Charissa Thompson

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Episode 9 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features a conversation with Charissa Thompson, the host of Fox NFL Kickoff and NFL Films Presents on FS1. In this podcast, Thompson discusses why she decided to re-sign with Fox Sports; having conversations with ESPN host Mike Greenberg about working on a morning show with him; having her private photos hacked and leaked online, and the incomprehensible invasion of privacy; the aftermath of that invasion; how she is going about trying to get justice and why that is important; how her parents taught her to focus on how you get up from adversity; why Ryen Russillo has been housesitting at her guest; getting adjusted to a certain level of fame; whether Top Gun 2 is a good idea; her approach on social media when it comes to politics; gambling on sports and going to the race track with her grandfather, Seattle getting hockey, and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the sports media podcast with Richard Dutch. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino.
0:08.8	Our guest this week is someone who was on my Sports Illustrated podcast, one of the first guests, July 10th, 2015.
0:17.0	So it's been a long time since I spoke with her. But for those who listened to this podcast, no, she was incredibly forthright and honest.
0:24.8	It was one of the better podcasts that I did, I thought, at SI.
0:27.5	So I'm glad she's back.
0:29.7	It is Carissa Thompson.
0:31.2	She's the host of Fox NFL Kickoff and NFL Films Presents, which airs on FS1.
0:39.0	Carissa, it's been a long time since we at least talked for taping.
0:44.4	Welcome back to the sports media podcast.
0:46.8	Thank you for having me back.
0:48.4	I thought I did something wrong last time.
0:50.2	I haven't heard from you in years.
0:52.4	I've married and I've got six kids at this point.
0:55.1	Congratulations on your marriage and six kids. Chris, still single.
0:58.3	Still single. We'll eventually get into that. I mean, Chris, I can follow your career via
1:02.8	Twitter and Instagram and, you know, all the very, I mean, you have so many famous people
1:07.6	in your life at this point. It's honestly hard to, uh, it's honestly hard to keep up.
1:13.0	Oh, yes. You know, I had to sit down. I'm exhausted, keeping track of all of the celebrities I'm
1:17.4	friends with, you know? Nice. All right. Send my best to Brad and Gwyneth. Um, all right,
1:23.0	Carissa, last August, I need you to focus, Chris. Last August. Last That's hard. Okay. You decided to resign with Fox. And I want to get into some of the reasons as to why. Because at the same time, you took a break from your hosting of entertainment programs. And, you know, you made a decision that you were going to stick with Fox.
1:44.6	You were going to continue to do sports.
1:46.8	But you were really just going to focus, for the most part, on Fox NFL kickoff.
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