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- Welcome to the Drewber, Secretary of Transportation.
- Thanks for having me.
- Now, Pete, I am on, it feels so weird to say Pete,
Mr. Buttigieg. - Pete's just fine.
- As any good Drewber would do,
I'm taking you to your destination.
- Well, I appreciate the ride.
- Is it true that you drive a minivan?
- Yeah, yeah. - I love my minivan!
- Oh yeah, us too. - Once you have a door
that opens this way. - Oh, you never go back.
That's what changed it for us,
becoming dads just changed our whole outlook on cars.
So we have twins, a son and a daughter, one in each seat,
and the bucket seats, pop the stroller in the back.
It's great. - You're like,
"There's two kids, two of us,
let's do this." - Yeah.
- You're like, "If I can figure out transportation
in America, we can do this."
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Red light confession,
how disgusting, dirty does your minivan get?
- Let's put it this way, there's today's coffee.
- Mm hmm. - There's yesterday's coffee,
and then there's the science experiment, right?
And that's just the stuff that the adults
are responsible for.
- Oh, that makes me so happy.
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Okay, this is Ronnie.
- Hi, Ronnie. - Good to know you,
nice to meet you. - We asked what your most
personal favorite piece of legislation was.
Ronnie, would you kindly give us a Ronnie's Review?
- Yeah, so I am very happy to witness
a bipartisan infrastructure law like this being presented
in my lifetime.
It's amazing how the communities who have been
a little forgotten are now able to catch up
to the rest of the world.
So it's amazing what you're doing.
- Thank you. - Reading your legislation,
I really was harkened back to John Hughes movies.
- I remember "The Breakfast Club," yeah.
- John Bender is a character in that movie
who lives on the wrong side of the tracks.
- Right, I mean,
think about what that phrase. - A pun intended.
- Yeah, I mean, the fact that we have that phrase
in our language, right?
There are times when a neighborhood or an entire town is
put at a disadvantage
because you're on the so-called wrong side of the tracks.
And part of what good transportation can do is
get you across some of those barriers
so that your chances in life don't depend
on what block you happen to live on.
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- It's a red light confession.
If you had one mode of transportation
for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- Oh, I guess a bicycle.
I could always use a bicycle.
- It's a bicycle. - Yeah.
- Interesting.
How should I function on a dating app?
You met love and this is what all of us need to hear is
to have hope for the dating app.
- Yeah, no, it worked really well for me.
I mean, I had just come out and one of the first people
that I really connected with was Chasten.
And then we met for a first date, supposed to be a coffee.
- Okay, so you were like,
"Let's be serious and mature and have a coffee."
- Well, and then I knew what would come next,
which is if it was going well,
I'd brought tickets to the baseball game,
and so I had a couple tickets in my pocket.
- What was the moment that you knew,
"I'm taking out the tickets."
- Somewhere in the middle of the conversation,
I could just tell we were clicking
enough that I wanted to like talk more
and learn more about him and spend more time with him.
So the whole point of the online
is what it makes possible offline, right?
I lucked out.
We had that amazing first date
and within a matter of weeks, I knew I was in love.
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- We are at a red light.
Okay, it's midnight.
You're gonna go in your fridge
and you can't control yourself.
You're like, "I know I have to wake up early.
I'm gonna be puffy." - Oh yeah.
- "And swollen and I'm going for it 'cause life's too short
and I just want that delicious food right now."
What is that food?
- If there's any pizza in there, I'm going right to that.
I don't even need to heat it up.
Cold pizza is fine.
Otherwise cheese, I feel very strongly about cheese.
- I just found out I have high cholesterol
and they're like, "Guess what you need to do?
Cut out dairy."
I was like, "No!"
What would one green step be like?
For example, I'm like, "Oh, if I'm reheating food,
I put it back in the Tupperware.
I don't take another bowl to create more dishes."
I don't use fabric softener anymore,
the dryer balls aren't cutting it.
But I'm like, that's my one green step.
So it can be something tiny in the moment or something big.
What would one green step be
that you can suggest? - I have to say,
things that kind of stress me out or trigger me?
- Yes. - Dryer balls.
(Drew laughs) Why?
- I hate them so much. - Why?
Your sleeve gets all twisted up in the thing with the,
I don't understand what they do.
I don't understand what problem they solve.
- They don't do their job.
- Chasten believes in dryer balls, so we have dryer balls.
Sorry, what was the actual question?
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So they're making thermostats that are smarter and smarter.
You can make the money back pretty quick on your energy bill
and obviously it's good from a pollution standpoint.
- Okay, so get smarter technology for your thermostat.
- So this new bill that just passed,
for the Inflation Reduction Act,
one of the things it does is it makes it more affordable
to make upgrades to your house
to make it more energy efficient
- Good for the environment, better for your economics.
Mayor Pete, Transportation Secretary of America,
Pete Buttigieg, presidential candidate
who did so well, presidential candidate in the future?
- I don't know,
I really don't know.
I'm 40! We'll see.
(laughs) Honestly, I don't know.
Running for office, it's not a prize.
It's a chance to do something.
One of the best ways to make a difference is
to be in public office,
but it's definitely not the only one.
You never know whether the most impact you can have
on people's lives is as an elected office holder
or- - National or intimate.
- Or what I get to do,
helping to shape everything from people's commutes
to people's international travel and their safety.
- Serving in the military is one
of the things I admire amongst so many about you.
Veterans Day is coming up.
- Yeah. - What is the one thing
to do in honor of veterans?
- For me, Veterans Day is a chance
to be involved in some kind of of service,
whether it's for or with veterans
or whether it's just being involved in your own neighborhood
I think is a great way to honor that spirit.
I think the best way to honor people who served is
to make sure that our country and our communities
are worthy of what it takes to keep 'em safe.
- Wow.
That just hit me so hard.
We have to have a better world out there
that is worth the sacrifice.
- Yeah. - I haven't thought about it
from the inside out that way.
We always look to the veterans,
but if we as individuals can continue to create communities
that are worth the sacrifices, it is our job to do that.
- Yeah, and that's for all of us.
- I wanna thank you so much for your time.
- Thanks for having me, this was fun.
I'll keep working on the airports and the roads
and bridges and subways and excited for you
to continue to reach people
with something positive every day,
and hope we get to do this again.
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- [Drew] Don't forget to leave me a review!
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