The Great American Road Trip?
5/19/202627 min
The Secretary of Transportation took a sponsored road trip across the US with his wife and nine kids. Now if only Boeing could pay for YOUR family's summer vacation. This episode was produced by Ariana Aspuru and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaking during a Great American Road Trip Expo hosted by the Department of Transportation. Photo by Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSean Rameswaram· Host0:00
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and his wife Rachel are going on a road trip with all nine of their kids, Evita, Xavier Jack, Lucia Belen, John Paul, Paloma, Maria Victoria, Margarita, Patrick Miguel, and Valentina, and they would like to bring you along with them.
Sean Duffy· Soundbite0:15
What a beautiful family.
Sean Rameswaram· Host0:16
Duffy hails from reality TV, so of course they're making a YouTube series out of it. You can watch the trailer now. Parts of it look like AI, but it's mostly real.
Sean Duffy· Soundbite0:24
We're encouraging everyone to go take a road trip to celebrate America's 250th birthday.
Sean Rameswaram· Host0:29
They meet American icons.
Will Gottsegen· Guest0:30
Benjamin Franklin.
Kid Rock· Soundbite0:31
Hello, my young friend. What an absolute pleasure.
Sean Rameswaram· Host0:33
They meet Kid Rock.
Kid Rock· Soundbite0:35
I've seen everything there is to see.
Sean Rameswaram· Host0:36
There's drama.
Will Gottsegen· Guest0:38
What's going on here?
Speaker 40:39
She's in the hospital. They put an IV in her.
Sean Rameswaram· Host0:41
Enough of the sad stuff, though. It's gonna be fun. But if you're asking, "Wait, did I, the American taxpayer, pay for our Secretary of Transportation to go on a road trip with his family?" You didn't. But on Today, Explained from Vox, you might not like who did.
Sean Duffy· Soundbite0:55
We did it.
Speaker 50:56
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Speaker 41:25
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