36 episodes

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.

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

    • Comedy
    • 4.8 • 329 Ratings

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.

    Lindy and Meagan Stalk Conan O'Brien

    Lindy and Meagan Stalk Conan O'Brien

    Lindy and Meagan have epiphanies about dogs and their business. Then, they read a raucous letter sent to the Best Friend Party Phone that is somehow both about writing fan mail and being exposed to the killer, AND the girls set off to find an Irishman for their international gang. Most importantly, evidence has emerged that Keith Morrison subscribes to the Text Me Back Patreon.

    • 59 min
    Lindy and Meagan Imagine Dragons Beyond the Flat Earth Ice Wall

    Lindy and Meagan Imagine Dragons Beyond the Flat Earth Ice Wall

    This week, Lindy becomes a flat earther for real, Meagan literally holds a press conference about Justice Samuel Alito's stinky ass, and they dispense trivial advice about non-urgent problems.

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Lindy and Meagan Need to Talk About Kevin

    Lindy and Meagan Need to Talk About Kevin

    This week, something has gone wrong with Meagan's brain and it's NOT a worm! Later, Lindy and Meagan ponder how they'd defeat some kind of oceanic creature if given the opportunity, and rank their favorite sticks.

    • 49 min
    Lindy and Meagan Agree: RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm Is NOT a Girls' Girl!

    Lindy and Meagan Agree: RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm Is NOT a Girls' Girl!

    Lindy fights a bear, Meagan reads a letter about a toilet emergency, and both consider voting for RFK's brain worm.

    • 59 min
    Lindy and Meagan Demand Hollywood Secrets from Guy Branum (Live!)

    Lindy and Meagan Demand Hollywood Secrets from Guy Branum (Live!)

    In this week's episode, Lindy and Meagan are comin' atcha LIVE from the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival with a very special celebrity guest: actor, comedian, girls' girl, Hollywoodlandman, and kind of a lawyer(!!!), Guy Branum!

    Meagan and Lindy trick Guy into giving up the goods on every single celebrity encounter he has ever had, including a drunken cab ride with a freestyle-rapping Zac Efron and a personal betrayal by the hottest gay in Hollywood.

    Then, Meagan and Guy turn their legal and comedic mega-minds to the most vital task in the war to save American Democracy: coming up with Real Housewives taglines for all nine members of the Supreme Court. Got 'em! Which justice does Guy declare to be a "messy bitch"? You'll have to listen to find out!

    Hope you love it, besties!

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    If you like this episode and want us to keep making the show forever, please subscribe to our Patreon. This podcast will always be free, but we need your help to produce it -- and if you support our Patreon, you'll get all kinds of goodies in addition to the show itself! Learn more about the different tiers and rewards here: https://www.patreon.com/TextMeBackPod

    Also! Please keep in touch with us! You can text OR CALL us at the Best Friend Party Phone: (703) 829-0003.

    We're on Instagram at @textmebackpod!

    Full videos of our episodes are on YouTube at @textlindyandmeaganback

    You can email us at deartextmeback@gmail.com!

    WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU SO BAD!

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    TEXT ME BACK is a production of Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, proud members of the BFF Network. Our senior producer is Meagan Hatcher-Mays. Our other senior producer is Lindy West. Our editor is Lindy West.

    Our music and mixing is by Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo (except for this episode, which Lindy had to try and "mix" herself because Aham is on vacation, so please do not blame him). Diana Bowen is our video and creative wizard. Our digital strategist is Chance Nichols.

    You can also follow the podcast on Instagram and TikTok @textmebackpod. And for even more bestie connections, follow Lindy and Meagan on Instagram at @thelindywest and @importantmeagan!

    Follow Guy on Instagram at @guybranum!

    Special thanks as always to our perfect angels: Jeannie Yandel, Brandi Fullwood, and Isolde Raftery.

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    • 45 min
    Lindy and Meagan are Haterz with a Z

    Lindy and Meagan are Haterz with a Z

    In this week's episode, Lindy and Meagan once again trick themselves into maybe becoming Christians?? Because Divine Providence has once again struck the podcast as holy connections are made between pubes, German composer George Frideric Handel, and the Text Me Backolytes who love them.

    Alas, Lindy and Meagan quickly dispense with beatification and instead turn to necromancy -- bringing back two old segments from the dead: "I Can Fix Her," a segment about purchasing little items that will fix your whole life, and "One Minute Hate," a segment about all the shit we hate, from Bobby Flay to shrimp, with an assist from our beloved listeners!

    Enjoy, besties!

    ⋆。°✩⋆。°✩⋆。°✩⋆。°

    If you like this episode and want us to keep making the show forever, please subscribe to our Patreon. This podcast will always be free, but we need your help to produce it -- and if you support our Patreon, you'll get all kinds of goodies in addition to the show itself! Learn more about the different tiers and rewards here: https://www.patreon.com/TextMeBackPod

    Also! Please keep in touch with us! You can text OR CALL us at the Best Friend Party Phone: (703) 829-0003.

    We're on Instagram at @textmebackpod!

    Full videos of our episodes are on YouTube at @textlindyandmeaganback

    You can email us at deartextmeback@gmail.com!

    WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU SO BAD!

    ⋆。°✩⋆。°✩⋆。°✩⋆。°

    TEXT ME BACK is a production of Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, proud members of the BFF Network. Our senior producer is Meagan Hatcher-Mays. Our other senior producer is Lindy West. Our editor is Lindy West.

    Our music and our mixing is by Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo. Diana Bowen is our video and creative wizard. Our digital strategist is Chance Nichols.

    You can also follow the podcast on Instagram and TikTok @textmebackpod. And for even more bestie connections, follow Lindy and Meagan on Instagram at @thelindywest and @importantmeagan!

    Special thanks as always to our perfect angels: Jeannie Yandel, Brandi Fullwood, and Isolde Raftery. This week, we'd also like to specially thank Alex Rochester for running the old Text Me Back text club at KUOW where folks sent in their hate for today's segment.

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    • 59 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
329 Ratings

329 Ratings

tori_was_here2 ,

Love!

Always makes me laugh. Out loud. Mostly fun, silly talks with a dash of let’s-pay-attention-to
-politics-because-it’s-really-important! Look forward to it every week.

Mayfield Farm ,

Incredible

Too podcast of my favorite genre: two smart women talking about seemingly trivial things but, because they are smart women, the conversation invariably evolves into something quite profound. Jokien Rokien Rokien Tolkien would be proud.

FLazare ,

Never felt so seen

🐉🦷🦎👩‍🚀🦴🔪

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