Lindy and Meagan Agree: RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm Is NOT a Girls' Girl!
Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Meagan & Lindy
4.9 • 746 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Lindy reveals that her neighborhood bear is BACK, and his threat level has been upgraded to "habituated trash bear." No pic-a-nic basket is safe! Lindy also breaks her silence on a secret she's been keeping about the band Imagine Dragons, and Meagan finally addresses the elephant in the room: does Lindy... not listen to music?????
Meagan reaches into the mailbag and shares an unhinged yet joyful letter (found by a listener) about public diarrhea and not quite making it to the Dairy Queen in time, which gets the gals reminiscing about college.
Then it's a hard look inside the biggest story of the week, which is OF COURSE the worm that ate part of RFK Jr.'s brain and then died. Should the presidency have a No Brain Worms policy, or is that an ableist purity test? Is getting a brain worm the first likable thing about this man? Lindy and Meagan discuss!
And finally, two big announcements for our Patreon subscribers! First, that Lindy and Meagan are going to let you pick their best-friends tattoo, literally. And second, that they'll be posting an episode-by-episode subscribers-only rewatch of Shrill! Listen for more info and subscribe if you want access to all the fun.
Hope you love it, besties!
The Glad Tidings Chorale is:
Allegra Martin
Andreas Belboe
Andoodoo
Holly Hartline
Jennifer Darling-Mellott
Kate Harrington
Kiki Porter
Kendra Zzyzwyck
Olivia Smith
Phédre Schifano
Robert (@violadagoomba)
Stephen O’Bent
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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 show is supported by COPILOT Collective and produced by Alli Slice.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.ukesl-wondery. Welcome to Text Me Back! |
| 0:23.6 | Text Me Back! |
| 0:24.6 | Text Me Back! |
| 0:25.6 | Why? |
| 0:26.6 | Text me back. |
| 0:27.6 | Text me back. |
| 0:28.6 | Text me back. |
| 0:29.6 | Text me back. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, |
| 0:32.6 | Thes me back! |
| 0:33.6 | A parasocial journey into the minds of two brilliant and unhinged 40-something women. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Megan Hatcher-Maze. |
| 0:43.5 | And I'm Lindy West. |
| 0:45.6 | And that's our brand new tagline, courtesy of Gina Delvac from KCRW, who's never even heard the show. |
| 0:51.6 | She just met us for 10 minutes at a reception. |
| 0:54.9 | It wasn't even 10 minutes. It was, I want to say, 45 seconds. And she goes, she's like, |
| 1:01.1 | oh yeah, what's your show about? And this always happens. People say, what's your show about? |
| 1:04.7 | And we both go, oh. It's kind of about how we're both, we've known each other for our entire lives, |
| 1:10.0 | and we're both really weird. Is that a show? And then she took one look at us and said, oh, parisocial journey into the minds of two brilliant unhinged 40-something year olds, women. And I was like, you got it, Gina. We fell to the floor. Looks like Gina tapped our very essence. Thank you, Queen. |
| 1:29.6 | Thank you, Queen, Gina. |
| 1:34.3 | So thank you to Gina because we were writing something dumb and new every weekend. |
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