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

Comedy

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 (Official Trailer)

Text Me Back is a weekly conversation and comedy podcast about best friendship and making your favorite people laugh even when the world gets you down. It’s created and hosted by NYT bestselling author Lindy West and judiciary and democracy policy expert Meagan Hatcher-Mays, two Award-Winning Best Friends (holders of the prestigious Most Likely To Make You Laugh title from their high school's senior class poll). New episodes drop every Thursday beginning November 9th. Text Me Back is a production of KUOW, Seattle’s NPR station.

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PREVIEW: Attenzione!

We're so excited to get Lindy and Meagan in your earholes that we wanted to share this little sneak preview of the show. In this 5-minute chat, Meagan tells Lindy about a TikTok wormhole she's fallen down.

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PREVIEW 2! Scientists Need Improv Classes

LAUNCH DAY IS ALMOST HEEEEERE! The first full episode of Text Me Back! comes out on November 9th. To tide you over, here's another lil sneak preview of the show. In this clip, Meagan and Lindy take on a (literally) huge issue - the largest whale that ever existed, and its underwhelming name.

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It's Our First Episode!

ATTENZIONE PODCAST! In our very first episode of Text Me Back!, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays tell the origin story of their unstoppable best friendship, and Meagan reveals some much-discussed hot goss from within her DC-insider-swamp-person circles. Then, Lindy and Meagan put on their media analyst hats to discuss breaking vampire news from an archaeological dig in rural Poland.

Got questions for Meagan about the baffling inner workings of our democracy? Or for Lindy about snakes? Got a friendship dilemma that could use the insight of two Award-Winning Best Friends? We're here for you! Text B-F-F to 206-926-9955 to join the Text Me Back Text Club.

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I(owa) Can Fix Her

This week on Text Me Back!, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays get deep and personal about living in the woods and Christian Girl Autumn. Then, Lindy digs up every kernel of fact about Iowa. Yes, we're talking about Iowa again! And why is everything we need to make our lives better a grout cleaner and a pebble ice machine?

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The Cozy Episode

This week on Text Me Back!, woke-pilled hosts Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, denounce Th*nksgiving and the worst holiday meat. It's Cozygiving! and these besties are taking a big sip of eggnog and pulling up their electric blankets. Then, Meagan gives voice to the trials and tribulations of watching every single episode of Emmy award winning drama House MD. Spoiler alert! He's a genius. And Lindy unearths the magic and archaeological mysteries of British television via Time Team.

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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, Trump and his fear of sharks, and...themselves. Because maybe bullies were the best friends we made along the way.

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Feral Bog Twins Fan Mail

This week on Text Me Back!, Lindy and Meagan, aka feral bog twins, aka two feminist podcast geniuses, wade through their many pieces of listener tidings and fan mail….and their one confidently wrong piece of hate mail. Together they'll teach us how to keep our long distance besties, explain which girl boss should have retired from the Supreme Court, and help one listener build community with the rat ghosts in her home.

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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Swampmas

This week on Text Me Back!, humbled besties, Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays, dig into the ethics of delicious and plentiful canapes at elite DC holiday parties. Then, they break out the jam band deep cuts for a spanking new podcast nickname. And of course, a crowd sourced plea to solve a 20 year old mystery hidden in the film Big N Hairy (1998).

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From Our Pals At WBEZ, It's Nerdette!

Hello friends! We wanted to share this fun episode of the WBEZ podcast Nerdette with you all. If you're looking for your next favorite read, look no further! Host Greta Johnsen and her professional book lovers - Miwa Messer, host of Barnes & Noble’s book podcast Poured Over, and Andrew Limbong, host of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast – talked all about their top picks of the year.

Here are the books mentioned in the episode. For pictures, links and more details, head to Nerdette's website!

Andrew’s picks:

‘Landscapes’ by Christine Lai

‘Poverty by America’ by Matthew Desmond

‘Roaming’ by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

‘Ringmaster’ by Abraham Josephine Riesman

Miwa’s picks:

‘Loot’ by Tania James

‘Ordinary Notes’ by Christina Sharpe

‘Open Throat’ by Henry Hoke

‘Chain Gang All-Stars’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Greta’s picks:

‘The Vaster Wilds’ by Lauren Groff

‘The Country of the Blind’ by Andrew Leland

‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi’ by Shannon Chakraborty

‘Same Bed Different Dreams’ by Ed Park

Listener picks:

‘The Fragile Threads of Power’ by V.E. Schwab

‘Shrines of Gaiety’ by Kate Atkinson

‘Land of Milk and Honey’ by C Pam Zhang

‘In the Lives of Puppets’ by TJ Klune

‘Monsters’ by Claire Dederer

‘Black River Orchard’ by Chuck Wendi

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