to catch me. Or I did do it a bit so on our days. And that's the raw goals from that to a crescendo because of the chase. So number one, entertain the crowd. Don't interrupt the game and take the piss out of authority.

15:36It's given the finger to authority, man. Till the name. I've got a new tattoo from me. Can you see that? Again. That's when I get my fingerprints. It says go the other way there. It says no, other way. Now you're just making a very lute act. Yep. You is what it says as you are dragging your middle finger of your right hand across the front of our head. You sideways, man. I want to get into your brain, though, because why were you in Hong Kong in the first place? What was it like to be you? I left the UK to see the world. I had 30 English pounds in my pocket and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong. A new one guy over there who was a manager of a bar.

16:36He said he'd give me a job. There was the freedom just to be whatever you want to be. Then the rugby sevens was two months in. After that was known as the mud streaker. All my innermost things came out. There was no cloud over my head. So it eventually came home with the energy inside me. Obviously the UK did different things altogether from Hong Kong. After a while, the streaker was just Hong Kong. That was for me. But after being back in the UK for a while, it was back to normality and back to day to day. And then the Liverpool football match was on and went. And that's when it looked into streaking. Nobody'd streaked in the UK for years, year decades. I went and f*** it, man.

17:36I'll do it. But I did it for charity for children's hospital. Went around collecting money for kids. And when it went on, it was wild. And it was a incredible story. The whole stadium, again, crazy one. I want to show people what you showed people. We have video of it. This is live in the UK. It is live on a show called This Morning. This morning for the American audience, how would you describe a show like that? The English version of Good Morning America. For the fact that here in Liverpool, the weather is absolutely disgustingly awful. And the rest of the country is bathing in sunshine. And we see on this morning show the weather man. He's kind of like hopping along what appears to be the giant map of the UK.

18:38That is sort of like a set. It looks like a mini golf course, but it's green and it's literally the shape of the United Kingdom. The whole of the UK. It's a floating weather map. And so presumably off screen, there's a place that like observers can come and watch the live taping. And so as this weather man in his jaunty, giant blue sweater is hopping from island to island from place to place giving us the weather report. It's 1995. And the next thing that happens that you see on air is this. We could have the whole problem here. I'm not going to cope with this. Right. Offered a handshake to Fred. Turns out his name is that's a nice bum as well as the I mean, well sculpted hard to disagree with that. Oh, yeah. Full moon at 12 o'clock. This was the very first televised streak you ever did, I believe. The camera went off me and the two presenters went, no, no, no, go back on. It's only human flesh.

19:38Put it back on. One of the things you figured out pretty early in the ongoing innovation of streaking is writing on yourself. And I want to take us now. It's 95. It is St Andrews. It's the final round of the 124th British Open Championship. The home of golf. The most religious holy site in maybe the most stayed and cloistered sport in the world. It's Sunday now. It's John daily going for his first major. John daily does what he always does. Grip it and rip it. It is the 18th hole that we're being transported to at the moment. And where were you as the 18th hole is getting underway? I was not far from the hole itself on the 18th. I've got a cook group of friends and we got by the barriers and I've said as soon as the ball goes in the hole, I'm not going to do it while he's putting. Soon it's going to go in the hole I'm on. And then this guy we've met the day before, this picture's all over.

20:43Me getting chased by a guy, it looks like he's trying to rugby tackle me. Yeah, there he is. We met him the day before driving into a car park. He was charging five pounds for the car park. We found out later, it was a free car park and he was just charging everyone five pounds to park the car. So this guy who allegedly was charging people for free parking spots, he is now holding your spot is as held a hat over at your penis. What is going on as you are gesturing with a grimace at the moment on the green? Well, because he was chasing me and I was leaving, I was fit, then nobody could catch me and let him rugby tackle me and he gave me a little tap on the cheek. He said, then nearly at the **** and I had to tack mark. But he just wanted to get in on the phone, you know, he was just part of the joke. Well, part of the scene here that's essential is that what you have written on your back is just an all-time er. Nineteenth hole with a giant arrow at your hole.

21:49You're doing it at St Andrews Mark. You know the context of what it is to do it at the open. So what? Do you know what I mean? All these people are old, stuck up, you know, you can't do this, you can't do that. What I'm going to show you, I can't. It's like Wimbledon's the same, you know, let's get to Wimbledon. So it is the year 2000 and the context here is that on a cornucleboat at 19 Jesus Henness World's Covergirl sensation, but can she step up her game for a landslamp title, a championship, Wimbledon on NBC? Well, I was out, I was stood outside Wimbledon in a queue waiting to go in and the billboard went past on the side of a van with hair, advert. There's an ad, this is lingerie, to be clear. And the text here, again, it's a black and white photo. She is in her bra and panties and it says only the ball should bounce period. I was on my own. I had to go into a toilet, a lavatory, lock the door and write that on myself.

22:54Only the balls bounce. Again, you're a vision, Mark, you're a vision. You're a vision of the balls bounce ridden from solar plexus down to above your navel. In black marker, it looks like as you are streaking to be now pedantic about this, you are obviously naked. But you are also doing something else on the green that is watered by centuries of the most precious rain because there's another photograph you are also doing a bit of a swan dive over the net. Over the net, yeah. Perfect. The form is just, that is a limbic form. Crazy thing is, the nets have got alarms on them. So the slightest touch on the net sets off the alarm. I cleared it easy by an inch. Wow. The happy meal came in real helpful. Big time.

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25:03Jubilee. What does that mean? It's like the Queen's anniversary of so many years on the throne. We're back with Queen Elizabeth. I'm just here to the Queen and here's all the hard days in the Duke of Edinburgh. Circuit, this brand new wonderful looking stadium. That means we're close. I'll just show you what's at the night. That's an index finger and a middle finger with again, you tattooed across it just crossing. I don't want to say you to let's know because she was a lovely lady. I've been around there for a few times. But what we're looking at here because this is where we have acquired exclusive by the Zines video from a source close to your dick. Oh yeah. This is 2002. It is July 27th. And there's a man in the bottom right. It's looking up into the right. So victory ceremonies for the men's 100 meters.

26:05Women's 100 meters. That's me. And you're wearing a short sleeve. The police were waiting for me everywhere. You're wearing slacks, black, slacks. And you're now motoring. And there goes the shirt. There you go. The pant, an impressive just ripped. See you listen to the crowd, man. Terroway pants. Oh. Knee down, starting blocks. Well-tanned. You come up with record. Slowest ever, 100 meters. Oh my God. The mechanics of that, we got to just walk through this because Terroway pants. This is a tool, a tool of your tool, a tool of your trick. I'm the face of Velcro. Without them, they have helped me so much because I can be right next to a policeman. As soon as his head turns the other way, I'm over the barrier and I'm naked in seconds. It's off. God. I've got to like the wind.

27:06If only the wind had a Nike swoosh tattooed onto its back. I was trying to encourage Nike to get in touch, but he didn't. Well, if anybody has embodied the slogan of just do it, I don't believe that there's anyone more prominent than you, Mark. In fact, Nike did a TV commercial. In the word, I think we've got an extra man on the pitch. And they based it on me. I don't know. That's so far he's giving the police nothing but a good look at his backside. He did it at Arsenal's ground in London. Guy naked, running through. Oh dear, that's an image going to stay with me for a very long time. Scorched onto my retina. So why didn't you get me to do it instead? I'd like to take up that cause, actually, now that you mention it. I want to address Nike explicitly here. Get this man. His fair do. Or even Adidas. Oh, I like that. I dream about streaking.

28:09Through the screen, I feel it. The vivid sensation of what it's like to run and be chased. By that point, the adrenaline through the roof, because of achieved the objective already, that's the elating part. I'm joyous. You know, because the worry about being able to do what I set out to do, I've passed that point. So now I'm full of joy. So what I'm rolling, I'm usually laughing me head off. What do you call it? The feeling right before you get caught. I call it the G-spot. Because everyone enjoys it when they get there. And I cannot believe we haven't gotten here yet, but you are on an expense report from goldenpalace.com. Yeah, yeah, mom. It's a repay for everything. I've done a couple of events for them. And they rang me and said, listen, we've got tickets for the biggest thing in America. I said, what? The Oscars?

29:09We've got tickets for the Oscars. I went, no. What do you mean? I said, that's not the biggest thing. The Super Bowl is the biggest thing in the states. So it's all about what you can't do. The Super Bowl. I said, why not? It's never been done. Can't be done. Security is too tight. I said, do you get me tickets? And I'll show you. It can be done. As I try to understand, just like with the greatest of all time at streaking, has encountered in America at the highest possible level. We go to Super Bowl 38. Set the stage for a worldwide audience. For all the marbles. Super Bowl 38. And Super Bowl 38 is even absent. Everything we're about to discuss here. One of the most iconic, memorable, infamous Super Bowl sporting events in human history. It is Patriots Panthers. It is February 1, 2004. It is Houston, the halftime performer. Mark, of course, is who? I would have some food. Yeah, that's Jackson. I didn't even know she'd done that.

30:10I was at the halftime shows going on. I'm at the back, warming up. She was opening for you, in other words. She was flashing less intentionally. It turns out she was flashing the world. And you back wherever you were, were warming up. And so where were you at your point of entry, I guess? While the halftime show was going on, I was at the back talking to a friend. I'm going on just before the third quarter starts. What? Security and police were everywhere around the field. We had front row seats on a 50-yard line, best seats in the house. Amazing. To give me the best chance to get on to the ball. It raises the question of how does the most victorious striker in the world, in modern civilization, how is he able to stand near the 50-yard line in plain sight as the most visible event in the world is happening? We were sitting down on the seats.

31:11There was a wall with maybe a 15-foot drop. So when I'm going to go, I'm going to have to drop. But as I say, there's many police and security around the field. It's one guy, one security, all the way through the game. Stood right face on my line. Did not move. I'm muscle. For four hours, Pablo. Four fucking hours. And I said to my friend, if he doesn't move, you go down the wall. Drop your phone. Go to climb down the wall to dive it. So he comes to you. So I've got a clear room to get on to the field. But one time, I wanted to go. He moved. There is a changing of the guard. Man, he walked over to speak to another security guard, faith it down. The one time I wanted to go on, I said to my friend, go. So I had my own clothes. I took them off. Now I'm a referee. I've got a referees uniform on. Of course. Then I got from the NFL. Wait, how did you get a referees uniform from the NFL?

32:12I wrote to the NFL and I told them I wanted to be... I'm starting a American football team in the UK. But I couldn't get any referees uniforms. The NFL sent me to. I said, thank you very much, you gags. LAUGHTER Yeah, thank you very much. I took a uniform to a seamstress, got it to take it all apart. I'll put it back together again with Velcro. And all of this takes us now officially into what I remember. And then Bill Belichick says, history tells us in a second half, a lot goes on in these Super Bowl games. So the first time I personally remember laying eyes on Mark Roberts was the third quarter as play-by-play announcer Greg Gumball on CBS is getting us going. Panthers will kick it away to start the second half. There we go. And there in the bottom left. You begin to see... I'm the 40-yard line, is it? Yeah.

33:12Pushing through in regulation, Garb. As the kickoff is getting ready. And... And you go right in the middle there, kids come off right... Right over the Super Bowl logo. The Roman numerals, my god. We have a surprise guest on the field. Right over the Roman numerals for Super Bowl 38. And half-time entertainment apparently never stops. When you're doing that, are the players acknowledging you? Like, what is happening as you are making your way? I've gone on as a referee. Stop the kickoff. For the third quarter. One of the players shouted, what's up, ref man? Man, I went, shh! F*** all. You just started dancing? Rip me cold off, I'm naked, started dancing round the ball. So one of the players is going, what's the f***ing referee doing? He thought the referee's lost his mind. That's an understandable question. So I'm dancing round the ball. Here we go, kit off, up some of that.

34:14In this video that we have of what was not shown on the broadcast are remarkable. Just blurring and unblurring of total eclipse of your moon. Is that tape you're wearing? What is your underwear here? It's an tape. The very last thing before I left the hotel, I forgot, I can't get me f***ed out in Texas. So that's a deflated American football that was on the table in the hotel room. So I've taped it around so nothing can pop out. But I needed a piss, and it was the worst artist piss that I've ever had in my life. The plan was to pick up the ball and try and score a touchdown, but I decided just to dance instead. You have, the announcer Phil Sims is asking. He actually asks on the broadcast. What do you call that dance? Silly. Well, and now we know that you would call it an Irish Bunkstump. It's a bad body, I'll tell you that. There's too much of it being showered. Well, let's check out the halftime numbers. America runs the f*** away.

35:15But as you make history, Danish television gives us this. Listen to the crowd. There we go. Bung! And that bang, by the way, number 58. Machatum. Matt Chatham, six foot four, 250, Patriots linebacker. By the way, a three time two-year-old champion in the end who happens to, by the way, I don't know if you know this, Mark. He runs a barbecue dry rub company now. And we called him up to ask about the bit of dry rub that he gave you because he laid you all the way out. Names Matt Chatham, fortunate enough to be on three super bowls. Excuse me, to win three super bowls, I guess. It always sounds weird when an individual says they want a super bowl. But you know what I mean? It's kind of our wedding day or whatever you want to call it. So I, this guy, he does this sign in the seventh inning of a May baseball game. Okay, it's hilarious. Yeah, haha. But this just, this rubbed me the wrong way and always will and

36:16as we watch just more of the alternate angle footage here of this, you know, this is, it's barely violent, I will say, as you're kind of like bog stomping around. It's like a cow. The kickoff. Yeah, and there he goes. Just knocking you. That was great. That was a perfect ending to the super bowl. Lade you out. Horizontal. Matt enacted justice on behalf of, I guess, the United States of America. With what he calls, quote unquote. I mean, I just don't think people really, so big NFL people are, but, you know, I'm both 250 plus or whatever. You're all padded up. You know, that's not full stride. But you know, if you're running a pretty good amount and running to a guy like that, he's going to go flying. Yeah, it felt, it didn't feel a thing. My man, my grandmother, it's harder than that. And she's dead. Part of my reaction was definitely annoyance. As much as anything, you know, we've been doing this for a long time. We've been prepped in previous years. And especially this one is in times of war, times of conflict, all this stuff that it's

37:18a really heightened security. And, you know, nobody's supposed to be in this building that's not after playing football. And I think you guys would echo this. Like, you're so intensely focused on this thing. It's not that like I haven't seen a billion striker things on baseball games or, you know, whatever else and chuckled like everyone else and maybe rewatch a video or something. In that moment, it was like sort of, you know, doing what the cushion during the wedding. It's like, those are funny, but not funny now, right? Like, just don't do that now. This is actually pretty serious. You've single handedly infiltrated the security state post 9-11. Oh, scared, man. So scared. What could happen to me on the field post 9-11? And there's going to be snipers on the rules, man. Sure. And I'm thinking they can think I'm some kind of weird guy. Well, everyone might think I don't know what to do. To do harm and shoot, but I thought if they shoot, they'll shoot in the legs. So I'll take a bullet to the leg to do the Super Bowl. He also called you a jackass.

38:19That's why I said jackass. Not like any, any malice against Mark. He's a b***h. A big b***h. A 7 foot set, 7 foot, whatever. So all he is. So NFL security is actually sent a tape and they had all these different angles and kind of sent a little thank you. No, they were very grateful, you know, because it helped them not have one of those wild scenes where they're chasing the guy around and you're playing the circus music. It was more just bam, bam. Beat it. Get out of here and I think they appreciate it. So you go horizontal, you jackass and suddenly you're surrounded. Man, there's about 20 people over me while I'm getting handcuffed. Yeah. What are you saying to yourself as you're now underneath this pile? And just done the f***ing Super Bowl, man. Literally, I've got me face pushed in the grass and getting handcuffed behind me back. And I was a good think of. I just done the Super Bowl. So I got carried off hog tied into the tunnel.

39:20Now I'm thinking, okay, here's where the trouble's really going to start. So because the way he took me out, machat him, I'm feigning injury. I won the prism and put him down, put him down and go on. He said, you okay, man, now you're safe, man. I said, okay, thank you. It's as your case said, besides hurting officer, that was fine. You know, he said, why did you do that? That's why I just wanted to make the great people of America laugh. And the prism went, that was f***ing awesome, man. I think they got the police started laughing. They loved it, man. Loved it. He said, this one's going to keep you for an hour and then just let you go. Really shit. I went, they're going to, they're going to not charge me either. And I found out it's the first time the NFL ran security for Super Bowl. Cause normally it's down to the actual stadium security people to, and I beat them. I beat the sh** out of them, man. Next thing, the head of the NFL comes running down some stairs, throw the book in them.

40:24Do you want me to charge up to the hill? So I got charged with criminal trespass. Got taken to jail. That was scary. Well, the policeman did say to me before I went on the cage, don't make eye contact. Don't talk to anybody. Nobody knows what you've done today, because they've been locked up all day. Don't speak to anybody. Cause if they realize you're British, they might have a reason to create an argument with you. So I've gone in the cage with all this in me head cage full of, I don't know, lunatics. I've gone in dresses and referee. All the police were buzzing in the police station. They all love to took me, me mugshot and they've duplicated it. So I'm signing autographs to all the wives and girlfriends and all that. Put me in the cage with 30 people. The only place I could lie down was right next to the toilet. So I'm laying on the floor. I've got me knees up and I could hit someone going, look at the and referee man. So I've sat up all the velcro's open and we can balls on show in the cage.

41:31I just like that something that kind of maybe took you back as you dressed as a referee in the most convincing possible form was that you found out that even in jail, maybe especially in jail, Americans hate referees. But luckily, everything is okay. I got released in the morning and got flown face class to Hollywood. You exercise your freedom of everything and you are facing six months of jail time and they find you guilty of misdemeanor trespassing and a thousand dollar fine. I wanted to hug them all. In fact, at the end of the court case, the empty the courtroom. So to just me, my lawyer, the judge, one female judge, prosecutor and all the jurors have gone into the jury room. And all you can hear is laughter. And the judge said to me, Mr. Roberts, in all my years of working in court rooms, I've never heard that kind of commotion in the jury room.

42:32Will you please escort me in and she linked my arm to judge. And we walked into the jury room and he all started cheering all the jurors. It was fantastic. I understand why it was that it took us a bit to get you on the show. Mark, because we originally, we tried to do it ahead of what we thought might be. A streak at the Olympics in Paris took a while. Our producer, Matt was was was communicating. And I just want to quote the WhatsApp conversation as we put it on screen here. He said to us, uh, f*** it. And you, your p***s. And then, and then, and then because you're like, what about NBC? Are they going to get mad at us?

43:32Are we going to get all those, you know, standards, you know, all that stuff? Then we said, uh, what about still having an interview? And you said, quote, Matt, who gives a flying sh**? Ooh, I got a 50 K fine. So f***ing what? If that's a problem to you, then see you later, followed by, I think you guys have no understanding of life followed by you. And then, and this is where I was like, I love this man. We must have him on August 12th, 2024. You said at 3 30 AM, you're certain time. Are we still on tomorrow then? Can I still buzz it? I wanted to go to the Olympics. And you know, the crazy thing about that was as well, part of the one I wanted to do was the break dancing. Oh my God. The first time break down, so they're being on the Australian woman, Australian politics, forget that minor election. They're trying to conduct in the United States. What the world's really been interested in in what the hell was reagan up to at the

44:37Paris Olympics. That was the events I wanted to do. So, man, I was gutted, gutted, but I still wanted to go. I mourn the alternate timeline in which you were break dancing upstaging reagan naked. I'd have been better than him, huh? I think it wouldn't have been close. You know, the, the, that's a shame. It's a shame, but also I cannot describe your life, your career. And I will call it that now, your, your, your art form as, as anything, but an unqualified and unparalleled success story in a race that now so many other people are terrified to run. I don't know if anybody's even coming for the title, man. I'll never be broken. I'll never be beaten. Well, nobody allowed me to surpass one of them, what I've achieved from proud. Your mom, what did she think of of all of this? She's always said you're not so long with you.

45:40I said, Mom, you don't see it. Not there. You don't feel it with the crowds like until eventually I did a, a jump down stage during a play in Liverpool. And Tommy brother was going to do sweet, took me mum, not knowing that I was going to jump on stage. And when I've jumped on stage, the audience is cheering and, and then she's a sort of afterwards when I got through out, met her in a bar next door. She said, when I saw you going on, I was going to shout enough now. Stop it. But she said, I couldn't stop laughing. She said, everyone was laughing. I started laughing. What you would do was funny. So she eventually was actually there in real time. And she saw what everyone else was seeing, what everybody else got, you know. And actually when she died, well, just before she died, she had a fall. The ambulance came to pick her up from home. And in the ambulance, she said to the ambulance, man, do you know who my son is?

46:44On the way to the hospital, man, you know. And the last thing she said, man. So even though she kept on saying, that was crazy, you know, she was proud of any end. So that was nice. Yeah. Yeah. What does it feel like now? Because how old are you? Mark Roberts now, as we speak here today. I'm 60, 60 now. So you're 60. I've just been diagnosed with heart failure as well. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah. Well, we'll get get this right. To give me tablets to stop adrenaline, getting to me heart. Because we got me heart's working overtime. So I'm thinking this is this is a conspiracy by Interpol. They're stopping me buzzing anymore. So I can't go around causing trouble around the world. But yeah, so I've got to be careful now. What I have found out at the end of today's show is that I don't think there's a person

47:45in sports who has experience, who has felt more adrenaline than Mark Roberts. You haven't seen the last of me yet. Never, never. I will fight them on the beaches. I've actually written in me where I've wrote a will in through his list. That when I die, I want to go at a piercebeck's coffin, a clear naked, so I can streak my own funeral. But I've put a little note at the bottom. While I'm in the mortuary, please put a viagre down me throat so I can go out in style. I want the Pope to bless me. You know, he's a sports fan. Mark Roberts, the greatest of all time. I say this, knowing that I won't really have a choice, but I look forward to seeing you again. Thank you, Pablo. It's been an absolute pleasure, my friend. Yes, yes. Let's get on that WhatsApp chain.

48:47Yep. Okay. Make it easy, man. Thank you. Oh, yeah, I'll have some of this. Oh, God. Wait, wait, what? Have some of that. Have some of that, my f***. Have some of that. Go, some of that. Go, one. God. This has been Pablo Torre finds out a metal-lark media production. And I'll talk to you next time.