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Fail Better with David Duchovny

Looking Back: One Year of Fail Better

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6534 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It’s finally here: the one-year anniversary of the launch of Fail Better. This moment brought out a lot of feelings and jokes about what it’s meant to make this show and have the conversations I’ve had, and you get to hear me talk about that here. Then I play one of my favorite interviews I’ve had, with the one and only Rosie O’Donnell, who enthusiastically joined me in challenging the standard format and purpose of a podcast episode. It was a special conversation with a special person, and one that I think represents this show pretty damn well. Cheers to a year, and to more conversations to come. Rosie O'Donnell’s famous friends tell her she’s no good at being a celebrity. And if she’s honest, she’s never really felt like one. Despite her iconic roles and mass appeal, Rosie says she always identified more with the viewers at home rather than the stars she was interviewing on her long-running talk show. We got together in person to discuss all this, plus the devastating loss she suffered as a child, and what we both think about meeting fans at conventions. Rosie might feel iffy about fame, but that doesn’t mean the “it” factor that propelled her there isn’t still a driving force in her creative and personal life. And she’s continued to inspire others, too — just ask Eminem. Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our shows and get bonus content. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's morning in New York.

0:02.8

Oh, God.

0:06.2

Hey, everybody.

0:07.3

I'm Mandy Patinkin.

0:08.7

And I'm Catherine Grady.

0:09.8

And we have a new podcast.

0:11.7

It's called Don't Listen to Us.

0:14.1

Many of you've asked for our advice.

0:16.1

Tell me, what is wrong with you people?

0:19.2

Don't listen to us.

0:20.3

Our Take It or Leave a Adv Device show every Wednesday, out now.

0:24.7

A Lemonada Media Original.

0:30.0

Hey, Fail Betterers.

0:33.2

That's what you're called now.

0:35.1

Can you believe we're about to mark the one-year anniversary of Fail Betterers?

0:39.8

We launched this show on May 5th, 2024, and since then I've gotten to speak with so many incredible guests, reflect on my own shortcomings, and explore the ways in which failure shapes us all.

0:51.7

Has it been a successor of failure? Well, you know, it's been both,

0:56.0

which is what we've been learning on this thing. One of the things that I have learned talking to

1:01.3

people about failure and success has been that there seems to be very little difference between

1:06.8

the two. And it's much in the way you react to what just happened, you know. And it all comes

1:15.6

down to kind of just resilience and the ability to say, okay, what's next? It's been a fun ride because I've

1:24.4

gotten to meet new people and talk to people that I admire or whose journeys

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