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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: A smile to bring down a city

The Chicago Way

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Way, Wgn, Politics, Kass, Carlin, Jeff, News, Tribune, Plus, News & Politics, The, Chicago, John, Radio, Columnist

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (11/03/25): Charles Lipson, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, joins John Kass and Jeff Carlin this week to discuss what Zohran Mamdani’s role as a leader of the modern Democratic Party will look like, how the U.S. is going to respond to the […]

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0:00.0

We're in November now. Thanksgiving is just weeks away and you don't really have a lot of time.

0:06.0

You think you do, but you don't. Take it from the butcher's son, me. You need a fresh turkey.

0:12.0

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0:21.5

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0:22.8

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0:25.3

How do I know this?

0:26.7

Because I know the quality that they demand.

0:29.7

At Joseph Finis Meats, these guys are about quality product.

0:34.2

No preservatives, no hormones, no fillers.

0:39.9

And when you're having Thanksgiving,

0:45.4

you want to treat your family to something that they won't forget. That's why I'm getting my Thanksgiving turkey at Joseph's finest meets. 71.1 West Addison Street on the northwest

0:52.7

side of Chicago at Addison and Nordica,

0:56.0

a family tradition since 1977 and proud sponsor of JohncastNews.com and the ChicagoA podcast.

1:06.0

When you hear pundits talk, and I know because I am one, you can sense when they don't know what's

1:14.4

going to happen. They kind of freak out on the panel shows. They kind of walk around and touch

1:20.0

and try to feel their way like blind men in the darkness to get a consensus. But there is no consensus. It hasn't happened yet. We're talking

1:31.4

Mondami. We're talking the future of the Democratic Party. With Charles Lipson, Professor

1:39.1

Emeritus University of Chicago, Peter B. Ritzma chair. You can find all his stuff, all his writings,

1:47.9

at Charles Lipson.com. He is the professor that I wish I had when I was a kid. And Jeff

1:55.2

Carlin is here. Jeff Carlin, future physics teacher, baker of pies that I haven't had pie in so long.

2:02.6

And me, I'm John Cass, editor of John Cass News, where you always get a good cup of Midwestern Common Sense.

2:10.8

And where are you?

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