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
May 3, 2024 • 29 mins
We’re ailing from all this failing.
This week:
This week:
- King Charles is perhaps sicker than we thought. Let’s knock Will and Kate while we’re at it
- Meghan and Harry are going to Nigeria, a great affront to the crown
- White bread has been vilified and we’ve had ENOUGH
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April 26, 2024 • 40 mins
Shoutout to the reviewer who thinks our hosting lineup has changed (it has not) for the worse (that’s your opinion). This week:
- William, Kate, and Camilla all get new titles, perhaps just because they felt like it
- An investigative reporter determines that Taylor Swift is both an active alcoholic because of her current boyfriend and a longtime alcoholic (probably neither are accurate)
- Were Meghan and Harry’s children really bor...
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April 19, 2024 • 35 mins
We’ve just learned that a fifth grader listens to this show (hi, Zarie!) and would consider a swear jar if the tabloids weren’t so… you know.
This week:
This week:
- A gross, sexist rundown of a feud between two Vegas strip clubs
- WHY DON’T WE GET TO SEE THE INSIDE OF MEGHAN MARKLE’S HOUSE?!?!?!? WHYYYYYY
- A small number of men commit a disgusting crime, and not only is it a widespread trend – it’s actually women’s fault for being mean :(
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April 12, 2024 • 37 mins
It was a total fail-clypse of the heart.
This week:
Find your hosts on Twitter @kristenmeinzer and @maurafcurrie, or Instagram @k10meinzer and @maura_fr...
This week:
- Netflix borrows a little too much from reality and makes Andrew look guilty of what many agree he looks guilty of
- The queer children of famous people are scrutinized for the sake of crafting a gay panic
- Cowboy Carter who? Your Western style icon is actually… Princess Anne.
Find your hosts on Twitter @kristenmeinzer and @maurafcurrie, or Instagram @k10meinzer and @maura_fr...
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April 5, 2024 • 31 mins
It’s a return to our regular failure format, friends.
This week:
This week:
- The Prince Andrew rehabilitation tour continues, inexplicably
- A study involving nose sizes and male anatomy involved a nonzero number of corpses
- JoJo Siwa, an adult person, enters a sex shop
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March 29, 2024 • 37 mins
With Kate’s now-public diagnosis of cancer, we wish the Princess all the best… but it hasn’t quieted down the tabloid maelstrom of ugliness, blame, and misdirection. The real question is: was it ever going to?In what we hope is our final special episode on #KateGate, we discuss what happened, what’s happening, and where we go from here.
Find your hosts on Twitter @kristenmeinzer and @maurafcurrie, or Instagram @k10meinzer and @maur...
Find your hosts on Twitter @kristenmeinzer and @maurafcurrie, or Instagram @k10meinzer and @maur...
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March 22, 2024 • 44 mins
IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode was released just hours before the Princess' announcement that she's receiving treatment for cancer. We're sending thoughts and love to Catherine and her family; please note, in the interim, that the information in this episode reflects our knowledge as of 3/21/2024.
KateGate is the gift (?) that keeps on giving. So, once again, we pry our tired eyes away from the tabloids and focus our attention on the ...
KateGate is the gift (?) that keeps on giving. So, once again, we pry our tired eyes away from the tabloids and focus our attention on the ...
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March 15, 2024 • 41 mins
IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode was recorded and released weeks prior to the Princess' announcement that she's receiving treatment for cancer. Our thoughts and best wishes are with her family.
Well, listeners, we thought we were going to return to our normal format this week… but Mother’s Day comes for us all.
So: this week, we discuss A Series of Unfortunate Photographs, a PR strategy best described as “wack,” and why everyone’s sayin...
Well, listeners, we thought we were going to return to our normal format this week… but Mother’s Day comes for us all.
So: this week, we discuss A Series of Unfortunate Photographs, a PR strategy best described as “wack,” and why everyone’s sayin...
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March 8, 2024 • 45 mins
IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode was recorded and released weeks prior to the Princess' announcement that she's receiving treatment for cancer. Our thoughts and best wishes are with her family.
This week, we break format and present a Very Special Episode™ all about the absolute debacle that has been Kate Middleton’s leave of absence.
What do we know? Where have the tabloids and the palace shot themselves in the foot? And why, exactly, h...
This week, we break format and present a Very Special Episode™ all about the absolute debacle that has been Kate Middleton’s leave of absence.
What do we know? Where have the tabloids and the palace shot themselves in the foot? And why, exactly, h...
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March 1, 2024 • 33 mins
If you like piña fail-ladas / and getting caught in the rain of stories that make no sense and are bad oh god please send help
This week:
This week:
- A West End production of a play about different experiences of racism offers shows for people who experience racism differently, Tories aghast
- Prince Andrew is doing so good! And no we’re not going to mention the other stuff
- You are a walking red flag and it’s destroying your chances at finding ...
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February 23, 2024 • 31 mins
Is fail an aesthetic? Can we make it one? This week, we’re joined by Dr. Jonathan Zelken — plastic surgeon to the stars and astute assessor of all aesthetic propagandizing.
Story-wise:
Story-wise:
- Heidi Pratt says she’s not on Ozempic (but she is still doing a product placement about it)
- How do rich people defy age and not look like decrepit goblins at 40?
- Here are the tells that reveal your age (derogatory)
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February 16, 2024 • 32 mins
Will you be our fail-entines? This week:
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- If King Charles has cancer, so do… all Americans?
- Jill Biden is a puppeteer mastermind and also a medical doctor (actually she is neither)
- Meghan and Harry don’t deserve last names 😡
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February 9, 2024 • 33 mins
Don’t hate the fail, hate the game. Actually, hate all of it. This week:
- There is no better time to rehash the monarch’s various horse-related injuries than… a cancer diagnosis?
- Nobody wants to hang out with Harry :(
- Taylor Swift is in the pocket of the NFL, because obviously she needs them more than they need her (?)
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February 2, 2024 • 32 mins
Happy Fail-bruary. This week:
- Prince William, father of three children, must actually parent his children
- Rich women are undateable because men must be able to be providers or they’ll die
- Elizabeth Moss is pregnant, so we simply must come up with ways to make her look like a floozy
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January 26, 2024 • 31 mins
Flipping the fail bird. This week:
- The hot, successful figurehead of a very successful show is actually a recovering addict, and therefore a bad person <3
- Kate Middleton is in the hospital for something that will not kill her, but that’s not stopping anyone from melodrama
- Diet like a pro and keep it a secret from all of your loved ones!*
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January 19, 2024 • 33 mins
In the fail caucus, the winner is… nobody. This week:
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- The late Queen, a notable owner of things, actually only owned her name and was devastated when Harry and Meghan… took it from her?
- The advent of Ozempic reveals that body positivity was always a joke, and women were always crazy <3
- Prince Harry is either a prodigious pilot or a stolen valor idiot, depending on the day
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January 12, 2024 • 27 mins
Let us light up the dead of winter with these shimmering, transcendent fails. This week:
- Ivanka Trump is a nepo baby, so once again we don’t have to talk about the other stuff
- These famous people are going to RFK Jr.’s party (by which we mean they’re going out of their way to not do that)
- Women, noted slags, fall out of love with men as a marriage progresses, and there’s ReALLy nO GoOd ReAsOn
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January 5, 2024 • 29 mins
2024 is coming in hot with the fails, and we’d expect nothing less. This week:
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- The British monarchs are #thriving, and even if they weren’t, everyone else is definitely worse at this
- A woman of color is directing a Star War and it’s gonna be a woke flop
- A 16-year-old darts whiz is dating a 21-year-old darts amateur and what is happening
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December 29, 2023 • 27 mins
Fail Lang Syne? Auld Lang Fail? Either way, pass the eggnog. This week:
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- The Jackman family’s gingerbread house still happened this year and still looks beautiful even though divorce and heartbreak and whatever
- That actress from Love, Actually is old now (yuck!) and unrecognizable (she is not)
- The apocalypse is coming for your phones, and this cybersecurity company is looking pointedly at you to do something
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December 22, 2023 • 31 mins
You better watch out / You better not cry / You better not fail / We’re telling you why… This week:
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- Jinger Duggar, a survivor of a literal cult, wore jeans. Whose side are you on about it?!
- Sydney Sweeney has boobs, and who cares if they’re uncomfortable?! Because men don’t! (it’s giving Men Write Women)
- Kate Middleton as a baby looked vaguely like her son as a baby, proving that genetics are a thing
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