Dan Speaks on the Dianna Russini Situation + 2026 Suey Award Winners | Postgame Show

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1:07Oh, against the spread. Against the spread is presented by Draft King Sports. Draft King is the crowned yours, Tony. I guess so. I'm going to the first game of the National Football League to kick off. The rematch, shove the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots versus Seattle Seahawks. Seahawks. Against the spread. At home, I'm going to go with the New England Patriots plus three. I'm going to go Pat's plus the points. Clint Coooby-ack not there anymore. I want to see how their offense looks. Very focused on JSN. I think the Patriots know that Christian Gonzalez just signed a massive four year 135 million dollar deal. I expect him to be shadowing JSN all night. Give me the pass plus the spread. Oh, I am going to the second game of the NFL season Thursday night. Rams 49ers. I'm going to go out on a limb here and take the team that everyone thinks is going to win the Super Bowl. And I'm going to take them to cover minus three and a half in Australia, the Rams, that offense, that defense, Kyle Shanahan.

2:08You ain't even know what day it is. You don't have the answers. Minus three and a half. Rams on Thursday. We'll get to Juju in a second and we will give you all our Sui winners as well, but I didn't want to false tease what it is that a lot of you have basically been imploring me to talk about even though it is not something I have felt comfortable talking about because I've told you where it is that my bias is lie. So it is obviously and we didn't really need an investigation to reveal this. It's obviously a journalistic breach, an ethical breach to have any kind of a romantic relationship between a journalist and an NFL coach. I was actually surprised to learn that the athletic investigation found no bias after that given that there was apparently evidently a romantic relationship between Diana Rousini and Mike Raeble. Samson, what were your thoughts about that investigation concluding because I thought

3:12they'd be able to find a little bit more than, okay, this is an ethical journalistic breach which it is. I would like to hear at some point from Diana Rousini, I have not either personally or privately, I've had text conversation with her, but I don't have. I'm interested in her first public comments on this matter because there haven't been any. And whenever it is, if she does decide to give that interview to somebody, it's going to be something that a lot of people are going to consume because we have not heard her side of this at all. She's not going to give it to anybody if she is basically reborn with the new media career, with the new platform, that's where it will appear. She's not going to speak for the first time on your show, she's going to speak on her show. Well, wherever it is, it shows. I'm assuming she might give that, wait a minute, what do you mean her show, the debut of whatever her new venture is if there's a new venture? Advising her, I am not speaking to anyone except for myself because that's what I'm promising a new platform. Hey, I don't know if people are going to stay with me, but you're going to get a big bump

4:15right off the top because I'm going to release my first public statements on the matter. But the athletic reviewed every article, they reviewed everything and when they found no bias, that actually is not the issue because if you're dating someone, the whole reason for that, for that rule is that you may overcompensate and do the opposite of have bias toward, for able, you may have bias against him to try to make it seem like there's nothing there. That's why you don't want the relationships. So I didn't find that interesting with the athletic found at all. They took a very long time. This has been going on, is it a year, six months? The New York Times and the Athletic did a long time investigation and it didn't reveal very much. They read all the articles. I mean, I don't, there were a lot, but man, it took a long time to read the articles, it walked out, Lipton, like 200,000 pages of documents, 73 interviews with 60 witnesses, which was what walked out, I just found it to be long and then I found it to be not very revealing or a release that was even coherent in what they were looking for and they simply

5:19said, which could have been their statement from the start, which is, oh, don't do that. But that's not what they did at the start as you may recall. We are going to get to our Sui winners in a second. And then, Junju is here. He will update the polls in a moment, but do you have a top five list for us, Junju? Good seeing you, buddy. Good seeing y'all, brothers, too, man. Great seeing David in the studio, man. Good to see you, man. Thank you, man. No, your brother. But yeah, man, after the Michigan game the other night, it made me think, man, who are the top five cheaters in sport history that I can think of? You got to know it. Top five cheaters in sports history that you can think of. Yes, sir. I'm blaming those referees from the other night for cheating. I don't give a damn what the reports say. The big tank and come out with a new font and put out a report all they want to. It was cheating. I don't like it. So, OLI, Tim, Donna, he has been out of. It's not nice. Nice, Roy.

6:20Also, OLI, WNBA referees. And the big fanata. Great sound. Never proven. Number five. Number five. Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire. Kaspinata. Yeah. Had the whole world locked in, man. I don't give a damn. No brothers cheated. It was entertaining. Number four. Tiger Woods. Kaspinata. Oh, you're talking with women. Great. I said, as I said, this is the top five cheaters in sports list. You feel me? However it calls, pals. Number three. Tom Brady. Aspinata. Oh, come on. That was the opposite. The jujitsu instructor was going on there, huh? What a cut. That boy. Very handy. Throw me them. Throw my boy into the bus and jujitsu instructor was putting them in moves.

7:21Number two. Terry Porter and the referees from the 2003 Fiesta Bowl. Aspinata. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Yes, sir, absolutely. And the number one cheater in sports history, I'm talking about the biggest one we've ever seen. Steve Balmer. Aspinata. Legitly. Legitly. Legitly. Legitly. Thank you. According to reports, y'all. According to reports. Can I just ask you guys a question about this? Do you think that it is not being either talked about or noticed enough that what Balmer did to acquire Kauai prevented Kauai from joining LeBron with the Lakers and therefore making what the Lakers would have been the last six years given that the Lakers were the front runners to get Kauai to join LeBron and alter the league? Like the last five or six years would have been a lot different if Balmer hadn't successfully gotten Kauai Leonard the way that he got him.

8:23Do you think enough people are either noticing that or talking about the fact that LeBron might have a bunch of titles right now and a totally different sort of ending to what happened with the Lakers there if Kauai had spent all of these years with the Lakers instead of with the Clippers? So not that the Lakers would have given him what they wanted because Genie Bust apparently said no, it's all that you're saying Kauai, if no one was going to give him what he wanted, he would have still chosen the Lakers. I think that I thought that the Lakers were the betting favorite to get Kauai Leonard and totally alter the way the league was going to feel and make LeBron's ending feel a lot like when he came to Miami where people would be like that's not fair that Kauai would go over there and just wreck the entirely that was prevented by what it is that Balmer did or was willing to do to get Kauai. I don't feel like a lot of people are either noticing that or talking about it. I felt Kauai demanded Paul George but I could have my timing off. No, but Danisany wouldn't have demanded Paul George if he was going to be with the Lakers with the Bron. If nobody had offered Uncle Dennis what it is that he was asking for, Kauai probably

9:25would have ended up with the Lakers. You don't even want to say to Toronto if no one was going to be willing to go to Los Angeles. Like he wanted to be in Los Angeles and it like I remember feeling like people were going to get mad at the league again the way that they did with Durant and the first time LeBron joined Miami because Kauai and LeBron together wouldn't have been fair. Yeah. Anybody's talking about that. Anyway, any flowers to give away today, Choo Choo. Yes, sir, man. In a world where the Internet opinion of you becomes folks opinion of you, conversations be had behind your back and people treat that as facts. I like to give a flowers, big flower, three bouquets of flowers to Steven A Smith, Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill for sitting down and talking to one another about every single problem they don't have with each other over the years and showing us how it's done. They might not have agreed, but they said it to each other and didn't rely on what he said to her who said it to the barber.

10:26You did. So salute to those wonderful brothers and sisters. You can have an assortment of objections to a number of Steven A Smith things, but if you've listened to Shannon Sharpe or if you've listened to Skip Bayless, that man's a good friend. Like if he is your friend, he's your friend. Choo Choo, what do you have for us in terms of post show awards? Are there? Oh, yeah. Sorry, I forget to sign it, brother. So as you said, I turned up. I like to give the Steve Martin Award, unfortunately, to my brother Zazlow for that whole thing around on a situation. Good job, Zaz. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job, Zaz. Good job. Good job. Are you ready? Yes, sir, man. Also, though, totally redeeming yourself. I like to give the put the town on an alert, or war to Zaz, letting us know about the Climpson Miami action coming up. Yes, sir. Good job, please. Good job.

11:27Come on now, sir. Good job. I have chances available. All 50 states right now. Unfortunately, I got another award to give. Here we go. your hater persuasion to my brother David Samson hating on the playmaker's abs. You're the play. How do we never find Ricardo Montobom's prosthetic? I asked three hours ago for someone to search that there it is. It's a Google. That's the last. The most unfortunate award I have to give out today. In his shame is me don't have to even say these words man. The blame the brother award goes to Christopher damn Cody. What in the hell is your doing brother in this day and age how this climate goes? You talk you tell one little white lie about a brother who everybody's already expecting to not know how to do this. Oh he's going to bring important to the you're going to

12:28blame him and allow that narrative to be made. This is not for David Samson to say something about people would have just thought that about Roy. Unfortunate, unexcusable Joker. You just frame the black guy. Juju I love you man but you got that wrong. It was me. Okay. I'm sorry to admit I thought the whole time Roy brought the pork to the Shiva and it was Cody. So I got corrected. I apologize. Holy moly. It was me. Damn brother. I'm sorry Chris Cody. You had to catch that from the flame brother. That's on David. Damn that's unfortunate. I gotta remember brother every room I walk in folks are waiting for me to be ghetto. So they are shocked and aw when I'm not ghetto. So when you go cheat and put something on my list like oh yeah he bought for the pork. When I didn't bring the pork you are doing a reputable damage to all this work I've been doing to this pristine reputation of mine. Salute the Roy man. Dave you should know better

13:32than that. I do my due diligence. The answer is that I was out of sorts. Okay. I'll get a pass. I understand. I understand. I remember how much you smiled though when you saw me. Tony Roman can't make excuses. No one's life was at risk. Before we get to the polls here I'm just going to remind you guys one more time that at the end of this segment here we're going to have the winners for all of the Suis from last week. But let's go ahead and update the polls here. Juju is the whole world hates you. A nice thing to say to a kid. 62% of the audience says no it is not cheap baby. Are too many people doing the Heisman polls 97% of the audience says yes they are. Cheap baby. Cheap baby. How dare you? How dare you? Give me that back. I'm going to learn gang it. Do you eat French toast without syrup 82% of the audience says no they don't. Cheap baby.

14:36Wow. And last poll have you ever eaten French toast like a sandwich bare handed. 77% of the audience says no and those are your polls. Cheap baby. Thank you Juju. What do we have here Chris in terms of gold? I put it in a coup. I'm going to keep it safe. What do we have in terms of how do you feel about this year's Suis putting a bow on last week's awards? Did you think they were just and fair winners? Did you feel like the right things won? I think the audience did a great job picking winners outside of that God for Saken story category. I think they were all great. We had 10 categories. We have a montage where we will play nine of them. Best musical performance we're not going to do because it'll get us pinged. So I will announce right now our closest award was musical performance. There were like 49 nominees. The winner came down to a three vote difference for the winner in second place. The second place that came three vote short was Roy's Edith bunker. Roy's eating all the good actual musical

15:38performances. The Edith bunker almost won. But the winner. Oh, that was a good. No, I'm just saying, you know, it's one of the like the jazz hands funny ones that doesn't usually compete. And that one did. But by three votes, the winner of best musical performance, Keirsten Grassler, Greg Cody, Jeremy Tashay, the hello Adele parody with my dad being like, hello, and then Keirsten just nailing the vocals. It was a great song. You can go back to our YouTube last week if you want to hear all the nominees and that one. But here are the rest. The nine other categories are winners of the 2026 Suis. And now the winners of the 2026 Sui Awards. Best revelation. Chris Cody, sister-in-law revelation. There are times, you know, in marriage. You're going through. You know, you know, you know, you know, it's, you know, this is I don't like where this is headed. I do. Where sometimes you just like, if you're trying to keep things fresh, you just imagine it's the other person.

16:39Oh, no, no. That's an unbelievable mission. That wasn't how you made it. I didn't hear Sui guys in room outside. Mark that down. Further record. You guys ever see it? Everybody see is one of the, as one of society's great empaths. Did you see it? Me try to get in the way. Did you see me try to dive in front of that? He refused. Your wife clearly by me. I mean, I'm not sure what I'm worried. Let's get back to her. Let's not clip this if we can. That was an incredible mission. Correct. What did you make of all that? A little bit unfortunate. Well, in the context of this show, you can always say I was just kidding. Of course, I was just kidding. But will she believe you? I was. Worst mistake. Zazlow's terrible question for Dusty coach. Did the winning feel better than losing in the final four with F.A.U.? It felt better, yes. Did you just ask him if winning the championship felt better than losing the champion? No, felt better. It seems odd. It feels better than losing felt bad. That's not a question. No, you

17:40missed out. No, I didn't say it like that. No, Zaz, but it's good. You got to the heart of it. He confirmed that winning better than losing. Hey guys, we run a very psychological safe program and you can make mistakes and as long as you learn from that. Did you understand what I was asking though coach? I don't know. I tried to think of the nicest way to answer. Oh, man. I think you're a sucker. I was going to let Zaz slide on that. You guys, that's a stupid question. You know about that winner winning being better than losing. Oh, man. That's the man. If winning felt better than losing. No, it feels better than not getting to the title game at all. No, that's not what I meant. Did winning feel better than losing felt bad? Oh, man. I blew it. Most uncomfortable moment. Dr. Fred Johnson doesn't want his daughter dating Ju-ju-gadi. Well, they've come to me twice. They came to me right before they won the Super Bowl and they came to me again after they won the Super Bowl. Can you tell? I mean, I don't want to put you on the spot, brother. Can you tell like my character?

18:44Or is it like you have to be around me more? Or can you read me from here? Well, yeah, I wouldn't want my daughter dating you. Hey, you guys said you can give it out. I told you I can give it back. Yes, sir. Do me next. How do you? Pause. Big time. Pause, Dr. Johnson. Dr. Thank you for being on with us. He's the leadership coach and the founder of initiative one. We appreciate the time. Thank you. Best back in my day. Bowling. Bowling. I'm going to weekly bowling league. Why? Because I'm an every man. A lunchpale guy. The face of blue collar and I love it. But all bowlers nowadays except me have this in common. Everybody thinks they're a pro. They waltz into the bowling alley with rolling luggage full of four, five, six different bowling balls. I'm the only one in my entire league. No lie. With a single hand

19:48held back containing one ball. The others have a ball for oily lane conditions. Another ball for dry lanes. A ball for particular spare combos. Please. The ball racks get filled up. And there's so many bags and rollers of surplus balls. The poor waitress trying to bring me another bucket of Miller light as a weave through a slalom of luggage. Ridiculum. Also, fellow wearing his name and script on the back of your bowling shirt. Nobody knows who you are or cares. You're bowling a 138. Getting your lane. And I don't mean lane 11. Also, Don Carter. Quit dancing into my lane with your body English after the ball leaves your hands. Make bowling bowling again. Three fingers. A two ball limit. And no name on your shirt because you're in a handy cap league for a reason. Jack also bring back Chris Schenkele even though he's dead. I'm Greg Cody and that's how it was back in my day. Best story. Dan Levitard. Squatter story. So for a few years, my wife and I have been working

20:53on building a house trying to get a house built. And we've been using it as an Airbnb in the interim. Okay. And a couple of times after someone hasn't stayed there, I've been like, oh, some things have been moved. I don't understand why that's over there. Who did that? I'll call somebody. Did somebody do this? Don't understand it. Got some mail one day and I'm looking through the mail and there are a couple of things in there that are the correct address, but are not my name. I'm like, what is this? This isn't here. I throw it out yesterday. At least calls me my assistant and says, do you guys know why the room upstairs is locked? You have a squatter and we're like, the room upstairs is locked. Why would it be locked? Is there someone in there? She's like, no, there's not anyone in there, but what do you mean it's locked? And it's also a room, by the way, that is totally empty. Like it's a room that has no furniture in it and it's locked. So we don't know. So we go to start figuring it out and trying to figure it out and we open the door and break in. There's a bed and a television hung in there that's not ours. I had also spotted a few days earlier.

21:57I'd open a drawer and there were a bunch of door knobs in there. And I'm like, why are there door knobs in there? That squatter was preparing to fully occupy my house to have everything in there his door knobs so that when I got there and said it's my house, he could spend months there litigating for free that arguing with me over whether it's my house or his. He was this close to changing all of the locks in my house. I sure figured out what the door knobs, I couldn't figure out why that, I'm like, who's door knobs are these? Why are there door knobs in this drawer? Where did these come from? The mail didn't clue me. The door knobs didn't clue me and the way that we got him arrested last night is the cop was just waiting for him to get there and evidently he pulled up in front of the cop and started saying, yeah, this is my house. This is my house. Best dismissal. Zazlow's wife Tamara dismisses Zazlow. Unfortunately, between the snoring and the bright lights, it's just time

22:58to establish some boundaries. She says the TV emits too much heat. Yes, it's just excessive, especially it's wrestling. So I can't stand it. So wrestling. So you're okay with the heat, you're okay with the panthers. If these guys all lathered up in oils running around in tights that remind you that you're married to a toddler. Basically, it's nonsense. The breaking point is wrestling, Zaz, it's that wrestling is gay. It's not that it sports. It's specifically wrestling is the problem and the snoring. Best limited fake, Mike Ryan, limited fake Greg Cote's inner monologue. His heart is glad that Dave Hyde was canned. There I said it. Speaking of cans, no light, that's coming tonight. We're going to get safe drunk. Drunk, but not really. Not on the good, Cody spectrum of drunk. Safe drunk. A good nine beer boys. Just to take you at your

24:00big ill-earser. That is insanely accurate. No, I said, laugh it a little bit more. Drink responsibly. I always do. It's a week. That's a two day night. Yeah. We can't. You'll never see me without a beer in my hand. Straight up. Well, I want to know like, I'm safe. Damn. Oh, 11 E. Risky. Broke bushes. Worst talking. Zazlow gets excited about weapons. What happens? What a movie, David. I never would have watched it without Mike suggesting that I watch it. You want to know how that whoo, what were the kids doing? How they go missing? That's exactly right. That's exactly well put. Shitty, you want to know how that whoo, what were the kids doing? What did I call David in the beginning? I don't know, dude. What's that? I'm on a tie. Shitty, you want to know how that whoo, what the kids doing? What the kids doing? It sounds like me doing fake him. Shitty, you want to know

25:03how that whoo, what were the kids doing? Best laugh. Billy Gill. There's a dead body.