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.
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We are still riding the high of last week’s pledge drive! For everyone who tuned in for the live, you’re legally our children now and we love you. So many people upgraded their Patreon memberships, wrote in with bestie esstays, connected in the Discord, and brought so much joy to our week. Asking for support is hard! And you all made it easy for us. Guess we’ll keep making the pod :/
Welcome back to Swamp Person! Today we welcome our first GUEST. Her name is Jenny Hunter, and she’s a labor lawyer and writer based in DC. And we are so excited to be answering some important questions about LABOR UNIONS + THE SUPREME COURT.
THINGS WE TALK ABOUT:
- First things first: Jenny’s cat Smokey
- The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), what it does for workers, and what the Supreme Court is doing to u...
Today we have a listener question coming in from one Lindy W. of the Washington State area: How come sometimes the Supreme Court issues a ruling that doesn’t make us want to claw our eyeballs out? Sometimes Clarence Thomas decides NOT to p*ss in our mouths??? Is that on purpose?
Political wonk and THEE swamp person Meagan Hatcher-Mays has answers!
Topics covered:
-Meagan Hatcher-Mays, swamp wonk credentials and intro to this pod...
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We’re getting AMPED for next week’s Second Annual BBLs for BBWs Pledge Drive: Send us to Kazakhstan: The Two Towers!!!! Be sure to tune into your YouTube youtube.com/@textmebackpod next week, October 5th through October 8th!
We’re doing four nights of IN PERSON LIVE STREAMS to delight and enchant you, and our goal?? SEND US TO SEE RICKY MARTIN IN KAZAKHSTAN!!! To do that we need new subscribers and so we want...
BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS!
- Our Second Annual BBLs for BBWs Pledge Drive is BACK baby!!! October 5th thru October 8th! Four nights of live streaming on the Youtube youtube.com/@textmebackpod. Special guest(s)! BIG PRIZES. Secrets! Rumors! Pranks! We want YOU to get your bestie involved. Stay tuned for all the details on patreon.com/textmebackpod
- AND because we’re already obsessed with your best friend(s) we are announcing our ...
First on the agenda, we are rage-baiting the Brits. You think the best of Wisconsin and Kentucky couldn’t keep up with lads out on a foggy London night? You’re saying the people of the USA cannot handle the sweltering heat? Bruv we have been sweating since birth. IT’S NOT THE (33℃) HEAT, IT’S THE 128% HUMIDITY!!!! Angry British people, please direct your complaints to deartextmeback@gmail.com.
We are also tal...
Ding ding ding!! School is back in session!!! Everyone take your seats!
Today Lindy and Meagan present TIDINGS: What We Did On Summer Vacation. Please write in to let us know what you got into and if you missed us as much as we missed you!! Did you HAKAS orrr?
As summer comes to an end, we’re depending on you for some local reporting. Write in to deartextmeback@gmail.com and tell us why your local deer will live forever, what h...
Guest what Textmebackolytes…we’re ONE WEEK AWAY from new episodes and new unhinged content, bad ideas, and broken brains. We miss you weirdos!! We need 7 more days to pull ourselves together and apply our lace front beard wigs. So today we are re-airing one of our favorite eps featuring the INCREDIBLE Franchesca Ramsey.
Franchesca’s presence punctures one of the central tenets of Text Me Back - for SHE has a podca...
Guess what ding dongs? We’re on BREAK. We’re ALLOWED to do that, and we think you should all quit your jobs and take to the open sea with us.
But lucky for all listeners out there who are THIRSTY for content and yet cannot bring themselves to scroll the feed, may we present a quenching little sip or Text Me Back nonsense, a crowd fave featuring the iconic Kelsey McKinney (co-creator of the famous pod Normal Gossip ...
Welcome to TEHMEHBACHPAHCIAÕ
Today we bring you many new segments: Lindy Got a Pamphlet. Atomic Dog Thoughts. And 📜Sentences📜…plus a mini Snake of the Week snuck in for good measure! Yeah I said SNUCK. Come @ me over at patreon.com/textmebackpod
If you’ve ever suffered from melted eye, we have just the product for you. It might seem complex at first, but luckily like we said LINDY HAS A PAMPHLET complete with a graphic...
The rift in the space-time continuum has been rent asunder yet again.
We are together in Seattle (3 weeks ago) and today…we tide. It’s a super rare MEGATIDINGS. Two people just…talking? Under one great big general segment? It’s just crazy enough to work!!!
Have you seen George Gently (2009)? The Gentle Detective? There’s a sexy fox lady and the entire cast of Harry Potter? Let us know if YOU know the r...
Really really quick: are YOU a Blue Angel? Sorry, but why are you up there DOING that? Knock it off already!!!!
Okay but this week we have all sorts of things we’re getting into, and not with ten thousand guesses will you get where ANY of these segments are going. I Can Fix Her. Snake of the Week. Whatcha Watchin’. And we gotta keep it TOIGHT because Barry is getting burry and he needs a blowout!
On the Whatcha Watc...
Toot toot! All aboard the ferry! Getcha chowda here, guvna!
Today we bring you a sensational episode we’re calling Animal Digest: Seattle Drift // LOW TIDE Edition. Basically we’re talking about all varieties of animals. The ones we eat, the ones we pet. And of course, the ones that scream. Can you believe Producer Alli…did that? Vegetarians GET HER ASS. Do YOU like episodes where we list animals?? Tell us…...
Can you believe that it’s a different day???? Thank you PENNEYS 💅
We have important cultural news: Did you know that mall is still a place? Do the teens know about it? The answers may surprise you.
PLUS, a new microsegment we’re calling: That’s Annoying to Me. Are you a restaurant calling yourself Eggsl*t? Why did you do that?
And guess what? You thought Pride was over? Guess again, ding dong. Pride is N...
We’re alive and in the flesh! That’s what they’re saying!!!!
The lore in this episode is not to be missed. A new Text Me Back cast member has entered the villa and she is something to behold. We would share her to the IG, but fear we would be banned from the network forever. Tune into the youtube over at www.youtube.com/@textmebackpod for the juice–and special shoutout to Rosalie Gale of Ugly Baby, Belinda Th...
GOO GOO GAH GAH
We are two camera-ready babies who are continuing our Pulitzer-level reporting on P*SS ADDICTED GOATS. You all need to take a course on BASIC SURVIVAL. We're worried about you!!!! And thank you to everyone who called in and brought their lack of self-preservation to the forefront. Straggling thoughts welcome on the P*ss Freak Hotline (703) 829-0003. And Janice?
Goat Janice??? We're watching you, sweetie.
Today we take on the No Stephen Challenge wherein we DETHRONE Kingleheimer Stephen by spending 20 talking about how we’re not going to talk about him!
Before we kick Stephen to the curb, we use his tragically epic jingle for Normal News. And to really stick it to him, we’re using the segment to talk about feral piss-addicted goat freaks. Take THAT, Stephen!!!!!
BAD BOYS BAD BOYS WHATCHA WATCHIN’ DO
Is this you? If so, you’re under arrest!
-Loves Pornography
-Martial Arts?
-No Girlfriend
This week we’re talking all about The Killer™ Wendy Williams under our Whatcha Watchin’ vertical. You should be able to guess what that means:
🚨 Spoilers Alert + Content Warning! 🚨
We discuss The Murder of Rachel Nickell (33:51 through 33:58), Worst Ex Ever (40:00 through 41:51), a...
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