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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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01:18:57

Lindy and Meagan are Full of Garmonbozia

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

2026/01/01

HAPPY NEW YEAR, OLD MEN/NEW BABIES!It is 2026 (jump scare) and your BBWs are slithering from their clammy shells after a season of stewing in their holiday juices. This is our final post-season rerun, and we cannot wait to return to your tender ears next week with a host of new resolutions and intentions. But in the meantime, you can Pre-Taped Call-In Show us at (703) 829-0003! What do you intend to do about 2026? We also sincerely are so thankful for you and all our beautiful Patrons. Thank you

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01:04:27

Lindy and Meagan Ain’t Gonna Hurtcha None (with Alice...

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

2025/12/25

Ho ho ho!!!!!We know your horse is lean and lank without fresh BBWs in your ears this cold December, but we don’t want you to be too upsot. You’ve all been sooo good this year that we’ve decided to give you two really special gifts: 1) The first gift is knowing your BBWs are taking some time off and are in full festering mode on their respective couches and floorbeds. 2) And the second little gift is a delicious re-air of a Pledge Drive ep with perfect angel Alice Wetterlund. We’re talking

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01:13:19

Lindy and Meagan Ride the Gon-doo-doo-la with Big Ron

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

2025/12/18

‘Tis a long cold December without thine BBWS. But fear not! For we bring you the gladdest tiding of all: an episode with certified snack Ronald Young, Jr.! We uncovered this from our Pledge Drive Archives, and we know ALL of our fellow BBWs out there will be delighted anew by Big Ron’s presence. Plus, in this episode Lindy FAMOUSLY recaps the Phantom of the Opera Wikipedia, extending the Erik from the Sewers lore. If you missed our Pledge Drive lives on Youtube for some unthinkable/unknowable

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01:03:34

Lindy and Meagan Run it Back (Featuring Guy Branum!)

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2025/12/11

Rerun? What’s that? Don’t be mad at us! We’re taking a little seasonal break BUT WE STILL HAVE SOME GREAT STUFF RUNNING ON THE FEED TO KEEP YOU FED. Today, we are revisiting our iconic Pledge Drive 2025 ep featuring Emmy award winning writer Guy Branum. Guy shares his recent experience being fat on an airplane (not a crime) wherein he was assaulted (crime). Just a little reminder to – as Meagan says – pack your patience this traveling season. Download a few of our early episodes to keep you cozy

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01:27:45

Lindy and Meagan Have a Complicated Relationship with...

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2025/12/04

Today we bring you the gift of all gifts. Hop onto your lean and lank little horsie because we are officially kicking off the holidays with the full-length German carol SCHLITTENFAHRT. You are preemptively WELCOME. No thank you notes required, simply head on over to Patreon.com/textmebackpod to tell us how much you love it and how much you adore us. And if you are as obsessed with our legendary Jingleheimer Robert as we are AND you live near Carmel, Indiana, giddy up that jinglehorse and go see

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00:41:26

Lindy and Meagan’s Out of Office Auto-Reply (The Cozy...

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2025/11/27

We are swaddling you back into one of favorite and coziest episodes of all time, the ORIGINAL Cozy Episode (2023). And if you can believe it, little has changed. We are still subbing out our antidepressants for gallons of Pennsylvania Dutch, and we are still into electric blankies. But we hate to leave you with a dope beat to step to, so TUNE IN FOR NEW LORE. Lindy has an untrademarked holiday that you can take for your own and baby you’ll NEVER guess what they call it.Next week we’ll be back

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01:17:22

Lindy and Meagan are Cuckoo for Cuckoo Clocks

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

2025/11/20

What a smörgåsbord of delights in this episode. We introduce MULTIPLE new segments:Lindy’s Dream 💭💤Meagan Doesn’t Have Any Situational Awareness Lindy’s Stupidest Hyperfixation Yet!As well as returning to a few fan favorites:Dog Thoughts x I Can Fix Her (🎀 Floorbed Edition 🎀)Whatcha Watchin’ And don’t forget to grab your go-bags, because we’re talking disaster preparedness!!! What do you do when the power goes out? How did you shelter in place as a kid in your weird part of the world? We’re

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01:14:29

Lindy and Meagan are Two (HUNDRED) Years Old!

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2025/11/13

Welcome to our BICENTENNIAL (??) EPISODE!In this famous Text Me Back episode you will experience the feeling of aging two years in just 75 minutes! We start off strong with a We Done Done It Again (Dept. of Corrections) where we humbly correct the record to share that Jeff Merkley (of Senatorial fame) stood BY HIS OWN POWER NONSTOP for 22 hours. We got it twisted, and we generally advise against that! And since Text Me Back is your go-to political podcast, Lindy quizzes herself LIVE! How many US

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00:51:17

Lindy and Meagan Become the Joe Rogan of the Left...

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

2025/11/06

ONE STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING THE JOE ROGAN OF THE LEFT. That’s what they’re saying! Hello and welcome back to Text Me Back Podcast, the ONLY podcast with a segment called JEFF. This week’s Jeff: Famously good-humored U.S. Senator of Oregon Jeff Merkley. He’s here to ring-a-ding-ding those authoritarian alarm bells and give us a layout of how our Democracy is imperiled, and why the fight is still very much worth fighting. He’s focused on sharing 1) moves from the authoritarian playbook 2) the

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01:10:39

Lindy and Meagan are Pumping Your Nads (Politically)

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

2025/10/30

This week, Meagan is processing last week’s spectacular Seattle Mariners loss to the ToronTOE Blue Jays. Thank you to all our listeners who attended Meagan’s pity party, gifting her nothing but kindness. We also got an incredible write-in from friend of the show Cailin!! Thank you for your corroborating evidence that Meagan was among the Most Insp.! And if you’re former coach Brian, we’re waiting on you to write in, you coward, we KNOW you’re listening!!!!! We’re standing by our phone waiting for

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01:24:55

Lindy and Meagan are Decrepit Zombie Salmon

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

2025/10/23

Did you hear what they were talking about on Text Me Back this week??They spent 45 minutes on bloody diarrhea, 45 minutes on obscure Seattle mascots, and an hour and half on walking downhill!! And in our tidings…Lindy gives us the latest on Barry, who is fine, probably! Pre-order Adult Braces now! Most of those dollars will go to Barry’s $4500 vet bill!!!! And in other news, the rumor is that Meagan’s hat had nothing to do with the Seattle Mariners losing the ALCS??? Or is she SOLELY

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01:15:29

Lindy and Meagan are Shlittenfahrting at the...

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

2025/10/16

We asked, and you jingle-jangled our dang phone off the hook. Thank you to all our beautiful jingle horses who called and texted in to tell us that you too exist within Lindy’s Mandela mind. But the mystery continues…we, we MUST find the original Wee Sing Christmas. Is it in Lindy’s piano bench? Is it in her OTHER piano bench??? Only one way to find out (looking inside both benches). And special shoutout to Robert aka OUR ANGEL for calling in with a special German rendition of Jingle Bells!!!! We

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01:16:39

Lindy and Meagan Están en La Biblioteca

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

2025/10/09

Welcome to Text Me Back Podcast: A FILM Podcast!!!Somehow no spoilers, but we are talking about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Have you seen??? This is what our Discord was made for…just SAYinnnng. You’re one little Patreon subscription away from your people over at https://www.patreon.com/TextMeBackPod. Besides being ~film critics~ we are also debunking the Mandela Effect so we’re basically WOMEN IN STEM TOO!!! Did Lindy alienate you by tearing down possibly your only hope that

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01:23:41

Lindy and Meagan Are Trapped in the Walk-In Freezer

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2025/10/02

Y’all…you are sick and we hope you never get well.This week we wanted to highlight some of our favorite moments from people’s princess and Emmy award winning writer Guy Branum, people’s princess and star of stage and Twitch stream Alice Wetterlund, and people’s menace and certified snack Ronald Young, Jr. Honorable mention and pre-emptive RIP to Meagan’s Emo-Meter 🌡️and a Very Special shoutout to the fine curators of the Phantom of the Opera wiki. And you all? You showed UP for us. It seems

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01:06:34

Lindy and Meagan Say the Fattest Thing You’ve Ever...

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

2025/09/25

Lindy and Meagan were LIVE! If you’re reading this, you have ONE MORE DAY to tune into our week of livestreams on Youtube.com, the only YouTube. 9pm ET // 8pm Central // 6pm PT. Enjoy ALL of our previous lives only at: https://www.youtube.com/@textlindyandmeaganback And definitely consider joining our Patreon at www.patreon.com/TextMeBackPod. In today’s episode, you hear some glad tidings from Lindy’s Florida trip! From the clear waters of Florida’s panhandle to — in the words of

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01:05:52

Lindy and Meagan Got PWNED by God’s Influencer

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

2025/09/18

🎺🎀SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 🎀🎺Next week, we at Text Me Back Podcast (The Only Podcast) are launching our 1st Annual Pledge Drive LIVE on youtube.com!!!! The chat will be open, new merch will be dropping, and on Monday 9/22, the INCREDIBLE SAMANTHA IRBY (of the Text Me Back extended universe!!!) will be joining us! What will MHM’s thermometer look like? Will Lindy’s rat tails survive? Will they say something cancellable live and be ousted from the podcast landscape forever?? Only three timezones and

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01:39:42

Lindy and Meagan and Big Ron are the Biggest Losers

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

2025/09/11

This week we have something delicious for our BBLs. We’re doing one big round juicy segment with our angel/tormentor Big Ron aka Ronald Young Jr.!!!! The topic? The Biggest Loser documentary Fit for TV. Which brings us to.. 🚨CONTENT WARNING 🚨 Discussion of: the fat shot drug, people sometimes getting less cute when they lose weight (scream emoji), and extreme diets and extreme weight loss.

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01:06:18

Lindy and Meagan Violate the Sacred Listener Trust

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

2025/09/04

🚨CONTENT WARNING 🚨We did a couple bad things in this episode including:We play clips from that guy we hate (skip first 4min if you literally cannot, we get it!)We violate the No-Giggle Pledge about that guy we hateWeekend at Donny’s: Donald Trump is dead???We continue to talk about the Gaylord Texan waterpark closure 😔 Plus NORMAL BREAKING NEWS:Not one but TWO new jingles??? Shrew updates (you’ll never guess what the final tally is)Ned!!!!!!!! Textmebackolytes, we need you oiled, suited,

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01:16:21

Lindy and Meagan Start an Insurrection at the Gaylord...

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

2025/08/28

What’s up, Gaylords?? (← texas reference)This week, Lindy and Meagan hit the dusty trails again with their tiny influencer mics. That’s right. These two BBWs take BBW flights to Dallas, Texas for Podcast Movement, the only movement. And where else would they rest their gorgeous heads but at THE Gaylord Texan? The place where the DALLAS COWBOY CHEERLEADERS live?? So we’re networking, we’re being networked at, we’re eating chicken, we’re eating pickles. A-plot? No spoilers, but it involves a zip

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01:27:16

Lindy and Meagan are Breast Friends with Kelsey McKinney

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

2025/08/21

You won’t believe who we have on the podcast today. She’s a Philly’s fan and a Gritty stan 🔔 she’s anti-youth culture 🫶 and she washed these guys 💇‍♀️that’s right it’s… KELSEY MCKINNEY.

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