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Text Me Back! with Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays

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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.

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 will 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.

Music by Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo. Cover art by Corianton Hale.

Say only nice things about the podcast please to Lindy (@thelindywest) and Meagan (@importantmeagan) on Instagram.


Episodes

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    Conspiracies And Mysteries

    The past is history, the future is a mystery, but the present.... is possibly a pysop built to drive a wedge between the generations???
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    One Episode To Rule Them All: TMB Does LOTR

    Intrepid hosts Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays battle common dismissals of the fantasy genre and tell us what they love and don't love about the beloved series The Lord Of The Rings. Then they play the most epic game of Eff Marry Kill you've ever heard with the heroes and villains from Middle-earth.
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    It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Swampmas

    Hark! the delicious benefits of Swamp Holiday Party season. Stop! the jam band scatting (but keep the nicknames). And... Wait! what about sasquatch and peach pits?!
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    Feral Bog Twins Fan Mail

    Wading through piles and piles and piles of listener tidings and fan mail….and one confidently wrong piece of hate mail. Come for the long distance bestie lessons stay for the story of building community with the rat ghosts in your home.

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    America's next top best bully

    This week on Text Me Back!, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays confront the top three bullies: their pets, Tr*mp (and his fear of sharks), and... themselves. Because maybe bullies were the best friends we made along the way.

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    The Cozy Episode

    Ahem! Put down The Worst Holiday Meat™ and take a big swig of eggnog--It's Cozygiving!

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    I(owa) Can Fix Her

    An earnest deep dive into Christian Girl Autumn, Iowa, and internet purchases that can change your whole life.