Oct 15, 2026 · 58 min · 12 segments
58 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited Capitalisimo and Christopher Sandbatch to come back on the show and discuss a recent talk they gave on Dr. Jolly West and the components of DDD. This was Episode 1397…
The three Ds are debility, dependency, and dread.
You were making, yeah.
You were, you were definitely ma- you were, uh, definitely making it sound less bad.
Uh, debility, dependency, and dread, uh, is a concept originated by, uh, Major Dr. Louis Jollion West, uh, who was a, a, a psychologist in the mid, uh, to, uh, late 20th century, um, who originated the concept of DDD, uh, in a study, uh, that shares the same name, uh, on, uh, released POWs from the Korean War who had been, uh, who had allegedly defected, and he was sort of reverse engineering the methods of the North Koreans and Chinese, um, to try to figure out certain commonalities, uh, with, uh, sort of mind control, brainwashing, and putting people into these states where they could-
... be.
Wh- uh, what?
Oh, The Manchurian-
The Manchurian Candidate would actually be more, more, would more overlap with, um, George Estabrooks's work than Louis Jollion West's, and is a little bit, like...
Okay, so here's, I, I'm really glad you mentioned that, actually, uh, because-
Yeah, yeah
the, the Manchurian Candidate, you know, 'cause a lot of, on our show what we do is a lot of el- we do a lot of parapolitic stuff.
We read parapolitics books, and most parapolitics books, as it turns out, were written by either boomer cons or kind of fucking lefties.
And y- you, this is like one of these, Manchurian Candidate is one of these p- primary sources that bleeds into everything.
The three Ds are debility, dependency, and dread.
You were making, yeah.
You were, you were definitely ma- you were, uh, definitely making it sound less bad.
Uh, debility, dependency, and dread, uh, is a concept originated by, uh, Major Dr. Louis Jollion West, uh, who was a, a, a psychologist in the mid, uh, to, uh, late 20th century, um, who originated the concept of DDD, uh, in a study, uh, that shares the same name, uh, on, uh, released POWs from the Korean War who had been, uh, who had allegedly defected, and he was sort of reverse engineering the methods of the North Koreans and Chinese, um, to try to figure out certain commonalities, uh, with, uh, sort of mind control, brainwashing, and putting people into these states where they could-
... be.
Wh- uh, what?
Oh, The Manchurian-
The Manchurian Candidate would actually be more, more, would more overlap with, um, George Estabrooks's work than Louis Jollion West's, and is a little bit, like...
Okay, so here's, I, I'm really glad you mentioned that, actually, uh, because-
Yeah, yeah
the, the Manchurian Candidate, you know, 'cause a lot of, on our show what we do is a lot of el- we do a lot of parapolitic stuff.
We read parapolitics books, and most parapolitics books, as it turns out, were written by either boomer cons or kind of fucking lefties.
And y- you, this is like one of these, Manchurian Candidate is one of these p- primary sources that bleeds into everything.
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