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Day 29 𖦹 MARIA HERNANDEZ PARK · Creatures of the Wind

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_11: Okay.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_11: Day twenty-nine.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_08: Free tea.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: Take it up and spent a food.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_07: Thirty days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_11: Hello, hello.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_07: Day twenty-nine.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_11: Day twenty-nine.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_07: I don't believe it.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_07: I don't believe it's almost over.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_11: Why do public parks matter?
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  SPEAKER_07: Well, living in a city, you need green.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's a place for for kids to play.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_07: And for adults to play.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_07: And for dogs.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_07: Volleyball.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_06: When they wall up Barbecue.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_07: Skateboarding.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_07: Biking.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_07: Scooters.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_07: Speakers on scooters.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, go ahead with that.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_07: Music.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_03: You'd yell and he'd cry and he'd fuss and he'd fight.
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  SPEAKER_03: You'd keep the bandmates up all night.
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  SPEAKER_07: Guitars.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_07: None of those things can happen without the park, you know.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_07: Like you can try to find a street to do one of those things on, or some of those things here and there, but like it can all happen here.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's all meant to happen here.
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  SPEAKER_07: Because it's space.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's literally just open space, which is the hardest thing to come by in New York City.
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  SPEAKER_07: So when you create an open space that everyone has access to and can do whatever they want there, all sorts of amazing things happen.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_11: What's happening over here?
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_07: The Ethan Anthony lookalike contact.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_11: Who's Ethan Anthony?
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_11: My roommate.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_04: That guy.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_11: Hey, can I listen into this deliberation over here?
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_04: Tell me what you're thinking.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_04: I'm leaning closer to Max.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_04: I think Max had a more Ethan energy.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_04: I felt more aware of Ethan.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_04: And I think that carries a bit more, even if the answer wasn't as strong.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: Dakota's known Ethan longer than I have, so I've got to be a good one.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_11: Have you found some joy in the in Maria Hernandez?
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_10: No, I haven't found joy in Maria Hernandez.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_10: Yes, all in my life.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_10: I'm yanking your chain.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_10: Of course.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_10: Yes.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_09: It is the best gathering space for people of all ages to get loose and get to know each other and have fun.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_09: Um this is the best day of my life.
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  SPEAKER_09: I have never felt more achieved than I have in this moment.
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  SPEAKER_09: And I don't think I'll ever pop this.
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  SPEAKER_09: Like, can you do that in the street?
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_09: No, I don't think so.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_09: There's so many different jungle gems for us to play with.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_05: There's peace and there's chaos.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_11: Okay, there's someone doing a wheelie as we're doing.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_11: There's somebody doing a wheelie right now.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_05: There's always something new.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_05: It still holds that that same old school kind of feel to it in a sense.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_05: One day you see Miles serving tea, but then the other day you might see somebody rolling in a dirt naked.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_05: Who knows?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_05: You never know.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_06: I mean the park is parking.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_06: Look, you see little kids over there playing ball.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_06: Those prisons over there across the paths.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_06: Look, you see?
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_06: The usual workout bros over there doing their thing.
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  SPEAKER_06: And then just people on the park, but just commuting.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_06: That's your brother.
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  SPEAKER_08: Relaxing.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_08: Hey, what she cooked or whatever.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_08: Well when I came, when I first came back here and she was cooking, I was like, she can't cook.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_08: This shit is nasty.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_08: We're in this park.
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  SPEAKER_08: That's why I started cooking.
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  SPEAKER_08: You can truly see every kind of person.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's like this guy who's rolling with an American flag.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and a Puerto Rican flag.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: We just saw two birds in a cage sitting on a bench.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I think that's really unethical, but it's really unethical, but the birds are really cute.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_07: This park is amazing because of the humans.
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  SPEAKER_07: Like it's you could just put a giant field and amazing things would happen.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_08: You're an asshole.
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  SPEAKER_08: He's trying to mate with her because she's a male.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_08: She's a female.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_07: We're entering a different mode of being when we're in the park.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_07: And that that is gonna clap just a beautiful way to be.
• 5:23
  unknown: I know about pigeons.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_07: It's like we're reminding ourselves how to be human and how to be kids and break from the rhythms of the of the day-to-day.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_11: I normally I normally like chasing them.
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  SPEAKER_11: Chasing the airplanes?
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_11: Yeah, and try to catch them.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: It would have been a little too much putting a Stan Lee to him.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_09: It's a moment to take a step and look at the trees, to be together to play, to play basketball.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: Get it right there, get it right there!
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Born and raised New Yorker, the parks have always been a place where New Yorkers could go.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: I like playing pickup basketball, and this is a good place to meet people to know the neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never feel out of place playing pickup with strangers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you just build a camaraderie.
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  SPEAKER_01: Especially now where like neighborhoods are starting to change.
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  SPEAKER_01: People need to know each other.
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  SPEAKER_01: And parks are a perfect place to do that, to have their kids play together, to just know each other's names.
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  SPEAKER_02: This park was named after an activist.
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  SPEAKER_02: She was trying to put an end to the drug epidemic that was going on in this neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um, she ended up getting shot and killed by dealers, and that's why they named the park after her.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think it's really beautiful that there is a park named after someone trying to put effort towards creating a brighter future for the youth, you know.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_04: You want some tea?
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_04: What would you like?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_11: What do you think about your young neighbors serving the tea over here?
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  SPEAKER_07: It's already been like really amazing because like other high schoolers came and they were like, oh, what school do you guys go to?
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  SPEAKER_07: And they're so good at it.
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  SPEAKER_07: Like they're really thoughtful.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_07: I like talking to people and like learning about them, and like where do you come from and like the stories?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_10: It's 6 o'clock!
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: Day 29! Day 29.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_11: Okay, tomorrow.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_11: Tell me, what's happening?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_07: Dawn of dusk.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_07: Free tea from 6 a.m.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_07: to 8 p.m.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_07: Everyone is serving the tea.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_07: You're serving the tea.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_07: I'm serving the tea.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_07: JW is serving the tea.