True Crime Obsessed’s Patrick Hinds is taking his present on the highway

We launched you to True Crime Obsessed just a few years in the past. The hilarious podcast, hosted by Gillian Pensavalle and Patrick Hinds, takes a tongue in cheek take a look at true crime documentaries and circumstances lined on reveals like Dateline and 20/20. True Crime Obsessed has had over 200 million downloads with an excellent group of listeners. In 2022, TCO made historical past by being the primary podcast to play reside on Broadway. 

Most not too long ago, Patrick co-hosts The Golden Ladies Deep Dive podcast, the place he and two-time Tony nominee Jennifer Simard (at present starring on Broadway in Demise Turns into Her) unpack each episode of the beloved collection with humor and interesting behind-the-scenes trivia. Every episode closes with an in-depth exploration of intriguing tales from the present’s universe.

Patrick can also be the writer of the hilarious memoir and nationwide bestseller Failure is Not NOT an Choice which was launched in Fall 2023. He took his hilarious tales to cities throughout the nation because the creator, author, and star of the touring present “Patrick’s Touring E book Occasion”, which has been enjoying to sold-out crowds throughout the US and in London.

With much more tales to share, Patrick is as soon as once more hitting the highway with a brand new present and tour, “An Night with Patrick Hinds: Laughs, Drinks & DRAMA.” This time round, he recounts a “hilariously disastrous night” spent with Golden Ladies star Bea Arthur and the sudden arrival of his new child daughter, Daisy. Alongside for the journey is Bea Arthur impersonator Jason B. Schmidt, who seems through video as Bea from past the grave to offer her tackle this entire ridiculous scenario.

We had the prospect to talk with Patrick in regards to the upcoming tour, being an writer, the enduring success of True Crime Obsessed and extra in our unique interview.

Let’s speak in regards to the tour. I seen that a variety of the venues are already promoting out.

I deliberately selected small venues. I did a model of this final 12 months. I used to be calling it my ebook occasion tour earlier than my ebook got here out and I went and skim a chapter of my ebook and had some slides. It was a enjoyable type of present. It was a enjoyable factor. This tour is like form of the following degree of that, which is, it is two chapters from the ebook which might be type of put collectively. One in every of them is about like this disastrous night time I had with Bea Arthur and she or he simply hated me and so we employed this Bea Arthur Impersonator and we shot all this video together with her.

So, we’ve got Bea Arthur through video, type of enjoying herself, type of giving her tackle the entire story and this time, the story is memorized, so it’ll simply be me standing and type of telling the story with all of the video clips interacting with Bea Arthur, which goes to be actually enjoyable.

That is the following type of wave of what I wish to do. I wish to take this storytelling occasion and simply preserve doing it with completely different tales. , these two are from my ebook. The following one will not be. It’s going to be an authentic story after I do that once more. And, you realize, I preserve saying half of it’s come and hearken to a comic story and chortle and the opposite half is then all of us go to the venue’s bar. We have labored out offers with all of the venues the place we get the bar for a minimum of 90 minutes after the present for simply us and it is meant for me to get to have the ability to meet all people and to carry individuals collectively, make buddies in their very own neighborhood.

We will be doing fascinating issues on the present as effectively. We will be giving individuals buttons in the event that they’re touring solo and so they wish to meet individuals, or in the event that they’re touring with a gaggle and so they’re open to individuals and making new buddies. We’re simply going to make it extra interactive that means, to carry individuals collectively of their neighborhood.

What do you get pleasure from about touring?  

To begin with, I like telling these tales. I like making individuals chortle. I like being up in entrance of individuals and actually participating with the viewers. However, I feel my favourite half, when Gillian and I have been touring, we’d do the present after which we’d keep after and simply do like a meet and greet for anyone who wished to say hello, and in some cities, the meet and greet was longer than the present.

It was only a actual alternative to love put names with faces. We’d see any individual, they might inform me their title and I knew them from the Fb group and I’d get to fulfill them for the primary time. Or, you realize, simply actually get an opportunity to love join with listeners one on one and make that human connection.

Gillian and I am going and we sit within the sales space and we do that factor, nevertheless it’s simply us – and generally we neglect that individuals hear after which we get to type of work together with individuals on-line or at drag bingo or no matter, however to get to fulfill the listeners in actual life and actually speak to them and actually get to know them a bit bit.

It’s additionally an opportunity for them to get to fulfill one another. We have had so many splinter teams from the Fb group, the Salt Lake Metropolis group is an efficient instance. They met at a reside present and now the group is absolutely lively and so they get collectively as soon as a month for brunch and so they’re all buddies and so they’re all in one another’s lives.

We have all the time been about constructing neighborhood and bringing individuals collectively. It is all the time extra than simply the present for us. It truly is in regards to the neighborhood that has type of grown up across the present. And so, it is all of these parts. It is the efficiency half, the getting to fulfill individuals half, and just like the individuals getting to fulfill one another half.

I like the neighborhood the present has created. I simply assume it is wonderful that individuals are simply so supportive and Interactive with one another. No different podcast actually does that.

Yeah, and we work actually onerous at it. , we’ve got employed a full time Fb moderator Her title is Sash and she or he’s now working the ebook membership and getting individuals enthusiastic about that. She retains the Fb group a extremely type of enjoyable and protected place to hang around on the web.

And, you realize, I make one other podcast too now, it is referred to as “The Golden Ladies Deep Dive Podcast”, which I make with a girl named Jen Simard and we do recaps of the Golden Ladies, however we additionally give the historical past of the present and we do deep dives into the entire actors’ lives and the visitor actors and issues about it. Now we have a Fb group for that, that is rising actually rapidly and that is additionally actually lively and you realize, The Golden Ladies has their very own fandom. They’ve their very own neighborhood, so it is type of good to get to faucet into that and convey individuals collectively in that means too. 

I wished to choose your mind a bit bit about like how you place collectively your ebook and telling these private tales. What was the method like of getting that entire ebook collectively?

I had all the time actually wished to jot down a ebook of humorous private essays. I used to be actually impressed by Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling and David Sedaris. I had these 12 humorous tales that I all the time would inform at events or no matter and I lastly was like, it is time for me to actually put this collectively. It’s not a lot an autobiography however I wished to go in chronological order. And as soon as I put my thoughts to one thing, I form of simply grow to be loopy till it is carried out. I wrote the entire thing, I wish to say in about six months.

I simply would do my work week after which my weekends have been devoted to writing. I’d attempt to get a tough draft of a chapter each weekend that I used to be engaged on the ebook. I imply, it was so simple as going again by means of journals and remembering issues and speaking to my household and my buddies that I have been with for a very long time, assembling the entire items after which simply writing. To start with, I used to be actually cautious to not self-edit to simply form of like let myself write these tales. Our brokers paired me with a author, so I used to be writing all of the jokes and type of free kind writing after which I’d meet with him and he would assist me form it into what I wished. I wished it to simply be actually humorous and he was actually useful and being like, no, there’s a variety of coronary heart to this story and we have to deal with, the emotional highs and lows.

After which it was giving the tough draft to people who I trusted, like my husband, and being receptive to suggestions. It was a extremely quick course of. It was helped by the truth that these have been tales I might been telling for a very long time. It was disturbing and onerous nevertheless it was very enjoyable.

Have been you shocked at how profitable the ebook and the following tour have been?

, I wasn’t so shocked. I understand how massive our viewers is, so we had a basic thought of how many individuals may purchase the ebook. I used to be over the moon to see how many individuals wished to return out and listen to me inform the story. That was so thrilling. I used to be pondering right now that Kansas Metropolis had like 500 individuals at that present. And you realize, the unique thought was to do like 10 reveals. I feel by the top of it, we did 52 reveals in 40 cities.  It grew to become nearly precisely a 12 months of my life, perhaps even a bit bit longer. It is one of the crucial enjoyable issues I’ve carried out within the final couple of years. 

You had talked about you have been going to inform some new tales. Do you will have one other ebook in you?

100%. That is what I am fascinated with now as I am doing this tour. Proper now, we have introduced seven cities. I feel, all informed, there will be most likely 40 cities that I’ll do. And, as quickly as I’ve this present memorized, and I really feel prefer it’s up on its toes, I’ll begin engaged on the following present. I’ve my thought for the following one, I have never even informed my husband this, however my thought for the following one is I wish to type of inform my journey tales, just like the handful of instances I’ve ventured into the woods for varied issues and the shenanigans which have type of ensued from that or what my takeaways from which were. I have been a dad now for 10 years, I have been married for 17 years, we type of solely contact on that a bit bit within the first ebook, so I positively have extra tales to inform.

Are you continue to doing Obsessed? 

No. We had the Obsessed Community for a number of years, you realize, and we had a bunch of reveals that we made with buddies, and the reveals simply grew and grew and because the reveals grew, I form of simply grew to become much less inquisitive about working a podcast community. It was a extremely enjoyable factor that we type of began through the pandemic. We made a bunch of profitable reveals with buddies and so they appeared able to take them and be free with them. I bear in mind the times of my Google calendar and I’d have a full week of simply back-to-back conferences. I am only a inventive individual, you realize, all I actually wished to do was simply create and make extra podcasts that I used to be both doing or do extra reside touring or no matter it was, work extra on TCO. And so, we gave the reveals to the creators and mentioned go together with God and good luck. All of them appear to be thriving. And so, we’re doing our factor and the Obsessed Community stuff is just about over. 

There isn’t any stopping for TCO although, proper?

TCO goes to maintain going. Gillian and I all the time say we’re going to make TCO till 10 years after our deaths! We document about 4 episodes every week now between the Patreon and the common feed. We began out making 46 episodes a 12 months, we went to love 56 or one thing and now we make 75 common episodes per 12 months plus 50 Patreon episodes. We’re within the sales space a minimum of twice every week and there actually are days that really feel prefer it’s the primary day, you realize, it is nonetheless very contemporary to us.

We nonetheless have a lot enjoyable doing it. We have realized so much. One of many issues that we began doing this 12 months, we have carried out it prior to now, however we type of began to focus extra on it this 12 months was discovering topics from the documentaries and bringing them in for interviews and even going additional behind the scenes of the documentary and getting extra of the tales. That’s the factor that we wish to be doing extra of. So yeah, TCO goes robust. 

Get tickets and extra details about Failure Is Not NOT an Choice and Patrick’s tour right here. Try True Crime Obsessed and The Golden Ladies Deep Dive Podcast wherever you stream. Observe Patrick on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube.

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