Thanksgiving Traditions And What Gratitude Really Means

Brad and Hugo really dig into Thanksgiving's meaning, family traditions, and how being thankful every day is something to consider. 

Gratitude hits different when you slow down long enough to feel it. We set the gift lists aside and lean into the quiet joy of Thanksgiving: shared meals, running jokes about stretchy pants, and the small rituals that make a family feel like home. From potato filling and pumpkin pie to the annual watching of Christmas Vacation, we explore how traditions turn values into touchable moments and why this holiday—free from presents and pressure—often becomes people’s favorite.

The heart of the conversation moves beyond the table. We dig into a nightly gratitude practice that calms the mind, the difference between saying thanks and feeling appreciation, and how absence sharpens love—like noticing an empty side of the bed and realizing how full it feels when someone returns. We also tackle a big question with curious honesty: does real gratitude require a giver? Whether you find meaning in God, speak to the universe, or honor the chain of people behind every comfort, the act of thanking can push ego aside and open space for connection.

Finally, we turn warmth into action. If you scored a free turkey you won’t use, shelters will; a coat or blanket in the right hands can change a night. We’re thankful for the guests who have shared their stories with our community, and for you joining us at the table. If this conversation resonates, follow the show, share it with someone you love, and leave a quick review—what’s one tradition you’ll keep forever?

"The Best Part about Giving Gratitude is that it takes the Attention Off of YOU and puts it on Someone Else, It gives YOUR Ego a Rest." - Brad Weisman

#Gratitude #Thankfulness #PositiveVibes #Mindfulness #Appreciation #Selflessness

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Chapters

• 0:00 Special Thanksgiving Edition
• 1:19 Why Thanksgiving Is Our Favorite
• 2:42 Gifts, Expectations, And Family Traditions
• 5:32 What Thanksgiving Means Abroad
• 6:20 A Lighthearted Guide To Thanksgiving
• 7:32 Classic Foods And Family Rituals
• 11:18 Post-Meal Sleep And Holiday Transition
• 11:36 Daily Gratitude As A Practice
• 13:03 Gratitude, Absence, And Appreciation
• 15:56 Is Gratitude Possible Without God
• 19:43 Ego, Attention, And Thankfulness
• 20:40 Counting Blessings And Basic Comforts
• 22:07 From Reflection To Action
• 23:06 Thankful For Our Guests
• 24:11 Practical Holiday Tips And Giving
• 25:33 Warm Wishes And Closing

Transcript

Brad Weisman: 0:22

The best part of gratitude is that it takes the attention off of you and puts it on something or someone else. It gives your ego a rest. That's right. That's the way I wrote it. From real estate the market as a whole, which then sometimes will affect the technicality to real life. We all learn in different ways. If you think about it, Wayne Dyer might not attract everybody and everything in between. The Brad Wiseman show. And now your host, Brad Wiseman. Okay, this is a special, special, special edition. We are all ready to eat some turkey soon. What do you think, man?

Hugo Cardona: 1:07

That's right. I'm ready.

Brad Weisman: 1:08

You're ready.

Hugo Cardona: 1:09

Yes, I'm I'm gonna wear my stretchy pants.

Brad Weisman: 1:13

You know what's funny? I think you say that every year and I laugh at it every single time. You know, and I always make the mistake, Hugo, I don't wear my stretchy pants.

Hugo Cardona: 1:21

Uh-uh.

Brad Weisman: 1:22

Yeah, and then I feel like buttons are ready to like just give out.

Hugo Cardona: 1:25

Right, right when you sit down, right?

Brad Weisman: 1:27

Yeah, right. All of a sudden the buttons, like, yeah, you've had enough, you know. It's crazy. But uh, I can't believe it. But we are we are looking at Thanksgiving again. Yeah. I mean, here we are.

Hugo Cardona: 1:37

Yeah.

Brad Weisman: 1:37

And we were gonna do a regular show. We talked about it, and we decided that we're, you know, instead of doing just a regular show, which we love to do every every Thursday at 7 p.m., this is a special show. It's the day before Thanksgiving. And we decided we wanted to just, you know, kind of go through what Thanksgiving means for us. That's right. You know, we both have families, uh, and Thanksgiving is such a traditional, such a traditional holiday.

Hugo Cardona: 2:02

Yeah.

Brad Weisman: 2:02

So is Christmas, but it's also one that really doesn't have to do with religion, if you think about it. And um and maybe that's why it's my favorite. It is absolutely it's my favorite holiday.

Hugo Cardona: 2:14

Okay, all right.

Brad Weisman: 2:15

Yeah, and and you know, I and I always people go, why? Because you know it's your favorite. Why is it, right? It's because there's no gifts, no expectations, it is you're with family. I I wrote down here family, friends, and food.

Hugo Cardona: 2:30

Yeah, there you go the three F's, right?

Brad Weisman: 2:33

And then later on you get fat. We'll add the other F in there, right? That's funny. But um, yeah, so it it is just my favorite because there's really you don't have to worry about a gift, you don't have to worry about thinking about anything uh except for being thankful.

Hugo Cardona: 2:48

So here's here's here now, in light of being thankful for other holidays or or birthdays or Christmas, is that expectation of gifts? You know, how do you handle? Have you ever had a situation where you tell other people, other family, hey, let's not do gifts this time, or is that like an implied expectation?

Brad Weisman: 3:08

Well, you know, what we've done in our family, and I think different families do that. It is implied that you're supposed to give a gift, I think, but there is a point where families get too big or it becomes too expensive for one. Uh, where it's like, all right, just let's just do, let's just let's work with the kids. Let's make sure the kids get something, yeah um, you know, and and go from there. But like we don't do, like, we don't do anything with um like for my brother, I don't buy anything for my brother or my sister-in-law anymore, and they don't buy anything for us anymore. It's just we've decided that's more about the kids than it is about us. Of course I'll get it if I find some kind of a stupid gift. Believe me, I bought him Atari uh like three years ago, like an old, like it's like an Atari set that's supposed to be like the used to be. It was terrible. So he um he re-gifted it back to me. And now it's been going back and forth. We hide it, we hide it into different people's cars, into his car, or hide it in his house or something like that. So yeah, so I think that's the thing, is that there's expectation. Plus, then with an expectation, if you don't get something that somebody else likes, then it's like you have that disappointment, you know?

Hugo Cardona: 4:17

Yeah.

Brad Weisman: 4:17

So I just don't, I don't, it there's no, there's no giving, there's no taking on Thanksgiving. It's just being. It's being with the the people you love, the people that you want to uh break bread with. Yeah, that's right. I mean, that's right. And you know, and traditions really are a big deal with Thanksgiving. And what that was one of the things we talked about before we we went on here is that you know, you're from Guatemala. What is what is the is there a Thanksgiving in Guatemala?

Hugo Cardona: 4:43

No, no, I was you know, when I was thinking about that, there's not not even the equivalent to it. I think that that's that's a very American um holiday. But no, no, there's not really a a a day. The closest thing to this to the spirit of thankfulness or gratitude is Christmas. But Christmas. Yeah, nothing, nothing that is that specific. That that specific, yeah.

Brad Weisman: 5:05

It is, and it's it's a very unique holiday. Um, you know, for and it's very unique to to the United States. Canada does practice something too, but it's I think it's in October. I did look that up. Uh oh, it'll be interesting. I looked up what Thanksgiving is on Chat GPT. You'll get a kick out of it. I'll go over it.

Hugo Cardona: 5:23

What does he say?

Brad Weisman: 5:24

You want to know what ChatGPT said? This is pretty funny. So Mr. Chat said, um, so that if the first thing it says is uh Thanksgiving is basically a giant national holiday or a giant national thank you party, is what it says with gravy. That's what it says. But it says here it's a national holida celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It started as a give thanks for the harvest and the blessings of the past year. You know, there's a whole story with the pilgrims and the indigenous uh people of our country. It happened in the 1600s. We know that. And in June, in 1863 is when it actually became a national holiday. Uh, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national day of Thanksgiving and praise. So it used to be Thanksgiving and praise, not just Thanksgiving. And then they dropped the praise part. It says that people have turkey stuffing mashed potatoes, family and friends get together, watch football parades, Macy's Day parade is that day. Uh, and then there's Black Friday the next day. That's right. And you have Black Friday the next day. So that's a whole different thing. Um, which is like it says the Super Bowl of shopping. I like how ChatGBT looks at it. And like I said, in Canada, they do have one. It's the second Monday in October, and it's it they call it Harvest Thankfulness Um holiday. Less tied to the pilgrim story, of course. And then it says here in short, Thanksgiving is a day to pause, to be grateful, overeat, hang with people you care about, and then pretend you're never eating again until leftovers call your name.

Hugo Cardona: 6:54

Oh, yeah, that's right. So like three days after Thanksgiving, it's three days.

Brad Weisman: 6:58

Oh, you have turkey, turkey, pancakes, turkey, mashed potatoes. Turkey, mash, yeah, mashed potatoes. I mean, it it is funny. Um, but okay, so now you're married to an American, right? You have children, and now do you guys do a traditional Thanksgiving?

Hugo Cardona: 7:13

Yes. We always go to our in-laws. Okay. And we do have the traditional potatoes.

Brad Weisman: 7:17

It would be your in-laws, right? Yes, yes, my in-laws. Right, right.

Hugo Cardona: 7:21

And uh they have cranberry. Oh, there we go. And uh, you know, the um uh what else?

Brad Weisman: 7:26

The turkey?

Hugo Cardona: 7:26

The turkey.

Brad Weisman: 7:27

Okay.

Hugo Cardona: 7:28

Mashed potatoes are always there.

Brad Weisman: 7:30

A must, right? Has to have a mashed potato.

Hugo Cardona: 7:31

And they the stuffing they just stuffing, yes. Okay.

Brad Weisman: 7:35

And that's all I remember because I that's like yams or any like yams or okay yams.

Hugo Cardona: 7:42

We have yams, the um cranberry, I think it's cranberry. Yeah.

Brad Weisman: 7:45

And do you have do you have um do you have um gravy?

Hugo Cardona: 7:48

Yes.

Brad Weisman: 7:48

Some kind of gravy boat on the table.

Hugo Cardona: 7:50

Favorite drink.

Brad Weisman: 7:53

You better wear the stretchy pants and you're eating you're drinking gravy, dude. That's right. Oh my gosh. You're like, this is good in my country. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Unbelievable. Well, that's cool. So you you're doing the traditional. That's that's very cool. Do you like turkey?

Hugo Cardona: 8:09

I do, yes.

Brad Weisman: 8:09

You do? Cool. White or dark meat?

Hugo Cardona: 8:11

Uh, I like white.

Brad Weisman: 8:13

You like white. Okay. I thought you were gonna say you like the neck. I was gonna get a little worried. I like the neck of the turkey. I'd be like, all right.

Hugo Cardona: 8:20

When I was a little guy, I used to eat necks, chicken necks, chicken necks, yeah.

Brad Weisman: 8:24

No way, wow.

Hugo Cardona: 8:25

There's not a lot of meat in it then.

Brad Weisman: 8:26

I was gonna say it's kind of small.

Hugo Cardona: 8:28

Yeah, yeah.

Brad Weisman: 8:29

I didn't like it, but yeah, that's why you're so small. You didn't give me enough chicken meat, right? That's right. Too small. So that's cool. So that's cool that you're you're experiencing it. So, and what's like I said, everybody has traditions. You know, there's certain things that, you know, I'm sure you're you're probably your your mother-in-law makes the stuffing, and that's a certain recipe she probably has from grandparents and down the down through tradition. And and um, you know, you wonder if your wife will at some point have to take over that that role, you know, or you guys will have to take over that role of making the stuffing and and and doing all the things that uh that your mother-in-law does. It's really cool. Yeah, it's really cool. What do you do? We go to my mom and dad's house. She's she still uh wants to cook. We did a couple times where we went to a restaurant, like years ago. My dad was like, Yeah, let's let's give mom a break, you know. She doesn't, you know, that way she hasn't to work so hard. Every time the places were lousy, and we'd all sit there eating, going, we'd sit there and going, This is not like mom's. This is not like mom's, you know. So uh, but no, she's been doing it every year forever. You know, we do um do like a later, like a mid-afternoon, you know.

Hugo Cardona: 9:32

Okay.

Brad Weisman: 9:33

And we do turkey. We do potato filling, which is basically like kind of what I always say is the mix between mashed potatoes and stuffing. It's like taking the stuffing and the mashed potatoes and putting it all together and mixing it up. That's called potato filling. It's more of a Pennsylvania Dutch thing. Um, she makes this other thing called broccoli casserole, which I love, be the green bean casserole, which is great. She does her own homemade pumpkin pies and apple pies. Did you guys do any pumpkin pie?

Hugo Cardona: 10:26

Yes. Yeah, do you like pumpkin pie? I do, yes.

Brad Weisman: 10:28

Yeah, so good, right? So good. And apple pies. I love them. And then after we're all done and stuffed, and we all basically want to fall asleep. Um, you know, because turkey has uh tryptophen, I think, is the enzyme that's in there. And that actually is an enzyme that creates tiredness. Uh-that's inside turkey meat. So, yeah, so if they could get rid of that, that'd be great. Take that out of the turkey so I can stay awake. What? And then what we do traditional every year is we watch Christmas Vacation.

Hugo Cardona: 10:55

Ah, on Thanksgiving.

Brad Weisman: 10:57

Yeah, we watch it on things. And then that becomes then that is our transition as a family into Christmas. All right. Pretty wild, right?

Hugo Cardona: 11:06

What does it mean to you though? Meaning that beyond the food itself, you know, with the spirit of the holiday, what does gratitude mean to you or Thanksgiving?

Brad Weisman: 11:16

You know, it used to be the only, not the only day, it used to be a big day for me that I was thankful and I did give gratitude. Not to say that I don't, I do. That day is is a special gratitude or thanking day. But as I've gotten older, I've tried to spread that out to making it almost every night. When I bef when I put my head on the pillow, just telling my kids and my wife this recently, and they didn't really know that I do this, but I literally lay there almost every night, and I thank, you know, I I believe in God, so I thank a God uh for or the universe or whatever you want to say, whoever you want to thank, you know, for what I had that day, for for the blessings that I have, for you know, the people that came into my life, for people that I prayed for and they got better, or for people that, you know, maybe didn't get better or have passed, or whatever it is. I sit there and I I just have gratitude for all those things. And I think it is a great way for me to go to sleep because then I'm also very much at peace with everything. Yeah, you know, yeah.

Hugo Cardona: 12:24

You know, I had a thought one when I was young. I was I was I've been a philosopher uh since I was a little guy. You definitely are, yes, you are and I had this thought about gratitude, and um I was thinking, I was trying to articulate the difference between a gratitude that comes when you experience the the absence of something, meaning that when you imagine that you will go blind for three months, yeah, but then you regain your sight, yeah, you will be incredible, you will you will gain uh a greater level of of appreciation for your side. Absolutely and sometimes, you know, I try to, you know, there is there's the the thanks that we give to the cashier when they hand us something and say, Oh, thank you very much, or this or that, thank you very much. Yeah. Um But I wonder like how how do we reach that level of of gratitude that is truly if if if getting rid or experiences the absence of that would be is the is that the exclusive way to feel that gratitude for which you like you're so so incredibly thankful.

Brad Weisman: 13:39

It you know it's it's a good point, you know, because I think when when um you know through life when I had major financial you know troubles, it made me appreciate not having financial troubles later on, you know. And I think you're you're exactly right, mental health, physical health when we don't have something, and yeah, how do we how do we get to that level of gratitude without it actually happening? Is that what you're saying?

Hugo Cardona: 14:08

Yeah, exactly. And I what I wonder is, do I truly feel gratitude in in the purest sense or or I'm thankful I'm I'm thankful, but I'm I'm not I'm thankful in the same way that I say thank you to someone.

Brad Weisman: 14:24

Right, as opposed to well, and I think that what you might be saying is that there's there's thankful and then there's appreciation. You know what I'm saying? It's almost a different thing. A thankful, yeah, and that's true, because when we just say thank you, there's no there's no um there's nothing behind it. And that's why I think sometimes, you know, you really have to that's why for me at nighttime, I'm truly thinking of the day to make sure that I realize the gifts I got during the day or the things that made a difference for me. And it could be just me looking over at my wife who's asleep and and just being thankful that she's there next to me. Yeah. You know, and and I do, and and this is interesting, when the kids and her are away and I look over and she's not there, it does make you more grateful at that moment because of the absence of it.

Hugo Cardona: 15:24

Yeah.

Brad Weisman: 15:25

Yeah, it's a good point. And I think we can, I you know, I think meant I think mentally we can go anywhere. Um, and I think the best time to do that is in time of of complete nothingness. And that's why for me, at nighttime, everybody's asleep. It's me and and whoever's up there. It's me and whoever's up there.

Hugo Cardona: 15:47

No, you know something I I I I I concluded too in my thinking about gratitude back when I was a young, a young man, yeah, is that that gratitude it is impossible without God. And hear me out here. Gratitude is impossible without God. Because gratitude presupposes an intentional giving to you. So when you say, for example, I am grateful for let's say I am grateful for my life, but being grateful requires that whoever gives you something has agency over it.

Brad Weisman: 16:20

So good, yeah.

Hugo Cardona: 16:21

So so if somebody says to you, you know, Brad, I found this this phone and I want to thank you for giving it to me, uh, because it says, Thank you, Brad, thank you, Hugo, for this. And I say to you, uh, Brad, sorry, I you can keep it, but uh, that was actually for another Brad.

Brad Weisman: 16:39

Oh, yeah.

Hugo Cardona: 16:41

So you still have the thing, yeah, the object, but I didn't mean to do that.

Brad Weisman: 16:46

Yeah, that's cool.

Hugo Cardona: 16:47

Will your gratitude change towards me? Like towards what you feel, like you were thanking me, right?

Brad Weisman: 16:53

Exactly. But I didn't mean to. I meant to give it to some other. Does it change that?

Hugo Cardona: 16:58

Yeah, does it change that?

Brad Weisman: 17:00

It shouldn't, but it does. But it does. I'd be like, you son of a Yeah, it does. But I I totally love what you just what you're saying there, and it's so true. You know, if somebody says that they don't believe in a higher being, yet they're giving gratitude, there's no such thing. Yeah, you can't have who are you giving gratitude to? Yeah, and that's why I said sometimes people give give gratitude, they give that out to the universe because some people look at it as being a single energy. There's a you know, universe. A Wayne Diary always told this, and I thought it was just like the one of the best things. The word universe, if you take that and you split it up, uni means one, verse means song.

Hugo Cardona: 17:37

Ah, uni song. So it's one song. Uh-huh.

Brad Weisman: 17:40

So that means that everything is in one song. All our whole universe is in is one song. So we're it means we're all connected in the same place.

Hugo Cardona: 17:48

Here's a question that's here's a question to ponder. Does the universe, let's call it a universe, right? Does the universe have intention, meaning agency? Or is it is it is it intentional or is it random?

Brad Weisman: 18:02

I'm thinking it's intentional. It's intentional. I think it's intentional. Yeah. Yeah, because otherwise, how would you explain explain gravity and black holes? And there's an intention there. There's there's gotta be reason. There's it's an intention, it can't just be.

Hugo Cardona: 18:13

The universe has a mind.

Brad Weisman: 18:15

It has something, it has some kind of something. Holy mackerel, this is a really good Thanksgiving special.

Hugo Cardona: 18:21

We started with Thanksgiving. We ended up gonna.

Brad Weisman: 18:24

But it is, but you know, that this all stemmed off of gratitude. And I and I totally uh agree with what you're saying. What you realize is that if if you're giving gratitude, or you're there's gotta be somebody that's receiving that gratitude, and somebody gave it to you. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you you can't get if there's nobody giving.

Hugo Cardona: 18:42

Yeah.

Brad Weisman: 18:42

So pretty wild.

Hugo Cardona: 18:43

Yeah, and that pretty wild that applies to life itself, you know. Absolutely. You can be thankful for the pair of shoes that you're wearing all the way to your health, which is of much greater impact than for life itself. Yeah. So you know you're grateful for life itself. When you are in that deep level of expressing gratitude, you I cannot at least I cannot help but wonder, you know, I gotta give that gratitude to somebody.

Brad Weisman: 19:12

Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Hugo Cardona: 19:14

Yes.

Brad Weisman: 19:15

And I think it's good, and you know, one of the things that um I wrote in my notes here about gratitude or thanking whenever you thank something, somebody, something, whatever, when you thank and when you have gratitude, it is uh it's a the reason I love it, it takes the attention off of me and puts it onto somebody else. So in that moment, it's an ego less, there's no ego. The ego's not in charge. Yeah. So you're actually you're you're you're you're taking you're taking attention off yourself and you're saying, look, that that person, that god, that whoever you're thanking at that moment, or whoever the gratitude is, they're they're more important than me. They're they're they're doing something better than me at that moment. And I think that's that's another good reason to give gratitude, is because we're always in our minds. Our ego is usually kind of running the show, you know, and it's great to get us, get, get out of that. So uh yeah, so I I was just some of the things too. I said in my notes here was that, you know, we're so we're so blessed to be here right now where we are. And I I wrote down, you know, we're blessed to be here, we're blessed to not have to worry about heat in our homes. We're blessed to not have to worry about food for Thanksgiving. Yeah, you know, we're blessed um to not have to worry about any of those things. We're not we're blessed to not have to worry about being loved. Yeah, we take that for granted. Yeah, that's so many children, so many people that are not loved. And that is not a guaranteed. Yeah, of course, we know there's one person that loves everybody if you believe in a higher being or God. But it is it is amazing. And then I says, I wrote down, we have all the comforts we need, and I'm so thankful for that. I really am. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm really thankful? I'm laying down at night with the kids, and I'm laying there in bed, like not as much anymore with Catherine because she's older, but with Carson, we still lay. I still lay and talk to him a little bit before they go to sleep. And on those really, really frigid nights when the wind's blowing and the the wind chills like negative four, him and I sit there and pray for uh people that don't have a home because they are that is some of the toughest times to go through. Yeah. Because not only, you know, food, hopefully you can get some somewhere, but if you're on the street, man, and you're dealing with 19 degrees and five negative five wheelchill, that's tough. Yeah, that's tough. So those are the things we should think about Thanksgiving being a good thing.

Hugo Cardona: 21:36

And see, and as as you have those conversations though, I think I encourage you to take it into action, meaning that's Carson. Let's let's go to an IMAN, let's take a few blankets, let's take a few coats.

Brad Weisman: 21:47

That's a good that's a good idea.

Hugo Cardona: 21:48

Let's find someone, yeah. Because I I think that'll be not only um a great uh act of kindness and goodness, but also it will be uh so gratifying for you and an abounding uh moment for you and Carson.

Brad Weisman: 22:01

And I I agree. And it you know, we do we do things for people, but we don't do enough. You know, unfortunately we don't. And and I don't know if it's ever enough, actually, but you know, we don't do enough. But that's a good good point. Good point. Yeah, through the through the years here, I'm I'm grateful for the amazing guests we've had. Yeah, we've had some incredible guests. And actually, you know, just uh over the last two years has just been just been incredible. And that I'm thankful that um that we've been able to bring people in that are just really making a difference, I think, in our audience's life and sharing their experiences and their stories. Yeah, yeah. What do you think about that?

Hugo Cardona: 22:36

No, it it's cool. I'm I'm definitely it's it's it's great because you know, not only we you know, we get to do this, which is fun, but also provide great insight from the guest, uh just to the public, local and you know, national, whatever they can see us and watch us, and that is uh gratifying to be part of of that, you know. Um so yeah, I'm thankful for that. Very cool.

Brad Weisman: 22:58

Yeah, very cool. Is there anything else? I mean, I I just the thing with the chat TV TV screen.

Hugo Cardona: 23:03

Give me a quote, give me a quote about Thanksgiving. Did you write a quote about it?

Brad Weisman: 23:05

I didn't write a quote about Thanksgiving. No, you're not your quote. And I do love quotes. I'm sure I could come up with something. But that's right. No, but um well, the one thing that I did write down that was not it was not from chat and it was not from anything else, is um the best part of gratitude is that it takes the attention off of you and puts it on something or someone else. It gives your ego a rest. That's right. That's the way I wrote it.

Hugo Cardona: 23:28

Well, yeah, that's that's that's a really good thing.

Brad Weisman: 23:31

It gives your ego a rest, which which a lot of times it does need to rest. Yeah, ego needs to go to bed. Yeah, it's it's pretty wild. So that's all I really had, is just you know, I love Thanksgiving. Yeah. And I think uh we want everybody out there to have a great time.

Hugo Cardona: 23:45

Yes, make sure you give your family hugs this Thanksgiving, wear your stretchy pants, very important.

Brad Weisman: 23:51

Also, if you if you go to Giant and and they give you the free turkey and you don't need it, take the free turkey. There's so many places. There's so many we did that this year. Um, you if you have the turkey coupon, don't let it go to waste. It's free. Take and it might only be a 12-pound one, who cares what it is. Take it, they're frozen, so they'll last for a while. Take it to a homeless shelter, take it into the Salvation Army, or take it to Opportunity House, or take it somewhere. They will use it. Guaranteed they will use it.

Hugo Cardona: 24:21

Here's another tip that I heard from my friend Cheyenne. Say that not forget, don't forget to put the batteries back out of the smoker after you.

Brad Weisman: 24:28

Oh, that's so true. Replace your replace your your batteries in your smoke detectors.

Hugo Cardona: 24:33

You see, you know, when the when something starts to to uh uh burn, everybody is keeping, yeah.

Brad Weisman: 24:39

And then they take the batteries out. Yes, so true. You gotta put them back in the street. So true, so true. So one more thing. I don't know if you saw this back here, but this is what's coming up next, just so you know. Oh, so I thought I I thought I thought I'd bring this out because after the turkey leaves, then this then this guy here, this girl here, that shows up. So uh we're ready. I don't know, but we're ready for this then, right after Thanksgiving. But I want everybody to have a great Thanksgiving, um, especially you and your family. I'm thankful for you. I'm very thankful for you. And um, everybody should have just a great time and and be with people, be thankful and get stuffed and wear the stretchy pants.

Hugo Cardona: 25:16

That's righty. All right, that's right.

Brad Weisman: 25:18

Is there anything else that you want to say?

Hugo Cardona: 25:20

No, thank you, man. Just want to say thank you. Gracias, senor.

Brad Weisman: 25:24

Oh, it fell over. That's her night. All right, that's great. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. We appreciate it. We'll see you next Thursday at 7 p.m. All right, gobble gobble.