Daily Fail
A weekly podcast about the worst of the tabloids - from Page Sucks to Hell No to the very rag that inspires the name of our show. Hosted by journalist Maura Currie and culture critic Kristen Meinzer.
Episodes
July 3, 2025 • 50 mins
Plus, a very important announcement at the end of the episode.
This week:
Travis Kelce reveals a thing that bugs him a little but that’s not actually about Taylor Swift
Meghan Markle DIDN’T PERSONALLY MAKE THIS JAM
The Fail hates stealing, and dishonesty, which is funny, because…
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June 26, 2025 • 43 mins
Hot fail summer.
This week:
Taylor Swift humbles, embarrasses, mortifies an influencer for not wanting her weird card game
New York City is about to be a scary communist wonderland :(
Jonathan Bailey defends kissing Scarlett Johansson, Scarlett also there
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June 19, 2025 • 49 mins
While we're on our summer break, we're treating you to some very special episodes! Today, it's an episode of What A Creep, all about Hilaria Baldwin, guest hosted by Kristen. If you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe to What A Creep here: https://pod.link/1460298336
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June 12, 2025 • 45 mins
While we're on our summer break, we're treating you to some very special episodes! Today, it's an episode of one of Kristen's other show Health Matters, all about what news consumption does to our brains. If you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe to Mayo Clinic Health Matters here: https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/podcasts/health-matters/
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June 5, 2025 • 44 mins
You’re our beautiful fail babies <3
This week:
Taylor Swift walks in front of a car, everyone suspects pregnancy
Meghan and Harry celebrate Lilibet’s fourth birthday with some cringe, and some controversy
Armie Hammer, former alleged cannibal and current family man
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May 29, 2025 • 44 mins
Outing people is always, always a fail.
This week:
A weirdly dark commencement speech targets the president (it doesn’t)
Michelle Obama makes a joke about vaccines causing autism (she doesn’t)
A writer muses on why society should let men be a little gay, as a treat
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May 22, 2025 • 40 mins
The fail’s in the details.
This week:
The creepiest thing in the woods is a disputed property line
The mean strong women sticking their CLAWS in your son :(
The foods that the fail admits don’t cause autism, but WHAT IF
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May 16, 2025 • 43 mins
You are all direct reports to us in the pyramid scheme of fails.
This week:
Brooklyn Beckham is letting a woman tear his family apart, per usu
It’s just a little funny how the Pope hasn’t acknowledged President Trump’s peacemaking
The one quick way to make slightly less money than your son: a pyramid scheme!
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May 8, 2025 • 41 mins
Apologies, and love, to our friends who were born in Florida. We hope your midwife was an alligator.
This week:
Libs freak out over a completely unserious proposal involving Alcatraz
Prince Harry’s body language makes it seem like he means what he’s saying
Broke dudes are a disease
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May 1, 2025 • 40 mins
We recorded this on Tuesday so Maura could go on a fail-free vacation. Facts aren’t real anymore anyway.
This week:
The Fail attacks a woman who is now dead for the crime of having been human
Amazon is at war with America, except actually nothing is happening
Meghan Markle insults the Royal Family by being happy
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April 25, 2025 • 44 mins
Stars, stripes, fertility rates, and fails.
This week:
We need babies! Now! Not in a weird way!
Everyone is so mean to JK Rowling, a mean person
Las Vegas is scary and the hills have eyes :(
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April 17, 2025 • 39 mins
We’re putting the ass back in astronaut, folks.
This week:
Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez clap back at the people who are making excellent points about how stupid this was
Katy Perry’s makeup really stuck in place for 10 whole minutes
Aimee Lou Wood cried and won’t tell us why :(
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April 10, 2025 • 40 mins
This week:
Anderson Cooper got BRUTALLY WOKED
Carrie Coon is actively mean to Meghan McCain and also Marvel
THERE ARE NO DIRE WOLVES!!!!!!!!!!
Bonus story: Maura’s Election Day reporting for Slate is finally out in the world. Give it a listen!
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Joi...
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April 3, 2025 • 42 mins
LOWER THE COST OF JAM, YOU COWARDS
This week:
The jam heard ‘round the world sold out immediately. Bad?
The little Constitutional loophole that’s not illegal or disingenuous if you believe in yourself
Doing murder is really about the friends you make along the way
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March 28, 2025 • 42 mins
This week:
DOGE flops and the Fail admits it
Gwyneth Paltrow’s fake beef with Meghan Markle
RFK Jr. is taking your Skittles (not)
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March 21, 2025 • 43 mins
Fail o’ the Irish?
This week:
Meghan Markle’s haters point out a very minor detail about very festive waffles
The astronauts “stranded” in space are home and not fighting secret health battles
Gene Hackman chose Alzheimer’s and you can too
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March 14, 2025 • 40 mins
We love fails and potato skins. Fight us about it.
This week:
DOGE is not, in fact, giving us thousands of dollars
Your dentist knows about your sex life and hates you for it
Jackie Kennedy’s bonkers diet is not #goals
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March 7, 2025 • 49 mins
Guess you could say Meghan has gotten herself in quite the jam.
This week:
The cinematic Luigi sex tapes are out there (maybe)
A beat-for-beat hypothetical scenario of how a nuclear holocaust would definitely happen
With loathe, Meghan
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February 28, 2025 • 48 mins
Fail to the king.
This week:
An absolutely grisly account of Gene Hackman’s home, like 20 minutes after his death was announced
Elon Musk is just a little guy who can’t help but impregnate people he meets online
Honestly, we pray that Nostradamus was right
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February 21, 2025 • 40 mins
So if you care to find us… look to the western fail.
This week:
Vaccine-hesitant distant relatives of J.D. Vance may, tragically, reap what they sow
Cynthia Erivo may method-act herself into being a false prophet
Meghan Markle is forced to rebrand her jam: jam!
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