The RJ Young Show

RJ discusses Texas' win-now attitude, Deion Sanders' time away from Boulder (9:10), Nebraska's gem in Dylan Raiola (18:17) and Texas A&M's KC Concepcion as a $2.5 million WR.
--This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. --RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. --Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. --RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL.

Oklahoma is predicted to finish behind Auburn; Michigan is predicted to finish fourth in the Big Ten (9:50); Deion Sanders is not in Boulder (18:35); Deloitte's NIL Go will face scrutiny.
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Monday's edition of A&R begins with a discussion about Michigan and its NCAA infractions hearing, then moves to what Arkansas' 2025 might look like (9:35), the impact of House v. NCAA settled (19:36), Kevin Jennings was snubbed as notable by the Manning Passing Academy (28:53), Oregon WR Evan Stewart's apparent season-ending injury (37:03) and an anonymous assessment of Deion Sanders' Colorado by a Big 12 assistant coach.--This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. --RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. --Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football...

Steve Sarkisian's Texas is the favorite to win the 2025 College Football Playoff national championship with Arch Manning at QB and (8:34) Josh Heupel's Tennessee is going through a transition year with quarterback Joey Aguilar and running back DeSean Bishop looking to lead the Vols.
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Georgia is baking on Gunner Stockton being the guy, but should Kirby Smart trust that? And Ohio State coach Ryan Day said he'd like to see four spots reserved for Big Ten teams in a 16-team CFP field. And In its 2025 edition of Anonymous coach speak, Athlon Sports dropped a doozy about the Sooners' head coach and what expectations must be in 2025.
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RJ discusses just why the Oklahoma Sooners and Alabama Crimson Tide have two SEC foes circled on their schedules.
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Ohio State QB Julian Sayin follows a tough act in Will Howard after Ryan Day's Buckeyes won the 2024 national championship AND Deion Sanders has made headlines once again as he defends his son and former star Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders' NFL Draft prep on Asante Samuel's podcast.--This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. --RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. --Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. --RJ...

In Monday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ asks is USC ready to compete in the Big Ten versus the likes of Ohio State and Michigan and is Deion Sanders' Colorado about to take a step back in 2025?
--This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. --RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. --Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. --RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking...

In Sunday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ unpacks the $40 million Illinois coach Bret Bielema claimed some programs are spending on their rosters and if Duke QB Darin Mensah is worth more to the Blue Devils than Oklahoma QB John Mateer is to the Sooners.
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In Saturday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ asks with seven home games and perhaps just one ranked opponent on the schedule before November, Matt Rhule, Dylan Raiola and the Nebraska Cornhuskers have a chance to win nine games and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and his SEC spring meetings dominated news this week with field rush fine and news about the 16-team playoff format that most agree is best.
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In Friday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ discusses what Justin Fields has to do be great for New York Jets and what Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte had to say about his Longhorns football program's NIL roster pay out and moving their game time with Ohio State.
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In the Wednesday podcast episode of Adapt & Respond, RJ discusses the idea that Deion Sanders is to blame for Shedeur Sanders NFL Draft slide and the prospect of the SEC and Big Ten agreeing to play each other regularly.
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The time is now for Steve Sarkisian's Texas with Arch Manning as his starting QB in a year where the College Football Playoff national championship feels attainable in Austin.This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week.Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL. What i...

Texas QB Arch Manning is not on the cover of EA Sports College Football 26, and that is not a shock. Texas expects to be one of the best teams in the sport in 2025. This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football...

Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith and Alabama wide receiver Ryan Williams will grace the cover of EA Sports College Football 26. Smith and Williams could compete for the Biletnikoff Award and Heisman in 2025.This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football...

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Enzo Ferrari wanted to race cars, sing opera or write sports; was too much of a coward to race, couldn't sing worth a damn and doesn't believe the truth is entirely necessary. You can find examples of this all over motorsports history, but Brock Yates — who created, participated in and wrote about Cannonball Run — wrote a spectacular biography of the man behind the Scuderia. In fact, separating fact from fiction about Ferrari and his eponymous cars has turned into a sport, a game unto itself. With that in mind, I’ve adapted the child’s game true or false into what I’m...

Tony Gilroy, Andor’s maestro, adapted action movies I love—the Bourne trilogy, Armageddon, Michael Clayton and The Devil's Advocate. He made Rogue One too. And I didn't like that as much as others did. His pops, Frank, adapted a movie into a Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play—The Subject Was Roses in 1965. His brothers Dan and John can Kool and the Gang get down on it too. But then I saw Gilroy put his back into dialogue got snappy. Nazis SS officers in white—excuse me, Imperial Security Bureau officers—at a round table started trading repartee like a blueberry...

Spawn is the first Black superhero ever to feature in a major motion picture — one year before Wesley Snipes featured in Blade. That fact serves to illustrate Spawn is one of the most overlooked and most popular Black superheroes in history. That juxtaposition merits investigation. So does the idea that the first mainstream superhero or antihero broke through as the angry, violent demon monster that fits a retrograde and heinous stereotype of Black men. Perhaps it’s best to start with why Spawn became an animated TV show in the first place, and that is because the comic book it was...

RJ chopped it up with Racing Incident co-host Anna Tarkov about Formula One. They gushed about Lewis Hamilton, talked about the lack of racial and gender representation in the sport, the upcoming Imola and Miami Grands Prix and just what Drive to Survive has done for the sport. Also, RJ reads the prologue of Adrian Newey's excellent autobiography called How to Build a Car where Newey drives the Williams racing FW-15 F1 car around the track at Paul Ricard.

I read Sara Gay Forden's book, "House of Gucci," so you don't have to. It's the story of how Aldo, Rodolfo and Maurizio Gucci built Guccio Gucci's business into an internationally-respected brand and produced iconic fashion and fashion designers like Tom Ford and how Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli Gucci became the symbol of its undoing. House of Gucci has been adapted into a movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek and Lady Gaga.

RJ and Tyler talk about how The Matrix film franchise owes so much of its inspiration to Frank Herbert's 1965 novel "Dune." They compare characters -- Neo is Paul Atriedes, duh -- and themes that overlap between the two properties as well as what Herbert was actually writing about: his distrust of superheroes, fascism, demagogues and dictators.

Act one, perhaps the best known myth about Loki which involves the creation of Thor's hammer and dwarves nearly chopping off the god of mischief's head for being, well, mischievous and an arrogant prat.

Samuel Thompson
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1436&context=yjlh

Sif's haircut and Thor's hammer
https://norse-mythology.org/tales/loki-and-the-dwarves/

In the second segment, a character study about Loki in the ancient storytelling tradition of the trickster, courtesy an aggressively aggregated Smithsonian I found clicking links in another aggressively aggregated blog post.

The...

RJ and Katy chopped it up about Kiese Laymon's essay in Guernica called You Are The Second Person.

https://www.guernicamag.com/you-are-the-second-person/

RJ and Ron talked about Penny Dreadful, writing, TV and movies.

I watched Coming 2 America so you don't have to. And then I spoke with Noam about movie scores.

In this episode, Katy and RJ chop it up about Judas and the Black Messiah. RJ tries to widen and deepen the discussion when he reads excerpts from "Black Against Empire," and he enthusiastically suggests reading this political history of the Black Panther Party.

RJ and Katy chopped it up about Black Panther and the Black Panther Party's origins here. Your homework is to read Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, watch the Marvel's Black Panther and watch King in the Wilderness on HBOMax.

We'll talk about Judas and the Black Messiah later.

RJ and Katy chopped it up about Texas federal judge William Wayne Justice.

Once Earl Campbell ran over one of his own blockers. The fella had committed the sin of falling down in front of him. Longhorns coach Darrell Royal was asked what he thought about that fella’s misfortune.

“Ol’ Earl doesn’t believe in taking any prisoners.”

He was the first Longhorn to win the Heisman Memorial Trophy in 1977 and is one half of the football field’s namesake at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium today. But if not for Judge Wayne William Just...

RJ and Katy Mullins chopped it up about Super Bowl 55, Black football coaches and RJ opines passing of a Black history icon in gymnastics.