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Show Notes Thanks to Joe's Place Deli for their always warm and friendly hospitality!   2017 is a prime number- only divisible by itself   Things We're Thinkin' About  Some struggles: President 45 (campaigning on partisan division and race/culture division- "building a wall"), the #metoo movement, Mass shootings (Las Vegas and Texas), North Korea, Natural Disasters (hurricanes!), Race/Culture tension (Monuments, Charlottesville, Virginia, Take a Knee) Conversation around redistricting, labeling high schools as good or bad CB 9, negative campaign ads Mr. Rogers reminds us in his famous quote: "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." The #metoo movement  Elections- Alabama stood up against hate and pediphila, A black transgender activist, Andrea Jenkins, was elected to the Minneapolis City Council. A Hispanic woman won the mayor's race in Topeka, Kan. A Sikh man was elected mayo