I'M SO POPULAR

Blauer Geist and Chi Chi look back towards their home state of OREGON to unearth the meaning of death, rot, overgrowth, edginess and the true glory of being alive through two novels by Blake Nelson (GIRL + USER) and two films by Gus Van Sant (PARANOID PARK + ELEPHANT). Pioneering, the limits of the American universe, mass violence, skateboarding, gentrification, “Put a Bird On It,” strippers, dist...

James Joyce publishes ULYSSESES and one hundred years later, Zach Langley Chi Chi goes to his first ever gay circuit party, the last ever SHANGRI LA at AGEHA. Somehow, he discovers, these events are one and the same... and between these two moments rests a sea of art struggling against the binds of society to achieve the transcendental and create in our shallow reality:: THE SENSUAL WORLD. Discuss...

Returning to the dilapidated memories of reality TV garbage left in the void (Bob Saget's short lived STRANGE DAYS WITH BOB SAGET) Chi Chi and childhood friend Leo reflect on their appearance on the show and their memories of the late Bob Saget. Possessed by the spirit of narrative, compelled to tears, tied up with ropes and driven into simulacrum, the endless tide between genuine memory and fanta...

KYARY PAMYU PAMYU IS DEAD! Her flesh ripped apart by two different nations in a cultural typhoon of noumena and misery — her viscera splattered upon the floor of the world in knots of pink blood and ribbons. Chi Chi, Stephen and Fogbrain witness her resurrection: CANDY RACER, produced by Nakata Yasutaka. Annihilating your simulacrums through pop music, overcoming the temptation of nostalgia, regis...

The mother of Chi Chi herself joins to celebrate the Christmas holiday and to discuss FUNNY GIRL + Fanny Flagg’s A REDBIRD CHRISTMAS. Zach realizes he isn’t as Jewish as he thought he was. Wholesome enjoyment of art on the merit of warmth, waves of culture across the world, alcoholism, birds… Life is just a spell, but I don’t care… Follow I’M SO POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And s...

Discussing Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King's THE COMEBACK with Chi Chi's podcasting mother and the original auteur herself, Jack -- just Jack, from The Perfume Nationalist. Getting older and gayer, finding art and meaning through the rituals of torment and humiliation. The homes of old, lonely men. Spider eyes. Follow Jack on Twitter: twitter.com/lotus__point And I'M SO POPUALAR: twitter.com/...

The sweetest Barbie in the world joins Chi Chi for a session of male worship with three films: PUMPING IRON, RHINESTONE and TRUE LIES. Male communities, bodybuilding, discovering the love of men, cooking steak, Islamic Terrorists, country music, art of autism and art of simplicity... Follow Red Pill GF on Twitter: twitter.com/redpillbelle And I'M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod Subscribe to...

Christian returns to invoke Paglia and humiliation once again in the pursuit of CAMP and the 1993 nightmare Japanese SMAP sex comedy PRIVATE LESSONS II. Homosexual gazes, gorgeous gorgeous girls love soup, looking the Met Gala right in the eye, heterosexual mystique, cultural layers bashing their elbows into one another, accented speaking, stalkings, erotica, real emotion, death and cheese. Follow...

Sinking into the bloodbath of sexual decadence, beastiality, gay desire and beauty with three films by SATO HISAYASU: BONDAGE ECSTASY, HUNTER’S SENSE OF TOUCH and HORSE WOMAN DOG. Unchaining oneself from infatuation, inhabiting a repulsive eye, endless routine and irritation, importation of sex cultures, Japan, America, a sweet looking dog and its capacity for inflicting terror. Follow I’M SO POPU...

ULTIMATE REALITY follows posting starlet + glimmering icon Aimee Terese with Chi Chi as they peril into something called leftism along with John Waters’ 2000 anti cinema epic, CECIL B DEMENTED… dreams of a forgone revolution, transgender bathrooms, Marvel moves in the abyss, Bernie Sanders (what is that), monologuing, perversion, sublimation… Follow Aimee on Twitter: twitter.com/aimeeterese And I’...

Twitter craftsman and novelist/poet/infuriator extraordinaire LOGO DAEDALUS enters the I’M SO POPULAR apocalypse mall to discuss Asian people, gay people, Karl Marx and, above all else, a thirty second video of a Japanese man on a beach that has touched Chi Chi’s heart and evoked every last mechanism of the social world. Gender transgression (is it real?), the creation of masculinity (very real),...

Discussing the feud between JAMES CHARLES & TATI WESTRBOOK in four videos: BYE SISTER, WHY I DID IT, NO MORE LIES + BREAKING MY SILENCE. The feminine descent to hell on the great human stage of Grecian drama. The conflict between gay man and woman, realization of self and sexuality, Shin Megami Tensei demons as beauty influencers, destruction of life, infertility, jealousy of youth, “Sugar Bear Ha...

The official I’M SO POPULAR Halloween special: intoning and monologuing and rambling and cackling and slurring about the three of the most glorious pieces of Japanese as American cheese in the history of gaming: RESIDENT EVIL 2, RESIDENT EVIL: CODE VERONICA and RESIDENT EVIL 5. Death in the dark continent, manifesting the power of blockbuster trope in boulder punching, racist Chinese dresses (hot)...

The loudest episode of I’M SO POPULAR ever recorded — screaming for opera + Richard Wagner’s TRISTAN UND ISOLDE. Unstable Zoom connections make up the orchestra of the heart as Pariah and Chi Chi grasp enormous, impossible four hour long art performance in their hands and try to make themselves “artists” with it. Dying as you conduct, shaving bassoon reeds by hand, the genitals of a Brazilian pian...

The human experience in diorama through the genre of survival games... the scourge of Squid Game... Element I: A Student is Not a Tangerine / BATTLE ROYALE / Element II: Destroying Things is Much Easier Than Making Them / THE HUNGER GAMES / Element III: The Will of God / PUBG, FORTNITE, AS THE GODS WILL / Element IV: Piggy Bank / SQUID GAME / Element V: 出口はここ / TAG / impopular.me (S3.E31)

At 7 AM on a Shinjuku Monday, Chi Chi struggles to stay awake while puzzling together his four year friendship with his truest hag, "Big Ava"... What makes a bond between gay man and woman, mothers, cruelty and vindication, reforming and finally: reshaping reality with PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA. Follow I'M SO POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopular impopular.me (S2.E30)

Continuing the journey through the orient and YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA, from 1981 - 1984: the sun rises in Shinjuku, drunken bleakness and an inability to describe art film, NAUGHTY BOYS, Asia repeated into nothingness and everything, having been alive to see art and to burn it all down, the trace of a memory, robot whistles pierced through you eternally/ephemerally... Follow Grant on Twitter: twitt...

Discussing the career of YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA from 1978 - 1981 in the first part of a nearly five hour conversation. Orientalism, death art, manifesting one’s being through cliche, Soul Train, computer noises, Asia, Suzy Wong, life as creative product… Follow Grant on Twitter: twitter.com/basedsodomite And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E28)

Tokyo drag icon and sister of three years Labianna enters Chi Chiの家 on the seventh floor of somewhere in Shinjuku to discuss the CITY OF TOKYO and the 1969 gay boy classic FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES 薔薇の葬列. Together they stab themselves with the overwhelming beauty of life in a metropolis (so many people on the TRAINS!), terror on the cruising grounds, the perfect female form, uncertainty in yo...

Somewhere in Shinjuku... two homosexual Americans in Japan defy state of emergency orders to meet and to wonder before the supreme artlessness of COVID-19 and Anno Hideaki's 2016 masterwork, SHIN GODZILLA. Tortured civilians, atomic breath, the crush of the proletariat, helpless governments, silence in Shibuya Scramble, layers between people, the contemporary condition: who will know tragedy? Foll...

It’s the mid season finale and to celebrate the terror of Chi Chi’s twenty fifth birthday, old friends Quinn and Natalie join the show to discuss no art, the difficulty of aging, saying goodbye to twinkhood, the misery of careers, a half decade of friendship… Follow I’m So Popular on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E25)

Michel Foucault's THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY as told in three parts over four months of recording with three films by Sono Sion: ANTIPORNO, GUILTY OF ROMANCE and LOVE EXPOSURE. The sound of static and sex. Reframing the world through a discourse of Eros. Follow Pleasure Helmet on Twitter: twitter.com/PleasureHelmet Follow Sam of Twink Revolution on Twitter: twitter.com/twinkrevsam Follow Jenny on Tw...

Michel Foucault's THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY as told in three parts over four months of recording with three films by Sono Sion: ANTIPORNO, GUILTY OF ROMANCE and LOVE EXPOSURE. The sound of static and sex. Reframing the world through a discourse of Eros. Follow Pleasure Helmet on Twitter: twitter.com/PleasureHelmet Follow Sam of Twink Revolution on Twitter: twitter.com/twinkrevsam Follow Jenny on Tw...

Michel Foucault's THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY as told in three parts over four months of recording with three films by Sono Sion: ANTIPORNO, GUILTY OF ROMANCE and LOVE EXPOSURE. The sound of static and sex. Reframing the world through a discourse of Eros. Follow Pleasure Helmet on Twitter: twitter.com/PleasureHelmet Follow Sam of Twink Revolution on Twitter: twitter.com/twinkrevsam Follow Jenny on Tw...

Possessed by the podcasting black lodge demon and recording live from our favorite bar in Mie Prefecture, Chi Chi and dear friend of three years John battle through TWIN PEAKS, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Wilson produces as he listens to a conversation on a series of television programs and films he’s never seen before. “You haven’t seen The Godfather?!” Chi Chi endle...