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Has a good night's sleep helped you maintain your game day routine while on the road? Weston, part of Myriad Bonvoy, where game day checks in I'll start this off. I love this. Look at Lexi and I's chemistry right off the jump. Unplanned. Unplanned, pure, just a nice mocha brown and denim. Does that make us best friends? Yeah. Guys. Sit out. I know, but the the bad thing is, I'm not kidding, when I walked down my closet I had that same exact thing on today. I could have been a triplet, but it's tragic. You're used to being a twin. So now that is true. Sorry, Lacey. Identical twin. She's gonna be jealous. She's gonna be jealous. Is she a Hoover? Yeah, we played together at Stanford. Whoa. Yeah. But now she just is uh pick up at the Y. She's come to games and people go up to her during the game and ask like why aren't you on the corner? Can I get a big card? No way. Sometimes people with twins either like f not like steer clear of each other, but like very much separate identities or best of them. Same friends, same teams, all of it. Alright, I wanna get in because I'm sure everyone knows, but if you don't, our guest today is a professional basketball player in the WMBA. You know her as a guard for the Indiana Fever, where she's built a reputation as one of the league's toughest defenders, which is so on cue. I've had a play against it, and then also being on the team now we,'re like, Lexi, you take it. Before turning pro, she started at Stanford University, whoop whoop, helping lead the Cardinals to a national championship in 2021 with her twin Lacey, and finishing her career as one of the most decorated players in program history, which that if you guys know anything about Stanford Basketball, that is a huge accomplishment. Along the way, she earned multiple all pack 12 honors and became known for her versatility in leadership, high basketball IQ, and I will say I feel like were you on like any of the academic Yeah? Yeah, this isn't on there, but just knowing you, I feel like you should Most of them. Queen. Well, we're gonna get into it, but she's like starting her own business and everything. But everyone, please welcome Lexi Hall. This is good. I'm so happy to be here. This is so fun. I know. This has been a long time like coming. Like we've we've been like, we need Lex on here so bad. And so it like finally works out. March Madness. I've been pitching it for weeks, obviously. And it's here. No, I feel like our first episode, you're like, hey, can we get Lexi? I'm like, dude, she's getting married in November. Jill. No, I clocked that. Um I clocked it. Are you gonna tell her how to say cardinal, not c the cardinals. No, I was gonna say I was gonna interrupt you, but I I didn't really want to. It's Cardinal, there's no S. I do. Did you play Montana State in the first round ever? I feel like we did. And someone on your team dunked that game. Yes, well, good news. Okay, I watched I obviously watched that game. And so I've I watched one of your college games. Because I'm running, I'm on the court when that happened. Craziest moment. Were you watching her or Lacey? Because you didn't know they were twins. True. Good call. Thanks. Wouldn't have even thought of it. Well, his reality is. So Montana State, obviously, Sophie, some geography for you. Close to the state of Washington, where Lexi's from. Thanks. And Spokane. So a lot of the girls I went to college with are all Spokane girls. Love that. Gonzaga Prep. And is there one called Mead? Yes. Okay, yeah. Wow, it's like you're a Spokane native. I've I've done Dick's Drive In for Burgers before. A classic, a downtown classic. Because I went to Lindsay Stockton's wedding in Spokane. Wow. Do you know who the friends? How old is she? Laura's closer to my wife. John Stockton's daughters are all played in Spokane too. Mm-hmm. That's like such a basketball city. It is. Have you ever heard of Hoop Fest? Yeah. Three on three outside. Yeah, biggest three-on-three tournament in the world. Did you ever play in it? Yeah, up until like seventh grade. But our A, it's on like the concrete, so it's kind of dangerous. But it was so fun growing up. Did you ever consider Gonzaga or was was it? Yeah, I a that was a hard no. 'Cause obviously going up grew up going to games and stuff and love their coaching staff, so it was hard. But it was too close to home for me. Was it always West Coast schools? Yeah. Yeah. Was it anywhere like did you visit anywhere else besides Stanford? Yeah. Visited up like a lot of the pack 12 schools. But st when Stanford offered it was like for both my sister and I cause it is March Madness. You guys clearly won a national championship. But like why why Stanford? School was always number one. Okay. Like my parents instilled on that that into us really young. But uh and what did you major in? Management science and engineering. Okay. When I visited the school, the campus is like the beautiful most beautiful place on earth. And I think we took that for granted during our time there. Every time I go back, I'm like, this is so beautiful and the weather's always good. And then the coaching staff, like Tara Van Der Veer. So there's so many things that worked. Do you know that actually when we I think made it sweet sixteen almost elite eight we actually played in Stanford so we were supposed to play you guys but we freaking lost. Oh yeah but I wait that would have been so funny. I think you I was my senior year so you would have been a freshman yeah or so yeah. Yeah. The women's tournament is a home it's home games, right, for a round or two. And then it gets into I think the first two, yeah. Are home. And then you get into like cities where you travel. Regionals. It's it's uh such an advantage, especially for girls. I feel like having a home game is huge. You feel like home field advantage with women's basketball is better? I feel like it's I feel like that's with any sport though, if you really think about it. Like if you have a great crowd, which if you're good, you have a great hosting, you have a good crowd, so it just makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. I also just think like girls versus guys basketball, the sixteen versus the one seed is like a big difference. Yeah. So I also don't know if like they could have played anywhere and likely the one seed's gonna win. Wait, when you think back to like your college days, did you guys charter some games? After COVID, we chartered all the time. Okay. Which like it should have been that way. Well yeah, I'm surprised that you guys didn't I feel like we chartered since my freshman year to senior year. We would fly commercial probably half the time. Huh. And just walking around the airport, just tall and in our matching sweatsuit. I love it. Well, when you think about like your college days, I know like when I'm with my teammates and you just had kind of a reunion, you were just like just back the after season, right? And like you reminisce on all the good times. What are what do you miss the most about like the travelling and the nights in the hotel? Like what what comes to mind? I feel like you are with each other 24-7. Like once you get to the WNBA, like people kind of do their own thing. People have lives and families and kids and like all the things. But when you're in college, that's all you have. And so it's so fun to go get every meal together and like you can go and you're sitting in a room and you're working on homework together because that's something you'll else you have to focus on. Maybe that's saying that so you guys just the study halls no Sophie's like wait you guys went to school? No. But did you guys have like mandatory study halls and stuff like that on the road. If you had good enough grades, you could get out of it by sophomore year, but you're in it as a freshman and then you had to stay. I think on the on the road, we everyone had to be there. Like it didn't matter your grades. We did not have man people just just Oh, you did it? Oh that's nice. Also football team is m so much bigger that you can never like study together. Are were you friends with everyone on your team if it's that big? That's a really interesting question. I mean, yeah, but you certainly have pockets of people that you're closer with. You'll always be closest to your position group because that's who you have film in like every meeting ever with. Originally, the in-state kids versus out-of-state kids kind of all stuck together because the in-state kids know each other and then everyone who's new kind of see I feel like we intermingled so well. Well because there's only like 15 of you met like everyone was close. True. Yeah. Football is weird though, because you like you show up with 20 kids in a class, like for fall camp and you can't be best friends with everybody. Would you like that? I don't know. I mean it's so different. I feel like you would just find your best friends. You'd find your like group of fifteen or whatever. But like think about how close and I get it size but like how close in it we are with it doesn't matter who's on the court like you're you have a chemistry you have a you guys had roommates in college obviously right when you traveled not anymore or do you actually, fun fact. No, no, no on the road you don't have to do. I'm staying on the road, yeah. But no, me and Lexi just randomly choose to stay in the past, but we'll get them one bed and then we stay in the other queen. We're we're dependent on each other. Um , my first three, four years in the league, we actually had a share. Yeah. Which is weird because people had significant others, people had kids. That is so interesting. What's crazier is that that was only like a few years ago. So you're drafted to Indiana. So you've only played in the WNBA here. She's a loyalist. Yeah, loyalist. Yeah, loyalist. People think I'm from the Midwest now. And I'm like it no West Coast. You give total Midwest five though. Yeah. Just like the friendly, the lake, the sun, just like who you are to the core. We have such a special guest and a lot of people, we don't get national championships on here or national champions. Take us through the mindset of going to like the final four traveling fans, maybe the pressure a little bit, and then like just making it all the way. Which city was your final four in? San Antonio. Okay. But it was a very unique final four because we were in San Antonio. It was COVID year. So we were in San Antonio for like 30 days straight. 30 days in a hotel. We couldn't see anyone. They had like a path outside that you could go on a walk. No. But you couldn't go . You couldn't, yeah, we were in a bubble. We were getting tested two times a day still. It was a very unique experience. But still, I think that honestly made us winning like that much more amazing. Because I remember after we won we finally got to go into this huge conference room and our family's there for the first time in like eight months. Because we couldn't be around them. We didn't w could they be in the arena when you played? Yes. Only in only in San Antonio. And we so there was like cutouts. I had Libby a cutout, Wills a cutout. Like it was really cute, but there was like hardly anybody there. And they had to sit four seats apart. That is such wild times. But still, still got on the national championship, can't take that away. But the basketball part's still the same, obviously. Yep. Was that was that your senior year? Junior year. Senior year we made it to the final four in Minneapolis. Which finally got a play in front of people. Yeah, I'm sorry, that would have been a real crowd. Did you beat Yukon your junior year to win or did someone else? No, I don't I don't think we played UConn that year. We played Arizona in the championship. That was like our fourth time playing them. But the but that was the South Carolina. Yes. That was in the final four. Yeah. Yeah. And A B, she's we still talk about that guy. Oh, really? Do you guys really? So A B Aliyah Boston, she's our teammate. Yeah. But I didn't still talk about it. Yeah, I mean it's like they went on to win the next year or whatever, but like it's yeah, it's fun. So you always like And then Aerie too. I know she was yeah in the championship game. So it's just it's funny to reminisce. All of this from the first round game that I watched. a lot. I don't even know if I remember this. Anna Wilson. Russell Wilson's sister? Yes. She's the best. Yeah. Yeah. Where where is she at now? Living in LA. Ye Yeahah.. Thriving. Wait, who's the one who dunked? Fran . Fran . Where do where is she? She's in the bay still. Oh really? Around Stanford. No, not playing. I remember being like, ah yeah, I hope Montana State can just like hang for a little bit. Like all those games, every team hangs for like the the a little bit in first half and then you guys ran away with it. And right when you guys went on a run, she dunked and I was like You guys can have it. Night night. It was it was crazy. Yeah. Like the room blew up. Yeah. That's sick. During that run, how did like hotels make you like how did it feel being in that? Did they make it homey? Well in San Antonio they like decorated all the walls and they made it they made it cute. But I think they do that any all the time for the final four. But yeah, it was like it's felt still felt special. Still not the same sister though. Yeah. That's like everyone that went through the COVID year playing basketball, like you're away from your family and it's so hard and you're homesick and like having her there. Yes. And we also live together. Yep. So it felt like a little bit like home. That's good at the same time. So we I didn't even think both of you got to play with your sisters in college. Mizzou actually had three sets of sisters on the team my freshman year. Like it was insane. But it there's nothing like being with your sister. Like having a twin and we we s come into the room and we think the same thing and like So that be in practice and be able to look at her and be like, Oh, this is so annoying. This is so hard. It's nice to have someone. Like I'm sure you guys played on the same teams your whole life. Yeah. And like learned to love the sport together. For sure. Your parents' hoopers too? My dad played in college. Dad did. And he's also a twin. Dude, they she has some of the best parents. They're fun. They're a good time . They're they're random. They were I have a little brother. They were gonna go for three, but my mom's dad's a twin. And my mom my mom had a dream that she had twins. My dad said, I don't want four. Lindsay, one of us are supposed to, it's like in our it's our generation now. How many kids do you want? Three. I want a boy and a girl twin. And then the third can be anything. Okay. Oh my gosh. Maybe not in college, but like after a long season when you just are like ready for a break kind of where's like your perfect like vacation spot honestly anywhere with like a beach or a lake like being by the water on the water in the sun. Sophie like pr . She acts like she's this big beach girl, but doesn't love sand. I don't love sand. I get that. I love a lake. The sun is your per is part of your personality. I am 100% happier with a tan. Yeah. With a little bit of a tan. Am I confident? Like when I'm when I'm pale, I'm like walking like this. And then when I'm tan, I'm like, what's up, everybody? Okay, you know what's actually so funny? I don't even think we've talked about on this podcast is when I think I must think it was you two posted like you guys were like tanning in some city, you guys are playing basketball and Caitlin commented like do you guys even play basketball or like focus on basketball? So when you travel to different cities. W ishat your go-to meal or like what's your favorite thing to go out and try to like find? Honestly, like anything. Like finding like the high rated places that people are talking about in that city. Like I love sushi, so somewhere by the water I always try to get like sushi or something. Nice. Um Italian steak, like really anything. I do not know how your body is like this, but you eat candy and ice cream. I'm at a sweet . Wow. I can't go to bed without dessert. So it's that's actually a really interesting point. Some people, and I think it's the way like did you grow up in a in a dessert household? Yes. Okay. I think when you're little, if you eat sweets like after dinner until the day you die you will like crave sugar after dinner. Because my dad is that way but my brother and I aren't. Really? My dad like can't not have like brownies after dinner. Oh yeah. But my brother and I don't crave it. I got sent to the principal's office in middle school for having candy at breakfast Have you do you ever like go looking for ice cream spots in different cities or anything? Yes. And cookies. Like literally I I will be like, let's go, we need to get something. Literally. Or she'll like send in the group checks like, Hey, getting insomnia, who wants a go, who wants cookies? Does it anywhere stick out? There's just too many good places. Recently at Unrivaled, there's we stay in Durral and there's this ice cream place. This can be for both of you when you are on the road. What's something about a hotel or wherever you're staying that makes you feel right at home? Like you know it's gonna be you know it's gonna be a good night. I feel like the bed is the comfy you can tell if it's like a comfy, soft bed and like the comforter. Yes. And a good pill like the pillows. Just like that whole just hopping into bed. And if you're like And blackout if the if there's like electric blackout curtains. Ooh has your time in Indianapolis like been special? Like I having talked to Sophie about the different, I guess, teams and communities in the WNBA, there's a pretty wide spectrum on like how special some of them are. Everything she tells me about playing here is like incredible. It is. Great fan support. The community loves you guys. What's like your time in Indy been like? It's I mean, it's grown so much. Like my rookie year, we probably had a couple thousand people coming to games. We won five games that whole year. Like it was that's doing it justice too. It might be. It might be. But it's like that's hard. I think like once you start winning and once more people start showing up, like your experience changes completely. So the last couple of years have been a full one eighty. Like it's it we've changed. People are showing up, people know about the fever. Like if we were to be walking in the airport, like the story I just said, that would never happen today. So it's been awesome. Do you almost cherish it more because you got to be here when things were clearly not as special. I think like it gives you perspective on what it could be like. Right. And when you see it and ha and you actually have fun doing it and you love coming to the gym every day and you love the staff that's there and you love your teammates, like it's important to be like very grateful. And I I do feel grateful to be here. And I think Lex and I are a lot alike because we are very much do the dirty work and like the energy players. And so when you do have a fan base like the fever it just it makes it so much easier because they appreciate yeah they see it they see you yeah and like you you have Kelsey Mitchell you have aliyah you have Caitlyn that of course they're gonna go do their thing but when you have players that are gonna go take the charge, like you're just so tough. And they're just like people appreciate it. And when you have sold-out crowds everywhere you go, it's just appreciated. And it feels good as players. You talked about in the intro that like you are inspiring the next generation where you come from, around the country, with the eyes that you have on you. Like, what is something that you cherish or like gives you chills when you think about you're still early in your career, but like your career overall? I think it's just really cool to see to be at games and obviously like you have the Caitlens and the Ilias and the Kelsey's and you see their jerseys in the stands. Then when you see like a ten out there, like it's so special because people like are watching and supporting and growing up I didn't have someone in the W that I saw myself as or like that I wanted to reach for. And I feel like now with the social media and just even like TV and being the accessibility for people, like they see us and they can actually like have these dreams so much earlier. And to be one of those people is really special. I think it's really cool to watch all types of people uh ask you for pictures or to say hi. But when you see a little girl come up to you and like you can just clearly see yourself what they see in you and like how cool that is, that's been a fun part of like getting to be around you more is seeing like little girls look up to you guys. It's so dope. It's cool also because it's not just little girls now. It's little boys too. Like it's it it it's insane. Well I think that's what's really cool and unique about the WNBA is that we are so diverse amongst our league that every kid, boy or girl, they can look at the TV and watch someone play and like find themselves in one of the players playing. It's funny because when we watch film together, sometimes. can We't tell each other apart. Oh yeah. If someone messes up, it's like, oh that was Lexi on the way. I mean and so we can't even tell each other apart. And our hair looks simple. Like it's hard. Are those my shoes or those Lexi shoes? That was the same way in college. It was Lacey, wasn't it? College basketball has always been bigger than the games themselves. What part of the culture around the sport stands out to you guys the most? Something that I love about the culture is like I love the rivalries. 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The Colgate Women's Games is the nation's longest-running indoor track and field series for girls and women. Colgate, your smile is your strength. Like I love I love when people go back and forth. Like sometimes it can get a little spicy, but like that's what makes college sports so fun to me. And I love a die hard fan. Like the kids crying on TV or PS Face P and stuff. Or the the fans that their team hasn't made it ever and they make it bar and they're just like crying 'cause of the hat. You know what I mean? Like that is like Or they f they won their their league championship and it's their first time in the NCAA tournament. Like it's so special and then you get a Yeah, just like the chills. Like I I love that stuff. I love that type of sports and my answer would have been small schools and Cinderella's winning, obviously someone. Who went to a smaller school I yeah, like you always I like I love selection Sunday just because you did cry when when the football team won. Yeah of course does yeah I also all three of us went to one school. I think the weirdest thing now is all these kids when they're twenty-seven and at work or a party or whatever and someone says where'd you go to school? Like what do they say? Or just like four schools? We had a quarterback who went to five. It was like his fifth school. I was like why? Do you think it's no allegiance? No sad. Yeah, what what would be yours? I feel like I like the storylines of the of like the teams that have been together for four years and it's their seniors' last chance at like finally getting a championship for their school. Okay, I have a question for us, and all of us can answer this. What would be like your ide al travel day in your ideal city to go playing in a way game? Our biggest rival, University of Montana. Then like Saturdays when you play a rival just nothing like it without it. And you get it. That's acceptable. Yeah. I'd say in a way game against a rival. But what like what was your game day routine? Did you guys like get up? Do do you guys have walkthrough or like walkthrough at the hotel? You do breakfast hotel walkthrough . Wait, is walkthrough for football though like interesting place? Like what do you do? Okay. Only in l with your like small No, you would do like put small position and then do it one time. Yeah, that's perfect. That's what a walker is. Body slam. Night games actually are the weirdest because you just kind of sit in your hotel all day and like it get you get like a little bit antsy. You have a few meetings, but I don't know what you guys do. See we're by Spursa kinda. I feel like we're used to playing. You have to be at like peak around seven to like day games like I gotta get up early. You know, like but I do like day games 'cause then you don't have shoot around. Yeah. You must sleep the week though a lot, right? So that's never gonna be like one o'clock. Send it again. Send it to people. Wait, tell me about your your ideal. My ideal would be we get in like late ish the night before. Time for dinner. Yep. Like a nice dinner. I like to go to get like a try a new place. Like, yeah. Wait, did you guys even have like teen dinners at restaurants? I guess college. Oh yes. College for sure. Torah was like very much routine. Yep. So game day, we would have shoot around and then everyone would come back, we'd have lunch, maybe, and then four hours before the game we have pre game meal, same meal every time. Pasta. I've had pasta with marinara sauce, salmon, and maybe some like steamed broccoli. And then rolls. All four years. Like every day. But who would you like who was like your favorite team or like favorite city to play in college? Washington State. Yeah. Or Washington. Just because it's home. Like when we played at WSU , my family would come down, bring the dogs, like it was and I had a lot of people there. And also they didn't get a lot of fans. So it was majority of my family and friends that would like fail. Oh that's so it was it was so fun. We played in Pullman my senior year too, actually. Yeah. Which was tight. There's like a lot of schools in that little pocket. Was their team good that when you played? Not special. It was week one, so you never really like know how good anyone is. I was nowhere near actually we had we played like Well you're not big you you never played in the my first year my freshman year it was like the second year with the SEC. Yeah but it was I mean I enjoyed the SEC favorite city town slash town I do think though, just like the history behind it, I think like playing Tennessee. Yeah so it was just so cool. That's dope. Um yeah, that was fun. But South Carolina had a a great crowd. I do think basketball would be I I never envied the basketball players because you miss Christmas or you miss Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Break. Can we just say basketball is probably the worst sport to choose because it is bow season? Because it's the whole year. It is the whole year. But the spring, best time of the year. Because you're on like 12-hour week instead of 20-hour week. No, a thousand percent, but I'm just saying like you know, like it's like they had spring, they had all the entire time, and I'm like, oh, we still Yeah. Still here. You can talk about college, you can talk about WNBA, but like what is something doesn't matter if you're here at home, if you're on the road that like pre-game, post game that like keeps you grounded or keeps you in routine. Because I think that is something like as much as you're not routine, you also have to be routine. And so kind of take us through what keeps you grounded. I think just doing like having a routine is the most important part. Like you can whatever you want to do, just do it consistently. Because I feel like by that time of the season, like sure the pressure is higher and like you really only have this one chance at winning a game where you're done, but focusing like you've built these habits over the course of tens of games. But like it's that's the time to rely on those habits and like not change up what you've been doing 'cause what you've been doing has worked. So for me, that's like making sure I get my pregame nap, making sure like I watched film the night before, making sure I'm locked in during shoot around, like just the little things that you've done so much. Like don't change it. Do you still use that and do that in the W? Mm-hmm. And so that can be pre-game, like fully basketball related, but also night before, like brush your teeth, take a shower, get in. Really? Are you that? I'm not that on the CD. No, no, no. I'm saying there it it can it can vary. They say baseball players are the worst. Really? With yeah, with routine. Can you think about how you know Will, like her or fiance was drafted and whatnot, but like they play so many games to o. Like that gets I've sat through so many games. What a wag. I'm just such a whack. They play six games a week. Is your pre-game playlist bangers? I don't really ha like listen to a lot of uh music. I feel like your Instagram song choice I'm always like Lexi's throwing hitters on that's Will. Is it what? That's Will. Stop it. I thought that was you. He's gonna be so happy. Are you kidding? I thought that was you. He loves me on my captions and my He's my social media manager. Stop it! Thank you. Of course, of course. We have um a segment we're gonna do. So let's grab these cards with. Whoa. Game time? Yeah, not for you. This is you're you're on the hot seat, sister. So this is called pack it or pass it. Here are the rules. Okay. Yes. We're going to throw you every travel essential that we can think of, and you tell us from the opinion of a professional athlete what has to come with you and what you're leaving at home. Dot it. Okay. West you can go first. Portable phone charger. Packet. Sometimes it takes up space, but I little one. Yeah, yeah, baby. Powerful one. I'm gonna go white noise machine. Pass it. Neck pillow. Pass it. Some people are loyal to neck pillows, though. I can sleep just about anywhere. Nice. Good trait. Yeah. Give me the window, preferably. Yeah. So you can rest. Yes. Yeah. Noise canceling headphones. Packet. I can't s like if I wear headphones on a flight, it makes it harder to like lay my head down to sleep. The buds. So I do buds. You can they have noise canceling buds. Where are you f what do you mean? How do you not know that? He's living in two thousand fifteen. Ye.ah. Okay It says headphones. So I'm thinking big, bulky, make it hard to sleep headphones. I call those earphones. Whatever. Do you not? Like any type of headphones. I agree. Extra pair of socks. Pass it. Okay, this one's good because I feel like you're a dweeb. Um, compression sucks. Pass it. No, I've totally seen you wear. I've seen you wear I had a hurt knee, Lexi. I okay, yes. Good job. Sleep mask. Typically pass , but my sister gave me one like two weeks ago. Uh huh. It's a game changer. I used to make fun of people who did them, but like it works. It does. It works. So now I'm gonna say pack it. Okay, packing cubes, pass it. I I wanna be someone that uses them. Was it packing cu be? What? You guys all use those? I I love the idea. Organize. You exip it, it may make sense. So it's like all your socks and like underwear. So when you get there, you know where everything is. Like in theory, it's a great thing. It's just not thrown in your suitcase. Travel blanket. Pass it. Lint roller? Pass it. Your own pillow. Pass it. My grandma does that. That's cute. Electrolyte packets. Packet. Yeah. I also don't drink water unless it's flavored, so I mean it. Yeah.. That's not good I'm hydrated though, because I'll just put a I can't drink plain water either.