Chicago Way w/John Kass: Freedom rings

The Chicago Way

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (07/07/25): Charles Lipson joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin for this post Independence Day episode. Charles is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago and an author whose writings can be found in the Spectator, Spectator World, The Telegraph, and more. On the docket, […]

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0:00.0	Everybody's got a guy. Well, I know a guy too. Actually two guys. I got Sal and his brother Ben.
0:07.1	And I drive two hours from northwest Indiana all the way to Nordica and Addison on the northwest side of the city,
0:16.2	passing all the other butcher shops to get to Joseph's finest meats. Why? Because I grew up in a butcher shop.
0:23.5	I know what quality is. I know what attention to detail is. That's Joseph's finest meats.
0:29.5	7101 West Addison Street in Chicago. Homemade sausages. Oh yeah. USDA prime age beef and butchers who know what they're doing.
0:39.9	Do me a favor.
0:41.1	Do yourself a favor.
0:42.4	Go to Joseph's finest meats, get some Italian sausage, and you'll never want to go anywhere else.
0:49.7	And it's the only thing that Betty will make when she's making peppers and sausage.
0:54.3	She wants Joseph's, and that's an endorsement based not on anything other than the quality of their work.
1:01.6	Because my name means something to me and their name means something to them.
1:06.3	Joseph's finest meets 7101 West Addison Street in Chicago.
1:11.9	A family tradition since 1977, a proud sponsor of Johncast News and the Chicago Way podcast.
1:23.2	There's a lot of celebration and emotion in our country this time of year.
1:28.8	We look at our founding fathers.
1:31.1	We think about the wild pigs and how to catch them.
1:34.5	And they caught them.
1:35.6	And we're talking about the founding fathers.
1:38.8	And did they really mean to do what they did?
1:41.6	The Declaration of Independence is the greatest document that this
1:45.6	great republic has produced. Why is that? It starts with God. And it also deals with
1:52.3	individual liberty and the primacy of the individual, freedom, liberty, and the American way,
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