The RJ Young Show
Summary: The RJ Young Show Podcast is a sports talk show where RJ talks mostly college football. RJ Young is an ESPN Radio host. He has been featured on CBS Sports Network's "Time to Schein" as a college football insider. He is a selection committee member for the Jim Thorpe Award, which is given to the nation's best defensive back annually. He won the 2018 Natural Light Beer grand prize for a YouTube video he made. He was featured in the 2019 Natural Light Beer Super Bowl commercial. He earned his master's degree in professional writing at the University of Oklahoma. His memoir LET IT BANG (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was published in 2018.
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Podcasts:
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 Katy talked about a controversial anti-transgender bill in Arkansas, and the creative brilliance that is Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)."
RJ and Katy discussed Tracy Letts' epic response to a New York Times questionnaire about what he made in 2020: nothing. But nothing is important to contextualize in a society powered by production as profit.
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 Justice, Campbell might not have played at UT
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.
Let's tell some Nick Saban stories and talk about Dabo Swinney's coaches poll ballot (again).
Ron and I chopped it up about the College Football Playoff, and there's at least one good joke in there.
Let the conspiracy theories commence and then be dashed.
The College Football Playoff committee wants to see more games, and so do we. So there's that.
RJ and Ron chopped it up about the debacle at Ohio State, Texas and how LSU might get ruined by Alabama.
Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide is a juggernaut, and we're searching for a worthy challenger in 2020. I went through the AP Top 25 rankings for Week 13 with some notes, news and analysis. Also, there's a bit of Shane Beamer-to-South-Carolina talk at the end.
