Ep. 573 - The Ultimate American Movie Draft & 4th of July Fails! #podcast

**Matt Lavelle** (0:00)
All right, here we go. How we doing? We got a live one tonight. A lot of fun coming your way. It's episode 573 of the Working Perspectives Podcast presents Beat the Bros. I'm Matt Lavelle, coming as always by Ben Diddy, Patilini, Bern Pacasi, the most handsome man in town, Liam Reese, and that son of a bitch, Tom Lavelle. Tonight, we got some fun stuff. We're going to do a top 10 list, and we're going over the top 10 reasons for hospitalization over the 4th of July holiday. Going to be a lot of fun. Then, we got 20 questions to guess a fictional character brought on by Ben Diddy, Patilini, Bern Pacasi, and then we're going to finish off maybe with a news story. But before we get to all that, it's time for everyone's new favorite part of the show. It's time for our newest segment, Tom's Topics.
All right, Tom, take it away. What's the topic for tonight? What are we doing, Daddy-o?

**Tom Lavelle** (0:55)
First of all, you called me a son of a bitch. We have the same mother.

**Matt Lavelle** (0:58)
Second of all, I thought about that.

**Tom Lavelle** (1:01)
The topic, the draft tonight will be top movies that encapsulate America. America for short. America movies. We're going to draft the best America movies there are.
You pick them, we pick them, and you tell us who had the best draft. Snake draft, Matt, the order, I believe, it's me, Liam, Bern, nope, me, Bern, Liam, and then Matt, and then we'll go back. Snake draft. If you're not familiar with the snake draft, look it up.

**Matt Lavelle** (1:35)
All right. You'll have, everyone will have 30 seconds to make their pick, and then we'll have one minute after the draft is concluded to discuss and, you know, tell everybody why your picks were the best ones. All right. Tom, are you ready?

**Tom Lavelle** (1:50)
I'm ready.

**Matt Lavelle** (1:52)
All right.

**Tom Lavelle** (1:52)
No pressure with this pick. The number one pick. What is the greatest American movie of all time? And I was torn. And basically what had me make my pick was I could not go without having this movie on my team, on my picks of Americana America.
It has a little bit of everything. It's got your neighborhood. It's got baseball.

**Matt Lavelle** (2:22)
Yeah, I knew it.

**Tom Lavelle** (2:25)
And on the 4th of July, if you don't send the video of the one night game a year, you're not fully American. One has to be the Sandlot.

**Matt Lavelle** (2:38)
All right. Love it. Great.
I know. Hey, we all had it on our list. We all know. It's it was we knew if you didn't get it early, you weren't getting it. We knew that one's early. I mean, just the scene alone, we'll talk about it. We all know. Bern, what do you got?

**Bern Pacasi** (2:53)
I was wondering where Tom was going to go. I had a short list, you know, coming in number two. I was trying to figure out what he was going to do. Had a couple ideas there. Sandlot was definitely one of them.
A lot of great calls here, fellas, a lot of great choices, very difficult choices, but I knew what I wanted if this was available at number two. And I'm going to go all the way back to the Year of Our Lord 1997 And I will be choosing America versus the Universe. Ladies and gentlemen, Jimmy Independence Day, ID4.

**Matt Lavelle** (3:23)
Thank you very much. Wow, we will not go coldly into that dark night.

**Tom Lavelle** (3:30)
I'm back.

**Matt Lavelle** (3:34)
Great movie, great Smith, great Viv, great everything, great Quaid, great Quaid, great Pullman. Oh, maybe probably second best Pullman you'll ever get. Liam, what's your pick, Daddy? All right.

**Liam Reese** (3:47)
Those are two monster picks. So I'm just going to go right at it. We're talking the American Revolution. I'm going to Patriot, number three.

**Tom Lavelle** (3:56)
That was going to be my one. It was between that and great.

**Liam Reese** (4:01)
You got to. You can't take that. That has to be first round.

**Matt Lavelle** (4:04)
Great pick.
Has to be. Man, golly.

**Bern Pacasi** (4:10)
I had that tension for 20 years, Tommy. I thought there was a big chance.

**Tom Lavelle** (4:15)
It was that or Sandlot. I was like, God, what am I going to do?

**Matt Lavelle** (4:19)
What are you going to do?
All right. So I get to make the last pick of this round and the first pick of the next round. So my first pick I'm going with has to be done. It embodies America. It is America. It's coming off the board. I'm going Forest Gump. Forest Gump.