The Manchurian Candidate with Jordan Vezeau of the Divulgence Podcast and WR.
William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey Investigates
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | to divulgence. I'm very excited today. I am bringing back a show favorite, author, filmmaker, |
| 0:07.7 | researcher, excuse me, William Ramsey. Hey, William, how are you, my friend? I'm good, Jordan, |
| 0:13.9 | good to be with you again. It's been a while. Yeah, it has. So I'm very happy to have you again, |
| 0:18.8 | for those who don't know. |
| 0:27.4 | William is a author of many great books on many awesome topics, including Abomination, |
| 0:29.6 | about the West Memphis 3. He has two different books about Crowley, Children of the Beast, as well as Prophet of Evil. |
| 0:37.3 | And then one of my other favorites is Global Death Cult, which you put out a few years ago. |
| 0:43.2 | And his most recent book, if I'm not mistaken, is the Smiley Face Killers. |
| 0:48.5 | And he also has a movie on the Smiley Face Killers as well. |
| 0:53.0 | So you can check all that out. Yeah, you're one of |
| 0:56.4 | my favorites, William. So it's really great to have you back. So today we're going to talk about |
| 1:02.1 | the 1962 movie, The Mentoring Candidate. You have been doing a lot of research on it, |
| 1:10.0 | you told me. That's something that you've been talking about a lot of research on it, you told me. |
| 1:13.3 | That's something that you've been talking about a lot lately, |
| 1:16.5 | and I was really happy to bring you on to talk about this. |
| 1:23.2 | So just for those who don't know, I'll just give a quick overview of what the movie is about. |
| 1:26.3 | It was originally, it's originally based off a book. |
| 1:36.3 | The movie came out in 1962 1962 starring Frank Sinatra, Janet Lee, Angela Lansberry, and Lawrence Harvey. It was also remade, I forget the year, it was remade, I don't know if it was 09 or something like that, |
| 1:43.3 | but it was remade with Denzel Washington, which a lot of people might also know. |
| 1:49.0 | But we're going to pretty much be focusing on the 62 version, which the plot centers on a Korean war veteran Raymond Shaw, who's part of a prominent political family. |
| 2:02.0 | He's brainwashed by communists after his army platoon is captured during the Korean |
| 2:06.9 | war. |
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