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Hi, this is Josh Levine. It's Thursday, November 3, 2016, and this is a special edition of Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and listen.

This is what you do when the Chicago Cubs win their first world series since talking motion

pictures and the modern zipper were invented. On Wednesday night, the Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians

8 to 7 in 10 innings in game 7 to come back from 3 to 1 down and win the championship.

Joining me now by phone to discuss from his home in Washington, D.C.

is Stefan Fatsas, the author of Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.

Hello, Stefan.

Good morning, Josh.

And with us from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist.

He's out on the streets to get the pulse of America.

Hello, Mike.

Yeah, let me tell you,

I am within sight of a pizzeria that serves both thin and the thick. Um, I... The world is changing.

Yeah, yeah. I'm in a city where there is a mayor who serves daily and, uh, we don't take

parking for granted, but I'm not quite making

the Grand Park connection. Anyway, I saw a couple Cub's hats on the subway, and my kids are both

wearing Cubs shirts, so we're really excited. I talked to Seth Stevenson, a Red Sox fan yesterday

before Game 7, and he talked about the feeling of walking down the street

wearing his red socks cap and just kind of nodding at people and, yeah, and reveling. I'm sure you're

seeing that in the streets of New York right now. Yeah, I think the cops are feeling the same,

the same thing. People are definitely talking about it.

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