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The playoff music, meant to signal winners to wrap up their spiels, began playing more than halfway into Brody’s speech.

"The spiel that I'm reading from people saying how off it we are. We won two games on the bounce and you're upset about it, I don't get it."

The discursive 17-minute-long spiel he shared on "SNL" touched heavily on politics and briefly mentioned Palestine in a story praising late President Jimmy Carter.

Why otherwise intelligent people, including political leaders and finance professionals, swallowed his spiel whole is the enduring mystery about Bankman-Fried and crypto.

They ignore questions put to them, instead launching spiels that most voters are tired of hearing.