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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

January 25, 2021

TheAmericanConservative.com 's Rod Dreher on Biden's cultural blitzkrieg and, is David French right that Trump-voting Christians owe America an apology? Can we Operation Warp Speed our way to cures for other diseases? W/ AEI's Tony Mills. Rand Paul refuses to bend the knee before Clinton Foundation Donor Zero on the '20 election. Does Chuck Schumer have Anthony Weiner on the brain? For the post-journalism press corps, Trump was the business model. Now what? W/ former CIA analyst turne media anal...

Jan 26, 20211 hr 53 min

Rod Dreher

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Jan 26, 202111 min

Martin Gurri

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Jan 26, 202115 min

M. Anthony Mills

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Jan 26, 202111 min

January 22, 2021

Publisher, author Conrad Black on the return of our "heroes" return; the folly of impeachment 2.0. Competitive Enterprise Institute's Dr. Joel Zinberg on Fauci's Amazon punt, vaccine distro. If US went to war on whose side would Big Tech be? W/ RealClearInvestigations.com 's Eric Felten. Treat Big Tech like common carriers? Renown law professor Richard Epstein makes the case. Village board members in Marxist enclave Oak Park, IL, want to defund the police and don't want the opinions of their fel...

Jan 23, 20211 hr 53 min

January 21, 2021

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Jan 22, 20211 hr 53 min

January 20, 2021

On Inauguration, Impeachment, Trump's parting words and parting pardons w/ Rolling Stone Washington Bureau Chief Andy Kroll, Army combat vet Cory Mills, NRO's David Harsanyi and The American Conservative's Matt Purple. Kentucky State U Policy Sci Prof. Will Reilly on the Church of Cultural Marxism, and Restaurant activism: RebelDiners.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jan 21, 20211 hr 53 min

January 19, 2021

NYPost.com 's Michael Goodwin on why Hillary and Pelosi have gone full Brokeback Mountain on Trump. The right play for conservatives vs. Big Tech w/ Mercatus Center's Adam Thierer. Who watches the watchmen? Who investigates the investigators? Who reporters on the reporters? Who teaches the teachers? Well, I can answer the last question: The Fund for American Studies teaches the teachers--at least economics they do....w/ program director Ted Tucker. DC scholarships status check and the challengin...

Jan 20, 20211 hr 53 min

January 18, 2021

Woodson Center President and 1776 Project Founder Bob Woodson would rather deal w/ an honest bigot than a patronizing white leftist. An extended chat on agency, history and the new viewpoint emerging. Military parade for Biden's inauguration. Bill Maher's open hand to Trump voters is actually a closed fist. National Association of Scholars' Peter Wood on the expanding Twitter purge. Biden will do things the Delaware Way w/ WashingtonExaminer.com 's Nic Rowan. Fight the SJWs (intellectually and s...

Jan 19, 20211 hr 53 min

January 15, 2020

Former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz joins to preview an impeachment trial he argues is unprecedented and unconstitutional. Fox Business' Scott "The Cow Guy" Shellady on Biden's $2T of COVID anti-stimulus. You find happiness when you're not pursuing it w/ science writer David Robson. SF teachers: no toilet lids, no school. Lockdowner Lori Lightfoot latest to soften, and A formal split between red and blue states? Will The Purge lead to The Crack-Up? See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Jan 16, 20211 hr 53 min

January 14, 2021

Impeachment debate: a contest to see who can make the most outlandish, fact-free assertions. Leader in the clubhouse: Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY). Why does House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy dismiss the possibility of agent provocateurs on 1/6 even though the FBI doesn't? Anthony Esolen on practical freedom. Under-known COVID facts w/ Dr. Henry Miller, founder of the FDA's Office on Biotechnology. Twitter's Jack Doresy has returned from the forest to alternatively defend the decision to ban Trump...

Jan 15, 20211 hr 53 min

January 13, 2021

Is Trump's end a reminder that character (and the characters with whom you surround yourself) is destiny? Will it hold true for the Left? W/ Manhattan Institute's Heather MacDonald. Big Tech impeachment & the Big-Business-led purge w/ TheFederalist.com 's Joy Pullmann. The death of political cartoons and, as with comedy, why it matters w/ artist Jack Reilly...read his most excellent historial retrospective below. Speaking of comedy, AOC lectures on law & order and literacy. Dave Seminara...

Jan 14, 20211 hr 53 min

January 12, 2021

UC-Berkeley Law Prof. John Yoo on impeachment, pardons, social media platforms as public places of accommodation. NYPost.com 's Karol Markowicz on St. Andrew of COVID-19's about face.The GOP should thank rent-seeking ruling class corps suspending their donations for the opening to do post-Trump branding. Woke corps can keep their crony cash permanently. The GOP is for people who play by the rules on Main Street. They'll ensure the big boys play by the same. The Fund for American Studies is neede...

Jan 13, 20211 hr 53 min

January 11, 2021

I want to go back to a time when "revenge of the nerds" meant only Lambda Lambda Lamda trying to take take over the Greek Council at Adams College. WSJ's Dan Henninger on The Purge's quickening pace & Pelosi's impeachment play. Incitement to violence and the Brandenburg v. Ohio test. Antifa's ascendancy & anti-violence autonomous zone appeasers w/ Post Millennial's Andy Ngo. Pushing people away from political participation and to violence w/ Zaid Jilani. Pseudo-realities and totalitarian...

Jan 12, 20211 hr 53 min

January 8, 2021

Talking through the plot and subplots in the Shakespearean tragedy playing out in real time w/ great intellects including Hoover Institution's Victor Davis Hanson, University of Chicago Poly Sci Professor Emeritus Charles Lipson and Cornell Law Prof. William Jacobson of LegaInsurrection.com. Plus, my thoughts on the question, what do we do? I'll also discuss a most important piece of reporting from JustTheNews.com 's John Solomon explaining not just what the Dems did in '20 but what Republicans ...

Jan 09, 20211 hr 53 min

January 7, 2021

On Tonight's Edition: Hoover Institution's Williamson Evers, Washington Examiner's Jim Antle, and Claremont McKenna College's William Voegeli. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 08, 20211 hr 53 min

January 6, 2021

GA Senate postmortem & electoral certification challenges w/ Rolling Stone's Andy Kroll and Ricochet.com 's Jon Gabriel. Spiked Online's Brendan O'Neill on the UK's "act as if you have COVID" lockdown. That's the last time Romney flies commercial. No charges against Jacob Blake? Robert Henderson on how we've gone from the Overton Window to the Overton Dartboard. The "what's the point" election fatigue is understandable but it's not a defense to giving up on free & fair elections or worse...

Jan 07, 20211 hr 53 min

January 5, 2021

GA runoff analysis is so comical. It's a referendum on Trump/Nov. 3 outcome pure and simple. Ossoff and Warnock could be Jane and John Doe. Biden who? Up or down on Trump and what happened on 11/3. Period. Everything else is mindless cant from off-the-shelf cable TV dum-dums. W/ RealClearPolitics.com 's Susan Crabtree. GA SOS Brad Raffensperger positions himself as the truth-teller above the fray while lying about releasing the recording of his call with Trump. American Federation of Children's ...

Jan 06, 20211 hr 53 min

January 4, 2021

Media's prank over GA call+Cruz v. Cotton on 1/6 objections. Will GA really elect the soy boy and/or Rev. Pro-Choice, the anti-Semite? W/ Rabbi Dov Fischer. Being a lockdowner means never having to say you're sorry w/ AIER.org 's Philip Magness. Rep. Satan Sandwich translates Latin into identitarian. Anderson Cooper is Joaquin Phoenix as Heath Ledger in "The NYE Joker", Coming Cuomo COVID camps? Clapton/Van Morrison freedom anthem. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jan 05, 20211 hr 53 min

December 29, 2020

Powerline Blog’s John Hinderaker in for Proft. Joined by American Greatness’ Julie Kelly on the biggest hero’s & villains of 2020. Joel Zinburg on Biden’s COVID response. The American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord on the media abandoning democracy. Trump’s loss compared to Ohio towns, Opportunity Ohio’s Matt Mayer weighs in. New York Post’s Karol Markowicz on the push to reopen schools, and University of Chicago’s Charles Gipson on Biden’s AG pick. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Dec 30, 20201 hr 53 min

December 28, 2020

CNBC’s Jim Iuorio in for Proft on tonight’s edition of the show. The Spectator’s Dominic Green on Brexit. Whalen Global Advisors, LLC’s Christopher Whalen is fleeing downtown New York, and says you should too. Jim Bovard on all things COVID-19. Also featuring Jon Najarian, Michael Farr, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 29, 20201 hr 53 min

December 23, 2020

Powerlineblog.com’s John Hinderaker in for Proft on the eve of Christmas Eve edition of the show. Joined by: Former Director of ICE, Thomas Homan. Former FBI Kevin Brock. Roger Klein, MD JD on COVID. SpikedOnline’s Brendan O’Neill on what a tier 4 COVID Christmas looks like from London. Also - Andy Puzder, and Francis Menton. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 24, 20201 hr 53 min

December 22, 2020

CNBC's Jim Iuorio in for Proft on tonight's edition. "Economics ISNT a dismal science" with Scott Nations, president and chief investment officer of Nations Indexes. Founder & CEO of KKM Financial, Jeff Kilburg, on COVID equity markets in 2020 and 2021. Economist Casey Mulligan on the regulatory process' streamlining saved the economy. CNBC's Carney on GA runoff's, and Hillsdale College's Sam Abrams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Dec 23, 20201 hr 53 min

December 21, 2020

AM Greatness' Julie Kelly in for Proft, with another edition of Rules for thee, and not for me (ft. COVID Task Force Member Dr.Birx). Rep. Jim Banks on COVID Relief package. Carter Page on the plot against him. Chef Andrew Gruel on pandemic landscape of restaurants. Fauci and Robert Kennedy on COVID, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 22, 20201 hr 53 min
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