The Best Day of My Life: Patch Adams' Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize Nomination

Lars and Patch discuss the making of the Patch Adams movie, Patch’s friendship with Robin Williams & Patch reunites with Mike Farrell (of the TV show MASH), who was instrumental in shepherding Patch’s story to the big screen; plus we hear about the murder of Patch’s dear friend whose death was repurposed to fit into the Hollywood version of Patch’s story. Part of Pantheon Podcasts

Lars dives into Patch’s Free Hospital: the one at the commune and the future dream hospital (whose plans feature a giant communal Whoopie Cushion room), plus stories from a Yale-trained psychiatrist who, after meeting Patch, became a tutu-wearing humanitarian clown & Truth Fairy.

Lars dives into Patch’s Free Hospital: the one at the commune and the future dream hospital (whose plans feature a giant communal Whoopie Cushion room), plus stories from a Yale-trained psychiatrist who, after meeting Patch, became a tutu-wearing humanitarian clown & Truth Fairy. Part of Pantheon Podcasts

Lars delves into his parent’s Hippie Commune, which doubled as a free hospital, nestled amongst radical hippie parties. Patch & Lars’s mom, Linda, tell us about absurd DIY projects, performance art films, hippie roadtrips, arrests & encounters with motorcycle gangs. Plus, Patch’s patented sensory invention for extreme bliss.

Lars delves into his parent’s Hippie Commune, which doubled as a free hospital, nestled amongst radical hippie parties. Patch & Lars’s mom, Linda, tell us about absurd DIY projects, performance art films, hippie roadtrips, arrests & encounters with motorcycle gangs. Plus, Patch’s patented sensory invention for extreme bliss. Part of Pantheon Podcasts

The Monkey-Suited Med Student : Lars chats with Patch’s BFF, Lewis, unfolding the birth of Patch’s public clowning, wearing costumes to work in corporate America. Plus the true story of Patch’s Medical School adventures where he formed his philosophy that laughter is the best medicine & began plans to build a free hospital, enraging the med school administration, who told Patch’s mother her son was unfit to be a doctor

The Monkey-Suited Med Student : Lars chats with Patch’s BFF, Lewis, unfolding the birth of Patch’s public clowning, wearing costumes to work in corporate America. Plus the true story of Patch’s Medical School adventures where he formed his philosophy that laughter is the best medicine & began plans to build a free hospital, enraging the med school administration, who told Patch’s mother her son was unfit to be a doctor.

Lars talks to Patch & Wildman about their teen years moving from 1950's Germany to segregated America, the death of their war veteran father & Patch’s 3 suicide attempts before Martin Luther King Jr's impact led to Patch's transformation into Radical Love Clown dedicated to being 6 Qualities all the time: Happy, Funny, Loving, Creative, Thoughtful & Cooperative.

Lars talks to Patch & Wildman about their teen years moving from 1950's Germany to segregated America, the death of their war veteran father & Patch’s 3 suicide attempts before Martin Luther King Jr's impact led to Patch's transformation into Radical Love Clown dedicated to being 6 Qualities all the time: Happy, Funny, Loving, Creative, Thoughtful & Cooperative. Part of Pantheon Podcasts

Patch has his foot amputated & Lars dives into Patch’s earliest memories of growing up in post-atomic-bomb Japan. Weaving conversations with Patch and his older brother, Wildman,