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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

August 11, 2020

Who had to break the news to Stacey Abrams? Have you heard of the Golden 13? Why not? Black American success stories w/ Woodson Center and 1776 Unites founder Bob Woodson. "I'm angry, therefore I'm right." w/ Manhattan Institute's Theodore Darlrymple. NYPost.com 's Karol Markowicz on #COVID19 performance art. George Mason U's Tyler Cowen's take on #COVID19 moralizing. Outkick.com 's Jason Whitlock is sick of politics, LeBron & LeBron's politics. The AG Philosopher. See omnystudio.com/listene...

Aug 12, 20201 hr 53 min

August 10, 2020

Chicago disintegrates...my first-person account. Pelosi's delusions about the illusions of Trump's EOs w/ former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder. Spectator USA's Chadwick Moore on NYC's anti-Travis-Bickles. Shemekav Michelle's walk-off #WalkAway. Not prepared for vote-by-mail w/ RealClearInvestigations.com 's Mark Hemingway. Troll recall. And it's not Nadler. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Aug 11, 20201 hr 53 min

August 7, 2020

Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Investigative journalist and "Full Measure" host Sharyl Attkisson does. Manhattan Institute fellow and best-selling author Heather MacDonald on the worst four months of govt malfeasance on record. "I'm angry, therefore I'm good." W/ TheAmericanConservative.com 's Matt Purple. Michelle O is attention-starved. NY AG launches NRA fundraising campaign. Biden didn't mean what he said+ American will be what black Americans want it to be. The choice, Bob Woodson or Ev...

Aug 08, 20201 hr 53 min

August 6, 2020

In re Sally Yates, plausible deniablity requires "plausible". "Scientists are pack animals" w/ @touchstonemag's Tony Esolen. Veteran virologist Steven Hatfill can't figure why the media besmirches HCQ as a therapeutic for #COVID infection in its early stages. Journalism is dying the death of 1000 tweets? W/ Thomas Moller-Nielsen. Dan Proft Parenting Tip: don't lick your kids, and Fatheads on obesity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Aug 07, 20201 hr 53 min

August 5, 2020

My exclusive with Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass on being targeted for professional elimination by the Jacobins in his paper's newsroom. School closures "border on child abuse" w/ TheFederalist.com 's David Marcus. Why won't #BlackLivesMatter oppose contemporary slavery? W/ TheAmericanConservative.com 's Casey Chalk+ Religious Freedom Institute's Thomas Farr on Christian persecution in China, U.S. Biden fails cognitive test with CBS anchor. Kindergarten Cop = Birth of a Nation? Post-pandemi...

Aug 06, 20201 hr 53 min

August 4, 2020

If Biden ducks debates he loses+ Follow the science on COVID-19--where? W/ Dr. Joel Zinberg. Cops as proxys for the people's frustrations with pols w/ Peter Moskos, "Cop in the Hood" author and Criminal Justice professor at John Jay College. New Discourses founder and best-selling author James Lindsay on the Marxists' case 2+2 can = 5. Which side is aided by the George Floyd bodycam video? On the latest installment of "Why Dan Proft is Single," an essay contest to secure the right to pay to atte...

Aug 05, 20201 hr 53 min

August 3, 2020

What will Biden do? W/ Free Beacon's Matthew Continetti. Who brought Malcolm Gladwell back to God...do read the reprint of his piece below (and "David and Goliath" if you haven't). Murders up 24% in US; DC murders ahead of '19 and cops arresting kids chalking pro-life messages on sidewalks. Spectator USA contributor Kate Hyde on the Left's secret lust for Trump. A COVID ad that writes itself. Some questions to determine if you have the soul of a fascist from Tony Esolen. House Majority Whip Jim ...

Aug 04, 20201 hr 53 min

July 31, 2020

Obama declares 2020 America to be 1963 Birmingham at John Lewis funeral service. Fox Business contributor Scott "The Cow Guy" Shellady on recovering from the govt-run economy. UCLA's Dr. Joseph Ladapo on the "White Coat Summit" (he was there). Nike's "anti-racism" at home and use of slave labor in China w/ "Bully of Asia" author Steven Mosher. "The Invincible Family" author Kimberly Ells on local law enforcement being supplanted by international law enforcement? Fauci backs Trump in testimony be...

Aug 01, 20201 hr 53 min

July 30, 2020

Bezos' pro-life, pro-entrepreneur, pro-America testimony. Anti-trust is anti-consumer with Will Rinehart, Center for Growth and Opportunity. Longtime Dem consultant Ted Van Dyke wrestles w/ Dems' defense of disorder, suppression of free expression. The mob, sophisticated barbarians denigrate not just a courthouse in Seattle but the memory of American hero William Kenzo Nakamura. Defending Flannery O'Connor w/ The Imaginative Conservative's Prof. David Deavel. CDC's Dr. Redfield confirms the grue...

Jul 31, 20201 hr 53 min

July 29, 2020

Barr moves on the unmaskers while pantsing Dem Socialist Congressbots...w/ former federal prosecutor George Parry. Mercatus Center's Veronique de Rugy on the COVID relief past and prospective. Remote Health Solutions Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jon Baugh on COVID therapeutics he's using in the ER and how we've gone from evidence-driven medicine to politically-driven medicine. Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass' stand against newsroom Marxists. On raising a "rare" girl, and, the latest Why Dan Pro...

Jul 30, 20201 hr 53 min

July 28, 2020

AG Barr's pointed testimony, arid wit. http://DemandSafeSchools.org , the unions' must-haves+ Emory University English Professor Mark Bauerlein on the problems w/ online learning...get your kids away from the screen. Ricochet.com 's Jon Gabriel: the worst is yet to come. The Left should embrace guns. Can Dems regain the Post-Industrial Midwest? Is a "return to normal" the most perilous of all campaign messages for Biden? W/ essayist (Harper's Magazine) James Pogue. Olivia de Havilland: anti-Comm...

Jul 29, 20201 hr 53 min

June 27, 2020

WaPo's George Will's case for a cardboard cut-out in the White House but not in MLB stands. Rep. Jerry Nadler's AKA Mr. Sardonicus' insistence that Antifa doesn't exist is no laughing matter. Marxist big city mayor's federal law enforcement misdirection. Harvard Medical School Prof. MartinKulldorff: masks aren't a game-changer. FirstThings.com 's Rusty Reno on SCOTUS' casinos > churches ruling. Fr. Tony on "skin hunger". Remembering Regis thru Dana Carvey. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Jul 28, 20201 hr 53 min

July 24, 2020

Chicago buries Columbus; erects Jacobin Committee to review the other monuments, murals, art pieces to be razed. TheFederalist.com 's exposed an apocryphal Atlantic column worthy of Joe Biden. Tablet magazine's Izabella Tabarovsky on America's Soviet mentality. If a vegan popcicle vendor isn't insulated from The Purge, what chance do the rest us have? TheAmericanConservative.com 's Addison del Mastro on the fitness-industrial complex. Modeling "get woke, go broke" with University of Cambridge Ph...

Jul 25, 20201 hr 53 min

July 23, 2020

Operation Legend, Legend's mom, Art II Sec. 3 vs. Bobby Rush. Bulljiver vs. liar w/ AIER visiting scholar Joakim Book. Aristotle is a keeper? W/ University of Chicago Philosophy Prof. Agnes Callard. Dr. Henry Miller: we're still #COVID19 's early days. Beria is St. Louis' Circuit Attorney? Ricochet.com 's Bethany Mandel on school pods. A story from The Purge: man gets fired for simply appearing in a photo posted on social media by someone else, And does this NYC jazz club owner's description of ...

Jul 24, 20201 hr 53 min

July 22, 2020

My rant on Chicago violence. The latest studies on COVID-19 transmission and T-cell immunity. Cry for America. Then fight for her. W/ Rabbi Dov Fischer. Columnist and member of the British House of Lords Conrad Black on the Dems' losing hand. The moral disagreement among conservatives with Ryan Streeter, AEI's Director of Domestic Policy. You can take the Sanger out of Planned Parenthood but not the eugenics, right Justice RBG? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jul 23, 20201 hr 53 min

July 21, 2020

"Flight 93 Election" author Michael Anton of Hillsdale College and the Claremont Institue says we're still on that flight in '20. Former Cleveland Clinic Director of Molecular Oncology Dr. Roger Klein on COVID case hysteria. Black Guns Matter founder May Toure on what the right, left get wrong on race and on making police officers "peace officers". Manhattan Institute's Allison Schrager on Biden's "stakeholder capitalism". Steele dossier or Tom Clancy novel parody? With RealClearInvestigatons.co...

Jul 22, 20201 hr 53 min

July 20, 2020

TheAmericanConservative.com 's Jim Pinkerton on urban lawlessness and the Leftist urban mayors' constituencies. Yes, Chris Wallace, Joe Biden has supported defunding the police. One of John Lewis' legacies: reconciliation...w/ Spectator USA's Life & Arts Editor Dominic Green. Loyola University-New Orleans Econ Professor Walter E. Block: fire him or give him a raise? The Purge's target: the ordinary w/ Spiked-Online's Brendan O'Neill. Chris Fenton's Hollywood view on a ChiComm reckoning. The ...

Jul 21, 20201 hr 53 min

July 17, 2020

"One of the bottom lines is that we don't know how long social distancing measures and lockdowns can be maintained without major consequences to the economy, society, and mental health. Unpredictable evolutions may ensure, including financial crisis, unrest, civil-strife, war and a meltdown of social fabric." - Dr. John Ioannidis, from a March 2020 commentary in STATFriday eve's show:+ Trump should recruit Stanford's Dr. John Ioannidis for the #COVID19 team w/ FEE.org Managing Editor Jon Miltimo...

Jul 18, 20201 hr 53 min

July 16, 2020

Thursday eve's show:+ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture promotes white supremacy? What the...?+Columbia University Linguistics Professor John McWhorter dismantles best-seller, "White Fragility"+ Fauci is a deep state fraud, argues Claremont Institute's Angelo Codevilla+ Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard on the post- #COVID19 biz trends+ The nickname hit list of WSJ's Dan Henninger+ Sweden vs. NY+ NYC Mayor Warren Wilhelm's declaration of peace in his time+ Pacific...

Jul 17, 20201 hr 53 min

July 15, 2020

Wednesday eve's show:+On the surface, big blue cities look stronger than ever...on the surface...w/ Chapman University's Joel Kotkin, author of "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism"+Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss on the ideological corruption of science as evidenced by the #ShutDownStem campaign+My latest :60 of Sanity...a flashback to what I wrote four years ago after five Dallas cops were murdered+Jimmy Fallon makes Fredo Cuomo look like Tom Hagen...and even Jake Tapper can't stomach Andrew Cuo...

Jul 16, 20201 hr 54 min

July 14, 2020

Tuesday eve's show:+ Historian, author Victor Davis Hanson on the on three things Trump must do to frame the November election+ Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton fights a national vote-by-mail AKA ballot harvesting election+In re #COVID data w/ NationalReview.com 's Robert VerBruggen+ Gtown prof's obligation+ Hillsdale College's David Azerrad argues conservatives need a counterrevolution before there can be anything to conserve+ Maximo Alvarez's advice+ Lost luggage is Unclaimed Baggage's business htt...

Jul 15, 20201 hr 54 min

July 13, 2020

+ Former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Jacksonville Field Office Jim Casey on the Stone, Flynn prosecutions+ Prof. Anthony Esolen on the reign of error+ Caving on the Classics w/ Solveig Gold+ SCOTUS' split decision on Trump taxes and John Roberts' brand of jurisprudence w/ UC-Berkeley Law Prof. John Yoo+ #COVID19 stats w/o context+ Defending the St. Louis couple's home defense+ NYPost.com 's Maureen Callahan on the powerful men nervous about Ghislaine Maxwell's prosecution+ Profiles in Cou...

Jul 14, 20201 hr 54 min

July 10, 2020

PowerLineBlog.com’s John Hinderaker in for Dan Proft. NY Post’s FH Buckley on America’s hostage situation, and his book “America Secession”. FSU’s Professor of Economics James D. Gwartney on the economy post COVID-19. Federalist’s Joy Pullman on school reopening. Washington Examiner’s Quin Hillyer says religious liberty still faces a hurdle, and Crime Prevention Research Center’s John Lott Jr. on the selective media reporting fueling the racial divide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Jul 11, 20201 hr 53 min

July 9, 2020

Acton Institute President Fr. Robert Sirico on SCOTUS' religious liberty rulings and the relative importance placed on them versus the SCOTUS holding in the Trump tax returns case. Would you friend turn you in for a thought crime? W/ TheAmericanConservative.com 's Rod Dreher. NYTimes' Tom Friedman floats some trial balloons on getting Joe Biden out of the debates. The Left either wants him off the stage or they need to get him help on the stage. Journalist and former diplomat Dave Seminara's con...

Jul 10, 20201 hr 53 min

July 8, 2020

Don't buy the Left's Harpers letter hype. Throwing #COVID19 caution to the wind w/ former Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital CEO Dr. Jonathan Ellen. EnvironmentalProgress.com 's Michael Shellenberger's mea culpa and the enviro fear-mongers' Road to Hell...check out his new book, "Apocalypse Never". Former Vandy and Princeton Professor Carol Swain on America's tenous sovereignty. The courage of Jason Whitlock, Terry Crews and Marcellus Wiley. More important, corp recipients of PPP or corp dono...

Jul 09, 20201 hr 53 min

July 7, 2020

The inimitable and indomitable Lt. Col. Allen West who, like Steven Seagal is Hard to Kill. He survived his motorcycle accident (Thank God) and is as plain-spoken and sharp as ever. Thus, as always, you want to hear what he has to say about the race-hustlers and assorted cultural Marxists. UCLA Med's Dr. Joseph Ladapo on the public health pros' credibility gap. So you want to be a celeb? W/ "recovering" investment banker and Roth Effect podcaster Carol Roth. Caddying prepares you for life. Could...

Jul 08, 20201 hr 53 min

July 6, 2020

Mt. Rushmore is staying. Is Trump? w/ pollster Scott Rasmussen+1619 vs. 1776...w/ Woodson Center and "1776" Founder Bob Woodson. The mask distraction w/ Chris von Csefalvay, an epidemiologist specializing in bat-borne viruses. Clemson University Capitalism Institute's C. Bradley Thompson squares "all men are created equal" w/ inequality. TikTok's Martin Niemoller+ Epstein & Maxwell: "Filthy Rich". Heritage Foundation's Lt. Col. Jim Carafano on genocidal China. Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Ke...

Jul 07, 20201 hr 53 min

July 2, 2020

Forbes' Avik Roy on what FL stats tell us about #COVID19 spikes. Michael Lind ("The New Class War") on rioters & rentiers. Fox Business Contributor Scott "The Cow Guy" Shellady on the June jobs #s. Rothrock & Whitlock on hate of Christians. Darryl Daniels: America's Sheriff. On higher ed's confusion over sexual and due process norms with attorneys Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen. And, if you didn't see Hannity's heart-wrenching interview of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, you should chec...

Jul 03, 20201 hr 53 min

July 1, 2020

BET Founder Robert Johnson's case for reparations. An elegy for Seattle #CHAZCHOP with a look ahead at NYC's AZ with TheAmericanConservative.com 's Matt Purple. The IRS should be taking a look at BLM w/ tax and election attorney Cleta Mitchell. The Claremont Institute's Tom Klingenstein the worthy life. Biden bloopers. Trump/GOP need to fight everybody for the nobodie. Sen. Rand Paul on Fauci's fatal conceit and the SCIENCE and DATA that says, open the schools. Barack is envious of Michelle's bo...

Jul 02, 20201 hr 53 min

June 30, 2020

#COVID19 economics & deaths...lockdown vs. non-lockdown states w/ American Institute of Economic Research's Ed Stringham. Forget #Karen ; worry about #Liz ...w/ NYPost.com ' s Sohrab Ahmari. Pro-life heroine Abby Johnson on Alito's dissent and the importance of admitting privileges laws...on the good news front, SCOTUS builds on the court's support for school choice. Tucker Carlson's reaming of IN Sen. Mike Braun. The apology of a longtime environmentalist for participating in climate panic ...

Jul 01, 20201 hr 53 min
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