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 hooligan after two shots of wh ..read more

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 based on wa ..read more

While waiting for the repair man to show up at the house, I recorded this episode about Paul Newman, Shakespeare and Wakanda Forever. I swear it makes sense ..read more

Before winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Richard Williams in King Richard, Will Smith really slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith's bald hair cut. Also, I talk through some news and notes about Formula 1 racing including, the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton's social media post, Max Mosley's cause of death according to the coroner's office, Sebastian Vettel's return at the Australian Grand Prix and Formula 1's W Series adding two races. Caitlyn Jenner owns Jenner Racing and signed two-time defending W Series world champion Jamie Chadwick to ..read more

Alfa Romero, Chinese and rookie F1 driver Zhou Guanyu could be the most popular driver in Formula by the end of 2022. I was shocked to find out Lando Norris is the second-most popular driver in the sport. I also pondered whether Sebastian Vettel is as pissed with Ferrari as Niki Lauda was following the 1976 season. Las Vegas is getting an F1 race in 2023, which means there will be three F1 events in the U.S. for the first since 1982. Also, just what the hell is going on at the Jeddah for the 2022 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix practice sessions ..read more

The 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix was the most-watched Formula One event on ESPN since 1995. RJ talks about what that means and whether it signals a new wave of interest in F1 thanks in large part to the Netflix series Drive to Survive. What's Ferrari gonna follow-up with? --The Scuderia ended its 910-day, 45-race winless streak with an outstanding display of blue blood Mei Mei Turning Red power taking one-two on the podium and opening up a 44-point lead on the Red Bull and 17-point lead on Mercedes. Haven't won a title since 2008. 2020 was a 40-year low (sixth) for the Maranello mean machine team ..read more

In this episode, RJ talks Formula One racing for the first time on The RJ Young Show Podcast. Starting the season with the first race of the year at Bahrain, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz and Ferrari had a banner weekend with a 1-2 finish and the Scuderia's first F1 win in years. Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes were able to steal points. George Russell narrowly held off Alfa Romeo's Valterri Bottas. Red Bull had the fastest car on track but it wasn't enough. American Drive to Survive fans got to rejoice with Haas Racing, Guenther Steiner and Kevin Magnussen ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 aggr ..read more