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The Elsa Kurt Show
Bold faith. Real truth. No apologies. Author and commentator Elsa Kurt, with retired Army Lt. Col. and novelist Clay Novak, breaks down the week's headlines from a faith-filled, blue-collar, pro-family point of view, and sits down with authors and everyday heroes whose stories will move you.
Each week: honest news talk on Thursdays, plus inspiring author interviews about faith, grief, second acts, family and the books that changed their lives.
Elsa is the author of 25+ books, including the…
Episodes
The Elsa Kurt ShowSpotlight Snatchers: Why Some People Always Make It About Them
You know the type. You share good news and they top it. You tell a story and they hijack it. You ask a question and suddenly they're the expert on everything…
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Chasing Zodiacs with Max Solo
A person is found alive on a waste dump, carrying clues that shouldn’t exist and suddenly a secret agency, a powerful corporation, and a global web of…
The Elsa Kurt ShowRefusing A Crown with PragerU Historian, Richard Lim
A leader with the army behind him. A fragile new nation drowning in debt. A world where strongmen rarely step down. Then George Washington does something so…
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Chaos & Egos
Paris isn’t just “having a moment” and we can’t treat it like a distant spectacle. We walk through what’s being shown, what’s being downplayed, and why the…
The Elsa Kurt ShowWhen Kindness Becomes an Obsession with Cindy L. Johnson
A nurse offers compassion. A patient becomes obsessed. And a hurricane makes an already terrifying situation even more dangerous. Disclosure: As an Amazon…
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Raids, Rumors, Political Drama & Celebrity Meltdowns
We move from real life updates to the week’s biggest flashpoints and keep coming back to one idea: facts and incentives matter more than viral outrage. Along…
The Elsa Kurt ShowWhy The American Dream Feels Out Of Reach
The American Dream used to feel like a simple promise: work hard, buy a house, build a family, and slowly climb toward stability. Talk to a lot of 25 and…
The Elsa Kurt ShowFrom Grief To A Second Act With Harper Law
A 57-year marriage doesn’t end neatly. It leaves an echo in every room, in every routine, and in the simple comfort of knowing someone is nearby. Author Harper…
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Pandas Gas Prices And A Pope With Opinions
Pandas, power, and superintelligence shouldn’t belong in the same conversation, yet that’s exactly where we land as we sort through a week of headlines that…
The Elsa Kurt ShowArtificiomics And The Human Side Of Workplace AI with Christopher Warren
AI is moving into the workplace whether we feel ready or not, and the real question isn’t just what it can do. It’s what it does to us. I sit down with Dr…
The Elsa Kurt ShowHow Two Violins Led To A Russian Spy with Gerald Schoeltzel
A violin maker connects two lives, and that chance connection helps spark a spy thriller where music can give you away. I’m joined by Gerald Schoeltzel, a…
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Trump TV Meets A Press Revolt And A Diesel Shock
They can block a camera from the Oval Office, but they can’t block the argument that follows. We dig into the White House press pool standoff and the question…
The Elsa Kurt ShowHow To Let Go And Find Joy In Later Life with Elaine Yarbrough & Bob Benson
Change shows up whether we invite it or not, and the hardest part is rarely the ending or the fresh start. It’s the stretch in between, when the old identity…
The Elsa Kurt ShowProtect The Light In Your Kids with Lindsey Erin Vesnic
A child gets labeled “behind” and starts believing it. A parent gets told what “good” looks like and starts chasing it. Then life breaks the script, and you…
The Elsa Kurt ShowA Doctor Turned Novelist Imagines A Post-Apocalyptic Antarctica with Norman Westhoff
Imagine a world three centuries from now where the map has changed, the weather has changed, and “home” becomes a moving target. That’s the jumping-off point…
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From AI Fear To Sydney Sweeney's Assets | The Week In Review
AI is getting smarter, faster, and cheaper and the people building it are starting to sound genuinely uneasy. That is the moment we stop scrolling past the…
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A Firefighter Shares How Faith Rebuilt His Life with Dana Corriveau
A lot of people talk about “finding purpose” after the military. Dana Corriveau (https://www.mantlechallenge.org/events) actually had to fight for it. Dana…
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Memory And Consequences
The calendar forces two heavy anniversaries into the same week, and we can feel it. We start by naming what a lot of people avoid saying out loud: 9/11 is not…
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I Scrapped My Notes And Talked Through What I Am Building
Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ——— 📚 Elsa's books: elsakurt.com/books 🎁 Free first chapter of Mae's Café: elsakurt.com 🎙…
The Elsa Kurt ShowNo Excuses with Veronica Ventura
The fastest way to spot real resilience is to listen to someone who had every reason to quit and chose to build anyway. We’re joined by Veronica Ventura, a…
The Elsa Kurt ShowHow To Build A Marriage And Legacy That Last with Curline Matthews
Some stories don’t just inspire you, they steady you. Curline Matthews joins us with the kind of wisdom you only earn through time: 45 years of marriage…
The Elsa Kurt ShowA Master Chef’s Memoir Of Survival And Purpose with Franco Lania
A chef’s story can be inspiring, but Chef Franco Lania’s story goes far beyond the kitchen. He is an award-winning master chef, culinary educator, and…
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Fauci Texts And The Cost Of Broken Trust
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The Elsa Kurt ShowShe Turns Grief Into A Ladybug Story That Helps Kids Believe In Themselves
She starts as one of the only women in her engineering program, builds a career in telecommunications, becomes a single mom, then pivots again into a classroom…
The Elsa Kurt ShowThe Election Umpire Mindset with Mark Gotz
If you’ve ever looked at an election result and thought, “I guess we just have to trust it,” this conversation is for you. I sit down with Mark Gotz, known as…
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From Spain’s Border Chaos To Women’s Sports Truths
A border gate opens, a crowd floods in, and suddenly a small Spanish enclave is dealing with mass chaos, deaths, and looted businesses, all supercharged by…
The Elsa Kurt ShowWatching Things Change: Cordell Overgaard
Every conversation on The Elsa Kurt Show is an opportunity to hear a unique perspective. While guests don't always share my personal views, I believe…
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Why A Presidential Pardon Could Backfire On Fauci
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The Elsa Kurt ShowModern Burning Bushes with Setrag Koshafian
Some conversations don’t fit in neat categories, and that’s exactly the point. We sit down with author, professor, and former technology executive Dr. Setrag…
The Elsa Kurt ShowThe Making of Mighty Men with Jackie Wakefield
What does it really take to become a mighty man or woman of God when you feel ordinary, behind, or even disqualified? We sit down with author and jail chaplain…
The Elsa Kurt ShowHow A Highway Rescue Became A Children’s Book Series with Heidi C. Heisel
A tiny dog sprinting toward freeway traffic should have been a tragedy, but it becomes the beginning of a story that changes everything. We sit down with…
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America Needs Adults Again
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The Elsa Kurt ShowHow Everyday Americans Can Use AI To Build Wealth with Bradley R. Amon
AI isn’t a someday problem, it’s a right now reality, and it’s forcing a hard question: is the American Dream disappearing, or is it evolving into something…
The Elsa Kurt ShowLight by Leonard Zwelling | Where Does Help End And Control Begin?
A beam of light that melts fat sounds like the cleanest shortcut imaginable, until you ask the real question: what else could it change about you? We’re joined…
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HOT AIR, HOLY MATRIMONY, AND POLITICAL MADNESS
We track a week where hypocrisy becomes policy, from New York’s AC push to celebrity privilege to political parties excusing the inexcusable. We also wrestle…
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Iran Talks And Political Aftershocks
We track how the Iran negotiations ripple into energy markets, media narratives, and real life costs at the gas pump. We also zoom out to political instability…
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Why Can't We Just Have Nice Things?
We bounce from geopolitics to sports to tech and keep coming back to one question: why does everything feel like it breaks the moment people start celebrating…
The Elsa Kurt ShowTwo Plus Banana Equals A Government Headache with Craig Taylor
A government office made a basic math mistake and a married couple pays for it with months apart. Craig Taylor joins us to unpack the true story behind his…
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Live Without A Safety Net
Live radio doesn’t care if you’re nervous, prepared, or having a rough day. The mic goes hot, the clock keeps moving, and “dead air” becomes your worst enemy…
The Elsa Kurt ShowWhat If Your Darkest Moment Is A Calling with Clarence Langston
A life can change in a single moment and sometimes it’s the moment you never planned to survive. Apostle Clarence Langston joins me to share his raw…
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From Burning Ballots To Waffle House Medicine
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The Elsa Kurt ShowFrom Marine Grit To Story Craft With Gunny Mac’s Creator
A lot of people say they want to write a book, but what they really mean is they want to have written one. We get honest about the gap between those two…
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The Week In Review
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The Elsa Kurt ShowKeeping Childhood Wonder Alive Through Story with Christopher Charles Anderson
You know that rush of childhood wonder you can almost feel in your chest and how it gets harder to reach as you grow up? We chase that feeling with author…
The Elsa Kurt ShowA Faith Informed Blueprint For K-12 That Builds Better Humans with Amy Tepper & Amy Vaughn
Your kid can ace the test and still feel lost, anxious, and disconnected, and that gap is what we tackle with Dr. Amy Tepper and Dr. Amy Vaughn. They’re…
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Strategic Stability: The Week In Review
We track the week’s biggest stories and ask what actually changed once the cameras turned off, from Trump’s Beijing trip to Europe’s growing frustration and…
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Iran, China, And The Cost Of Conflict
We track how the Iran operation is shifting public opinion, draining resources, and colliding with everyday costs like gas and airfare. We also zoom out to…
The Elsa Kurt ShowForgiveness As A Spiritual Reset with Moustapha Ozturk
A breakup, a desperate prayer, and a month of unsettling phone calls at a construction site set Moustapha Ozturk on a path he never expected. Years later, that…
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From Iran’s Strait Of Hormuz To A Cruise Ship Outbreak
We bounce from airline boarding chaos to global conflict, asking why incentives and unclear goals keep producing the same ugly outcomes. We weigh Iran’s…
The Elsa Kurt ShowSouvenirs of the Heart with Michelle Dahl
A single sunrise can outshine a whole gift shop, and that’s the kind of quiet truth we dig into with children’s author and artist Michelle Dahl. Michelle spent…
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What Happens When Politics Rewards The Worst Instincts
Gunfire at one of Washington’s most scripted nights jolts everything into the real world. We start with the White House Correspondents Dinner security scare…
The Elsa Kurt ShowGlobe Trotting For Science with Christopher Loffredo
A cancer epidemiologist walks into the Australian outback, builds a field camp at 22, and accidentally sparks a small-town “cookie war” between two rival…
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When Institutions Break Who Fills The Void
We track how fast today’s headlines move while the deeper patterns stay stubbornly the same, from Iran’s stalled negotiations and Strait of Hormuz tensions to…
The Elsa Kurt ShowA Memoir Of Law Media Politics And Fast Moving America with Cordell J. Overgaard
Some people live through change. Cordell J. Overgaard tracked it, worked inside it, and then sat down to tell the truth about what it did to law, media…
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A Fast Guide To The Week’s Political Chaos
A single week manages to hit every nerve: faith and war, social media spectacle, nuclear brinkmanship, and institutions that feel like they’re losing the plot…
The Elsa Kurt ShowTulsi C Shares How Trauma Became A Path To Healing
Some stories don’t just describe a life, they explain why it never felt like the surface version was the whole truth. I’m joined by Tulsi C, author of…
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What Leadership Looks Like Across The Country
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The First Amendment Keeps Showing Up In Sports And In Court
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Who Shapes The Story When War Rumors Spread Faster Than Facts
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The Elsa Kurt ShowFrom Military Service To Alternative School Principal To Author
Some stories start as a plan. Others start as a punch to the chest. My guest’s journey is both: she went from joining the military to earn the GI Bill, to…