The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine.

It's Thursday, November 3rd, 2016, and this is a special edition of Slate's Sports

Podcast Hang Up and Listen.

This is what you do in 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 ten innings in game 7 to come back from 3 to one down and win the championship.

Joining me now by phone to discuss from his home in Washington DC is

Stephen Fatsis, the author of Word Freke in a few seconds of panic.

Hello, Stephen.

Good morning, Josh.

And with us from New York is Mike Pesca, the host of Slates 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 sick.

world is changing.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm in a city where there is a mayor who serves daily and we don't take parking for

granted, but I'm not quite making the grand park connection.

Anyway I saw a couple cubs hats on the subway and my kids are both wearing cubs shirts so

we're really excited. I talked to Seth Stevenson the Red Sox fan yesterday before game seven and he talked

about the feeling of walking down the street wearing his Red Sox cap and just kind

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