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While We're Here spent the night out on the town and recorded a live podcast at Commune Cafe in Newburyport, MA. "Know Your Neighbor" is both the name of this episode and also the name of a documentary film project that the Newburyport Human Rights Commission is working on throughout the year. The film will be a collection of interviews with people in different locations throughout Newburyport. The purpose of the project is to help folks throughout the city get to know their neighbors and to celebrate the diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and worldviews that contribute to our life together.  Ben and Matt help to kick off the project by discussing the importance of knowing our neighbors. The first half of the episode is the usual back and forth banter that you are used to hearing from our hosts. In the second half, we get to hear voices from the crowd as Ben and Matt open up a time of questions and answers with the audience.  Here is an article from the Newburyport Daily News about the podcast recording and the Know Your Neighbor project.