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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

December 18, 2020

AM Greatness’ Julie Kelly in for Proft. Joined by “Rational Optimist” & Best-Selling Author Michael Shellenberger on his latest book, and climate in a Biden economy. AZ Congressman Andy Biggs says 2021 will be worse than 2020. Investigative Journalist Lee Smith on the latest with Russia-gate… Jordan Schachtel breaks down the “bogus COVID hysteria.” AM Greatness’ Liz Sheld with the latest on vaccine data, and Gretchen Whitmer’s Christmas propaganda… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Dec 19, 20201 hr 53 min

December 17, 2020

Sens. Ron Johnson & Rand Paul made the Homeland Security Committee voter fraud hearing useful. Revisiting Fauci's 3/11 testimony and its implications. Vaccine realism w/ author Lionel Shriver."Unplanned" author and pro-life leader Abby Johnson on the prospects for pro-lifers under Biden. The case of the Angenette Young, the Chicago Police's terrible mistake and the inability of the public sector to admit wrong and make right. Conservative Partnership's Rachel Bovard on Trump's understanding ...

Dec 18, 20201 hr 53 min

December 16, 2020

Harvard Medical Professor Martin Kulldorff responds to #GreatBarringtonDeclaration critics, ascientiftic lockdown polices. NYC restaurateurs and their employees revolt againt St. Andrew of COVID. Manhattan Institue's Max Eden on hope for school choice in the form of FL's Hope Scholarships. Where does Tom Cruise's rant rate in the pantheon of celebrity meltdowns? Think Christian Bale, Lee Elia, Earl Weaver, Mike Ditka...The Purge persists per the Orwellian San Fran Renaming Committee. With apolog...

Dec 17, 20201 hr 53 min

December 15, 2020

Thank you, AG Barr or good riddance? NYPost.com 's Sohrab Ahmari on the DC press corps' willful blindness. In re Sharyl Attkisson's inteview with lawyer Matt DePerno re: Dominion Voting Systems in Antrim Co, MI. The Fund for American Studies' Roger Ream on filling K-college's role of teaching Constitutional principles. Diocese of Venice, FL's, School Supt. Fr. John Belmonte on modeling success; compare/contrast K-12 in free state like FL vs. COVID lockdown state like IL. Photojournalist Chris Ar...

Dec 16, 20201 hr 53 min

December 14, 2020

EC voting & vaccine distroing. NYPost.com 's Michael Goodwin says yes, special counsel for Biden, Inc. United Airlines gave into unreason and thus came their unkindness to a 2-yr-old & her parents. American Affairs founder Julius Krein on Trump as a transition POTUS. University of Paris Philosophy Professor Justin EH Smith on salvaging the humanities. Forget dropping the "Indians" from the Cleveland Baseball Team. Drop all the professional sports leagues founded by patriarchial white opp...

Dec 15, 20201 hr 53 min

December 11, 2020

"The Stakes" author Michael Anton on Trump's next move. AEI's Education Policy Director Rick Hess on civic vs. constitutional education. TheFederalist.com 's John Daniel Davidson's call for COVID 2020 civil disobedience. Mandating actual diapers to complement the face diapers? Reason.com 's Remy's latest parody of on-again, off-again debt hawks+Coach Oates takes it to Coach K, A case study in kleptocracy and the living/dying by the state's promises: IL veterans' homes. See omnystudio.com/listene...

Dec 12, 20201 hr 53 min

December 10, 2020

Powerline.com's Hinderaker in for Proft. School choice w/ Manhattan Institute's Nicole Stelle Garnett. JunkScience.com's Steve Milloy on Biden Climate. Business owner Larvita McFarquhar on fighting back against MI Gov. Walz, and CATO Institute's Patrick Basham on election irregularities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 11, 20201 hr 53 min

December 9, 2020

Assessing the TX filing w/ SCOTUS+UC-Berkeley Law Prof. John Yoo on a special prosecutor for Biden, Inc., in China? Catholic University Prof. Chad Pecknold on The Great Reset. American Compass' Wells King on the potpourri POTUS. Are you in an abusive relationship w/ govt? NYC Young Republicans and Vish Burra takes on NJ Gov. Phil Murphy, and Bad Santa in Chicago has a good ending...w/ a Nerf gun for young Michael. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Dec 10, 20201 hr 53 min

December 8, 2020

UCLA Med School's Dr. Joseph Ladapo on the Cuomo-Fauci vaudeville act, Cornell U's race-based vaccine mandates, and slow-walking useful COVID therapeutics. Modeling school choice success w/ Acton Institute Founder and parish school operator Fr. Robert Sirico. The Fund for American Studies' Roger Ream on how TFAS educates aspiring journos. Publisher/Financier Conrad Black on the Biden Cabinet and The Great Reset. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan felled by her "summer of love." Has CNBC's Rick Santelli ...

Dec 09, 20201 hr 53 min

December 7, 2020

Fox Business’ Scott ‘The Cow Guy’ Shellady in for Dan Proft on tonight’s edition. Breitbart’s John Nolte on the over reaction to COVID-19. RCM’s John Tamny on the financial strain businesses are being hit with. Hayride’s Scott McKay on election 2020, and James Bovard makes the case against lockdowns. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 08, 20201 hr 53 min

December 4, 2020

GA on my mind. TheFederalist.com 's davidmarcus on Mac's in Staten Island as the 2020's Green Dragon Tavern. Scott "The Cow Guy" Shellady on Nov jobs. The white working class on TV from "All in the Family" to "Shameless" w/ author Ryan Girdusky. In our latest "Sports & Politics" segment: Coaching great Lou Holtz honored; Cris Collinsworth PFF bends the knee. With apologies to Tesla (the band not the inventor or the car), Signs, Signs, Everywhere there's signsF++king up the sceneryBreaking my...

Dec 05, 20201 hr 53 min

December 3, 2020

Trump threads needle b/w rigged election & promoting turnout for the GA runoff...w/ historian Victor Davis Hanson. Dr. Gary Slutkin, former Director of Intervention of WHO, on hypocritical pols undermining COVID prevention. MI restaurateur rebels against tyranny. School choice success story: Walter Blanks, Jr. Celebrating the late, great Walter Williams, and NRO, Bloomberg columnist Ramesh Ponnuru on the New GOP. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Dec 04, 20201 hr 53 min

December 2, 2020

Former Trump Deputy NSA KT McFarland on the Flynn pardon, Durham investigation, Biden ntl sec team's trite rap. George Mason U Econ Prof. Robin Hanson on the COVID spending monkey trap. Colorado College Econ Professor Kristina Acri on criminal organizations trafficking in fradulent COVID-related supplies, treatments. Staten Island showdown and the search for a limiting principle on executive power under the auspices of "public health". Parscale goes public+Project Veritas' CNN surveillance. Don ...

Dec 03, 20201 hr 53 min

December 1, 2020

Modeling school choice success: Chicago Hope Academy. PA resident and Grove City College Prof. Paul Kengor on the improbability of Biden's PA performance. AZ leg hearing breakdown. Crisis Magazine Editor Michael Warren Davis on why libertarians suck, and the identitarian Disneyification of college football. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 02, 20201 hr 53 min

November 30, 2020

NYU law professor RichardA Epstein on Trump's legal challenges and the failure to make the main thing the main thing. Dickens had nothing on our Age of Cant w/ City Journal's Theodore Darlrymple. Unlike the DC press, SCOTUS not wowed by Cuomo. Iranian nuclear scientist wanted to be martyred. His wish was Mossad's command. Brietbart's Allum Bokharki on Big Tech's pre- and post-election manipulations. Spiking research at Johns Hopkins that entered the skepticism-prohibited zone. My review of "Hill...

Dec 01, 20201 hr 53 min

November 25, 2020

if/when, what should Trump's parting thoughts be? Czar Kerry & Biden's Surrender First Ntl Sec team. AIER's Jeffrey Tucker on science that shall not be spoken of by pols/media of science. Microbiogist and USA Today columnist Alex Berezow on vaccines, risk aversion. City Journal's John Tierney on Biden's school shutdown silliness. In re COVID management, the FL vs. IL case study. Richard Wilbanks & Gunner's "new leash on life", and Thanksgiving & pvt property. See omnystudio.com/liste...

Nov 26, 20201 hr 53 min

November 24, 2020

TV Gov. Andy Cuomo thanks the little people tells the world, you like me, you really like me...and upstate sheriffs are "dictators" w/ NYPost.com 's Karol Markowicz. Scraping for school choice w/ Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice CEO Robert Enlow. In re Google's election influence w/ WashingtonExaminer.com 's Jim Antle.Thanksgiving meal more affordable...not incl the PPE.The damage of lockdowns you don't see..."the death of a dream". Social workers' tips on avoiding psychotic episode du...

Nov 25, 20201 hr 53 min

November 23, 2020

The Trump legal team, calling SCOTUS. With Mnuchin recalling unspent $$ from the Fed, do we need more funny money for COVID relief? Perspectives from AEI's Michael Strain and Mercatus Center's Don Boudreaux. Susan B. Anthony List's Majorie Dannelfelser on 2xing the number of House GOP pro-life women. 55 years in law enforcement including arresting Elvis. Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sets the record straight in his new book. They've had enough oppression from COVID enthusiasts in pub...

Nov 24, 20201 hr 53 min

November 20, 2020

Sidney Powell described The Kraken but didn't release it w/ The Hayride's Scott McKay. Rudy G. goes thru what I call the 8 buckets of voter fraud assertions. How Do We Fix It? podcaster Jim Meigs on The Chump Effect. AIER's Joakim Boom on "stay safe solidarity." Teachers unions ignore CDC, shutter schools. Not to jump the gun, but what a Trump concession speech should sound like...a tribute to People Who Play By The Rules. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 23, 20201 hr 53 min

November 19, 2020

Congressman-elect Burgess Owens (I love saying that). Did the voting machines lie? W/ software engineer Bob Zeidman. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett called the WI recount initiated by the Trump campaign a "futile attempt to disrupt democracy." It may be futile. We'll see. But how is pursuing one's rights under a statute enacted via a democratic process an "attempt to disrupt democracy?" HBO leftist John Oliver agreed w/ Trump on voter fraud before he didn't+Antifa is just getting started w/ Jamestow...

Nov 20, 20201 hr 53 min

November 18, 2020

State of the counts and cases. Big Tech on The Hill...again...to any effect? George Mason Econ Prof. Alex Tabarrok argues for a vaccine lottery. ER doc Jon Baugh on mask politics in medicine. RealClearInvestigations.com 's Eric Felten on the denial of FBI spying and the disappearance of Durham. Bucalupo.com 's Sofia Carbone on Harry Styles in a dress and in defense of traditional gender roles, and Megyn Kelly pulls her kids out of a NYC school because of the lethal virus of identitarian politics...

Nov 19, 20201 hr 53 min

November 17, 2020

Updating vote tallies & legal battles w/ publisher, financier and member of the British House of Lords, Conrad Black. In re: Smartmatic. NEW! School Choice For All with American Federation for Children's Denisha Merriweather. Best-selling author Lionel Shriver on the notably conservative 11/3 vote. Foundation for Economic Education Opinion Editor Brad Polumbo on Biden's coming big govt gambits. IN Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz Socialism. Dr. Kevin Pham on Biden's mask pronouncements and a recen...

Nov 18, 20201 hr 53 min

November 16, 2020

Justice Alito on 1st freedoms in COVID year 0. Fauci and the tyranny of experts. Sidney Powell's claims about Dominion Voting Systems & the prospects for success of pending Trump campaign litigation in each of the six states. Detroit News Editorial Page Editor Nolan Finley on the Michigan vote and why the count was stopped on Election Night. Pacific Research Institute's Dr. Henry Miller on Moderna; cases vs. CFR. "Defund the police" is disappearing police w/ Manhattan Institute's Charles Leh...

Nov 17, 20201 hr 53 min

November 13, 2020

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Nov 14, 20201 hr 53 min

November 12, 2020

Powerline's Hinderaker, in for Proft. Joined by guests: Dominic Green, James Bovard, Francis Menton, George Parry, and Andrea Widberg. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 13, 20201 hr 53 min

November 11, 2020

Powerline's John Hinderaker in for Dan Proft. We'll get election Post mortem from AM Greatness' Julie Kelly, Kalev Leetaru, Daniel McCarthy, and Declan Leary. Also how you can celebrate and support vets on Veterans day 2020 w/ Jeremy M. Stalnecker. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 12, 20201 hr 53 min

November 10, 2020

UC-Berkeley law prof. John Yoo on how SCOTUS could change the POTUS race in PA and nationally. #FOXEXIT ? Free Beacon's Matthew Continetti on the GOP's opportunity per Dem infighting. Left's persistence with The Purge w/ AmericanThinker.com 's Thomas Lifson. VDH on the three categories of NeverTrumpers vs. the Trumpers. 2.2M women out of the workforce in the last year--all the gains since the 1980s erased--and substantially because of baseless school shutdowns, and Election 2020 ditty: Pallets f...

Nov 11, 20201 hr 53 min

November 9, 2020

Dems never had to prove Russian collusion and they don't want to let Trump assert his legal rights to prove (or not) voter fraud. W/ WashingtonExaminer.com 's Eddie Scarry...We'll go through comments from Newt, Romney, Toomey, Graham. The Left torches Biden's pro forma olive branch...Michelle Obama, Ezra Klein. We'll review the Trump campaign litigation state-by-state, the issues raised and the remedies that may be available. Multi-ethnic, wking-class conservatism w/ American Compass Executive D...

Nov 10, 20201 hr 53 min

November 6, 2020

Election Day coverage, Day 4. Spread b/w the married & unmarried: Married men: 53% Trump Unmarried men: 44% TrumpMarried women: 55% Trump Unmarried women: 37% Trump, The disparity in the outlooks and thus the voting habits of the married vs. the unmarried is of great cultural importance. Theft of the Presidency? W/ "TheStakes" author Michael Anton. Attorney Adam Mill on the Trump campaign litigation. From Jim Crow to John Vulture? W/ Rabbi Dov Fischer. TheAmericanConservative.com 's Arthur B...

Nov 07, 20201 hr 53 min

November 5, 2020

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Nov 06, 20201 hr 53 min
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