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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…
Episodes
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Shlittenfahrting at the Christmas Market
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Están en La Biblioteca
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Are Trapped in the Walk-In Freezer
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Say the Fattest Thing You’ve Ever Heard in Your Life to Samantha Irby
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Got PWNED by God’s Influencer
🎺🎀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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan and Big Ron are the Biggest Losers
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Violate the Sacred Listener Trust
🚨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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Start an Insurrection at the Gaylord Texan
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Breast Friends with Kelsey McKinney
You won’t believe who we have on the podcast today. She’s a Phillies fan and a Gritty stan 🔔 she’s anti-youth culture 🫶and she washed these guys 💇♀️that’s…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Fundamentally Misunderstand the Moon
Hi besties! This week Lindy and Meagan are here with Tidings (vole/shrew updates), Two Minutes Hate (featuring a special guest and piping hot takes on a…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Alienate Bestie Guesties Liz Feldman and Jessi Klein
We’re back, sweeties! Can you believe? Lindy is dying to know: how ARE you?? This week we are joined by new best friends Liz Feldman and Jessi Klein! We’re…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Yam What They Yam
You guysssssss, guess whaaaaat?? We’re basically back! We are thrilled to share the long lost Popeye segment recorded in a special tin can! Forget everything…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
PATREON EXCLUSIVE! Guy Branum Says Baby Reindeer Is NOT Good for the Fats!
Another perfectly timely conversation with pop cultural commentary that remains at the top of everyone's minds!!!! This week we resurface a Patreon Exclusive…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Are Watchin’ BritBox, Innit??!
We’re awake, we’re awake! That’s right, Lindy and Meagan are WIDE AWAKE and here to share a super special previously-only-found-on-Patreon episode from our…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Choo Choo Choose Chaos (EXTENDED WIZARD EDITION!)
Listen, we gatekept just a little 🤏. We’ve been dimming the full light of this famous episode on the main so that our Patrons could revel in a megawatt jolt of…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Leave You with a Dope Beat to Step To
Okay faithful listeners!! DON’T PANIC but this is the last episode before our summer break! We hope you too are preserving your sanity in whatever way you can…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Coiled to Strike the Baby
First up, Amy Klobuchar…did our BBW invite get lost in the mail? Did we bump our heads and forget that we were honored attendees?? Ames?????? But headlining…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Decommission Their Dragon
This week, we’re happy to report that Hat Girl Summer continues with some incredible reporting from the Grace Jones concert that Meagan attended. HAT. She made…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Having a Hat Girl Summer
This week, Lindy wears a hat!!!! It’s Hat Girl Summer, and Lindy is patient zero. We know that could be the whole episode, BUT we have business to discuss. We…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Professors in Stinkonomics
Important Mormon intel. A correction re: our innate sense of rhythm. The FaT ShoT DruG (that isn’t working). A new installment of Liam Neeson, Help! Lindy has…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are NOT Throwing Tarantulas
We would like to humbly announce that we are ✨ready ✨ to accept that Golden Globe for Podcasting despite them not being particularly interested!!! We won’t let…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Scoot Scoot Scootin’ on Heaven’s Door
Ayyy no Nazi Pope! We’ll never put ketchup on a hot dog again! We’re on a new beat today called RELIGION 🙏👼 With America’s personality rankings in the toilet…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Are Sick at the Pool Party (feat. Sam Irby!)
This week, Lindy is dying :/ Bye girl!!! But the show must go on! So this week we are releasing a very special episode. An abridged semi-exclusive limited…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Hit Their Faces with Tiny Hammers
We have so many new delights to share with you. First off, we’re GORGEOUS?? Lindy washes her bangs and Meagan is absolutely slathered in rouge. Tune into our…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are OVER the Moon
HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM! GET 👏US 👏OUTTA HERE 👏 Last week dire wolves, this week…Gayle King is in space? You might think that all of the world’s problems have…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Do Impressions
Hello faithful Text Me Backolytes and welcome new listeners (we’re sorry in advance to newbies! You could not have chosen a more wild starting place, but…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan on Planes, Trains, and Subarus
If you thought Lindy’s train adventure was an unhinged delight YOU ARE IN FOR A TREAT. This week it’s Meagan who hits the dusty trail on a trek from…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Are Robbed at Fang Point
This week, Lindy and Meagan submit a heartfelt notes app apology. We are so sorry to all the snakes and worms and devoted listeners out there. To help mend…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Bring Unsettling Energy to the Hype House
Lindy is running on the fumes of borrowed youth, and Meagan is one (1) glass of wine deep. This is the opposite of a Magic Mind episode where we’re cool…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Lead as Two Kings
Welcome to another classic episode of Text Me Back, where Lindy and Meagan, two self-appointed kings, tackle the most pressing issues of our time. See agenda…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Are in a Constitutional Crisis and 💫 So Are You 💫!
This week we continue a-milkin’ that New York cow! Um, excuse us? We are walking here. Meagan and Lindy make a brave break from their cozy hotel room into the…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Choo Choo Choose Chaos
Unearthed from their On Air Fest goodie bags, Lindy and Meagan discover little teensy influencer microphones! And if you know how jazzed one host in particular…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Sleep Their Way to the Top (with Big Fig AND Big Ron)
Today, Lindy and Meagan are recording this episode in their most natural state: lying down.That’s right–these two sleepy gals are broadcasting from a very…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Kind of Like, Chonkay
Deep-cut audio lore, chaotic jingles, and possibly altering the course of America—just another exceedingly normal episode of Text Me Back. 🚨🚨Hot Take Alert…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Crazy Ladies Livin’ in a Bag
Ass oil, Dongexploder, and The Puppies! If those words and phrases make sense to you, you’ve been perusing the Text Me Back Biki and are OBSESSED with us! This…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Start a Wikifeet Retirement Plan
Lots of news to get into today! First up, we start off with DOG THOUGHTS that includes an absolutely iconic voicemail from a very good husband listener named…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Bring Snakes to a Gun Fight
This week we welcome Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, our in-house private eye and bear oil enthusiast, who gives us some pretty hot gossip in this week’s Segment P.U.B.E.S…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Corner the Zombie Pig Demographic
A real embarrassment of riches over here on the Text Me Back side of the internet. First, we pay tribute to David Lynch, which bridges poetically into our next…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Have Dog Thoughts
We’re back again! And maybe this episode is slightly more normal than last week’s (complimentary)? We’re back on our Whatcha Watchin’ nonsense, and we’re…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Are Even Better BBWs in 2025
It may be the dead of winter, but in our hearts the clammy buds of spring are bursting–and so are Lindy and Meagan!—with squeaky-clean teeth, resolutions, and…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Hang Out with Andrew and Luke Again!
No one’s going hungry this week with your beloved TMBTL of the Dog hosts on the case. That’s right, Lindy and Meagan have teamed up once again with Luke and…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Can’t Just Buy One Donkey
BBW Updates! Corny Tyme! A nostalgic game! Lindy’s delirious brush with VH1 fame! This episode has it all! In this segment-stacked episode, Lindy and Meagan…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Get their Asses Got: LIVE at the Reser!
Who’s ready to laugh? 🫠 Last week a Bad Thing happened. But never fear! This week of healing started off strong with Lindy and Meagan heading to Portland for…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Recorded This Before The Bad Thing Happened
Oh how sweet and innocent we were when we recorded this ep one whole week before Election Day! Oh to be doubled up on Zoloft on this day! When we recorded this…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Accidentally Build a Haunted House
Happy Halloween! This week, Lindy and Meagan accidentally pull off a spook-filled episode. An eerie hamlet full of demigods! Warty pumpkins! Creepy crusties…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Pay off their Library Debt: LIVE!
This week, we’re LIVE from the Seattle Public Library! We have THREE special guests who we put to the test with a series of silly little games as well as high…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Take the No-Giggle Pledge (And You Can Too!)
This week, Lindy and Meagan come bearing two important pieces of news. First up, is a long-awaited update on Kevin’s nads. And equally important to report…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Claim the Coveted Title of Ink Master
This week Lindy and Meagan are 42% less rude than last week! We decompress after last week’s call outs and the Titan Submersible implosion recap (where the…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Call Out Assholes by Name
If Lindy and Meagan had a podcast back in June 2023, this episode would have been soooo timely. But they didn’t. So they’re covering the most important story…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan’s Appendect-isode
This week, Meagan returns from her near-death appendix betrayal! And she comes bearing many a tale from those hallowed hospital wings. Tales of: a murderous…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Have the Regular Number of Organs
In this week’s episode, Meagan’s appendix decides to take this “I Can Fix Her” segment to a whole new level and makes an unexpected break for it. And as a…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Tell State Secrets Near a Beluga Spy Whale (our bad!)
This just in: Lindy and Meagan are normal people bringing you the normalest news! They are wearing their normal uniforms (a bra), bringing you the normalest…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Maxi Pads in the Night Breeze
Sound the alarms, notify the press, we’re in our CHOCOLATE MILK ERA. Think chocolate milk couldn’t possibly fill 20+ minutes of an episode? THINK AGAIN…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Are the Michigan J. Frog of Podcasts
Hello, my babies, hello my darlins! This episode has UPDATES. This episode has IMPROV (husbands edition). This episode has mention of POLITICAL ACTIVISM IMBUED…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Get Shrill (Patreon Sneak Peek!)
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Stay on the Ones
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Discuss the Ups and Downs of Life
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan are Party Poopers
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Roll for Charisma
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…
- Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Lindy and Meagan Put the "AD" in ADHD
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…