12 Grapes, New Intentions & Cafecito: Kicking Off 2026 the Latino Way

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: 12 grapes, Felisano, New Year's Eve, St. Augustine
2. 3:00 – 6:00: 12 grapes, Dallas, Texas
3. 6:00 – 9:00: St. Augustine

Notable quotes from "12 Grapes, New Intentions & Cafecito: Kicking Off 2026 the Latino Way"

• All right, happy new year, Felisano.

  about Felisano · at 0:04

• New Year's Eve. and we were kind of having a dialogue before we were recording. but the 12 grapes before New Year's, I'm assum we're assuming that it's a very Latino thing, right? I was at the bar in St.

  about 12 grapes · at 0:55

• Super worth it. But it was But there's definitely no grapes being eaten in Dallas, Texas. I'll tell you that.

  about Dallas, Texas · at 3:46

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Felisano — Person · 1 mention · first at 0:04

Companies & orgs

• St. Tranilo — Company · 1 mention · first at 0:08
• Aenco — Company · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

• 2026 — Concept · 5 mentions
• 12 grapes — Concept · 4 mentions · first at 0:59
• 2025 — Concept · 4 mentions
• New Year's Eve — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:55
  Goals for 2025 or 2026, I want to talk about a tradition that happens on New Year's Eve. and we were kind of having a dialogue before we were recording. but the 12 grapes…

Places & events

• St. Augustine — Place · 2 mentions · first at 1:05
  Before New Year's, I'm assum we're assuming that it's a very Latino thing, right? I was at the bar in St.
• Dallas, Texas — Place · 1 mention · first at 3:50

Full transcript with timestamps

0:04 All right, happy new year, Felisano. Welcome back to another episode of Cafeito Eroetas, brought to you by St. Tranilo and Aenco. Felis ano, we're here. First recording of the year,

0:15 2026, man. It's finally 2026. It's crazy how fast the years have flown. How fast last year flew. Y

0:22 stuff that we did earlier in the year of 2025, we thought it was like super recently, but now it's, you know, it's the new year. It's time for, you know, new changes, maybe, you know, new new habits to be built and, you know, or to just keep building on what you build off in 2025. So, absolutely. Happy New Year, brother. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Antonio.

0:40 Happy New Year to all of you. Back there. Happy New Year, everyone. Yeah, we're we're glad to be back. Uh we're going to Before we kick it off and get into some of our intentions and our goals for 2025 or 2026, uh I want to talk about a tradition that happens on New Year's Eve. and we were kind of having a dialogue before we were recording. Uh, but the the 12 grapes before New Year's, I'm assum we're assuming that it's a very Latino thing, right? Um, I was at the bar in St. Augustine and we were the only ones there with our zip locks full of grapes.

1:11 But I got to ask you, do you do the grapes before the countdown of New Year's or do you do it after 12:00 strikes and then eat your grapes?

1:19 So, I think there like at least for me and my family, there's no like rhyme or reason. It's just a matter of like sometimes the grapes are handed out way before and maybe you like pop a couple, but like there's no law of like you need to eat the grapes before the countdown starts cuz like I mean we're we're kind of for like the to knock down 12 grapes in 12 seconds and just be like it's like 12 11 9 8 7 6 5 4 Like I think that's a crazy crazy thing.

1:45 Honestly, I don't think there's a rhyme or reason. just like, you know, if you need some before the new year, after the new year, I mean, just finish a great

1:51 I feel like there's got to be a little bit of a rhyme or reason, though. I mean, you're you're you're setting your intentions, right? You're trying to be as clear and and precise with what you intend to, you know, wish for and have into 2026.

2:05 Historically, I've always done them after 12:00 strikes, right? When we were doing our grapes this year, everyone's like, "Oh, we got to do them before." And I'm like, well, if you're doing them before, then you're losing the purpose of

2:17 you're not maybe the purpose, but it's like that's you're eating them in 2025. So, it's like those wishes are going to be stuck in.

2:23 Did you guys have champagne also? We did have champagne. Yeah, they brought us some champagne. So,

2:26 which is a crazy mix. Grapes and champagne. I mean, they kind of like go together.

2:30 So, Val actually did something which was pretty cool. She saved the last grape, put it in the champagne, drank your champagne, and then ate the last grape.

2:38 I've seen that. I've seen putting grapes in champagne. What's what's what's your strategy when you're eating the grapes? Like, do you go like is it like a month by month thing? Do you have like a a list of priorities? Like,

2:49 oh man, I just I just eat the grapes. But do you don't set like a an intention grape?

2:54 I That's the whole point. You know what? I You're not just eating 12 grapes. Eat 12 grapes.

2:58 Yeah, I know. I get that. Um I don't know, man. I guess like what I do my intentions at least with the grapes. I think my intentions are more like just like a me myself thing. I guess with the grapes, I guess

3:09 I kind of symbolize it, but when I'm eating my grapes, I'm not thinking about like, you know, my intentions. My intentions are like kind of like me personally, like I said before, and like kind of afterwards, but I don't I don't like categorize each grape as like an intention or something.

3:20 Oh, wow. Okay. No, I I I go very in-depth into every grape, which maybe that's just not something that like at least my family like the grapes is just more like a tradition like you got to eat your grapes before New Year.

3:30 Okay, got you. So, it wasn't like something like oh like it's not like when you blow out your candle make a wish.

3:33 No, that's how it is for me. Yeah. So, like maybe that's like every grape is like a essentially like a birthday wish, you know?

3:40 And this New Year's is actually weird because this is my first New Year's away in Miami.

3:45 Yeah. Super worth it. But it was But there's definitely no grapes being eaten in Dallas, Texas. I'll tell you that. There's no grapes being eaten in Dallas, Texas.

3:53 Yeah. I I'm very curious to to like know how many people actually do the grape thing. Obviously, I've grown up around the

3:59 I've seen I've seen grapes. I've seen one grape in the champagne. That has it just Someone does the one grape.

4:05 I've seen that in some other places. Like a grape in the champagne. Maybe that's more common, but the whole 12 grapes and a little a little baggie.

4:12 Yeah. Like I I think that's just honestly that's just something that Yeah. I mean, every New Year's basically spent in Miami, so I don't know, you know, New Year's traditions everywhere else.

4:20 Yeah. No, I I I use very intentional on every single one of those grapes, but I am very curious to hear what you guys have to think about uh grapes. Do you do them? Do you not do them? Do you do them before New Year's? Do you do them after it strikes 12? And do you do intentions? Because I thought it for sure. I mean, everyone around the table was like, it was crazy. Like everyone was sitting there and like eyes closed like one grape and then like really thinking about the next one.

4:44 Oh, you guys. Yeah. It took me like seven minutes to really go through all the grapes.

4:48 More power to you, bro. Yeah. Yeah. So, I've never I've honestly like I've never approached it like that. Like obviously you make your intentions, but

4:55 I've never like connected my intentions to my grapes. Interesting. I thought the grapes just more like

4:59 I'm curious now. I thought the grapes is maybe just like, you know, some good luck, you know, like it's like a the cleanse, you know, like whatever it is, you cleanse with the grapes.

5:07 I had some massive grapes this year, though. Is red or white grapes? I do the like the green ones. Yeah. Yeah, usually. I mean,

5:15 [ __ ] that's a whole other debate now. Do you do red grapes? They're then they're they're going too deep. I mean, like I said, grapes are something Latinos, do like I said, I think it's I think everyone like I think the same way everyone kind of celebrates, you know,

5:27 Christmas differently. Like especially not one of the Latinos, I feel like people approach maybe New Year's differently.

5:31 Yeah. Like maybe not every Latino culture does the grapes. Maybe that's just a Cuban thing.

5:35 No. No. Because Val fam's Colombian and they do it. Oh, maybe then maybe it's a full Latino thing.

5:40 I think it's a full But maybe each culture approaches it differently how they approach the grapes. Maybe some of them are like, "Hey, each group needs to be an intention."

5:46 For us, there's so much going on and like freaking champagne. Everyone by the time I get around saying happy new year to everyone in at the house. Exactly. Then you for you just by that time like you don't even need the grapes

5:58 which was the whole rationale of doing it before is because once 12:00 strikes you're there saying happy new year to everyone you know everyone's celebrating and then the grapes kind of get forgotten and then all of a sudden it's 12:30 and you're like [ __ ] I got six more grapes.

6:11 You know what's annoying? Uh, and I feel like this happens probably more than often not is like no one's actually keeping track and then like they find out like, "Oh [ __ ] New Year's in 30 seconds. You're going to go on the TV. Everyone go where the grapes and they start throwing grapes out." And like there's been times where like I'm like, "Yo, guys, it's 11:59." And they're like, "Oh, oh, what what time is it? How many seconds?

6:31 The seconds. It's a second. How many seconds?" Cuz especially if you're not in front of the TV, the TV gives you the countdown, right?

6:36 Which there's like this whole thing of like New York not exactly being on time with how it actually turned into years. So that that's a interesting point, right? The concept of New Year's like on the dot at the time is crazy, right? Because you have time change, you know, time zones across the whole globe, right? So it's like in China, they they celebrated new or I don't know when they celebrated New Year's a whole hour before before you did. And then if you're in California, we did it 3 hours before. If you're in Hawaii, 6 hours before. you know, it's like a whole day.

7:13 Yeah. So, it the the phenomenon of like time is is kind of crazy because there's definitely like okay, it's New Year's, we celebrated, but like they didn't you haven't even celebrated yet.

7:23 Yeah. Yeah. Like by the time like by the time I was an hour I was probably asleep already by the time you were celebrating New Year's.

7:29 No, it was only an hour difference. That's what I'm saying. I was basically in bed by like 1:00.

7:33 Really? I was a [ __ ] New Year's then. Yeah. Yeah. See, in Dallas, man, everything by by 2:00 it's everyone go home. Everyone go home. Yeah, St. Augustine. Same same thing.

7:42 Yeah. I mean, Miami is the only place that like everyone's partying till 5:00 in the morning.

7:46 I mean, I'm sure space is still open. I'm sure space I'm sure space is still banging right now. I mean, I'm sure they're at their like their fifth DJ set.

7:53 Yeah. Um, but no, man. I mean, like New Year's, like I said, much like Christmas is just, you know, bringing it with the family. You know, you appreciate all the good memories from, you know, the the year prior. You know, you appreciate it. You bring, you know, all your people you're close with. And then obviously whoever you know people with their own families you text them be hey man grateful for you guys and then they obviously look forward to 2026 too most important.

8:14 So so talk to me what's what's the goals the intentions for 2026. Uh, I think my big intention is self-improvement. Just improving myself, you know, some habits, you know, being more intentional how I approach my days, you know, whether it's in the morning, whether it's, you know, getting my morning workouts in, even though I'm not a morning person, you know, changing habits.

8:33 You know, instead of being lazy, not doing my hair, you know, I got this beautiful head of hair, you know, wake up a little earlier, do my hair, paint it a little, you know, do a little I did I used a blowd dryer today.

8:42 Wow. Wow. Holy moly. I know. We're We got haird dryer pooch for 2026. Hairdryer pooch. Um and then obviously you know it's always just you know trying to be better you know trying to be a better a better you know son a better brother you know a better friend uh and you know I think for me it's a lot of self-reflection of like what I can improve on as you know what I can you know obviously you know whether it's you know here at what can I do better how can I be better to you how can be better to Antonio and just you know overall just elevating myself you know bringing out you know the true best version of myself because I don't think I've reached you know my you know true best version yet. So, that's that's my intention is just, you know, self-improvement and just

9:21 working on myself and, you know, becoming better, you know, for everyone around me.

9:25 Love that. That's a big one. Yeah. Hell yeah. What about you, brother? Um, man, I I got a lot of intentions. Um, but yeah, I think there's always room to improve, right? I think we have to always strive to improve. That's always like the goal, right? Because if if you get if you settle and you get complacent with who you are and where you're at, you're never really going to evolve. So definitely, you know, self-improvement. I I think I did a really good job, you know, getting in the gym, taking care of my health, but I I want to evolve that even more. Uh I'm doing dry January, so no drinking uh in January. Uh I want to consume less alcohol in 2026 overall. That's a big goal of mine. You know, not doing so, not that I drink a lot, but you know, it's very easy to say, hey, like on a Wednesday night with the boys and now all of a sudden you're just down two pitchers, right? like cutting those type

10:15 of things out, just taking care of my overall health, you know, more cardio. I want to start running again. Uh that was something that I didn't do a ton of. I want to start meditating more um in the mornings, doing more of like routines, right? Like these little things that you kind of push on the back burner, right? And they are essential to to just your overall being. So, those are things that I want to start incorporating again in my in my everyday habits and and just like I would say health, like deeper deeper health. I'm healthy, but I want to get even healthier. I want to get my mind sharper. I want to get my energy higher, you know, all these things that

10:51 we all want to do, but we have to do our part, you know, to accomplish that. So, that's big. Um, obviously the business as a whole, continue to grow that, continue to to evolve and and and make it better and and bigger and continue to grow that. Um, and then, you know, outside of that, um, I don't know. I I I I think, uh, for me it's just like I want to do more like community service. That's a huge huge huge thing for me. And, you know, just whatever I can to do, little things, you know,

11:22 food drives, you know, whatever whatever it is. Just being able to give back, I think, is is another big one for me. And then we talked about I want uh nicotine. like uh I got into Zins and uh I want to get off of them. Not to say like anything's happening, but I just know like talking about like that health component

11:42 at the end of the day, it's not like the healthiest thing for you. So, if there's things that you could do to to again make yourself, you know, getting rid of the vices.

11:51 Exactly. Devices and, you know, not relying on, you know, stuff like that. And I'm looking here on my laptop and I have the Zin Reward store tab somehow saved to my

11:59 so close to the Tesla. That's so close to the Tesla. No man, but like I said, I think New Year's, you know, I think everyone can approach it differently. But, you know, I think, you know, it's always about improving who you are and improving on, you know, what you've built, you know, in 2025 and, you know, moving forward, man. Because unfortunately, time slows down for nobody.

12:18 So, if you're not adjusting to the times, you're not, you know, evolving yourself as time goes on, you know, you're going to get left behind. So, I think it's important for everyone to really just lock in and, you know,

12:26 absolutely move forward because, you know, I I think that's one of my favorite things that time slows down for nobody.

12:31 Yeah. It's going to keep ticking. For sure. And I think that's interesting, too, right? Like, how do you actually slow down time a little bit, right? Because somebody I forget who I was talking to. It was like this weekend or something and they brought up something interesting like the phenomenon is like as you get older it feels like time goes faster and faster. And like when you're a kid, time's so slow, right? Because when you're a kid, everything's new to you, right? So like you're processing everything way slower because you're like soaking in this like new experience. So I think to really slow down time is like actually taking time to like disconnect,

13:06 which was huge for me at the end of the year. I really wanted to just like turn it off a little bit,

13:12 you know? Um and just slow it down. Yeah, just slow it down. And I think we don't need to wait till the end of the year to slow it down. Like we could find moments where hey, you know what? We need a

13:22 Yeah. finding the balance. Yeah. T turn it down a little bit because it's only going to create that longevity, right? You don't want to burn out. You don't want to

13:30 kill yourself in the process, right? I think it's like a sense of control, just a control over, you know, your life and, you know, being in control of like, you know, your surroundings and

13:37 being in control of like your your work life balance. I think that's where, you know, how you can really

13:42 slow down time is like when you're in control and you're, you know, ahead of the pace, you know, you can like, you know what, I'm going to get my work done here so I can, you know, take off two days. you know, you're in control of, you know, the future and you're kind of, you know, essentially doing your part to make sure you have those days where you can relax.

13:58 I think that's where a lot of it comes in is just, you know, being in control. And I think that's, you know, where I want to improve is, you know, taking more control of my life and, you know,

14:06 not letting stuff sneak up on me because when stuff sneaks up on you and then you're working and then by the time you notice it's 1:00 in the morning and then you're like, "Oh, damn. I got to wake up and exactly

14:14 fast." Then you're fast forward. I think, you know, being in control and, you know, being ahead of ahead of, you know, I guess ahead of pace is the best way to say it is

14:22 definitely where I'm looking to move to. That's the pace, bro. I like it. Well, on to 2026. Big year ahead. Let us know what your goals and resolutions are this year. And yeah, we got exciting stuff coming into 2026.

14:37 2026 is only going to get bigger. The only thing that's not changing in 2026 is we're still drinking our gapito. We're still eating our That's not going anywhere. It's still boo. It's still hamone. Maybe maybe throw in a different kroata or just keep taking hamone.

14:51 Always hamone first. You know, why not venture out into some other stuff? So, it's not bakala.

14:57 Leave those. Leave those at the store. The bakala. What's the Is that the fish? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, those are

15:01 It's like white fish. No, bueno. I'm not a huge fan. We'll leave those at the store. We'll leave those on the counter, but everything else is welcome. All the other

15:06 Everything else is welcome. As always, thank you guys for tuning in and we will see you guys on the next one. Take

15:11 it easy.

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "12 Grapes, New Intentions & Cafecito: Kicking Off 2026 the Latino Way"?

In order: 0:00 12 grapes, Felisano, New Year's Eve, St. Augustine; 3:00 12 grapes, Dallas, Texas; 6:00 St. Augustine.

What is mentioned in this Stay Tranquilo episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including 2026, 12 grapes, 2025, St. Augustine, Felisano, St. Tranilo. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "12 Grapes, New Intentions & Cafecito: Kicking Off 2026 the Latino Way"?

The episode runs 15 min; the transcript is about 3,630 words in 80 timestamped sections.

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