The Dan Proft Show Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Dan Proft Show
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.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn on prospects for the GOP to tube $2M funny $$ spend, defund police and federalize election leg. Former publisher, financier and House of Lords member Conrad Black on Socialists' demands for agreement else martial law. Entertainment reporter, opiner Christian Toto on the end of comedy. Handsy Andy as a Dark Triad case study. MO pastor who would've been better to continue not providing marital advice, and UT CBS affiliate report on adverse outcomes to vaccinations and the import of the little-know VAERS system.
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Historian Victor Davis Hanson on who's in charge, neanderthal thinking, and DC lockdown. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger on Encyclosphere, what's intriguing in furtherance of free thinking in the digital sphere. LA School District "Day Pass" agitprop. Shut down Baltimore govt schools for good. TFAS.org's Daniel McCarthy on the old standards for journalism that should be revisited. Chicago Mayor Triple Threat takes the lead in the race for the most unrepentant, Draconian lockdowner over Gavin Newsom per their respective perspectives on fans in the stands on MLB Opening Day next month.
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Can Gov. Party Nips survive? W/ NY Post's Michael Goodwin.16 govs freed their residents from face diapers. Good move? W/ Pacific Research Institute's Dr. Henry Miller. TheAmericanConservative.com's Arthur Bloom on what passes for congessional oversight of the FBI. The Purge persists because of sentimental barbarians like Dr. Seuss' step-daughter who subordinate the truth to upsetting neo-Jacobins. 3 dads & a baby, and Suburban 8th grader goes where adults fear to tread.
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Cuomo Wonder Twins: form of a lech and a dope. Handsy Andy's demise a dress rehearsal for Biden's? W/ Adam Mill. Conservatives' spending split w/ Acton Institute Research Director Sam Gregg. Evanston breaks the reparations seal. GA election reform. The $1.9T COVID jobs killer w/ University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan. There's no such thing as "white" math. Wiki Co-Founder and Bluefield College (VA) provide hope amid The Purge.
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Trump, Gen Xer Trumpians takover of the GOP w/ The Hayride's Scott McKay. Fmr diplomat Dave Seminara on Biden's WHO damage control. The end is nigh for Nipple Rings Gambino and his "humor." Harrumph or else: Prof. Gad Saad's thought crimes list. White chicks & The Golden Globes. Prof. Paul Nathanson on cultural misandry. Parents in the La Mesa-Spring Valley (CA) school district react to VP of school board's comparison of opening the classrooms to slavery. Megyn Kelly's K-12 wake-up call...a preview of what the so-called Equality Act would mean for parents & children everywhere to the extent it already isn't the case..
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CNBC's Jim Iuorio in for Proft on tonight's edition. Joined by: Eric Felten, Brian Wesbury, Dominic Green, Stephen Eide, and Joakim Book
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My hopes for Tiger. UCLA's Dr. Joseph Ladapo on the vaccination chimera. Debating the Trump "amendments" w/ Brookings Institution's Jon Rauch. The Fund for American Studies' Anne Bradley on teaching econ in an era of "ethnomathematics." Kids in cages is okay when Biden does it? Joe Biden isn't an amiable dunce. He is a pathological liar and scoundrel. Two words rarely seen together: Chicago Thinker, and Pleasanton, CA, teachers lobby the kids to not return to school.
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AM Greatness' Julie Kelly in for Proft. Joined by Liz Sheld, Mike Doran, Michael Anton, Steve Deace, and Dinesh D'Souza.
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Nipple Rings Gambino tries gaslighting his way out of nursing home carnage/cover-up. Science needs critique not cheerleading w/ RealClearInvestigations.com's J Peder Zane. TX power outage was neither failure of free mkts nor federalism w/ Power Hungry Podcaster and documentarian Robert Bryce. China's vaccine diplomacy w/ The Spectator's Cindy Xiaodan Yu. In our lastest CAMPUS BEAT: we covered Smith College administrator Jodi Shaw's courage against Critical Race Theory on campus in late October knowing it was a matter of time before she would be forced out. She, a self-professed liberal, provided an inspired example to the very end. Who will emulate her? The training took over on United Airlines flight that lost an engine over Denver. What teachers-union-addled school boards really think of the parents (and, by extension, students) they have a fiduciary responsibility to serve.
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Powerline's John Hinderaker in for Proft. Joined by: Federalist's Adam Mill, Attorney David Rivkin, Hollywoodintoto.com's Christian Toto, Manhattan Contration's Francis Menton, and George Mason U's Donald J. Boudreaux
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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 book success? Maybe he needs to phone a friend (Bill Ayers) to finish his third memoir?
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 politics. More shooting in Atlanta and residents want more police...the McCloskeys in St. Louis would like more policing too, and Coach K's BLM cant.
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 against congressional Republicans, misstates George Floyd's name and claims congressional Dems' legislation would've saved his life whatever his name was. Private security detail--taxpayer-funded, of course--for Minneapolis City Council members who want to defund the police. Taibbi on "White Fragility" and its primary huckster.
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 since the Spanish Flu of 1918. 1619 Project Founder Nikole Hannah-Jones' empathy for white "barbaric devils". Voter fraud in Paterson, NJ...a canary on the coal mine. Jeff Bezos' "Climate Pledge Arena". And, end the week on a positive with a Good Samaritan story from PA.
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 Johnson the white guilt; he isn't impressed. Catch MLB Fever in the #COVID19 era? I can't based on the requirements being bandied about to attend a ballgame.
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 fitness cult. The Purge's kill list...you may not be on it...yet... Project Veritas' undercover ops on Facebook. Some college kids provide some hope on American history...WSJ's "Future View". Calling a person a "fat pig" is now unfair to pigs.
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 unrepentant, unaccountable Twitter mobs. Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin on Bolton's limp revenge. Radical Son David Horowitz on Trump's forthcoming "Blitz". #CHAZCHOP more free market than Seattle?
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 #CHAZCHOP. TheAmericanConservative.com's Addison Del Mastro on copaganda as aspirational. Author Chase Purdy on how close we are to the "Billion Dollar Burger". In my latest "Sports & Politics" segment: Brett Favre's Wranglers must be too tight and columnist Jason Whitlock is the rarest of sportswriters, the independent thinker.
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 mascots than in serving their interests. Put cops in relationship not only with those whom they protest and serve but also those whom they arrest? Hope for Prisoners Founder Jon Ponder may just have the secret sauce. Did Dan Cathy prostrate himself before the mob? FirstThings.com's Rusty Reno and I discuss. Masks off salute to #Walkaway founder Brandon Straka for taking on American Airlines. NYC schools are teaching Libby Emmons' 10-year-old son he's racist?"...the school is teaching kids how to interpret history before they learn the history they are meant to interpret."That is the working definition of indoctrination not education. National Association of Scholars' Peter Wood on defunding college not the cops, and, let Sen. Tim Scott lead on police reform.
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.
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 case data since reopenings began. Spectator USA Columnist Chadwick Moore on Pride Month PR stunts. Former Oklahama Wesleyan University President Everett Piper on on America's movement towards cultural suicide and how to prevent it. College kids are more thoughtful about police reform than the Democrat Socialist Party, per the WSJ's "Future View" And, I agree with former SF Giants' Aubrey Huff on masks.
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 only?
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, both in public places and inside college classrooms w/ AIER''s Phil Magness. #CHAZ's reparation dress rehearsal w/ TheHayride.com's Scott McKay. Chicago Mayor Lori "Triple Threat" Lightfoot at odds with her identitarian fellow travelers at the ACLU. Just when I couldn't like soccer less...and, ESPN finds historic bottom.
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 James Pinkerton on Radical Chic 2.0 and the rich leftists shared loathing of the middle class with the pooer leftists. So you say you want to be a Portland police officer? Best-selling author and New Discourses founder James Lindsay's counter to "white fragility" at work, and Starbucks bends the knee.
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 University Public Policy Professor Andrew Potter. NASCAR is behind the times banning the Confederate flag as the NFL seems poised to band the U.S. flag, And, identitiariansplaining white privilege.
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. Wade decision? Harry Blackmun but with some help. Former Cosmo writer turned Catholic feminist Sue Ellen Browder lays out the case. In our latest CAMPUS BEAT: some hope on race relations, law & order from the college campuses? Shocking but true--though it is from the computer science and math majors.
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 brilliant blistering of his university president.
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 Harvard reseachers. Did Jeffrey Epstein has a Jim Jones quality that allowed him to woo would-be whistleblowers for so long? We'll discuss with reporter Alana Goodman per her new book on Epstein entitled, "A Convenient Death." One of the benefits of the digital age including social media is you hear from voices that you would otherwise not, like this businesswoman in the Bronx.
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 publication of a study on the effect of HCL? And, Sharon Stone reminds us that Hollywood is full of vapid, attention-starved dingbats.
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.
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 fighting it out in the courts for their faith? With St. John's University Law Professor Mark Movsesian. History will recall AG Barr fondly for resisting the temptation to allow the DOJ to continue to be beset by political vigilantism. Just when you think the economic thinking in Chicago couldn't get worse, Sean Penn comes to town. Bellmawr, NJ, police understand the concept of the consent of the governed even if that's "above the pay grade" of Gov. Phil Murphy. From the folks that gave us tulipmania comes the "cuddle buddy".
Ricochet.com's Jon Gabriel's Zoom call aesthetics and his coming-of-age treatment in development. Taxpayer Protection Alliance's David Williams on Pelosi's try to make HEROES out of House Dems. TheFederalist.com's Margot Cleveland on not if but what Obama knew re: Flynn. NY, CA, IL: dumb, dumber, dumbest. Speaking of which, Iron Mike & The Worm (b/c MJ was unavailable and likely uninterested) discuss Kim Jong-un...not exactly Buckley and Vidal. Remembering Katrina+ And, when CNN's propagandists don't get poll results they like they just report what they wanted the results to be.
Robin Hanson, Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford U, on why the reopeners are winning the argument against the lockdowning elites. R Street Institute's Tony Mills calls for a back to basics approach of government-funded pure science research with some historical precedent in support. This is no time for the trivial and the need for pragmatism will shift the US right, argues former VP advisor Grady Means at TheHill.com. Spiked Online's Brendan O'Neill on what Neil Ferguson's booty call says about politics in the West. Joe Biden wants due process for himself but for no one else when it comes to allegations of sexual assault saying he would rescind DoE Sec. Betsy DeVos's new Title IX guidelines. And, can someone get him to stop shoehorning the word "intercourse" into every conversation? Updating the Dallas hair salon owner (and the prodigous GoFundMe support she's received) and Project Veritas' CBS exposé. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio provided the signature statement for Democrat Socialists in 2020 when he previously said there was plenty of money in America, it's just in the wrong hands. At that time he meant, rich vs. poor. Now he means public sector vs. private sector as he argues there will be no recovery without federal bailouts of state and local governments.
Variolation? It worked for GW at Valley Forge. George Mason University's Robin Hanson makes the case. Temper your enthusiasm about the therapeutic prospects of HCQ, says noted biologist Dr. William Haseltine. The virus' disparate impact on blacks but not black businesses w/ Brooklyn College econ professor Robert Cherry. Hollywood cranks (Whoopi, Woody, Tom Hanks) vs. Jon Voight. My latest :60 of Sanity. Is Sweden the roadmap to reopening? I discuss with FEE.org's Jon Miltimore. Kudlow says 4-8 weeks. Better be closer to 4. 60 Minutes and $40B won't be enough to bring back the nearly 1/3rd of the US economy now offline. A look at the economic impacts to date with WSJ's Josh Mitchell.
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!