Tina Nguyen
House of L podcast
Laurence W. Holmes
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Laurence talks with Fox 32's Tina Nguyen about her journey to Chicago from Texas and what she learned covering Sox and Cubs Spring Training.
POD LOG
1:00: Tina's Path to Chicago
5:50 Covering Championship Rallies
10:10 What's covering Texas HS football like?
12:15 Parents first time at a Football game
14:26: "I struggled with being Asian-American."
16:10 Why her dad moved to America.
19:00 Moving to Chicago
21:40 Watching Munetaka Murakami adapt to Sox
22:57 Getz on Murikama
26:43: Cubs and Sox on different paths
27:50: Tina's chat with Craig Counsell
30:53 Alex Bregman's Impact
32:19: The pressure that's on PCA
38:10 Being an Asian woman in sports
42:10: Tina's crazy Uber Ride
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, and welcome into the House of L podcast. I'm Lauren Tones. This is my podcast. We are brought to you by Remy Martin. That's the logo on my cap if you didn't know. And the person that I'm talking to is Tina Wynn of Fox 32. And what's up, kid? How you doing? |
| 0:19.6 | I'm, I feel like I'm beaming right now because I'm so excited to join your show. But yeah, super, super excited. Thanks for having me on. Oh, this is, we've been trying to figure out how to make this happen for a while. You guys are so sweet whenever I come over to Fox. I figure that we could hang out a little bit on the podcast, especially considering that you had been out in Arizona watching the teams. |
| 0:41.4 | And I'll get to that in a minute. |
| 0:43.2 | I want to ask you because I want people, |
| 0:46.6 | because you know, |
| 0:47.2 | you and I have hung out. |
| 0:48.6 | We hung out at NBA Summer League. |
| 0:50.7 | I want people to get to know you that maybe they see you for a couple seconds on |
| 0:55.6 | Fox or whatever, but how'd you get here? |
| 1:00.1 | I ask myself that every single day. |
| 1:02.4 | How did I get here? |
| 1:04.3 | Actually, I get to work around really incredible people like every, like you guys here |
| 1:09.5 | in Chicago. |
| 1:13.5 | I, so I graduated from Texas A-Dam'm from Texas a Southern girl at heart graduated from A&M my first job at a college was with the NBA so I |
| 1:20.0 | was working in the league office in Sycoccus New Jersey and for those who know you know I know |
| 1:26.1 | in Chicago New Jersey for for a there. I was with the league |
| 1:30.2 | when the Raptors won, the NBA title. And the, I was also, so I was in Toronto when |
| 1:38.0 | Kawhi Leonard had that crazy four-bound shot over Joelle and Bede and everyone was just like going |
| 1:42.7 | nuts. And it was the most emotion we'd |
| 1:44.5 | ever seen from Kauai ever. So that was when I was with the NBA for a year. It was on their social |
| 1:50.0 | and digital teams. I was traveling around the U.S. and all that jazz and then decided. I really wanted to |
| 1:56.4 | start my teen career throughout my time at A&M. I worked in the athletic department, went to them |
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