Call Me Limbo

This week, Dai and David are joined by Tavish —a queer spirit, human, artist, and educator with Celtic roots. Tavish practices theatre for social change, runs Bird City Improv, and brings decades of experience directing new work, crafting poetry, and co-creating ensemble-driven performance.In March 2025, Tavish went viral after staging a peaceful protest at the Kennedy Center that involved a naked poetry performance denouncing authoritarianism and political violence. The fallout was swift: they were fired from both the Kennedy Center and Johns Hopkins University. But Tavish remains unapologetic—continuing their liberation-focused work through grassroots art and radical truth-telling.This conversation is raw, inspiring, and deeply human—exploring art as activism, queerness as resistance, and what it means to speak your truth, even when it costs you everything.Trump Declares War on Artists | Banned Kennedy Center Protest by Tavish (YouTube)Kennedy Center Contract Employee Strips Nude in Protest Video and Is Promptly Fired (Los Angeles Times)Trump's War on Artists: A Peace Protest (Bird City Improv)The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Co-Creation (Duke University Press)Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brownFollow Tavish on Instagram Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

This week, Dai and David turn 19 in Poland, issue a trigger warning, add amendments to the constitution, end Citizens United, talk through the toilet, pick out their hard labor camp jobs, discuss the Hands Off Protest, tariffs, and democracy, and much much more!P.S. David has a very strong will to live. Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

In this bonus episode, Dai and David do the Electric Slide outside of a Tesla Dealership, toast our muffins (and bluff with them too), give lip service, do a Midwestern Goodbye, reform the Democrats (through a third party?), discuss Cory Booker's 25-hour speech to the Senate, and much much more. Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

This week, Dai and David raid the Disney vault -- and no, not for the classics.  We're starting with the golden age of Disney Channel Original Movies where the outfits were chaotic, the acting was camp, and the life lessons were just capitalist bootstraps dipped in glitter.  From Smart House to Cheetah Girls, we ask: were we watching teen rebellion...or corporate conditioning with a pop hook and a dance break?Then we level up (or down?) into the world of Disney Feature Films where the budgets got bigger, the gowns got gayer, and the propaganda got much sneakier.  We're talkin' princesses, daddy issues, justice for Cogsworth, and some very suspicious land ownership laws.  We laugh.  We cry.  We side with the villain.  Because in the end... Scar was a labor organizer.Disney raised us, confused us, and low-key radicalized us.  And sometimes it also made us gay.  Thanks, Lee Thompson Young. Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

This week, Dai and David go whole hog for Bad Bunny, play improv games, free the nip and the tip, audition for reality television, go through a white phase, play with their Disney Channel wands, search for Prince Charming, classify someone else as an expert, shift into a manual transmission, star in your liquid dreams, give you a pre-summer deodorant warning, and much much more!Let us know what you think of us discussing more pop culture (and less politics) over the last few episodes at callmelimbopod@gmail.com.Bad Bunny's Calvin Klein Ad (Instagram)Bad Bunny on Hot Ones Eating Ice Cream (Instagram)Bad Bunny's Hog on a Billboard (Instagram)Timbaland Pony Beat (Instagram)Fergie's National Anthem (YouTube)Our Supermarket Sweep Video (TikTok)Singing Yourself Down The Wedding Aisle (TikTok)The Attempted Murder of Miley Cyrus (YouTube)Making the Band O-Town Liquid Dreams (YouTube) Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

This week, Dai and David get bullied by toddlers, cry on command, update our resumes, convert from metric to imperial, crash the stock market, give Lady Liberty back to France, eat the golden taco, and much much more!Forever 21 Goes Bankrupt (CNBC)Trump Loves Tesler (Instagram)4 Reasons Why Tesla Stock Is Crashing (Business Insider)Southwest Airlines Announces End to Free Checked Baggage (CNBC)Luigi by Cyrus Camillus (YouTube Song) Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

This week, Dai and David sign their lives away, become father figures, drink sewage water, fight off dysentery, wonder what an American is, resist with something other than a pink blazer and a paddle sign, and much more!Megan The Stallion Father Figure (TikTok)Dysentery Outbreak Hits Oregon (Newsweek)Supreme Court Weakens Raw Sewage Discharge Rules (The Guardian)Chicago Starbucks Workers Arrested for Striking (YouTube)Mahmoud Khalil, the US Permanent Resident, Arrested for Palestine Solidarity (AP)1 in 15 American Adults Have Been Present at a Mass Shooting (Denver Post) Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

This week, Dai and David are joined by Bree Davies, host of the City Cast Denver and the Lauren Boebert Can't Lose podcasts.  They discuss how Bree formed her own personal politics, MTV in the 1900s, Denver's activism history, queer culture, Bree's role in the current media environment, urban planning, disability rights, mutual aid, music, retail work, and so much more!  This was such a fun episode to record, and we hope you enjoy listening to it!Go stream the City Cast Denver podcast right now!  It's David's favorite news podcast! Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

This week, Dai and David discuss the American woman in Pakistan, MSNBC host changes, the impending bankruptcy of Hooters, thoughts on breastaurants, sparkling water, AI talking to itself, the White House Governor's Ball, Aaron Bushnell, Luigi updates, and much much more!McDonalds in the Pentagon Song (YouTube)AI Talking To Each Other On The Phone (YouTube)US Army Chorus Singing Les Miserables at the White House Governor's Ball (YouTube)Denver Hospitals Resume Gender Affirming Care (Colorado Politics) Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.

In this week's very lighthearted episode, Dai and David celebrate 100 episodes, deep dive on chain restaurants, have a hard stop, visit their favorite holes in the wall, work best at night, cue the orchestra music, burn their mouths on fried pickles, and much much more!We hope this episode makes you laugh and briefly forget about all the political chaos for a brief moment in time!  Thank you for celebrating 100 episodes with us!Funny Kamala Harris Impersonation Music Video on Instagram Support the showSign Up for Our SubstackPatreon & Venmo: @CallMeLimboPodInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads, RedNote: @CallMeLimboPodTheme Music by Aidan Ivory Edwards.Logo by Mark Mittelstaedt.