Speaker 1: It's episode two, Episode two right here in Indy, Live from.
Speaker 2: The Bracket.
Speaker 3: Games from coast to coast, all the crazy twists and
Speaker 3: turns and unforgettable stories capture right behind us.
Speaker 1: And we have a super super cool guest today. She
Speaker 1: was my teammate from last year, one of my best girls,
Speaker 1: Lexi houl.
Speaker 2: It was a very unique final four.
Speaker 3: That is such wild time.
Speaker 2: Rufe blew Off, you did cry.
Speaker 3: Let's head up to the studio and check it out.
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Speaker 3: game day checks in. I'll start this off. I love
Speaker 3: this look at Lexi and ized chemistry right off the jump.
Speaker 2: Unplanned, unplanned, pure.
Speaker 3: Just a nice smoke brown and denim.
Speaker 2: Does that make his best friends?
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys sit out?
Speaker 2: I know. But the bad thing is I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: When I walked down my closet, I had that same
Speaker 1: exact thing on today.
Speaker 2: I could have been a triplet. It's tragic. You're a twin.
Speaker 2: So now, WHOA she's gonna be jealous?
Speaker 3: She is?
Speaker 2: She is?
Speaker 3: She a hoop?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we played together at Stanford. WHOA yeah, But now
Speaker 2: she just is pick up at the y. She's come
Speaker 2: to games and people go up to her during the
Speaker 2: game and ask like, why.
Speaker 3: Aren't you on the oh way? Yeah, some of most
Speaker 3: people with twins either like not like sheer clear of
Speaker 3: each other, but like very much separate.
Speaker 2: I didn't same friends, same teams, all of it. All right.
Speaker 1: I want to get in because I'm sure everyone knows,
Speaker 1: but if you don't, our guest today is a professional
Speaker 1: basketball player in the WNBA. You know her as a
Speaker 1: guard from the Indiana Fever, where she's built a reputation
Speaker 1: as one of the league's toughest defenders, which is so
Speaker 1: on Cue, I've had to play against it, and then
Speaker 1: also being on the team now we're like, LEXI, you
Speaker 1: take it. Before turning pro, she started at Stanford University
Speaker 1: woop poop, helping lead the Cardinals to a national championship
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one with her twin Lacy, and finishing
Speaker 1: her career as one of the most decorated players in
Speaker 1: program history, which that if you guys know anything about
Speaker 1: Stanford basketball, that.
Speaker 2: Is a huge accomplishment.
Speaker 1: Along the way, she earned multiple All Pack twelve honors
Speaker 1: and became known for her versatility in leadership high basketball
Speaker 1: IQ and I will say I feel like, were you
Speaker 1: on like any of the academic yeah, yeah, this isn't
Speaker 1: on there, but just knowing you, I feel like you
Speaker 1: should most of them. Queen, Well, we're going to get
Speaker 1: into it, but she's like starting your own business and everything.
Speaker 2: But everyone, please welcome Lexi Hall. This is good.
Speaker 1: This is so I know this has been a long
Speaker 1: time like coming, like we've been like we need les
Speaker 1: on here so bad, and so it like finally works out.
Speaker 2: March Madness.
Speaker 3: I've been pitching it for weeks and it's here you
Speaker 3: get figured out.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I feel like our first episode, you're like, hey, can
Speaker 1: we get Lexi.
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, she's getting married in November.
Speaker 1: Chill.
Speaker 3: No, I clocked that.
Speaker 1: I clocked it.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna tell her how to say? Cardinal?
Speaker 2: I was gonna I was gonna interrupt you, but I
Speaker 2: didn't really want to. It's Cardinal, there's no try.
Speaker 3: Did you play Montana State in the first round ever?
Speaker 3: I feel like we did and someone on your team
Speaker 3: dunked that game? Yes? Well, goodness, okay, I watched. I
Speaker 3: obviously watched that game, and so I've I watched one
Speaker 3: of your college games because I'm running.
Speaker 2: I'm on the court when that happened. Craziest moment. Are
Speaker 2: you watching her Lacy because you didn't know they were twins?
Speaker 1: True?
Speaker 3: Good call, Thanks, wouldn't even thought of it. His reality
Speaker 3: is actually so Montana state, obviously, soph some geography for you,
Speaker 3: close to the state of Washington where lefs he's from. Thanks,
Speaker 3: in Spokane. So a lot of the girls I went
Speaker 3: to college with are all Spokane girls. Love that Gonzaga Prep.
Speaker 3: And is there one called Mead?
Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, yeah, Wow, it's like you're Spokane native.
Speaker 3: I've done Dick's driving for burgers.
Speaker 2: Before a Downtown Classic because I.
Speaker 3: Went to Lindsay Stockton's wedding in Spokane.
Speaker 2: Wow. Do you know who friends? How? She's older? Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2: Laura's closer to.
Speaker 3: My John Sawton's daughters are all played in Spokane too.
Speaker 3: It's like such a basketball city it is.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard her hoop Fest?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Three around three outside.
Speaker 2: The biggest threeount three tournament in the world. Did you
Speaker 2: ever play in it? Yeah, up until like seventh grade.
Speaker 2: But it's on like the concrete, so it's kind of dangerous,
Speaker 2: but it was so fun growing up.
Speaker 3: Did you ever consider Gonzaga or was it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was that was a hard now because I
Speaker 2: grew up going to their camps, so obviously going up,
Speaker 2: grew up going to games and stuff and love their
Speaker 2: coaching staff. So it's hard, but it was too close
Speaker 2: to home for me. Was it always West Coast schools? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Was it anywhere? Like, did you visit anywhere else beside Stanford? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Visited like a lot of the park schools, but stan
Speaker 2: and Stanford offered.
Speaker 1: It was like for both my sister and I, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it is March madness. You guys clearly won a
Speaker 1: national championship, but like, why why Stanford.
Speaker 2: School was always number one? Okay, Like my parents instilled
Speaker 2: on that into us really young. But what did you
Speaker 2: major in? Management science and engineering? Okay? When I visited
Speaker 2: the school, the campus is like the beautiful, most beautiful
Speaker 2: place on earth, and I think we took that for
Speaker 2: granted during our time there. Every time I go back
Speaker 2: and like, this is so beautiful and the weather's always good.
Speaker 2: And then the coaching staff like Tara Vanderveer, So there's
Speaker 2: so many things that worked. Do you know that?
Speaker 1: Actually when we I think made it Sweet sixteen, almost
Speaker 1: the lete eight, we actually played in Stanford, so we
Speaker 1: were supposed to play you guys, but we freaking lost.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but that would have been so fun.
Speaker 1: I think you as my senior year, so you would
Speaker 1: have been a freshman. Yeah, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The women's tournament is a home it's home games right
Speaker 3: for a round or two, and then it gets into I.
Speaker 2: Think the first two, yeah.
Speaker 3: And then you get into like cities or you travel regionals.
Speaker 2: It's such an advantage, especially for girls. I feel like
Speaker 2: having a home.
Speaker 3: Dame is huge. You feel like homefield advantage with women's
Speaker 3: basketball is better.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's I feel like that's with any
Speaker 1: sport though, if you really think about it, like.
Speaker 2: If you have a great crowd, which if you're good,
Speaker 2: you have a great crowding. You have a good crowd,
Speaker 2: so it just makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Think like girls first guys basketball, the sixteen versus one
Speaker 2: seed is like a big difference. So I also don't
Speaker 2: know if like they could have played anywhere, and likely
Speaker 2: the one seed is going to win. Way when you
Speaker 2: think back to like your college days, did you guys
Speaker 2: charter some games after COVID we chartered all the time,
Speaker 2: which like it should have been that way.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm surprised that you guys, didn't. I feel
Speaker 1: like we chartered since my freshman year to senior year.
Speaker 1: We would fly commercial probably half the time, huh.
Speaker 3: And just walking around the airport, just tall and in our.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well when you think about like your college days, I know,
Speaker 1: like when I'm with my teammates and you just had
Speaker 1: kind of a union. You were just like just back
Speaker 1: after season, right, and like you reminisce on all the
Speaker 1: good times. What are what do you miss the most about?
Speaker 1: Like the traveling and the nights in the hotel? Like
Speaker 1: what comes to mind?
Speaker 2: I feel like you are with each other twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven, like when you get to the WNBA. Like
Speaker 2: people kind of do their own thing. People have lives
Speaker 2: and families and kids and like all the things. But
Speaker 2: when you're in college, that's all you have. And so
Speaker 2: it's so fun to go get every meal together and
Speaker 2: like you can go and you're sitting in a room
Speaker 2: and you're working on homework together, because that's something else
Speaker 2: you have to focus on. Maybe that's just study.
Speaker 1: You guys to school, But did you guys have like
Speaker 1: mandatory study halls.
Speaker 3: And stuff like that on the road If you had
Speaker 3: good enough grades, you could get out of it by
Speaker 3: sophomore year. But you're in it as a freshman, and
Speaker 3: then you had.
Speaker 1: To I think on the on the road, we everyone
Speaker 1: had to be there.
Speaker 2: I didn't matter your grades. We did not have people
Speaker 2: just oh you just did it. Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3: Also, a football team is so much bigger that you
Speaker 3: can never like study together.
Speaker 2: All right? Were you friends with everyone on your team
Speaker 2: if it's that big?
Speaker 3: This is a really interesting question. I mean, yeah, but
Speaker 3: you certainly have pockets of people that you're closer with.
Speaker 3: You'll always be closest to your position group because that's
Speaker 3: who you have film and like every meeting ever with
Speaker 3: originally the in state kids versus out of state kids
Speaker 3: kind of all stuck together because NZ kids know each other,
Speaker 3: and then everyone who's new.
Speaker 1: Kind of really see, I feel like we intermingled so
Speaker 1: well because.
Speaker 2: There's only fifteen of you men, like everyone was clear. True.
Speaker 3: Yeah, football is weird though, because you like, you show
Speaker 3: up with twenty kids in a class like for fall camp,
Speaker 3: and you can't be best friend with everybody.
Speaker 2: Would you like that? I don't know. I mean it's
Speaker 2: so different. I feel like you would just find your
Speaker 2: best friends. You'd find your like group of fifteen or whatever.
Speaker 1: But like think about how close I get it size,
Speaker 1: but like how close knit we are with it don't
Speaker 1: matter who's on the court, Like you're you have a chemistry,
Speaker 1: you have a.
Speaker 3: You guys had roommates in college obviously right when you
Speaker 3: traveled not anymore.
Speaker 2: D Actually fun fact, have you guys ever roomed together? No?
Speaker 2: No on the road ing on the road.
Speaker 3: Yet but no, me looks any other queen.
Speaker 2: We're depending on each other.
Speaker 1: My first three four years in the league, we actually
Speaker 1: had a share.
Speaker 2: That's so which is weird because.
Speaker 1: People had significant others, people had kids.
Speaker 3: That is so interesting.
Speaker 2: What's crazier is that that was only like a few
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 3: So you drafted Tanana, so you've only played in the
Speaker 3: WNBA here.
Speaker 2: He's a loyalist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, loyalist, Yeah, loyalist.
Speaker 2: People think I'm from the Midwest now and I'm like no.
Speaker 1: But you see us coast you give just like the friendly,
Speaker 1: the lake, the sun, just like who you are is
Speaker 1: to the corp. We have such a special guest and
Speaker 1: a lot of people we don't get national championships on
Speaker 1: here are national champions Take us through the mindset of
Speaker 1: going to like the final four, traveling fans, maybe the
Speaker 1: pressure a little bit, and then like just making it
Speaker 1: all the way.
Speaker 3: Which city was your final four end?
Speaker 2: San Antonio? Okay, but it was a very unique final
Speaker 2: four because we were in San Antonio. It was COVID year,
Speaker 2: so we were in San Antonio for like thirty days straight,
Speaker 2: thirty days in a hotel. We couldn't see anyone. They
Speaker 2: had like a path outside that you could go on
Speaker 2: a walk, but you couldn't go. You couldn't. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: were in a bubble, were getting tested two times a day. Still,
Speaker 2: it was a very unique experience. But still I think
Speaker 2: that honestly made us winning like that much more amazing
Speaker 2: because I remember after we won, we finally got to
Speaker 2: go into this huge conference room and our family's there
Speaker 2: for the first time in like eight months because we
Speaker 2: couldn't be around them. Could they be in the arena
Speaker 2: when you played? Yes, only in only in San Antonio
Speaker 2: and we so there was like cutouts. I had Libby
Speaker 2: a cut Yeah, it was really cute, but there was
Speaker 2: like hardly anybody there and they had to sit four
Speaker 2: seats apart.
Speaker 3: That is such wild times.
Speaker 2: But still still go to National championship. Can't take that. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: But the basketball part is still the same obviously.
Speaker 3: Was it your senior year?
Speaker 2: Junior year? Senior year we made it to the Final
Speaker 2: four in Minneapolis, which finally got a play in front
Speaker 2: of people crowd against Yukon.
Speaker 3: Did you beat Yukon your junior year to when or
Speaker 3: did someone else?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think we played Yukon that year.
Speaker 2: We played Arizona in the championship. It was like our
Speaker 2: fourth time playing now, but the but that was the
Speaker 2: South Carolina Yes, that was in the final four. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: av She's we still talk about that, really, you guys
Speaker 2: really so a b a Lee Boston Cheese our teammate. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I didn't know you guys still talk about Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's like they went on to win the
Speaker 2: next year or whatever, but like it's yeah, you always
Speaker 2: like and then Airy too, she was in the championship game.
Speaker 2: So it's just it's funny to reminate.
Speaker 3: Play with was I'm recalling all of this from the
Speaker 3: first round game that I watched.
Speaker 2: So a lot.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I remember the NFL player's
Speaker 3: sister on your team, Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's the best. Yeah. Where's she at now living
Speaker 2: in l A. Yeah, yeah, thriving. Wait, who's the one
Speaker 2: who dunk fran fran? Where she she's in the bay still?
Speaker 2: Oh really run Slamford. No nothing.
Speaker 3: I remember being like, I hope Montaneausy can just like
Speaker 3: hang for a little bit like all those games every
Speaker 3: team hangs for like the a little bit in the
Speaker 3: first half, and then you guys ran away with it.
Speaker 3: And right when you guys went on to run, she
Speaker 3: dunked and I was like, you.
Speaker 2: Guys can have it. It was crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's sick.
Speaker 1: During that run, How did like hotels make you? Like,
Speaker 1: how did it feel being that? Did they make it homey?
Speaker 2: Well, in San Antonio, they like decorated all the walls
Speaker 2: and they made it. They made it cute. But I
Speaker 2: think they do that any all the time. For the
Speaker 2: final four, Yeah, it was like it felt still felt
Speaker 2: special and still with.
Speaker 1: Your sister though you don't even didn't win any national championship.
Speaker 1: I played with my sister in college and now something
Speaker 1: that is so cool.
Speaker 2: That's like everyone that went through the COVID year playing basketball,
Speaker 2: like you're away from your family and so hard and
Speaker 2: your homesick and having her there. Yes, and we also
Speaker 2: lived together. Ye, so it felt like a little bit
Speaker 2: like holm that's good at the same time.
Speaker 3: So I didn't even think both of you got to
Speaker 3: play with your sisters and college, so Mazoo actually had
Speaker 3: three sets of sisters on the team my freshman year.
Speaker 1: Like it was insane. But there's nothing like being with
Speaker 1: your sister.
Speaker 2: Like having a twin and we come into the room
Speaker 2: and we think the same thing, and like we pick
Speaker 2: up ques and we have the same reaction. So to
Speaker 2: be in practice and be able to look at her
Speaker 2: and be like, oh, this is so annoying her, this
Speaker 2: is so hard.
Speaker 3: It's nice to have someone, but didn't probably like you
Speaker 3: only know basketball with your sister. I'm sure you guys
Speaker 3: played on the same team as your whole life and
Speaker 3: like learn to love the sport together.
Speaker 2: For sure. Your parents, who we sue.
Speaker 1: My dad played in college. He's also twin dude. They
Speaker 1: she has some of the best parents. They're fun, they're
Speaker 1: a good times, they're random.
Speaker 3: Talking to my parents over Christmas, they were I have
Speaker 3: a little brother. They were going to go for three,
Speaker 3: but my mom's dad's a twin and my mom My
Speaker 3: mom had a dream that she had twins. My dad said,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: Want four, Lindsay, one of us are supposed to. It's
Speaker 1: like in our it's our generation have twins. You do,
Speaker 1: how many kids do you?
Speaker 2: One? Three? I want a boy and a girl twin convening.
Speaker 1: Okay, like, oh my gosh, maybe not in college, but
Speaker 1: like after a long season when you just so like
Speaker 1: ready for a break kind of where's like your perfect
Speaker 1: like vacation spot.
Speaker 2: Honestly, anywhere with like a beach or a lake, like
Speaker 2: being by the water, on the water, in the sun.
Speaker 3: Sophie like, yeah, she acts like she's this big beach
Speaker 3: girl but doesn't love sand sand I get that. I
Speaker 3: love a lake. The sun is your part of your.
Speaker 2: Person with a tan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with a little bit of a tan, my confident,
Speaker 1: like when I'm pale, I'm like walking like this and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's that?
Speaker 2: Sorverybody? Okay.
Speaker 3: You know what's actually so funny I don't even think
Speaker 3: we've talked about on this podcast is when I must
Speaker 3: think it was you two posted like you guys were
Speaker 3: like tanning in some city. You guys are playing basketball
Speaker 3: and Caitlyn com did, like, do you guys even play
Speaker 3: basketball or like focus on basketball?
Speaker 1: So when you travel to different cities, what is your
Speaker 1: go to meal?
Speaker 2: Or like what's your favorite thing to go out? And
Speaker 2: try to like fine honestly like anything like finding like
Speaker 2: the high rated places that people are talking about in
Speaker 2: that city. Like I love sushi, so somewhere by the water,
Speaker 2: I always try to get like sushi or something nice
Speaker 2: Italian steak, really anything.
Speaker 1: I do not know how your body is like this,
Speaker 1: but you eat candy and ice cream.
Speaker 2: I have a sweet sweet serel like no, wow, I
Speaker 2: can't go to bed without dessert.
Speaker 3: So it's that's actually really interesting point some people, And
Speaker 3: I think it's the way like did you grow up
Speaker 3: in a in a dessert household? Yes, okay, I think
Speaker 3: when you're little, if you eat sweets like after dinner
Speaker 3: until the day you die, you will like crave sugar
Speaker 3: after dinner because my dad is that way, but my
Speaker 3: brother and I aren't. Really my dad like can't not
Speaker 3: have like brownies after dinner, but my brother and I don't. Crapy.
Speaker 2: I got sent to the principal's office in middle school
Speaker 2: for having candy at breakfast.
Speaker 3: Have you do you ever like go looking for ice
Speaker 3: cream spots in different cities or anything?
Speaker 2: Yes, and cookies, Like literally I will be like, let's go,
Speaker 2: we need to get something, or she'll like send in
Speaker 2: the group text like hey, guinea insomnia, who wants to go?
Speaker 2: Who wants cookies?
Speaker 3: Stick out?
Speaker 2: There's just too many good places recently at Unrivaled there's
Speaker 2: we stay in Durrrel and there's this ice cream place.
Speaker 3: And this can be for both of you when you
Speaker 3: are on the road. What's something about a hotel or
Speaker 3: wherever you're staying that makes you feel right at home,
Speaker 3: like you know it's gonna be you know it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a good night.
Speaker 2: I feel like the bed, Yes, you can tell if
Speaker 2: it's like a comfy sauce bed and like the comforter, yes,
Speaker 2: and a good like the pillows, just like that whole
Speaker 2: just hopping in a bed. And if you're like and blackout,
Speaker 2: if there's like electric blackout curtains.
Speaker 3: Has your time in Indianapolis like been special? Like having
Speaker 3: talked to Sophie about the different I guess teams and
Speaker 3: communities in the w NBA, there's a pretty wide spectrum
Speaker 3: on like how special some of them are. Everything she
Speaker 3: tells me about playing here is like incredible. It is
Speaker 3: great fan support. The community loves you, guys. What's your
Speaker 3: time in Indie been, Like.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's grown so much. Like my rookie year,
Speaker 2: we probably had a couple thousand people coming to games.
Speaker 2: We won five games that whole year. I think that's
Speaker 2: doing it justice too. It might be it might be, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like that's hard. I think like once you start
Speaker 2: winning and once more people start showing up, like your
Speaker 2: experience changes completely. So the last couple of years have
Speaker 2: been a full one eighty, Like it's we've changed. People
Speaker 2: are showing up, people know about the fever, Like if
Speaker 2: we were to be walking in the airport, like the
Speaker 2: story I just said, that would never happen today. So
Speaker 2: it's been awesome.
Speaker 3: You almost share shit more because you've got to be
Speaker 3: here when things were clearly not as So.
Speaker 2: I think like it gives you perspective on what it
Speaker 2: could be like. And when you see it and you
Speaker 2: actually have fun doing it, and you love coming to
Speaker 2: the gym every day and you love the staff that's there,
Speaker 2: and you love your teammates, like it's important to be
Speaker 2: like very grateful and I do feel grateful to be here.
Speaker 1: And I think Lex and I are a lot alike
Speaker 1: because we are very much do the dirty work and
Speaker 1: like the energy players. And so when you do have
Speaker 1: a fan base like the Fever, it just it makes
Speaker 1: it so much easier because they appreciate and they.
Speaker 2: See it, they see you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like you have Kelsey Mitchell, you have Aleyah,
Speaker 1: you have Caitlin that of course they're going to go
Speaker 1: do their thing.
Speaker 2: But when you have players that are going to go
Speaker 2: take the charge.
Speaker 1: Like you're just so tough and they're just like, people
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And when you have sold out crowds everywhere
Speaker 1: you go, it's just appreciated and it feels good. As
Speaker 1: players you talked about in the intro that like you
Speaker 1: are inspiring the next generation where you come from around
Speaker 1: the country with the eyes that you have on you, like,
Speaker 1: what is something that you cherish or like gives you
Speaker 1: chills when you think about You're still early in your career,
Speaker 1: but like your career overall, I.
Speaker 2: Think it's just really cool to see to be at
Speaker 2: games and obviously like you have the Caitlin's, Amelia's and
Speaker 2: the Kelsey's and you see their jerseys in the stands.
Speaker 2: Then when you see like a ten out there, like
Speaker 2: it's so special because people like are watching and supporting
Speaker 2: and growing up, I didn't have someone in the w
Speaker 2: that I saw myself as or like that I wanted
Speaker 2: to reach for. And I feel like now with the
Speaker 2: social media and just even like TV and being the
Speaker 2: accessibility for people like they see us and they can
Speaker 2: actually like have these dreams so much earlier, and to
Speaker 2: be one of those people's really special.
Speaker 3: I think it's really cool to watch all types of
Speaker 3: people ask you for pictures or to say hi. But
Speaker 3: when you see a little girl come up to you
Speaker 3: and like you can just clearly see yourself what they
Speaker 3: see in you, and like how cool that is. That's
Speaker 3: been a fun part of like getting to be around
Speaker 3: you more is seeing like little girls look up to
Speaker 3: you guys. It's so dope.
Speaker 2: It's cool also because it's not just little girls now,
Speaker 2: it's little boys too, Like it's it's insane.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's what's really cool and unique about
Speaker 1: the WNBA is that we are so diverse amongst our
Speaker 1: league that every kid, boy or girl, they can look
Speaker 1: at the TV and watch someone play and like find
Speaker 1: themselves in one of the players playing. It's funny because
Speaker 1: when we watch film together sometimes we can't tell each
Speaker 1: other apart Oh if someone messes.
Speaker 2: Up, it's like, oh, that was like each other and
Speaker 2: our hair looks simple. It's hard. So those my shoes
Speaker 2: are those like se shoes. That was the same way
Speaker 2: in college it was lazy.
Speaker 3: College basketball has always been bigger than the games themselves.
Speaker 3: What part of the culture around the sport stands out
Speaker 3: to you guys the most?
Speaker 1: Something that I love about the culture is like I
Speaker 1: love the rivalries, Like I love I love when people
Speaker 1: go back and forth, Like sometimes it can get a
Speaker 1: little spicy, but like that's what makes college sports so
Speaker 1: fun to me.
Speaker 2: And I love a die hard fan.
Speaker 3: Like the kids crying on TV ORF.
Speaker 1: It's so cute, or the fans that their team hasn't
Speaker 1: made it ever and they make it far and they're
Speaker 1: just like crying because of that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like that is like, well, they fight, they won their
Speaker 2: their league championship and it's our first time in the
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament, Like it's so special, and then you get.
Speaker 1: To yeah, it's just like the chills, like I love
Speaker 1: that stuff. I love that type of sports.
Speaker 3: And my answer would have been small schools in Cinderella's
Speaker 3: winning some wear dog who went to a smaller school. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like you always like I love selections.
Speaker 1: Just because you did cry when when the football team won.
Speaker 3: Yeah of course. Yeah. I also all three of us
Speaker 3: went to one school. You're the weirdest thing now is
Speaker 3: all these kids when they're twenty seven and at work
Speaker 3: or a party or whatever and someone says, where do
Speaker 3: you go to school?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: What do they? Quarterback went to five? It was like
Speaker 3: his fifth.
Speaker 2: Do you know your legions? No, it's sad. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: would be yours? I feel like I like the storylines
Speaker 2: of the like the teams that have been together for
Speaker 2: four years and it's their seniors last chance, a like
Speaker 2: finally getting a championship for their school. Okay, I have
Speaker 2: a question for us, and all of us can answer this.
Speaker 1: What would be like your ideal travel day in your
Speaker 1: ideal city to go play in away game.
Speaker 3: Our biggest rival, University of Montana. Then like Saturdays when
Speaker 3: you play Arrival for just nothing like it.
Speaker 2: It get because it's like this lead up to.
Speaker 3: This, I'd say in away game against Arrival.
Speaker 2: But like, what was your game day routine? Did you
Speaker 2: guys like get up? Do you guys have walked through.
Speaker 3: Or like you have walked through the hotel? You do breakfast?
Speaker 3: Hotel walkthrough?
Speaker 2: Is walks? Football? Interesting in your place? Like what do
Speaker 2: you do? Okay, only with your like small group.
Speaker 3: Like no, you would do like small position women. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's perfect. Night games actually are the weirdest because you
Speaker 3: just kind of sit in your hotel all day and
Speaker 3: like you get like a little bit antsy. You have
Speaker 3: a few meetings. But I don't know what you guys do.
Speaker 1: Vice persa kind of. I feel like we're used to playing.
Speaker 1: You have to be at like peak around seven, so
Speaker 1: like day was like I gotta get up early, you know.
Speaker 2: But I do like day games because you don't have
Speaker 2: shoot around. Yeah, I mean I don't need I don't
Speaker 2: want shoot around.
Speaker 3: Like the week though a lot, right, so that's never
Speaker 3: going to be.
Speaker 2: I can clip that. Wait, tell me about your your ideal.
Speaker 2: My ideal would be we get in like late ish
Speaker 2: the night before time for dinner. Yep, like a dinner.
Speaker 2: I like to go to get like try a new place. Yeah, wait,
Speaker 2: did you guys know to have like team dinners at restaurants.
Speaker 2: I guess college, yes, you can miss the two w
Speaker 2: and college for sure. Tarret was like very much routine.
Speaker 2: So game day we would have shoot around and then
Speaker 2: everyone would come back. We'd have lunch maybe and then
Speaker 2: four hours before the game we have pregame meal Samuel.
Speaker 2: Every time pasta I've had hoasta with Marinara, sauce salmon
Speaker 2: and maybe some like steamed broccoli and then rolls all
Speaker 2: for you every day.
Speaker 1: But who would you like? Who was like your favorite
Speaker 1: team or like favorite city to play in college, Washington
Speaker 1: State or Washington just because it's home.
Speaker 2: Like when we played at WSU, my family would come
Speaker 2: down bring the dogs, and I had a lot of
Speaker 2: people there and also they didn't get a lot of fans,
Speaker 2: so it was majority of my family and friends that
Speaker 2: would like sell. It was so fun.
Speaker 3: We played in Pollman my senior year too. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's like a lot of schools in that little pocket.
Speaker 3: Was their team good that when you played not special?
Speaker 3: It was week one, so you never really like know
Speaker 3: how good anyone is.
Speaker 1: I was nowhere near. Actually we have we played like
Speaker 1: you never played. My first year my freshman year. It
Speaker 1: was like the second year with SEC. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was I mean, I enjoyed the SEC favorite city town
Speaker 1: slash town. I do think though, just like the history
Speaker 1: behind it. I think like playing Tennessee so it was
Speaker 1: just so cool. Yeah that was fun. But South Carolina
Speaker 1: had a great crowd.
Speaker 3: I do think basketball would be I never indeed the
Speaker 3: basketball players. Because you miss Christmas, Earth, you miss Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: Christmas and spring break.
Speaker 1: Can we just say basketball is probably the worst sport
Speaker 1: to choose because it is both seasons year but the
Speaker 1: spring fast time of the year because you're on like
Speaker 1: twelve hour week instead of a twenty hour week.
Speaker 2: No, one thousand percent. I'm just saying, like, you know,
Speaker 2: like they're still pros. It's like they had spring.
Speaker 1: They had all the entire time, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're still yeah, still here. You can talk about college,
Speaker 1: you can talk about WNBA, but like, what is something
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're here at home, if you're on
Speaker 1: the road, that like pregame, post game, that like keeps
Speaker 1: you grounded or keeps you in your routine. Because I
Speaker 1: think that is something like as much as you're not routine,
Speaker 1: you also have to be routine.
Speaker 2: And so kind of take us through what keeps you grounded.
Speaker 2: I think just doing, like having a routine is the
Speaker 2: most important part, Like you can whatever you want to do,
Speaker 2: just do it consistently, because I feel like by that
Speaker 2: time of the season, like sure the pressure is higher
Speaker 2: and like you really only have this one chance at
Speaker 2: winning a game or you're done, but focusing like you've
Speaker 2: built these habits over the course of tens of games,
Speaker 2: but like it's that's the time to rely on those
Speaker 2: habits and like not change up what you've been doing
Speaker 2: because what we've been doing has worked. So for me,
Speaker 2: that's like making sure I get my pregame map, making
Speaker 2: sure like I watched film the night before, making sure
Speaker 2: I'm locked in during shoot around, Like just the little
Speaker 2: things that you've done so much, like don't change it.
Speaker 2: Do you still use that and do that in.
Speaker 3: The w and so that can be pregame like fully
Speaker 3: basketball related, but also night before like rush your teeth,
Speaker 3: take a shower, getting really.
Speaker 2: Are you that the yeah?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, why I'm saying there, It can like that
Speaker 3: they say baseball players are the worst. Really with yeah,
Speaker 3: with routine, can.
Speaker 1: You think about how you know will like her fiance
Speaker 1: was drafted and whatnot. But like they play so many
Speaker 1: games too, Like that gets there's so many games.
Speaker 2: I'm just.
Speaker 3: He's a week is your pre game playlist? Bangers.
Speaker 2: I don't really like listen to a lot of.
Speaker 3: Music Instagram song choice. I'm always like Lexi's throwing hitters
Speaker 3: on Choo stopping.
Speaker 2: I thought that was so happy Are you kidding? I
Speaker 2: thought that was on my captions and my manager stopping.
Speaker 2: But like, thank you.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course.
Speaker 1: We have a segment we're going to do. So let's
Speaker 1: grab these cards with us. Game tie not for you,
Speaker 1: this is you're you're on the hot seats, sister.
Speaker 2: So this is called packet or pass it. Here are
Speaker 2: the rules.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, we're going to throw you every travel essential
Speaker 1: that we can think of, and you tell us, from
Speaker 1: the opinion of a professional athlete, what has to come.
Speaker 2: With you and what you're leaving at home. Dot it. Okay, Wes,
Speaker 2: do you can go first, portal phone charger, packet.
Speaker 3: Somebody takes his face but little one, yeah, yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: powerful one.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go white noise machine, pass it.
Speaker 3: Neck pillow, pass it. Some people are loyal to neck.
Speaker 2: Pillows that I can sleep just about anywhere.
Speaker 3: Nice, good trade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me the window preferably.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can rest, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Noise canceling headphones packet.
Speaker 3: I can't. If I were headphones on a flight, it
Speaker 3: makes it harder to lay my head down to sleep.
Speaker 3: But so I do buds.
Speaker 2: You can. They have noise canceling buds. Where are you?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: How do you not know that he's living in two
Speaker 1: thousand and fifty?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Headphones? So I'm thinking big bulky make it hard sleep?
Speaker 2: What do you know?
Speaker 3: Like three type of extra pair of socks?
Speaker 2: Pass it?
Speaker 1: Okay, this one's good because I feel like you're a
Speaker 1: dweed compression socks.
Speaker 2: Pass it.
Speaker 1: No, I've totally seen you where I had.
Speaker 2: A hurt kneed LEXI okay, yes, good jobs.
Speaker 3: Sleep mask typically.
Speaker 2: Pass but my sister gave me one like two weeks ago. Huh.
Speaker 2: It's a game I used to make, but like it works,
Speaker 2: it does. It works, So now I'm going to say packet, Okay.
Speaker 2: Packing cubes pass it. I want to be someone that
Speaker 2: uses them.
Speaker 3: Was a packing cube?
Speaker 2: What you guys all use those? I love the idea
Speaker 2: organized the exhibit, it makes it. It's like all your
Speaker 2: socks and like underwear. So you get there, you know
Speaker 2: where everything is.
Speaker 3: It's just not.
Speaker 2: Thrown in your suitcase.
Speaker 3: Travel blanket, pass it, lint roller, pass it, your own pillow.
Speaker 2: Pass it. My grandma does that.
Speaker 3: That's cute.
Speaker 2: Electrolyte packets, packet. Yeah. I also don't drink water unless
Speaker 2: it's flavored, so really I mean it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 2: I'm hydrated though, because I'll just put.
Speaker 1: An I just saw you pound a freaking cheeseburger with
Speaker 1: greasy fries and you're worried about sugar.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not. I don't have a big game coming up.
Speaker 2: But wouldn't you rather have electrocally Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hands sanny past I should again, like I have a
Speaker 1: lot of hand sanitizer.
Speaker 3: Immune support vitamins. This makes me think maybe like an
Speaker 3: emergency pass.
Speaker 2: I'm not patching that.
Speaker 1: Okay, this one I kind of know the answer to.
Speaker 1: But multiple books, paperback pass.
Speaker 2: I'm a kindle girl.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, she's film to watch.
Speaker 2: Oh my, I was you.
Speaker 3: Have like an iPad?
Speaker 2: That's not a kindle? Well, when was the last time
Speaker 2: you read a book.
Speaker 3: I'm currently reading a book called Sapiens. It's about the
Speaker 3: development of human beings on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: I need the physical book. I feel that like I can't.
Speaker 1: I just can't. It's not the same.
Speaker 2: I just love. The thing about the kindle that I
Speaker 2: love the most is once you finish a book, the
Speaker 2: next one is writing a I know I want to
Speaker 2: go buy doesn't get crinkled in your bag. I think
Speaker 2: there's something special about the crinkles.
Speaker 3: I do think though, book like books are such a
Speaker 3: massive part of home decor that now like your apartment
Speaker 3: or house or wherever. It just like they look so
Speaker 3: goodious and like they're all that you have a story
Speaker 3: to tell about when.
Speaker 2: You read it, and tells a story.
Speaker 1: Your book tells a story because mine is like, oh,
Speaker 1: at the pool, mine has like waters on it.
Speaker 2: It's all cringled, like I like that.
Speaker 3: Food from the destination. You are just at.
Speaker 2: Packet more outfits than days packet pack. I always overpack.
Speaker 3: That was packing or pass it with Lexi Hole.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we talked a lot about just like basketball
Speaker 1: in college travel. But I think that you have something
Speaker 1: really special coming out that kind of fits the lifestyle
Speaker 1: of someone who's crazy busy, and so I want you
Speaker 1: to hit on that.
Speaker 2: So I'm starting a makeup brand with my Stanford roommate
Speaker 2: Sarah that's coming out end of this month. So we're
Speaker 2: so excited. It's called Florida for the Active I love. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you. We're so excited. It's like something that I'll
Speaker 2: be using, but also like just all the active people
Speaker 2: that are running around wile their makeup to last.
Speaker 3: So as someone who's not super fluent in makeup, I'm
Speaker 3: assuming water resistant.
Speaker 2: Water resistant, sweat resistances, wear all the things, check in
Speaker 2: all the box.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what products like do you have? So we're starting
Speaker 1: with the Setting spray.
Speaker 2: That's what's going to launch, and then we have two
Speaker 2: more coming out so that we're going to do like
Speaker 2: a drop model, so we'll drop one at a time. Wow.
Speaker 1: And then you have an event coming up in April. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a launch party in New York. Excited friends, family, Yes,
Speaker 1: would love that.
Speaker 2: It's going to be so fun. It's like it's so
Speaker 2: nice to have something outside of sports to work on
Speaker 2: focus on. Yeah, excited.
Speaker 3: What Sarah do?
Speaker 2: So she used to be in private equity, but now
Speaker 2: she's full time Forida. Oh really yeah tie Yeah, So
Speaker 2: we raise a little bit of money and now we
Speaker 2: can finally pay her a little bit, Like she gave
Speaker 2: up a lot to do this full time and she's
Speaker 2: really smart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to put makeup on with Actually, this is.
Speaker 2: A funny story. We went and talked at a college
Speaker 2: and like there were these college kids and they had
Speaker 2: asked questions of Sarah and I and one of them
Speaker 2: was like, I play the football team and we wear
Speaker 2: EyeBlack and it's always running down our face by the
Speaker 2: end of the game. Like can we use your setting squars? Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: so we will send it to you.
Speaker 3: What goes into your makeup routine before a game because
Speaker 3: obviously it's not priority, no, but you still, I'm sure
Speaker 3: there's a little something.
Speaker 2: Can I just say though you're on TV?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the walkins yes, the evolution though, like I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding, Like when you were in college, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's such a different time. Even when I was
Speaker 1: in college, and like you didn't wear makeup Like that
Speaker 1: wasn't that was not a thing, and like now people
Speaker 1: will have like AI, which like you don't really do that.
Speaker 1: But we could totally walk through our makeup routine. I
Speaker 1: have born makeup like since high school when I played. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: you love that stuff.
Speaker 2: I love it like I love makeup, I love beauty,
Speaker 2: it loves cosmetic products.
Speaker 1: I love all that, which is funny because like you're
Speaker 1: one that doesn't need any of it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, you know what I'm saying. But I do love it,
Speaker 2: like for sports versus like a normal day, Like I'm
Speaker 2: wearing less, but I'm still like using like going through
Speaker 2: the whole routine concealer, blush messca eyebrow setting, spray like
Speaker 2: it is. And that's also like back to the routine.
Speaker 2: That's part of my pregame routine. You've done I enjoy
Speaker 2: You've done it forever. Yeah, And like if I'm not
Speaker 2: wearing my hair in a braid, I might curl my hair,
Speaker 2: I might crip my hair watch Out, watch Out, So
Speaker 2: I give myself some time to Like do you put
Speaker 2: on a fit for like walk into every single game
Speaker 2: or only when the I mean, like I try to
Speaker 2: on the road. It's like easier to just throw on
Speaker 2: like a workouts like OUTFU.
Speaker 1: But even your workout fits are like super cute. It's
Speaker 1: not like she never looked, you know, like I look
Speaker 1: like trash.
Speaker 2: Well, like I'm not wear athleta and like their travel
Speaker 2: sets are. I feel like anytime you have a matching set,
Speaker 2: you look more put together. Anyway, I was just saying
Speaker 2: that last night.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to order a bunch of matching
Speaker 1: sets because even when I just want to go somewhere,
Speaker 1: I want to look a little bit more put together
Speaker 1: this year, and I'm matching sets like sweat sets.
Speaker 2: That are the same color automatically elevated.
Speaker 3: My hot take is that with tunnel fits NFL, NBA, WNBA,
Speaker 3: all sports, I think the art of team matching sweatsuits
Speaker 3: is like is lost.
Speaker 2: It's gone. You like that.
Speaker 3: I think when you're when you have like a fresh
Speaker 3: team jumpsuit and you all like get off the bus
Speaker 3: and walk in together and it's the same fit, Like
Speaker 3: it's I get.
Speaker 2: I think it looks good, it looks more put together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Lex, I think that you are doing stuff
Speaker 1: that's super special on the court, clearly, but off court, like,
Speaker 1: I think it's so smart of you to like start
Speaker 1: getting your feet wet and other things. And Florida is
Speaker 1: going to take off, so everyone, if you wear that
Speaker 1: type of stuff, get on Florida, buy it.
Speaker 3: This is so fun, actually fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, love the rest you here.
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