This is what happens when 11 family members and a nutty-eyebrowed son-in-law running for Congress stop being polite and start getting real on a sketchily funded junket across the United States. The Great American Road Trip released all six episodes Wednesday on YouTube after many delays. It tells the heartwarming story of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children, three boys and six girls, as they travel across the country celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday.
Camera crews are not new to Sean and Rachel. The two met, as star-crossed lovers often do, on Road Rules: All Stars after starring, respectively, on The Real World: Boston and The Real World: San Francisco. Their show was supposed to drop before America’s octagon-laced 250th birthday celebration, but it was delayed by conflict of interest charges, namely that the trip is sponsored by a shit-ton of corporations — Boeing and Toyota each kicked in $1 million to the show through a nonprofit — that Duffy is supposedly overseeing in his day job. (Duffy insists his family wasn’t paid, and taxpayers didn’t fund their travel.)
Frankly, I have no clue why it was finally greenlit. Seems like a bad idea.
