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 about best friendship and making your favorite people laugh, even when this dumpster fire of a world gets you down.
Episodes
Horsey got them BELL BOTTOM LEGS!
Welcome back, darlings, form your intrepid and barely alive hosts! MARIO LOPEZ IS GONNA RUN VENEZUELA and things simply could not be more regular.
After a beautiful month of resting and festering, we slither back to you in worse shape than ever. Why? The CDC will never tell 🙉and that’s also good and normal!!!!
First on the agenda: Tidings! Lindy and Meagan share their favorite little g...
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?
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...
‘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.
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 patien...
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 ar...
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 ow...
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 d...
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 M...
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...
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 co...
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 nothin...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lindy and Meagan were LIVE!
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In today’s episode, you hear some glad tidings from Lindy’s F...
🎺🎀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...
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.
🚨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 hate
- Weekend 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 ne...
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 ch...
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