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

PATREON EXCLUSIVE! Guy Branum Says Baby Reindeer Is NOT Good for the Fats!

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

Meagan & Lindy

News, Text Me Back, Comedy, Lindy West, Politics, Meagan Hatcher-mays

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Another perfectly timely conversation with pop cultural commentary that remains at the top of everyone's minds!!!!


This week we resurface a Patreon Exclusive and bring it to the masses. Comedian Guy Branum, BEST friend of the show, sat down with Text Me Back co-host Lindy West for a TMB Patreon Exclusive conversation about the Netflix hit series BABY REINDEER. These geniuses explore VITAL questions such as: Is it good for the fats? Is it good for the gays? What is the duty of art? Is it always bad to do drugs and have sex at a gay club or is it sometimes very fun? Would Lindy be more successful if she had her brain but the abs of Jillian Michaels? Or Jillian Michaels's brain but the abs of an actual reindeer? ALL THIS AND MORE IN THIS EXCLUSIVE FIRESIDE FAT/CHAT! 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, Text me back.

0:14.0

What did you take me back?

0:15.8

Text me back.

0:17.0

At last.

0:17.8

Texas.

0:19.0

Text me back.

0:20.1

Back.

0:21.0

Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Thank Texas. Back. Back. Hey, he.

0:22.1

Hey, he. Back. Hi, Guy. Hello, Lindy. How are you doing? I'm doing really good today. How are you doing? I'm doing all right. It's sunny and nice in Los Angeles. It's sunny and nice in Washington State. Lovely. We're here to talk today about something very important, which is the new Netflix number one

0:39.0

limited series, baby reindeer, colon, is it good for the fats?

0:47.2

How are we feeling?

0:48.5

I am deeply mixed about whether it is good for the fats and whether it's good for the gays.

0:53.7

People were talking about it and I didn't know that it was relevant to me, but then I started

0:57.1

watching it.

0:58.1

And then in the first episode, it was really presenting fat desire as a poison in a way that

1:06.3

is not uncommon in media.

1:09.3

I got into a real fistic cuff with the lady who wrote and directed,

1:13.9

Are You There Got It's Me, Margaret, which both of us, I'm sure will agree, a great film.

1:18.1

It has like, it has like Dorky Fat Guy in it, who's like the person that we don't want liking us.

1:23.9

And I commented on that, and she talked about the context of it, and she's amazing, and the film's amazing.

1:30.4

But I just started to feel weird about the way that this fat person being presented is disgusting and crazy and violating.

1:40.4

When we don't have a whole lot of fat representation, was weird?

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