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  • Failure Is Not NOT an Option

  • How the Chubby Gay Son of a Jesus-Obsessed Lesbian Found Love, Family, and Podcast Success...and a Bunch of Other Stuff
  • By: Patrick Hinds
  • Narrated by: Patrick Hinds
  • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Failure Is Not NOT an Option

By: Patrick Hinds
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Summary

Patrick Hinds has failed. A lot. In fact, he’s kind of an expert at it—which is why he’s uniquely qualified to say that failure is a good thing.

On paper, the chubby, poor, gay son of a lesbian who wrote pornographic letters to Jesus isn’t the person that you think of when you hear the word success. Yet Patrick Hinds has somehow managed to bungle his way through to become the successful cohost of True Crime Obsessed—a podcast with more than 200 million downloads.

Before that, though, he failed at many, many things. Patrick’s life is a series of fiascos, missteps, and just plain bad ideas. An eternal optimist, he’s always thrown himself into everything he’s done, even when he probably shouldn’t have. He devoted himself to becoming an actor even though he was terrible, started a daycare even though he hated kids, and somehow had a disastrous time with Bea Arthur...even though he couldn’t be gayer.

Both heartfelt and hilarious, Failure Is Not NOT an Option lets Patrick’s signature storytelling style shine—and it’s also the only book to bravely and definitively declare:

  1. Failing simply means that you tried (and if you try enough, eventually success will be an option, too).
  2. Ted Bundy is. Not. Hot.

By trying, and yes, failing at so many things, Patrick finally found his way—to a great career, a great husband, and a great family. Along the way, there were hurdles to jump, unexpected surprises, and no shortage of laughter. Failure is Not NOT an Option is a fun and outrageous listen that will raise you up—and provide a soft landing pad for the next time you fall.

©2023 Patrick Hinds (P)2023 Audible, Inc.
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love

loved this like a extra long podcast could listen to this all the time

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love this!

Patrick is a delight, wonderful finally hear some of the behind the scenes stories. And to finally learn what went down with Bea Arthur!

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Amazing humour

I think the term " the famouses" as in look cute so the Famouses like us..lol

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amazing loved every minute

if you love tco then you will love this well done Patrick you deserve all your success

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Fantastic!

Thoroughly enjoyed this book 😍 Definitely one of my favorites for 2023 for sure

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Editing my review after a second listen

I think the scales have fallen from my eyes a bit now.
I originally listened to this book and although found some of it problematic, chalked it up to Patrick’s cheeky chappy persona and tried to just take away the message of being comfortable with failing more - which, to be fair, I have still taken away.
But some of the stories here are problematic at best and I am very sorry I didn’t read them that way the first time around.

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Not what I expected

I've followed Patrick through TCO and OWD for years, and I was excited for this to come out. I will say his narration was okay. The stories weren't that great however. A lot of name dropping and the day care story in particular showed a quite ugly self-centred side of him. How Steve wasn't upset about all the money that was wasted, I have no idea, and those poor parents. I will admit I have been following the recent revelations regarding his treatment of Ellyn Marsh and the Jeremy Renner article, so this definitely coloured my experience of listening to the book.

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