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Brendan Hall

Sep 12, 2026

8:49
Are there any lessons that you draw from that now that you look back over the last seven years working on this project?
8:56
Yeah, it's a great question.
8:58
So, I mean, right now I'm sitting, I live in Brooklyn, New York City.
9:03
I'm sitting in Highland Park, which is this beautiful little slice of public land run by New York City State Parks right near us, or City Parks.
9:13
And just sitting here, you know, I've watched someone walking with their dogs, someone barbecuing, a little kid running through the grass, a man doing Tai Chi, another man with a Peruvian flute who's walking and playing his flute.
9:26
And I think the most compelling thing for me maybe has been seeing how every one of our experiences is so different in these places, these preserved places.
9:36
patches of land for us to, you know, enjoy and recreate and connect with each other, but how important every single one of those experiences is.

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39:48
The current state of America's parks, how healthy are they? How can we support them and take care of them? Yeah, you know,

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