Patch Adams

Adams maybe a wee bit

yeah Patch Adams is a good show because he does he wants to inhabit that laughter is good and that's childlike Genie is kind of a little bit childlike maybe nah Genie isn't childlike Genie's just Mel Robin Williams you know Williams like but aye that's good that's interesting

Tim Curry passed to be Van Pelt he'd be brilliant he passed on it the original plan was not to have the dad playing that so they originally asked Tim Curry to be Van Pelt but Tim Curry was not going to be the dad as well but Tim Curry passed on it so then they cast Jonathan Hyde as Sam Parrish and went do you know what

so that was an afterthought it was the original it

We're talking about Robin Williams.

I mean, he has some notable dramatic chops, and he also has Patch Adams, but let's not talk about that.

Jim Carrey, he's, you know, he's got a few dramatic roles while also being a manic comedian, you know? Yeah, isn't that weird,

like...

It's about self-improvement.

It's about improvement of the country rather than celebrations of athletes or movie stars or pop stars or anything like that.

It's trying to encourage children to have a more focused lifestyle so they can, they can work on improving themselves, not just modeling themselves after the Kardashians or something like that, which I hear myself saying this and I think, fuck, you sound so old when you say shit like this.

But when you examine it, And circling back to your point when you were saying before that you left clinical psychology, I don't blame you for leaving clinical psychology based on the way that the world has gone these days.

And when you're getting that on a constant level where it's darkness and despair and hopelessness and a lack of anything.

And I know that you have ways of mediating that and dealing with it, but when the system doesn't back you up, when you don't get the support from the back end of it and you don't get to let it go or deal with it in the way that it needs to be dealt with.

And it's reminiscent of the movie Patch Adams with Robin Williams when the institution just...

All they wanted to do was just fuck him because he wasn't working within the institutional way of being a doctor.

I believe he

had the similar physical ailment that, what's his name, the American comedian, committed suicide, trying to think of his name, did Aladdin and Patch Adams, I'm trying to think, Robin Williams.

he had the physical aspect of alzheimer's where they like lose control of their body yeah right i just read that in the article i think it's one that you said you said and that's actually very tragic that um you know for someone to physically and mentally mentally decline rapidly like that because once you have the two things side by side it's just it's a it's for the for that person and they love the ones it's a very very difficult thing

Of course, yeah.

So it starts out with me in a mental hospital wanting to take my own life.

And I got the idea from Patch Adams.

I watched his movie and I thought, you know what, if Patch Adams can start his story with, you know, how he started in a mental hospital, then so can I.

So it's extremely authentic and honest and a lot of humor in there, too.

Wow.

reel today robin williams from an old movie

this is pre because before patch adams i was

gonna say the only movie i knew of and like that is patch adams this was something different yeah but uh it

was like 95

maybe before that i remember thinking this is old maybe 90.

Robin Williams.

Like early 90s.

Dude, I just think that in Patch Adams when he welcomes all the gynecologists and he's got the legs and it's the door.

But then when he's fine and his eye is fine and it's only underneath his eye and he pulls out the needle and that's it, I was like, then what the fuck was she stabbing? Because I thought it was into his eyeball.

He should be his own, as Josh said, Patch Adams.

Who's beneath the eye? It should have been in the eyeball.

We all thought it was in the eyeball because she's hitting him in the lens of the glasses.

Okay, I

was gonna say like, you've got to watch Bicentennial Man or Jack or Patch Adams.

I've also seen RV.

Oh gosh, you've seen like, you've seen the later in his career schlock that he was pumping out.

I watch stuff that, I don't know, comes out now.

Okay.

Watch Patch Adams.

That's your homework.