Who Is Pete Buttigieg?
Who Is?
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4.1 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mayor Pete is now Secretary Buttigieg, which means that the former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is now a member of the Biden Administration. A surprisingly popular presidential candidate in 2020, Buttigieg has an unusual story, and in just a few years, he’s gone from planning bike lanes and roundabouts to overseeing the nation’s highways, airports, and more. Buttigieg has already run for president once and he’ll almost certainly do it again, so it’s South Bend and beyond on this episode of "Who Is?," for a look at the man who could one day be America’s first (openly) gay president.
- Sam Centellas, Executive Director of la Casa de Amistad, a community center which has been serving the needs of immigrants and residents of South Bend, Indiana, since 1973
- Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America. During the Obama Administration, Osborne served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy
- Adam Wren, a Features Correspondent at Insider's Washington Bureau
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| 0:00.0 | He's very good at understanding what the rules are and how to operate within the rules |
| 0:05.0 | and to do those things in a way that gets him and others that he's working for the best result. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you make of somebody who wrote two memoirs before he even turned 39? |
| 0:18.0 | He's incredibly smart. When you meet him, he comes off geeky. He comes off as very, very well thought out, very well put together. |
| 0:25.6 | But when you get to know him, I always got a genuineness out of him that I wouldn't have expected out of somebody like him. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm going to be honest with you. |
| 0:36.6 | I am very, very skeptical of Pete Buttigieg. |
| 0:40.3 | Why? |
| 0:41.3 | Well, everyone hates the overachiever, right? |
| 0:44.3 | The kid who volunteered at the old folks home just for their college application. |
| 0:49.3 | The one who actually liked it in middle school when they graded you on how organized your notebook was, |
| 0:54.5 | or who reminded the teacher she hadn't assigned homework yet. |
| 0:58.0 | Maybe he's a really smart guy who's worked hard and earned it. |
| 1:01.6 | Or maybe he's calculating and power hungry. |
| 1:04.4 | Somebody we should be wary of. |
| 1:06.4 | So, who is Pete Buttigieg? |
| 1:11.7 | I'm Sean Morrow, and this is Who Is, the podcast from Now This, where we examine power through the stories of people who have it. |
| 1:20.2 | Today, it's Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. |
| 1:24.1 | Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg was born on January 19th, 1982. |
| 1:29.3 | Jennifer Montgomery and Joseph Buttigieg were academics. |
| 1:33.3 | Jennifer, Pete's mother, studied and taught linguistics. |
| 1:36.3 | And his mother's field may be why today, Pete, and only child, knows like a jillion languages and shows them off all the time. I have glimps so many of the |
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