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Today, Explained

The Great American Road Trip?

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, and his wife, Rachel, are going on a road trip with all nine of their kids. Avita, Xavier, Jack, Lucia Bel-Belaine, John Paul, Paloma, Maria Victoria, Margarita, Patrick Miguel, and Valentina, and they would like to bring you along with them. What a beautiful family. 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. We're encouraging everyone to go take a road trip to celebrate America's 250th birthday. They meet American icons. Benjamin Franklin. My young friend, what an absolute pleasure. They meet Kid Rock. I haven't seen everything there is to see. There's drama. What's going on here? She's in the hospital. They put an IV in her. Enough of the sad stuff, though. It's going to 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, explain from Box, you might not like who did.

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1:24.0

What's up y'all? I'm Skyler Diggins, seven-time WNBA All-Star, Olympic gold medalist, and mom.

1:30.3

And I'm Cassidy Hubbard, host and reporter for nearly 20 years, covering the biggest names and

1:35.0

stories in sports and mom.

1:37.4

And this is Am Mom, a community for athletes, game changers, and moms of all kinds.

1:43.4

Dropping May 14th.

1:44.9

Tap in with us.

1:47.2

Well, it's a great American road trip.

1:51.1

I wore my boots that John Rich gave me.

1:52.9

They're very sexy.

1:54.6

Today explained, Sean Ramos for him here to tell you about Sean Duffy, or as we call him in my house, other Sean.

2:01.8

Will Gottzaken wrote about him for the Atlantic. We started with the most important question. Can you name all of his

2:06.3

children? I can't. Uh, he's got nine of them. Why is Sean Duffy taking his nine children

2:12.5

and his wife on a road trip across the country for YouTube?

2:20.8

Ostensibly, it's to celebrate America's 250th birthday.

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