Monica Padman

Half the time I'm going to leave here totally upset.

Yeah.

Yeah, and so when you introduce gambling into this mind, it's already a mind that thinks it knows things it doesn't know.

He gets into the superstitions.

Yeah.

And I myself just did this.

I went to a Detroit Lions game, the one they lost in the playoffs, and I hadn't been to a game all year.

And I went, and it was like a big deal.

And they lost, and I'm like, it's because I hugged the coach.

He didn't want to hug me.

He's like, why did I have to hug that fucking guy?

Because he's on TV?

I had this whole story.

I'm like, oh, Detroit hates my guts.

And I'm like, I'm kind of buying it.

It's funny what gets studied by academics and what doesn't.

And as he points out, he says, like, the fan was just sitting there waiting to be studied.

It's such an important character in American life.

And he said, but pinheads like me generally don't like sports.

It's like people were just turning a blind eye to it because they thought it was not worthy of attention.