The Best Streaker Ever Bares All (PTFO Vault)

He's stripped at tennis tournaments, the Super Bowl and the Olympics. But Mark Roberts is more than the world's most notorious streaker. Because his memories of mischief contain multitudes. About how to challenge authority, then laugh with the cops. About how to find yourself, lose yourself... and love what it means to be a fan all over again. (This episode originally aired September 9, 2025.) • Subscribe to PTFO on YouTube for breaking news, greatest hits and live premieres with Pablo https://www.youtube.com/@PabloTorreFindsOut/ • Subscribe to Pablo's Substack for exclusive access, documents and invites https://pablo.show/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:01Pablo Torre?

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• 0:18Speaker 01

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• 2:20Speaker 01

  Hey.

• 2:20Pablo Torre?

  Hello.

• 2:22Speaker 01

  Hello, Mr. Pablo.

• 2:24Pablo Torre?

  Mark Roberts, finally.

• 2:26Speaker 01

  At last, after all this time, man.

• 2:29Pablo Torre?

  Oh, I am so...

• 2:31Speaker 01

  It's going to be worth it, I'm telling you now.

• 2:33Pablo Torre?

  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?

• 2:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm in Liverpool, where I live, beaches, not far from Manchester. We don't talk about Manchester around these parts.

• 2:47Pablo Torre?

  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.

• 3:01Speaker 01

  Entertainer, not nudist. I don't do beaches. There's not enough people on them.

• 3:12Speaker 01

  I'm a performance artist.

• 3:14Pablo Torre?

  You are a man with an unparalleled resume, public and private, public in his privates. It is a remarkable delight, Mark Roberts, even though you're wearing a shirt to have you on Pablo Torre Finds Out.

• 3:26Speaker 01

  Sorry to disappoint.

• 3:28Pablo Torre?

  What is the alternate timeline? What is the Mark Roberts who never streaked at the Rugby Sevens final in Hong Kong? What is the life, what is the job you're doing right now, do you think?

• 3:40Speaker 01

  My normal job.

• 3:42Pablo Torre?

  Yeah.

• 3:42Speaker 01

  I'm a painter, painter decorator. I make people's houses look lovely, make them look nice. And a couple of people have even asked me to do it naked. And the one thing I guarantee, I never leave any streaks on my work. And my painting name is Vincent Van Cock.

• 4:05Pablo Torre?

  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.

• 4:32Speaker 01

  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 roar 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 sporting event.

• 5:07Pablo Torre?

  For those who are wondering, your endowment is something you would describe as, as what?

• 5:14Speaker 01

  Chicken McNuggets.

• 5:19Speaker 01

  It's definitely a Happy Meal.

• 5:40Pablo Torre?

  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?

• 6:02Speaker 01

  Well, I've always been an endangered species, to be honest with you, Pablo. But as far as streaking's concerned, in the 70s, early 80s, it was a trend for a while. Then I took it up in the early 90s to the present day, but not so much now. I used to be very, very prolific every year. Every time I did something, it'd make news all over the world.

• 6:26Speaker 03

  Little disturbance here in the arena, and there's a slight delay before the game resumes.

• 6:31Speaker 01

  I've been doing it for now, what, bloody hell, 33 years, 578 times in 27 countries. I've done everything. I've done three Olympics. I've raced Usain Bolt. You know, I've done, I've done, I've done it all.

• 6:47Pablo Torre?

  I can't speak for Liverpool, but I have a hope that maybe we can make America streak again.

• 6:53Speaker 01

  If America can't do it, who can? I will lead the way if you want. I will come and we'll do a mass streak in front of the White House. Let's do that ridiculous president that you've got. Let's streak him. I streaked in front of the Queen three times, and the third time she went, "Oh, look, there's Mark."

• 7:15Pablo Torre?

  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 Godiva, 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 Goldenphallus.com written across his back in no small homage, 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

• 8:00Pablo Torre?

  of streaking in college.

• 8:01Speaker 04

  Sorry, we're going, we're going streaking through the quad and into the gymnasium. Come on, everybody. Come on.

• 8:09Speaker 01

  See, before I'd even thought about streaking, going on this adventure, I didn't know anything about it. I remember vaguely, America was 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.

• 8:29Pablo Torre?

  Free love and all that, yeah. It seems, Mark, that the first streak at a sporting event was on your side of the pond. It was 1974, Twickenham, otherwise known as the international home of rugby.

• 8:42Speaker 01

  Michael O'Brien, he was an accountant, not very iconic, because he looks like Jesus, the policeman with his helmet over his, over his willy. The guy has turned around and said it's the worst thing he ever did in his life. I think it cost him his job, caused problems with his relationship. But you know what? I'd lose my job for something like that. There's a lady called Erica Rowe.

• 9:05Pablo Torre?

  Erica Rowe, 82, Twickenham.

• 9:08Speaker 01

  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 her mouth.

• 9:17Pablo Torre?

  She was smoking a cigarette.

• 9:18Speaker 01

  I've met the lady, actually, years later.

• 9:21Pablo Torre?

  The police officers here, I assume, are a lot happier to see her, all of her, than they are to see Mark Roberts.

• 9:28Speaker 01

  Well, I don't know. Every time I get arrested, the police tell, beg me not to stop. The police love what I do.

• 9:36Pablo Torre?

  Allegedly.

• 9:37Speaker 01

  And this is straight up serious. They love it.

• 9:40Pablo Torre?

  Why do they love it, Mark?

• 9:42Speaker 01

  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.

• 9:51Pablo Torre?

  I want to just ask you about one of the other famous 70s episodes, The Oscars Streaker.

• 9:58Speaker 05

  The award for the best picture is never lightly given.

• 10:03Pablo Torre?

  Right? So you're familiar with his work?

• 10:06Speaker 01

  I am. I've seen it a few times.

• 10:08Pablo Torre?

  It's 1974.

• 10:09Speaker 05

  Contribute to world entertainment, and someone quite likely...

• 10:14Pablo Torre?

  He flashes the peace sign on national TV, and it's just like a very awkward cutaway, but we do have this still frame in which this mustachioed, long-haired gentleman is flashing the peace sign over the right shoulder of David Niven, the host.

• 10:27Speaker 01

  That's cool, man. Yeah.

• 10:28Pablo Torre?

  And David Niven says...

• 10:29Speaker 05

  Probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings.

• 10:38Speaker 01

  That's up there, that's near the top. Actually getting onstage at the Oscars, that's a feat in itself. But doing it, peace sign, that's gotta be, it's not a 10, it's eight and a half, nine.

• 10:50Pablo Torre?

  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?

• 11:07Speaker 01

  Like it was yesterday, literally like it was yesterday, man. That day changed my life.

• 11:14Speaker 01

  1993, Hong Kong, man, yeah. It was, that was the island, Hong Kong Island then was, that was the place to be in the whole, on the planet. I mean, from a drunken day in a bar the night before, to getting dragged out of the apartment. I had no intentions of streaking, it was, I was drunk, talking, talking [BLEEP] basically. Gets home at 4 a.m., told everyone I was gonna streak at the final, the Rugby Sevens. Comatose on the couch at 4 a.m. Next thing, just banging on with the apartment door. Come on, we're going to Sevens. I couldn't open my eyes, I was, I was gone, still gone. No, open the door, I'm gonna kick this [BLEEP] door in.

• 11:59Speaker 01

  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 got in the stadium and I'm like, what the [BLEEP] is going on? I wasn't together, I couldn't hardly open my eyes. Take me to the bar, so I've gone straight to the bar, but I've had a beer, that's made me feel worse. I've had another beer, didn't do any good at all, man. So I had a shot, that sort of got me a little bit level. So I said, I'm gonna look into the stadium, because I hadn't even seen it. But as I've stuck my head in to the stadium, wow, man.

• 12:42Speaker 01

  Well, the first things I saw was a guy with a French flag round his shoulders, swinging a live chicken round his head. I've gone, what the [BLEEP], man? Everyone's partying, throwing beer at each other, it was a carnival, full of energy, everybody was buzzing. So I've woken up from this drunken stupor. I said to my friend, I'm gonna do it now. So I've gone down the main stand, there's 65,000 people in the stadium. Took my clothes off and I've ran on while the New Zealand All Blacks were playing South Africa, the two biggest rugby teams in the world. So I've ran on backwards, waved to everybody, okay, I've done it. But as I turned around, there's the ball. So my head just went, get that [BLEEP] ball, man.

• 13:27Speaker 01

  So I've ran, picked up the ball, run a hole then to the field and scored a try, scored a touchdown in between the posts. The whole crowd went absolutely nuts. Everyone's on their feet screaming their heads off. I was like, wow, man, wow. I just started to wave, so I'm running back to my seat. Some of the All Blacks were applauding, I took the ball and the best team in the world, scored against them. Jumped back over the barrier, so next thing, I've got [BLEEP], I've got my [BLEEP] out. So I'm covering myself up. Girls are going over kissing me and hugging me, people are pouring beers over my head. I went, no, this is fantastic, man, I didn't give a [BLEEP].

• 14:09Speaker 01

  So there's an English policeman walking along and he's going, he's motioning for me to go. I'm going, no, because now I'm feeling the energy, now I'm buzzing, now I'm staying here, no. He's come to me, said, listen, I gave the opportunity to go, I'm gonna have to throw you out the stadium. I said, I don't give a [BLEEP]. 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, I heard, streaker, I've looked up. There's a guy with two jugs of Carlsberg, bang, one one over me, one one over the cop. Cop is laughing his head off. As he's taking me out the door, somebody shook my hand and put something in the palm of my hand. So the policeman said, if I see you in here again, I'm gonna arrest you. I said, no, no, I'm done.

• 14:54Speaker 01

  So as he threw me out one turnstile, I've looked at my hand, it was a free pass. So I've come back in the next turnstile, come straight back in, jumped on and did it again.

• 15:04Pablo Torre?

  You streaked again?

• 15:05Speaker 01

  Did it again, man, yeah. Didn't, didn't just go to try a second time though, I just legged it.

• 15:11Pablo Torre?

  I just need to acknowledge here and jump in that this formative revelation begins with you seeing this almost biblical symbol of a guy waving a live chicken over his head. And it culminates, it climaxes in you swinging your own [BLEEP] around in public.

• 15:34Speaker 01

  Swing your mic [BLEEP] around?

• 15:35Pablo Torre?

  Yeah, just.

• 15:37Speaker 01

  Are you swinging a [BLEEP]? I'm swinging my [BLEEP].

• 15:42Pablo Torre?

  I wanna 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?

• 15:55Speaker 01

  Man, the adrenaline before I go on Pablo is nuts. My heart is beating like you would like bongo drums, man. But I've gotta look normal, very calm, just like every other member of the public. I can't bring any attention to myself. All I'm doing is looking, watching security out the corner of my eyes. I've picked a place to go on. If that place is taken by security, I've gotta go and find another place. All in the time that I've picked to actually go on. But the main thing is, you wanna hear 70, 80,000 people roar, scream, cheer.

• 16:40Speaker 01

  And when that goes off, the energy I get from all that gives me that extra speed. And then the chase, I've gotta be chased, man. I wanna see how many police and security it takes to catch me. Well, 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 giving the finger to authority, man, do you know what I mean? I've got a new tattoo for me, can you see that?

• 17:20Pablo Torre?

  You can.

• 17:21Speaker 01

  That's where I get my fingerprints.

• 17:22Pablo Torre?

  It says, uh, go the other way there, it does, no, other way. Now you're just making a very lewd act. Yep, [BLEEP] you is what it says as you are.

• 17:30Speaker 01

  [BLEEP] you, man.

• 17:31Pablo Torre?

  Dragging your middle finger of your right hand across the front of our.

• 17:35Speaker 01

  [BLEEP] you sideways, man.

• 17:52Pablo Torre?

  I wanna get into your brain though, because why were you in Hong Kong in the first place? What was it like to be you?

• 18:00Speaker 01

  When I left the UK to see the world, I had 30 English pounds in my pocket and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong. I knew 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 wherever you wanna be. Then the Rugby Sevens was, uh, two months in. After that, I was known as the mad streaker. All my innermost things came out, you know, I can, there was no cloud over my head. So I eventually came home with the energy inside me. But obviously the UK's a different, uh, thing altogether from Hong Kong.

• 18:45Speaker 01

  So after a while, I didn't, streaking was just Hong Kong, that was, that was for me. But after being back in the UK for a while, it was back to normality and back to day to day. And then the Liverpool football match was on and went.

• 19:00Speaker 06

  The season's average of around 42,000 at Anfield doesn't look like dropping, so what a setting.

• 19:06Speaker 01

  And that's when I looked into streaking, nobody'd streaked in the UK for years, year, decades. I went, [BLEEP] it, man, I'll do it, yeah. But I did it for charity, for a, for a children's hospital, went around collecting money for kids. And when I went on, it was wow.

• 19:27Speaker 06

  An incredible story.

• 19:29Speaker 01

  The whole stadium, again, crazy, man.

• 19:33Pablo Torre?

  I wanna show people what you showed people, we have video of it.

• 19:43Pablo Torre?

  This is live in the UK. It is live on a show called This Morning.

• 19:50Speaker 07

  Hi. Hello. Good morning. Get a great summer, we did.

• 19:54Pablo Torre?

  This Morning, for the American audience, how would you describe a show like that?

• 19:58Speaker 01

  The English version of Good Morning America.

• 20:00Speaker 07

  The fact that here in Liverpool, the weather is absolutely disgustingly awful and the rest of the country is bathing in sunshine.

• 20:05Pablo Torre?

  And we see on This Morning show, the weatherman. 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.

• 20:21Speaker 01

  The whole of the UK, it's a floating weather map.

• 20:23Pablo Torre?

  And so presumably off screen, there's a place that observers can come and watch the live taping. And so as this weatherman 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.

• 20:47Speaker 06

  We could have a little problem here. And how am I going to cope with this? Right, quite unexpected.

• 20:54Pablo Torre?

  Offered a handshake to Fred. Turns out his name is.

• 20:56Speaker 01

  That's a nice bum as well, isn't it?

• 20:58Pablo Torre?

  I mean, it's well sculpted. Hard to disagree with that.

• 21:01Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. Full moon at 12 o'clock.

• 21:04Pablo Torre?

  This was the very first televised streak you ever did, I believe.

• 21:07Speaker 01

  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.

• 21:17Pablo Torre?

  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.

• 21:28Speaker 06

  This is the final round of the 124th British Open Championship.

• 21:33Pablo Torre?

  The home of golf, the most religious holy site in maybe the most staid and cloistered sport in the world. It's Sunday now. It's John Daly going for his first major.

• 21:46Speaker 06

  John Daly does what he always does. Grip it and rip it.

• 21:51Pablo Torre?

  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?

• 21:59Speaker 01

  I was not far from the hole itself on the 18th. I've been a 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'd met the day before, there's pictures all over me getting chased by a guy who looks like he's trying to rugby tackle me.

• 22:22Pablo Torre?

  Yeah, there he is.

• 22:23Speaker 01

  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.

• 22:37Pablo Torre?

  So this guy who allegedly was charging people for free parking spots, he is now holding your spot, is has held a hat over your penis. What is going on as you are gesturing with a grimace at the moment on the green?

• 22:51Speaker 01

  Well, because he was chasing me and I was leaving. I was fit then, nobody could catch me. I let him rugby tackle me and he gave me a little tap on the cheek. He said, I nearly had a heart attack, Mark. But he just wanted to get in on the fun. You know, he was just part of the joke.

• 23:08Pablo Torre?

  Well, part of the scene here that's essential is that what you have written on your back is just an all-timer.

• 23:17Speaker 01

  19th hole.

• 23:18Pablo Torre?

  With a giant arrow at your hole.

• 23:25Pablo Torre?

  You're doing it at St Andrews, Mark. You know the context of what it is to do it at the Open.

• 23:31Speaker 01

  So what? Do you know what I mean? All these people are all stuck up, you know, you can't do this, you can't do that. What I'm going to show you, I can. It's like Wimbledon's the same.

• 23:44Pablo Torre?

  Oh, let's get to Wimbledon. So it is the year 2000 and the context here is that.

• 23:49Speaker 06

  Anna Kournikova. At 19, she's the tennis world's cover girl sensation. But can she step up her game for a Grand Slam title? The championship's Wimbledon on NBC.

• 23:59Speaker 01

  Well, listen, I was stood outside Wimbledon in a queue waiting to go in. And the billboard went past on the side of a van with her advert.

• 24:08Pablo Torre?

  There was an ad. This is lingerie ad, 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.

• 24:22Speaker 01

  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.

• 24:31Pablo Torre?

  Again, you're a vision, Mark. You're a vision. Only the balls bounce, written 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.

• 25:01Speaker 01

  Over the net, yeah. Perfect.

• 25:03Pablo Torre?

  The form is just impeccable. That is Olympic form.

• 25:06Speaker 01

  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.

• 25:17Pablo Torre?

  Well, the Happy Meal came in real helpful.

• 25:21Speaker 01

  Big time.

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• 27:11Pablo Torre?

  The 2002 Commonwealth Games, though. I want to do a pit stop here because this is a golden jubilee. What does that mean?

• 27:19Speaker 01

  It's like the Queen's Annabelle. She has so many years on the throne.

• 27:23Pablo Torre?

  We're back with Queen Elizabeth.

• 27:24Speaker 05

  Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Circuit this brand new, wonderful looking stadium.

• 27:33Speaker 01

  Me and Liz, we did close like that. She wanted to knight me.

• 27:40Pablo Torre?

  That is an index finger and a middle finger with, again, you tattooed across it, just crossing.

• 27:46Speaker 01

  Oh, I totally, no, I didn't mean that one.

• 27:48Pablo Torre?

  Yeah, there you go.

• 27:48Speaker 01

  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 a few times.

• 27:54Pablo Torre?

  But what we're looking at here, because this is where we have acquired exclusive behind the scenes video from a source close to your.

• 28:02Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 28:04Pablo Torre?

  This is 2002. It is July 27.

• 28:09Pablo Torre?

  And there's a man in the bottom right.

• 28:10Speaker 01

  Hundred meters final.

• 28:12Pablo Torre?

  Who's looking up into the right.

• 28:15Speaker 04

  So victory ceremonies for the men's 100 meters, women's 100 meters.

• 28:19Speaker 01

  That's me.

• 28:21Pablo Torre?

  And you're wearing a short sleeve.

• 28:22Speaker 01

  The police were waiting for me everywhere.

• 28:25Pablo Torre?

  Wearing slacks, black slacks. And you're now motoring. And there goes the shirt. There go the pants. An impressive, just rip job.

• 28:34Speaker 01

  Listen to the crowd, man.

• 28:35Pablo Torre?

  Tearaway pants.

• 28:38Pablo Torre?

  Oh, knee down, starting blocks. Well tanned.

• 28:44Speaker 01

  New Commonwealth record, slowest ever 100 meters.

• 28:49Pablo Torre?

  Oh, my God. The mechanics of that, we got to just walk through this because tearaway pants, this is a tool, a tool of your tool, a tool of your trick.

• 28:59Speaker 01

  I am the face of Velcro. Without them, they have helped me so much because I can be right next to a policeman as soon as his head turns the other way. I'm over the barrier and I'm naked in seconds.

• 29:16Speaker 01

  It's off, I'm gone. I've gone like the wind.

• 29:19Pablo Torre?

  If only the wind had a Nike swoosh tattooed onto its back.

• 29:23Speaker 01

  I was trying to encourage Nike to get in touch, but they didn't.

• 29:26Pablo Torre?

  Well, if anybody has embodied the slogan of just do it, I don't believe that there's anyone more prominent than you, Mark.

• 29:36Speaker 01

  In fact, Nike did a TV commercial. All right, I think we've got an extra man on the pitch. And they based it on me. I don't know. So far, he's given the police nothing but a.

• 29:47Speaker 04

  Good look at his backside.

• 29:50Speaker 01

  He did it at Arsenal's ground in London. Guy naked, running through.

• 29:55Speaker 04

  Oh dear, that's an image gonna stay with me for a very long time. Scorched onto my retina.

• 30:03Speaker 01

  So why didn't he get me to do it instead?

• 30:05Pablo Torre?

  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 fare due.

• 30:14Speaker 01

  Or, or even Adidas.

• 30:16Pablo Torre?

  Oh, I like that.

• 30:17Speaker 01

  I dream about streaking.

• 30:23Pablo Torre?

  Through the screen, I feel it. The vivid sensation of what it's like to run and be chased.

• 30:30Speaker 01

  By that point, the adrenaline's through the roof because I've achieved the objective already. That's the elating part. I'm joyous, you know, because the worry about being able to do what I set out to do. I've passed that point, so now I'm, I'm full of joy. So when I'm running, I'm usually laughing my head off.

• 30:53Pablo Torre?

  What do you call it? The feeling right before you get caught?

• 30:56Speaker 01

  I call it the G-spot.

• 30:59Speaker 01

  Because everyone enjoys it when I get there.

• 31:06Pablo Torre?

  And I cannot believe we haven't gotten here yet, but you are on an expense report from goldenpalace.com.

• 31:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, mum. They, they pay for everything. I'd, I'd done a couple of events for them and they rang me and said, listen, we've got tickets for the biggest thing in America. I said, what? The Oscars? We've got tickets for the Oscars? I went, no. What do you mean? I said, that's not the biggest thing. The Super Bowl's the biggest thing in the States. So you're talking about, you can't do the Super Bowl? I said, why not? It's never been done, can't be done. Security's too tight. I said, you get me tickets and I'll show you it can be done.

• 31:40Pablo Torre?

  As I try to understand, just like with the greatest of all time at streaking, has encountered in America at the highest possible level, we go to Super Bowl 38.

• 31:56Pablo Torre?

  And Super Bowl 38 is, even absent everything we're about to discuss here, one of the most iconic, memorable, infamous Super Bowls, 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?

• 32:20Speaker 01

  Janet Jackson. I didn't even know she'd done that. I was, I was at the halftime show's going on. I'm at the back warming up.

• 32:29Pablo Torre?

  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, uh, entry, I guess?

• 32:45Speaker 01

  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 the 50-yard line, best seats in the house.

• 33:00Pablo Torre?

  Amazing.

• 33:01Speaker 01

  To give me the best chance to get on to the ball.

• 33:05Pablo Torre?

  It raises the question of how does the most notorious streaker in the world, in modern civilization, how is he able to stand near the 50-yard line in plain sight as the most visible event in the world is happening?

• 33:22Speaker 01

  We were sitting down on the seats. There was a wall with maybe a 15-foot drop. So when I'm gonna go, I'm gonna have to drop. But as I say, there's many police and security around the field. This one guy, one security, all the way through the game,

• 33:41Speaker 01

  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 run to get onto the field. The one time I wanted to go, he moved.

• 34:05Pablo Torre?

  There was a changing of the guard.

• 34:08Speaker 01

  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 referee's uniform on.

• 34:20Pablo Torre?

  Of course.

• 34:20Speaker 01

  That I got from the NFL.

• 34:22Pablo Torre?

  Wait, how did you get a referee's uniform from the NFL?

• 34:25Speaker 01

  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 referee's uniforms. The NFL sent me two.

• 34:36Speaker 01

  I said, thank you very much, you [bleep] heads.

• 34:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, thank you very much. I, I took a uniform to a seamstress, got her to take it all apart, put it back together again with Velcro.

• 34:49Pablo Torre?

  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, so. The first time I personally remember laying eyes on Mark Roberts was the third quarter as play-by-play announcer Greg Gumbel on CBS is getting us going.

• 35:13Speaker 04

  Panthers will kick it away to start the second half.

• 35:17Speaker 01

  Here we go.

• 35:18Pablo Torre?

  And there, in the bottom left, you begin to see.

• 35:23Speaker 01

  On the 40-yard line, isn't it? Yeah.

• 35:25Pablo Torre?

  Pushing through in regulation garb.

• 35:31Pablo Torre?

  As the kickoff is getting ready.

• 35:34Pablo Torre?

  And.

• 35:34Speaker 01

  Here we go, right in the middle there, kit's come off.

• 35:36Pablo Torre?

  Right over the Super Bowl logo, the, the, the, the Roman numerals. Uh, my God. We have a surprise guest on the field. Right over the Roman numerals for Super Bowl 38.

• 35:48Speaker 04

  Well, the halftime entertainment apparently never stops.

• 35:52Pablo Torre?

  When you're doing that, are the players acknowledging you? Like, what is happening as you are making your way?

• 35:57Speaker 01

  I've gone on as a referee, stopped the kickoff for the third quarter.

• 36:02Pablo Torre?

  Yeah.

• 36:02Speaker 01

  One of the players shouted, what's up, ref, man? Man went, [bleep]. [bleep] all, just started dancing. Ripped me clothes off, I'm naked, started dancing around the ball. So all the players are going, what's the [bleep] referee doing? They thought the referee's lost his mind.

• 36:19Pablo Torre?

  That's an understandable.

• 36:20Speaker 01

  So I was dancing around the ball. Here we go, kit off, have some of that.

• 36:27Pablo Torre?

  And this video that we have of what was not shown on the broadcast are remarkable, just blurring and unblurring of, uh, total eclipse of your, of your moon. Is that tape you're wearing? What is, what is your underwear here?

• 36:40Speaker 01

  It's a tape. The very last thing before I left the hotel, I forgot, I can't get me [bleep] out in Texas. So that's a deflated American football that was on the table in the hotel room. So I taped it around so nothing could pop out. But I needed, 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.

• 37:06Pablo Torre?

  You have, the announcer Phil Simms is asking, he actually asks on the broadcast. And what do you call that dance? Silly. And now we know that you would call it.

• 37:17Speaker 01

  An Irish bog stump.

• 37:19Pablo Torre?

  It's a bad body, I'll tell you that, and there's too much of it being shown.

• 37:23Speaker 04

  Well, let's check out the halftime numbers.

• 37:26Pablo Torre?

  America runs the [bleep] away, but as you make history, Danish television gives us this.

• 37:34Speaker 01

  Listen to the crowd. Here we go. Bang.

• 37:40Pablo Torre?

  And that bang, by the way, number 58.

• 37:43Speaker 01

  Matt Chatham.

• 37:45Pablo Torre?

  Matt Chatham, six foot four, 250, Patriots linebacker. By the way, a three-time Super Bowl 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.

• 38:07Speaker 06

  Name's Matt Chatham, uh, fortunate enough to be on three Super Bowls, uh, excuse me, to win three Super Bowls, I guess. It always sounds weird when an individual says they won a Super Bowl, but you know what I mean? It's kind of our wedding day or whatever you want to call it. So I, I, I, this guy, he does this in the seventh inning of a, of a May baseball game. Okay, it's, it's hilarious. Ha ha. But this just, this rubbed me in the wrong way and always will and.

• 38:29Pablo Torre?

  And as we watch just more of the alternate angle footage here of this, you know, this is, it's fairly violent, I will say, as you're kind of like bog stomping around.

• 38:37Speaker 01

  It's like a girl.

• 38:38Pablo Torre?

  The kickoff, uh, yeah, and there he goes, just knocking you.

• 38:44Speaker 01

  That was great. That was a perfect ending to the Super Bowl.

• 38:46Pablo Torre?

  Oh, laid you out horizontal. Matt enacted justice on behalf of, I guess, the United States of America with what he calls, quote unquote.

• 38:54Speaker 06

  A love tap. Uh, it was, uh, you know. Two out of 10 kind of violence, just to, just to get him gone. I just don't think people realize how big NFL people are. But, you know, I'm 250 plus or whatever. You're all padded up, you know, and that's not full stride. But, you know, if you're, you're running a pretty good amount and running into a guy like that, he's gonna go flying.

• 39:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, didn't, felt, didn't feel a thing. My nan, my grandmother hit harder than that. And she's dead.

• 39:19Speaker 06

  Part of my reaction was definitely annoyance. A- as much as anything, uh, you know, we've been, we've been prepped, uh, in, in previous years, and especially this one is in times of war, times of conflict, all this stuff, that it's really heightened security. And, uh, uh, you know, nobody's supposed to be in this building that's not out there playing football. And, 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 streaker things on baseball games or, you know, whatever else, and chuckled like everyone else, and maybe rewatch a video or something. But in that moment, it was like, sort of, you know, doing a whoopee cushion during the wedding. It's like, those are funny, but not funny now, right? Like, just don't do that now. This is, this is actually pretty serious.

• 40:00Pablo Torre?

  You've single-handedly infiltrated the security state post nine 11.

• 40:04Speaker 01

  I was scared, man. So scared what could happen to me on the field post nine 11. And there's gonna be snipers on the roofs, man.

• 40:13Pablo Torre?

  Sure.

• 40:14Speaker 01

  And I'm thinking, they can think I'm some kind of weird guy. Well, everyone, people might think that, anyway, but 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.

• 40:31Pablo Torre?

  He also called you a jackass.

• 40:32Speaker 06

  That's why I said jackass, not like any, any malice against Mark.

• 40:36Speaker 01

  He's a [BLEEP]. A big [BLEEP]. Seven foot, seven foot, whatever, that's all he is.

• 40:46Speaker 06

  So NFL security has actually sent a tape and they had all these different angles and kind of sent a little thank you note. 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, and I think they appreciated that.

• 41:02Pablo Torre?

  So you go horizontal, you jackass, and suddenly you're surrounded.

• 41:07Speaker 01

  Man, there's about 20 people over me while I'm getting handcuffed.

• 41:10Pablo Torre?

  Yeah. What are you saying to yourself as you're now underneath this pile?

• 41:18Speaker 01

  I'd just done the [BLEEP] Super Bowl, man. Literally, I've got me face pushed in the grass and getting handcuffed behind me back. And alls I could think of, I'd just done the Super Bowl. So I got carried off hogtied into the tunnel. Now I'm thinking, okay, here's where the trouble's really gonna start. So because the way he took me out, Matt Chatham, I'm feigning injury. And one of the policemen went, put him down, put him down. I'm going, ah, he said, you're okay, man, now. You're safe, man. I said, okay, thank you. He says, you okay? I said, my sides hurting, officer. I was [BLEEP] fine, you know? He said, why, he said, why did you do that? I said, I just wanted to make the great people of America laugh.

• 42:02Speaker 01

  And the policeman went, that was [BLEEP] awesome, man. And next thing, all the police started laughing. They loved it, man. Loved it. He said, listen, I'm gonna keep you for an hour and then just let you go, release you. I went, [BLEEP], they're gonna, they're gonna not 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.

• 42:27Pablo Torre?

  Hmm.

• 42:28Speaker 01

  And I beat them. I beat the [BLEEP] out of them, man. Next thing, the head of the NFL comes running down some stairs, throw the book at him. He wanted me to charge up to the hilt. So I got charged with criminal trespass, got taken to jail. That was scary. Well, the policeman did say to me before I went in 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 with all this in me head, cage full of, I don't know, lunatics. I've gone in dressed as a referee.

• 43:13Speaker 01

  All the police were buzzing in the police station. They all loved it. Took me, me mugshot. And they've duplicated it, so I'm signing autographs to all the wives and girlfriends and all that. Put me in the cage with 30 people. The only place I could lie down was right next to the toilet. So I'm lying on the floor. I've got me knees up and I could hear someone going, look at the [BLEEP] referee, man. So I've sat up, all the Velcros open and me [BLEEP] balls are on show in, in the cage.

• 43:44Pablo Torre?

  I just like that, something that kind of maybe took you aback 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 [BLEEP] hate referees.

• 44:03Speaker 01

  But luckily, everything was okay. Got released in the morning and got flown first class to Hollywood.

• 44:09Pablo Torre?

  You exercised your freedom of, of everything and you are facing six months of jail time. And they find you guilty of misdemeanor trespassing and a thousand dollar fine.

• 44:21Speaker 01

  I wanted to hug them all. In fact, at the end of the court case, they emptied the courtroom. So there's just me, my lawyer, the judge, one female judge, prosecutor, and all the jurors have gone into the jury room. And all you can hear is laughter. And the judge said to me, Mr. Roberts, in all my years of working in 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 they all started cheering, all the jurors. It was fantastic.

• 45:04Pablo Torre?

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• 45:45Pablo Torre?

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• 47:02Pablo Torre?

  I understand why it was that it took us a bit to, to get you on the show, Mark. Because we originally, we tried to do it ahead of what we thought might be a streak at the Olympics in Paris. Took a while. Our producer, Matt, was, was, was communicating. And I just want to quote the WhatsApp conversation as we put it on screen here. You said to us, uh, [BLEEP] it and you, you're [BLEEP]. And then, and then, and then, because you were like, what about NBC? Are they gonna get mad at us? Or, you know, are we gonna get threatened?

• 47:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, you put all those.

• 47:41Pablo Torre?

  Yeah, you know, standards, you know, all that stuff. Um, then we said, uh, what about still having an interview? And you said, quote, "Matt, who gives a flying [BLEEP]? Ooh, I got a 50K fine, so [BLEEP] 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, [BLEEP] 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 AM Eastern Time, are we still on tomorrow then?"

• 48:20Speaker 01

  Because I was still buzzing, I wanted to go to the Olympics. And you know what the crazy thing about that was as well, pal? The one I wanted to do was the breakdancing.

• 48:29Pablo Torre?

  Oh my god.

• 48:30Speaker 01

  It's the first time breakdancing had been on the Australian woman.

• 48:33Speaker 04

  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 Raygun up to at the Paris Olympics?

• 48:45Speaker 01

  That was the event I wanted to do. So, oh man, I was gutted, gutted, but I still wanted to go.

• 48:52Pablo Torre?

  I mourn the alternate timeline in which you were breakdancing, upstaging Raygun naked.

• 49:00Speaker 01

  I'd have been better than her, man.

• 49:01Pablo Torre?

  I think I wouldn't have been close, you know? The, the...

• 49:05Speaker 01

  That's a shame.

• 49:06Pablo Torre?

  It's a, it's a shame, but also I cannot describe your life, your career, and I will call it that now, your, your, your art form, as, as anything but an unqualified, an unparalleled success story in a race that now so many other people are terrified to run. I don't know if anybody's even coming for the title, man.

• 49:30Speaker 01

  It'll never be broken. It'll never be beaten, man. Nobody will ever be able to surpass what I've, what I've achieved.

• 49:38Speaker 01

  So I'm proud.

• 49:39Pablo Torre?

  Your mom, what did she think of, of all of this?

• 49:43Speaker 01

  She's always said, "You're nuts. Something wrong with you." I said, "Mum, you, you don't see, you're not there. You don't feel it, what, what the crowd's like." Until eventually I did a, I jumped on stage during a play in Liverpool. I told my brother what I was gonna do, so he took me mum, not knowing that I was gonna jump on stage. And when I jumped on stage, the whole audience is cheering and, and then she's, I saw it afterwards when I got through out. I met her in a bar next door. She said, "When I saw you going on, I was gonna shout, 'Enough now, stop it.'" But she said I couldn't stop laughing. She said, "Everyone was laughing. I started laughing. What you were doing was funny."

• 50:24Speaker 01

  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.

• 50:42Speaker 01

  And in the ambulance, she said to the ambulance man, "Do you know who my son is?"

• 50:50Speaker 01

  On the way to the hospital, man, you know?

• 50:54Speaker 01

  One of the last things she said, man. So even though she kept on saying I was crazy, you know, she was proud of me in the end. So that was nice.

• 51:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:08Pablo Torre?

  What does it feel like now? Because how old are you, Mark Roberts, now as we speak here today?

• 51:13Speaker 01

  I'm 60, 60 now.

• 51:15Pablo Torre?

  So you're 60.

• 51:15Speaker 01

  And I've just been diagnosed with, with heart failure as well.

• 51:19Pablo Torre?

  I'm sorry to hear that.

• 51:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, well, well, get, get this, right, um, they're giving me tablets to stop adrenaline getting to my heart. Because my, my heart's working overtime. So I'm thinking, this is, this is a conspiracy by Interpol. They're stopping me buzzing anymore, so I can't go around causing trouble around the world.

• 51:44Speaker 01

  But yeah, so I've got to be careful now.

• 51:47Pablo Torre?

  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.

• 51:56Speaker 01

  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, I wrote a will in, in, through a solicitor, that when I die, I want to go in a perspex coffin, 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 Viagra down me throat so I can go out in style."

• 52:26Speaker 01

  And then I want the Pope to bless me.

• 52:33Pablo Torre?

  You know, he's a sports fan. Um, 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.

• 52:47Speaker 01

  Thank you, Pablo. It's been an absolute pleasure, my friend.

• 52:50Pablo Torre?

  Yes, yes. Let's get on that WhatsApp chain. Yep, okay.

• 52:54Speaker 01

  Take it easy, mate. Nice one. Oh yeah, have some of this.

• 52:56Pablo Torre?

  Oh god, wait, wait, what?

• 52:58Speaker 01

  Have some of that. Have some of them apples. Have some of them apples, lad. Go on, some of them, go on.

• 53:16Pablo Torre?

  This has been Pablo Torre Finds Out, a Meadowlark Media production. And I'll talk to you next time.