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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

June 29, 2020

CJ Roberts' betrayal of the Constitution (again) renews SCOTUS appointments as Trump election issue. RealClearInvestigations.com 's John Murawski on the "Motte & Bailey" of identitarian sloganeering. Political cartoonist and syndicated columnist Ted Rall is fighting for (looking for?) the soul of his Democrat Party'. Remote Health Solutions' Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jon Baugh on masks, school, case spikes. Awake in Seattle and fleeing for Austin. Pelosi triples down on murder charges agains...

Jun 30, 20201 hr 53 min

June 26, 2020

Dr. Louis Ignarro, Nobel Laureate in Physiology and the Father of Viagra (no, the latter didn't earn him the former but perhaps it should have), on breathing during #COVID19. Former federal and state prosecutor on why the Flynn saga may not be over. Portland State Philosophy Professor Peter Boghossian on understanding "anti-racist" and the practical impacts of this ideological application. Michigan State University Professor on Siddharth Chandra on 5 areas where we improved on pandemic response ...

Jun 27, 20201 hr 53 min

June 25, 2020

Nancy Pelosi should never be able to live down her assertion that Sen. Tim Scott and the rest of his caucus are trying to get away with the murder of George Floyd. Navy Veteran Joe Collins vs. "No Justice, No Peace" Maxine. John Matze, founder of Parler, the anti-Twitter. A review of the death of a Tucson man while in police custody. Texas hold 'em: a metaphor for life? Maria Konnikova learned by doing. Texas Southern University's Howard Henderson on police reform. Spare BET Founder Robert Johns...

Jun 26, 20201 hr 53 min

June 24, 2020

NFL Super Bowl Champion (and now GOP candidate for Congress in UT) Burgess Owens on Bubba Wallace. Howard University President Dr. Wayne Frederick. UC- Berkeley Law Prof John Yoo on Roberts' DACA precedent; dismissal of Flynn charges; 15th anniversary of SCOTUS' Kelo decision. Manhattan Institute's Max Eden on the "culturally responsive" (read: Maoist) K-12 schools to which your kids will return. Best-selling author Lionel Shriver on the ease marching against racism and her new novel on the fitn...

Jun 25, 20201 hr 53 min

June 23, 2020

In re: COVID-19 case spikes...CNN, et al., have it wrong again. DeSantis has it right again. You have to understand they're still running cover for their favorite children, e.g. Cuomo, Whitmer, the real catastrophes who reintroduced the infected into nursing homes.Theodore Dalrymple on the psychology of resentment. Who wants to be a cop? Harvard economist Roland Fryer disclose numbers he didn't expect would be true but are. Former MTV reporter and freelance journalist Kat Rosenfield on the unrep...

Jun 24, 20201 hr 53 min

June 22, 2020

Chicago aka "Murder City U.S.A." vs. a Rockford, IL, police chief who won't apologize for telling it like it is. NRO's Andy McCarthy on the USA tempest in the Southern District of NY teapot+ Hillsdale College won't bend: the last outpost of western civ in higher ed? WashingtonExaminer.com 's Jim Antle on Trump's two-fold play to grow his black vote. USA Today's Jim Bovard on TSA's #COVID19 fail and making 2020 Year Zero for U.S. history. The Epoch Times' Bowen Xiao's 's first person account of #...

Jun 23, 20201 hr 53 min

June 19, 2020

For those cheering SCOTUS' decision on DACA despite being the triumph of politics over the rule of law, keep in mind that in a Hobbesian state of nature (might makes right), it's the little guy who gets rolled. Any institutional memory, DC press corps? In the beginning of 2018 Trump proposed a DACA deal that would've provided protection not just for DACA designees (700K) but for those who were eligible but didn't apply (1.1M). House Democrats were more interested in using DACA designess as masco...

Jun 20, 20201 hr 53 min

June 18, 2020

Former Tuscon police officer and #Blexit co-founder Brandon Tatum calls ATL DA, charges a "fraud". To public health pros: distrust is a virus too. With epidemiologist Chris von Csefalvay. Bolton's bulljive. IL's sack of Durbin. His insult of Sen. Tim Scott is old hat. RAND Corp's Aaron Davenport on police "militarization". Ricochet.com 's Jon Gabriel on U.S.' Soviet mentality, and Herschel & Dan Henninger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jun 19, 20201 hr 53 min

June 17, 2020

IT and corporate experiential business entrepreneur Robert Blackwell on doing real business w/ black Americans. Google must not care about its liability protection. Sen. Josh Hawley certainly took notice of Google's absurd handling of their minding over TheFederalist.com. Speaking of the Senate, Tim Kaine? The most ignorant or most craven US Senator? Dr. Jonathan Ellen, former CEO of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, on categorizing #COVID19 cases and using some common sense to assess the c...

Jun 18, 20201 hr 53 min

June 16, 2020

TheDispatch.com 's David French on SCOTUS' redef of "sex" and evangelical pastors' virtue-signaling. I've got a canine solution to the monument flap. Dr. Thomas Yadegar, medical director of the intensive care unit at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center on dexamethasone #COVID19 treatment. TAZ before #CHAZ w/ Dickinson College Philosophy Prof. CrispinSartwell. God or the mob? W/ Crisis Magazine's Michael Warren Davis. NJ Gov. Phil Murphy gets a deserved heckling. Hire non-college grads...

Jun 17, 20201 hr 53 min

June 15, 2020

Rayshard Brooks. Don't be the first to stop clapping w/ HollywoodInToto.com 's Christian Toto. Matt Taibbi on the Left/media,"...the American left has lost its mind. It’s become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness. "Do read his entire piece posted below. The chicken & pig parable w/ The Imaginative Conservative's Prof. David Deavel. Rage against the monuments...

Jun 16, 20201 hr 53 min

June 12, 2020

Seattle pols recognize #CHAZ , look forward to summer of love and patriotism under visionary warlord Raz Simone. If it weren't for Seattle Jenny Durkan, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the self-described "Triple Threat," would be the biggest farcical figure in American politics. University of Texas Government Professor James K. Galbraith on the just how rocky we should expect the road to recovery to be. We'e been here before. RATE Coalition Co-Chair and TheAmericanConservative.com contributer Jame...

Jun 13, 20201 hr 53 min

June 11, 2020

Documentarian and City Journal editor Chris Rufo's first person account of the sci-fi novel that is Seattle. More electeds yet poorer conditions for black Americans, why? His Economic Eminence Walter Williams explains. Peaceful protests produces political results. Violence doesn't. Greater Good's Bridging Differences Writing Fellow Zaid Jilani lays it out. To paraphrase Elizabeth Barrett Browning, how do I loathe the mainstream media? I count the ways w/ former Ottawa Citizen EIC and McGill Univ...

Jun 12, 20201 hr 53 min

June 10, 2020

Unburden police? Have police departments already been defunded? An extended chat with former Chicago FOP boss Dean Angelo. Disband police unions? A private sector perspective from Toronto-based real estate developer Saqib Quershi. Faith & Freedom Coalition Chairman Ralph Reed makes the case for Trump for Christians. Floyd's brother testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. NYPost's Karol Markowicz on #COVID19 lockdowns' costs to kids. Looney Tunes goes full loony. Who wrote the Roe v. ...

Jun 11, 20201 hr 53 min

June 9, 2020

Dr. John Lee on the WHO's revision on COVID-19 transmission from the asymptomatic. Claremont Institute's Ryan Williams: America isn't racist. Spiked's Brendan O'Neill on the Left's removal of agency from black Americans. Global consultant Frank Diana on post-COVID work life. Crisis Magazine's Casey's Chalk on social media "activism". Michelle O's sentimentalist commencement address. PTI's Michael Wilbon on Brees, whites. Dabo Swinney takes on the shame mobsters. Brown Econ Professor Glenn Loury ...

Jun 10, 20201 hr 53 min

June 8, 2020

RealClearInvestigations.com 's Mark Hemingway on the end of opinions at NYT, et al.; room for the consensus opinion only. Black Guns Matter Founder Maj Toure on the frequency vs. impact of police brutality. Former Wall Street M&A banker turned author and Vanity Fair contributor William Cohan on the Icahn recovery. Former Trump Council on Economic Advisors special assistant Brian Blase explains the #COVID19 nursing home fiasco. Barr AGsplains Lafayette Park. Is Trump's cameo on "The Fresh Pri...

Jun 09, 20201 hr 53 min

June 5, 2020

Fox Business regular Scott "The Cow" Guy" Shellady with the stunningly good (in context) May jobs numbers...V-shaped recovery still possible? Looting minority-owned businesses. As in '68, the riots aren't happening in most of America w/ Arizona State Professor Christos Makridis. Former FTC Commissioner under Reagan, Dan Oliver with five ways to grow the citizen and shrink the govt. Westminster Institute's Robert Reilly's defense of the founders. Miriam Mendelsohn's call for NY's Gov. Cuomo to li...

Jun 06, 20201 hr 53 min

June 4, 2020

Worse than '68? W/ Hoover Institution's Victor Davis Hanson. The curious case of the incurious Rod Rosenstein. Chapman University's Joel Kotkin, author of "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism," on the clerisy's indifference to not them playing out during the civil unrest. Colorado State University Prof. Jeffrey Miller's ode to mac and cheese. Pastor Robert Jeffress well-timed inspirational stories. Drew Brees bends the knee. It's not an Eyes Wide Shut Party; it's just safe sex in the COVID-19 era, per H...

Jun 05, 20201 hr 53 min

June 3, 2020

Kentucky State Political Science Professor Will Reilly on the Orwellian redefinitions of violence, looting and the data-free claims of systemic racism. Former federal and state prosecutor George Parry on the state's case against former Minneapolis cop Chauvin. 10 yrs to recover? CBO projections in context w/ Mercatus Center's Bruce Yandle. RealClearPolitics.com 's Carl Cannon on the cable news networks 40 years in. Understanding the "sad radical". The Lancet puts politics over science in the pub...

Jun 04, 20201 hr 53 min

June 2, 2020

Brown University Economics Professor Glenn Loury on "dry tinder". Forbes Opinion Editor Avik Roy on the key #COVID19 stat, the praise FL Gov. Ron DeSantis deserves. What Trump, Barr, ATL & Richmond mayors have right and the Marxist pundits have wrong. NRO's Andy McCarthy on Trump's legal authority and moral responsibility. BET founder and billionaire Bob Johnson's reparations plan...if only it had been proposed in 1965 instead of the Great Society. Polk County, FL's Dirty Grady. City-Journal...

Jun 03, 20201 hr 53 min

June 1, 2020

PowerLineBlog.com's John Hinderaker in for Dan Proft on tonight's edition of the show. AlphaNew's Kyle Hooten on his coverage of the Minneapolis riots in the field. Heritage's Hans Von Spakovsky on mail-in voter fraud. Spectator USA's Dominic Green on Illhan Omar's new autobiography. Texas A&M's Benjamin Neuman says masks are the key to reopening USA. RealClearMarket's John Tamny says if we reduce C-19 mortality rates, it will just lead to more lockdowns. PowerLineBlog.com's Scott Johnson br...

Jun 02, 20201 hr 53 min

May 29, 2020

Woodson Center and 1776 founder Bob Woodson on George Floyd, riots, protests and the black voices who are not heard. Hoover Institution's John Cochrane, the Grumpy Economist, on the "careful" economy. George Mason University Law Professor Tom Vartanian on preventing a second economic hemorrhage if there is second COVID-19 wave. Hong Kong Watch's Benedict Rogers on the end of one country, two systems in China and what the West should do about it. Dems are running out of arguments, says financier,...

May 30, 20201 hr 53 min

May 28, 2020

Why the identiarian Left is connecting the Cooper v. Cooper Central Park tempest to the police-involved killing of George Floyd...why would they throw a Champagne Socialist, Obama-donor like Amy Cooper under the bus? How do they connect such a silly matters as that between a woman walking her dog and a man watching birds to something as serious at the apparent murder of a civilian by a police officer? I'll explain. Benjamin tenOvever, Microbiology Professor at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mou...

May 29, 20201 hr 53 min

May 27, 2020

Trump v. Twitter. Cooper v. Cooper. George Floyd's murder. Angelo Codevilla argues for FISA repeal. Obama owes Trump an apology, says Matt Mayer, Spectator USA Contributor. DC journo Robert Merry remembers when liberals despised the deep state. Reason.com 's Jacob Sullum on CDC's #COVID19 stats and a middle way forward. MSNBC reporter gets pantsed by a Packer in Lake Geneva, WI, And McEnany continues to pound the DC press propagandists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

May 28, 20201 hr 53 min

May 26, 2020

CDC revises down it's CFR rate, the forthcoming publication of a study in a medical journal suggests many more American than previously thought may have developed some immunity to COVID-19, and the Oxford Vaccine group is rooting for the virus to stick around? All this and more in a broad conversation about sensible sciene with Dr. Kevin Pham. I'll ask Peter Kirsanow, member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, if, per the Biden standard, he "ain't black". Politicians cannot dampen RealClearMark...

May 27, 20201 hr 53 min

May 22, 2020

UCLA's Dr. Manish Butte and microbiologist Andrew Bogan on antibody testing. Peoloton is racist and "you ain't black" if you don't vote Biden. Identitarian politics won't be a #COVID19 casualty w/ Hillsdale College's David Azerrad. Appreciating truckers thru truck-drivin' songs w/ Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock. 33% unemployment in Kentucky. Nearly 40M first-time unemployment filers in the last 8 weeks. But AEI's Michael Strain says the American Dream is alive and well. David Marcus on reop...

May 23, 20201 hr 53 min

May 21, 2020

Biden's Ukrianian phone-a-friend w/ TheHayride.com 's Scott McKay. No innovation without operation w/ "How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom" author Matt Ridley. Is Fauci-ism just 21stC Gramsci-ism? W/ Claremont Institute's repository of common-sense realism, Robert Curry. TheHill.com contributor Grady Means on our "New" Constitution+ 600 doctors a day keeps lockdown away? The opinion divide on lockdown between elites who trust government (and don't trust non-elites) and the non...

May 22, 20201 hr 53 min

May 20, 2020

Are we committing national suicide? Former head of neuroradiology Dr. Scott Atlas is worried with the lockdown we are. Former CIA Analyst Fred Fleitz helps us understand unmasking, the CIA's manipulation of a willing media and the deceit of Susan Rice. Breaking up the FBI is hard to do? Catholic U.'s Bill Smith makes the case it shouldn't be. What must we do to get the kids back to school? My discussion with AEI's Jim Capretta. Speaking of school, Mike "Dirty Jobs" Rowe weighs in on what COVID-1...

May 21, 20201 hr 53 min

May 19, 2020

Stanford Med's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya didn't think the lockdown made sense 6 weeks ago and still doesn't as we contemplate a global famine in the offing among other self-inflicted tragedies. Mises Institute contributor Bradley Thomas has a question, "How many lives are you willing to sacrifice to prevent one coronavirus death?” City Journal's Heather MacDonald, NYT best-selling author of "The Diversity Delusion," on sacrificing freedom vs. sacrificing for freedom. Why are only Evangelicals fightin...

May 20, 20201 hr 53 min

May 18, 2020

A deep dive with Remote Health Solutions' Dr. Jon Baugh on the path back to living. Best-selling poet/writer/dark humor practictioner John Kenney's poems of canker sores and love for the anxious. Spectatory USA's Dominic Green's bluffer's guide to talking COVID-19...reminiscent of the Harvard Lampoon's famous piece on how to fake being an intellectual. 1969 vs. 2020 The COVID-19 lockdown/sociali distancing response is 14 years removed from a 14-year-old's science project? "We are, in effect, Tuc...

May 19, 20201 hr 53 min
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