Mikey as a business guru will never not be amusing. I guess why not though, ball players get taken seriously in their careers after the game, despite having no skills in business. He’s kind of smart to be trading on his skate career and to parlay that into the popularity contest of local politics. He does seem to fully buy into his own bullshit though, which could come to bite him financially.
The irony of interviewing p rod about skaters not getting paid when he’s the one doing the paying is pretty tone deaf. It’s literally his job to make sure they do get paid, and to sell and market his staff successfully.