00:00:00.000All right, you guys, happy Tuesday. We are jumping right back into Becoming Brigitte season two. So many emails that we have received, very good clues that you guys sent us, some answers that we now have. Also have to tell you a crazy fact of what else was going on at Stanford University in the early 1970s.
00:00:20.460And we actually have audio of the mysterious prisoner 2093 discussing his time in the cell. But first and foremost, we ended yesterday's episode with a question. Why make Brigitte the first lady of France, right? That's like a weird thing. She got away with so much. Why then make her the first lady of France? I offered, I speculated that there's probably an element of theology here. Welcome back to Candace.
00:00:50.460If you're a regular listener of this podcast and you have heard me say many times, everything is theology. But I can't take credit for that. That's actually something that my husband shared with me, at least when we first met.
00:01:16.220I asked him, why did you decide to study theology at Oxford? I remember thinking back then, like 2018, 2019, of all of the subjects available for a student to take on at university, why would somebody want to pick religion?
00:01:31.000Especially a religion that you don't necessarily follow? Why do you want to learn about all of this? How silly I was? How wrong I was? Actually, I think now one of my biggest academic regrets is that I went to college, wasted my time when I should have just been studying religion and theology.
00:01:48.960Because in my political life, because in my political life, I suddenly realized nothing else actually matters, really. Everything else is theater. If you don't know what is guiding someone, spiritually speaking, then you can't comprehend what is happening.
00:02:03.820It was at university that my husband made a decision to convert to Catholicism and an even stranger decision in my mind, in my 2018 American mind, because it's almost a marker of a public education in America to be anti-Catholic.
00:02:22.820It's like Catholicism is a no-no. Everything we learned in history, the Catholics were just going wild, doing everything wrong in Europe. And gratefully, America, you're a young country, but you're getting it right.
00:02:35.000I now have a better understanding today of why that is. And I should say now, isn't it kind of curious that Brigitte is allegedly a devout Catholic? Anybody following the story believing that?
00:02:48.260As a quote-unquote Catholic, you'll recall that she wanted, when she first got into office, Brigitte Macron wanted to transform the Dome of Notre Dame into a penis.
00:03:02.520I'm not kidding. You guys remember this. Look, here's the headline. Just to quickly recap here, French President's Wife Proposed Phallus and Golden Balls for Notre Dame Rebuild.
00:03:13.880And here is a quote from that article, because when Brigitte first entered into office, we're saying she entered, she's supposed to be the wife of, but I guess when Macron first entered into office, the minister of French culture was a woman named Rosalind Bachelot.
00:03:30.680And Rosalind Bachelot is the one that received the proposal from Brigitte. And here in that article is what Rosalind Bachelot recapped in her book.
00:03:39.240She wrote, quote, I do not regret this insubordination when at lunch with Brigitte Macron a few days later, she shows me a project topped with a sort of erect phallus with its base surrounded with golden balls.
00:03:55.300I'm sorry, what? To be clear, they fired. They just got rid of that woman. They replaced her because they were like, OK, you don't want to put the golden balls in the dome.
00:04:01.800You don't want to do that. You got to go. You got to go. Bye bye, Rosalind. And Rosalind does not regret, as she should not, her insubordination, because what on earth?
00:04:12.080I get it. I know what's happening, because what better way to destroy your true enemies than from within to say I'm, yeah, I'm Catholic.
00:04:19.640And yeah, Macron and me fell in love. He was 14. I get it. I get it.
00:04:24.700I got to tell you guys something else about myself, a little fact. The first thing that I ever wanted to be in life, I remember this vividly, was an archaeologist.
00:04:32.640In third grade, I got kind of obsessed. We learn about archaeology. I don't know really what was motivating it beyond learning about Egypt.
00:04:40.680Needless to say, it didn't work out for me in life. But my interest in artifacts being dug up that reveal secrets from the past, well, that never went away.
00:04:50.120Which is why this artifact, there is an artifact, rather, in this Brigitte Macron saga, and it completely piqued my attention.
00:04:59.340I was like, you know, I feel like I should be paying attention to this for some reason.
00:05:04.340So here is the true story. It's just a fact.
00:05:08.860In Amiens, remember, that is the town where both Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron were born.
00:05:14.560There is an artifact that got discovered in 1845.
00:05:19.640It was a, it is a bronze statuette, and it was located on the property of this military man named Captain Bornell.
00:05:28.680Now, I'm unsure if it's because of a language barrier that exists, but I'm currently unable to learn anything more about this Captain Bornell,
00:05:37.360other than the fact that this statue was specifically found in the neighborhood of Henryville in Amiens.
00:05:45.580Now, if Henryville is ringing a bell to you, that's because you will recall that that is the specific neighborhood that Emmanuel Macron grew up with, Manette.
00:05:55.800Yeah. So I'm, I was interested, and I'm sorry, I'm interested because they decided to name this statue, it's still in Amiens, it's featured in a museum, the God of Amiens.
00:06:09.240Like, I'm sorry, but if I was just going into my backyard and I dug up something that looked like a pagan figurine, I wouldn't name it the God of anything.
00:06:19.340I would be like, oh, we found this is interesting, but somebody made the decision to name that the God of Amiens, and I needed to know more,
00:06:26.280because you can always count on me to not mind my own business, okay?
00:06:30.460And like I said, what was compelling me was the name of it, right?
00:06:34.960None of us would do that. Think about it right now.
00:06:37.000No matter what you dig up in your backyard, you're not going to place it in your house and call it a God, unless you're maybe pagan yourself.
00:06:44.880So let's take a look at this statue, right?
00:06:46.240The statue itself is missing something in its hand, in both sides, actually.
00:06:52.880You will also note that the statue itself kind of looks like it's a young boy.
00:07:38.040Now I'm going to explain to you, and I want you to listen very carefully to everything that is represented in this unique statue, God, quote-unquote, God of Amiens, okay?
00:07:49.540King Midas is represented by the animal ear.
00:07:53.820Um, Sibylle, who was a demon and also the ancient mother goddess of Anatolia, who castrates herself, is castrated, is represented by the snake.
00:08:08.980And then Dionysus, also goes by the name Addis, is represented by the grapes, okay?
00:08:44.880The story goes that there was an oracle that was consulted to determine who would become the next king of Phrygia.
00:08:54.960Now, consulting an oracle, genuinely, generally speaking, typically involves some high priestess who becomes possessed spiritually by the deities and is able to communicate messages.
00:09:06.680This particular oracle declared that it was going to be Gordius who would become the king of Phrygia.
00:09:14.240And he would do this once he rode his cart into Phrygia alongside the high priestess Agdistus, okay?
00:09:26.240The gods feared this monstrosity, saw it as a demon, and so they castrated Agdistus, and then she was, what was left was a woman, I suppose, and she becomes Sibeli.
00:09:40.520Some of this is starting to sound familiar to you.
00:09:42.060You're like, you know, kind of the stories mix.
00:09:43.820You get the Greek, the Roman, the Turkish virgin, but follow me.
00:10:35.360Now you will recall that Brigitte Macron, from Amian, handpicked Thomas Jolly to put on that now notorious Olympic show that outraged the world.
00:10:45.260Brigitte was intimately involved in the planning of that performance for some reason.
00:11:07.780It's the Greek god of wine and revelry that is represented in this god of Amian figurine, okay?
00:11:14.800Brigitte actually went so far, this meant so much to her, to clarify this point that she stipulates it in her lawsuit against me.
00:11:20.200That performance was actually about a Greek god.
00:11:24.220It says, Owens went so far as to claim that the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony, which was a tribute to Greek mythology, was designed to honor Brigitte Macron because she is transgender.
00:11:53.840Back to Dionysus, right, the second child of Sibylle.
00:11:56.480In Greek mythology, the story goes that Zeus became quite enchanted with this priestess Sibylle.
00:12:03.560Zeus, if you know, he was just, he was cheating all the time on Hera, his wife, and one of these individuals.
00:12:09.760It's Sibylle, he gets enchanted by this priestess, and he begins to see her on the side.
00:12:14.920And the end result is that Sibylle becomes pregnant with his child.
00:12:20.200Hera, Zeus's wife, decides, like, oh, this is crazy, and she's in a fit of rage, and she decides that she's going to disguise herself as a nurse,
00:12:29.440and she's going to ingratiate herself with a pregnant Sibylle and manipulate Sibylle by sowing seeds of doubt in her mind.
00:12:38.280Like, oh, are you sure that your paramour is Zeus, like, the god Zeus?
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00:14:34.540The impact of this lightning strike forces her son, Dionysus, to be born prematurely.
00:14:41.880Zeus then rescues this premature Dionysus by sewing him into his thigh.
00:14:47.600When it comes time for Dionysus to be born again, like twice born, Zeus knows that he has to hide this child because Hera's going to freak out.
00:14:58.620Like, what? You keeping the child? This is not happening.
00:15:02.320So he asks the messenger god Hermes to take Dionysus into the forest, where he is instead going to be raised by a half goat known as Pan.
00:15:39.920On the other side, Sibylle and King Gordius are going to have Midas, okay?
00:15:46.220The interesting thing about Pan, this half goat, as some people interpret him as Satan, is he's a bit of a lush.
00:15:56.900He's always drunk in the forest because when he is in a drunken stupor, he's able to tell prophecies.
00:16:03.640So Pan is the god of shepherds, flock, and drunken revelry.
00:16:07.980Pan does, as he is asked, he raises, he fosters Dionysus, and Dionysus then grows to be this very beautiful, as they describe it, effeminate-looking young boy who clearly adores Pan, Pan with the horns.
00:16:25.480One night, Pan is hitting the bottle a little too hard, right?
00:16:28.680And he is found in a drunken stupor by the now King Midas' men.
00:16:34.260And they find this, like, half goat. They bring him back to Midas' palace.
00:16:38.120And, of course, King Midas recognizes Pan because of his dad, you know, Gordius.
00:16:42.880And he resolves that he's going to keep Pan safe and comfortable in his palace.
00:16:46.800Now, Dionysus is panicked because she can't find her foster father.
00:16:51.780And he, pardon, is panicked because he can't find his foster father.
00:16:55.160And then he's completely relieved when he discovers that he's with King Midas, which that's actually his half-brother, right?
00:17:05.400Sibylle is both the mother of King Midas and also the mother of Dionysus, this pretty boy.
00:17:11.240So happy is Dionysus, who is half-god because Zeus is her real father, that he says,
00:18:56.060Sibley's in the underworld, so he resolves, I'm going to journey, do what I have to take, go into the underworld, I'm going to retrieve her.
00:19:01.880And that journey is not without its obstacles, obviously.
00:19:04.360He has to enter into the realm of the dead, sacrifice a lot to bring his mom back.
00:19:10.060This is, again, why Dionysus and Sibley are associated with this idea of a rebirth.
00:19:18.100Now, back from the underworld, Dionysus becomes the consort to mommy Sibley.
00:21:17.240Who had castrated himself in a fit of divine frenzy.
00:21:20.460On initiation to the cult, the Gali also castrated themselves and afterwards, they dress exclusively in women's clothing.
00:21:30.160They therefore occupied an ambiguous space in Roman notions of gender that many modern transgendered and non-binary people have identified with.
00:22:35.660That is actually where Western theater stems from.
00:22:38.620So when we look across the world and we see all these people in positions of power and we learn that Justin Trudeau was a drama instructor.