November 26, 2025 • 26 mins
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
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Brad Weisman (00:22):
The best part of gratitude is that it takes the
attention off of you and puts iton 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 asa whole, which then sometimes
will affect the technicality toreal life.
We all learn in different ways.
If you think about it, WayneDyer might not attract everybody
(00:45):
and everything in between.
The Brad Wiseman show.
And now your host, BradWiseman.
Okay, this is a special,special, special edition.
We are all ready to eat someturkey soon.
(01:06):
What do you think, man?
Hugo Cardona (01:07):
That's right.
I'm ready.
Brad Weisman (01:08):
You're ready.
Hugo Cardona (01:09):
Yes, I'm I'm gonna wear my stretchy pants.
Brad Weisman (01:13):
You know what's funny?
I think you say that every yearand I laugh at it every single
time.
You know, and I always make themistake, Hugo, I don't wear my
stretchy pants.
Hugo Cardona (01:21):
Uh-uh.
Brad Weisman (01:22):
Yeah, and then I feel like buttons are ready to
like just give out.
Hugo Cardona (01:25):
Right, right when you sit down, right?
Brad Weisman (01:27):
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 atThanksgiving again.
Yeah.
I mean, here we are.
Hugo Cardona (01:37):
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (01:37):
And we were gonna do a regular show.
We talked about it, and wedecided that we're, you know,
instead of doing just a regularshow, which we love to do every
every Thursday at 7 p.m., thisis a special show.
It's the day beforeThanksgiving.
And we decided we wanted tojust, you know, kind of go
through what Thanksgiving meansfor us.
That's right.
You know, we both havefamilies, uh, and Thanksgiving
(01:58):
is such a traditional, such atraditional holiday.
Hugo Cardona (02:02):
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (02:02):
So is Christmas, but it's also one that really
doesn't have to do withreligion, if you think about it.
And um and maybe that's whyit's my favorite.
It is absolutely it's myfavorite holiday.
Hugo Cardona (02:14):
Okay, all right.
Brad Weisman (02:15):
Yeah, and and you know, I and I always people go,
why?
Because you know it's yourfavorite.
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 (02:30):
Yeah, there you go the three F's, right?
Brad Weisman (02:33):
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 justmy favorite because there's
really you don't have to worryabout a gift, you don't have to
worry about thinking aboutanything uh except for being
thankful.
Hugo Cardona (02:48):
So here's here's here now, in light of being
thankful for other holidays oror birthdays or Christmas, is
that expectation of gifts?
You know, how do you handle?
Have you ever had a situationwhere you tell other people,
other family, hey, let's not dogifts this time, or is that like
an implied expectation?
Brad Weisman (03:08):
Well, you know, what we've done in our family,
and I think different familiesdo that.
It is implied that you'resupposed to give a gift, I
think, but there is a pointwhere 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 getsomething, yeah um, you know,
(03:29):
and and go from there.
But like we don't do, like, wedon't do anything with um like
for my brother, I don't buyanything for my brother or my
sister-in-law anymore, and theydon't buy anything for us
anymore.
It's just we've decided that'smore about the kids than it is
about us.
Of course I'll get it if I findsome kind of a stupid gift.
Believe me, I bought him Atariuh like three years ago, like an
(03:50):
old, like it's like an Atariset that's supposed to be like
the used to be.
It was terrible.
So he um he re-gifted it backto me.
And now it's been going backand forth.
We hide it, we hide it intodifferent people's cars, into
his car, or hide it in his houseor something like that.
So yeah, so I think that's thething, is that there's
expectation.
Plus, then with an expectation,if you don't get something that
(04:13):
somebody else likes, then it'slike you have that
disappointment, you know?
Hugo Cardona (04:17):
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (04:17):
So I just don't, I don't, it there's no, there's
no giving, there's no taking onThanksgiving.
It's just being.
It's being with the the peopleyou love, the people that you
want to uh break bread with.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, that's right.
And you know, and traditionsreally are a big deal with
Thanksgiving.
And what that was one of thethings we talked about before we
we went on here is that youknow, you're from Guatemala.
(04:40):
What is what is the is there aThanksgiving in Guatemala?
Hugo Cardona (04:43):
No, no, I was you know, when I was thinking about
that, there's not not even theequivalent to it.
I think that that's that's avery American um holiday.
But no, no, there's not reallya a a day.
The closest thing to this tothe spirit of thankfulness or
gratitude is Christmas.
But Christmas.
Yeah, nothing, nothing that isthat specific.
(05:03):
That that specific, yeah.
Brad Weisman (05:05):
It is, and it's it's a very unique holiday.
Um, you know, for and it's veryunique to to the United States.
Canada does practice somethingtoo, but it's I think it's in
October.
I did look that up.
Uh oh, it'll be interesting.
I looked up what Thanksgivingis on Chat GPT.
You'll get a kick out of it.
I'll go over it.
Hugo Cardona (05:23):
What does he say?
Brad Weisman (05:24):
You want to know what ChatGPT said?
This is pretty funny.
So Mr.
Chat said, um, so that if thefirst thing it says is uh
Thanksgiving is basically agiant 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 anational holida celebrated on
the fourth Thursday of November.
(05:45):
It started as a give thanks forthe harvest and the blessings
of the past year.
You know, there's a whole storywith the pilgrims and the
indigenous uh people of ourcountry.
It happened in the 1600s.
We know that.
And in June, in 1863 is when itactually became a national
holiday.
Uh, President Abraham Lincolnproclaimed it a national day of
(06:05):
Thanksgiving and praise.
So it used to be Thanksgivingand praise, not just
Thanksgiving.
And then they dropped thepraise part.
It says that people have turkeystuffing mashed potatoes,
family and friends get together,watch football parades, Macy's
Day parade is that day.
Uh, and then there's BlackFriday the next day.
That's right.
And you have Black Friday thenext day.
So that's a whole differentthing.
(06:26):
Um, which is like it says theSuper 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 inOctober, and it's it they call
it Harvest Thankfulness Umholiday.
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, hangwith people you care about, and
(06:49):
then pretend you're never eatingagain until leftovers call your
name.
Hugo Cardona (06:54):
Oh, yeah, that's right.
So like three days afterThanksgiving, it's three days.
Brad Weisman (06:58):
Oh, you have turkey, turkey, pancakes,
turkey, mashed potatoes.
Turkey, mash, yeah, mashedpotatoes.
I mean, it it is funny.
Um, but okay, so now you'remarried to an American, right?
You have children, and now doyou guys do a traditional
Thanksgiving?
Hugo Cardona (07:13):
Yes.
We always go to our in-laws.
Okay.
And we do have the traditionalpotatoes.
Brad Weisman (07:17):
It would be your in-laws, right?
Yes, yes, my in-laws.
Right, right.
Hugo Cardona (07:21):
And uh they have cranberry.
Oh, there we go.
And uh, you know, the um uhwhat else?
Brad Weisman (07:26):
The turkey?
Hugo Cardona (07:26):
The turkey.
Brad Weisman (07:27):
Okay.
Hugo Cardona (07:28):
Mashed potatoes are always there.
Brad Weisman (07:30):
A must, right?
Has to have a mashed potato.
Hugo Cardona (07:31):
And they the stuffing they just stuffing,
yes.
Okay.
Brad Weisman (07:35):
And that's all I remember because I that's like
yams or any like yams or okayyams.
Hugo Cardona (07:42):
We have yams, the um cranberry, I think it's
cranberry.
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (07:45):
And do you have do you have um do you have um
gravy?
Hugo Cardona (07:48):
Yes.
Brad Weisman (07:48):
Some kind of gravy boat on the table.
Hugo Cardona (07:50):
Favorite drink.
Brad Weisman (07:53):
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 mycountry.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Unbelievable.
Well, that's cool.
So you you're doing thetraditional.
That's that's very cool.
Do you like turkey?
Hugo Cardona (08:09):
I do, yes.
Brad Weisman (08:09):
You do?
Cool.
White or dark meat?
Hugo Cardona (08:11):
Uh, I like white.
Brad Weisman (08:13):
You like white.
Okay.
I thought you were gonna sayyou like the neck.
I was gonna get a littleworried.
I like the neck of the turkey.
I'd be like, all right.
Hugo Cardona (08:20):
When I was a little guy, I used to eat necks,
chicken necks, chicken necks,yeah.
Brad Weisman (08:24):
No way, wow.
Hugo Cardona (08:25):
There's not a lot of meat in it then.
Brad Weisman (08:26):
I was gonna say it's kind of small.
Hugo Cardona (08:28):
Yeah, yeah.
Brad Weisman (08:29):
I didn't like it, but yeah, that's why you're so
small.
You didn't give me enoughchicken meat, right?
That's right.
Too small.
So that's cool.
So that's cool that you'reyou're experiencing it.
So, and what's like I said,everybody has traditions.
You know, there's certainthings that, you know, I'm sure
you're you're probably your yourmother-in-law makes the
stuffing, and that's a certainrecipe she probably has from
grandparents and down the downthrough tradition.
(08:50):
And and um, you know, youwonder if your wife will at some
point have to take over thatthat role, you know, or you guys
will have to take over thatrole of making the stuffing and
and and doing all the thingsthat 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'shouse.
She's she still uh wants tocook.
We did a couple times where wewent to a restaurant, like years
(09:11):
ago.
My dad was like, Yeah, let'slet's give mom a break, you
know.
She doesn't, you know, that wayshe hasn't to work so hard.
Every time the places werelousy, and we'd all sit there
eating, going, we'd sit thereand going, This is not like
mom's.
This is not like mom's, youknow.
So uh, but no, she's been doingit every year forever.
You know, we do um do like alater, like a mid-afternoon, you
(09:32):
know.
Hugo Cardona (09:32):
Okay.
Brad Weisman (09:33):
And we do turkey.
We do potato filling, which isbasically like kind of what I
(10:06):
always say is the mix betweenmashed potatoes and stuffing.
It's like taking the stuffingand the mashed potatoes and
putting it all together andmixing it up.
That's called potato filling.
It's more of a PennsylvaniaDutch thing.
Um, she makes this other thingcalled broccoli casserole, which
I love, be the green beancasserole, which is great.
She does her own homemadepumpkin pies and apple pies.
Did you guys do any pumpkinpie?
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 doneand stuffed, and we all
basically want to fall asleep.
Um, you know, because turkeyhas uh tryptophen, I think, is
the enzyme that's in there.
And that actually is an enzymethat creates tiredness.
Uh-that's inside turkey meat.
So, yeah, so if they could getrid of that, that'd be great.
Take that out of the turkey soI can stay awake.
(10:51):
What?
And then what we do traditionalevery 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 thatis 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 fooditself, you know, with the
spirit of the holiday, what doesgratitude 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 forme that I was thankful and I
did give gratitude.
Not to say that I don't, I do.
That day is is a specialgratitude or thanking day.
But as I've gotten older, I'vetried to spread that out to
making it almost every night.
(11:36):
When I bef when I put my headon the pillow, just telling my
kids and my wife this recently,and they didn't really know that
I do this, but I literally laythere almost every night, and I
thank, you know, I I believe inGod, so I thank a God uh for or
the universe or whatever youwant to say, whoever you want to
thank, you know, for what I hadthat day, for for the blessings
(11:59):
that I have, for you know, thepeople that came into my life,
for people that I prayed for andthey got better, or for people
that, you know, maybe didn't getbetter or have passed, or
whatever it is.
I sit there and I I just havegratitude for all those things.
And I think it is a great wayfor me to go to sleep because
then I'm also very much at peacewith everything.
(12:23):
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 aphilosopher uh since I was a
little guy.
You definitely are, yes, youare and I had this thought about
gratitude, and um I wasthinking, I was trying to
articulate the differencebetween a gratitude that comes
when you experience the theabsence of something, meaning
(12:48):
that when you imagine that youwill go blind for three months,
yeah, but then you regain yoursight, yeah, you will be
incredible, you will you willgain uh a greater level of of
appreciation for your side.
Absolutely and sometimes, youknow, I try to, you know, there
is there's the the thanks thatwe give to the cashier when they
(13:11):
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 dowe reach that level of of
gratitude that is truly if if ifgetting rid or experiences the
absence of that would be is theis that the exclusive way to
(13:32):
feel that gratitude for whichyou 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 youknow through life when I had
major financial you knowtroubles, it made me appreciate
not having financial troubleslater on, you know.
And I think you're you'reexactly right, mental health,
physical health when we don'thave something, and yeah, how do
(14:01):
we how do we get to that levelof gratitude without it actually
happening?
Is that what you're saying?
Hugo Cardona (14:08):
Yeah, exactly.
And I what I wonder is, do Itruly feel gratitude in in the
purest sense or or I'm thankfulI'm I'm thankful, but I'm I'm
not I'm thankful in the same waythat 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 thatthere'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'strue, because when we just say
thank you, there's no there's noum there's nothing behind it.
And that's why I thinksometimes, you know, you really
(14:45):
have to that's why for me atnighttime, I'm truly thinking of
the day to make sure that Irealize the gifts I got during
the day or the things that madea difference for me.
And it could be just me lookingover at my wife who's asleep
(15:06):
and and just being thankful thatshe's there next to me.
Yeah.
You know, and and I do, and andthis is interesting, when the
kids and her are away and I lookover and she's not there, it
does make you more grateful atthat 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 timeto do that is in time of of
complete nothingness.
And that's why for me, atnighttime, everybody's asleep.
It's me and and whoever's upthere.
(15:45):
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 aboutgratitude back when I was a
young, a young man, yeah, isthat that gratitude it is
impossible without God.
And hear me out here.
Gratitude is impossible withoutGod.
Because gratitude presupposesan intentional giving to you.
(16:08):
So when you say, for example, Iam grateful for let's say I am
grateful for my life, but beinggrateful requires that whoever
gives you something has agencyover 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 wantto thank you for giving it to
me, uh, because it says, Thankyou, Brad, thank you, Hugo, for
this.
And I say to you, uh, Brad,sorry, I you can keep it, but
uh, that was actually foranother 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 someother.
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 youjust what you're saying there,
and it's so true.
You know, if somebody says thatthey don't believe in a higher
being, yet they're givinggratitude, there's no such
thing.
Yeah, you can't have who areyou giving gratitude to?
Yeah, and that's why I saidsometimes people give give
gratitude, they give that out tothe universe because some
(17:23):
people look at it as being asingle 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 takethat 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 isone song.
So we're it means we're allconnected 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 callit a universe, right?
Does the universe haveintention, meaning agency?
Or is it is it is itintentional 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, howwould you explain explain
gravity and black holes?
And there's an intention there.
There's there's gotta bereason.
There's it's an intention, itcan'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 reallygood 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 agreewith what you're saying.
What you realize is that if ifyou're giving gratitude, or
you're there's gotta be somebodythat's receiving that
gratitude, and somebody gave itto you.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you youcan'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 thepair of shoes that you're
wearing all the way to yourhealth, which is of much greater
impact than for life itself.
Yeah.
So you know you're grateful forlife itself.
When you are in that deep levelof expressing gratitude, you I
(19:06):
cannot at least I cannot helpbut 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 mynotes here about gratitude or
thanking whenever you thanksomething, somebody, something,
whatever, when you thank andwhen 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 egoless, there's no ego.
(19:39):
The ego's not in charge.
Yeah.
So you're actually you'reyou're you're you're taking
you're taking attention offyourself and you're saying,
look, that that person, thatgod, that whoever you're
thanking at that moment, orwhoever the gratitude is,
they're they're more importantthan me.
They're they're they're doingsomething better than me at that
moment.
And I think that's that'sanother good reason to give
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gratitude, is because we'realways in our minds.
Our ego is usually kind ofrunning the show, you know, and
it's great to get us, get, getout of that.
So uh yeah, so I I was justsome of the things too.
I said in my notes here wasthat, you know, we're so we're
so blessed to be here right nowwhere we are.
And I I wrote down, you know,we're blessed to be here, we're
(20:20):
blessed to not have to worryabout heat in our homes.
We're blessed to not have toworry about food for
Thanksgiving.
Yeah, you know, we're blessedum to not have to worry about
any of those things.
We're not we're blessed to nothave 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.
(20:43):
Yeah, of course, we knowthere's one person that loves
everybody if you believe in ahigher 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 forthat.
I really am.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm reallythankful?
I'm laying down at night withthe kids, and I'm laying there
in bed, like not as much anymorewith Catherine because she's
older, but with Carson, we stilllay.
(21:05):
I still lay and talk to him alittle bit before they go to
sleep.
And on those really, reallyfrigid nights when the wind's
blowing and the the wind chillslike negative four, him and I
sit there and pray for uh peoplethat don't have a home because
they are that is some of thetoughest times to go through.
Yeah.
Because not only, you know,food, hopefully you can get some
(21:25):
somewhere, but if you're on thestreet, man, and you're dealing
with 19 degrees and fivenegative five wheelchill, that's
tough.
Yeah, that's tough.
So those are the things weshould 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 youto 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 benot only um a great uh act of
kindness and goodness, but alsoit will be uh so gratifying for
you and an abounding uh momentfor you and Carson.
Brad Weisman (22:01):
And I I agree.
And it you know, we do we dothings for people, but we don't
do enough.
You know, unfortunately wedon't.
And and I don't know if it'sever enough, actually, but you
know, we don't do enough.
But that's a good good point.
Good point.
Yeah, through the through theyears here, I'm I'm grateful for
the amazing guests we've had.
Yeah, we've had some incredibleguests.
And actually, you know, just uhover the last two years has
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just been just been incredible.
And that I'm thankful that umthat we've been able to bring
people in that are just reallymaking a difference, I think, in
our audience's life and sharingtheir 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'sit's great because you know, not
only we you know, we get to dothis, which is fun, but also
provide great insight from theguest, uh just to the public,
local and you know, national,whatever they can see us and
watch us, and that is uhgratifying to be part of of
that, you know.
Um so yeah, I'm thankful forthat.
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Very cool.
Brad Weisman (22:58):
Yeah, very cool.
Is there anything else?
I mean, I I just the thing withthe 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 withsomething.
But that's right.
No, but um well, the one thingthat I did write down that was
not it was not from chat and itwas not from anything else, is
um the best part of gratitude isthat it takes the attention off
of you and puts it on somethingor someone else.
It gives your ego a rest.
(23:26):
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, isjust you know, I love
Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
And I think uh we wanteverybody out there to have a
great time.
Hugo Cardona (23:45):
Yes, make sure you give your family hugs this
Thanksgiving, wear your stretchypants, very important.
Brad Weisman (23:51):
Also, if you if you go to Giant and and they
give you the free turkey and youdon't need it, take the free
turkey.
There's so many places.
There's so many we did thatthis year.
Um, you if you have the turkeycoupon, don't let it go to
waste.
It's free.
Take and it might only be a12-pound one, who cares what it
is.
Take it, they're frozen, sothey'll last for a while.
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Take it to a homeless shelter,take it into the Salvation Army,
or take it to OpportunityHouse, 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'tforget to put the batteries back
out of the smoker after you.
Brad Weisman (24:28):
Oh, that's so true.
Replace your replace your yourbatteries in your smoke
detectors.
Hugo Cardona (24:33):
You see, you know, when the when something starts
to to uh uh burn, everybody iskeeping, yeah.
Brad Weisman (24:39):
And then they take the batteries out.
Yes, so true.
You gotta put them back in thestreet.
So true, so true.
So one more thing.
I don't know if you saw thisback here, but this is what's
coming up next, just so youknow.
Oh, so I thought I I thought Ithought 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.
(25:00):
I don't know, but we're readyfor this then, right after
Thanksgiving.
But I want everybody to have agreat Thanksgiving, um,
especially you and your family.
I'm thankful for you.
I'm very thankful for you.
And um, everybody should havejust a great time and and be
with people, be thankful and getstuffed 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 at7 p.m.
All right, gobble gobble.
The best part of gratitude is that it takes the
attention off of you and puts iton 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 asa whole, which then sometimes
will affect the technicality toreal life.
We all learn in different ways.
If you think about it, WayneDyer might not attract everybody
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The Brad Wiseman show.
And now your host, BradWiseman.
Okay, this is a special,special, special edition.
We are all ready to eat someturkey soon.
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What do you think, man?
Hugo Cardona (01:07):
That's right.
I'm ready.
Brad Weisman (01:08):
You're ready.
Hugo Cardona (01:09):
Yes, I'm I'm gonna wear my stretchy pants.
Brad Weisman (01:13):
You know what's funny?
I think you say that every yearand I laugh at it every single
time.
You know, and I always make themistake, Hugo, I don't wear my
stretchy pants.
Hugo Cardona (01:21):
Uh-uh.
Brad Weisman (01:22):
Yeah, and then I feel like buttons are ready to
like just give out.
Hugo Cardona (01:25):
Right, right when you sit down, right?
Brad Weisman (01:27):
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 atThanksgiving again.
Yeah.
I mean, here we are.
Hugo Cardona (01:37):
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (01:37):
And we were gonna do a regular show.
We talked about it, and wedecided that we're, you know,
instead of doing just a regularshow, which we love to do every
every Thursday at 7 p.m., thisis a special show.
It's the day beforeThanksgiving.
And we decided we wanted tojust, you know, kind of go
through what Thanksgiving meansfor us.
That's right.
You know, we both havefamilies, uh, and Thanksgiving
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is such a traditional, such atraditional holiday.
Hugo Cardona (02:02):
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (02:02):
So is Christmas, but it's also one that really
doesn't have to do withreligion, if you think about it.
And um and maybe that's whyit's my favorite.
It is absolutely it's myfavorite holiday.
Hugo Cardona (02:14):
Okay, all right.
Brad Weisman (02:15):
Yeah, and and you know, I and I always people go,
why?
Because you know it's yourfavorite.
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 (02:30):
Yeah, there you go the three F's, right?
Brad Weisman (02:33):
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 justmy favorite because there's
really you don't have to worryabout a gift, you don't have to
worry about thinking aboutanything uh except for being
thankful.
Hugo Cardona (02:48):
So here's here's here now, in light of being
thankful for other holidays oror birthdays or Christmas, is
that expectation of gifts?
You know, how do you handle?
Have you ever had a situationwhere you tell other people,
other family, hey, let's not dogifts this time, or is that like
an implied expectation?
Brad Weisman (03:08):
Well, you know, what we've done in our family,
and I think different familiesdo that.
It is implied that you'resupposed to give a gift, I
think, but there is a pointwhere 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 getsomething, yeah um, you know,
(03:29):
and and go from there.
But like we don't do, like, wedon't do anything with um like
for my brother, I don't buyanything for my brother or my
sister-in-law anymore, and theydon't buy anything for us
anymore.
It's just we've decided that'smore about the kids than it is
about us.
Of course I'll get it if I findsome kind of a stupid gift.
Believe me, I bought him Atariuh like three years ago, like an
(03:50):
old, like it's like an Atariset that's supposed to be like
the used to be.
It was terrible.
So he um he re-gifted it backto me.
And now it's been going backand forth.
We hide it, we hide it intodifferent people's cars, into
his car, or hide it in his houseor something like that.
So yeah, so I think that's thething, is that there's
expectation.
Plus, then with an expectation,if you don't get something that
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somebody else likes, then it'slike you have that
disappointment, you know?
Hugo Cardona (04:17):
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (04:17):
So I just don't, I don't, it there's no, there's
no giving, there's no taking onThanksgiving.
It's just being.
It's being with the the peopleyou love, the people that you
want to uh break bread with.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, that's right.
And you know, and traditionsreally are a big deal with
Thanksgiving.
And what that was one of thethings we talked about before we
we went on here is that youknow, you're from Guatemala.
(04:40):
What is what is the is there aThanksgiving in Guatemala?
Hugo Cardona (04:43):
No, no, I was you know, when I was thinking about
that, there's not not even theequivalent to it.
I think that that's that's avery American um holiday.
But no, no, there's not reallya a a day.
The closest thing to this tothe spirit of thankfulness or
gratitude is Christmas.
But Christmas.
Yeah, nothing, nothing that isthat specific.
(05:03):
That that specific, yeah.
Brad Weisman (05:05):
It is, and it's it's a very unique holiday.
Um, you know, for and it's veryunique to to the United States.
Canada does practice somethingtoo, but it's I think it's in
October.
I did look that up.
Uh oh, it'll be interesting.
I looked up what Thanksgivingis on Chat GPT.
You'll get a kick out of it.
I'll go over it.
Hugo Cardona (05:23):
What does he say?
Brad Weisman (05:24):
You want to know what ChatGPT said?
This is pretty funny.
So Mr.
Chat said, um, so that if thefirst thing it says is uh
Thanksgiving is basically agiant 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 anational holida celebrated on
the fourth Thursday of November.
(05:45):
It started as a give thanks forthe harvest and the blessings
of the past year.
You know, there's a whole storywith the pilgrims and the
indigenous uh people of ourcountry.
It happened in the 1600s.
We know that.
And in June, in 1863 is when itactually became a national
holiday.
Uh, President Abraham Lincolnproclaimed it a national day of
(06:05):
Thanksgiving and praise.
So it used to be Thanksgivingand praise, not just
Thanksgiving.
And then they dropped thepraise part.
It says that people have turkeystuffing mashed potatoes,
family and friends get together,watch football parades, Macy's
Day parade is that day.
Uh, and then there's BlackFriday the next day.
That's right.
And you have Black Friday thenext day.
So that's a whole differentthing.
(06:26):
Um, which is like it says theSuper 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 inOctober, and it's it they call
it Harvest Thankfulness Umholiday.
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, hangwith people you care about, and
(06:49):
then pretend you're never eatingagain until leftovers call your
name.
Hugo Cardona (06:54):
Oh, yeah, that's right.
So like three days afterThanksgiving, it's three days.
Brad Weisman (06:58):
Oh, you have turkey, turkey, pancakes,
turkey, mashed potatoes.
Turkey, mash, yeah, mashedpotatoes.
I mean, it it is funny.
Um, but okay, so now you'remarried to an American, right?
You have children, and now doyou guys do a traditional
Thanksgiving?
Hugo Cardona (07:13):
Yes.
We always go to our in-laws.
Okay.
And we do have the traditionalpotatoes.
Brad Weisman (07:17):
It would be your in-laws, right?
Yes, yes, my in-laws.
Right, right.
Hugo Cardona (07:21):
And uh they have cranberry.
Oh, there we go.
And uh, you know, the um uhwhat else?
Brad Weisman (07:26):
The turkey?
Hugo Cardona (07:26):
The turkey.
Brad Weisman (07:27):
Okay.
Hugo Cardona (07:28):
Mashed potatoes are always there.
Brad Weisman (07:30):
A must, right?
Has to have a mashed potato.
Hugo Cardona (07:31):
And they the stuffing they just stuffing,
yes.
Okay.
Brad Weisman (07:35):
And that's all I remember because I that's like
yams or any like yams or okayyams.
Hugo Cardona (07:42):
We have yams, the um cranberry, I think it's
cranberry.
Yeah.
Brad Weisman (07:45):
And do you have do you have um do you have um
gravy?
Hugo Cardona (07:48):
Yes.
Brad Weisman (07:48):
Some kind of gravy boat on the table.
Hugo Cardona (07:50):
Favorite drink.
Brad Weisman (07:53):
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 mycountry.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Unbelievable.
Well, that's cool.
So you you're doing thetraditional.
That's that's very cool.
Do you like turkey?
Hugo Cardona (08:09):
I do, yes.
Brad Weisman (08:09):
You do?
Cool.
White or dark meat?
Hugo Cardona (08:11):
Uh, I like white.
Brad Weisman (08:13):
You like white.
Okay.
I thought you were gonna sayyou like the neck.
I was gonna get a littleworried.
I like the neck of the turkey.
I'd be like, all right.
Hugo Cardona (08:20):
When I was a little guy, I used to eat necks,
chicken necks, chicken necks,yeah.
Brad Weisman (08:24):
No way, wow.
Hugo Cardona (08:25):
There's not a lot of meat in it then.
Brad Weisman (08:26):
I was gonna say it's kind of small.
Hugo Cardona (08:28):
Yeah, yeah.
Brad Weisman (08:29):
I didn't like it, but yeah, that's why you're so
small.
You didn't give me enoughchicken meat, right?
That's right.
Too small.
So that's cool.
So that's cool that you'reyou're experiencing it.
So, and what's like I said,everybody has traditions.
You know, there's certainthings that, you know, I'm sure
you're you're probably your yourmother-in-law makes the
stuffing, and that's a certainrecipe she probably has from
grandparents and down the downthrough tradition.
(08:50):
And and um, you know, youwonder if your wife will at some
point have to take over thatthat role, you know, or you guys
will have to take over thatrole of making the stuffing and
and and doing all the thingsthat 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'shouse.
She's she still uh wants tocook.
We did a couple times where wewent to a restaurant, like years
(09:11):
ago.
My dad was like, Yeah, let'slet's give mom a break, you
know.
She doesn't, you know, that wayshe hasn't to work so hard.
Every time the places werelousy, and we'd all sit there
eating, going, we'd sit thereand going, This is not like
mom's.
This is not like mom's, youknow.
So uh, but no, she's been doingit every year forever.
You know, we do um do like alater, like a mid-afternoon, you
(09:32):
know.
Hugo Cardona (09:32):
Okay.
Brad Weisman (09:33):
And we do turkey.
We do potato filling, which isbasically like kind of what I
(10:06):
always say is the mix betweenmashed potatoes and stuffing.
It's like taking the stuffingand the mashed potatoes and
putting it all together andmixing it up.
That's called potato filling.
It's more of a PennsylvaniaDutch thing.
Um, she makes this other thingcalled broccoli casserole, which
I love, be the green beancasserole, which is great.
She does her own homemadepumpkin pies and apple pies.
Did you guys do any pumpkinpie?
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 doneand stuffed, and we all
basically want to fall asleep.
Um, you know, because turkeyhas uh tryptophen, I think, is
the enzyme that's in there.
And that actually is an enzymethat creates tiredness.
Uh-that's inside turkey meat.
So, yeah, so if they could getrid of that, that'd be great.
Take that out of the turkey soI can stay awake.
(10:51):
What?
And then what we do traditionalevery 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 thatis 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 fooditself, you know, with the
spirit of the holiday, what doesgratitude 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 forme that I was thankful and I
did give gratitude.
Not to say that I don't, I do.
That day is is a specialgratitude or thanking day.
But as I've gotten older, I'vetried to spread that out to
making it almost every night.
(11:36):
When I bef when I put my headon the pillow, just telling my
kids and my wife this recently,and they didn't really know that
I do this, but I literally laythere almost every night, and I
thank, you know, I I believe inGod, so I thank a God uh for or
the universe or whatever youwant to say, whoever you want to
thank, you know, for what I hadthat day, for for the blessings
(11:59):
that I have, for you know, thepeople that came into my life,
for people that I prayed for andthey got better, or for people
that, you know, maybe didn't getbetter or have passed, or
whatever it is.
I sit there and I I just havegratitude for all those things.
And I think it is a great wayfor me to go to sleep because
then I'm also very much at peacewith everything.
(12:23):
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 aphilosopher uh since I was a
little guy.
You definitely are, yes, youare and I had this thought about
gratitude, and um I wasthinking, I was trying to
articulate the differencebetween a gratitude that comes
when you experience the theabsence of something, meaning
(12:48):
that when you imagine that youwill go blind for three months,
yeah, but then you regain yoursight, yeah, you will be
incredible, you will you willgain uh a greater level of of
appreciation for your side.
Absolutely and sometimes, youknow, I try to, you know, there
is there's the the thanks thatwe give to the cashier when they
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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 dowe reach that level of of
gratitude that is truly if if ifgetting rid or experiences the
absence of that would be is theis that the exclusive way to
(13:32):
feel that gratitude for whichyou 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 youknow through life when I had
major financial you knowtroubles, it made me appreciate
not having financial troubleslater on, you know.
And I think you're you'reexactly right, mental health,
physical health when we don'thave something, and yeah, how do
(14:01):
we how do we get to that levelof gratitude without it actually
happening?
Is that what you're saying?
Hugo Cardona (14:08):
Yeah, exactly.
And I what I wonder is, do Itruly feel gratitude in in the
purest sense or or I'm thankfulI'm I'm thankful, but I'm I'm
not I'm thankful in the same waythat 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 thatthere'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'strue, because when we just say
thank you, there's no there's noum there's nothing behind it.
And that's why I thinksometimes, you know, you really
(14:45):
have to that's why for me atnighttime, I'm truly thinking of
the day to make sure that Irealize the gifts I got during
the day or the things that madea difference for me.
And it could be just me lookingover at my wife who's asleep
(15:06):
and and just being thankful thatshe's there next to me.
Yeah.
You know, and and I do, and andthis is interesting, when the
kids and her are away and I lookover and she's not there, it
does make you more grateful atthat 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 timeto do that is in time of of
complete nothingness.
And that's why for me, atnighttime, everybody's asleep.
It's me and and whoever's upthere.
(15:45):
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 aboutgratitude back when I was a
young, a young man, yeah, isthat that gratitude it is
impossible without God.
And hear me out here.
Gratitude is impossible withoutGod.
Because gratitude presupposesan intentional giving to you.
(16:08):
So when you say, for example, Iam grateful for let's say I am
grateful for my life, but beinggrateful requires that whoever
gives you something has agencyover 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 wantto thank you for giving it to
me, uh, because it says, Thankyou, Brad, thank you, Hugo, for
this.
And I say to you, uh, Brad,sorry, I you can keep it, but
uh, that was actually foranother 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 someother.
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 youjust what you're saying there,
and it's so true.
You know, if somebody says thatthey don't believe in a higher
being, yet they're givinggratitude, there's no such
thing.
Yeah, you can't have who areyou giving gratitude to?
Yeah, and that's why I saidsometimes people give give
gratitude, they give that out tothe universe because some
(17:23):
people look at it as being asingle 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 takethat 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 isone song.
So we're it means we're allconnected 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 callit a universe, right?
Does the universe haveintention, meaning agency?
Or is it is it is itintentional 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, howwould you explain explain
gravity and black holes?
And there's an intention there.
There's there's gotta bereason.
There's it's an intention, itcan'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 reallygood 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 agreewith what you're saying.
What you realize is that if ifyou're giving gratitude, or
you're there's gotta be somebodythat's receiving that
gratitude, and somebody gave itto you.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you youcan'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 thepair of shoes that you're
wearing all the way to yourhealth, which is of much greater
impact than for life itself.
Yeah.
So you know you're grateful forlife itself.
When you are in that deep levelof expressing gratitude, you I
(19:06):
cannot at least I cannot helpbut 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 mynotes here about gratitude or
thanking whenever you thanksomething, somebody, something,
whatever, when you thank andwhen 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 egoless, there's no ego.
(19:39):
The ego's not in charge.
Yeah.
So you're actually you'reyou're you're you're taking
you're taking attention offyourself and you're saying,
look, that that person, thatgod, that whoever you're
thanking at that moment, orwhoever the gratitude is,
they're they're more importantthan me.
They're they're they're doingsomething better than me at that
moment.
And I think that's that'sanother good reason to give
(20:00):
gratitude, is because we'realways in our minds.
Our ego is usually kind ofrunning the show, you know, and
it's great to get us, get, getout of that.
So uh yeah, so I I was justsome of the things too.
I said in my notes here wasthat, you know, we're so we're
so blessed to be here right nowwhere we are.
And I I wrote down, you know,we're blessed to be here, we're
(20:20):
blessed to not have to worryabout heat in our homes.
We're blessed to not have toworry about food for
Thanksgiving.
Yeah, you know, we're blessedum to not have to worry about
any of those things.
We're not we're blessed to nothave 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.
(20:43):
Yeah, of course, we knowthere's one person that loves
everybody if you believe in ahigher 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 forthat.
I really am.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm reallythankful?
I'm laying down at night withthe kids, and I'm laying there
in bed, like not as much anymorewith Catherine because she's
older, but with Carson, we stilllay.
(21:05):
I still lay and talk to him alittle bit before they go to
sleep.
And on those really, reallyfrigid nights when the wind's
blowing and the the wind chillslike negative four, him and I
sit there and pray for uh peoplethat don't have a home because
they are that is some of thetoughest times to go through.
Yeah.
Because not only, you know,food, hopefully you can get some
(21:25):
somewhere, but if you're on thestreet, man, and you're dealing
with 19 degrees and fivenegative five wheelchill, that's
tough.
Yeah, that's tough.
So those are the things weshould 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 youto 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 benot only um a great uh act of
kindness and goodness, but alsoit will be uh so gratifying for
you and an abounding uh momentfor you and Carson.
Brad Weisman (22:01):
And I I agree.
And it you know, we do we dothings for people, but we don't
do enough.
You know, unfortunately wedon't.
And and I don't know if it'sever enough, actually, but you
know, we don't do enough.
But that's a good good point.
Good point.
Yeah, through the through theyears here, I'm I'm grateful for
the amazing guests we've had.
Yeah, we've had some incredibleguests.
And actually, you know, just uhover the last two years has
(22:22):
just been just been incredible.
And that I'm thankful that umthat we've been able to bring
people in that are just reallymaking a difference, I think, in
our audience's life and sharingtheir 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'sit's great because you know, not
only we you know, we get to dothis, which is fun, but also
provide great insight from theguest, uh just to the public,
local and you know, national,whatever they can see us and
watch us, and that is uhgratifying to be part of of
that, you know.
Um so yeah, I'm thankful forthat.
(22:57):
Very cool.
Brad Weisman (22:58):
Yeah, very cool.
Is there anything else?
I mean, I I just the thing withthe 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 withsomething.
But that's right.
No, but um well, the one thingthat I did write down that was
not it was not from chat and itwas not from anything else, is
um the best part of gratitude isthat it takes the attention off
of you and puts it on somethingor someone else.
It gives your ego a rest.
(23:26):
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, isjust you know, I love
Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
And I think uh we wanteverybody out there to have a
great time.
Hugo Cardona (23:45):
Yes, make sure you give your family hugs this
Thanksgiving, wear your stretchypants, very important.
Brad Weisman (23:51):
Also, if you if you go to Giant and and they
give you the free turkey and youdon't need it, take the free
turkey.
There's so many places.
There's so many we did thatthis year.
Um, you if you have the turkeycoupon, don't let it go to
waste.
It's free.
Take and it might only be a12-pound one, who cares what it
is.
Take it, they're frozen, sothey'll last for a while.
(24:12):
Take it to a homeless shelter,take it into the Salvation Army,
or take it to OpportunityHouse, 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'tforget to put the batteries back
out of the smoker after you.
Brad Weisman (24:28):
Oh, that's so true.
Replace your replace your yourbatteries in your smoke
detectors.
Hugo Cardona (24:33):
You see, you know, when the when something starts
to to uh uh burn, everybody iskeeping, yeah.
Brad Weisman (24:39):
And then they take the batteries out.
Yes, so true.
You gotta put them back in thestreet.
So true, so true.
So one more thing.
I don't know if you saw thisback here, but this is what's
coming up next, just so youknow.
Oh, so I thought I I thought Ithought 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.
(25:00):
I don't know, but we're readyfor this then, right after
Thanksgiving.
But I want everybody to have agreat Thanksgiving, um,
especially you and your family.
I'm thankful for you.
I'm very thankful for you.
And um, everybody should havejust a great time and and be
with people, be thankful and getstuffed 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 at7 p.m.
All right, gobble gobble.
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