#251 Secretary Sean Duffy - NASA is Going Back to the Moon for the First Time in 54 Years

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Sean Duffy is the 20th U.S. Secretary of Transportation, confirmed by the Senate in January 2025 and sworn in on January 28, 2025. A former Republican Congressman representing Wisconsin's 7th District from 2011 to 2019, Duffy served on the House Financial Services Committee and chaired its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Before politics, he was a district attorney in Ashland County with a 90% conviction rate, a champion lumberjack winning titles like the 1994 Lumberjack World Championship in speed climbing, and a reality TV star on MTV's The Real World: Boston(1997) and Road Rules: All Stars (1998). Post-Congress, Duffy worked as a lobbyist at BGR Group, co-hosted Fox Business's The Bottom Line, and contributed to CNN before his Cabinet appointment. As Secretary, he has prioritized safety reforms following incidents like a 2025 mid-air collision, opposed congestion pricing in New York by threatening federal fund cuts over subway crime, and advocated for reverting fuel economy standards while restricting funds to non-compliant local governments on immigration policies. Since July 9, 2025, he also serves as acting NASA administrator. A graduate of St. Mary's College of Maryland (marketing) and William Mitchell College of Law, Duffy co-authored All American Christmas (2021) with his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy. Father of nine, he champions family values, conservative policies, and infrastructure innovation. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://shawnlikesgold.com Secretary Sean Duffy Links: X - https://x.com/SeanDuffyWI IG - https://www.instagram.com/secduffy Department of Transportation - https://www.transportation.gov/office-of-secretary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Secretary Sean Duffy, welcome to the show.
0:08.3	It's good to be here. Thanks for having me.
0:09.8	It's good to have you. It's good to have you. It's good to be had.
0:12.4	So, yeah, so we were actually supposed to do this, what, about a month ago?
0:16.3	A month ago. And then, you know, the Charlie Kirk assassination happened, and so we had to push it.
0:22.9	And, you know, I just, I just wanted to say that I thought that spoke a lot about your character.
0:28.3	I know you guys were friends.
0:29.8	And it sounds like he was closer with your wife than you.
0:32.1	But, you know, a lot of people in politics would have loved to have come on the show and made it all about them with that going on.
0:40.6	And so to see, you know, to get that message that you just wanted to go and be with the family and be supportive.
0:48.7	I mean, that's what this fucking country is all about.
0:51.1	It's nice to see that.
0:52.2	Well, we were, it happened. And then the next day I was supposed to be with you, I was supposed to leave
0:58.0	moments after the shooting. And you were generous to say, let's, we'll push it, we're good,
1:03.0	which I'm grateful for that, and we made this happen. So I appreciate you having back that you took that very well. So thank you.
1:09.0	My pleasure. My pleasure.
1:11.7	But so acting secretary of Department of Transportation and active secretary of NASA, correct?
1:21.4	Yes. So I'm the secretary of transportation and the acting administrator of NASA. So I get this short window of time until
1:28.9	the president appoints someone into the full-time role. And yeah, it's been great. It's been busy.
1:35.3	And a husband and a father of nine. How the hell do you manage all this?
1:41.4	Sean, I'm gray. I'm greater than you are. Um, this is, it's been a, it's been a great, it's been a, it's been a, to serve this president
1:49.7	has been really awesome and then to also be a father and to, and to navigate that back
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