Candace Owens Uncovered Erika Kirk's August 2025 Call with Murder Mystery Documentary Executives

[00:00] the focus of this company

[00:02] is murder mystery.

[00:04] And I just would like to know, I'd like

[00:06] to ask, I would like to understand what

[00:09] is the context of this call. This time,

[00:12] you and Erica, it's regarding August

[00:13] 28th, right? A couple of weeks before uh

[00:16] Charlie's passing. I want to speak about

[00:18] that date because there's just something

[00:19] that happened that registers to me as a

[00:21] bit odd because to my knowledge and

[00:23] having having spoken to people with

[00:25] direct knowledge,

[00:27] Andrew Kolbatz should not have been

[00:29] doing public relations well public

[00:30] relations for Erica Kirk uh in August of

[00:32] 2025 outside of her uh involvement with

[00:35] Turning Point USA. Faith, if she's

[00:37] coming to speak at an event, I am told

[00:39] that in that capacity they would handle

[00:41] her media. Outside of that, it was not

[00:43] something that they regularly did or did

[00:45] ever.

[00:46] Um so, I will say allegedly, but that is

[00:47] coming from people who worked with

[00:48] Andrew. Now, I want you to remember

[00:52] who Erica was on August 28th, 2025. She

[00:55] was virtually unknown to the world um as

[00:58] anyone other than Charlie Kirk's doting

[01:01] Christian wife who attended some of his

[01:04] events to encourage women to get married

[01:07] young and to have tons of children and

[01:08] not to climb the corporate ladder. This

[01:11] was a, you know, newer iteration of

[01:14] Erica. It was definitely not Erica Fronz

[01:16] Faye, but this this was Mrs. Kirk and it

[01:18] was all about Christianity and faith and

[01:19] she had this um Christian base based

[01:22] clothing brand which she started right

[01:25] when she met Charlie called Proclaim

[01:27] 365,

[01:29] which by the way, that deserves an

[01:30] episode in and of itself because for

[01:32] life of me, I cannot figure out how it

[01:33] functions or if it functions as a

[01:35] profitable business.

[01:37] Um but I digress.

[01:40] Yeah, curiously on August 28th, 2025, I

[01:43] learned that Erica had a call with

[01:46] Andrew Kolbatz and executives at a

[01:49] company called Empress Films, right?

[01:51] Empress Films.

[01:53] Now, what is Empress Films? I'm going to

[01:54] take you through it really quickly. Uh

[01:56] what was the call about? That's what I'd

[01:57] like to know. Why was she on the phone

[02:00] with the company's top brass? I'd like

[02:01] to know that, too. Namely, this um this

[02:04] conference call was with Eben Davidson,

[02:08] who was the company's exec- it is the

[02:09] company's executive producer. He came

[02:11] out of a long tenure with Paramount

[02:13] Pictures, and he was running the LA

[02:15] office for Empress Films.

[02:17] It was also Also on the call was two

[02:18] producers who I'm not going to name,

[02:20] plus the founder of Empress Films, which

[02:23] is a woman named Emma Cooper. The

[02:25] company's relatively new, established in

[02:27] 2020.

[02:28] Their backstory is that Emma Cooper was

[02:30] previously the global president of

[02:32] non-scripted television at Pulse Films,

[02:35] where she worked on non-fiction films

[02:37] and series. And then following

[02:39] uh what was a massive global success of

[02:42] her hit Netflix documentary series, uh

[02:44] which was entitled The Disappearance of

[02:46] Madeleine McCann,

[02:48] extremely controversial disappearance,

[02:50] if you recall, a little girl, lots of

[02:52] conspiracy theories that went with that.

[02:55] Um she

[02:57] Emma Cooper created then Empress Films,

[02:59] uh where she was going to chase

[03:01] basically um

[03:04] making that the regular beat of the

[03:05] company, murder mystery. She's done a

[03:07] lot of work with murder mystery stuff in

[03:08] general, and now Empress Films was going

[03:10] to be like, "That's our thing, murder

[03:12] mystery."

[03:13] I I'm going to keep emphasizing that to

[03:14] you.

[03:15] They're a newer company. Murder mystery

[03:18] is their regular beat, okay?

[03:20] I'll take you through what they had

[03:22] produced leading up to this call with

[03:24] Erica and Andrew. Interestingly enough,

[03:26] in 2021,

[03:27] they launched with the docu-series

[03:31] Ghislaine Maxwell:

[03:32] Epstein's Shadow. I kid you not. You can

[03:35] go and find this on their Instagram just

[03:37] scrolling up from "Hi, we're here. We're

[03:40] new." First thing they then promote is

[03:41] Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein's Shadow.

[03:43] It's a documentary that is, of course,

[03:45] sympathetic to Ghislaine Maxwell,

[03:47] cuz all she did was sort of inherit

[03:49] Jeffrey Epstein's secrets or something.

[03:51] Now, admittedly, I did not watch the

[03:53] series, but I did take a look at the

[03:54] reviews and it received a mixed

[03:56] reaction. Most notably, people were

[03:58] criticizing it for being too soft on

[04:00] Ghislaine. That became this narrative

[04:01] like she's she was just the friend of

[04:03] Jeffrey Epstein, kind of painting her as

[04:06] a victim herself

[04:09] was and they kind of used her upbringing

[04:11] to excuse her behavior. One person even

[04:14] described the documentary as saying that

[04:16] it felt like a media puff piece about

[04:18] Ghislaine Maxwell.

[04:20] Okay. Empress Films then also released

[04:23] the Mystery of Marilyn Monroe. Very

[04:26] controversial controversial death in

[04:28] America. It was called The Unheard Tapes

[04:31] and yes, they of course take the state's

[04:34] position which is nothing to see here

[04:36] about this death.

[04:38] It's not mysterious at all. Now, you

[04:40] know, she was involved with the Kennedy

[04:41] brothers. This is Hollywood. There was a

[04:43] lot going on, but Vanity Fair was um

[04:48] they did a review and said this we

[04:50] thought it was going to be a conspiracy

[04:51] theory, but they're taking the state's

[04:52] position. Oh, sorry, Variety not Vanity

[04:54] Fair did a review

[04:55] and they wrote quote, we think we're

[04:57] heading we're hearing the beginning of a

[04:58] conspiracy theory and in a way we are,

[05:01] but Anthony Summers whose 1985 book

[05:04] Goddess, The Secret Lives of Marilyn

[05:05] Monroe is the basis of the documentary

[05:08] explicitly states that Monroe was not

[05:10] murdered. The result of her tangle of

[05:13] destiny was simply that the Kennedys who

[05:15] had been tempting fate by carrying on

[05:17] simultaneous affairs with the world's

[05:18] most coveted movie star were told that

[05:21] they needed to cut ties with her. It had

[05:22] become too risky and so they did and it

[05:24] devastated her. Coming after a year of

[05:26] erratic behavior where she'd barely

[05:27] gotten through the shoot of The Misfits

[05:29] being dumped by the Kennedys has sent

[05:31] her into a tailspin. JFK didn't even say

[05:34] anything to her. She was ghosted. She

[05:35] died not long after. So again, the

[05:38] state's narrative there was a lot I

[05:39] don't know if you've ever if you've ever

[05:40] looked into the death of Marilyn Monroe.

[05:41] There's a lot there, okay?

[05:44] There is a lot there. I certainly would

[05:46] not rule out a murder at all. That's why

[05:49] it stays relevant.

[05:50] And it feels like another state secret

[05:53] that is kind of being justified in a

[05:55] way.

[05:56] Empress also then directed who killed

[05:59] Jill Dando. Now, uh this name is not

[06:01] familiar to people that in in America

[06:03] very much is familiar to people in the

[06:04] UK. It was a massive unsolved murder

[06:07] from the '90s of a UK journalist who was

[06:09] basically shot point-blank in broad

[06:12] daylight. Um and the murder has been at

[06:16] the center of a lot of conspiracy

[06:17] theories since. People alleging that at

[06:20] the time of her murder, she was working

[06:21] on a story about former Yugoslavia, what

[06:23] was going on with that war, as well as

[06:25] many people who claim that she was

[06:26] actually investigating a pedophile

[06:28] network at the BBC, which included Jimmy

[06:31] Savile. Uh again, I'm just telling you

[06:34] just taking you through what this

[06:35] company does. Uh they also created a

[06:37] mini-series on Princess Diana. It was

[06:40] entitled Diana

[06:42] on her life, and they are following up

[06:44] with that docu-series with Who Killed

[06:47] Diana, which was announced in 2024

[06:50] exploring the conspiracies around her

[06:52] death.

[06:53] Uh and they did Andrew I'm sorry, they

[06:56] did Depp versus Heard. So, they did

[06:59] Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard, and this

[07:03] I'm assuming was just because it was

[07:04] going on and in the news. They showed

[07:06] both testimonies side by side exploring

[07:09] the trial and the online fallout that

[07:11] ensued.

[07:12] Then they did Killing Grounds Gilgo

[07:15] Beach Murders. Okay. Like I mean, if you

[07:18] guys

[07:19] a bunch of women that are found in Long

[07:20] Island, it's like

[07:22] 10-year serial killer. The guy then does

[07:26] a deal with the feds, and then first

[07:27] says he's not guilty, and then says he's

[07:29] guilty after doing a deal with the feds

[07:31] to like submit himself for behavioral

[07:34] analysts. I It's totally bonkers. I'm

[07:36] I'm not going to get into it like I'm

[07:38] because I'm making a broader point that

[07:40] the focus of this company

[07:42] is murder mystery.

[07:45] And I just would like to know, I'd like

[07:46] to ask, I would like to understand what

[07:49] is the context of this call that Erica

[07:52] and Andrew had. What would they have

[07:54] been working on in in August of 28th

[07:56] with this company, who I do would also

[07:58] like to say is remarkably left-leaning.

[08:00] Like they are proud feminists at the

[08:02] Empress Films. They are like, you know,

[08:05] pro-LGBTQ.

[08:07] They wear that for fun around the

[08:09] office. Like, you know, whatever. Not F

[08:12] the patriarchy, but one of them was

[08:14] wearing a shirt. And it doesn't matter

[08:16] who these people are. They're just

[08:16] random employees. But like, slay the

[08:18] patriarchy. And um

[08:21] what what does her her shirt say there

[08:23] on the left? Something

[08:25] What does it say?

[08:28] Never gender. I can't see cuz it's a

[08:29] little too small for me. My eyesight

[08:31] gets so bad at the end of pregnancy. Um

[08:33] but, you know, the point is is that they

[08:34] were they're just liberal, which is

[08:37] fine. This is that you're allowed to

[08:39] start your own company and you're

[08:39] allowed to espouse your own ideas. And

[08:42] it just makes it even more of an odd

[08:43] match for Erica Kirk and Andrew Colbeth.

[08:45] Like, in my opinion, it's a very odd

[08:47] match. Why are they on the phone? What

[08:49] is this call about? What documentary

[08:51] were they working on? And how would that

[08:53] have fit into the general picture of

[08:55] Empress Films at this time? That's what

[08:58] I'd like to know. Just seems weird to

[09:00] me. And I find that little bit to be

[09:02] interesting. And Baron Coleman and I

[09:05] were discussing it and we're like, this

[09:06] is weird. Very weird. And I don't know

[09:09] why it's weird, but it just feels weird

[09:11] for some reason.

[09:12] Um when you are just running a clothing

[09:14] company. Like, what are they going to do

[09:15] a documentary on Erica's clothing

[09:17] company? A Christian clothing company

[09:19] partnering with this feminist I don't I

[09:20] don't know.

[09:21] Doesn't register to me as correct.

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