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Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays

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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00:45:29

Lindy and Meagan Demand Hollywood Secrets from Guy...

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/05/09

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 cab ride with a freestyle-rapping Zac Efron and a personal betrayal by the hottest gay in Hollywood. Then, Meagan and Guy turn their legal and comedic

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59:26

Lindy and Meagan are Haterz with a Z

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/05/02

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 instead turn to necromancy -- bringing back two old segments from the dead: "I Can Fix Her," a segment about purchasing little items that will fix your

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01:01:37

Lindy and Meagan are Too Beautiful to Live

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/04/26

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 aesthetic pots and pans, catch an enormous spider, and ultimately get arrested for refusing to pay the barber at the Great Clips. ⋆｡°✩⋆｡°✩⋆｡°✩⋆｡°If you like this

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49:23

Lindy and Meagan Start a Donkey Fight Club

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/04/18

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 from literal famous person -- and Lindy's former college classmate -- Robert.Most importantly, we both experience a pretty significant mental breakdown

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57:08

Lindy and Meagan Violate a Man's Privacy

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/04/11

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 natural causes? Or were more nefarious forces at play here? Also, Lindy shares a horrifying and yet ultimately heartwarming tale involving deer entrails,

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46:50

Lindy and Meagan Solve All Their Psychological...

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/04/04

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 charisma (it turns out Lorraine wasn't the only hater out there)Bring you our FIRST INDEPENDENT MYSTERY -- thanks to Erin in Wisconsin (and the brand-new

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01:04:49

Lindy and Meagan Become Independent Women

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/03/28

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 our Patreon. This week’s episode is a banger of a send-off, with special guest BenDeLaCreme, world famous drag queen best known for her time on RuPaul’s

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60:13

Lindy And Meagan Do It Live

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/03/21

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 plays a truly epic round of FMK with the nine Supreme Court justices.Check out Angela's appearance on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, her TED Talk

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28:13

Lindy And Meagan Rig The Election

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/03/14

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, there’s much to discuss.And when Text Me Bracket is done — win or lose — you always did your best, because inside you knew… that forcing random people

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42:20

Lindy And Meagan Get Drafted

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/03/07

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 the dunks. And the dunks are incredible.)And speaking of drama, college basketball goes full-on Gladiator once a month with March Madness. Lindy and

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41:53

Lindy and Meagan Have Died of Dysentery

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/02/29

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, a covered wagon, a dimwitted guide, and an unhygienic missionary…that’s right, Oregon Trail is back, baby, and weirder than ever. Will Lindy and Meagan

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50:47

The Killer Comes For Lindy's Grandpa

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/02/22

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 internet. And Meagan reveals a long-buried memory from elementary school. Then, our courageous hosts share deeply creepy stories from the Text Me Back Text

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55:25

Taylor Lorenz's Version

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/02/15

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) Tech CEO edition.Want more Taylor? Of course you do! Go read her book: Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

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33:58

A LOTR Valentine's Bonus from TMB!

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/02/14

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. Lindy and Meagan bring in a special guest to answer listener questions about the beloved books and movies. Then the hosts play perhaps the spiciest game

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16:48

Lindy Wrote A Theme Song!

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/02/08

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 cringeworthy punishments the Australian government handed down to a couple who tried to bring their pets along on a visit. Come to Text Me Back Live! at

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38:10

A Very Paranormal Swamp Family Reunion

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/02/01

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 we venture into getting serious about democracy and the potentially growing power of the Supreme Court (see: Worst People of 2024). And, Lindy updates us

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47:18

A Killer Time With Samantha Irby

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/01/25

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 writer Samantha Irby enters the chat to explain how she got Miranda to beat up The Killer on an episode of Sex And The City reboot And Just Like

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49:39

Girls vs Ghouls

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/01/18

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 and Prejudice" adaptation? And, put down the Seattle pride and tell it like it is — are orcas or humpbacks the true king of the seas? Got a question or

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37:57

Conspiracies And Mysteries

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/01/11

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 TikTok to drive a wedge between Gen Z and millennials. And with the help of the intrepid Text Me Backolytes, Lindy and Meagan finally solve a mystery that's

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39:13

The Absolute Worst People of 2024

Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays ·

2024/01/04

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 question or accolades for Lindy and Meagan? Join the TMB Text Club! Text BFF to 206-926-9955. Or email us at textmeback@kuow.org. You can also follow the

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