REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 87. A REAL AF Thanksgiving Special

Episode Date: November 26, 2020

Do you know what year Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that Thanksgiving should be a national holiday celebrated in November? Do you know why that’s significant—and relevant to the culture war going on in the U.S. right now? On today's episode, Andy talks about the one simple thing every real American can do—every day—to win the battle for our nation’s soul.

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Got more cars than diddy. I only weigh 180, but my watch cost 250. What up? What's up, guys? It's Andy Purcella, and this is the show for the realists. Say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society, and welcome to motherfucking reality. Guys, today is Thanksgiving.

I know most of you know that. And I also know that most of you are going to be enjoying your plump, juicy, delicious turkey and that pumpkin pie and those green beans and the mashed potato. Oh, the mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes. Speaking to a fat boy's soul with that, man. I'm not going to take up a whole lot of your time today, all right? But before I get into what I want to talk about today, I wanted to tell you something I saw on the internet, which I thought was awesome. The city of Hendersonville, North Carolina tweeted yesterday. Here's the tweet. This is Thanksgiving. If you see 20 cars at your neighbor's house and you're thinking about reporting them, go to the fridge and drink a big glass of milk.

Why? Milk is good for your teeth. You know what else is good for your teeth? Minding your own damn business. Now, you know, I fucking love that. All right. The last thing that we should be doing on a national holiday meant to celebrate how grateful we should be to live in this country is reporting our fucking neighbors for legitimately

resisting our government. You know how fucked up you are if you even think about doing that? Sad thing is there are people out there with this mindset. And unfortunately, there are too many people in America right now with that mindset. I don't need to tell you how divided we are right now. We all know how divided we are. On one side, there's people who recognize that America isn't perfect. We know America can get better. We also believe that even with its imperfections, this country is still great and always has been. There are people who believe the founders who created this great nation knew what they were doing when they wrote our

constitution. These people believe that what made America great in 1776 and in 1865 and in 1939 and in 1981 is still what makes America great today. I'm talking about freedom. I'm talking about equality of opportunity. I'm talking about personal responsibility. I'm talking about the right and privilege of each individual citizen to use whatever gifts God may have gave them to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. There are people, people like you and me, who don't think America is perfect, but we do think America is great, and we believe America is fundamentally good.

But on the other side, we have people who think America's imperfections and vices define her. They think American history is nothing more than slavery and oppression and greed and imperialism. They think our entire history is the majority culture beating up on the minority culture. They see American history only in terms of conflict between the races and the battle of the sexes and the conflict between the different social classes, the greedy rich against the innocent poor. In these people's minds, America is an evil empire founded by a bunch of white women hating racists. In their minds, all the principles, all the institutions, all the things that we hold dear were really just put in place so that nobody but rich white men could succeed in life. And we all know that's not true. Fact is, there's millions upon millions upon millions

of minorities and immigrants that come to this country and kick ass. What's their excuse? Oh, that's right. They don't make one. Stop and ask yourself, where do you see the racism? Where do you see the division? Where do you see all this separation? Oh, that's right. On TV.

At the end of the day, these people believe that we should be ashamed of America. They believe that America has been a force for evil in the world, that it's not great. It's not even good. And it should be fundamentally changed, changed in the name of equality, changed in the name of diversity, changed in the name of liberating the oppressed. These people want to change America at its core. They want to elevate the state over the individual. They want to silence free speech in the name of tolerance. They want to deprive us of our right to defend ourselves in the name of public safety.

They want us to obey the government. They want us to obey the government even more than we would obey God or our own conscious or our own heart or our own critical thinking. If you're like me, I know you feel like it's important to resist these people, to push back against this mindset. I know that you want to fight this with everything in you so that we can save our country that we all love. There's a lot of things we can do and there's a lot of things that we should do. And there's a lot of things that we're going to do. But right now, I want to give you one simple thing that you can do today that will help us win the war for America's soul. You know what it is?

It's real simple. Be grateful. As you may or may not know, Thanksgiving was celebrated for a long, long time before it was ever made an official holiday. In fact, I bet you didn't know that Thanksgiving was officially made an American holiday in 1863. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared that an official national day of Thanksgiving should be held every November. And you know why that's significant? Because we were in the middle of a fucking civil war. Even in the midst of one of the greatest conflicts that America has ever been involved in, Lincoln declared that the nation had to take time to be grateful. Abraham Lincoln was a great man. Great people know that gratitude

is a huge key to personal happiness. Great citizens know that gratitude is a huge key to a country's success. A nation cannot endure if it's overrun by complainers, if it's controlled by people with a victim mentality. It cannot possibly survive if its citizens choose to only look at the country's mistakes, failures, and flaws. How can America possibly survive and thrive if the people who live here resent our history, if they hate the principles the country was founded on, or if they're embarrassed by our flag? The only way we're going to be able to move on as a nation to bigger and better things is to say, thank God I'm American. I am so grateful for my freedoms, my freedom of speech, my freedom

of religion, my freedom to take up arms and defend myself and my family against enemies, foreign and domestic. The only way we're going to make it as a nation guys. And as a people is to have the attitude. Thank God I've been given a body. Thank God I've been given a brain, thank God I've been given a body. Thank God I've been given a brain. And thank God I've been given a will. I can choose to work hard. I can choose to make something of myself. I can choose to turn whatever adversity I face in life into an opportunity.

So guys, today, when you gather for your Thanksgiving meal, I hope you look at each other and you stop and you think, and then you say, I am so thankful for my friends. I am so thankful for my family. I am so thankful for every single good thing I have in my life. You know what else you should say? If the wrong people get influenced in our government and in our culture, and if they come for our friends and our family and they try to take our freedoms, then this is what you should say. I'm thankful that I'm not alone. I'm thankful that there are people all across the United States of America who will resist tyranny. I'm thankful that if the government ever tries to enslave the citizens of this great country,

we will fight back and we will win. Guys, there's a lot going on in this country concerning a lot of things that are very disturbing right now, even infuriating. But don't forget to be grateful. Choose to be positive. Be relentless in being thankful because nobody wants to be around whiners except other motherfucking whiners. People with the victim mentality, they're going to be miserable today. They're going to be miserable tomorrow. And they're going to be miserable for the rest of their fucking lives. I still believe that there are more people in this country who

are proud of America than those who are ashamed of it. I believe that there's still more people who believe America is great and good than those who think we're some sort of evil empire full of greed and oppression and all this negative shit. Okay. Guys, gratitude is contagious. So let's be thankful and hope it spreads like a fucking virus to every single person in this amazing, wonderful place called the United States of America. If the right people are going to win this war for America's soul, you and I have to wake up every day that we live in this great country and say, thank you. Thank you, God, that I live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Hope you guys have a happy Thanksgiving.