The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

Send us Fan Mail NOTE: Audio issues have been repaired. Ken and Carla pick up on their conversation over Lent . A "Yacht Music Playlist" takes Ken to another place. They turn to Ukraine and unprovoked assault on civilians including women, children, and now, a maternity hospital. Rabbi Jeff Salkin weighs in. While there is still reason for hope, the situation has turned dark. Putin's...

Send us Fan Mail Carla is back. After a week off, Ken and Carla reconvene for Beach Talk #73. Ken reviews his road trip up North for wine tasting and a brunch at Pebble Beach Lodge . He reminisces over his one round on the course years ago and his memorable finish on the 18th Hole. Ukraine is in the headlines, displaying their patriotism and commitment to democracy, dong their best to stand up aga...

Send us Fan Mail The Beached White Male Podcast welcomes Scott Young , Creator and President of Culture Connection and the former Director of the City of Angels Film Festival . Ken likes to call Scott the Professor of Cinema . Scott asserts that we are at the end of the "print culture" and we've become a "culture of moving images."  Movie images are today's " lin...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Ken has a road trip which means a rarely missed week of Beach Talk with his good friend Carla. If you are a regular, you know that Ken and Carla, the "Bleached Blonde Female," have a weekly conversation reviewing the headlines - political, religious, and more. Today, we re-release their very first podcast - Beach Talk #1 from August of 2020. It was an experime...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes the popular scholar, professor, author, and podcaster, Dr. Peter Enns . Pete's podcast, The Bible for Normal People ("the only God-ordained podcast on the internet") has a broad and wide reach, exploring the sacred text along with his co-host Jared Byas . They have interviewed a wide range of scholars from many religious and theological backgrounds. Ken...

Send us Fan Mail Carla slips on the winter Mid-West ice and falls. She's rescued by her daughter and son-in-law. The spectacular Super Bowl LVI brought memorable moments, a major victory for the Rams,  especially Cooper Kupp , Aaron Donald and Matthew Stafford . There was plenty of controversy. The dazzling Half-Time Show  with Dr. Dre , Snoop Dog, and Eminem brought nostalgia and equal time,...

Send us Fan Mail Carla pines for a Minnesota-style grilled walleye-pike sandwich - and reveals that her husband proposed to her on Lake Minnetonka .  Switching to the headlines, according to  Maggie Haberman , the White House plumbing while occupied by the former President frequently backed-up thanks to official government documents flushed from the Presidential suite. Carla objects to the general...

Send us Fan Mail Kemp and Fong come together for a different TWO KENS conversation. They both like to listen to the other's podcasts. Kemp comments on Fong's interview with non-profit fund-raiser Vu Le . Fong heard Ken's exchange with Osahon Obazuaye and asked if the two might spend the majority of this podcast exploring how Kemp transitioned from the conservative friend Fong new th...

Send us Fan Mail This Beach Talk is a CLASSIC. Ken and Carla jump right into a conversation about democracy in danger. The Electoral Count Act is in desperate need of revision, highlighting the archaic and unfair electoral college. Best of all is Carla's take on the Spotify kerfuffle - surrounding mega-podcaster Joe Rogan . Neil Young (Ohio) and Joni Mitchell (Big Yellow Taxi - Paved Paradise...

Send us Fan Mail An aging white male (Ken - the Beached White Male) and a young, influential African American male (Osahon Obazuaye) engage in a lively conversation about race. The two currently are co-hosts for an online Table Talk focussed on The 1619 Project . Nikole Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize and then, in a predictable white backlash, a vicious attack on her work. Osahon shares a very...

Send us Fan Mail Carla's experiencing a serious cold snap as Ken describes his California blue sky and 70 degrees. In this fireside chat, they open with stories of emotionally charged moments in church over the weekend - for them both in different places for different reasons: It's sacred ground . Time for lament; welcoming break-throughs. They reflect on Ken's conversation with Jas...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Ken welcomes Jasmin Schupper , Founder and CEO of Greenline Housing Foundation . With a university degree in business and corporate and non-profit experience in finance, Jasmine learned about the racial wealth gap in this country. She's taking action. Ken and Jasmine discuss that wealth gap, from the post-civil war reconstruction era where the newly freed, formerly ens...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla connect for their weekly review, following Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's memorial weekend.  Both Ken and Carla attended church services that honored Dr. King. It's more than "I have a dream..." Ken's Table Talk on the 1619 Project starts next week. The humble Rabbi Cytron-Walker is celebrated around the world, underscoring the anti-Semitism t...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes acclaimed TEDx Speaker, author, podcaster, and authority on diversity training in the workplace, Julie Kratz . A seasoned veteran of corporate life, Julie founded and leads The Next Pivot Point , a consulting and training firm that serves major corporations across the nation. Julie found Ken on LinkedIn, seeking allies in the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla reminisce over the impact of Simon and Garfunkel on their formative years. You'll hear Carla sing. The pressure on the Biden administration is growing on the Voting Rights legislation. Secretary Pete visits Southern California to review the supply chain backup. John MacArthur comes out with a troubling and surprising take on religious freedom . Lucy Lark brings...

Send us Fan Mail Kemp and Fong come together for the first Two Kens Podcast for the New Year. Ken Fong shares his adventures as a wildlife photographer and then his interviews with the stars and producer of the new FOX hit series, The Cleaning Lady , featuring AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) cast and crew. But the primary focus of the conversation was prompted by the discovery of a 72 m...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla take their first Beach Talk for 2022 indoors - to a crackling fire for a Fireside Chat . They record this first conversation of the New Year on January 5, 2022, the day before the one year anniversary of the January 6 Insurrection of 2021. They share their thoughts. Players like Sean Hannity, Jamie Raskin, President Joe Biden and Secretary Pete among others are discu...

Send us Fan Mail For the first episode of Season 3, Ken brings back friend of the podcast, Dr. David Gushee. He has just released a new book  - Introducing Christian Ethics (release date - January 2022 ). David has just been named Senior Research Fellow at International Baptist Theological Study Centre at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.  David  will present a scholarly lecture entitled "Defendi...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! Ken and Carla reflect on the year gone by. Last December, in their Christmas edition, they finished episode 15 - this is episode 64. They have developed a strong bond, coming together nearly every week to talk about how events have impacted them. This week, they consider how their Beach Talks have shaped them. Each identifies the TOP FIVE events, books, films or ha...

Send us Fan Mail This holiday week - a SPECIAL REBROADCAST from October 2020: one of Ken's all-time favorites. Ken met this remarkable octogenarian while Kayaking on Lake Superior.   Ed Kale , M .Div., 1963   professional kayaker , was a student at Yale Divinity School in 1961 when a generous professor funded his participation in a Freedom Ride to Jackson , MS. He was arrested, put in jail al...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla connect just before Christmas Day , December 23, 2021, this time with a Fireside Chat . They reflect on a year of Beach Talks , this week touch on Beth Moore's connection to her new church, The Anglican Communion , and the reaction of her former SBC friends. The Beatles pull Ken and Carla out of the basement of political talk. There is good economic news as we c...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Fong (Asian America, the Ken Fong Podcast) and Ken Kemp explore the immensely popular Christianity Today podcast series, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill . There are 12 episodes and nearly 15 hours of highly produced exploration to unpack. It's the story of the collapse of the megachurch in the Pacific Northwest led by Mark Driscoll . The two Kens discuss how narcissistic l...

Send us Fan Mail The tornadoes that hit the mid-west have left a swath of devastation. Carla complements California's Governor Gavin Newsom for leading the way for the rest of the nation. Liz Cheney outed Mark Meadows who continues to take his cues from the former President, hindering the work of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Fox News personalities ( Sean Hannity , Brian...

Send us Fan Mail Ken's guest is professor, author, musician and now podcaster, Japanese American R. Scott Okamoto . While teaching at a well-known, established Christian university, Scott finds himself deep in the private process  of deconstruction . His fervent evangelical faith began to crumble. He grew up in a high profile evangelical church in Pasadena where he followed in the footsteps o...

Send us Fan Mail Anticipation of the birth of Carl's first grandchild has her thinking about the need for good prenatal care . Not everyone has access in this country. Attacks on Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act make adequate medical care out of reach for too many Americans. Attempts to get to the bottom of the causes and responsibility for the January 6 insurrection continue, w...