Hour 2 - The War on Drugs
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.3 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 2 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a high-stakes mix of foreign policy developments, energy economics, and a shocking sports scandal dominating national headlines. Buck and Clay begin with breaking news on escalating tensions in the Caribbean as the United States seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker, signaling a major escalation in President Donald Trump’s push for regime change against Nicolás Maduro. The hosts detail how Venezuela’s economy—dependent on oil exports and narcotics—is collapsing under U.S. sanctions and military pressure, including 22 strikes on narco-trafficking boats resulting in 80 traffickers killed. They analyze Trump’s strategy, which includes tightening sanctions, seizing oil shipments, and possibly deploying targeted airstrikes or drone operations, while emphasizing that Maduro’s days in power appear numbered.
The discussion explores the geopolitical ripple effects, including Cuba’s vulnerability as it relies on Venezuelan oil and the broader implications for global energy markets. Buck argues that stabilizing Venezuela could significantly lower oil and gas prices, reducing shipping costs and easing inflation for American consumers. Clay highlights the irony of climate activists opposing U.S. energy production while forcing reliance on “dirty” foreign oil, and the hosts underscore how communism has turned a resource-rich nation into an economic disaster. They also touch on Chevron’s stake in Venezuelan assets and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to an exiled Venezuelan dissident who credited Trump for supporting her escape.
From global crises, the hour pivots to a major domestic scandal: former University of Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore faces felony charges after being fired for an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. According to prosecutors, Moore allegedly broke into the woman’s apartment, threatened suicide in front of her, and made chilling statements like “My blood is on your hands.” Clay and Buck dissect the legal and personal fallout, noting Moore’s $13 million contract termination, his marriage, three young children, and the likelihood of a plea deal combined with psychiatric treatment. They debate workplace ethics, sexual harassment laws, and whether the assistant involved should also face consequences, while callers weigh in on accountability and gender dynamics in high-profile scandals.
The segment closes with updates on cameras being allowed in the courtroom for the Tyler Robinson case, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, and teases upcoming analysis on Somali fraud allegations and immigration data trends.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | All right. |
| 0:04.8 | Second hour of play and buck kicks off right now. |
| 0:08.6 | And things are, well, they've been heating up for a while. |
| 0:12.9 | They're getting really hot off the coast of Venezuela, a U.S. Armada, not only prepared for further action like what we have seen against those narco boats, |
| 0:26.3 | which are getting blown up, and Secretary of War Hegset says that is going to continue. |
| 0:31.8 | But now we have, in addition to this, of seizures of oil tank. |
| 0:41.7 | We have the U.S. has seized an oil tanker in the Caribbean, Venezuela, |
| 0:46.7 | Venezuelan oil tanker. |
| 0:48.5 | And this is a big deal because this more than anything else is the lifeblood of the Venezuelan Maduro regime. |
| 0:58.6 | So we already have this buildup clay of forces in the Caribbean. |
| 1:02.7 | Trump has been saying repeatedly and for weeks now, Maduro's days are numbered. |
| 1:08.3 | Maduro's got to go. |
| 1:09.4 | There have been reports even of efforts to get Maduro's days are numbered. Maduro's got to go. There have been reports even of efforts to get Maduro to leave the country, but the |
| 1:17.0 | guarantees that the Trump administration has been willing to give them have been |
| 1:21.1 | insufficient to get Maduro to agree to this so far, at least that's what the |
| 1:27.1 | reporting is. |
| 1:28.6 | And now you have the U.S. grabbing 90% of the Venezuelan government's budget, essentially, |
| 1:38.4 | is oil exports. |
| 1:40.8 | It really is, it is a true economic one-trick pony. |
| 1:44.0 | It's oil exports and then it's drugs. That's what |
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