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"also have a bonus episode in your feed we're going to be talking about where to send your kids to school that's for slate plus members only they also get special discounts to live shows no hitting the paywall on the slate site and so much more and as we mentioned earlier everything is half off right now and please we would love to see you at our Providence show coming up on Wednesday October 21st at the Strand Ballroom to buy tickets please go to slate.com slash gabbess live and if you want the half off deal for slate plus go to slate.com slash gabbess plus and the promo code is PG50 that's our show for today our researcher is Emily Ditto our producer is Nina Porzuki our theme music is by they might be giants Ben Richmond to senior director for podcast operations and Hillary Fry is editor in chief of slate for John Dickerson and Julia Kayam thanks so much for listening we'll talk to you next week. This episode is sponsored by planned parenthood federation of America we're watching the devastating consequences of policy decisions play out in real time the trump administration is going after a little known program called title 10 family planning the only federal program devoted solely to funding care like birth control cancer screenings STI testing and treatment and more for uninsured under insured and low income people if you want to do something concrete to help protect and defend access to reproductive rights and care visit plan parenthood dot org slash defend your gift built a future where everyone can get the care they need and deserve. This is the story of the one as a shipping manager he's running the dock stocking supplies and making sure every order goes out on time and Granger helps him stay prepared from shipping supplies to PPE to hand tools he counts on Granger to keep products moving and trucks rolling so his operation runs smoothly no matter the shift call 1-800-GRANGER click ranger.com or just out by Granger for the ones who get it done"