True Crime Obsessed’s Patrick Hinds is taking his show on the road

We introduced you to True Crime Obsessed a number of 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 exhibits 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 stay on Broadway. 

Most not too long ago, Patrick co-hosts The Golden Girls 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 be the creator of the hilarious memoir and nationwide bestseller Failure is Not NOT an Option 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 Ebook Get together”, which has been taking part in 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 Evening with Patrick Hinds: Laughs, Drinks & DRAMA.” This time round, he recounts a “hilariously disastrous night” spent with Golden Women star Bea Arthur and the surprising 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 complete ridiculous state of affairs.

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

Let’s discuss concerning the tour. I observed that plenty 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 e-book occasion tour earlier than my e-book got here out and I went and browse a chapter of my e-book and had some slides. It was a enjoyable kind of present. It was a enjoyable factor. This tour is like sort of the subsequent degree of that, which is, it is two chapters from the e-book which are kind of put collectively. One among them is about like this disastrous evening I had with Bea Arthur and he or she simply hated me and so we employed this Bea Arthur Impersonator and we shot all this video together with her.

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

That is the subsequent kind of wave of what I need to do. I need to take this storytelling occasion and simply maintain doing it with completely different tales. , these two are from my e-book. The following one will not be. It’s going to be an unique story after I do that once more. And, you already know, I maintain saying half of it’s come and take heed to a joke and chuckle 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 no less than 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 convey individuals collectively, make pals in their very own neighborhood.

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

What do you get pleasure from about touring?  

Initially, I like telling these tales. I like making individuals chuckle. I like being up in entrance of individuals and actually participating with the viewers. However, I feel my favourite half, when Gillian and I had been touring, we might do the present after which we might keep after and simply do like a meet and greet for anyone who needed 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 person, they might inform me their title and I knew them from the Fb group and I might get to fulfill them for the primary time. Or, you already know, 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, however it’s simply us – and generally we neglect that individuals pay attention after which we get to kind 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 discuss to them and actually get to know them a bit of 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 effective instance. They met at a stay present and now the group is admittedly energetic and so they get collectively as soon as a month for brunch and so they’re all pals and so they’re all in one another’s lives.

We have at all times been about constructing neighborhood and bringing individuals collectively. It is at all times extra than simply the present for us. It truly is concerning the neighborhood that has kind of grown up across the present. And so, it is all of these components. 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 arduous at it. , we’ve employed a full time Fb moderator Her title is Sash and he or she’s now working the e-book membership and getting individuals enthusiastic about that. She retains the Fb group a very kind of enjoyable and secure place to hang around on the web.

And, you already know, I make one other podcast too now, it is known as “The Golden Women Deep Dive Podcast”, which I make with a girl named Jen Simard and we do recaps of the Golden Women, 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. We’ve a Fb group for that, that is rising actually shortly and that is additionally actually energetic and you already know, The Golden Women has their very own fandom. They’ve their very own neighborhood, so it is kind of good to get to faucet into that and produce individuals collectively in that manner too. 

I needed to select your mind a bit of bit about like how you set collectively your e-book and telling these private tales. What was the method like of getting that complete e-book collectively?

I had at all times actually needed to write down a e-book 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 at all times 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 needed to go in chronological order. And as soon as I put my thoughts to one thing, I sort of simply grow to be loopy till it is achieved. I wrote the entire thing, I need to say in about six months.

I simply would do my work week after which my weekends had been devoted to writing. I might attempt to get a tough draft of a chapter each weekend that I used to be engaged on the e-book. I imply, it was so simple as going again by journals and remembering issues and speaking to my household and my pals that I have been with for a very long time, assembling the entire items after which simply writing. At first, I used to be actually cautious to not self-edit to only sort 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 kind of free kind writing after which I might meet with him and he would assist me form it into what I needed. I needed it to only be actually humorous and he was actually useful and being like, no, there’s plenty of coronary heart to this story and we have to give attention to, the emotional highs and lows.

After which it was giving the tough draft to those that I trusted, like my husband, and being receptive to suggestions. It was a very quick course of. It was helped by the truth that these had been tales I might been telling for a very long time. It was traumatic and arduous however it was very enjoyable.

Had been you shocked at how profitable the e-book and the next tour had been?

, I wasn’t so shocked. I understand how huge our viewers is, so we had a common concept of how many individuals would possibly purchase the e-book. I used to be over the moon to see how many individuals needed to come back 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 already know, the unique concept was to do like 10 exhibits. I feel by the tip of it, we did 52 exhibits in 40 cities.  It turned virtually precisely a 12 months of my life, perhaps even a bit of bit longer. It is some of the enjoyable issues I’ve achieved within the final couple of years. 

You had talked about you had been going to inform some new tales. Do you have got one other e-book in you?

100%. That is what I am fascinated about 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 ft, I’ll begin engaged on the subsequent present. I’ve my thought for the subsequent one, I have never even informed my husband this, however my thought for the subsequent one is I need to kind 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 kind of ensued from that or what my takeaways from which have been. I have been a dad now for 10 years, I have been married for 17 years, we kind of solely contact on that a bit of bit within the first e-book, so I undoubtedly have extra tales to inform.

Are you continue to doing Obsessed? 

No. We had the Obsessed Community for a number of years, you already know, and we had a bunch of exhibits that we made with pals, and the exhibits simply grew and grew and because the exhibits grew, I sort of simply turned much less serious about working a podcast community. It was a very enjoyable factor that we kind of began through the pandemic. We made a bunch of profitable exhibits with pals 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 might have a full week of simply back-to-back conferences. I am only a artistic particular person, you already know, all I actually needed to do was simply create and make extra podcasts that I used to be both doing or do extra stay touring or no matter it was, work extra on TCO. And so, we gave the exhibits 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 is no stopping for TCO although, proper?

TCO goes to maintain going. Gillian and I at all times say we’re going to make TCO till 10 years after our deaths! We file about 4 episodes per 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 no less than twice per week and there actually are days that really feel prefer it’s the primary day, you already know, it is nonetheless very recent to us.

We nonetheless have a lot enjoyable doing it. We have realized rather a lot. One of many issues that we began doing this 12 months, we have achieved it up to now, however we kind 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 need to be doing extra of. So yeah, TCO goes sturdy. 

Get tickets and extra details about Failure Is Not NOT an Possibility and Patrick’s tour here. Take a look at True Crime Obsessed and The Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast wherever you stream. Comply with Patrick on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube.

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