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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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, Lars learns about his subversive great grandfather, an anti-establishmentarian Victorian-era writer whose writing echoes Patch’s inflammatory ethos on mental health, compassion & capitalism PLUS Lars digs into Patch’s youthful same-sex adventures in a repressed society & Patch celebrates being out of the closet.

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Meet the real Patch Adams, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

In episode 1 Patch’s son, Lars, explains what podcasts are to his 75 year old dad and begins unfolding the true- not-Hollywood story of how a suicidal misfit became a revolutionary clown doctor obsessed with love, mental health & the transformation of despair in all humans.

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The trailer for the upcoming podcast series - The Best Day of My Life: Patch Adams' Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize Nomination.

Intimate conversations with Dr. Patch Adams and his son Lars, dive deep into Patch's true not-Hollywood lifestory as Lars and producer, Rainbow Valentine, uncover how Patch, once a suicidal misfit, started a revolution for Love and Joy and ended up a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

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