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

⏱️ 8 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.
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0:44.7	9-11 was an inside job.
0:47.1	The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was staged.
0:50.4	Israelis secretly control the U.S. government, and on and on they go. I thought our culture
0:56.5	had reached peak conspiracy. But thanks to Candice Owens, we've now reached New Heights. For the past
1:03.6	year or so, she's been peddling the bizarre theory that Brigitte Macron, the 72-year-old
1:09.4	wife of French president, Emmanuel Macron, was born a male.
1:14.4	This proposition was originally the brainchild of Natasha Ray, a French citizen who first put forth
1:20.8	the idea on the YouTube channel of a woman named Amandine Roy, who was a self-described medium.
1:27.1	Always a good sign. From there, it passed to the
1:30.3	independent French journalist, Xavier Poussard, who wrote a self-published book-length investigation
1:35.4	called Becoming Brigitte, and finally onto Candace Owens, who's provided this brainworm with its
1:41.2	biggest platform yet. Candice said in March of last year that she
1:46.0	would stake her entire professional reputation on the idea that Macron is in fact a man.
1:52.5	And her eight-part video series, also titled Becoming Brigitte, has amassed millions of views
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