MIKE: It's for the judge, Normy.
Although the video shows Slager speaking into his mike, it is difficult to hear what is said.
When he took the mike, it turned out that the metaphor he had in mind was about the Presidency.
He has played it, and miked it, for almost 20 years and, with millions tuning in to every fight in the hope of seeing him bloodied and unconscious on the canvas floor, being the asshole has made him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
And they're both miked; it's a written bit.
To Mike it was also a chance to play with virtual economics.
He once had me sit on a toilet and play my soprano sax, and they miked it at the end of the hall for a distant sound.
With Jemele Hill at the mike, it is no wonder ESPN ratings have "tanked," in fact, tanked so badly it is the talk of the industry!
"If I was a defense lawyer, my position would be a) he was joking … of course he knows he's miked, it's ironic, or b) he's just in a daze, he's so confused, he's wondering if he might've killed them all," he said.
Onstage, in blue silk, and with abundant ascending hair, Boseman in one continuous motion grabs the mike, drops it, pulls it back by its cord, and launches into "Night Train".
