The Best Streaker Ever Bares All (PTFO Vault)

I'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, I'm starting an American football team in the UK, but I couldn't get any referees uniforms. The NFL sent me two. I said, thank you very much, you 'd, kids. 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 worth it. 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? Where 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, it's the Beatles followed by, let me just say this objectively, the undisputed, greatest nudist in modern civilization. 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, 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. So, it is a point. 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? By normal job. Yeah. I'm a painter, painter decorator. I make people's houses look lovely, make them look nice. A couple of people even asked me to do it naked. And the one thing I guarantee, I didn't 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, 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. For 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. But I can make stadiums raw with laughter by doing something crazy in the 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, as what? Check your naked. Part of the reason why I wanted to talk to you is because there was an article recently in the Atlantic called the decline of streaking 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 engaging species to be honest with you, Pablo. But as far as trekons 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. A little disturbance here in the arena, and there's a slight delay before the game resumes. So I've been doing it for now, what, but they're 33 years, 578 times in 27 countries. I've done everything. I've done three Olympics. I've raised you saying bolts. I've done it all. I can't speak for Liverpool, but I have a hope that maybe we can make America streak 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 mastery in front of the White House. Let's do that ridiculous president that you've got. Let's streak him. I'd streak them 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? Naked 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 goldenfalis.com, written across his back, in no small homage to the 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. We're going streaking through the quad and into the gymnasium. Come on, everybody. Come on. Before I'd even thought about streaking going on this adventure, I didn't know anything about it. I remember vaguely, America was a 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 in 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, placement with his government's over his willy. The guy is 10-round and said it's the worst thing he ever did in his life. I think a customer's 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 Rowe. Erica Rowe 82, Twickenham. At 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've 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're laughing their heads off like the same, everybody else in the stadium. When 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. The award for the best picture is never lightly given. Right? So you're familiar with his work? I am. I've seen it three times. It's 1974. Contributor to World Entertainment. And someone quite likely. He flashes the P-Sign on National TV. And it's just like a very awkward cutaway, but we do have this still frame in which this moustache-y old long-haired gentleman is flashing the P-Sign over the right shoulder of David Niven, the host. That's cool, man. Yeah. And David Niven says, "The probably the only love that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings." That's up there. That's near the top. Actually getting onstage at the Oscars. That's a feat in itself. But doing a P-Sign, that's got to be. It's not a ten. It's eight and a half-nine. 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. That 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. That was the island. Hong Kong Island then was. That was the place to be in the hole on the planet. I mean, from a drunken deer in the bar the night before to getting dragged out to the apartment. I had no intentions of streaking. It was. I was drunk talking, talking shit, basically. I get home 4 a.m, told everyone I was going to streak at the final, there will be sevens. Comet house 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 f*cking door in. So as I've opened the door, I'm still dressed from the night before because I was lying on the couch. My friends just grabbed hold of me, threw 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 f*ck's going on? I wasn't together, I couldn't hardly open my eyes, sent 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 the tour, 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 Adam's took 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've gone, what the f*ck, man? Everyone's partying through me and I reached out there, it was a carnival, full of energy, everybody was buzzing, so I've woken up from this drunken stupor, that's it's my friend, I'm going to do it now. So I've gone down the main stand with 65,000 people in the stadium, dropped 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 way to everybody okay, I've done it, but as a team now there's the ball, so I'm the edges ring, get the f*cking 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 their heads off, I was like, wow, man, wow, I just started to wave, so I've run, running back to my seat, some of the all blacks were applauding, I've took the ball and the best team in the world scored against them, jumped back over the barrier, so next thing, I've got f*cking, I've got me f*cking killed, so I'm covering myself up. Gales are going to kiss me, hugging me, people are pouring bees of me at the end, no, this is fantastic, I didn't give a f*ck it. So there's an English policeman walking along and he's going, he's motioning for me to go, I'm going, no, because I'm now feeling the energy, now I'm buzzing, now I'm standing, no, he comes to me, said, listen, and give the opportunity to go, I'm going to have to throw you out to stadium, I shouldn't give a f*ck. 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, streak out, I've looked up, there's a guy with two jubs of cars big, bang, one one over me, one one over the cop, cop is laughin' his head off, as he's taking me out the door, somebody's shook me hand and put something in the palm of me hand, so the policeman said, "Have I seen you in here again, I'm going to rest you?" I said, "No, no, I'm done." So as he threw me out one ten style, I've looked at me hand, it was a free pass, so I've come back in the next ten style, come straight back in, jump down and did it again? You streaked again? Did it again man, yeah, didn't, didn't just go to try the second time 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 at climaxes in you swinging your own ***** round in public, swinging my ***** round? Yeah, just, are you swinging a *****, I'm swinging my *****? 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, but I've got to look normal, very calm, just like every other member of the public, I can't bring any attention to myself, what I'm doing is looking, watching security, the economy, 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 roar, 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 and security takes to catch me or it did do it a bit slower nowadays, and that's the roar goes from that to a crescendo because of the chase, so number one, entertain, entertain the crowd, don't interrupt the game and take the piss out of authority. It's given the finger to authority man, to the name, I've got a new tattoo from me, can you see that? That's when I get me fingerprints. It says, go the other way there, it says, no, 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 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? Well, I left the UK to see the world, I had 30 English pounds in my pockets and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong and you one guy over there who was a manager of a bar, he 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 mad striker, all my innermost things came out, you know, there was no cloud over me head, so eventually came home with that energy inside me, but obviously the UK's a different thing altogether from Hong Kong, because after a while I didn't, the street came 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 deliver poor football matches on the wins. The seasons average of around 42,000 in Anfield doesn't look like dropping, so what is setting? And that's when I looked into street in, nobody's street in the UK for years, year decades, go ahead and fuck it man, I'll do it, yeah, but I did a different charity for for the children's hospital, went around collecting money for the kids, and then when it went on, it was wow, an incredible story, the whole stadium, again, crazy man. 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. 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, that 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 man. 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. How am I going to cope with this? Right, quite expected. Offered a handshake to Fred, turns out his name is. That's a nice bum as well as there. I mean, it's 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. Put 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. This is the final round of the 12th, 24th British Open Championship. The home of golf. The most religious hole site in maybe the most stayed and cloistered sport in the world. It's Sunday now. It's John Daly going for his first major. John Daly 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. As soon as it goes in the hole, I'm on. And then this guy we've met the day before. There's pictures all over me getting chased by a guy. He 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 £5 for the car park and we found out later. It was a free car park and he was just charging everyone £5 to park the car. So this guy who allegedly was charging people for free parking spots. He is now holding your spot as held a hat over 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. Nobody could catch me and let him rugby tackle me and he give me a little tap on the cheek. He said, "Nelly had a f***ing heart attack mark." But he just wanted to get in on the phone. You know, he was just part of there. Part of the joke. Well, part of the scene here that's essential is that what you have written on your back is, it's just an all-timer. 19th hole with a giant arrow at your whole. You'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 all stuck up. 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 at 19th, he's the tennis world's cover girl sensation. But can she step up her game for a landslam title, a championship swimbledon on NBC? Well, I was stood outside Wimbledon in a queue waiting to go in and the billboard went passed on the side of a van with her 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. Only the balls bounce. Again, you're a vision, Mark. You're a vision. Only 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 in fact, that is Olympic 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. The 2002 Commonwealth Games, though. I want to do a pit stop here, because this is a golden Jubilee. 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 out just to the Queen. I just want to heart it's the Duke of Edinburgh circuit. This brand new, wonderful looking stadium. Me and Liz, we did close like that. She wanted a night meat, better refuse. That is an index finger and a middle finger, with again, you tattooed across it, just crossing. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that one. You're not with Liz. I don't want to say you to Liz, no, because she was a lovely lady. I've been around there for two or 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, who is looking up into the right. So victory ceremonies for the men's 100 meters, women's 100 meters. That's me. And you're wearing shorts. The police were waiting for me everywhere. You're wearing slacks, black slacks. And you're now motoring. And there goes the shirt. There go the pant, an impressive, just ripped off. See you just into the crowd, man. Terri way pants. Oh, knee down, starting blocks. Well, tanned. You come off record. Slowest of 100 pieces. Oh, my God. The mechanics of that, we got to just walk through this because Terri way pants. This is a tool, a tool of your tool, a tool of your trade. 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 tends the other way. I'm over the barrier and I'm naked in seconds. It's off. God, I've got like the wind. If 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 is anyone more prominent than than you mark. In fact, Nike did a TV commercial. And they based it on me. They 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. 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 all day. I came about streaking. Through 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 I've achieved the objective already. That's the elating part. I'm joyous. You know, cause 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 when 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, mom, it's a good pay 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. As in what? The Oscars. We've got tickets for the Oscars. I went, no, what do you mean? I said, that's not the biggest thing. The super balls are the biggest thing in the States. So he told me, you can't do the super ball. I said, why not? It's never been done. Can't be done. Securities too tight. I said, 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 Strieking, has encountered in America at the highest possible level. We go to 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 1st, 2004. It is Houston. The halftime performer, Mark, of course, is who? I was at the halftime show's 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. But 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? But 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? When we were sitting down on the seats, there 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 in 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 a 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 so he comes to you. So I've got a clear room to get onto the field. The 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 further 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? I wrote to the NFL and I told them I wanted to be, I'm starting a medical 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." Yeah, thank you very much. I took a uniform to a seamstress, got her to take it all apart, and 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 the second half a lot goes on in these Super Bowl games." 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. And there in the bottom left, you begin to. That's right, I'm the 40-yard line is lit, yeah. Pushing through in regulation garb as the kick-off is getting ready. And Greg. There you go, right in the middle there. Kits come off 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. 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 kick-off for the third quarter. Yeah. One of the players shouted, "What's up, ref, man?" Man, oh, it's. You just started dancing. Bipped me colds off, I'm naked, started dancing on the ball. So I want to place it on and what's the fucking referee doing? He thought the referee's lost his mind. That's an understanding round the ball. Yeah. Here we go. Kits off. Up some of that. In 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? The very last thing before I left the hotel, I forgot, I can't get me fuck 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 hardest piss 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 acts on the broadcast. And now we know that you would call it. An Irish bog stump. It's a bad body. I'll tell you that. There's too much of it being shown. Well, let's check out the half-time numbers. America runs the fuck away. But as you make history, Danish television gives us this. Listen to the crowd. There we go. Bang! And that bang, by the way. Number 58. Mark Chattam. Matt Chatham. Six foot four, two-fifty, Patriots linebacker. By the way, a three-time zero-world 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. Name's Matt Chattam, 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. He does this sign in the 7th inning of a May baseball game. Okay, it's hilarious. But this rubbed me the wrong way and always will. And as 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 the kick off. Yeah, and there he goes, just knocking you. That was great. That was a perfect ending to the Super Bowl. Oh, laid you out. Horizontal. Matt enacted justice on behalf of, I guess, the United States of America, with what he calls, quote, unquote, "love tap." It was, you know, a two out of 10 kind of violence, just to get him gone. I mean, I just don't think people realize how big NFL people are, but, you know, I'm both 250 plus or whatever, you're all padded up, you know, and 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 nan, 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 prepped in previous years, and especially this one is in times of war, times of conflict, all this stuff, that it's a really heightened security. And, you know, nobody's supposed to be in this building, that's not after playing football. And I think other 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 we watched a video or something. But, in that moment, it was like sort of, you know, doing what we cushioned 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. I was 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 that anyway, but I mean, 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. That's why I said jackass, not like any malice against Mark. He's a b*tch. A big b*tch. Seven foot, seven foot, whatever, it's all he is. So NFL security's 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 appreciated that. 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? I've just done the f*cking 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've just done the Super Bowl. So I've got carried off hog tides into the tunnel. Now I'm thinking okay, here's where the trouble's really going to start. So because the way he took me out my chattem, I'm feigning injury, I'm under pressure and put him down, put him down. I'm going ah, he said you okay man now, you're safe man. I said okay, thank you. It's as you okay I said, besides hurting officer, that was f*cking fine, you know. He said why? He said why did you do that? That's why I just wanted to make the great people of America laugh and the policeman went, that was f*cking awesome man. And that thing all the police started laughing, they loved it man. Loved it. He said this one, I'm going to keep you for an hour and then just let you go, release you. I went f*cking, they're going to charge me either and I found out it's the first time the NFL ran security for Super Bowl, because normally it's down to the actual stadium security people to, and I beat them, I beat the sh*t out of them man. Next thing, the head of the NFL comes running down some stairs, throw the book at him, he wants to meet charged up to the hill. So I got charged a criminal trespass, got taken to jail, that was scary. Well the policeman did say to me before when 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, because if they realize you're British, they might have a reason to create an argument with you. So I've gone in the cage, but all this in me had 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 loved it. Took me me mug shot. And I'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 f***ing referee man. So I've sat up. All the velcro's open. And the f***ing balls were on show in the cage. I 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 f***ing hate referees. But luckily, everything is okay. I got released in the morning and got flown first 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, woman's 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 courtrooms, I've never heard that kind of commotion in the jury room. Will you please escort me in? And she linked my arm, the judge. And we walked into the jury room and he all started cheering all the jurors. It was fantastic. (upbeat music) - I understand why it was that it took us a bit to get you on the show. (laughs) Mark, because we originally, we tried to do it ahead of what we thought might be a streak at the Olympics in Paris to co-wile our producer, Matt was communicating. And I just want to quote the WhatsApp conversation as we put it on screen here. He said to us, "F*** it, and you, your p***s." And then, 'cause you were like, "What about NBC? "Are they gonna get mad at us? "Are we gonna get. " - You're gonna put all those standards, all that stuff. Then we said, "What about still having an interview?" And you said, "Matt, who gives a flying s***?" Ooh, I got a 50K 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, "F*** you." And then, and this is where I was like, "I love this man, and we must have him on." August 12th, 2024, you said, at 3.30 a.m. Eastern time, are we still on tomorrow then? (laughs) - 'Cause I was still buzzing once at the Olympics. And you know the crazy thing about that was as well, pal. The one I wanted to do was the breakdancing. - Oh my God. - It's the first time breakdancing had been a New 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 Paris Olympics. - That was the events I wanted to do. So, man, I was gutted, gutted, but I still wanted to go. I wanted to do more of the alternate timeline in which you were breakdancing, upstaging Reagan naked. - How'd it been better than that, man? - I think I wouldn't have been close, you know? - 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 art form, as anything but an unqualified and unparalleled a 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. - Yeah, I'll never be broken. I'll never be beaten, man. Nobody I'll ever be able to surpass what I've achieved from proud. - Your mom, what did she think of all of this? - She's always said you're nuts. It's not long with you. I said, mom, you don't see it not there. You don't feel it with the crowds like. Until eventually, I did a jump on 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 jumped on stage, the all audiences cheering and she saw it afterwards when I got throughout, met her in a bar next door. She said, when I saw you going on, I was going to shout, see 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 the ambulance, she said to the ambulance man, do you know who my son is? On the way to the hospital, man, you know? Well, the last thing she said, man. So even though she kept on saying it was crazy, you know, she was proud of her in the end. So that was nice. 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 this right. To give me tablets to stop adrenaline getting to me heart, because me heart's working overtime. So I'm thinking this is a conspiracy by Entiple. 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 in sports who has experienced, 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, well, I've wrote a will in it through his list, that when I die, I want to go at a pair of specs 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. And then I want the Pope to bless me. Hey, 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. Yeah, okay. - We can easy make it. - Thank you. - Nice one. Oh, yeah, I'll have some of this. - Oh, God. What? - Have some of that. - Have some of that. Have some of that. - Have some of that. - What? - God. (upbeat music) - This has been Pablo Torre finds out, a metal-lark media production. And I'll talk to you next time. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)