The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

Send us Fan Mail Carla attended the World Premier of the Jesse Moss documentary "Mayor Pete." It features the presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg . Carla shares her impressions and the electric Ford Mustang presented to the Secretary as a gift to the government. (For Release on Prime Video in November.) Collin Powell , the powerful military and political figure lost his life to compl...

Send us Fan Mail The Two Kens - Asian America the Ken Fong Podcast and The Beached White Male (Ken Kemp) - review an interview by Ken Fong with Claire Chao and her breakout memoir/novel, Remembering Shanghai . It's a living, breathing model of the cost-benefit of "deconstruct." Their conversations turns to a reflection on the popular new Netflix series, Midnight Mass . The character...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla have been watching baseball . They have different loyalties - but a love for the game. It's a welcome diversion from the acrimony of the political scene. Mark Galli has created a stir rebuking outspoken evangelicals like Russell Moore and David French who are attempting to counter the assumption that evangelicals are synonymous with the religious right. Russell...

Send us Fan Mail Carla welcomes Ken home from his 3,600-mile road trip. They talk about the beauty and wonder still out there in America - the California Coast , the white-capped volcano-shaped peaks of the Pacific Northwest , the deep green forests, and wide desert plains. Then the fall colors - aspen trees in glittering gold and brown and red against a deep blue Utah sky . California's oil...

Send us Fan Mail Osahon Obasuaye is a pastor, a podcaster, and a deep thinker. He's been a businessman and now a dad. He's the son of a college professor in political science and that gives him unusual insight into the current political climate. Osahon has been a co-host with Ken on two Table Talks with the Center for Racial Reconciliation . In this podcast, Osahon shares his concern abo...

Send us Fan Mail SPECIAL EDITION - Ken checks in with Carla from his road trip - 3,500 miles in all - up the West Coast through San Francisco up to the Pacific Northwest and around to Utah's scenic highways . Carla bids an emotional and difficult farewell to her beloved pet, Gracie . Ken shares his experience with Barnabas, his Golden Retriever . Carla catches Ken up on the political scene. A...

Send us Fan Mail Philip Yancey's courageous and penetrating new book, his memoir - Where the Light Fell - will be released on October 5. There's a big audience for Philip's story. There are over 100 million claim to have experienced Christian fundamentalism and 25 million more identify as " exvangelicals ." Brother Marshall , a musical prodigy, had perfect pitch. Philip&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Randall Balmer is a scholar, professor, author, documentarian (Emmy nominee), and Episcopalian Priest. Ken and Dr. Balmer talk about his new book, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right . They discuss notable players in the movement like Senator Mark Hatfield, Harold O.J. Brown, W.A. Criswell, Paul Weyrich, Ralph Reed, and Richard Land . In the right's celebratio...

Send us Fan Mail In the 50th Edition of Beach Talk , Ken and Carla talk about the California RECALL - they record just before the results ate in. Gavin Newsome's challenge from Larry Elder , a "Trump Clone" has California in the national news. Ken pays tribute to his friend Jim Adkins . They review their memories of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico : Tommy Smith and John Carlos fore...

Send us Fan Mail Ken introduces his long-time friend, Dr. Scott McClelland . They talk about awakenings. Scott is a New Testament scholar who has been a professor, a pastor a dean, and now director of the Doctor of Divinity program at South University . After graduating from Wheaton College , Scott was accepted at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he pursued and completed his doctoral...

Send us Fan Mail SPECIAL EDITION - Just a few days ago, my cherished friend, Jim Adkins , after a courageous and hard-fought battle against Covid, left us for the home he lived for to be with the God he loved and the Lord he served so faithfully. This is a trimmed version of Episode 27 recorded in August of 2021, edited so that you can hear him tell his story in his own words. - Ken Kemp, Septembe...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Ken and Carla talk about the resistance to vaccinations the pressure on Joe Biden to call the nation together to battle the virus. This week, California votes on the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom, Larry Elder is making a full-court Trumpian run at replacing the governor. The new podcast SouthLake tells the story of an upscale Dallas community up in arms packing school...

Send us Fan Mail Carla and Ken review the shutdown of American involvement in Afghanistan . Texas has implemented a draconian anti-abortion law that is blatantly unconstitutional. Ken shares a paper he wrote in seminary the year Roe v. Wade decision came down from the Supreme Court . Daniel Darling , a Vice President for the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) lost his job because he believes th...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Fong has just returned from Alaska and his photo tour. The two Kens discuss the Netflix Film, Pray Away , the story of the rise and fall of Exodus International . Ken Fong has had discussions and interviews with some of the cast members and producers including Alan Chambers and Julies Rogers . They review Ken Kemp's interview with Andy Wells , author of "Tried to be...

Send us Fan Mail THE BEST OF - Today we rebroadcast one of our most popular podcasts - Part II, from July 2020 - our conversation with author and professor, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ph. D . Her new book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation , addresses toxic masculinity, tracing the imposition of rigid hierarchy in the traditional family structure from...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla launch this Beach Talk with the headlines focused on the crisis in Afghanistan . Carla is not happy with the way in which this news is being covered. What's overlooked is the infrastructure plan and the advances in vaccination . We now have a President who tells the truth. Secretary Pete , a veteran of America's time in Afghanistan, has become a dad. The Ba...

Send us Fan Mail Carla celebrates the passing of the infrastructure bill in the Senate with a surprise bi-partisan vote: 69-30. Mitch McConnell voted YES. John Thune voted NO. Tucker Carlson calls it the " Pete Buttigieg Infrastructure Bill." Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers hit the headlines and create chaos. They remember and reflex smallpox and polio vaccines .  The Netflix documentary &...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes Sarah Dornbos , educator and Christian justice advocate and activist. She’s also the Kids Hope USA director for her church and local elementary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Sarah is a Calvin College grad who recently completed her M.A. in Social Justice at Kilns college (with a focus on race/class disparities in public education). She’s also a tr...

Send us Fan Mail - California Gov. Gavin Newsome is in play. The bi-partisan infrastructure bill got support from Senator John Thune . Ken talks about the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago - and Eric Larson's book, The Devil in the White City in which Chicago out-did Paris and the Eiffel Tower. They did it with a Ferris Wheel . They talk about the CT podcast - The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill -...

Send us Fan Mail In this brief episode, Ken cordially invites you to become a Patron of the Beached White Male Podcast. He reflects on the past year as he produced well over 100 episodes. There have been thousands and thousands of downloads from all over the world - mostly North America. He's eager to get to know you. Be among the first Patrons. You can see the PATREON PAGE here . He also inv...

Send us Fan Mail The House Committee begins the hearings on the January 6 Insurrection .  Former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo brings the Sunday morning anti-vaxxer, anti-CRT message dismissing the January 6 inquiry as a "witch-hunt" to a California mega-church. They talk about how conservatives spin the hearings, telling people not to watch, diminishing the impact of the inquiry. J.D....

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes back Dr. Scott Chesebro . Just last week, Ken and Scott spent two days walking the streets of Hyde Park and the University of Chicago there on the South Side . Scott and Ken we classmates and fast friends, living in the city for three years and a second summer in the late 60s and early 70s. Scott became a sociologist and college professor with the Ph. D. he earned at...

Send us Fan Mail Ken makes a visit to Carla's home. They share lunch and conversation about democracy in jeopardy - President Biden's strong speech. The Memory Law brings Carla to a new, hard truth about segregation, equal rights, and wedding gowns. They reflect on Ken's podcast with Ken Fong and the effect of political and religious growth and change on marriage and friendship. The...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Fong and Ken Kemp speak of their two different podcast audiences and how each has been impacted by all the talk surrounding Critical Race Theory (CRT). Fong raises the question of how the Beth Moore and Russell Moore departure from the SBC impacted their respective spouses. That leads to an open conversation about their own spouses : Sharon (Snoopy) and Carolyn. It's a ve...

Send us Fan Mail In Part II of Ken's interview with Andy Wells , the two talk about the impact of the Nashville Statement and Andy's apologetics professor at Biola University , J.P. Moreland . Andy tells about his experience in leadership at a large evangelical church which led to "conversion" or "reparative therapy," and then his "coming out." The Exodus Mo...