Episode 8: Happy Thanksgiving

[Music] Hello and welcome to Unlaced with Chocolate Bates. I'm Madison Chalk. I'm Evan Bates and we're Olympic Ice Dancers for Team USA. If you're into sports betting, Bet online is the fastest and easiest way to bet all your favorite sports. Head to the new updated desktop or mobile website to sign up today and receive your 50% welcome bonus on your first deposit. Just use our promo code, Believe 50, to receive your bonus. So Thanksgiving is already upon us. Well, American Thanksgiving. Right. Canadian Thanksgiving was last month, but we didn't really celebrate. No, we didn't. And we won't be celebrating American Thanksgiving either. Right. Waaah. It's true. We will be training on Thanksgiving and FaceTiming are beautiful families. But I really do love Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite times of year. I actually can't believe it's already here. It sure feels like this season has just flown by. It really has, hasn't it? It's just flown by. Yeah. Like truly, it's gone by so quickly. Like where has it gone? I don't know. Yeah, where did it go? I don't know either. No, but really like time. It's flown by, unlike the sentence. You're speaking. It's something you just want more of. But you never have enough of time. Well, time is also just a social construct that we have created. So really, you could create a new time table if you wanted and give yourself all the time in the world. I mean, you'd probably be the only one following it, but you have the option. Right. I certainly wouldn't be showing up for skating on time. It is even a clock and I am not skating right now. Well, anyways, this year we just want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. All of our American friends and family listening, happy Thanksgiving. This year we certainly have a lot to be thankful for. Maddie, what do you think for this year? Oh, so many things. Okay, great. Hey, I wasn't done. I was just getting started. I could tell you were going to just get a ram on. What are those things? Well, first and foremost, I am most thankful for our good health. My family's good health because you can never take your health for granted. And I see you're pointing at yourself right now. So yes, Evan, you were right there. You were just a real close second. I am so thankful for you. Wait, what was first? Oh, you were even listening to me. My goodness. Well, I'm not thankful for your listening skills clearly. Now, what was first our health? Our health. I'm thankful for that too. My family's health, your family's health. It's really something that we cannot take for granted. And I just appreciate it so much more, especially after the crazy two years that we've all gone through. And yeah, just really thankful for that. What are you thankful for, Evan? I'm thankful for you as you point at yourself. Because I had to because you were doing it. I learned that from you though, the old finger point. Also thankful for everyone listening. I'm thankful for the fans of skating who have come back to the arenas, filled the seats, given us an audience to perform more. I was thinking about that earlier. It's like, I don't know if fans realize that they're a huge part of what we do. It's essentially like, we skate because we love it. But what we're trying to do is deliver a joy and inspiration to people. If there are no people in the stands, it's sort of like, what's the point? Why are we training every day if there's no one to perform for? So, Exactly. Very thankful for this skating fans. Thankful. That they're back in the stands. Yep. Yep. So am I. Yeah, that's a really wonderful thing to be thankful for. Love the skating fans. So thanksgiving though. It's really a family-based holiday. We obviously won't be able to see our families this year. Do you have any thanksgiving traditions in your family? Do you guys maybe play football in the backyard? Go true American family. I mean, it's not like a tradition that we would go play football in the backyard. Although we have like, just toss the football around. But it's not like an every year kind of thing. Like, I know you're talking about the France episode where they play Thanksgiving Day football and they get super competitive, right? Exactly. Yes, love that episode. That's just, I love that episode too. Is that Joey has the turkey stuck on his head of that episode? I don't know if that's the same episode. No, that's a different episode. The Thanksgiving football one is its own thing. Okay, well, we don't do that per se, but we do have some traditions. I think it's more so like the menu is always the same. You know, there is like an agreed upon Thanksgiving. The classics. Menu, the classics. You have a turkey stuffing, a sweet potato dish with like marshmallows on top. You have probably like a mashed potato, regular mashed potato dish, a green bean casserole, cranberry sauce. There are some nice rolls, right? I would say just no green bean casserole for my family. We've never really made that. I don't know. Really? Yeah, we just do playing green beans. Maybe with some garlic. I guess it's a green bean dish. Yeah. There's like a stuffed mushroom thing that happens at my Antlenose house. It's just good. Oh yeah, remember that. That's really delicious. And then the dessert's right, like a pumpkin pie or a pecan, a pecan, what do we gonna have this debate? Pecan pie. Pecan pie. Pecan pie. Tomato tomato, pecan pecan. But that's like the traditional Thanksgiving menu. And I think that that's pretty standard across the board for most American families, would you say? Yes. While we're on the topic of pies, I just want to also get your take on the pies. What is your favorite pie? I'm just so curious. I mean, you know I'm not like a big dessert person. I know, but there's got to be some type of pie preference. You lean towards. But if you were twisting my arm, I'd probably go with pecan pie. I am twisting your arm as we speak. So pecan pie, good. I got it out of you. Or pumpkin. I like both. Yeah. Ice cream, no ice cream. I mean, again, like if you're gonna force the pie me out, take the ice cream like. Right. Yeah, I mean, I'm the same warm pie. Oh, I'm sorry. You wanted me to ask you that. No, no, no. You don't need to ask me. I'm going to willingly just give my opinion right now. No need to ask. I'm giving it. Tell us your favorite pie, Maddie. I also prefer a pumpkin and a pecan. I think I would probably lean towards pumpkin. I could pecan pie like any time of year. But Thanksgiving pumpkin pie just calls my name. And I do prefer it with ice cream. I think it's delicious. I can also just eat it cold, plane the next day for breakfast. No qualms with that. Noted. Okay. Yeah. Great. Pumpkin pie for Maddie. Yep. Any time of year? Any time of day? Specifically November for the pumpkin pie. Right. The pecan pie, any time of year, any time of day. Correct. Terrific. Well, then there's a standard, you know, TV watching sitting around. The Macy's Day Parade is always on, you know. It's like a broadcast of the parade. Oh, yeah. I'm familiar with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Evan. Yeah, I'm marching bands, you know, big giant balloons. It's a tradition, unlike any other Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. So we'll watch that and then we'll watch football, you know, as this tradition, I feel like. The Detroit Lions always play. It usually ends in a loss. And yeah, that's it. Somebody like falls asleep on the floor. On the floor. Yeah, like, like, people are so stuffed and tired. And then I don't know, maybe there's a dog. You just get down there and start petting the dog or maybe all the seats on the so far are filled. And then someone sits on the floor. There's a fireplace going. You can just imagine. You know, I feel like I'm doing well. The football game is out of reach for the Lions. Sadly. And then. This will be different. Hey, you look around. No, a sudden, a family member is just sleeping on the floor. And then you're like, ah, thanksgiving. It's here. Someone's asleep on the floor. It's officially Thanksgiving. Someone's passed out on the floor. All right. I think that might be your biggest tradition then. That's true. It's true. You could ask anyone in the family. And what about you, Maddie? What are the chalk Thanksgiving traditions? Well, this year, my whole family, and uncles, cousins, everyone is gathering in San Diego at my cousins' place for the holiday. And it's been well over a decade since everyone got together. Well, I'm actually quite bummed to be missing this special occasion. I feel like ever since we moved to Michigan in 2005, it's been hard to see everyone because we're also spread out. And Thanksgiving is just right in the middle of our skating season. It is. But yeah, since we moved to Michigan, it's pretty much just been my parents and me. But sometimes we'd have some answer uncles, visit, some family friends, some Evans, some stray friends from the training camp. If they were alone on Thanksgiving, we'd have them over. That was nice. You would always welcome people. If there was a skater who's from another country or state, and they couldn't be with their family, your parents would always invite them over. That was super nice. Oh, yeah. We love having guests over, especially for the holiday. days. My mom's gathering. It's a gathering. It's for everyone to enjoy and just share food and come together. I'm seated at the table. Yeah. There's always a seat at the chalks table. Yes. Nearest and dearest. Mm-hmm. Exactly. Love Thanksgiving. It's great. So we're going to be alone together on Thanksgiving. Just the poodles. And you and me, what are we going to do? I feel like we should start some of our own holiday traditions. So maybe we should get some fried chicken from Bucky Roosters. That sounds pretty good. I would love that. Maybe we just indulge ourselves a bit since it's Thanksgiving. Yeah. Okay. Fried chicken could be our Thanksgiving tradition from hearing out until we can like really do the full. Yeah. Do the full meal. Yeah. Anyways, my mom is such a phenomenal cook. I'm really going to miss her Thanksgiving feast this year. We'll do fried chicken. It'll be good. Yeah. It'll be good. And we'll FaceTime them and we can see what they're eating. Yeah. And then maybe afterwards we can put in some Christmas lights. Oh, that sounds fun. We're going to deck the halls literally in our home after Thanksgiving. I hope get the Christmas decorations out. Yeah. We don't really have many Christmas decorations, but but the good news is everything's open in Canada tomorrow. So we can go shopping. Oh, we can go get a Christmas tree. What's your favorite dish that your mom makes? Oh. For Thanksgiving. Hands down, candy dm's and my mom's homemade stuffing. Well, my mom really does the stuffing and it's honestly the most incredible just savory and delicious stuffing. She adds a little bit of finely chopped celery and it adds the perfect crunch. So yes, I'm oh, my mouth is watering thinking about it. And yeah, the candy dm's, I would say I love those. The more marshmallows, the better. When I help my mom cooking, I'm usually in charge of that dish. And honestly, it's more of a dessert than a side dish once I'm done with it. What about you? I mean, stuffing is like the easy answer here, but I'm going to say this stuffed mushrooms. There's something really special going on there. I can't even really explain. But whatever's in those mushrooms, oh man, I feel stuffed afterwards. Oh, I have a joke. What do you and a teddy bear have in common after Thanksgiving? Oh, they're stuffed. They're both stuffed. Yeah. Oh boy. Okay. Yeah, that was a bad joke, but it had to be said. It was an original thought. Thank you. Yeah, terrific. All right. Well, to wrap this up, I have some fun Thanksgiving trivia questions. You don't want to do any more stand-up? No, I think I've exceeded my stand-up for the evening. Anyways, okay. So some fun Thanksgiving trivia questions specifically for you, Evan, pertaining to football. Are you ready? I'm ready. I'm feeling not confident. I mean, okay, so a couple of them maybe ones you haven't heard of, but I think you'll, I think you might get the last one. This is about Thanksgiving and football. Yes. Okay. No clue. When was, are you ready? Let's do it. All right. When was the first Thanksgiving football game? Don't know. Give it a guess. Okay. It was a long time ago. Well, I'd say there have been like 50 some super balls. So I don't know if they had Thanksgiving games immediately. Oh, were there Thanksgiving games before super balls? Shoot. That is the question. I'm just going to guess like something in the 70s. Very close. Yes. Let me guess. No, no. Yes. 1970. Huh? 1975. You are about 101 years off. Are you joking? No. Oh my god. 1876. But that wasn't an NFL game. No, but that's not the question. Holy smokes. They were like wearing white wigs and they were playing football. I don't know. I'm honestly surprised it took them so long. It feels like just run together and chase ball like that. That truly is America's like past time. But they say baseball is America's past time. But I mean football since 1876. That's that's crazy. Maybe football is America's active time. Baseball is really more of a chill sport. Can pass the time watching it. It takes so long. All right. When was the first Thanksgiving NFL game? Oh, okay. I should have I should have seen that coming. In the 70s. Is that ballpark? No, that's very wrong. Earlier in the 50s. Earlier. Really? 1912. Oh, 1920. Oh, spot on. Ding ding ding. Yeah. All right. I mean again, because it's from the internet. Who knows? That's a long time ago. That's 100 years ago. Yeah. I mean football's been around for some time. Okay. Last one. Which cities Thanksgiving day parade ends with Santa Claus getting a key to the city? Hint. Do you want to hint? Detroit. Yes. Ding ding ding. I put that one on there because Detroit. You're from Detroit. So I figured like you would maybe just guess your hometown. Which? Well, I got I got it kind of thank you so much for the new knowledge I have now about Thanksgiving and football. You're almost welcome. And thank you to everybody for tuning in to this week's episode. This has been Unlaced with chalk and baits presented by Bet Online. Make sure you listen and subscribe for future episodes. You can also follow us on social media at chalk baits. We'll talk to you soon. Bye. [Music]