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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | If you're purchasing a new home or refinancing your existing home, then you need to call Team Hockberg, your trusted local lender. |
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0:17.5 | Some of you may know that I grew up in a family business run by my dad, a grocery store, |
0:23.9 | but it had a butcher shop. |
0:25.5 | It was known far and wide on the southwest side, and I know that quality means something. |
0:30.9 | And that's why we drive two hours from northwest Indiana all the way to the northwest side of the city of Chicago to Joseph's |
0:39.5 | finest meats at 7101 West Addison Street. Before you go there, you've got to be prepared, so I've got a list for you. |
0:47.1 | Do you have a pen? Italian sausage hot. Italian sausage mild. Get pork chops, but order them thick. And of course, get some beef too, |
0:57.3 | like bone in ribby steaks, nothing like it. And if you don't know exactly what to get or how to cook it, |
1:04.3 | ask Ben or sell and tell them John Cassing. And I'd like to tip my hat to Joseph, the patriarch, the owner, the founder, |
1:14.3 | who built this store for his family with his two sons, Ben and Sal. In his mid-90s, he had |
1:20.7 | serious heart surgery and he made a triumphant return. He loves his place. And I do too. And so does anyone who shops there. |
1:29.4 | It's like family. |
1:30.6 | They care about the details. |
1:32.4 | They care about you. |
1:33.7 | Joseph's finest meets 71.1 West Addison Street, Chicago, a family tradition since 1977, |
1:42.6 | and a proud sponsor of Johncast News and the Chicago Way podcast. |
1:49.3 | Put this in your mind. The levels of cringe. You're at a backyard barbecue and there in the |
1:56.3 | corner is a guy doing his white man overbite dancing, grooving to Taylor Swift. |
2:03.3 | That's one. |
2:04.7 | You know the other that's even worse? |
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