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Speaker 1: Originals. This is an iHeart original.

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Speaker 2: Let me take you back to February first, two thousand

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Speaker 2: and four. Super Bowl thirty eight, a showdown between the

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Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers and Tom Brady's New England Patriots, is about

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Speaker 2: to kick off. Security is tight at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

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Speaker 2: Arena staff as well as the NFL are screening the

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Speaker 2: seventy one thousand, five hundred and twenty five fans in attendance.

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Speaker 2: They're checking for gate crashers, phony tickets, drugs, and barely

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Speaker 2: two years after nine to eleven. They are also aware

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Speaker 2: that the most watched television event of the year could

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Speaker 2: attract terrorists. There are bag checks and frisking and metal detectors.

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Speaker 2: Helicopters are flying overhead to make sure no one enters

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Speaker 2: the stadium's airspace. Among the hordes of diehard American football

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Speaker 2: fans filing into the stadium is one with a British

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Speaker 2: lilt to his voice. His name is Mark Roberts, and

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Speaker 2: he's stepped forward for a frisk. The security officer notices

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Speaker 1: So as I've gone to the security hold my arms out,

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Speaker 1: he's patting me down. He's gone down the inside of

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Speaker 1: my legs. He said, what's that man? And the first

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Speaker 1: thing I could think of, I said, I've got a

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Speaker 1: skin disorder. I need to be able to get to

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Speaker 2: Mark doesn't have a skin condition. What he has is

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Speaker 2: a pair of velcrow pants, the kind favored by the

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Speaker 2: cast of Magic Mike.

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Speaker 1: Like a stripper. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The officer will soon notice that under Mark's street clothes,

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Speaker 2: he's got on something that should get him an immediate

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Speaker 1: He's lifted me topo. I've got a black and white

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Speaker 2: Mark is at the Super Bowl to meet his moment,

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Speaker 2: the moment he's spent his entire career building towards. If

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Speaker 2: his timing is right, he'll soon be bounding onto the

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Speaker 2: field of the biggest event in sports, running from police

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Speaker 2: with the game ball tucked under his arm, and doing

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Speaker 2: it while nude. Mark Roberts is the most notorious streaker

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Speaker 2: in the world. He's spent more time naked than most

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Speaker 2: Greek statues, and the Super Bowl is about to become

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Speaker 2: his Mount Everest. If he can dodge the FBI, the

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Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security, the SWAT teams, and the two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty pound linebacker who has him in his

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Speaker 2: sights to make streaking history. Mark is even willing to

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Speaker 1: This is gospel truth, I thought, because it's not long

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Speaker 1: after nine eleven, just going to be snipers on the

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Speaker 1: roofs look of a terrorists. I thought, well, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to go on disrupt. They're not gonna know what's going

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Speaker 1: to go on. As I'm lefting me clothes off, they

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Speaker 1: them might take a shot, but he won't shoot to

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Speaker 1: kill what he set the naked. He'll shoot to this arm.

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Speaker 1: He'll shoot me in the leg. So I thought, okay,

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to very special episodes and I Heart original podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Dana Schwartz and this is super Streaker.

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Speaker 2: Caution this episode contains nudity.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to very special episodes. My name is Jason English.

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Speaker 3: Today is our second annual Super Bowl episode. I'm down

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Speaker 3: in New Orleans this week because iHeart is the official

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Speaker 3: podcast partner of the NFL. Now, if you've been with

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Speaker 3: us since the beginning, you might recall Dana Zarin and

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Speaker 3: I recorded live from Radio Row last year when the

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl was in Las Vegas. That was a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun, learned about Zarin's horrifying football injury history. Had

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Speaker 3: a very special team dinner at Spago. It's just me

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Speaker 3: here this year representing the show. No Spago, but Dana's

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Speaker 3: got another great Super Bowl adjacent story. I think you're

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Speaker 2: We're all born naked, but fairly early on we learned

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Speaker 2: In a lot of places, indecent exposure is actually illegal,

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Speaker 1: I was always naughty in school, well, I want to

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Speaker 2: That's Mark Roberts born in Liverpool, England, in nineteen sixty four.

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Speaker 2: He's always been impulsive, a fun seeking missile, sometimes to

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Speaker 1: I got kicked out of college for messing around too much.

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Speaker 1: I got fired from a few jobs for just taking

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Speaker 2: Mark is one of those life is for Living types,

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Speaker 2: He lived in Greece for a period. He was a bartender,

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Speaker 1: I got a job as a pipefitter, doing sprinkler systems

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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety three, Mark, then just twenty nine years old,

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Speaker 1: I'm had no money, I said, well, I've got nothing.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, I'll send you a ticket, a flight

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Speaker 2: Mark got a job at a bar in Wan Chai,

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Speaker 1: While I was working another bar and you can drink

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Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest rugby events in the world.

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Speaker 1: So they own in the bar next to me next

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Speaker 1: to me said, okay, big mouth, you streaked tomorrow? Is okay?

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Speaker 2: At this point, Mark wasn't a serial nudist, no exhibitionism,

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Speaker 1: I was one of those ones on the beach, scared

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Speaker 2: Mark got so drunk he forgot all about the dare.

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Speaker 2: The next day he was awakened by his friends. He

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Speaker 1: I was all over the place. Just take me to

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Speaker 1: Had one beer, made me feel worse, had two littleside

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Speaker 2: The stadium had a capacity of about forty thousand people,

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Speaker 2: to nothing and started running. He grabbed the ball and

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Speaker 1: As I've turned around the whole stadium all at once

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Speaker 2: Security was understandably concerned. They cornered Mark, but they didn't

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Speaker 2: He did, and as he walked out, someone pressed something

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Speaker 2: into his hand. It was a ticket. Mark was so

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Speaker 1: So come back in the next teen style went back in,

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Speaker 2: Just as Michael Jordan once picked up a basketball, or

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Speaker 2: Mark had found his true calling, showing his genitals to

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Speaker 1: Every person was just stared and not making a sound,

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Speaker 1: And it was like surrounded by cheese police. On the Sunday.

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Speaker 1: There is like English police because it was the sevens.

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Speaker 1: This is a Chinese football match. All the pieces are

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Speaker 1: No one in that stagium had seen a streaker in

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Speaker 1: All the Chinese police tried to rugby tackle me. So

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Speaker 1: It was a slow build of noise.

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Speaker 2: Mark wasn't alone in his fascination with streaking.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: The early nineteen nineties hadn't seen a lot of nude

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Speaker 2: stunts in the nineteen sixties gave way to more audacious displays.

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Speaker 2: Streakers figured out the best way to make an impression

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Speaker 2: It was also performance art. In college, Mark had studied

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Speaker 2: Mark never streaked during official gameplay when something was really

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Speaker 1: all of him, he's lost an eye. He's a one

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Speaker 2: The streaks varied, but there were some constants Mark could

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Speaker 2: But of all the streaks, it was one at a

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Speaker 2: Mark trotted through the nineteen ninety nine Cruftz Purebred event

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Speaker 1: But before I went on. I just had the bad feeling.

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Speaker 2: This all went on for about a decade, and through

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Speaker 2: If Golden Palace couldn't pay to advertise on television or

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Speaker 2: Golden Palace approached boxer Bernard Hopkins with an unusual offer.

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Speaker 2: If the fighter agreed to sport a temporary Golden Palace

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Speaker 1: These guys got in such sponsors. We're seeing what you've

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Speaker 2: That first assignment came in May two thousand and three

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Speaker 1: running again.

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00:26:45,842 --> 00:26:49,642
Speaker 2: After making several appearances for Golden Palace, he got the

434
00:26:49,642 --> 00:26:53,442
Speaker 2: call he had been hoping for. The marketing director had

435
00:26:53,522 --> 00:26:54,202
Speaker 2: an idea.

436
00:26:54,922 --> 00:26:56,962
Speaker 1: He said to me, he said, we've got tickets for

437
00:26:57,002 --> 00:26:59,282
Speaker 1: the biggest thing in the States. I said, what's that?

438
00:26:59,322 --> 00:27:01,322
Speaker 1: He said, the Oscars. I said, now, he said, what

439
00:27:01,362 --> 00:27:02,962
Speaker 1: do you mean? It's the Oscars. Man, it's the biggest

440
00:27:03,002 --> 00:27:05,082
Speaker 1: thing in the States. I said, no, it's not the

441
00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:08,242
Speaker 1: biggest thing. I said, the shop is the biggest thing

442
00:27:08,242 --> 00:27:10,642
Speaker 1: in America. Is what are you talking about? Mane, You

443
00:27:10,682 --> 00:27:12,602
Speaker 1: can't do the Super Bowl ast? Why not?

444
00:27:13,322 --> 00:27:17,162
Speaker 2: For Mark? The Super Bowl was well, the super Bowl

445
00:27:17,202 --> 00:27:17,842
Speaker 2: of streaking.

446
00:27:18,762 --> 00:27:21,402
Speaker 1: It's never been done, can't be done. Securities too tight.

447
00:27:21,882 --> 00:27:23,722
Speaker 1: I said, you get me a ticket and I'll show

448
00:27:23,762 --> 00:27:26,442
Speaker 1: you it can be done. So next thing I can.

449
00:27:26,722 --> 00:27:28,522
Speaker 1: I can feel a commotion on the other end of

450
00:27:28,522 --> 00:27:31,442
Speaker 1: the line on the phone. Wow, he said, okay, man.

451
00:27:32,282 --> 00:27:35,002
Speaker 1: So he took me upon the challenge. They've got me

452
00:27:35,082 --> 00:27:36,282
Speaker 1: the best seats in the house.

453
00:27:36,962 --> 00:27:40,322
Speaker 2: The call came after Mark had considered gate crashing Super

454
00:27:40,362 --> 00:27:43,362
Speaker 2: Bowl thirty seven in two thousand and three. He had

455
00:27:43,402 --> 00:27:46,602
Speaker 2: lined up tickets from a scalper for five hundred dollars,

456
00:27:47,082 --> 00:27:49,722
Speaker 2: but the scalper soon jacked the price up to thirty

457
00:27:49,762 --> 00:27:54,242
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars, which Mark couldn't put together. The Golden

458
00:27:54,282 --> 00:27:58,162
Speaker 2: Palace relationship was a different story. The site had a

459
00:27:58,202 --> 00:28:02,282
Speaker 2: marketing budget that paid for itself many times over. When

460
00:28:02,322 --> 00:28:05,962
Speaker 2: a grilled cheese sandwich that purportedly had an image of

461
00:28:06,002 --> 00:28:09,722
Speaker 2: the Virgin Mary on it hit eBay, the casino paid

462
00:28:10,002 --> 00:28:14,002
Speaker 2: twenty eight thousand dollars for it and got millions worth

463
00:28:14,042 --> 00:28:19,962
Speaker 2: of publicity. They paid one woman, Carrie Smith, fifteen thousand

464
00:28:20,082 --> 00:28:24,402
Speaker 2: dollars to get a permanent Golden Palace tattoo on her forehead.

465
00:28:25,082 --> 00:28:29,042
Speaker 2: The tattoo artist spent hours trying to talk Smith out

466
00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:33,162
Speaker 2: of it before relenting. He tried to keep the letters

467
00:28:33,242 --> 00:28:36,882
Speaker 2: close to her hairline so she could cover it with bangs.

468
00:28:37,642 --> 00:28:41,282
Speaker 2: They even paid multiple people for naming rights to their

469
00:28:41,442 --> 00:28:45,962
Speaker 2: unborn children. Somewhere out there is a person named Golden

470
00:28:46,162 --> 00:28:51,482
Speaker 2: Palace Bendetto or Goldie for short. Thanks to these efforts,

471
00:28:51,642 --> 00:28:56,802
Speaker 2: Golden Palace didn't need to advertise they had reporters calling them.

472
00:28:57,122 --> 00:29:00,402
Speaker 2: The site eventually built up to two point four million

473
00:29:00,522 --> 00:29:05,202
Speaker 2: users with eighty million dollars in annual revenue, so they

474
00:29:05,202 --> 00:29:08,882
Speaker 2: could foot the bill for Mark. The casino solved the

475
00:29:09,002 --> 00:29:12,282
Speaker 2: logistical issue of traveling to the US and buying an

476
00:29:12,322 --> 00:29:16,922
Speaker 2: expensive Super Bowl ticket. They'd pick up all travel expenses

477
00:29:17,002 --> 00:29:20,362
Speaker 2: and pay Mark a fee which would become a little

478
00:29:20,402 --> 00:29:24,602
Speaker 2: controversial later on. We'll get to that. The only catch,

479
00:29:24,722 --> 00:29:27,882
Speaker 2: as usual, was that Mark would have to sport a

480
00:29:28,002 --> 00:29:32,962
Speaker 2: Golden Palace tattoo and be a locomoting billboard for the company.

481
00:29:33,722 --> 00:29:36,962
Speaker 2: The stage was set, but even though the Super Bowl

482
00:29:37,042 --> 00:29:41,802
Speaker 2: had long been his dream, Mark had one reservation. The

483
00:29:41,922 --> 00:29:46,282
Speaker 2: game was being held in Houston, and Mark knew Texas

484
00:29:46,522 --> 00:29:52,082
Speaker 2: was extremely extremely serious about football, Friday night lights and

485
00:29:52,122 --> 00:29:56,122
Speaker 2: all that. How would the crowd, security and the NFL

486
00:29:56,322 --> 00:30:00,922
Speaker 2: react to someone disrupting the game. There was also the

487
00:30:01,042 --> 00:30:05,122
Speaker 2: great unknown of how American athletes might receive his antics.

488
00:30:05,602 --> 00:30:08,842
Speaker 2: In the UK, they seemed to regard him with amusement,

489
00:30:09,362 --> 00:30:13,242
Speaker 2: but a linebacker experiencing a career highlight might not.

490
00:30:13,962 --> 00:30:17,122
Speaker 1: It's Texas, It's America. What can happen to me when

491
00:30:17,162 --> 00:30:19,802
Speaker 1: I go on so those okay sowall of Warrior? If

492
00:30:19,802 --> 00:30:23,322
Speaker 1: I get clotheslines by one of the players, like the wrestlers,

493
00:30:23,762 --> 00:30:26,442
Speaker 1: might break being neck. Because these are huge guys. One

494
00:30:26,442 --> 00:30:28,882
Speaker 1: of them could rugby tackle me, break a leg. My

495
00:30:29,082 --> 00:30:32,522
Speaker 1: worst fear was if they throw me to the floor

496
00:30:32,562 --> 00:30:34,802
Speaker 1: and all the players jump on top of me. I'd

497
00:30:34,802 --> 00:30:38,202
Speaker 1: suffer from a suffocation. I want to survive, though.

498
00:30:39,682 --> 00:30:44,282
Speaker 2: Between the security and players, there was every possibility this

499
00:30:44,402 --> 00:30:48,322
Speaker 2: would be more dangerous than running with the bulls. As

500
00:30:48,362 --> 00:30:51,002
Speaker 2: we've said, the Super Bowl is one of the most

501
00:30:51,082 --> 00:30:54,882
Speaker 2: widely viewed events in the world, and with that attention

502
00:30:55,082 --> 00:30:58,922
Speaker 2: comes the potential for someone to take a shot at infamy,

503
00:30:59,522 --> 00:31:03,762
Speaker 2: a terrorist attack, for example, which is why Super Bowl

504
00:31:03,882 --> 00:31:07,282
Speaker 2: thirty eight, which took place February first to the thousand

505
00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:12,242
Speaker 2: and four, wasn't just subject to stadium security. It was

506
00:31:12,322 --> 00:31:17,522
Speaker 2: under highly coordinated federal protection, the FBI, the Department of

507
00:31:17,602 --> 00:31:23,642
Speaker 2: Homeland Security, the Secret Service, the Houston Police Department. Airspace

508
00:31:23,802 --> 00:31:27,602
Speaker 2: over Reliant Stadium was being cleared, the Coast Guard was

509
00:31:27,642 --> 00:31:33,562
Speaker 2: patrolling nearby waters. Trucks towing hazardous waste were being re routed.

510
00:31:34,002 --> 00:31:38,682
Speaker 2: The FBI canceled leave for its local agents. SWAT teams

511
00:31:38,762 --> 00:31:43,162
Speaker 2: were assembled. The most resourceful law enforcement agencies in the

512
00:31:43,202 --> 00:31:47,642
Speaker 2: world were on the ground to make absolutely certain people

513
00:31:47,802 --> 00:31:51,922
Speaker 2: were safe. This is what Mark Roberts was walking into.

514
00:31:52,802 --> 00:31:58,402
Speaker 2: How do you outsmart national security agencies? First, you gather surveillance.

515
00:31:59,402 --> 00:32:01,242
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to go if ionuto the Super Bowl,

516
00:32:01,682 --> 00:32:05,402
Speaker 1: I have to go on after the best advantage as

517
00:32:05,402 --> 00:32:09,442
Speaker 1: I possibly can. Someone sent to the Reliant Stadium in

518
00:32:09,522 --> 00:32:13,802
Speaker 1: Houston to watch a normal game and take pictures of

519
00:32:13,842 --> 00:32:15,682
Speaker 1: security around the stadium.

520
00:32:16,042 --> 00:32:20,602
Speaker 2: The intelligence was not promising, even a regular season game

521
00:32:20,722 --> 00:32:25,082
Speaker 2: had virtually air tight security. But Mark had a plan

522
00:32:25,642 --> 00:32:30,722
Speaker 2: and it involved making the NFL a co conspirator. Underneath

523
00:32:30,762 --> 00:32:34,442
Speaker 2: his street clothes, he would wear a referees uniform, which

524
00:32:34,482 --> 00:32:36,322
Speaker 2: he had shipped to him before his visit.

525
00:32:36,882 --> 00:32:39,722
Speaker 1: So what I did? I wrote to the NFL toldmost

526
00:32:39,762 --> 00:32:42,922
Speaker 1: started an American football team in the UK, but it

527
00:32:42,922 --> 00:32:48,602
Speaker 1: couldn't get any referee uniforms. They sent me two referee uniforms.

528
00:32:50,122 --> 00:32:53,682
Speaker 2: He cut it up then had a seamstress reassemble it

529
00:32:53,802 --> 00:32:59,002
Speaker 2: with Velcrow. Arriving at Reliant Stadium and at a security checkpoint,

530
00:32:59,242 --> 00:33:02,802
Speaker 2: he held his breath while a security officer patted him

531
00:33:02,842 --> 00:33:06,922
Speaker 2: down and quizzed him about the funny bumps along his clothes.

532
00:33:07,642 --> 00:33:10,922
Speaker 2: The velcro on his outer layers, he explained, were for

533
00:33:11,082 --> 00:33:16,242
Speaker 2: a skin condition so he could apply lotion. The underlayer, well,

534
00:33:16,402 --> 00:33:21,202
Speaker 2: that was his lucky ref uniform. This might seem strange,

535
00:33:21,682 --> 00:33:24,402
Speaker 2: but consider that this is Mark's first time in the

536
00:33:24,482 --> 00:33:28,442
Speaker 2: United States. His notoriety isn't what it is in the UK.

537
00:33:29,082 --> 00:33:32,642
Speaker 2: And this security is more concerned with weapons than fans

538
00:33:32,682 --> 00:33:36,362
Speaker 2: trying to invite good luck to their favorite sports teams

539
00:33:36,602 --> 00:33:38,162
Speaker 2: by wearing a refs shirt.

540
00:33:38,802 --> 00:33:39,442
Speaker 1: He said, what's that?

541
00:33:39,522 --> 00:33:39,682
Speaker 3: Man?

542
00:33:40,442 --> 00:33:42,562
Speaker 1: So it's my locky uniform? Or when it's every game?

543
00:33:42,962 --> 00:33:45,362
Speaker 1: He said, okay, man, in you go. He had two

544
00:33:45,482 --> 00:33:47,802
Speaker 1: chances to catch me on the door.

545
00:33:48,362 --> 00:33:51,482
Speaker 2: He didn't, But getting in the door was only half

546
00:33:51,522 --> 00:33:54,962
Speaker 2: the battle. Once inside, he got his first glimpse of

547
00:33:55,082 --> 00:33:57,082
Speaker 2: Super Bowl sized security.

548
00:33:57,642 --> 00:34:01,802
Speaker 1: Every stadium had been so mah, I've never seen security

549
00:34:01,962 --> 00:34:05,562
Speaker 1: like this in my life. It was immense. Wasn't just police,

550
00:34:05,882 --> 00:34:09,602
Speaker 1: it was security. Please, security, please, security two and threefold

551
00:34:09,642 --> 00:34:10,882
Speaker 1: and so close together.

552
00:34:11,602 --> 00:34:14,202
Speaker 2: He headed for his front row seat, which had been

553
00:34:14,242 --> 00:34:18,682
Speaker 2: comped by Golden Palace and resided on the fifty yard line.

554
00:34:19,002 --> 00:34:22,842
Speaker 2: In front was a very serious looking man, a man

555
00:34:22,882 --> 00:34:27,282
Speaker 2: of some unknown agency affiliation, who stood between Mark and

556
00:34:27,442 --> 00:34:28,682
Speaker 2: Streaker history.

557
00:34:29,162 --> 00:34:31,762
Speaker 1: So all the time I've got acnormal join him at

558
00:34:31,762 --> 00:34:33,562
Speaker 1: the crowd and got him right in front of me.

559
00:34:33,642 --> 00:34:37,002
Speaker 1: Does police security police security? But does this one guy

560
00:34:37,762 --> 00:34:40,682
Speaker 1: stood directly in front of me, facing me with his

561
00:34:40,842 --> 00:34:45,442
Speaker 1: arms crossed. That man did not move. I was there

562
00:34:45,482 --> 00:34:48,682
Speaker 1: for four hours. He stood solid for four hours.

563
00:34:49,362 --> 00:34:53,002
Speaker 2: Mark's white whale of running onto the Super Bowl field

564
00:34:53,282 --> 00:34:56,562
Speaker 2: was in danger of being waylaid by a guard who

565
00:34:56,642 --> 00:35:00,562
Speaker 2: seemingly had no need to ever use the bathroom. Mark

566
00:35:00,682 --> 00:35:04,722
Speaker 2: anticipated this, of course, he brought along an accomplice, a

567
00:35:04,802 --> 00:35:08,842
Speaker 2: friend named Mick, who was prepared to provide a distraction.

568
00:35:09,922 --> 00:35:12,002
Speaker 1: I've took a friend with me who was going to

569
00:35:12,042 --> 00:35:14,802
Speaker 1: be a decoy if a needed one, And the point being,

570
00:35:14,962 --> 00:35:17,762
Speaker 1: if I had security in front of me, Maker's going

571
00:35:17,802 --> 00:35:20,162
Speaker 1: to go further down the wall, drop his phone and

572
00:35:20,202 --> 00:35:22,922
Speaker 1: go to climb down the wall, so security would go

573
00:35:23,082 --> 00:35:25,522
Speaker 1: towards him and hopefully give me an open path to

574
00:35:25,642 --> 00:35:26,482
Speaker 1: a LUNs of the field.

575
00:35:27,202 --> 00:35:40,922
Speaker 2: But it didn't take long for fate to intervene. Here's

576
00:35:40,962 --> 00:35:46,322
Speaker 2: the thing about streakers, pranksters, even burglars. Wait long enough

577
00:35:46,402 --> 00:35:50,562
Speaker 2: and you'll see an opening just outlast the people guarding

578
00:35:50,722 --> 00:35:54,082
Speaker 2: the store. It worked at soccer games, it worked at

579
00:35:54,122 --> 00:35:57,482
Speaker 2: the French Open, and it worked here at the biggest

580
00:35:57,522 --> 00:36:00,722
Speaker 2: and most secure sports event on the planet.

581
00:36:01,642 --> 00:36:02,322
Speaker 1: Just as the.

582
00:36:02,322 --> 00:36:06,202
Speaker 2: Third quarter was about to start, opportunity knocked.

583
00:36:07,082 --> 00:36:09,962
Speaker 1: As I said that the one guy who stayed still

584
00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:13,362
Speaker 1: for four hours walked away to speak to another security

585
00:36:13,362 --> 00:36:15,362
Speaker 1: god fathered down. I said, there must have been a

586
00:36:15,442 --> 00:36:17,722
Speaker 1: light shining down ons off of me. I said, Mick, go,

587
00:36:17,962 --> 00:36:20,362
Speaker 1: I'm going. So I've ripped me unclothes off. Now I'm

588
00:36:20,362 --> 00:36:22,962
Speaker 1: a referee. I've dropped the wall really quick.

589
00:36:23,882 --> 00:36:27,882
Speaker 2: This was Mark's chance. First he discarded his civilian attire,

590
00:36:27,922 --> 00:36:30,922
Speaker 2: which was torn away in a symphony of separated velcrow.

591
00:36:31,482 --> 00:36:34,962
Speaker 2: For the next few minutes, he was just another NFL referee.

592
00:36:35,642 --> 00:36:38,762
Speaker 2: Fans deferred to him moving toward the field because he

593
00:36:38,842 --> 00:36:42,722
Speaker 2: looked like he belonged there. Then he sprinted straight ahead,

594
00:36:42,962 --> 00:36:46,282
Speaker 2: barreling out onto the field. He tore away his refere's

595
00:36:46,362 --> 00:36:50,762
Speaker 2: uniform to reveal his pale torso and fair buttocks. Then

596
00:36:50,922 --> 00:36:53,562
Speaker 2: he began doing an Irish jig and.

597
00:36:53,682 --> 00:36:56,202
Speaker 1: Just ripped me clothes off and just started to dance.

598
00:36:56,682 --> 00:36:58,562
Speaker 1: So everyone's going, what's going on all the places? But

599
00:36:58,642 --> 00:37:01,162
Speaker 1: what's the referee doing? And the thing on what was

600
00:37:01,162 --> 00:37:03,402
Speaker 1: supposed to do in my head was crabbed the ball

601
00:37:03,442 --> 00:37:06,842
Speaker 1: and transcord a touchdown. But when I took me clothes off,

602
00:37:06,962 --> 00:37:10,402
Speaker 1: he had just said dance. So I'm doing his crazy

603
00:37:10,442 --> 00:37:14,722
Speaker 1: bog stomping river dance and moonwalk stuff. The crowd. They're

604
00:37:14,762 --> 00:37:17,842
Speaker 1: going nuts. Everyone the crowd know what's happening. I'm look

605
00:37:17,882 --> 00:37:19,802
Speaker 1: at the plays. I think the referee has lost his

606
00:37:19,882 --> 00:37:22,242
Speaker 1: mind because he's just come und with his clothes off.

607
00:37:22,722 --> 00:37:25,002
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at all the police, and all the

608
00:37:25,042 --> 00:37:27,002
Speaker 1: police are on the stagium are confused. They're all looking

609
00:37:27,002 --> 00:37:30,122
Speaker 1: at each other, going what's going on. There's a naked

610
00:37:30,122 --> 00:37:32,402
Speaker 1: guy in the middle of the field, you idiot, such

611
00:37:32,402 --> 00:37:34,522
Speaker 1: what's going on? And he didn't have a clue what

612
00:37:34,602 --> 00:37:34,882
Speaker 1: to do.

613
00:37:35,722 --> 00:37:39,282
Speaker 2: Mark moonwalked and river danced for about a minute, which

614
00:37:39,362 --> 00:37:43,362
Speaker 2: is virtually an eternity in streaking terms. Further out on

615
00:37:43,402 --> 00:37:46,442
Speaker 2: the field that were the Patriots and Panthers, who stared

616
00:37:46,482 --> 00:37:50,042
Speaker 2: at him in disbelief. On his back was the Golden

617
00:37:50,122 --> 00:37:54,762
Speaker 2: Palace url. On the front was a small football covering

618
00:37:54,842 --> 00:37:59,722
Speaker 2: his private parts, held in place by a g string. Sneakers, socks,

619
00:37:59,802 --> 00:38:05,722
Speaker 2: and a cap completed the ensemble. Security scrambled. Officers began

620
00:38:05,922 --> 00:38:11,042
Speaker 2: giving chase. Mark ran wildly like a disoriented squirrel, trying

621
00:38:11,082 --> 00:38:12,722
Speaker 2: to avoid oncoming traffic.

622
00:38:13,402 --> 00:38:16,362
Speaker 1: I thought, I've never heard that war again. I've had raws,

623
00:38:16,362 --> 00:38:19,682
Speaker 1: but no to that level. When in sex beat it

624
00:38:19,722 --> 00:38:23,402
Speaker 1: through the roof then the chase started. I've got every

625
00:38:23,402 --> 00:38:25,962
Speaker 1: policement in the stadium coming up me. When the chase

626
00:38:26,002 --> 00:38:30,642
Speaker 1: goes off, the roar has reached stupid decibels. Now as

627
00:38:30,642 --> 00:38:33,762
Speaker 1: I'm running, I'm sort of laughing my head off inside,

628
00:38:34,322 --> 00:38:36,082
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, I'm it's going to take to catch me.

629
00:38:36,802 --> 00:38:41,122
Speaker 2: His path took him into several Patriots players and the

630
00:38:41,162 --> 00:38:44,802
Speaker 2: man who would do what the FBI could not stop

631
00:38:45,002 --> 00:38:50,802
Speaker 2: Mark Roberts from streaking. Matt Chatham joined the Patriots as

632
00:38:50,842 --> 00:38:54,402
Speaker 2: a linebacker in two thousand. He stood six feet four

633
00:38:54,442 --> 00:38:58,562
Speaker 2: inches and weighed two hundred and fifty pounds. His livelihood

634
00:38:58,602 --> 00:39:02,202
Speaker 2: depended on his ability to use his weight to tackle

635
00:39:02,322 --> 00:39:05,802
Speaker 2: other men hard enough to create a player sized dent

636
00:39:05,962 --> 00:39:08,962
Speaker 2: in the grass. He looked at Mark Roberts the same

637
00:39:09,002 --> 00:39:13,122
Speaker 2: way a lion looks at a gazelle. He would later say,

638
00:39:13,322 --> 00:39:18,762
Speaker 2: Mark resembled a dancing bag of mashed potatoes. Matt had

639
00:39:18,842 --> 00:39:22,922
Speaker 2: dropped his shoulder and four arm low and surged forward.

640
00:39:23,602 --> 00:39:26,962
Speaker 2: The hit came from Mark's right and sent him flying

641
00:39:27,482 --> 00:39:32,482
Speaker 2: his limbs floppy, like Andy dropping Woody in toy story.

642
00:39:32,802 --> 00:39:35,282
Speaker 1: But now I've got about twenty on policemen on top

643
00:39:35,322 --> 00:39:38,442
Speaker 1: of me. I'm getting handcuffed behind me back. His face

644
00:39:38,522 --> 00:39:41,282
Speaker 1: is pushed in the grass, and also could think of us.

645
00:39:41,842 --> 00:39:44,242
Speaker 1: I just did the Super Bowl one. I didn't give

646
00:39:44,282 --> 00:39:46,842
Speaker 1: a shit so how many police are on top of me?

647
00:39:47,362 --> 00:39:51,242
Speaker 1: I just did the ultimate end style, you know? And

648
00:39:51,322 --> 00:39:53,202
Speaker 1: Matt Chatham did me a favorite. It was the best

649
00:39:53,362 --> 00:39:56,722
Speaker 1: end to streak in a Super Bowl getting flattened by

650
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Speaker 1: a footballer and then the police car carried me off

651
00:40:00,562 --> 00:40:04,042
Speaker 1: upside down hogtide, as they call it. The crowd had

652
00:40:04,082 --> 00:40:07,882
Speaker 1: going even more crazy. But now I think, okay, my head,

653
00:40:08,322 --> 00:40:10,602
Speaker 1: try to wear quick. What's gonna happen? Now I'm going

654
00:40:10,682 --> 00:40:13,362
Speaker 1: to get beaten by the police with the buttons, you know,

655
00:40:13,442 --> 00:40:13,962
Speaker 1: the sticks.

656
00:40:14,642 --> 00:40:18,002
Speaker 2: Visions of angry guards at a dog show danced in

657
00:40:18,122 --> 00:40:21,962
Speaker 2: Mark's head. Security carried him off the field, his feet

658
00:40:22,162 --> 00:40:25,522
Speaker 2: never allowed to touch the ground. He was booked into

659
00:40:25,562 --> 00:40:31,722
Speaker 2: a Houston jail on charges of criminal trespassing and public intoxication. Mark,

660
00:40:31,802 --> 00:40:34,362
Speaker 2: of course, had downed a few before taking it to

661
00:40:34,522 --> 00:40:37,842
Speaker 2: the field, but he had been here before. The guards

662
00:40:37,842 --> 00:40:41,602
Speaker 2: were polite and found it funny. He signed autographs. The

663
00:40:41,722 --> 00:40:44,682
Speaker 2: night went quickly, even though he had to spend it

664
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Speaker 2: still wearing the referees uniform, which prompted some to think

665
00:40:48,322 --> 00:40:51,202
Speaker 2: an NFL official had done something really wrong.

666
00:40:52,602 --> 00:40:54,162
Speaker 1: And the policeman said, no, this is the guy who

667
00:40:54,202 --> 00:40:57,402
Speaker 1: stripped the ball man. Next thing you went, you're joking.

668
00:40:57,522 --> 00:41:01,762
Speaker 1: Man took me in the police station. Every policeman. It

669
00:41:01,842 --> 00:41:06,162
Speaker 1: was like a policy. They were absolutely buzzn's a bits.

670
00:41:06,922 --> 00:41:10,642
Speaker 1: He took me mug shots, asked me if demanded, duplicated

671
00:41:10,682 --> 00:41:13,562
Speaker 1: it so could sound autographs of the wives, the gail, friends,

672
00:41:13,562 --> 00:41:14,082
Speaker 1: the friends.

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00:41:14,522 --> 00:41:19,202
Speaker 2: Cops may have found it funny. The NFL did not remember.

674
00:41:19,322 --> 00:41:23,322
Speaker 2: This was post nine to eleven, when security was hermetically

675
00:41:23,482 --> 00:41:28,402
Speaker 2: sealing up airports, sporting events, and other public assemblies. That

676
00:41:28,562 --> 00:41:33,002
Speaker 2: Mark could make a nimble run around over two dozen federal, state,

677
00:41:33,122 --> 00:41:37,842
Speaker 2: and local law enforcement organizations was a massive black eye

678
00:41:37,882 --> 00:41:42,322
Speaker 2: for everyone, and so Mark quickly discovered he was looking

679
00:41:42,402 --> 00:41:46,882
Speaker 2: at a two thousand dollars fine and possibly six months

680
00:41:46,922 --> 00:41:48,322
Speaker 2: in jail for trespassing.

681
00:41:49,162 --> 00:41:51,362
Speaker 1: I was scared. Will someone be friends said we're going

682
00:41:51,402 --> 00:41:53,962
Speaker 1: to send you to prison, and a Texan prison as well,

683
00:41:54,002 --> 00:41:57,042
Speaker 1: and I thought I was scared. It was fifty to

684
00:41:57,042 --> 00:41:59,122
Speaker 1: fifty whether I was going to go to jail or not.

685
00:41:59,722 --> 00:42:01,962
Speaker 1: I'm so many friends that's mocked. Don't go back, do

686
00:42:02,162 --> 00:42:04,602
Speaker 1: you go go jealous? Of No? I have to see

687
00:42:04,642 --> 00:42:06,802
Speaker 1: this through. I've got all the way to to text

688
00:42:07,322 --> 00:42:09,762
Speaker 1: I've done the Super Bowl. I've got to say it

689
00:42:09,802 --> 00:42:11,242
Speaker 1: through a copy like a fugitive.

690
00:42:11,882 --> 00:42:17,362
Speaker 2: Fortunately, Golden Palace anticipated legal problems. They recruited a lawyer

691
00:42:17,482 --> 00:42:21,122
Speaker 2: before Mark even left for the States. When he was charged,

692
00:42:21,122 --> 00:42:25,482
Speaker 2: he consulted with Sharon Levine, a respected criminal attorney based

693
00:42:25,522 --> 00:42:29,882
Speaker 2: in Houston. On advice from Sharon, Mark pled not guilty.

694
00:42:30,442 --> 00:42:32,842
Speaker 2: Their defense was symbol you.

695
00:42:32,922 --> 00:42:35,562
Speaker 1: Plead not guilty. There's no signs saying you couldn't not

696
00:42:35,682 --> 00:42:39,682
Speaker 1: onto the field, nothing on a ticket, no announcements. Not guilty.

697
00:42:40,282 --> 00:42:43,482
Speaker 2: Mark's argument was one familiar to a lot of children.

698
00:42:44,042 --> 00:42:46,682
Speaker 2: I did it because no one told me I couldn't.

699
00:42:47,242 --> 00:42:49,482
Speaker 2: To be fair, he didn't have a lot of leeway,

700
00:42:49,602 --> 00:42:53,242
Speaker 2: as over seventy thousand people had seen him run out

701
00:42:53,282 --> 00:42:57,682
Speaker 2: onto the field. The Super Bowl streaker trial went under

702
00:42:57,722 --> 00:43:01,322
Speaker 2: way in Houston in June two thousand and four. A

703
00:43:01,402 --> 00:43:06,922
Speaker 2: jury of six, all women, listened as prosecutors detailed Mark's

704
00:43:06,962 --> 00:43:08,042
Speaker 2: criminal nudity.

705
00:43:09,322 --> 00:43:11,882
Speaker 1: The prosecution wanted to give me six months in prison.

706
00:43:12,162 --> 00:43:14,162
Speaker 1: She was pushing for jail time.

707
00:43:15,042 --> 00:43:19,282
Speaker 2: The jury found him guilty of misdemeanor trespassing, and after

708
00:43:19,362 --> 00:43:23,762
Speaker 2: about an hour of deliberation, decided six months in jail

709
00:43:24,042 --> 00:43:28,042
Speaker 2: was a bit much for a sprinting naked guy. Instead,

710
00:43:28,202 --> 00:43:31,562
Speaker 2: they find him one thousand dollars. As Mark tells it,

711
00:43:31,762 --> 00:43:34,842
Speaker 2: he was invited by the judge into the jury's quarters

712
00:43:34,882 --> 00:43:36,242
Speaker 2: after the verdict.

713
00:43:36,522 --> 00:43:38,722
Speaker 1: But all you can aid in the jury room is lefter,

714
00:43:39,242 --> 00:43:41,842
Speaker 1: And the female judge said, mister Roberts, and all my

715
00:43:41,962 --> 00:43:44,562
Speaker 1: years of working on the bench, I've never hit this

716
00:43:44,722 --> 00:43:46,922
Speaker 1: kind of commotion in the jouring room. Will you please

717
00:43:47,002 --> 00:43:50,282
Speaker 1: escort me in? And she linked my arm and walked

718
00:43:50,322 --> 00:43:53,082
Speaker 1: into the jury room with me, and everyone started achieving.

719
00:43:53,282 --> 00:43:57,402
Speaker 2: As Mark and Golden Palace expected. CBS, which was carrying

720
00:43:57,442 --> 00:43:59,962
Speaker 2: the game, cut away from Mark as soon as he

721
00:44:00,042 --> 00:44:03,522
Speaker 2: stepped onto the field, a normal practice so as not

722
00:44:03,642 --> 00:44:08,202
Speaker 2: to encourage copycats, but the streak was still filmed and

723
00:44:08,362 --> 00:44:12,682
Speaker 2: wound up both online and on television. Mark was something

724
00:44:12,802 --> 00:44:16,802
Speaker 2: of a folk hero to fans anyway. To the NFL,

725
00:44:17,082 --> 00:44:18,522
Speaker 2: he was a menace.

726
00:44:18,922 --> 00:44:22,122
Speaker 1: That the following year, I was in Kentucky fried Chicken

727
00:44:22,562 --> 00:44:27,282
Speaker 1: here in Liverpool and with my brother Chicken beforee goes

728
00:44:27,722 --> 00:44:30,242
Speaker 1: as American voice. Hello, we can speak to Mark Roberts.

729
00:44:30,282 --> 00:44:30,522
Speaker 1: He said.

730
00:44:30,602 --> 00:44:35,282
Speaker 2: Speaking Mark says, a sheriff from Jacksonville, Florida called him

731
00:44:35,642 --> 00:44:39,762
Speaker 2: home of Super Bowl thirty nine. Mark was warned to

732
00:44:39,922 --> 00:44:41,642
Speaker 2: stay away from the big game.

733
00:44:42,562 --> 00:44:45,042
Speaker 1: I said, is that right now? I said, also can

734
00:44:45,042 --> 00:44:46,602
Speaker 1: say she was look out for an old lady with

735
00:44:46,682 --> 00:44:49,682
Speaker 1: a hump. That's what you mean, man, I said, I'm

736
00:44:49,722 --> 00:44:53,162
Speaker 1: a master of disguise, and he started laughing. He said, listen, say,

737
00:44:53,162 --> 00:44:55,122
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you this now. If you do

738
00:44:55,322 --> 00:44:58,082
Speaker 1: manage to get on the field, we will arrest you.

739
00:44:58,642 --> 00:45:00,642
Speaker 1: But afterwards, myself in a few colleagues, we'd like to

740
00:45:00,682 --> 00:45:01,362
Speaker 1: go out for a beer.

741
00:45:02,802 --> 00:45:07,122
Speaker 2: In a strange confluence of events, Mark's Super Bowl he

742
00:45:07,242 --> 00:45:12,242
Speaker 2: happened the same year as the infamous halftime show featuring

743
00:45:12,402 --> 00:45:17,602
Speaker 2: Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, when Jackson experienced what was

744
00:45:17,682 --> 00:45:22,842
Speaker 2: deemed a wardrobe malfunction and had her bare nipple broadcast

745
00:45:22,922 --> 00:45:28,082
Speaker 2: on television. Despite the media frenzy surrounding that, Matt Chatham

746
00:45:28,162 --> 00:45:31,442
Speaker 2: would later say all any of the players were talking

747
00:45:31,442 --> 00:45:35,882
Speaker 2: about in the locker room was Mark Roberts. Later, NFL's

748
00:45:36,002 --> 00:45:40,122
Speaker 2: security team even gave Chatham a DVD of his tackle,

749
00:45:40,682 --> 00:45:45,562
Speaker 2: probably the highest profile hit of his career. Mark hasn't

750
00:45:45,602 --> 00:45:48,882
Speaker 2: been back to a Super Bowl, even if he wanted to.

751
00:45:49,122 --> 00:45:52,282
Speaker 2: Getting back into the United States might be a problem.

752
00:45:52,962 --> 00:45:56,642
Speaker 1: A flu into Newick and as a flu into Newick

753
00:45:57,162 --> 00:45:59,082
Speaker 1: he called an escort. So what took me away to

754
00:45:59,162 --> 00:46:02,002
Speaker 1: a private room? You've got a police record as a

755
00:46:02,082 --> 00:46:04,762
Speaker 1: jet that's a private property with Dansloon in Texas two

756
00:46:04,802 --> 00:46:08,042
Speaker 1: years ago, so oh should like? And she flipped me around.

757
00:46:08,362 --> 00:46:11,602
Speaker 1: You're going straight back to the UK. So I've been told.

758
00:46:11,602 --> 00:46:13,922
Speaker 1: Now for what I'm back in the States, I've got

759
00:46:13,962 --> 00:46:15,442
Speaker 1: to go through the American Embassy.

760
00:46:16,082 --> 00:46:21,002
Speaker 2: The Super Bowl, however, remains Mark's signature. In twenty fifteen,

761
00:46:21,162 --> 00:46:24,442
Speaker 2: The Guardian reported he had been paid a million dollars

762
00:46:24,482 --> 00:46:27,922
Speaker 2: by Golden Palace for the stunt, which would have certainly

763
00:46:27,962 --> 00:46:32,402
Speaker 2: been a record payday for streaking, but unfortunately for Mark,

764
00:46:32,522 --> 00:46:34,402
Speaker 2: he says that was a mix up.

765
00:46:35,122 --> 00:46:37,282
Speaker 1: I did an interview a couple of years ago with

766
00:46:37,402 --> 00:46:39,842
Speaker 1: a jailist from the Guardian. So after talking about the

767
00:46:39,882 --> 00:46:41,922
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, he said, well, how much did you get fined?

768
00:46:42,282 --> 00:46:44,722
Speaker 1: I said one thousand dollars. I said, I'd have paid

769
00:46:44,722 --> 00:46:47,962
Speaker 1: a million dollars in fines to do the Super Bowl,

770
00:46:48,322 --> 00:46:51,242
Speaker 1: and he twisted my words and said I got paid

771
00:46:51,242 --> 00:46:52,082
Speaker 1: a million dollars.

772
00:46:53,882 --> 00:46:57,522
Speaker 2: Golden Palace certainly had the money to spend. In two

773
00:46:57,562 --> 00:47:00,042
Speaker 2: thousand and six, they bought the naming rights to a

774
00:47:00,162 --> 00:47:04,402
Speaker 2: newly discovered species of monkey in Bolivia for six hundred

775
00:47:04,402 --> 00:47:08,202
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars. The Casino you Know's last major

776
00:47:08,322 --> 00:47:11,642
Speaker 2: marketing effort came in two thousand and seven, when they

777
00:47:11,642 --> 00:47:16,842
Speaker 2: paid twenty five thousand dollars for William Shatner's kidney Stone.

778
00:47:16,922 --> 00:47:21,122
Speaker 2: There are only so many streaks and so many doritos

779
00:47:21,242 --> 00:47:25,482
Speaker 2: shaped like the Pope's hat one can purchase. The casino

780
00:47:25,682 --> 00:47:29,202
Speaker 2: may have gotten out of the streaking business, but Mark hasn't.

781
00:47:29,962 --> 00:47:35,042
Speaker 2: Over two decades later, at age sixty one, he's still streaking.

782
00:47:35,602 --> 00:47:39,082
Speaker 2: According to Mark, the count is at nearly six hundred.

783
00:47:39,682 --> 00:47:42,522
Speaker 2: Most recently, he was on a painting job at Saint

784
00:47:42,642 --> 00:47:46,962
Speaker 2: George's Hall, an event venue in Liverpool. King Charles the

785
00:47:47,002 --> 00:47:51,922
Speaker 2: Third was expected to visit. Authorities asked Mark to please

786
00:47:52,162 --> 00:47:54,522
Speaker 2: not streak in front of his Majesty.

787
00:47:55,082 --> 00:47:58,882
Speaker 1: No, I'm never going to retire. Never. I don't see

788
00:47:59,122 --> 00:48:02,362
Speaker 1: even the police here. Security hate me in the UK

789
00:48:02,802 --> 00:48:05,082
Speaker 1: because their job to stop people like me get on

790
00:48:05,122 --> 00:48:07,882
Speaker 1: the field. But the police tell me I get arrested.

791
00:48:08,402 --> 00:48:13,682
Speaker 1: The police absolutely really love what I do. March Dombster.

792
00:48:14,522 --> 00:48:16,962
Speaker 2: There have been other run ons at the Super Bowl,

793
00:48:17,322 --> 00:48:20,722
Speaker 2: most notably in twenty twenty one, a man wore a

794
00:48:20,802 --> 00:48:24,562
Speaker 2: pink swimsuit and tried to collect on a prop bet

795
00:48:25,002 --> 00:48:27,762
Speaker 2: on online gaming sites about whether there would be a

796
00:48:27,802 --> 00:48:32,922
Speaker 2: streaker at the game. And no, it wasn't Goldenpalace dot com,

797
00:48:33,522 --> 00:48:37,362
Speaker 2: it was Bovada. The site avoided the bets once the

798
00:48:37,522 --> 00:48:43,042
Speaker 2: scheme was publicized. Pink leotard aside, no streaker has had

799
00:48:43,042 --> 00:48:47,122
Speaker 2: the theatricality of Mark, who seems to relish the moment

800
00:48:47,242 --> 00:48:50,202
Speaker 2: when everyone who has paid to see a high level

801
00:48:50,202 --> 00:48:53,962
Speaker 2: sporting event stops and starts looking at the naked guy.

802
00:48:54,522 --> 00:48:58,442
Speaker 2: They should be angry, but they hardly ever are. The

803
00:48:58,602 --> 00:49:04,042
Speaker 2: cheers accompanying Mark jogging onto a field are loud, but

804
00:49:04,082 --> 00:49:09,082
Speaker 2: there's something beyond the crowd reaction, something that makes someone

805
00:49:09,202 --> 00:49:12,482
Speaker 2: like Mark defy societal norms.

806
00:49:12,482 --> 00:49:15,762
Speaker 1: Over the years now, I've met many streakers and every

807
00:49:15,802 --> 00:49:19,442
Speaker 1: single one has said it's one of the best days

808
00:49:19,482 --> 00:49:22,882
Speaker 1: of the life. There was a total moment of madness

809
00:49:22,922 --> 00:49:26,042
Speaker 1: and fun, being free as the day you were born.

810
00:49:26,202 --> 00:49:30,122
Speaker 1: And literally that is the freest anyone will ever get.

811
00:49:30,562 --> 00:49:36,122
Speaker 1: By discarding your clothes, You're freeing yourself of every single, tiny,

812
00:49:36,202 --> 00:49:39,362
Speaker 1: little problem or big problem that you might have in

813
00:49:39,402 --> 00:49:43,802
Speaker 1: your life for that one moment in time. And it's

814
00:49:43,962 --> 00:49:48,962
Speaker 1: just I've done it. I've been free that many times,

815
00:49:49,402 --> 00:49:53,082
Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty four times to date. I think

816
00:49:53,082 --> 00:49:54,762
Speaker 1: I'm one of the freest men alive.

817
00:49:55,162 --> 00:50:01,922
Speaker 3: To be fair, Very Special episodes is made by some

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Speaker 3: very special people. Today's episode was written by Jake Rowson,

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Speaker 3: so wrote last year's Super Bowl episode Old Man on Campus,

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Speaker 3: about a thirty eight year old defensive lineman who goes

821
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Speaker 3: back to school to play football and dominate the youths.

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Speaker 3: Believe that was our third episode, So if you're looking

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