Going Deep with Pete Buttigieg on Social Mobility

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

He’s good. He’s really good. In particular, Pete Buttigieg is good at making connections between pragmatic stuff like infrastructure and the most important parts of our lives — caring for people we love and making full use of ourselves. This is a conversation for anyone thinking about the next election and what it means to “make the trains run on time.”

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This episode was made possible by the lovely and hard working people at AmeriHealth Caritas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering
0:10.5	about the specific marriage of person with job.
0:15.0	In other words, when an individual with his unique background and perspectives
0:19.8	commits to a task, how does his story and his insights and his areas of highest compassion
0:26.4	make hard incremental work possible? My conversation partner is Pete Budajevich,
0:34.0	part consultant, part small city mayor,
0:35.0	part a whole lot of other things,
0:37.0	and the work before him
0:39.0	is every mode of transportation in America.
0:42.0	So join me for a conversation. mode of transportation in America.
0:43.1	So join me for a conversation about one man's ability to increase mobility, literally and
0:49.6	figuratively for all of us.
0:52.4	This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. A veteran, a Christian, a gay man, a road scholar, and
1:16.1	McKinsey consultant, a mayor, the only child of academics, a minivan-loving father of two toddlers, a beer-drinking wood-splitting Midwesterner.
1:28.0	And I saw on Instagram the other day, an Iron Man.
1:32.0	That is a partial profile of the man running
1:36.2	transportation in America. Transportation that defines the set of
1:40.9	choices we have, what school we can go to, what park we can play in, what
1:45.9	factory, warehouse, or office building, we can reach in time for the starting bell. Not to mention how easy or hard it is to get to our ailing mother or that job interview that could change our lives.
2:00.0	It turns out social mobility depends on actual mobility.
2:05.0	Pete Buttigieg is trying to put more in reach for more Americans.
2:10.0	Because if you can get where you're going, you can put yourself right where you want to be.
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