Tom Rinaldi
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
Audacy
4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Episode 435 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Tom Rinaldi, a reporter on multiple Fox Sports properties including the NFL where he works on the top team. Rinaldi has a new serialized podcast series out: “Tom Rinaldi Presents: Sacred Acre.” The six-part series goes into the life and murder of Ed Thomas, a longtime high school football coach from Parkersburg, Iowa. In this podcast Rinaldi discusses why he was attracted to this story of a man who was killed 15 years ago; the challenges of narrative audio; the collaborative process for podcasts; Nick Saban becoming a college football analyst for ESPN; why broadcasting at a World Cup was a dream assignment; working with Tom Brady on the NFL; why he thinks Brady will be successful, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm your host, Richard Deich. |
| 0:12.5 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:14.3 | One guest this episode, but I mean, a man really does not need any introduction. |
| 0:18.9 | Tom Rinaldi is a reporter on multiple Fox Sports properties, probably most notable at the moment, |
| 0:25.4 | the National Football League, where he works on what Fox would call the A team with Kevin Burkart, |
| 0:30.5 | Tom Brady, and Aaron Andrews. |
| 0:33.1 | Obviously, you've seen Tom on the World Cup coverage for Fox and Soccer. |
| 0:37.9 | He does Daytona. |
| 0:39.3 | He's done a lot of big properties. |
| 0:41.4 | I appreciate Tom not bringing his piano, which usually accompanies him to all of his visits. |
| 0:47.2 | So we won't hear on the piano on this one. |
| 0:50.2 | He is here, though, today because he has a new serialized podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | The title of this, Tom Rinaldi presents, here, though, today because he has a new serialized podcast. The title of this, |
| 1:01.6 | Tom Rinaldi presents, colon, Sacred Acre. It is a six-part series that goes into the life and murder and influence of Ed Thomas, who was a longtime high school football coach from |
| 1:07.5 | Parkersburg, Iowa. You may have heard about the story or seen it on ESPN. Sports |
| 1:13.3 | Illustrated actually put them on the cover of their magazine as well. And we'll get into why Tom |
| 1:19.7 | decided 15 years after the murder of Ed Thomas, why he wanted to explore the story. And with that, |
| 1:26.3 | I bring in Tom Rinaldi. Tom, |
| 1:35.4 | welcome. Rich, thank you very much. I've tried to sort of mute my laughter about the introduction, and I'm just sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop. By the way, please don't eliminate |
| 1:40.6 | big noon kickoff and our college football coverage as part as part of what we |
| 1:45.7 | contribute to come on now rich that's very fair i mean tom even in the you know as the PR people at |
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