The Whitest Movies Draft | The Midnight Boys

[@braxtonthartabrig]

The most chaotically good show on the Ringer

[@AlexIAm30]

Nerd media***

[@michaelsmith9102]

It always gets the most laughs out of me.

[@ReneTrejoJr]

The Whitest Movies Draft aka every Bill Simmons Rewatchables episode.

[@Guevon_Pajaro]

yoooo, this is dead spot on🤣

[@nima_n]

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[@spikestampede146]

True but he loves Denzel, Sam Jackson, and other black led movies. But yes some very white movies in the catalog 😂

[@tmacshawty]

🤣🤣🤣 He did Purple Rain a few weeks ago and I was like “Switched it up didn’t we?” Lol

[@lamzy4683]

Chill he gave us Juice

[@MartyMcFly__25]

Drake being Scott Pillgram who is dating a High Schooler is hilarious

[@juelz8090]

A minorrrrr!!! 😂

[@CULeeisMe]

And arguably doesn't change the movie at all!😂

[@childishaquino]

La La Land is a banger but Charles cooked with Scott Pilgrim and Napoleon Dynamite

[@Janimator-OK]

His Scott Pilgrim take was actually great. Van choosing Hancock however blew my mind. Funny enough, that movie was written by no other than Vince Gilligan

[@BucsDucs99]

Napoleon Dynamite was the first movie I thought of when I saw the theme of this draft. It’s a perfect pick.

[@blessembreaks]

Nah its Dead Poets Society. How it didnt even get mentioned not alone win?? Ridiculous

[@USC9210]

The Midnight Boys on KZbin is just the greatest thing. Audio podcast is one thing, but seeing this chaos and jokes makes it even 10 times better. Facts.

[@ImranTheGreatest]

This podcast will be studied for generations

[@CharlesIncharge-x8j]

For my money, Gone with the Wind might be the whitest film EVER.

[@Weaponator18]

Great call. I'll offer up Lawrence of Arabia. Its widely considered one of the best 'white guy emerges themselves in a foreign culture and becomes the best at it' movies and no women even speak in it either.

[@allsmiles1971]

My thoughts exactly

[@DonnyKanone]

Grease 2. The first song is more white than LoA and Gwtw combined.

[@blessembreaks]

Nah its Dead Poets Society

[@DonnyKanone]

@@blessembreaks ugh. Thats a pretty good pick. You got 1 or 2 more? I feel your locked in the right way.

[@thomascrowniii1693]

SUPERHERO: The Rocketeer SCI-FI: Robocop OSCAR: Monsters Ball COMEDY: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ACTION: Escape From New York HORROR: The Exorcist

[@terrycullen3302]

I was just thinking of the Rocketeer! A movie from 1991 that sort of glorifies the 1930's, I feel that's a very white movie.

[@CrookedShoeTales]

I disagree with Robocop. There are 3 black main characters with speaking parts and none is a thug. Politician, exec and a police chief. None of them die either. For the 80’s thats unheard of.

[@thomascrowniii1693]

​@@CrookedShoeTalesClarence's black henchman who giggles for no reason, the black executive spends the whole movie kissing Bob Morton's white ass, and the black Sargeant is the stereotypical angry black police sargeant.

[@Braedon-fy3ly]

Surprised no one said Titanic

[@seyiige53]

That's the number 1 pick 😂😂😂

[@thomascrowniii1693]

Jomi won the white people hat draft from the jump.

[@Hellseventeen]

No breakfast club or Forrest Gump is crazy work

[@seyiige53]

I was thinking breakfast club cos they coulda had atleast one of the kids be black,but no.

[@cosmas4108]

For the role of Forrest I agree, but they cooked with Bubba and his shrimping

[@blessembreaks]

No Dead Poets Society just shows how out of touch these ppl are.

[@ryancox530]

Jomi going full white guy with the KFB NASCAR jacket

[@ancrathjustice8516]

Plus the Bass Pro Shop hat lmao Jomi got on full cosplay

[@andyzard7162]

I came here from the audio version just to see Kerm get called out for the Royal Tenenbaums and was gonna laugh - until I was typing this out and realized I also can’t spell it 😂😂😅😅

[@EZIced]

kerm fighting for his LIFE after he wrote the l 🤣

[@GemmyDonCars]

Wrecklessly nutting is permanently added into my vocabulary now. Thank you Van.

[@DerekwKimedit]

lol Steve fighting for his life in this pod edit: by the way, Rocky lost his fight to Apollo in the first movie

[@Janimator-OK]

Ever since his Geordie LaForge pick in the Black characters draft, you could tell he'd have his moments 😂

[@moderndancingfool]

Forty minutes in and this might be a funnier draft than the time Charles picked Piccolo, Comic Book Storm, Optimus Prime, Domimic Tarreto lmao (& I still die laughing on repeated watches/listens)

[@eoghan1023]

Which episode was this?

[@moderndancingfool]

​@@eoghan1023 Look for the first Black Heroes of Fandom Draft - the thumbnail should be Black Panther, Miles Morales and Blade, left to right, from two years ago (They've done three but I believe there's only video of the first from a couple of years back) I put it on in the background whenever I'm doing work cause it never fails to make me laugh. Poor Charles in this one lmao.

[@eoghan1023]

@@moderndancingfool thank you mate

[@ajgator7]

On the Denzel discussion, Glory can get pretty white savior-y at times. As far as the draft goes, Footloose is the whitest movie ever made.

[@Braedon-fy3ly]

@@ajgator7 Denzel literally had a white daddy savior in his 80s movie Carbon Copy.

[@TheOrderofDylan]

Gah damn, Footloose is a GREAT shout.

[@nima_n]

500 DAYS OF SUMMER

[@kingmatt54]

Seriously could have gone #1 overall. First movie I thought of.

[@salvatoresultana4058]

First movie that comes to mind is Titanic

[@jasono4049]

Field of Dreams and really any old Christopher Nolan movie should qualify

[@Braedon-fy3ly]

Field of Dreams is a good one

[@JP47471]

#1 - Whatever the F*** Movie 43 was

[@luxima]

Shocked The Princess Bride wasn't in the conversation.

[@brandonfuller5814]

Not drafting ferris or any molly ringwold movie blows my mind.

[@venenders170]

This was a real fun episode and would love to see more of this type of episode when things are slow and there’s no hype show to talk about.

[@carsonnative]

They are too young for that one.

[@blueeyedbanditt]

Caddyshack might be the whitest movie ever

[@multi-florum]

I'd have gone that or Honey I Shrunk the Kids for comedy.

[@jamineleph5207]

BIG LEBOWSKY, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

[@DaringDan]

If Weekend at Bernie's isn't on the list, fire everyone here.

[@parkernelson2663]

Batman begins is white as gosh darn heck. An edgy anxty billionaire goes to learn from ninjas to avenge his parent's death. The master of said ninjas? Why, a white dude (Liam fcking Neeson) named Raz-a-gul of course, and then proceeds to learn to ninja better than all the other ninjas combined. White dude fantasy 101 😤 And his love interest is Katie frickin Homes! Anything Dawson's Creek adjacent definitely bumps it up a notch

[@jasmininterian634]

I told y’all lol numbers don’t lie !! Rings of Power is it !!!

[@Iamgregordeee]

Superhero - Wanted (recasted a black role with Jolie) Comedy - Animal House Action - Face Off Oscar - 12 Years Of Slave (I Said What I Said) Wild Card - Shaun Of The Dead/High Fidelity

[@MichaelBeveraggi]

A few that jump to mind- American Pie Gone Girl Grease The Holiday

[@jamesh1301]

44:02 "When he was writing on that board all you woulda heard was the shots." Fell out of my chair laughing. Van is so goddamn funny.

[@LaCheeserie]

That BttF pull from Van is brilliant and I somehow never thought of that for shame. But it has a moment with the band and Biff’s stooges calling them spooks. Van wow you whiffed forgetting that.

[@allsmiles1971]

This show never disappoints

[@tmoe880]

Steve never get to do shiii 😂😂

[@LuisAleman308]

They always handicap his ass lol

[@markvasko]

A few additional suggestions: Caddyshack Footloose Any John Hughes film Stand by me American graffiti

[@LocoSunny]

I had no idea black people loved Wet Hot American Summer

[@LaCheeserie]

Have not watched yet, but Hoosiers and Field of dreams better be in there

[@ericbabe87]

When Van said he was gonna shake things up with his superhero movie I knew exactly what he was picking

[@matthewhalsall9008]

I always found the karate kid movies absurdly white. This is a Japanese martial art and there isn't one Asian teenager in the San Fernando Valley who is competing in the tournament. Moreover, I can't see a version where Terry Silver from karate kid 3 is not white.

[@mjwbulich]

The San Fernando Valley was really white in the early 1980s. Asians were a tiny percentage of the population and most of them were Korean and Filipino. Karate is more of a Japanese and Chinese thing. Definitely should have been a couple Mexicans though.

[@sjw4life546]

Denzel was in Glory. White savior movie.

[@Weaponator18]

Superhero: Sky High Sci Fi: Predator Oscar: Lawrence of Arabia Sports: Rudy Action: Goldfinger Comedy: The Hangover Horror: Halloween Also, charles 100% won this draft.

[@jeandakaud4286]

The Royal Tennenbaum bit and Van's stance on La la land got me in stitches😂😂😂

[@Braedon-fy3ly]

Denzel literally had a white daddy savior in his 80s movie Carbon Copy. It’s the whole plot of the movie

[@brentgrant7124]

Apollo Creed won the fight in rocky via split decision.

[@M1gs]

Next one, blackest movie draft. 3 white guys and one black guy drafting.

[@sophieholsinger]

Van's LA LA LAND take is incredible

[@Idame2please]

Dewill Jenkins got tears in my eyes

[@Kvaz003]

We need a DnD campaign episode during these tough times

[@WilliamWillingham-Thomas]

INSANE misfire not to have SUPERBAD, especially with the aforementioned King of the yts, Michael Cera

[@jeandakaud4286]

The fact that yall didn't put Die Hard in the action category is wild!

[@ProfessD]

This is brilliant. Van Lathan rules the ringer verse

[@mattdavid716]

we could just bring back the herbivore dinosaurs, but the plants they eat are all extinct so we’d have to bring the vegetation back first

[@kingmatt54]

Counterpoint: Donald Glover could have played Scott Pilgrim.

[@Mistablue22]

Footloose better make this draft 😂

[@dannygibson2597]

Annie Hall and The Breakfast Club

[@alsoemmanueltaye]

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby was missed.

[@darrinbmaxwell]

Steve is right about Reacher!!!

[@matthewquintero7797]

"What's Up Doc?" should definitely be on this list.

[@colefogle421]

Jomi's Kyle Busch jacket going triple platinum

[@Kazzmann]

this is one of the greatest pieces of content of all time

[@AndrewLaSane]

I know it's not because Van is in charge, but we can't act like Christopher Reeve as Superman shouldn't be on the board

[@USC9210]

When Christian Bale gets his Hughy Lewis freak on in American Psycho... that is the White Guy HOF.

[@a.r.t93]

22:59 that look to the right and left kills me 🤣

[@seyiige53]

Steve solo pod on blackest movies next ??😂😂😂😂😂

[@adamgallardo1814]

Home Alone is top ten whitest movies of all time

[@joelitofrito]

I’d love to see a Rewatchables of this episode. Just to see the reactions from Simmons and Fennessy. And then see if Chris Ryan does the Wayne Jenkins as D-Will Jenkins lmaooo

[@reginaldshort8486]

Whitest Movie Draft: 1) The Titanic 2) Cleopatra 3) Death Wish 4) Top Gun 5) Rocky 6) The Blindside 7) Pretty Woman 8) Good Will Hunting 9) Braveheart 10) The Matrix. Honorable mentions Flash Gordon Dirty Harry LOTR Home Alone The Blues Brothers & West Side Story

[@baristabran]

New to the Midnight Boys and boy I'm glad KZbin suggested this to me.

[@CULeeisMe]

Van...you my man 100 grand...but brother, as much as I LOVE Lala Land, you can't put it over Moonlight. You and me about the same, both from the south, and I agree with you 97.2%, but this that 2.8%.😂😂😂😂

[@KofiOutlaw]

Hey! I was also watching 3:10 to Yuma! Great Film! Good Draft! I called out a shocking amount of these picks!

[@abrahamseide2901]

Van choosing Hancock as his whitest super hero movie and his breakdown of why it’s a white movie is why Van is HIM

[@edwardgomez6950]

Watching this at 1 am is a bad idea, I’m trying to not HOLLER out my laughter

[@BananaJoe12345]

Putting on a space suit, doesn't make you an astronaut.

[@horelpit7]

Star Wars films need to be up there and I say that shit with my whole chest.

[@Braedon-fy3ly]

You got Billy D. Williams, James Earl Jones, and Samuel L. Jackson fucced up

[@horelpit7]

@@Braedon-fy3ly ERRONEOUS! Eroneous on ALL COUNTS! Let the court show there's only 2 of us in the whole galaxy basically and look what they did. They did Sammy Jacks extra dirty and Billie D betrayd the rebellion. Star Wars is always at the top of my list for whitest movies.

[@Braedon-fy3ly]

@@horelpit7 😂 I see what you mean, but as a black Star Wars fan I choose to highlight the criteria they made that the eligible movies have to have an all white casting. That in itself disqualifies Star Wars franchise as a whole. We’ve had black representation and even star roles in all of the new Star Wars content too.

[@deneanrowe4278]

Favourite Ringer podcast episode ever! 😂

[@Manuelblackmon]

You guys forgot about “RV” with Robin Williams and “SuperBad”

[@eyeswidevideo]

52:57 How did I know he was gonna say La La Land ?!?!?

[@christhomas1806]

Without even looking, I'm gonna guess some Tarantino and Woody Allen movies make it into these lineups 😭😭

[@mydriaclark9847]

Jomi looking hella good today ❤

[@blessembreaks]

How tf Dead Poets Society didnt win this is beyond me. Easily the whitest movie ever

[@giovannigambinUTube]

The Midnight Boys needs some Merch !!!! A "Recklessly Nutting" T-shirt should be the first item available. (Idea - A squirrel with a pile of nuts around him that look like footballs and basketballs. Take my moneyyyy !!!!

[@spikestampede146]

This shit UNBELIEVABLY entertaining 😂😂😂

[@barryallen4975]

I just wanna say im watching u guys since the inception of the pod and u always put a smile on my face so i just wanted to thank u

[@jamineleph5207]

Speaking of Inception lol - that would have been a great pick as well (I’m black and I love that movie btw😂)

[@KhaleelWard]

Steve might have this one

[@tomambrozevitch9060]

Pleasantville, Point Break, Road House

[@mrgabgutierrez]

whats the movie charles said that got bleeped? at the top

[@DKamui06]

I think Charles has a solid list. Hard to beat IMO.

[@cloud_crowd]

FightClub - They reset everyones credit back to zero? Might be the blackest thing in a white movie...😂

[@Aguni20]

LOL. Boys need to lock in to the black Batman in comics, Jace Fox. Mind you, he is in the future

[@darthsaul24]

Princess bride should have been here too!

[@eugenegirin1757]

"two movies, no Jesus" 😂😂😂😂

[@jesseklein7436]

The Princess Bride is the Ginobli of this draft

[@thebrilliantdad]

Wow Hancock was a great unexpected pick 😂👏🏾

[@YourLastGreatkNight]

Denzel is literally in a white savior movie coming up in gladiator 2.

[@RobTheWatcher]

Kerm looks EXACTLY like he sounds

[@RobertS-kh1ge]

What about Shawshank Redemption…based on the logic of if you change a character does it change the movie…Red was supposed to be an Irish guy and was played by Morgan Freeman

[@peterburton8991]

In here for Aaron Pierre as Batman tbh

[@ryanmarshall3487]

May I add to Super-Hero movie, Masters of the Universe.

[@josephashley4122]

How you miss Mean Girls and Clueless? Seem got confused because yall add superhero films that everybody likes