Hank: let Pete Buttigieg rename his podcast if Brightline West opens in 2028 (2024)

promise · status: said in jest (not tracked) · last event: promised (2024-05-10) · owner: Hank

In a May 2024 conversation with Pete Buttigieg, Hank bet his podcast's name: if Brightline West opens in 2028, Pete gets to rename it.

About: Brightline West, Pete Buttigieg

date	event	what	video
2024-05-10	promised	Hank bets his podcast's name with Pete: if Brightline West opens in 2028, Pete gets to rename the podcast. (playful)	Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg 00:19:12

What is said about it

37 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — The description says Pete Buttigieg, as Secretary of Transportation, runs the 55,000-person US Department of Transportation. — video description
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — The description says Hank quite liked Pete: a big nerd focused on understanding people's problems and systems to help them, not on rhetoric. — video description
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — The description says Hank made the video in a weird way that Pete's team had not agreed to, and hopes they don't mind. — video description
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — announcement: Hank says the DOT emailed that the Secretary would be in Missoula for the new airport's opening; Hank proposed a dual interview, with explanatory interstitials added in editing. — 00:00:00
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says who owns an airport depends, but it is usually the city or the county. — 00:01:00
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says airports are funded partly by local government and partly by passenger facility charges, one of the many charges added to an airline ticket. — 00:01:00
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says airlines sometimes invest in airports, and in Missoula he is celebrating the Biden-Harris administration's federal funds for the airport. — 00:01:40
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says airport control is becoming politically salient: states, notably in the South, are pressing to take control of locally run airports, which concerns the DOT. — 00:01:40
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says most US airports were built before 9/11, so security checkpoints and layout must change; the DOT is funding replacements, down to taxiway geometry. — 00:03:12
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says that as a child he wanted to be an airline pilot. — 00:04:40
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says as mayor he saw many land-use visions die because of parking requirements, and many cities are now moving on from them. — 00:05:10
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says safety is automated vehicles' biggest promise: human drivers kill about 40,000 people a year, as many as gun violence, with much less attention. — 00:05:40
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the second big gain may be land use: self-parking cars could park out in the county, freeing land now allocated to parking. (hedged) — 00:05:40
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says many cities have found they need less parking than they thought, even with human-driven cars. — 00:06:38
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: On zipper merges Pete, stressing it is not official policy, says experts told him to go to the end and merge at the last moment; Hank agrees. (playful) — 00:07:00
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says chargers are less reliable than gas pumps because they are newer; federal standards for funded chargers include an uptime standard. — 00:07:00
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says EVs are where gas cars were around the Model T; Biden set a 500,000-charger goal for the decade, with federal funding where the market won't build. — 00:09:33
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says funding lets the government require chargers to be reliable, interoperable and transparent on pricing, as drivers expect at gas stations. — 00:10:31
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says e-bikes expand the range of bicycle commuting and who chooses it; bike-commuting cities abroad are ahead, and the US is seeing more. — 00:11:14
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says his mother-in-law's topical skin-cancer chemotherapy costs thousands a tube, and the Affordable Care Act is why her small-business family can afford it. — 00:13:31
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Asked why neighborhood streets aren't built of the long-lasting highway material, Pete says the short answer is cost. — 00:14:00
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says as mayor he filled many potholes, about 50,000 in one year. (hedged) — 00:14:00
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank facility tests a dozen road strips with embedded sensor chips to optimize the next generation of paving. — 00:15:38
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete describes a market failure: under pressure to cover much quickly, mayors and states would refuse a paving material lasting 50% longer at 30% more cost. — 00:16:07
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — announcement: Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the DOT has a little-known R&D side and is even trying to stand up an ARPA-I, like DARPA or ARPA-E. — 00:16:07
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — announcement: Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the US is building high-speed rail and he broke ground on a line two weeks ago. — 00:18:43
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says the infrastructure law funded a 185 mph line from Southern California to Las Vegas along I-15: two hours versus about four driving; Pete says it aims to run by 2028. — 00:18:43
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says Amtrak trains could be faster if the freight railroads owning the tracks yielded; a 50-year-old rule from Amtrak's formation requires host railroads to let passenger trains go first, but they often don't. — 00:19:12
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the independent Surface Transportation Board is stepping up enforcement, the DOT helps with data, and compliance has already improved. — 00:20:27
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete, raised in Studebaker's South Bend, says from the 1950s to 70s cities came to revolve around cars; more choices like microtransit and e-bikes mean fewer forced car trips. — 00:21:24
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says housing and transportation go hand in hand, and for the first time he sees mayors nationwide all focused on one issue: housing. — 00:22:23
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says transportation and housing costs hit the monthly budget together, and for lower-income families they exceed 40 percent of the budget. — 00:22:52
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says we experience distance in minutes, not miles, so better options like transit-oriented development help. — 00:22:52
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says fitting a transportation agenda with a housing agenda also brings a climate payoff, through fewer compelled trips. — 00:23:21
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says mayors mostly face non-partisan problems like trash and potholes and must act pragmatically without surrendering their values. — 00:23:21
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the best indication the DOT is doing a good job is whether mayors' jobs are a bit easier. (hedged) — 00:24:09
• 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says being a mayor is harder now than a decade ago, and as mayor he would have welcomed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. — 00:24:09