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The Dan Proft Show Podcast

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The world is a complicated place. You need someone to expose the political fakers, fixers and takers, and cut through the mindless chatter and misdirection to make sense of it all. That person is Dan Proft and this is the Dan Proft Show.

Politicians take positions. Proft makes arguments. He's studied the western canons. He's read the books. He's seen every episode of "The Simpsons." From DesCartes to Cartman, Willy Loman to Groundskeeper Willie, he's the Firing Pin to William F. Buckley's "Firing Line" here to spark robust dialogue and see who can employ the most arcane (pop) cultural and artistic references to support their points of view.

Entrepreneur, editorial contributor to the Chicago Tribune, former Republican candidate for Illinois Governor, and morning drive radio talk show host with AM 560 The Answer in Chicago (560TheAnswer.com). He speaks truth to his audience with popular political commentary and provocative interviews with deep thinkers and solutionists.

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Episodes

February 21, 2020

The coming Trump pardon we should be talking about: Hope for Prisoners founder Jon Ponder. Claremont Review of Books' Spencer Klavan on the success of the identitarians. No Joker. Joaquin Phoenix: Bovine Emancipator. Gerfried Ambrosch's radical transformation. The U.S. Women's Soccer National Team's bad math. AmGreatness.com 's Adam Mill on two-tiered justice based on political affiliation. Boston U. History Prof Emeritus Andrew Bacevich on how America squandered its Cold War victory. See omnyst...

Feb 22, 20201 hr 53 min

February 20, 2020

Former FBI Assistant Director of Intelligenace Kevin Brock on Barr and the Durham investigation. Richochet.com 's Jon Gabriel on Bloomberg's chances and Stone's sentence. Las Vegas Review Journal VictorJoecks previews Saturday's NV Caucus and the likelihood of an IA Caucus repeat on the counting. The modal journo is b/w AOC and Bernie. You don't have to sympathize with George Zimmerman to sympathize with his defamation claims against Warren, Buttigeg. Plus, Can Mitch Daniels' model at Purdue U s...

Feb 21, 20201 hr 53 min

February 19, 2020

Ceaser Mike's China problem dwarfs NBA's, Hollywood's. Investigate reporter Sharyl Attkisson calls 2020 for Trump. On the Milken pardon and the Blago commutation. TheAmericanConservative.com 's Addison Del Mastro on the all-you-can-eat buffet as a symbol of American greatness. JunkScience.com 's Steve Milloy on Bezo's billions for green gambits. The Federalist.com 's Joy Pullmann on AG Barr, Trump and their future together. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Feb 20, 20201 hr 53 min

February 18, 2020

Caesar Mike has a TV audience; Bolshevik Bernie has a constituency. Will a dutiful moderator for Wednesday night's debate ask Caesar Mike to be specific about the ages/diagnoses that will not be treated under his government rationing of health care? Heritage Foundation's Arthur Millick on defunding higher ed. Former Reagan aide Peggy Grande on CA's virtue-signaling clean green while propping up Khashoggi's killers. City Journal's John Tierney on the perverse panic over plastic (20 years after ex...

Feb 19, 20201 hr 53 min

February 17, 2020

Bloomberg doesn't exactly channel Paul Harvey on farmers. U of Oklahoma professor Wilfred McClay's "Land of Hope" is for the serious student of US history. NRO's Andy McCarthy on the miscarriage of not meting out justice to Andy McCabe. Crisis Magazine's MW Davis rallies for Jordan Peterson. Econ 101: The opp cost of choosing college. MichaelAvenatti: The Beltway press corps' barrister, plus Seattle City Council land use committee hearing brings us the Joan Baez of the eco-loon movement...(or ma...

Feb 18, 20201 hr 53 min

February 14, 2020

Chicago Tribune's John Kass & Kristen McQueary sit in for Dan on Valentine's Day. Greg Orman joins us to elaborate on his column "We Need Smith -- Now More Than Ever." RealClearPolitic's Tom Beaven on Bloomberg's stop and frisk controversy, and more. City Journal's Rafel Manguel on Police violence. HotAir.com's Jazz Shaw, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 15, 20201 hr 53 min

February 13, 2020

Gen. Kelly is a patriot. But he's not the infallible word on policy wisdom or strategy. He is an institutional man. Kelly's comments at Drew U. were little more than sawing of sawdust and repetition of discredited Left agitprop (e.g. "all migrants are rapists"). Soon forgotten. The Epoch Times' Josh Philipp on the indictments of the Chinese Equifax hackers and sourcing COVID-19. The Atlantic's Russell Berman on Bernie's high floor/low cneiling. Assumption College's Daniel J. Mahoney on Pope Fran...

Feb 14, 20201 hr 53 min

February 12, 2020

Former NH State Rep. Michael Moffett on the Bolshevik vs. the mayors. Commentary's Noah Rothman on the progressive Left's misperception of the black vote. Peter Thiel's review of Ross Douthat's new book. I distill David Brooks' think piece in The Atlantic on the nuclear family, and deep thoughts on race from AOC & her beau Riley See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 13, 20201 hr 53 min

February 11, 2020

WashingtonExaminer.com 's Tom Rogan on Chinese commies and coronavirus cover-up as well as Trump's NSC purge. Brightbeam Network's Chris Stewart on the significantly larger educational achievement gaps in K-12 systems in Leftist cities versus in more conservative cities. As Stewart said, "You can't call yourself a 'world-class city' if your kids can't read." Memo to Chicago, SF, DC, et al... Mercatus Center's Don Boudreaux on trading freely and pumping your own gas. AOC calls the Presidential Me...

Feb 12, 20201 hr 53 min

February 10, 2020

James Pinkerton, The American Conservative and Breitbart Contributor, on Bolshevik Bernie and Caesar Mike-- who's the better foil for whom? IU student gets "Sex Fest" shutdown just in time for The General's triumphant return (after two decades). Former Gates Foundation exec Julie Sunderland on pandemics and pandemonium. The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum's absurd Trump-Chavez comparisons highlight only that she has no understanding of what's happened and is happening in either country. 1619 @ The Osc...

Feb 11, 20201 hr 53 min

February 7, 2020

You've heard of Brewster's Millions. Meet Mannequin Pete's Billionaires. Now that there's an impeachment reprieve, the GOP needs to revive its public scrutiny of Big Tech. We discuss with "The Manipulators" author Peter Hasson. NYPost.com 's Maureen Callahan argues we're not as polarized as the DC press corps wants us to be. Compare/contrast what POTUS said on border security to the Dems' New Way Forward legislation. Kenyans are doing the homework Americans don't want to do. It's never too late ...

Feb 08, 20201 hr 53 min

February 6, 2020

Trump focuses on fairness during his WH acquittal comments; eschews Pelosi's "prayers" and Romney's pretext. Meet the woman running against Pelosi. UT' s Michael Lind vs. the managerial elite...the divide in the new class war? Education. Emory U Enlight professor Mark Bauerlein on the end of colleges/universities b/c he who controls the personnel, controls the policy. WashingtonExaminer.com 's Brad Polumbo is looking for a conservative-friendly gay soccer club that is just about soccer, and root...

Feb 07, 20201 hr 53 min

February 5, 2020

City Journal's Charles McElwee on PA's bellwether valley. Harper's Thmas Chatterton Williams on coherence vs adherence. Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Ethan Blevins on the dilution property rights in Seattle (Oakland, NYC, et al.) I take apart Diane Ravitch's education reform vs. disruption arguments. Eliminating youth fitness in CA. The ruling class explains Romney, and the best glossary of terms I've read since Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" from Rutgers' Lee Jussim See omnystudi...

Feb 06, 20201 hr 53 min

February 4, 2020

President Trump delievered his 2020 State of the Union Address, Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com & Professer Charles Lipson help us dissect it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 05, 20201 hr 41 min

February 3, 2020

Will IA be Bolshevik Bernie's breakout night? The Chiefs weren't the only ones playing on their opponent's side of the field; Trump's criminal justice ad. Russ Roberts on Whoopi's understanding of capitalism. Spectator USA's Dominic Green on Brexit and the next plebescite the UK needs: the Oxford comma. What China isn't reporting on the coronavirus spread with Dana Cheng from The Epoch Times. Why K-12 teachers are really leaving the profession...it's not over salary & benes. A Bernie sis att...

Feb 04, 20201 hr 53 min

January 31, 2020

The latest on combating the coronavirus...thank you, Big Pharma. The Spectator's Toby Young on the UK's 2020 Independence Day. The TX state house race that was supposed to be a canary in the coal mine for Democrats in 2020...but wasn't. AmericanThinker.com 's Thomas Lifson on the blockbuster Brightbeam study detailing the greater racial disparity in academic achievement in the big, Leftist-controlled cities versus the more conservative ones. Chapman University fellow Joel Kotkin on the authorita...

Feb 01, 20201 hr 53 min

January 30, 2020

PowerlineBlog.com 's Steven Hayward on possible Dem crackup in IA and Dems' impeachment death throes as evinced by Sen. Minority Leader Pagliacci's failed Vincenzno Pentangeli play today. Claremont Institute's Robert Curry on rediscovering our "common sense realism" in the post-truth age. A tale of two schools in Chicago and one school choice case before SCOTUS with Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Dale Chu. Grammy-award winner Billie Eilish and brother on home-schooling. I am an Alex P. Keaton Gen...

Jan 31, 20201 hr 53 min

January 29, 2020

I call Sen. Dick "Stolen Valor" Blumenthal for the defense. Are Iowa Dems suffering from FOBO? We preview Monday's IA Caucus with Democrat pollster Brad Bannon. Spectator USA's Chadwick Moore will assess Don Lemon's response to the criticism over his gigglefest of insulting Trump voters. UM economics professor and Carpe Diem blogger Mark Perry on the dark side of renewable electricity. Hillary has an urge...and Forbes Publisher Rich Kaarlgard on black swans, late bloomers and the passing of Clay...

Jan 30, 20201 hr 53 min

January 28, 2020

UC-Berkeley law professor John Yoo on the impeachment defense. Don Lemon's bulletin-board-worthy gigglefest. Celebrating a male MMA fighter who cracked the skulls of female competitors. Dollar Store bigotry. NYT's Bret Stephens confronts the limits of NeverTrumpism. PJ Media's Roger Simon joined me to discuss IA Caucus and his hopes for a Bolshevik Bernie nomination, and, setting the record straight on the Space Force logo with some help from a Trekkie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Jan 29, 20201 hr 53 min

January 27, 2020

The Congressional Dems still have neither a case nor any charges. An impeachment discussion with Cornell law professor and LegalInsurrection.com founder William Jacobson. Will the end of privacy bring full transparency and a more connected society? We discuss with an investor in Clearview AI. Sam Abrams tells of a spring of hope at Sarah Lawrence. The March for Life vs. Mannequin Pete. Cindy McCain projects chickenshittery she conceded, and My :60 of Sanity on Dems' U2 dilemma with Bolshevik Ber...

Jan 28, 20201 hr 53 min

January 24, 2020

City Journal's Heather MacDonald presents the syndedoche of Ethnic Studies...dateline Harvard, of course. AmGreatness.com 's Adam Mill on the asinine Adam Schiff, Speech First's Nicole Neily is fighting for free speech on campus. USA Today's Jim Bovard's instructive trip to the MD DMV. Bernie Bros boffo BS detector, and POTUS at March for Life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jan 25, 20201 hr 53 min

January 23, 2020

RealClearInvestigations.com 's Eric Felten on the House Dems' impeachment patois. Former NYT reporter and author Alex Berenson on Delonte West and the connect b/w weed & psychosis. '20 is shaping up like '04? TheAmericanConservative.com 's Curt Mills makes the case. Crisis Magazine's Michael Waren Davis on the dangerous attraction to what's popular. Do read his piece below. RIP Mr. Peanut. Who will be the pallbearers? Who can replace him in the age of the peanut allergy? See omnystudio.com/l...

Jan 24, 20201 hr 53 min

January 22, 2020

The Federdalist.com 's David Marcus on the political reckoning owed impeachment Dems, DailyCaller.com 's Amber Athey on the death of Femocrats. Sam Husseini on Biden's rank dishonesty about his Iraq war record. Suzanne Venker, writing in WashingtonExaminer.com , has an urgent warning to all men. WSJ's Jason Riley explains why Booker and Kamala couldn't replicate the electoral success of Obama, and, aliens are just the future us? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jan 23, 20201 hr 53 min

January 21, 2020

Trial of the Century Day 1 with former newspaper publisher and historian Conrad Black. Are college graduates ruining our politics? Are champagne Socialists who don't preach what they practice ruining our culture? I'll discuss with WashingtonExaminer.com 's Tim Carney. Greta Thunberg is still angry at you. Bowen Xiao, reporter for The Epoch Times, joins me to discuss the "2nd Amendment Sanctuary" movement in VA and across the nation against the backdrop of the peaceful 2A rally in Richmond...and ...

Jan 22, 20201 hr 53 min

January 20, 2020

The weaknesses of the House Dems impeachment brief, George Mason U law professor FH Buckley on his new book on secession. RealClearPolitics.com 's Susan Crabtree on the tale of two whistleblowers, Boomer dad vs. millennial dad...and how the former brought us Gulag Bernie, and National Association of Scholars' Peter Wood on textbooks, 1620 vs. 1619. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jan 21, 20201 hr 53 min

January 17, 2020

On golden pens and silver platters and the congressional Democrats' new bombshells that turned out to be duds...but they still had a better week than their flacks at CNN. Tea Party Patriots Jenny Beth Martin on the impeachment sham and the federal spending scam. U of C poly sci professor emeritus Charles Lipson on the necessary reckoning for the Deep State's bad actors if the rule of law shall reign and our intel agencies are to regain credibility. I debate Voluntary Human Extinction Movement fo...

Jan 18, 20201 hr 53 min

January 16, 2020

Despite the GAO, impeachment is still DOA. CityJournal's Dr. Theodore Dalrymple on identity as ideology. NYPost's Sohrab Ahmari on the anti-Catholic conspiracy theories against Barr as with Judge Amy Coney Barrett. A Solzhenitsyn response to Comrade Bernie's bro in IA. NYU's Joseph Salemi on the new prudery (check out his compelling piece below) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 17, 20201 hr 53 min

January 15, 2020

Chicago Tribune columnists and editorial board member's John Kass and Kristen McQueary fill in for Dan Proft. Nicholas Sandmann setteled his defamation case against CNN, his attorney L. Lin Wood calls in and talks about the dynamics of the case, and cases alike with their media coverage. CNN political commentator, member of President Trump’s Hispanic Advisory Council, and Host of the Steve Cortes Show on AM560 The Answer in Chicago, joins us and describes what it's like to be a conservative voic...

Jan 16, 20201 hr 53 min

January 14, 2020

Thanks to Project Veritas we can now have an important conversation about Comrade Bernie's glorious plan for American gulags for Trump voters. Unfortunately, Burlington College can no longer serve as one of the re-education centers. Thanks a lot, Jane Sanders. I discuss along with impeachment and IA Caucus with Hollywood screenwriter and "Another Kingdom" podcaster Andrew Klavan and Washington Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti. His Economic Eminence Walter Williams joins me to discuss the ne...

Jan 15, 20201 hr 53 min

January 13, 2020

More fragile, the Iranian regime or the DC press corps' Iran narrative? I ask fmr Deputy NSA K.T. McFarland. Is Christopher Wray the right G-man to fix the FBI? AmGreatness.com 's Julie Kelly weighs in. Pacific Research Institute's Sally Pipes has a new book detailing the old dangers of central planning as playing out in CA and the UK per U.S. Democrat Socialists' Medicare for All gambit. Greta, AOC, and Les Knight. There's a Carnac the Magnificient punchline to be had in there somewhere. Rememb...

Jan 14, 20201 hr 53 min
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