Ep 1132 | Jason Whitlock Connects Dianna Russini & Mike Vrabel to Joy Taylor's Big Cans

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

Blaze Media

Sports, News, Politics, Sports News

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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New York Post pictures capture Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini "vacationing," and Jason Whitlock exposes the truth on women's advancement in sports media. Stephen A. Smith has yet another feud, and he has Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on his neck. Steve Kim and Dre Baldwin join the show to discuss the Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini controversy; the Stephen A.-Matt Barnes beef; Dawn Staley ending her feud with Geno Auriemma; Fernando Mendoza declining to attend the NFL Draft; Deion Sanders; Doc Rivers' "Google me” comment; and Colin Kaepernick’s new memoir. Today's Sponsors: GhostBed GhostBed creates engineered sleep systems designed for relief and recovery, addressing issues like stiffness, tossing and turning, and sleeping hot, and offers a risk-free 101-night trial, along with the lowest prices of the season and an extra 10% off when you use promo code FEARLESS at https://GhostBed.com/FEARLESS. PreBorn PreBorn has helped rescue more than 400,000 babies, and every single day, they continue that work by offering mothers something powerful and life-changing: an ultrasound. Will you help us? Just dial #250 and say the keyword “BABY” or donate securely at https://Preborn.com/FEARLESS ➢ Subscribe to Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media: https://x.com/JasonWhitlock https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What did we expect Diana Rusini to do?
0:21.4	Diana Rusini to do. Diana Rusini is not qualified to cover the National Football League.
0:29.4	She's a moderately attractive, 40-some-odd-year-old woman who, you know, gets assigned covering the Tennessee Titans, I believe, for ESPN 8, 10 years ago.
0:49.6	What did we expect her to do?
0:51.9	Did she play football as a little kid in junior high, in high school, in college?
1:03.1	Was she a sports reporter for her high school newspaper and covering the high school football team.
1:11.7	Did she cover the college football team at the college she attended?
1:18.3	Or did Diana Rusini, like most women and most attractive women, do what attractive women normally do? Hey, my boyfriend or guys I like play
1:32.3	football and I go to the games and I cheer on the team. But for the most part, I'm a heterosexual
1:39.7	woman and yes, I like football. It's great entertainment.
1:45.4	But I don't follow football in a real way.
1:49.8	I don't cover football in a real way.
1:54.5	But there's a big pot of gold.
1:58.9	If you can launch yourself as an NFL insider and ESPN or Fox Sports or the New York Times or the athletic take an interest in you.
2:13.6	Well, at ESPN, there was a time when being an NFL insider and a lead voice reporter, a broadcaster on the NFL, that would pay you anywhere from $200,000 to a million dollars.
2:30.3	And you get to build a brand and become really popular as,
2:35.2	hey, I'm the girl that's relatively attractive who seems fun and seems like the girl that you'd want to have a beer with.
2:45.3	And the blogosphere will write about you and celebrate you.
2:50.0	And who knows, you might become the next
2:53.2	Aaron Andrews well what would you do to compete and to become a NFL insider if there was
3:02.6	that much wealth that much fame that much attention attached to the job. And you really didn't know
3:10.4	football. You were there and appointed there because you checked some DEI box and made some
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