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EARLY Access [Audio] Shawn Ryan Show #251 with Secretary of Transportation Duffy
Added 2025-11-05 17:30:03 +0000 UTCSean 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 has also served 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.
Comments
Did Shawn Duffy just spend over two hours talking about how every aspect of transportation is antiquated and requires monumental effort and funding that we don’t have and then transition straight into a mission to the moon? I may not be the smartest person in the room but that just seems like every other bad government approach to the problems facing our country.
John Mann
2025-11-06 21:25:44 +0000 UTCWell asked Harris, no go. Go
Gerard Bono
2025-11-06 04:51:18 +0000 UTCGreat guy but just towing the line. No, no, no. For years I've heard the lie that vehicles closer together improves congestion. That is literally what congestion means. The goldilocks analogy is just another word for red tape. Come on. Sorry, I drive 200 miles a day on average 7 days a week. The current system needs to be fixed, then use that as the standard to generate options for improvements. Currently, it's a storm, get to what is supposed to be done first. Autonomous tech will just introduce additional possibilities of failure on top of current failures. Fix current system! FYI, still ❤️ the episode. Because the guest did not create the problems that he's been directed to fix.
Cesar Vazquez
2025-11-05 23:04:34 +0000 UTCI wonder how Dave's sister feels about 3I atlas?
Neil
2025-11-05 19:25:43 +0000 UTCIf you’re going to lean conservative, you’ve got to have on Thomas Massie.
Rick from Arizona
2025-11-05 19:24:29 +0000 UTC
