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

Tune Tales with Kit’n’Tenders is musical story-based podcast for kids exploring the world of classic kids songs. Each episode, our heroes, the girlband, Kit’n’Tenders aka Gabby La La and The Ukulady, meet famous characters from the classic kids songs, like, the Muffin Man, Twinkle the Little Star, Miss Mary Mack, etc… all played by real celebrities! Tune Tales is chock-full of songs, jokes, trivia and fun for the whole family!

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The Nobel Peace Prize is announced…

Does Patch win or lose? 

Does it matter?  

Lars and his dad discuss the journey of the podcast, the meaning of the Nobel Peace Prize plus we hear from Patch’s life-partner, Susan and Lars shares what it was like growing up with Patch Adams as his dad.

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Shortly after 911, Patch & his friend, Ginevra, brought clowns to war-torn Afghanistan, where they infused bombed-out hospitals, orphanages & prisons, with joy & play, bringing relief from suffering to countless Afghanis caught in decades of war. Plus the story of combat war veterans with PTSD transformed by Patch’s Clown Trips.

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The origin of Patch’s humanitarian clown trips to the most dire places on Earth starts in the former USSR, once America’s number one enemy. Lars talks with Maria, the orphan advocate who organizes Patch's clown trips to Russian orphanages, prisons, mental hospitals & the school in Beslan, Chechnya, where in 2004, terrorist killed over 330 people, mostly children. Plus, we hear from the woman who joined Patch's clown trips at age 93. Part of Pantheon Podcasts

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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