Hour 3 - AOC and her Frozen Eggs

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And we're going to play a couple of these cuts for you, Buck. Let's start with the political aspect. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on, I believe it was CNN, and basically said... All of the crazy things that Democrats embraced from a woke perspective, all of them were just woke 1.0, and she kind of laughed and dismissed all of that as not being particularly relevant today, even though we have continued to fight many of us have, against all of that insanity, have been attacked for fighting back against all of that insanity. Let's listen to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she says. That was just woke 1.0. Listen. The Thanksgiving dust up. She says she doesn't, you know, still believe that. But the abolished prisons, abolish police, which is also positions that have been taken by a lot of the progressive. candidates who have won. How do you get around that? My understanding is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electric. Yeah, she's moved away from a lot of that. Right. She's moved away from it. And I have a local city councilman that has this saying woke one was crazy. One was crazy. Okay. We said a lot of stupid things, Buck. As much as I want to dismiss it, I think you said, and we have talked about on the program, that she has started to move back towards the middle. And the fact that she can just dismiss, oh, everything we said in 2020 and 2021, that was Woke 1. That was crazy. First of all, it sets the table for what Woke 2 will be. And we can talk about that. And while we may think that it is absurd. It actually works to just laugh off something stupid that you said before. And everybody who voted for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before, they're not going to hold this against her in any way. I said this on X this morning. I will repeat it for all of you. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to run and she is going to be formidable. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean she'll be top of the ticket. She's only 36, 35 is the constitutional age requirement. So she could run for president. She's able to. The big question now, Clay, is will the donors fund Kamala Harris? The DNC has rigged the game, as you have pointed out aptly here, in favor of Kamala Harris based on how the early primaries are set up, the order of them. So there's plenty of reason to believe that Kamala Harris is going to not only run, which is sad for me, but also that she will be this time around actually a top-tier candidate. That said, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is perfect for a VP slot.

And I think that you're going to see a bunch of things come together with her one. She's been, she has been for years moving more. She is not saying aggressive, angry things in the media. The early days a bit more. She says things about, about housing, about medical care, about affordability, about groceries. She's honing in on some of these issues. where she sounds good to a lot of people when she says it another part of this clay she's pretty she would be the prettiest woman to have run for office as a democrat presidential nominee and i don't know i mean i think she be the prettiest woman maybe ever for president ever Yeah, okay. I mean, so she's good looking. By the way, some of you were looked, that doesn't matter, really, the giant Kristi Noem fans out there, some of you guys, really being pretty doesn't matter. You didn't care about that at all. Yeah. Come on now. I see you. Being pretty helps in politics. You could also just say JFK being really good looking. They kind of helped him. It helps both directions. True for guys, too. A lot of people were like, that Mitt Romney guy, look at him. He looks like he's out of central casting to be the president. Whatever you think of him now. Point is this stuff, this stuff all matters. This stuff all matters. And I think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being she's good looking. She has improved her game speaking off the cuff a little bit. Old clips of her where she sounds like an airhead and an imbecile. Everyone's already seen them, Clay. They're not going to hit with anything. And she was young. I can write the whole script right now. She's going to be a major force for the Democrats in the 28 election. And she's also a bit of a wake-up call to Republicans. The stuff she is talking about matters. She's not talking. She's not into climate change right now. In this interview, Clay, it was all, how do people afford groceries? How do people get, you know, be able to see a doctor and afford it? How do people afford housing? I understand you're going to tell me, Buck, she's a looted. We know that. You know that. But Clay, the positioning right now is what matters. And I saw a very polished, very serious for who she is, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in that ABC interview, which is also a cream puff interview, but still. I would also add in, she is very good at appearing to be authentic. She is skilled on social media, and that ties in with the second thing that she is getting attention for. I think it's very personal. Anybody's decision to have a baby to freeze eggs, all of these different things. But she did a video where she talked about the fact that she's freezing eggs. She's going to be, what, 37 years old in October? And this is getting a lot of attention to. A lot of people are reacting to it. Let's play it. Cut 15. You did have a personal announcement that you made. Tell me what it wasn't why you said. Yeah, you know, I think it's important for us to normalize these conversations, especially in this political environment. The Trump administration has... Remind us what the announcement was. Yeah, sure. So I have decided to start the process of...

freezing my eggs. And in this political environment where this administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country, from abortion rights to the ability to carry out a healthy pregnancy, I think it's important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country and normalize them. Okay. So, Buck, I got to be honest. Some Republicans are going to fall into this trap of attacking her over this. I think it is moronic. I think that the perspective, like. I've got a bunch of takes on this. I'm curious what you say. You're in the process of continuing to grow your family. I think my general take is if people want to have babies, we should be for it. If people want to have babies, I think a lot of people are going to attack her. It's a bad move. I think we should just be pro, pro baby. We're pro babies, pro people having babies, pro people being moms and dads, being parents. pro-family formation, pro all of those things. And I will tell you this, and I know this actually from, particularly from friends of mine and people in New York, including doctors, there's a, there's a real, this is the first generation where women were really told by all of elite society. And I mean that by the university and, you know, by, by media, by everything. Delay, delay, delay, it will be fine. Now, you can say women should have known better or whatever. I think that's pretty harsh because I think that, and I could speak to you about this, there's some doctors, there's even an article like I'm trying to call up the name of the author, but a lot of OBGYNs lied to women. I'm just going to tell you the truth. A lot of OBGYNs were scared. of telling their female patients the truth, which is it is harder to have children as you get older, comma, and IVF and all these things, put aside any religious or moral objection to it you may have, those things are challenging. They're expensive. There's no guarantees. A lot of women, Clay, because I have so many friends, so many women who are going through this, but like I said, particularly in the New York side where I grew up. They were not told the truth about, you know, it'd be like if everyone tells you you need to get, well, COVID vaccine's kind of an example of this. But, you know, if every doctor you know is saying, hey, every time you get a cold, you need to be taking an antibiotic for just in case, which some doctors would do that. That's bad medical advice for the most part. I'm not a doctor to take my medical advice. But usually if you have a virus, you don't need it. But is it your fault? Is it your fault if you listen to doctors growing up who told you who over-prescribed antibiotics? Doctors did not tell. Now, you could say maybe the doctors didn't know, although I think that's playing a little fast and loose, because I think they did know. Doctors did not tell our generation, yours and mine, because we are the same generation as much as I like to make jokes about it, they did not tell them the truth about the realities of fertility, the realities of delaying family.

and also what the science really says about freezing eggs and all these things. And so politically, it would be malpractice not to speak about this with care and sensitivity and maintaining a pro-family, pro-children message while you do it. That's my thing. People who are attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for this, I do not think they are being smart. I agree with all of that. I would also say this ties in with the attempt, in my opinion, to androgyize American society. What they told women was, you can do the same thing as men. You can wait until you're 38 or 39 or 40. I'm telling you, and I think it's so important out there, men do have the luxury. biologically, you can be a knucklehead in your 20s, you can be a knucklehead in your 30s, you can decide at 48 years old, hey, I want to get married and I want to have kids, and you can do it. Women don't have that luxury. And so, and by knucklehead might even be the wrong word too, right? You could be completely committed to your career. And if you work super hard buck in your 20s and your 30s and you work 80 hours a day, And then you look up at 42 and you think to yourself, boy, I built a really good career. Now I want to focus on having a family. There will be women lining up like crazy to get married to you and have babies. Way younger. Men have the luxury of being able to be committed to their career for decades without having to think about the biological clock. And a lot of people don't want to have that conversation with women. They say, you can have it all. Become a law professor. Become a doctor. Get your degree. Go to school for 20 years. They don't. have that conversation with women because they're trying to make them think, oh, you can do exactly what men do. I know women, Clay, who have had babies in their 20s, I know one in particular who was told by her doctor, don't tell anybody I'm telling you this because I have a room full of patients in their late 30s and, you know, in early 40s out there. But you're actually having babies at the most biologically advantageous time. That is not passing judgment on women who have babies in their 30s and 40s. It is just saying by the numbers, it is biologically more advantageous, higher percentage, less complication to have babies really in your 20s, you know, into your early 30s, but even in your early 30s, it starts the numbers start to go against you. I wasn't told this. I'm a guy. It's a little bit different. But I didn't know as much about this. And I think a lot of people don't know. And basically society lied to people about it, I think, in a really systematic fashion. Clay, it reminds me a little bit. I was watching Mad Men with Kerry last night. You know, there's the whole, the first episode. We had never seen it. We're watching it together. And the whole cigarettes are good for you thing. Oh, yeah.

Look, if you choose a smoke, you choose a smoke, that's on you. But it's one thing when in the 1950s, your doctors are telling you cigarettes are good for you. Your doctor might be smoking while you're in his office. That's a little bit of a different situation than, you know, you know all the risks and you choose to do it anyway. Okay, that's on you free country. But I'm just saying with women and their fertility, the female empowerment, feminist movement. and including a lot of doctors and institutional medicine, they lied to women about the, they lied to women about the numbers and the reality. A lot of women are finding this out the hard way. It is very painful. It is very difficult when they find this out the hard way. And so Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trying to, you know, doing what she's, first of all, I mean, I don't want to pass judgment on what she's doing. I would think, you know, maybe there's some reason, but generally I would say, why aren't you just, you know, trying to have kids now? Why freeze her eggs for later? But, you know, okay, she's doing what she's doing. I'm not passing judgment on it. But it's really, it's a tough thing for our generation. As you know, a lot of women wake up at 40 and they say, okay, now it's time to have kids and they're told your geriatric pregnancy and your chance of having children naturally are very slim. That's what they're told. And some of them are really being told it for the first time by doctors who have been seeing them for many, many years. We'll take your calls. We'll react to that. But again, I think both of those stories are in the major news cycle. And I think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demonstrating that she can grab the news cycle in a way that makes her compelling to a lot of people. Whether you agree or disagree with her politics, we certainly disagree with it. It doesn't mean she's not a compelling candidate. Pure Talk has a $15 monthly offer you can't ignore. Switch your service to Pure Talk, your first three months, just $15 a month. You'll likely save $150 or more be able to test drive a new cell phone service in the process, no contracts to sign, no obligations to commit to. A recent Consumer Report study scored Pure Talk first among all wireless companies in an independent study. They beat out AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, received five stars in every category, coverage, support, value, and data. Switch to Pure Talk now for just 15 bucks a month. Dial pound, 250 from your cell phone, say Clay and Buck. Let the U.S. customer service team make your switch easy. Same phone number, same phone. Get hooked up today and save a bundle, pound 250, say Clay and Buck. Looking for normal in a world of crazy. Clay and Buck have your back. Trade screen time for race time at Virginia International Raceway. August 21st through 23rd, IMSA's Michelin GT Challenge brings some of the coolest cars to VIR for an unforgettable family weekend. Explore, meet drivers, see race cars up close, and experience the thrill of racing from every corner of the track. It's more than a race. It's a memory waiting to be made. Kids 12 and under get in free. Get your tickets at VIRFam.com. That's VIRFAM.com.

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I think one of the biggest problems we have because of social media and people have unrealistic expectations of what a spouse is. That's a whole other thing. All right. Own a business. Then you know about business insurance. It's part of the cost of doing business. But unlike anything else, your business requires, you got to know what you're covered for, and that should be easy, right? But often it's not the case. Business insurance is complicated, but super sure makes... It's sensible, makes it easy. So if your company has more than 25 employees, whether you're the owner, CFO, or HR manager, super sure is your answer for what you should do for business insurance. Licensed in every state for your business insurance and employee benefits, all with year-round support for you and your team. At supershore.com slash buck, you can access tools like find print facts, which translates your current policy into play in English. Plus, you'll have a team that's there for you year round to answer questions and make sure you're covered how you need to be. They're a supershore.com slash buck, one super agency, one powerful platform paid for by Supershore Insurance Agency LLC, a license insurance agency. Welcome back in Clay and Buck. Okay, the news that Senator Ron Johnson broke with us about miscarriages, about pregnancy. has now been released. Ron Johnson has released Dr. Anthony Fauci's text. I asked around a bit more. Another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant issues, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester. Why does that matter? And Byron Donalds's about to be with us. Just a couple of days after sending that private text message. Dr. Anthony Fauci said publicly, we have found thus far no red flags about pregnant women. So privately, he's texting with all the top doctors, oh no, this could be a threat to pregnant women. Privately, he is saying we have found no red flags at all. Byron Donalds's. Governor, I believe, of Florida next. Now, the primary is Tuesday. All of you should get out and vote. Let's go right into the campaign going on. Eight days from now is going to be the primary. What are you seeing out there? I know early voting has already started for people who are making their decision. Why are you the guy? Congressman Donald's. Well, it's good to be with you, and thanks, guys. I was on 9-10. The signal out there can be tough sometimes. But in short, it's about the future of our state, protecting the Florida dream, taking on the affordability challenges when it comes to insurance and young people getting into housing. We want to reform the insurance markets of Florida from a regulatory side. Ron DeSantis did great work on the tort reform side. We think we could push down costs 20% in our state with regulatory reforms that are common sense need to be done.

And I spent my career in the finance world and also chaired the insurance and banking subcommittee. So I know what needs to be done. We can start working on that immediately as governor. But it's also about modernizing Florida's government. Most people don't know is if you're going to build single family homes, 30% of that cost is government costs and government timelines and delays. And we have to streamline that process, get government out of the way to push down the cost of construction, which directly impacts. housing affordability, home affordability, helping young people get into the game. and also further decreasing insurance costs on the other side of that ledger. So my career in finance and banking coupled with the fact that I have one of the most conservative voting records in all of America, whether it was my time obviously in D.C., my time in the statehouse, you check anybody who measures this stuff on one of the most conservative members in America, that's the type of leadership and pedigree that the state's going to need to lead us into the future to challenge and take on the risks. that are facing Florida, even though we're the best state in the country. Governor, I've got to stop doing that. Byron, thank you for being here. Possibly soon to be, governor. Tell us about where you stand and how you feel about the property tax issue. Obviously, that was getting a lot of conversation going into this election cycle. There was an effort to perhaps even get rid of property tax in Florida. See, I am sympathetic to the argument that there is a... There's something fundamentally wrong with you can never really own your home and the government can take it from you unless you keep paying the government forever. But it seems like there are some numerical realities that that has run up against in Florida. What can you tell us about that? Well, I mean, first, look, I support the amendment primarily because the people of Florida are not piggy banks for government. We've seen property taxes double in our state the last six years, and a lot of these local governments did not go to what we call a rollback rate, which is decreasing the millage, even though property values were rising. They didn't do that. They collected way more in our property taxes, and so now people are strapped. And so, again, government has to restrain itself. Look, I know what's happening at the grocery store. Prices are a little bit higher. We're trying to still work our way out of the Biden inflation that wreck this economy. But if government just doesn't do anything, doesn't change its practices, and then you let the cost of construction increase, you let the cost of taxes increase on our citizens. You're pricing them out too. So I support the amendment. We'll see what the voters do. My commitment to Florida is whether it passes or whether it fails.

We are going to bring this whole thing back for a much more detailed review through the Tax and Budget Reform Commission, which is in Florida's Constitution. We sit this commission every 20 years, and it's time to modernize our taxing system in our state and also have recommendations on how to fully repeal Homestead Property Taxes. And if we can't do that, then actually getting seniors on fixed income and working families off the tax rolls in our state. There's ways to do this. We want to be focused and really intentional on how you balance public safety and the need of services on a local level with the serious tax reform that Floridians are looking for and that they need. Congressman Byron Donalds's with us. I know that you're a big sports fan and you have to be pulling your hair out like the vast majority of people out there listening to us have been for the past couple of weeks. The WNBA players and coaches, many of them have said that men who identify as women are just as much women as the women that are in the league now. Since that point, Enos Cantor and Royce White, two former first-round NBA draft picks have declared for the WNBA draft. How crazy is this and how much of it is just a cultural failure for Democrats to connect with normal people? What's your take on all this? It's a cultural failure of Democrats, and you have the WNBA that is failing American culture. They're failing women. This is not a complicated subject. This isn't hard. And the fact that you now have the parody of Enos and Royce declaring for their draft, and you notice that the WNBA, they didn't really say anything about it, because the second they do, then they know the jig is up. This is Democrat policy. The Democrats have long wanted this. They still won it today. Listen, the Democrat, the prohibitive favorite to be the Democrat nominee is David Jolly. David Jolly still thinks it's okay for boys to be in girls' sports. I mean, how sick is that? You cannot essentially allow people to have these kind of viewpoints that are against American culture, against human biology and physiology. I mean, this is about basic science. Men are bigger, stronger, and faster. That's just a fact. And the fact that the WMBA doesn't listen to Sophie Cunningham when she's right. And then listening to the radicals in the Democrat Party and the DSA movement and people who still deny science is insane to me. And I think this is to the detriment of the WMBA. Just let the women have their league. Let them have their sports. That's okay. But to not just accept reality and admit the truth because you're concerned about. about the political pushback from the radical Democratic left demonstrates that the WNBA needs to get with reality.

Talking to Congressman Byron Donalds's right now running for governor of Florida. Congressman, also, you have Donald Trump's endorsement in this, and there would be some overlap where he would still be president while you were governor, but then he would be likely a Florida resident after his second term expires. You would still be in that governor's chair. You would have a very well-known, very influential resident among others here in Florida. Is it your plan? Do you think that you would continue contact with President Trump so that he could advise and sort of be a voice for MAGA here in Florida? And, of course, that can have reverberations across the country. Of course. Listen, President Trump has now served as president in two administrations. He's done a great job in both of them to be able to pick his brain on the things that he's seen as being president of the United States. That's just information anybody would want to be able to take advantage of. So, of course, and, you know, obviously him, Ron DeSantis has done a great job in our state. Rick Scott was a great governor to our state, and I still take time to talk with him. I would be looking forward to having, you know, those conversations and really being able to talk to them about the experiences they have because at the end of the day, put all the politics aside. It's about what's doing best, the best thing on behalf of your people. And so you really want to make sure that you're looking at all policies and all decisions through the right lens and being able to rely on people who've had to sit in that chair or make some of those crucial decisions. is just important to be able to help you do that on behalf of the people of Florida. Byron Donalds's with us now, Congressman, the primary is Tuesday of next week, eight days from now in Florida on the Republican and the Democrat side. For people out there who, I think many of them, say Ron DeSantis did a great job. He turned Florida from a purple state to a red state. How do you make Florida even redder? And what would you say to people who say, oh, I'm concerned. We had a caller who said, oh, I'm concerned that Byron Donalds's will not keep Florida on the same trajectory to remain red and become even redder. Well, two, a couple things. Number one, standards have to remain the same. Law and order will be the standard in Florida going forward. We support our law enforcement. If you can't keep people safe, you can't have anything else. Number two, my background, like I said, I spent 17 years in the financial industry before politics. I'm the only person running for governor who actually has an economics and a business background, really important. for managing and balancing our future economy while also making sure we are continued to follow common sense conservative principles. But number three, I got into politics through the Tea Party movement back in 2009. I was on the board of the Naples Tea Party. I've always been in the conservative movement. I'm somebody who reveres the Constitution. I'm a member of House Freedom Caucus right now. The same way Ron DeSantis was a member of House Freedom Caucus when he was Congressman Ron DeSantis.

So I would say to Republican voters in our state who want to know that we're going to keep going the same way, if you look at any vote I've ever taken, it's always been about protecting the Constitution, protecting constitutional rights, supporting our men and women in blue, and making sure that common sense policy reigns in our state and in the United States of America. Congressman Byron Donalds's guys, he's running for Florida governor. I've got to go vote myself down here, Clay, as a Florida resident, so I've got to get that done. And, uh, Byron, all the best to you. Thank you for giving us the call back with his strong connection there. We just wanted everyone to hear your voice and hear what you have to say. So we appreciate you making that happen. Best of luck to you, and I have a feeling we'll be talking to you again real soon. Listen, appreciate it, guys. You guys take it easy. That's Congressman Byron Donalds's. Go vote Tuesday of next week. And I think early voting is underway right now in the state of Florida. And no matter where you are, how many times does it sometimes happen where you're laying in bed, you're having trouble sleeping, you start worrying about things while you're laying in bed? I bet one of the top concerns that so many of you have out there is your financial picture. Do you have too much credit card debt? Are you sitting around waiting for that next check to come in so you can pay off the credit card debt? Are you worried about making sure that your personal loans are paid off? Does it just keep stacking up? If you're in that camp, We got a solution for you with Perfect 10 mortgage. You give them 10 minutes. They can use the equity in your existing home to wipe out all your credit card debt, to wipe out all of your personal loans, one easy, simple bill that can take care of everything. Give them 10 minutes, and in 10 days or less they can close, Perfect 10 mortgage is phenomenal. No giant impersonal bank, no runaround, just people who share your values and want you to help put your financial house in order. Whether it's your first house, next house, they can take care of you and make sure that you are on your way to putting your financial house in order. Get hooked up today. Go to perfect one zero mortgage.com. That's perfect one zero, perfect 10 mortgage, just like Nadia Komenich back in the day. Perfect10 Mortgage.com, you give them 10 minutes, they will get your mortgage taken care of, and in 10 days they can close. You may be able to wipe out your entire credit card debt, all your personal loans. Why not put your financial house in order? with a company that shares your values. Perfect10 Mortgage.com. That's perfect10 mortgage.com. Perfect 10 Mortgage is a DBA or network funding LP, NMLS 2297, equal housing lender. All borrowers must qualify advertisement, not a promise, to make a loan. That's perfect 10 mortgage.com.

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And if men are not providing and protecting, I don't think that you can achieve your utmost level of success. And I think there are a lot of men out there that will acknowledge that their life did not come into focus and fruition for them until they had a family to provide and protect for. And I think that you are being incredibly responsible saying, hey, I'm worried about the financial aspects of taking care of a family. I can say from my own experience, that's part of having to be the head of a household. You are going to have to struggle and you're going to have to work harder than you will work if you are single. There's a reason why the most reliable employees are married men. It's because you're going to put more on your shoulders, you're going to be more productive, you're going to be a more effective version of yourself when you have a family that you are protecting and providing for. I just deeply believe that. And so a lot of guys who are sitting around saying, I'm waiting for the perfect moment. Well, that time might never come. It doesn't happen. And by the way, I would say this for moms too. I think there are a lot of women out there. We could do a whole show. Maybe we should. Just do a whole show on women waiting for the perfect man. And the perfect man never comes along, right? In their mind. And they pass on 10, 12, 15 really good options because he's not Mr. Wright. And then you're looking around and you're saying, boy, you're getting on Instagram and you're looking up his life and now he's got kids and you're thinking to yourself, why did I not end up with this guy? I think that perfection is the enemy of good in all facets of life. Good is a great outcome. And so, I mean, we should probably do a whole show on this book because you've seen it's highly successful women in New York City who just keep waiting. And then the guy's never there. And then suddenly they would look around and they're 40 and single. Yeah, I feel like Julia John Roberts and pretty woman when she says, big mistake, big mistakes. Like any girl, whoever didn't go on a second date with me, Clay. Big mistake. Big mistake. Missed out big time. You got married at like 24, so you weren't really in the game that long. Yeah. Yes, no, it is true. 25 when I got married. So I was a young guy, especially relatively speaking now, when men get married at like 35. Some of them. Yeah, that's young in New York. Yeah, I was 40 years old when I got married. I don't recommend, by the way, waiting forever for everything because you never know. We could be hit by an asteroid tomorrow. This is the race fans wait for all year. EMSA returns to Virginia International Raceway, August 21 through 23rd, as the world's top GT teams and drivers battle for championship points on VIR's iconic road course. See Porsche, BMW, Corvette, Mercedes-AmG, Ford, and more competing wheel-to-wheel. Three days of racing, paddock access, and non-stop action. Secure your tickets now at racevIR.com. That's R-A-C-V-I-R.com.

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