Text Me Back! LIVE! with Lindy West & Meagan Hatcher-Mays

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 WEST
Lindy West (she/her) is the author of the New York Times best selling memoir “Shrill” and the essay collections The Witches Are Coming and Shit, Actually. Her fourth book, Adult Braces, a follow-up to Shrill, will be released in 2025. Her work has appeared in This American Life, The New York Times, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, and many others. She currently co-hosts the weekly comedy podcast Text Me Back. She is the co-founder of the reproductive rights de-stigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. Lindy was a writer and executive producer on Shrill, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir starring Aidy Bryant. She co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin, released in 2023. Her e-mail newsletter, Butt News, is regarded by everyone as the most influential and beloved e-mail newsletter of all time.

MEGAN HATCHER-MAYS
Meagan Hatcher-Mays is the co-host of Text Me Back, a podcast about her deranged and beloved relationship with her BFF Lindy West. She is also, no joke, a lawyer in good standing based in Washington, DC. Before becoming a wildly successful part-time podcast host, she worked as an expert on democracy policy at several progressive organizations as well as in Congress. Meagan has appeared on MSNBC (“All In” with Chris Hayes, “American Voices” with Alicia Menendez, “Velshi”), Peacock (“The Mehdi Hasan Show,” “Zerlina”) and BNC (“Prime with Charles Blow) and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News, Vox, and more as a subject matter expert on the courts and democracy.

Lindy and Meagan will be joined on stage by Julie Fahey, the Oregon Speaker of the House, and special guest Guy Branum!

Guy Branum is the creator and host of truTV’s “Talk Show The Game Show,” a hilarious mashup of two beloved television formats that pits comedians and celebrities against each other for the title of “Best Guest of the Night.” You can catch him on the new Apple series “Platonic” with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan. You may also know him from his recurring segment “No More Mr. Nice Gay” on “Totally Biased” with W. Kamau Bell, serving as “Staff Homosexual” on “Chelsea Lately,” and his performance as Natalie Portman’s sassy gay friend in the feature film “No Strings Attached.” Guy has also appeared on “Conan,” “@Midnight,” and “Debate Wars.”

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