Coleman Hughes Special: Candace Owens, Brigitte Macron & Our Age of Conspiracy

Conversations With Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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I watched the eight-hour series on the French First Lady by podcaster Candace Owens, so you don't have to. It’s a fascinating window into a mind gripped by extreme apophenia: the tendency to see patterns where none exist. So just how and why did Candace Owens spread this lie? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.
0:03.8	Today I'm going to talk about conspiracy theories.
0:13.4	Hi listeners. I want to tell you about the Free Press's latest new podcast, old school with Shiloh Brooks.
0:20.2	When we met Shiloh, he was one of the most popular
0:22.7	professors at Princeton, and he was making reading great books cool again. Now he's hosting this show
0:28.8	to help all of us and young men in particular get back into reading for pleasure. The show
0:34.9	features intimate conversations with fascinating men, from fitness gurus to philosophers
0:39.4	about books that shape their lives. They cover books like The Old Man in the Sea, Middle
0:45.0	March, and down and out in Paris and London to bring you a truly old school education. New
0:50.7	episodes out every Thursday. And in fact, I am one of his first guests.
0:55.0	So go to old school with Shiloh Brooks on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.5	9-11 was an inside job.
1:03.8	The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was staged.
1:07.2	Israelis secretly control the U.S. government, and on and on they go.
1:12.5	I thought our culture had reached peak conspiracy.
1:15.9	But thanks to Candace Owens, we've now reached New Heights.
1:19.9	For the past year or so, she's been peddling the bizarre theory that Brigitte Macron,
1:25.0	the 72-year-old wife of French president, Emmanuel Macron, was born a male.
1:31.1	This proposition was originally the brainchild of Natasha Ray, a French citizen who first put forth
1:37.5	the idea on the YouTube channel of a woman named Amandine Roy, who was a self-described medium.
1:43.8	Always a good sign.
1:45.7	From there, it passed to the independent French journalist, Xavier Poussard, who wrote a
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