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Podcast: The Update with Brandon Julien
Episode: The Update- October 29th
Description: It’s Day 29 of the government shutdown — and Congress is now on what’s being called their thirteenth try at reopening the country. If this were baseball, they’d have struck out weeks ago. The lights are still dim on Capitol Hill, the bills are still unpaid, and hope is hanging by a thread thinner than a fun-sized Twizzler. But speaking of Halloween, not all the scary stuff this week is happening in Washington. As kids prepare for their annual sugar-fueled night of chaos, there’s another debate brewing across America — the one over which candies should never see the inside o...