You visit the huge town park at the end of your block, and find yourself racing grown-up sized big wheels with some Dads.

This episode was inspired by "The Case for Pool Party Progressivism" by Kate Aronoff at The New Republic, Aug 2023.

Special thanks to freesound_community at Pixabay Sounds for numerous contributions to the soundscape of this episode. Additional sounds from Freesound, licensed under Creative Commons 0 or Attribution 4.0:

city ​​park birds background atmo without people sound effect by Garuda1982

Squirrel.wav by PhilllChabbb

ForestDay_BW.66.wav by sonidosreales245

group people outdoors calm 150108_00.wav by klankbeeld

chatter in a large tent.wav by Kyster

Small Crowd Walla by IENBA

kids fooling around outside shouting ohhhh India.flac by kyles

20160503_rowdy.kids.wav by dobroide

PickleBall.m4a by fkunze

roller coaster field recording by Garuda1982

Inside a traditional Dutch windmill, 2 by pcwvdmark

S12-03 Small group men cheering; encouraging.wav by craigsmith

breeze.wav by keweldog

thunders and crows by trainloop0

Soccer Match by RandomRecord19

R08-41-Small Gathering of Friends.wav by craigsmith