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Robert Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Man looks bad.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

So Jimmy's crowd appeal vastly exceeds his actual skill on a bike, and race promoters notice this.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And after a match in which he showed up hungover and collapsed mid-race, he's offered a job.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

They're like, look, Jimmy, clearly cycling isn't going to work out for you, but...

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

But everyone loves you.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

You're like one of maybe the most popular cyclist we have.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

How about trying your hand at being a race commentator?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Do you want to be the guy who like like talks about what's happening, basically?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Right.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And as Jimmy said, it turned out I was a natural ad lib broadcaster.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And this is going to be his the big break that leads to everything else that we're going to talk about in these episodes.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

But that is the end of part one.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Courtney Kosak, how are you feeling?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Yeah, we've just kind of got the Jaws music going.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

You know something really, you know this is going to a terrible place.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

He is a very, and did you see the sequel to 28 Years Later, The Bone Temple?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Oh, man.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

There's a reason.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

So all of the bad guys in that movie are dressed like and aping Jimmy Savile.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And there's a reason for it, because that movie, if you haven't seen it, I love it.