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Hello.

Hello. Do you know it, Lynn?

It's good to see all my friends.

I've thought we were contemporaries. However, your music choices of late are reminding me that I am a little bit younger than you.

This one actually you would not know, but it is one of the great female rock bands in my life, not called Indigo Girls, and Tiggany Rising.

Okay. They're amazing. Yeah. Hello. That's from the ground up that album.

To all our dope village go check them out. It's an all-female rock band. They're amazing. We used to listen to them a ton when I was playing on the national team.

All in my attempt just to say hello to people off the top of the podcast. You're doing great, Jules.

Okay. Hello. Welcome to Laughter permitted. I'm Julie Fowdy. She's Lennel Zowey. Hi, Lynn. Hey, Jules. We had a big moment recently, didn't we?

Because party people we had our first in-person interview since March of bloody 2020.

We did a live podcast at the ESPNW Women and Sports Summit. We've done a few of those over the years. This one was in lovely Tory Pines in San Diego.

So good to actually be around people again, which was fun, and they're always fun, and to get to do a podcast live, our guests for this one are the A-Team.

As in April Ross and Alex Kleinman. They are, if you don't know this already, you should. If you were around this summer, you saw them win Olympic gold in Beach volleyball where they absolutely rocked it in Tokyo.

April also played in one two national championships during her time at the University of Southern California. This was her third Olympics. She won silver in 2012.

Bronze and Rio, but this was the first Olympics with her partner Alex Kleinman. And Alex was an all-American at the fine institution of Stanford University.

Made her transition to Beach after having played many years with the US Indoor volleyball team. But Beach volleyball was how she would get to her first Olympics in Tokyo.

And I'd say a pretty decent start to her Olympic career. One Olympics, one gold. Check, thank you very much.

Lots to chat about, and this was actually their first break since the Olympics. So we decided to celebrate, as all should, with a champagne toast.

So get comfortable listening. It's April and Alex.

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