Henry Zebrowski

Joseph's taught him that doing nice things for people isn't a bad idea.

That they would pat you on the head and be pleased to see you if you made their lives a little easier.

But I think the real lesson Jimmy Saville learned here is that doing charitable activities can be an incredible smokescreen for getting away with anything.

And he learned that lesson at quite a young age.

Now, all of these tidbits, these are gold mines for armchair psychologists like ourselves or for authors or podcasters, whoever.

But anytime Jimmy Savile was pressed to talk about any of these things in interviews beyond the surface level, he would get defensive, annoyed, and most of the time quite combative.

When Saville was interviewed for a Radio 4 show called In the Psychiatrist's Chair in 1991, for example, the interviewer noticed that Jimmy was exceedingly edgy the entire time, like a prizefighter, he said, on his toes, anticipating a punch.

And throughout the interview, which is both fascinating and fucking chilling, Saville spent most of his mental energy talking about money.

This was the interview where Savile came straight out and said that he didn't have emotions.

He said he had no feelings for other people, and he had never had feelings for other people.

He's all but admitting he was a sociopath.

And he said this in 1991 on the BBC.

It's 20 years before his crimes came to light.

Yeah, he says, I say yes to everything.

Yes.

Yeah, but he would be very menacing and intimidating.

But some might call it illegal.

That's one of my favorite things.

And it's always like they just know British journalists, God damn, they're fucking vicious.

Man, nothing's scarier than a British journalist.