C&B On Girls With Snakes, Last Name Decided at Wedding Coin Flip

BUCK: Clay, you told me about this, so I had to watch this. I didn’t know this was a thing ’til you explained this to me. But there’s a couple — and let’s just be clear. We’re having fun with this one. It’s not a big deal, right? That’s the one thing the libs say when you try to make fun of something. “Well, why is it such a big deal?” It’s not a big deal but it’s kind of funny.

A couple decided whose last name to use, the man’s or the woman’s last name. So he would take her last name if he lost based on calling a coin flip at the altar. Now, I’ve gotta say the things that we would know about them, Clay, based on this. I didn’t even realize who actually won, and so if he took her name, but we’re talking about people who definitely are also upset about the high price of vegan milk and probably announce their pronouns.

CLAY: (laughing) There is a hundred percent certainty, in my mind, the guy who was willing to risk his last name at a wedding — make it clear here, he was going to take the girl’s name over a coin flip at his wedding — 100% voted for Joe Biden. Buck, you’re not married yet. I can’t even imagine, as a man, risking your last name over a coin flip and taking the girl’s name. Now, look, if you’re both adults and you’ve been working for a long time and the woman wants to keep her own last name ’cause she doesn’t want to go through the trouble, I understand that aspect, right?

But me giving up my name and taking her name? I can’t even conceive of the idea. We used to have a conversation on the show because there was like a house that burned down and the girl who was living there had 13 pet snakes and my argument at the time, Buck, was there’s the no girl on the planet who is good-looking enough that if she had 13 pet snakes, I would date her, because I think she’s gotta be crazy if she has 13 pet snakes. I don’t think there is a… I’ve been married 20 years.

BUCK: Is one pet snake too many pet snakes?

CLAY: Too many for me. I would not date a girl with a pet snake, period.

BUCK: Let’s draw a line up in the sand. I’m sorry for the pet snake owners out there, but we’re talking about dating here. You’re welcome to your snake.

CLAY: Single girl with a pet snake? I’m not getting anywhere near it. Single girl with 13 pet snakes? First of all, I wouldn’t be able to sleep in that place because snakes always get out of their cages. Buck, you’re a single guy still. Can you imagine if a girl you were dating was like, “Hey, I’m happy to spend the rest of my life with you but at our marriage ceremony we have to have a coin flip to see whether you take my last name or not”? I just… I can’t imagine the man who agrees to that.

BUCK: No, but you gotta think about the upside, though, Clay ’cause you’re the man who takes your wife last name, at least you know that when some guy bumps into you in a bar, she’s gonna be the one that actually throws down.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: So that’s the good news is that you’ll say, “My wife wants to have a word with you, you ruffian!”

CLAY: I can’t imagine that there’s even very many women who would want to date a man who was willing to do that. I’ve got three sons. I would be… There’s a few things that my boys could do. If they were getting married and they said, “Oh, by the way, Dad, we’re gonna have a coin flip at the ceremony to see whether I give up our last name to take hers,” I’d be, “Yeah, this is a no-go. Have a serious talk here. This is not acceptable.”

BUCK: You have a dad talk there. I’ll just tell you, you know, if I put this out there ’cause you’re married; so you can make these jokes, but if I put out some joke about this, all of these blue check females would all of a sudden be like, “Sorry, some of us actually want to be dating a male feminist.” Like, there are people out there for whom a guy…” When I say people, there are women for whom a guy…

And all of our listeners all across the country who are women are like, “You gotta be kidding me,” but it’s true — who think that it is r sexy when a guy announces his pronouns. And it’s like, “I think honestly hyphenated names are baseline for how we could real equality going forward in this relationship.” So I’m just putting it out there.

CLAY: I would not… Look, if you want to keep your own name, that’s fine. Coin flip for me to take your name? Like, I can’t think all of faster way… You should run for the hills if that conversation ever comes up, in my opinion.

BUCK: And this went viral on TikTok. I feel like this may turn into one of those things that becomes a trend because people are seeing it on video now. So there may be more of this. But if you recall there was also those gender-reveal parties —

CLAY: Oh, those things are taking over.

BUCK: Is that still really happening, because there are some where people, like, burn down a national park because they had a gender reveal party and there was pyrotechnics involved and that was a thing that happened.

CLAY: Yep.

BUCK: And also they always assume there’s two genders. The left gets mad. “Where’s that unknown gender?”

CLAY: Very transphobic. Very transphobic. In fact, lots of people out there who are huge trans advocates are actually selling the idea — Buck, have you seen this? — that the doctor gets it wrong when he says whether a boy or girl is born. I’m gonna bet on the doctors getting it right.

BUCK: Yeah. He thought he saw what he saw, but that’s not what he saw. He saw something else. And apparently your fourth-grade teacher is gonna explain that or the kindergarten teacher is gonna explain that to the kids.