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Today's interview guest is Jenny Chu, who's doing great work covering soccer for CBS Sports.

There's no soccer talk with Chris Wittingham this time because I'm on a reporting trip

in Eastern Europe.

Our guest now is a rising star in US Soccer Television and one of my dear friends.

Jenny Chu is doing terrific work for CBS Sports, for which I also happen to work.

You can see her in CBS's coverage of the US men's national team, World Cup qualifiers,

and the men's UEFA Champions League among other things.

Jenny, it's great to see you.

Thanks so much for coming on the show.

Of course, always, Grant.

So congratulations on everything you're doing these days.

That includes your onsite reporting at US World Cup qualifiers and Panama, Honduras,

and Costa Rica so far.

Could you explain to our listeners what that is like for you,

being on the field and doing work in environments that are at times hostile to the US team?

Yeah, so I obviously did onsite stuff for Champions League and the Concocaf stuff is very different.

We actually hire security, so that's different than when we do Champions League, of course,

and there's fences and there are things being thrown.

I mean, in Panama and in Honduras, both times things were thrown in our direction.

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