Full four hour episode available only for patrons. patreon.com/imsopopular A brand new co-host officially enters the world of I'M SO POPULAR to explicate the phenomenon of Otaku recorded live in Roppongi, Tokyo and discussing Saito Takami's BEAUTIFUL FIGHTING GIRL (2000年) + Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL VOL. 1&2 (2003年〜2004年) + Anno Hideaki's SHIN KAMEN RIDER 2023年. (S5.E18)

Veronica from The Temple of Friendship podcast stops by for a discussion concerning the music and legacy of APEXH TWIN + imperial rot + electronic and classical music + the sound of of the world and the air itself. Patrons get the high quality version of this episode + a lengthy discussion on the exclusive SIRENS after show concerning demonic possession and much more: patreon.com/imsopopular (S5.E17)

[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Discussing the calamitous message music of the two thousand tens: BEYONCÉ (2013年) + TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY (2015年) + LEMONADE (2016年) + THIS IS AMERICA (2018年). Follow Vera on X: https://x.com/lovely_2_c_u And for the full episode, subscribe to I’M SO POPULAR on patreon.com/imsopopular (ISP S5.E08)

MULHOLLAND DRIVE, NIGHT TIME: two beautiful blonde women emerge from a car accident and style themselves into beautiful goddesses of fame, glamor and violence. Is it a dream or reality? Chi Chi and Samantha’s inability to remember conversations, their peril with alcohol, women with bleached hair and combusting neighbors set the scene as the subterranean depths of these two hearts emerge among palm trees and David Lynch’s 2001 classic feature + Sky Ferreira’s 2013 masterpiece, NIGHT TIME, MY TIME. Going faster and faster… bursting into dust… synchronizing Japanese slang into sublimity… selfish imaginations of the beautiful you. Follow the illustrious and fatally skinny Samantha on Twitter: twitter.com/ManthaMoment And on the most crucial SIRENS episode ever recorded… an entire drama of lost lovers, vomit in panties and suddenly stopped recordings unfolds as Samantha and Chi Chi take a personality quiz and horrifying events unfold in the distance. Subscribe for the FULL I’M SO POPULAR story on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E10 無言)

Out from the Thot Topics lounge, through the forest of the gay little monkeys and across the mother sea, Chi Chi Is reunited with Cris and Nick to peddle in ultimate stereotype and delusion: Jean Paul Goude’s JUNGLE FEVER (1981) and Azealea Banks’s BROKE WITH EXPENSIVE TASTE (2014). Fisting, Fire Island, Flamboyance, French Fotography: what real commitment to one’s own bizarre interior illusions and pervasions can manifest in the real world. Follow THOT TOPICS on Twitter: twitter.com/thottopicspod And on the essential SIRENS continuation available only on Patreon, the girls reveal who they hate most, who they’ve blocked on Twitter, who’ve they muted, who’s ANNOYING and exactly what Nick thinks of Aimee Terese: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E09 ハーレムの匂い)

This special episode available now only for Patrons: https://bit.ly/3ajMqpr KIM KARDASHIAN + MISHIMA YUKIO + JAPANESE DRAG QUEENS.... and from within them all, a sparkling and transparent diamond enshrining all beauty and homosexual creation as told by the Amazonian Mother of all podcasting herself: Anna Khachiyan of the seminal Red Scare. Between the ecstasies of Russian bimbos and Russian PHD holders, against the macho misunderstanding of Mishima, into the realm of contemporary fertility goddesses, Chi Chi and Anna derive an entirely new reality of self creation, self image, self destruction and real (in)human beauty from Kim Kardashian, her coffee table book SELFISH (2014) and the Miwa Akihiro starring BLACK LIZARD (1968). (I'M SO POPULAR S3E.08 ダイアの心に) patreon.com/imsopopular

I like you a lot... the ecstatic art of watching men, men at the lake, men playing sports, men being twins... the photography of BRUCE WEBER + Richard Linklater's EVERYBODY WANTS SOME. Beauty beyond all measure as an access into the true abyss of lust for life... Follow Vera on Twitter: twitter.com/lovely_2_c_u And I'M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And on this week's extra special extra essential continuation, Madonna, endless sexuality, the tragedy of lesbianism, Barbie dolls: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sirens-29-madame-68414025?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare (S3.E07 キラキラな新境地)

Between the shapeless curtains of idle chatter and the ripples of water in a bathhouse, two debut novels by English homosexuals: Ronald Firbank's VAINGLORY (1915) + Allen Hollinghurst's THE SWIMMING POOL LIBRARY (1988). Fused together, these two beautifully uppity books communicate a private sublimity in the homosexual shadow over the world through a stained glass window, gay cruising, beautiful men on the train, OnlyFans, real sexuality, porn theaters, blood on the bedsheets... Follow the endlessly charming Yeerk on twitter: twitter.com/pyeerk And the I'M SO POPULAR Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And if you're not listening to SIRENS on Patreon, you're only getting half the story: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E06 セックスと水と悲劇の時代)

Chi Chi sits in the park and contemplates Perfume Genius, Too Bright, his new album, homosexuality and its place in the world, the tragic bond between mother and son, his gay mission to create something worthwhile. Only available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67892318

War and suffering: between the gloom of World War I in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and the laser glare of MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM.... Cuteness Unit and Chi Chi bash their helmets against impossible to talk about soap opera until some kind of meaning pierces through. Long silences. Women floating through space. Newtypes and empathy and the battle between futurism and humanism."Brutal." Tragedies so real and punishing they bleed into the post apocalyptic twilight of I'M SO POPULAR. Chi Chi sheds real tears; You Will See the Tears of Time. Follow the Cuteness Unit girls on Patreon: patreon.com/cutenessunit And the I'M SO POPULAR Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And if you're not listening to SIRENS, you're only getting half the story... listen now on the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopularpod (S3.E05 苦悩の世紀から涙)

I'm just a girl... all pretty and petite... discussing the confessional poetry of Anne Sexton and confessional Frankenstein female suffering of Gwen Stefani from the trenches of the Harajuku Holocaust to the frying pan massacre of Orange County: Jo appears with Chi Chi to synthesize the woman's world of micro tragedies into something more luxurious, more unhinged, more archetypal. TRAGIC KINGDOM, RETURN OF SATURN, LOVE. ANGEL. MUSIC. BABY. Judaism, Japonism, Black Peopleism (?) all thrust into a melt so this gorgeous woman with a bindi on her head and pink hair dye in her locks can ascend to the holy levels of heaven. Follow Jo on Twitter: twitter.com/junker_jo And the I'M SO POPULAR account: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And check out an especially fabulous bonus after show SIRENS episode only on Patreon, singing the new gospel of drag kids, Lady Gaga, 4Chan and more: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E04 原宿ホロコースト)

Chi Chi and his newest idol Monica join together in a loving embrace to idolize the male form on earth: MARLON BRANDO and two of his greatest films, ON THE WATERFRONT and REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. The unholy fusion of Brando's trash lifestyle (sushi pigouts, promiscuous sexuality, death and murder) with his gilded shimmering art films conjures the Great Spirit of Life: Passion! Lust! Sex Drive! All the things that make the world beautiful beyond measure as we recreate the new universe with full hearted acceptance of the divine libidinal will. Follow beautiful beautiful Monica on Twitter: twitter.com/mocha12313 And the I'M SO POPULAR Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod This week on the Patreon exclusive SIRENS bonus show, Monica and Chi Chi are giving birth to a new friendship, discussing the beauty of Asian men, decrying BAP, praising the delights of a hangover and revealing hottest men they've ever met: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67191833 (S3.E03 欲望と情熱の世界へ)

Chi Chi's first friend in Tokyo arrives out of the neon circuits of Harajuku and Shinjuku and Kabukicho, Tokyo, to fuse together three pieces of film concerning beautiful white foreign women in Japan: LOST IN TRANSLATION, HBO GIRLS and THE RAMEN GIRL. The vision they piece together is a lonely trial of the soul, video game texture mexaplexes, cat cafes, a creation of the self via exposure to the exterior, Pocari Sweat, reckless collage of stereotype, atomic bombs and -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND! WHY AM I HERE?! Follow I'M SO POPULAR on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And listen to the exclusive bonus show SIRENS only on Patreon, this week discussing how to perform in drag, phone games, Johnny Depp, racism and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66879644 (S3.E02 異境にいる美人たち)

ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PATRONS: Carlton joins to discuss Cixin Liu's REMEMBRANCE OF EARTH'S PAST books: THE THREE BODY PROBLEM (2006年) + THE DARK FOREST (2008年) + DEATH'S END (2010年). Moreover, Chinese Space Communism, looming political menace, the looming doom of humankind, science and art, love as a solution to math. (ISP S5.E07) For the full episode and weekly episodes of SIRENS, join us at patreon.com/imsopopular

The Gods have been slain and their world has come to an end. But the new world begins! ZACH LANGLEY CHI CHI ascends to shape this strange and virgin reality to his own vision. He initiates the demonic sacrament: a fusion of high and low art to conceive of new philosophy and new scripture for this unholy landscape. Willing themselves out of the soup, "I'M SO POPULAR" alumni Fella and Sasha Amato join Chi Chi in melding F.T. Marinetti's THE MANIFEST OF FUTURISM with Atlas's 2021 video game SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V. Endless speed, the destruction of history, massacre of the deities, nuclear war, ecstasy in reality, and at the end of it all, a single question: How will you make the new world? Follow I'M SO POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And Fella: twitter.com/outer_zon3 And also Sasha: twitter.com/sashaamato Support the show on Patreon and listen to the exclusive hypermodernist aftershow "SIRENS" here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66584233 (S3.E01)

New on the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon -- selections from Chi Chi's melancholic Golden Week trip to the Izu Peninsula. Staring out at the sea, discussing the Kardashians over dinner, screaming Utada Hikaru lyrics. https://www.patreon.com/posts/sirens-21-chi-on-66089357?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Chi Chi takes a walk to through northern Shinjuku to reflect on her recent performance of Kate Bush's "Babooshka" at the infamous Metro Club Party in Nagoya, the art of lip syncing, mediocrity, and the never-ending pursuit of fame through artistic accomplishment. Listen exclusively on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sirens-20-near-65046665?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Chi Chi gratuitously reads horrific entries from his diary. Subscribe on Patreon to hear the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64373994

An audio drama in two acts: on the eve of the Earth's destruction, the Three Mothers watch over their creation for the last time, witness two gay men mine life for meaning through a Mishima Yukio novel called "Forbidden Colors" and the podcast "I'M SO POPULAR" in the alleys of the gay district in Tokyo. The world is destroyed, humanity is reduced to its primordial desires and a new god is born. I'M SO POPULAR returns later this year. For now, keep up with weekly episodes on the SIRENS Patreon. This week: Five excruciating hours behind the production of "LAST DAY ON EARTH" featuring trans women and their battle to read lines, karaoke rehearsals and forced vomit. patreon.com/imsopopularpod STARRING (in order of appearance) JACK as ——— “Reality” PARIAH THE DOLL as ——— “The Regent Kinkou” JENNY SCOONES ——— “The Lady Merei” AMINA as ——— “The Madame Konran” ZACH LANGLEY CHI CHI as ——— “Zach Langley Chi Chi” NICK FROM TOKYO as ——— “Himself” featuring as “THE CHORUS OF THE HEART” :: STEPHEN ZERANCE // ETERNAL FELLA // HIKKIPEDIA // CHRISTIAN // NICK MALONE FROM THOT TOPICS // @URGIRLBLAISE // RED PILL GIRLFRIEND // NATALIE // CHRIS LOPEZ FROM THOT TOPICS // FOGBRAIN // SASHA AMATO // SAM // DANGEROUS PHONEX // JOSH FROM EVIL THESPIAN // HARRY TAFOYA // AVA // QUINN // AIMEE TERESE // LEO // KYLE // MIZOGOOCHIE // BRIELLE // BARRETT AVENER // EMILIANO // EDDIE FROM CAR CRASH // BLAUER GEIST // DANA FROM THE PLEASURE HELMET // MY MOM w/ original music by LUCY LIYOU // RYAN FROM CAR CRASH // BERTO FROM GHOST JAIL “aria of the soul” performed on the piano by PARIAH THE DOLL promotional painting by ANNE CHOVY // promotional photo, japanese consultation and additional voices by 松村莉央

Jana and Chi Chi do their makeup in the penultimate episode of season two: within the realm of artifice, from the dregs of “true crime,” the glittering birth and gruesome horror of the MURDER OF NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON + Brady Corbert’s VOX LUX. Makeup videos, lifeless terrorism, building a persona, killing the persona, becoming a star, longing for fame, spinning into nothingness… The Apocalypse Draws Near. Available on Youtube as a nightmare makeup video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0v6e4WHjRY Follow Jana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paranoidlikes And subscribe to the Patreon for the bonus SIRENS episode erupting all of the production sequences and stark reality of podcasting: sirens.com/imsopopular (S2.E49)

Barrett Avner of the seminal CONTAIN podcast joins against a black and white steel cast of all trope and great feeling to discuss David Bowie’s YOUNG AMERICANS + ‘HEROES’ with Paul Verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS. American images as seen from a limousine, art and ego, sexual gratification, ejaculating in the Applebees, thrusting your genitals all over another, The Berlin Wall, Adolph Hitler, fascism, the European Cannon. Follow the Contain Podcast on Twitter; https://twitter.com/con_tain As well as I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod + Subscribe to the I’M SO POPULAR Patreon for the crucial modernist bonus show, SIRENS: patreon.com/imsopopularpod In this week’s exclusive Patreon exclusive SIRENS, Barrett and Chi Chi destroy the notion of “seed oils” and “trad caths for good. If you’re not listening to SIRENS… you’re only getting half the story. (S2.E48)

In the bright, hungover dawn, between truth and illusion.... the mystery of something called "LOVE" with the cosmic terrorizer, Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and its Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film adaptation. Uncovering oneself, hating the other, breaking through the boundaries of fantasy to find hatred and hard reality, drama, bad makeup, love and anger and whiskey. Listen to EVIL THESPIAN: https://anchor.fm/evilthespian Follow Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tragic_fruit And Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mymissmadi/ + the I'M SO POPULAR podcast on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And on this week's exclusive SIRENS Patreon episode, the entire history of love, teaching, Broadway, masks + the podcasting scene as the last gesture towards art: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E47)

Eddie of Car Crash podcast fame joins Chi Chi to barrel through the American highway of the soul in a conversation on Kanye West: the nightmare embodied and his two seminal records, YEEZUS + THE LIFE OF PABLO. Recklessly throwing your life to late night Tinder hookups, surrendering to the lust for passion, synchronizing your art into that of your very being, the heterosexual male bonding of hip hop, abrasiveness, insistence, drama, camp, chasing, Kim Kardashian and Julia Fox. Follow Eddie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edboy9k And listen to CAR CRASH on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/carcrashpod Follow the I'M SO POPULAR Twitter if you like; https://twitter.com/imsopopularpod And on this week's exclusive SIRENS Patreon bonus show, Eddie ends Car Crash forever, podcasts live on in permanent infamy, the nerve of being a human over a character: patreon.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E46)

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, distance between irony and reality, dirtiness and pure beauty in the monotony and triteness of life. Follow Blauer on Twitter: twitter.com/blauer_geist And read Apocalypse Confidential: apocalypse-confidential.com Follow the I’M SO POPULAR Twitter if you like: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And on the exclusive Patreon SIRENS bonus show, Blauer and Chi Chi reflect on our college memories at the University of Oregon, the curse of the party boy and the ecstasies of smoking and podcasting: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E45)

Paul Dalla Rosa, author of An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life joins to discuss the psychic destruction and affronting of destiny by Henry James, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1881年). The verge of modernism, the insistence on self and the workings of the inner mind... Follow Paul on X:https://x.com/pauldallarosa And for the exclusive continuation in which we spill the tea on the publishing industry, subscribe to ISP on Patreon at patreon.com/imsopopular (ISP S5.E06)

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. Discussing Joyce, Kate Bush and Utada Hikaru -- surfacing from the horrors of our subterranean depths, a universe of interlocking and terrifying desires. The borders between podcast and reality continue to blur until.... Follow I'M SO POPULAR on Patreon for the modernist behind the scenes episode that will try all patience and reveal the truth: patreon.com/imsopopular And follow the official Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E44)

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 fantasy rips everything apart as we all draw closer towards death. Homosexuality burgeoning in an unbecoming form. Fires that burn down real places. A real murder. First encounters with masturbation. Irony and nothingness and pig sounds. Small animals. Follow Leo on Twitter: twitter.com/leodaverson And the I'M SO POPULAR podcast: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And subscribe to the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon for the exclusive ((SIRENS)) bonus show where we strip back even further layers of fiction... (S2.E43)

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, registering yourself as an instrument, shoving French toast in the illusion of the world and forging reality with your own will. Follow Stephen on Twitter: twitter.com/stephnz And Fogbrain: twitter.com/fogbrainarts Plus the I’M SO POPULAR account: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And subscribe to I’M SO POPULAR on Patreon for an exclusive bonus episode with Stephen and Fogbrain discussing everything from cigarettes to Twin Peaks: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E42)

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 support the show on Patreon for the SIRENS bonus show: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E41)

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/imsopopularpod And subscribe to the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon for the bonus show, SIRENS: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E40)

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 the Patreon for the (SIRENS) bonus show: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E39)

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 Christian on Twitter: twitter.com/lexapr0_ And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod Listen to the (SIRENS) bonus show on pattern: patreon.com/imsopopular And join the I’M SO POPULAR Discord if you want a link to this movie that is almost impossible to legally purchase: https://discord.gg/fU93s5X (S2.E38)

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 POPULAR on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And Berto: twitter.com/big_boy_berto + Subscribe to I’M SO POPULAR on Patreon for the exclusive “SIRENS” after show: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E37)

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’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And support I’M SO POPULAR on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E36)

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), protesting pretty boys, reality television, Sun and Steel, ancient poetry, shapely pectoral muscles and reality in its glistening, slimy shape. Nurunuru… shimasenka? Follow Logo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E35)

[HQ available only on Patreon} As the year comes to an end, we take a final look at the state of culture with a discussion on the horrendous new season of SQUID GAME and the recent output of legendary Japanese idol girl group AKB48. (ISP S5.E05) patreon.com/imsopopular

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 Hair,” the impulse to obliterate and, above all else, the entire gamut of love and pain in brightly lit Youtube videos. Thanks for watching! Follow Sasha on Twitter: twitter.com/sashaamato And I’m So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E34)

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), tank tops with jeans (not), crossdressing incest twins in the Antarctic, biceps, the everlasting mystery of Yes Cunt And Wig. Follow Fella on Twitter: twitter.com/outer_zon3 And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopular impopular.me (S2.E33)

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 piano performer, perishing before you make yourself real, men calling your name as they drive by you in the street, an iTunes gift card from my dead grandfather… Pariah plays the prelude for twelve minutes — have we learned why we’re here? Follow Pariah on Twitter: twitter.com/DollPariah And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E32)

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: twitter.com/basedsodomite And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E29)

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 your ability to get a gig, they threaten suicide at the edge of your glistening youth and at the unending wall of gay men on dating apps, thrusting a knife into your eye because there are too many straight men at the bar you will never be able to touch… Follow Labianna on Twitter: twitter.com/labiannajoroe And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopular impopular.me (S2.E27)

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? Follow Ryan on Twitter: twitter.com/tokyohomo And follow I'm So Popular on Twitter too: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E26)

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)

FULL EPISODE AVAILABLE AT PATREON.COM/imsopopular A special collaborative crossover episode with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, discussing our recollections and impressions of the year 2024年 and the oeuvre of Welsh pop star MARINA DIAMINDIS, FKA MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS (1985年〜). (ISP S5.E05) (TPN S6.E97)

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 Twitter: twitter.com/Jennypopstarxxx And I’m So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E24) PART 3/3

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 Twitter: twitter.com/Jennypopstarxxx And I’m So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E24) PART 2/3

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 Twitter: twitter.com/Jennypopstarxxx And I’m So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E24) PART 1/3