Bestselling writer Lindy West and democracy policy expert Meagan Hatcher-Mays are two Award-Winning Best Friends From High School (Most Likely To Make You Laugh in their high school senior poll - sorry to intimidate you!). Each week, Lindy and Meagan hilariously digest what’s going on in the news, their lives and their text threads with their singular combination of political smarts, embarrassing sincerity, and a truly concerning level of investment in pop culture. Text Me Back is a podcast ...
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Lindy and Meagan Get Shrill (Patreon Sneak Peek!)
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Listen, we know you’ve been mulling over if you should invest in these two Better Business Women (BBWs) by supporting our Patreon. You are a savvy investor. You want to know where your dollars are going. Well, Sharks, we hear you, and that’s why this week we’re giving you a little sneak peek at Lindy and Meagan’s Patreon exclusive series 2 Shrill 2…
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This week is a grab bag special, which is a euphemism for “we forgot to plan anything for this episode,” and our hands are pulling out a special little treat from the archives. That’s right, it’s a stumble down memory lane where Lindy and Meagan talk about one of their early jobs working at Paul Allen’s musical history storage facility, Seattle’s E…
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Lindy and Meagan Discuss the Ups and Downs of Life
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This week Lindy kicks us off with an unforgettable Dave Matthews tribute, but don’t let that stop you from staying tuned, it doesn’t last that long! We have SO many segments today (3). First, we kick off with segment P.U.B.E.S, which is quickly becoming dedicated to our own biffs, blunders, and bad ethics, and this week we actually do include a hit…
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You know them from being blacklisted from the Bulgarian podcast charts. You know them from leading the boards in Estonia. And third most likely, you know them from their podcast Too Beautiful to Live! This week Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays sit down with Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh for round two of their crossover series, and Lindy did NOT h…
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It’s official, these two BBWs are breaking news left and right. Lindy and Meagan predict a Kamala presidential campaign (2024), break bad news about Harambe (2016), and give you the scoop about a hot new TV show called Freaks and Geeks (1999). Plus, this week we asked YOU if you agreed with the inspiration for our hyped up Larry Flynt bit and the r…
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Lindy and Meagan Put the "AD" in ADHD
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This episode has everything: curdled milk, tiny hats, the Tour de France, Big Gretch. And that’s all before the break! In our SECOND segment, we explore our favorite topic of the week: ads. Move over Don Draper, because these two BBWs are coming through to serve up some of the best commercial moments you’ve ever heard. NOTHING helps ease the discom…
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Lindy and Meagan are Officially BBWs
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This week, Lindy and Meagan kick things off with a bang as they officially claim the title of BBWs (Better Business Women)! They’ve been eating nothing but thick cheesy soups like Forbes or something recommended and they’re ready to share their big juicy half-researched headlines as they hustle their way to the tippy top of the podcasting world. Fo…
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Lindy and Meagan Love Their Proud Gay (78 Million Year Old) Son
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It’s a week of chaotic tidings for Lindy and Meagan that includes a befuddled Barry, rogue Cochin chickens, and snakes galore. Lindy’s spontaneous road trip has an unexpected ending, Meagan has an unhinged encounter with a live rooster on the streets of DC, and our beloved segment SNAKE OF THE WEEK is back. Move over Freekaconda and Titanoboa, new …
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Lindy and Meagan Corner the Husband Demographic
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This week we are proud to report that we have a husband listener! Welcome, buddy! And what a time to be a new listener and/or a husband, because in this episode Lindy and Meagan are doing the Lord’s work: ranking dragons. We’re talking about Smaug. We’re talking about Puff. We’re talking about…the other ones. BUT THEN, as if that wasn’t enough, Lin…
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Lindy and Meagan Ride Lizz Winstead’s Pontoon Boat
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This week's episode is hot hot hot—literally and figuratively. We’ve got a special guest! Our personal hero Lizz Winstead, who's been making waves in comedy and politics for decades. And Lindy does NOT make it weird. One dragon question per guest IS normal. Lizz Winstead is the co-creator and former head writer of The Daily Show, co-founder of Air …
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This week, Lindy and Meagan both realize that they've been having thoughts about dogs, which we're sharing in a new segment called DOG THOUGHTS. What if dogs could sweat? And what, exactly, is the nature of a dog's business? Then, we have a story from the Best Friend Party Phone about a piece of fan mail gone horribly wrong--a seemingly innocent le…
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Lindy and Meagan Imagine Dragons Beyond the Flat Earth Ice Wall
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What a day! Lindy delivers some hot hot hot breaking news: she's become a flat earther, for real, not a joke*, and you won't BELIEVE what finally pushed her over the edge, so to speak. (It involves one Instagram reel, two mysterious travelers, and an unconfirmed number of dragons.) Then, Meagan updates us on her DC swamp life in a new segment calle…
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Lindy and Meagan Need to Talk About Kevin
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This week, something has gone wrong with Meagan's brain and it's NOT a worm! It has something to do with finding an Amish dog named Kevin online, becoming hypnotized by his tiny bear face, then entering a fugue state and traveling to his location in Lancaster, PA with $850 in cash and the backing of literally dozens of listeners to purchase him. Is…
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Lindy and Meagan Agree: RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm Is NOT a Girls' Girl!
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In this week's episode, Lindy reveals that her neighborhood bear is BACK, and his threat level has been upgraded to "habituated trash bear." No pic-a-nic basket is safe! Lindy also breaks her silence on a secret she's been keeping about the band Imagine Dragons, and Meagan finally addresses the elephant in the room: does Lindy... not listen to musi…
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Lindy and Meagan Demand Hollywood Secrets from Guy Branum (Live!)
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In this week's episode, Lindy and Meagan are comin' atcha LIVE from the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival with a very special celebrity guest: actor, comedian, girls' girl, Hollywoodlandman, and kind of a lawyer(!!!), Guy Branum! Meagan and Lindy trick Guy into giving up the goods on every single celebrity encounter he has ever had, including a drunken ca…
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In this week's episode, Lindy and Meagan once again trick themselves into maybe becoming Christians?? Because Divine Providence has once again struck the podcast as holy connections are made between pubes, German composer George Frideric Handel, and the Text Me Backolytes who love them. Alas, Lindy and Meagan quickly dispense with beatification and…
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Lindy and Meagan are Too Beautiful to Live
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Hi Besties! It's here, the crossover episode the streets have been CLAMORING FOR! Sure, it was the streets of Longview, Washington, but the clamoring happened. We heard it. ...Anyway, this week Meagan and Lindy join forces with our besties Luke and Andrew from Too Beautiful to Live! We form a supergroup (eat it, Vedder!!!!!), fall victim to aesthet…
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Lindy and Meagan Start a Donkey Fight Club
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When the Best Friend Party Phone rings, Lindy and Meagan ANSWER. This week, we hear FROM YOU, our beloved Text Me Backolytes, with stories about the historical figures who make up the very Mount Rushmore of Text Me Back: a squirrel skull, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and a horny ghost. We also introduce two very special new songs to the lore, including one fr…
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Hi Besties! On this week's episode, Lindy apologizes for immediately failing at being a YouTuber, and Meagan brings sad news about a beloved Text Me Backolyte from the animal kingdom -- that's right, Lindy and Meagan are mourning the loss of the beautiful, enormous snake queen of the Amazon we grew to love, our beloved Freekaconda. Did she die of n…
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Lindy and Meagan Solve All Their Psychological Problems with Ozempic
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Hello? Are you seeing this? Is the podcast entering your earholes?? Then it must be true that your besties Lindy and Meagan FIGURED OUT HOW TO PODCAST!! Thank you for taking this journey with us, and we hope you enjoy our first-ever INDEPENDENT EPISODE, wherein we: Beg you for money Learn additional and even harsher lessons about the limits of our …
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Lindy and Meagan Become Independent Women
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All the women, who independent: throw your hands up at Lindy and Meagan because they are the Independent Women (Pt. 1) that Destiny’s Child foretold. That’s right, our beautiful partnership with KUOW is coming to a close — but never fear! The podcast will continue as an INDEPENDENT production! We hope you’ll consider supporting us by subscribing to…
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This week, Lindy and Meagan go LIVE in front of an audience at Town Hall Seattle! Meagan talks about the dude she almost fought at breakfast the morning of the show. Lindy explains why she missed her family reunion in Norway - and why Meagan went without her. Then celeb guest / bestselling author / world-class gift-giver / NBA fan Angela Garbes pla…
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For one shining moment you reached for the sky…and voted for the WINNER of Text Me Bracket, our deranged bracket game that pitted the Best Animals against the Worst People! This week, Lindy and Meagan announce the winner and talk through the intense matchups, the various losers, Cinderella stories, and devastating upsets. From Kayak Dad to Mr Darcy…
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Text Me Back takes on...sports?! OK, hang on. We know your elegant pointer finger is hovering over the skip button right now. But Lindy and Meagan promise you…NBA basketball is actually funny as hell and more dramatic than Love Is Blind. And you don't even really have to watch the games to get the top-shelf comedy. (Although that's where you see th…
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This week on Text Me Back, the greatest podcast in the history of media, Lindy and Meagan dive into their texts to share some hard truths: Tom Cruise is great! Chris Pratt is actually funny? Sorry, discourse, but we need to discuss our problematic faves. And, your intrepid hosts have departed Independence, Missouri, with nothing more than a dream, …
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This week, Lindy and Meagan can barely contain themselves because they're recording the show in the same room for the first time in Text Me Back history! And unfortunately, the room they're recording in is probably haunted! Speaking of history, Lindy reveals the blockbuster information she uncovered about her own family's history thanks to the inte…
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This week on Text Me Back, particularly poignant hosts Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays get scammed by the airline industry and online retailer Saks Off Fifth. Then, bestselling author and Internet historian Taylor Lorenz gives us a reality check on the government PSYOP creating cringe millennial content. She also joins us for a round of FMK(W) T…
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Text Me Back! hosts / everyone's soul mates Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays understand that Valentine's Day is a made-up holiday. But they love you so much, they made this special Valentine's Day bonus episode just for you anyway! It's chock full of previously unreleased content about Lindy and Meagan's true love, the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. …
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Did you know Lindy once wrote and performed a whole entire 80's sitcom-style theme song for this podcast? She did! And did you know Australia will come for you if you try to sneak a plant or animal in? Meagan knows all too well! In this little mini-episode, you'll hear the podcast theme song that almost was. And you'll learn about one of the more c…
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This week on Text Me Back!, condiment fanatic hosts Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, ketch-up for the first time in a long time. Meagan fills us in on the details of which long and boring film she watched that will likely get an Oscar and Lindy had a close encounter with a revenant relative. Then, Doug Lindner, a VIP from Swamp Town, joins us as…
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This week on Text Me Back, generally optimistic hosts Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays allow themselves exactly 4 minutes of time total to hate on Senator Dick Durbin and cream cheese frosting. Then, Lindy and Meagan get too scared to shower after reading some listeners' real-life close calls with The Killer. And bestselling author and beloved TV…
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This week on Text Me Back!, all-star championship hosts, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays debate a teeny tiny selection of historical battles--from the cinema to the sea. That's right it's the versus, verzuz? episode. First up, a journey across time for the best congressional duels. Then, we settle an age-old question: Which is the best "Pride an…
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This week on Text Me Back!, ever-vigilant hosts Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays reveal they actually really dislike unsolved mysteries. But they press onward anyway, talking about their own recent brushes with mysteries both IRL and online. Meagan uses the podcast to platform her own conspiracy theory that a shadowy government cabal is using Tik…
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This week on Text Me Back!, part-time vegan hosts, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, discuss the new years resolutions that will plague them year-round. Then, they reveal the nominees for the worst people of 2024. Hint: an actor turned megalomaniac chocolatier and a conservative sexpartite tie. And, finally, as promised, sss-snakes! Got a questio…
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Happy cozy high holidays! This week, our beloved hosts Lindy and Meagan walk along the sunny shores of yesterday by bringing back some of their favorite conversations from past episodes of Text Me Back!. This is a perfect episode to share with your besties who haven't listened yet, by the way! Our holiday buffet includes: Lindy and Meagan's friends…
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One Episode To Rule Them All: TMB Does LOTR
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"We come to it at last, the great podcast of our time." - Gandalf, sort of Intrepid hosts Lindy and Meagan battle common dismissals of the fantasy genre and tell us what they love and don't love about the beloved series The Lord Of The Rings. And speaking of beloved, would you marry Gimli or Aragorn? Kill Frodo or Pippin? The hosts play the most ep…
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Hello friends! We wanted to share this fun episode of the WBEZ podcast Nerdette with you all. If you're looking for your next favorite read, look no further! Host Greta Johnsen and her professional book lovers - Miwa Messer, host of Barnes & Noble’s book podcast Poured Over, and Andrew Limbong, host of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast – talked all abo…
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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Swampmas
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This week on Text Me Back!, humbled besties, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, dig into the ethics of delicious and plentiful canapes at elite DC holiday parties. Then, they break out the jam band deep cuts for a spanking new podcast nickname. And of course, a crowd sourced plea to solve a 20 year old mystery hidden in the film Big N Hairy (1998)…
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This week on Text Me Back!, Lindy and Meagan, aka feral bog twins, aka two feminist podcast geniuses, wade through their many pieces of listener tidings and fan mail….and their one confidently wrong piece of hate mail. Together they'll teach us how to keep our long distance besties, explain which girl boss should have retired from the Supreme Court…
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This week on Text Me Back!, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays confront the top three bullies: their pets, Trump and his fear of sharks, and...themselves. Because maybe bullies were the best friends we made along the way. Got questions for Meagan about the baffling inner workings of our democracy? Or for Lindy about snakes? Got a friendship dilemma…
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This week on Text Me Back!, woke-pilled hosts Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, denounce Th*nksgiving and the worst holiday meat. It's Cozygiving! and these besties are taking a big sip of eggnog and pulling up their electric blankets. Then, Meagan gives voice to the trials and tribulations of watching every single episode of Emmy award winning d…
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This week on Text Me Back!, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays get deep and personal about living in the woods and Christian Girl Autumn. Then, Lindy digs up every kernel of fact about Iowa. Yes, we're talking about Iowa again! And why is everything we need to make our lives better a grout cleaner and a pebble ice machine? Got questions for Meagan …
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ATTENZIONE PODCAST! In our very first episode of Text Me Back!, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays tell the origin story of their unstoppable best friendship, and Meagan reveals some much-discussed hot goss from within her DC-insider-swamp-person circles. Then, Lindy and Meagan put on their media analyst hats to discuss breaking vampire news from a…
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LAUNCH DAY IS ALMOST HEEEEERE! The first full episode of Text Me Back! comes out on November 9th. To tide you over, here's another lil sneak preview of the show. In this clip, Meagan and Lindy take on a (literally) huge issue - the largest whale that ever existed, and its underwhelming name. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See …
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We're so excited to get Lindy and Meagan in your earholes that we wanted to share this little sneak preview of the show. In this 5-minute chat, Meagan tells Lindy about a TikTok wormhole she's fallen down. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://ar…
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Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays (Official Trailer)
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Text Me Back is a weekly conversation and comedy podcast about best friendship and making your favorite people laugh even when the world gets you down. It’s created and hosted by NYT bestselling author Lindy West and judiciary and democracy policy expert Meagan Hatcher-Mays, two Award-Winning Best Friends (holders of the prestigious Most Likely To …
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