BONUS: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - May 5 2026

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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton discuss the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and its impact on oil prices and shipping.

Meet my friends, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton!  If you love Verdict, the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show might also be in your audio wheelhouse. Politics, news analysis, and some pop culture and comedy thrown in too.   Here’s a sample episode recapping four takeaways. Give the guys a listen and then follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.   The Deadliest Stretch    Clay Travis and Buck Sexton discuss the escalating crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping route for oil and natural gas. Clay and Buck analyze how Iran-related instability is disrupting maritime traffic, reducing the number of ships passing through the region by a significant margin and contributing to elevated oil prices hovering near $100 per barrel. They emphasize that the price of oil and gas is now the most important domestic political issue, directly affecting everything from transportation costs to consumer sentiment and electoral outcomes.   A key segment features Clay proposing a bold economic solution: the U.S. government providing insurance guarantees for commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. He argues that this would…

People in this episode

Host: Ted Cruz

Guests: Clay Travis, Buck Sexton

Topics covered

• politics
• news analysis
• oil prices
• shipping industry
• economic solutions

Keywords

• Strait of Hormuz
• oil prices
• shipping
• Iran
• economic solutions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. government

Places: Strait of Hormuz

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