All language subtitles for I Love You America s01e09 Patton Oswalt.eng

- I love America.

- I love America.

- I love America.

- I love America.

That's why I want it to be
the best it can be.

- Quality education for all.

- Livable wages
and decent-paying jobs.

- Defending democracy
and free speech.

- No party buses.

- A woman's right to choose.

- Humane treatment of animals.

- Normal pens with caps,

not the clicky retractable ones

where people are like
click, click, click.

Click, click, click.

- Protecting the environment.

- Racial equality.

- All the Medieval Times

and Renaissance Faires
you want...

in Canada.

- Universal health care
as a human right.

- LGBTQ equality.

- A nation without finger foods

where everybody isn't
sticking their filthy hands

into one bowl of
cheddar-flavored fecal matter

and dried semen.

- Say no to bullies.

- Say no to prejudice.

- Say no
to destination weddings.

- Anyone who feels unsafe
in their own nation

is allowed in America

regardless
of immigration status.

Safety is a human right.

- Let's bring an end
to private party magicians

and their billowy blouses.

- Federal funding
for after-school programs.

- What is it about magic...
that gives men ponytails?

- I love America.

- I love America.

- I love America.

- Don't CC me. BCC me.

? Shave it off,
stay alive, open wide ?

? Show us how to conquer first
and then divide ?

? Don't know if we're
stayin' long, stayin' long ?

? Used to staying weak ?

? And now we're staying strong ?

? We don't wanna go
where we do not belong ?

? Lonely as the day is long,
day is long ?

Hey, it's my buddy and yours,

Sarah Silverman!

- Hi!

Hi, everybody.

Hello. Thank you for being here.

I love this exact
combination of people.

Hello to you at home. Welcome.

Okay. Behind my back,

I'm either holding
one or two fingers.

If it's a one,
I'll do a monologue

about the rise of nationalism
in America.

If it's a two,
I'll do a monologue about

how pelicans' beaks can hold
so many teeny, tiny fish.

Okay, what's it gonna be?
Chh, chh, chh, chh, chh!

It's a one!

It's a one. Nationalism it is!

Okay.

I had a boyfriend
many years ago.

He was my first boyfriend
who had his own house.

And one day, I went outside
to see what he was doing,

and he was hoisting
an American flag

up the flagpole
in his front yard.

And I instantly felt very weird.

It didn't make sense,
but I felt this feeling

of, like, um... I felt scared.

Yeah. I felt scared.

And so I was like
"What are you doing?"

And he said, "Raising the flag."

And I was like, "Why?"
And he's like,

"Um, because I love America."

And I was like, "Right."

Right. Of course."

But inside, I was shaken.

And then I calmly
walked to my car

and I got inside
and I called my sister Susie

to tell her what happened.
Now, maybe you're thinking,

"What do you mean what
happened? Nothing happened.

Your boyfriend put an American
flag up at his own house."

No. You're totally right.

I had no idea
why I was freaking out.

I Just... I had this
very visceral reaction.

And my sister, who knows shit

'cause she's a rabbi in Israel,
explained to me...

She was like, "Dude",

"nationalism is innately
terrifying for Jews.

"Think about it...
Flags, marching,

"blind allegiance...

These things tend to
ring a bell for us."

Right. Of course!
Duh. It made sense.

And it made me realize

that the things
that terrify some people

are the same things that give
other people great comfort.

You know? It's like, um...

like the way the sight of
a Police car

might give people comfort,

for instance, white people.

Or it might make other
people very uncomfortable,

like, say, unarmed
black children

playing in a park.

Ohh...

- Oh, and I guess,
like, the Duke boys.

They always had run-ins
with the cops, didn't they?

But they would have been
shot dead in episode one

if they weren't white
as the driven snow

with the Confederate flag
on the top of their car.

Why did they have so
many ramps in Hazzard County?

Did we ever get
an answer to that?

I find that, uh,
nationalist movements

tend to kind of exploit
patriotism for their own cause.

Like take a slogan like
"Make America Great Again"

or "America First."
They go down easy.

They sound patriotic.
And that's because

lumping an undeniable
statement of patriotism

into your cause
is like the ultimate cheat.

But patriotism and nationalism,

to me,
are very different things.

Like, patriotism
is loving your country.

I'm a total patriot.
I love my country.

Whereas nationalism
has this, like,

"We're number one" vibe.

And I fear that that
"We're number one" nationalism

is really like an old bed buddy
of racism and xenophobia.

Jocelyn, we're not doing that.

Sorry.

She means well. She...

And, by the way, if something
is truly number one,

you don't have to go around
saying it all the time.

It's kind of like
a beta move, really.

I mean, Harvard doesn't
take out ads that say

"Harvard! The world's
number one college!

"Apply now!

The failing Princeton
is number three. Sad!"

You know, like, um...

The best pizza place
in the world

doesn't call itself
Pizzeria Number One.

Oh, right, there is
Pizzeria Uno,

but that's like Uno...
Uno's like the, I think,

the owner's last name
or something.

There's so many layers
to that laugh,

I feel like as like someone
maybe attuned to comedy

you're like, "Oh, that...
That could have been funny."

Yeah."

A lot of people feel
that Jesus is number one,

but I think even
they would agree with me

that he wouldn't go around
saying, "I'm number one!"

Maybe he would wear
the foam finger,

like ironically...

The difference between
loving America

and "USA is number one"

is like the difference between

a desire for progress and change

versus "we're perfect
and we'll never change."

Which is crazy,

because change
is how you stay number one.

I mean, if you don't change
with the times, you die.

Take it from my good friend
Blockbuster Video.

Or, uh... you can just look
them up on their MySpace page.

Or you know what?
Better yet, you should

leave a message
on their answering machine.

They have a great outgoing
message, it's like,

? Nobody's home ?

? Nobody's home ?

There's a very, like...
There's an age line

to getting that.

We criticize the things we love

because we want them
to be better.

In some ways,
to criticize is to love.

Which is why Jews are by far

the most loving people
out there.

I'll never forget the last
thing my mother said to me

before she died...
And this is true...

"Your hair..."

"it's so dry."

You know, or when people
take a knee

during the National Anthem...

It doesn't mean
that they're saying

they don't love their country.

It means that they believe

America can
and should be better.

And I believe
that they will stand for

the "Star Spangled Banner"

as soon as people
of color can play in the park

or drive home from a party
or just be outside

without the fear
of getting killed

by the people they pay
to protect them.

As patriots,
I think we should strive

to see ourselves in each other.

Whereas I feel that
the nationalist view

is to see yourself...
and then others.

You know, America's motto
is "e pluribus unum,"

which means "Out of many, one."

By the way, if you're not
going with a Latin motto,

like what are you even doing?

It's instant cachet.

Like "quid faciam tibi
brunneis."

What is that, the password

to some
Illuminati secret society?

No! It's just
a hoity-toity way of saying,

"what can brown do for you?"

U.P.S., you are welcome!

But back...
Back to e pluribus unum:

Out of many, one.

That is what the
country is about, okay?

There's a very,
very far distance

from the very similar
sentences of

"we are one"
and "we're number one."

There's like a willing blindness

in saying we're number one,
I feel like.

Like, I love America.

I think it's great
to love America.

Like, "enough to make a whole
TV show about loving America"

"of which
I'm currently hosting" great.

I could have made a TV show

about how much I love
coconut oil... believe me...

But I didn't.
I made it about America.

Coconut oil is very versatile,
by the way.

It's basically
the Swiss Army knife of oils.

But that's
a whole other monologue

for a whole other time.

In conclusion...

Look, I can get behind the flag.

It's a wonderful symbol.

It's beautiful. It's majestic.

It looks great in the wind.
It's spangled as fuck.

But that "we're number one"
shit's gotta stop.

It's tacky.

There's only one thing
that's number one,

and that's pee. Cue applause!

Thank you.

Thank you.

You're so sweet.

You know, I wanted to do a piece

with a Jew, a Catholic,
and a Muslim,

but we didn't have the budget.

So we got one
person who's all three.

Ahamed Weinberg
is a Catholic Jew

born and raised Muslim,
and he made this piece for us.

Watch it with your eyes!

Growing up

as a Muslim in America,
you feel misunderstood.

But I was white, too, so...

I felt accepted
and rejected at the same time.

My parents converted to Islam
before I was born.

That's how they met.

And then they got married
on September 11th.

It was 1988, so...
they didn't know.

September 11th is a bad
wedding anniversary

for two Muslims, but

even worse is that my dad
still forgets somehow.

That's like twice as bad.

I remember their anniversary

very well, though,
especially in 2001.

Nobody knew what was happening.

It felt fake.

Until it didn't.

I remember my friend crying.

My dad was on the plane!
I know it!

Our parents were
called to pick us up.

My mom was late.

So was Jordan's.

I bet the Muslims did it.

My dad says they hate us.

- That's the weird thing
about being me is

I don't look Muslim
to many people, so...

sometimes things just slip out
'cause they trust me.

We aren't terrorists, right?

Are we?

Nobody goes to the mosque
for... at least a year.

Jeff, you're being ridiculous.

We are in danger.

You don't think someone's
gonna try to attack us now?

I saw the fear
from both sides that day.

I saw my friends
scared of Muslims,

and I saw my parents,
these Muslims

who were basically
scared of my friends.

But time passed, and we healed.

Those were still my friends,
and my parents

still celebrate their wedding
anniversary on 9/11

because they're not terrorists.

They're emotionally invasive,

and at times I felt like
they ruined my life,

but it was never
a global concern.

And then Trump made up
that thing

about Muslims celebrating
as the Towers fell,

and I thought,
"That's so fucked up."

And then I thought,
"Maybe he's not lying."

Maybe he just saw my parents

slow dancing on a roof
in New Jersey,

celebrating their love.

- When I first moved
to New York at 19 years old,

I used to hitchhike
all the time,

and I never got killed once.

So I decided to test fate
and head back the Big Apple

to make friends with
some random murderers.

I mean motorists.

Hey, you gonna give me a ride?

Yeah?

No? Give us a ride uptown.

Yeah, okay.

Fantastic!

I'm Iliana. Nice to meet you.

Oh!

I knew someone

would pick us up.
- I'm like, "Why is she"

in the middle of the street?"

- It's Tyler's birthday today.

- You guys picked up
a hitchhiker today

with your child in the car.

I mean, you guys have
a death wish or something.

That's dangerous!
- Well, you know,

it's his birthday... we had to
do something exciting.

- That guy's walking a cat.
Did you see that?

- I love anything
with a wet nose.

I was just watching
you and Adam Sandler and...

- I remember that.
It was when I was

Janeane Garofalo,
in "Funny People."

Yes, yes!

- I've been around a long time.

I'm like herpes, I...

Never really go away.

The first thing you realize

when you hitchhike in New York
is that

there is an insanely
diverse array of people

crammed into this little
penis-shaped island.

The only thing more remarkable

is how willing they are
to tell you

exactly what they think
about anything.

Where'd you guys grow up?

- We call it Chinahurst now.

- Is it... a lot of...
Asian people?

Very much.

And it's nice, actually,

to see the respect
that they have.

And that's why I think
America should be

a blended... country.

But make it a little harder
for them to get in, you know?

When... when my ancestors
came here,

all the husbands came first

to build bridges
and to build... dig tunnels

and to send... scrape money
to get together

to bring their families here.

You know,
you had to be sponsored.

It wasn't like it is now.

Oh, it's not easier now.

Most of the cab drivers
I talk to,

people I talk to, they are here

sending money home
to their families.

- Yes.
- Immigrants have always

- been a boost to the economy.
- Absolutely.

But now... it's a drain
on the economy,

because now they get to
come here

and go to school for free.
- Who's going to school

for free? We can't even
go to school for free.

We need to take
back our country,

and it's not about
persecuting people,

because we're all immigrants.

It's about...
let's take care of us

before we take care of
everybody else.

- Aren't all of us
everybody else?

- My great-grandmother,
she came from Mexico

many, many, many years ago.

How long have you been here?

- Do you love it?

- A millionaire?
- Yeah.

- How're you gonna go about it?

What's the plan?

- Oh...

- Do... do not worry about me.

- Um, yeah, because I make
complete sentences,

I sound white.
They think I sound intelligent.

- It happens to us literally
every day to the point

where we're just like,
"Another day. Same shit."

- Let's talk about it.
Tell me about race.

- We were just...
- We just left...

- Talking about this.
- The best exhibit

at the Brooklyn Museum

on lynching in America

and radical,
powerful black women.

And it was so good, like both
exhibits are great.

But we were literally just
having this conversation.

So I'm a physician
and she's a nurse,

and we were talking...
- You're a physician,

- and she's a nurse?
- Yeah.

- Oh, my God,
you guys look like kids.

- So we were literally
just talking about

how like when we're
going to see patients,

like I'll be with
a medical student,

and then the patient will turn
to the med student

and be like, "What do you
think we should do?"

And the med student will be
like, "I don't know."

You should ask her.
She's the doctor."

But it, like, doesn't
connect with them.

They're just looking at me
and they're like,

"There's no way
she's a physician.

"It has to be you
'cause you're like

a middle-age Russian kid."

Ohh... I love New York City.

It looked like
a Normal Rockwell painting.

You know the Norman Rockwell
painting

that's the homeless guy

masturbating behind
a Popeye's Chicken?

- No.
- It was just like that one.

- Oh... snap.

- Listen, Tyler,
for your birthday

I got you a couple of those
Victoria's Secret models.

I hope it's okay.

- I mean, at the end
of the day, like,

we're not all the same,
but that doesn't mean

that it's a negative thing.

Like just embrace each
other for their differences

and then like keep it pushing.

- Yes.
- You don't have to...

Everyone doesn't have to
be one thing

in order for us to coexist.

- I know. We're on a planet
in outer space.

All right. This was amazing.

Well, I didn't die.

And even though I was reminded
just how differently

two people in one car
can see the world,

it was also a great reminder
that somehow we all coexist.

- It was such a pleasure.

- Tyler, happy birthday.

Can I get a hug too?

People don't think of New York

as a place to hitchhike,

but if you're stuck
in an intersection

in the East Village
and willing to meet people

along the way, all you gotta do

is catch a car going Uptown,

and your options are endless.

Just, um, you know, you should
probably bring a camera crew

to be safe.

This is Mather.

We go to Mather
if the show gets to be

a little much and we need
that reassuring comfort

of a traditional
late night talk show host.

- Check, please!

- Oh, Mather,
you're not too much.

- Ah-hem!
- Oh, my God, Mather!

- I just feel like we haven't
cut to me in a while...

- No! You're right. I'm sorry!

You were my training wheels,

and I guess I've learned
how to ride a bike.

- I'm glad I could help you
make me irrelevant.

- Mather, what do you got?

- Ha ha. Well, I got
a super-hard dick

after listening
to that monologue.

- You should maybe take
the rest of the day off.

- Gladly!

- You fucking made her, man!

And how did she repay you?

I'm meeting up with
some friends tonight.

I think you'll like
what they have to say.

- We did find
a temporary replacement,

so, Jimmy, take us home.

I recently got a chance
to talk with my good friend

the amazing comedian
Patton Oswalt

about a whole bunch of stuff

from nationalism to finding joy

after the tragic loss
of his wife Michelle.

And also, we ate some fruit.

Take a look.

Hi, I'm Sarah Silver...

Hi. I'm Sarah Silverman.

- Mm. Again, mid-range.

- Hi. Hi. Hi!

- Hi!
- Yeah, there you go.

- Hi. I'm Sarah Silverman.
- Less vocal fry.

- Hi...
- Ooh. No.

- Hi!
- There ya go.

- Hi!
-

- Hi, Patton.

- Hi, Sarah.

- So this episode's about, um,

- white nationalism...
- Oh.

- Examining nationalism.
- Mm-hmm.

- The... various pathways of the
disenfranchised white male.

- Yeah.

Well, you mean the, um,

the white males that used to
be in charge

of 99.9% of stuff on the planet

and that has since plummeted to

- like 93%?
- Right.

- Yeah. Hanging on
by their fingernails.

- What they understand
as white genocide is

like the thought of everyone
having a seat at the table.

- Exactly. Yeah.
- But...

their feelings are real.

- No, there are...
Well, their feelings are real

except that you can take
real feelings

and hijack them
for something bad.

- Right.
- And when you look at

any white nationalist movement,

it always comes down to some

failed, entitled

leader who, uh,

he or she finds a shortcut,

and the shortcut is always
rage and resentment.

- Right.
- And all of this, like,

neo-Nazis are the new punk...

That is really frightening...
- That's...

- When they... alt right
is the new punk,

conservative is the new punk,
neo-Nazis are the new punk.

We're just... we're just kicking
against the status quo.

No, you're trying to bring back

a very ancient status quo
that should have been dead

even before rock and roll...
Even before jazz,

that all shoulda been dead.

So don't say that you're
some new punk rock.

You're just trying to...
It just...

I-it... Ugh! I-it's trying to

make it cool for skateboarders.

- Yeah. It is so
fascinating, right?

- It's ridiculous. Yeah, I-it...

The Twitter trend bar is such...

Someone should print out
a day-by-day,

because that is a daily haiku
about our ongoing psychosis

and nervous breakdown.
- What's... trending...

to... day?

What's trending to-day...

- Kar-dash-ians

and... Nazis.

- - What... about...

- Flint... dude?
- - Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

But that's kinda how...

I think we're having
an extended nervous breakdown.

- Well, there's two very
different kinds of patriotism.

Like there's the patriotism
where

you love this country and you
want it to be the best

it can be. And then there's...

"real patriotism",
which is USA number one.

And that kind of nationalism
is highly disconcerting.

- Well, 'cause what
nationalism is, uh, is

"my country, number one

for a tiny portion
of the population."

If you were a true patriot,

you would want America to be

the most awesome place
for whoever shows up.

I thought it was agreed in 1945

that, yeah, Nazis are awful.

It's not a debate anymore.

- Here's the truth:

Winning wars doesn't
change people's minds.

- No, it really doesn't.
- You know?

We won the Civil...
The North won the Civil War.

There's still rampant racism.

- Yeah.
- You know, World War II,

we won...

- People still hate Jews.
- Yeah.

If anything, it looks like...
- You don't win...

they've dug in even deeper.
- Over people's feelings.

Yeah. They dig in deeper.
- Yeah.

- So...
- Motherfuckers.

Hey, how 'bout this?

- You got married.
- Yes, I did.

- You're a married man.

- It feels weird to be

at that level of joy

with this person that I just...

I'm so...

I'm so effortlessly

head-over-heels in love with.

- You talk about your joy now
with Meredith

and your family and how...
- Oh, my God.

- Do you think that the
horrors of this last year

of losing your wife Michelle

gave you a new perspective
on joy,

kind of informed...
your ability to experience joy?

- Yeah, because with Michelle,

that was such deep,
real true love

that the one... this is a very,
very creepy silver lining

to come out of it...
But it's that thing of

when you lose that level
of joy and contentment,

you really recognize it
when it comes again.

And so the fact that it came

with Meredith and it came,
you know, relatively soon...

but I was like,
I can't not recognize...

- You owe no apology
for how soon that happened.

- I know, but there's people...
- And that...

Maybe it's soon for us
who are living our lives...

- Right, right.
- Every day...

- A friend of mine that
went through the same thing

was like, "Yeah, 'cause you're
living with it every day",

so you're going to heal
way quicker."

These other people are going,
"Well, it's a little quick

for me..."
Well, you go deal with it,

'cause I...
- That just made me wanna

fucking...
- You're outta your mind.

- Punch the Internet.
- Yeah.

You know, I am deliriously happy

with... with Meredith,
and my daughter

is deliriously happy
with her, so wh...

Who am I trying to impress
at this point?

- I love you.
- Thank you. I love you.

- Thank you for doing this.
- Thank you.

Mmm!

- We give nice
heart-to-heart hugs,

just like my therapist says.
- Yes, we do.

All right, I'm gonna
get this to go.

- Mm. Me too.
- Let's box it up. Thank you.

- Thank you, Patton.
And be sure to check out

Patton's new show "Happy!"
on the Syfy channel.

What is that noise?

What is that noise?

We're white! We're ranting!

We're male! We're chanting!

We're white, we're ranting.

We're male, we're chanting!

We're white, we're ranting.

We're male, we're chanting!
- What the...

- We're white, we're ranting.

- Mather.
- We're male...

- Mather, what are you doing?

- We refuse to participate

in the marginalization
of our gender

or be cuckolded by your
feminized society

and your lib-tard propaganda!

Am I right, guys?

Yeah! That's right!

Yeah, yeah!

- What is happening?

- What's happening
is that we refuse

to apologize
for being white men.

- "Jews will not replace us."

I hate to tell you, Mather,
but I'm a Jew,

and I have replaced you.

-

- Look...

Look in our eyes.

We are the faces
of the rebellion,

and we will not be emasculated

by the femin-Nazi agenda!

- Who's "we"?
Who do you see here?

Am I... am I touching them now?

Am I jerking off two men's
right's guys right now?

Are they coming in my face?

What is going on, buddy?

- I don't know
what's real anymore.

- Nobody does. We could
all be brains in jars.

- Really?
- Yes!

Everybody's scared.

Everybody's lost.

The world is fucking scary.

But you know what Mr. Rogers,

a male, once said?

He said,

"You're the only one
qualified to be you."

- I think, uh... I think
I really messed up, man.

- Mather, we all do.

I mean... not always so quickly
in a six-episode arc,

but...
- I just really miss the show.

You know? And the people.

You know, my cup of pencils.

And the audience and,
you know, my pencils,

and I... I don't know.
I just really miss my pencils.

- We miss you too.

Why don't you come back?
- Because you said

you replaced me!

- Yeah, no, Jimmy did that
cameo like two weeks ago.

It took him eight seconds.
I think he's busy.

- Really?
- Yeah!

The show's not the same
without you.

I mean, it's still
super top-shelf, but...

Come on.

Let's make "I Love You,
America," great again.

- #ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmm!

- But you're gonna have to
leave these guys behind.

- Okay.

Sorry, guys. You heard her.

Sorry, Chris, John,

Spence! Tickle Monster

and Tim, and I forget your name

and Chris H... sorry, guys.

- I think they're okay.
They're gonna be fine.

Hey!

-

Reunited, and it feels so good!

- Yeah! Good night, America.

We "lurve" you.

- I'm desky and I know it!

- Save it for the show.

- 10-4, matey!

- Mather, stop!

Hammer time!

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