Fail Better with David Duchovny

Lemonada Media

To be human is to fail – period. And not just to fail once, but to fail a lot. As the author Samuel Beckett said: “Fail again. Fail better.” This saying means a lot to me and my family – so much so that my daughter got a tattoo of it. Why are we, and so many others, so deeply concerned by failure? And if it’s something we all do so often, why are we so afraid of it – especially those of us here in win-at-all-costs America? In this podcast, I sit down with successful, thoughtful people like Ben Stiller, Bette Midler, Sean...

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Fail Better with David Duchovny

Episodes (98)

Tuesday Fail Again: Failure, Freedom, and ‘Friends’ with Maggie Wheeler
Feb 24th Fail Again: Kumail Nanjiani’s New Ambition
Feb 17th Fail Again: Kathleen Hanna’s Music is Her Message

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Mar 3, 2026
1¼ hours
60 MB

This episode originally aired February 11, 2025 While Maggie Wheeler is known by millions as the iconic Janice on ‘Friends’, she has been my real-life friend for even longer. Back in the late 80s, we made our film debuts together, playing former lovers, which is a distinction we shared in real life, even at that time. And we’ve stayed close even as our lives and careers went off in the various ways lives and careers go. She and I talk about things that I knew she went through, and things I didn’t know until now. The mistreatment that Mag...

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Fail Again: Failure, Freedom, and ‘Friends’ with Maggie Wheeler

Lemonada Media

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