Ep. 565 - Decoding the Weirdest Jack & Diane Lyric + Guessing the Top 10 Comic Book Movie Flops!

**Matt LaValle** (0:00)
Hello, and welcome to the Working Perspectives Podcast presents Beat the Bros. I'm Matt LaValle, accompanied by the one and only Burn Pockesee, the most handsome man in town, Liam Reese, and Sister Mary Shovelface himself, Tom LaValle. Tonight, on the show, we got a good one for you. We're gonna be guessing the top ten biggest comic book movie flops of all time. We're not flipping, we're flopping. Then, Banditi Patilini Burn Pockesee has got a fictional character for us to guess, and we got 20 questions with some side rules on how we get to guess it. And then, I'm bringing some news stories, I'm gonna leave out the best bits, and then these guys gotta try and fill in the blanks of the news stories. But before we do all that, we got something new for you. So, this is episode 565 of the Working Perspectives Podcast. Let's get this thing started. Let's go.
All right, like we said, we got something new tonight. We're kicking it off with a new segment from the one and only Tom Lavelle. It's Tom's Topics.
All right, Tom, take it away.

**Tom LaValle** (1:18)
All right, gentlemen, thank you for having me on the show. The other day, I was driving and I'm listening to music as I do. Maybe you guys do this too. You're driving and you have the music on. And a song comes on and I'm sure you're all familiar with it. The song is called Jack & Diane. Little duty about Jack & Diane. I start thinking to myself, what an amazing song. This is, quite possibly, upper echelon song, the beat, bam, bam-a-lan-ow, bam, bam-a-lan-ow, you know? Iconic. Yeah.
Whoa, life goes on, that whole thing. My question to you is, is Jack and Diane an amazing song, does the lyrics, sucking on a chili dog outside the Tasty Freeze.
Does it make Jack & Diane a great song? Or does it show just how great of a song Jack & Diane is because it can survive the lyrics, sucking on a chili dog outside the Tasty Freeze? Burn?

**Burn Pockesee** (2:29)
Listen, I was going to say, if there's one thing that comes to my mind when you hear this song, that's certainly the most controversial lyric. It sticks out like a sore thumb.
But I would be inclined to say it's a great song because it survives that, but I don't know, man. It's hard to separate the iconicness of that song. I don't know if it's banging around the same way in my brain without those guys sucking on that chili dog.

**Tom LaValle** (2:52)
They can't be sitting on a bench outside the Tasty Freeze.

**Burn Pockesee** (2:56)
I guess they could be sitting on a bench.

**Matt LaValle** (2:59)
They could be screaming at chicks, whistling at chicks outside the Tasty Freeze.

**Burn Pockesee** (3:05)
It would be a weird thing to do in front of your girlfriend. You know what I mean?

**Tom LaValle** (3:07)
How about hot dog, chili dog and fries outside the Tasty Freeze?

**Matt LaValle** (3:13)
Let me ask you this. What's weirder? Whistling at chicks outside Tasty Freeze with your girlfriend, or you and your girlfriend sucking on chili dogs outside the Tasty Freeze?

**Liam Reese** (3:22)
Sucking on chili dogs, for sure. Huh?

**Matt LaValle** (3:25)
Huh? I think we've probably pinpointed it here, Charles. I'll tell you, the Cougars from Indiana. It says a lot about Indiana women.
If you want one that's sucking on chili dogs outside the Tasty Freeze.

**Liam Reese** (3:38)
Liam. Did he say Diane's getting smutted in the back of a van? That's what I thought he said. Liam.

**Tom LaValle** (3:46)
Liam, have I been eating chili dogs wrong this whole time? Are you supposed to be sucking on them?

**Liam Reese** (3:53)
Dude, I'm not a big glizzy fan to begin with.
The thought of that is just... It's going to be burned into my head.

**Tom LaValle** (4:01)
Revolting.

**Liam Reese** (4:02)
Yes, it is.

**Burn Pockesee** (4:04)
We've pinpointed the controversy here, right? It's the verb, right?
There's nothing wrong with the chili dogs outside the Tasty Freeze. It's the fact that they're sucking on it.

**Liam Reese** (4:14)
Yeah, correct.

**Burn Pockesee** (4:16)
Even like chewing on chili dog.

**Matt LaValle** (4:20)
Chopping chili dogs.

**Burn Pockesee** (4:22)
Munching on a chili dog.

**Matt LaValle** (4:23)
All of those things would make more sense.

**Liam Reese** (4:25)
Definitely the fact that it's able to overcome that, because it's off putting just talking about it right now. So to be able to blow past that and the song be as successful as it was, then yeah.

**Matt LaValle** (4:41)