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I'M SO POPULAR
I’M SO POPULAR is an audio program from the end of the world by American drag queen in Japan, Zach Langley Chi Chi. Scream into the abyss, find another way: discussing with anyone and everyone homosexual beauty, art, culture, Madonna, Marxism, J-Pop, James Joyce, drag, death, all of it, none of it....
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DESCENT OF THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS
Celebrating the arrival of Spring, we discuss the ephemeral and beguiling majesty of cherry blossom trees along with three sakura themed idol songs: M...
IDOL MASSACRE with saylor stackhouse
Saylor joins to discuss one of the most notorious calamities in the history of idols: the ill-fated Korean reality show PRODUCE 48 where AKB48 and the...
WOUNDED OBJECTS
In our continued investigation of Korea's chokehold on global popularity, we discuss two novels by Nobel Prize winning Korean author Han Kang: THE VEG...
BTS DEMON HUNTERS with jody
Jody joins to discuss the legacy of iconic Korean idol group BTS + the 2025 film KPOP DEMON HUNTERS.
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THE FILMS OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS (preview)
We discuss the career and films of Greek director YORGOT LANTHIMOS. Full episode available only on Patreon.
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Discussing WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë + three of its adaptations, Emerald Fennel’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026), the Filipino film HIHINTAYIN KITA...
THE ENDLESS WITCH with skye (preview)
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It’s the biggest night in I’M SO POPULAR history, discussing the 1.5...
BOYFRIENDS, COLDNESS with kazu
Right on time for Valentine’s Day, Chi Chi is joined by another single broad in the big city, Kazu, to discuss Netflix’s brand new season of gay Japan...
PLURIBUS with adam lehrer
Multitalented musician, artist, editor and jewish bodybuilding stud Adam Lehrer joins Maggie and Chi Chi to discuss the new Vince Gilligan Apple TV dr...
SEASON SIX PREMIERE: POPULARITY
Chi Chi and Maggie begin a whole new season of I'M SO POPULAR with an investigation of POPULARITY itself... what it means to be popular, how one becom...
DO YOU REMEMBER 2025? with maggie
Surprise! And happy New Year.... Maggie and Chi Chi recapped literally everything that happened in 2025 in a five hour extravaganza of exhaustion, kpo...
SEASON FIVE FINALE: GRAPEFRUIT 1980 with maggie
On the season finale of I’M SO POPULAR, Maggie and Chi Chi recount a year of violence, heartbreak and political turmoil and look to a more beautiful f...
TRAIN MAN, or LOVE IN THE REAL WORLD with maggie
On the penultimate episode of I’M SO POPULAR Season 5, we discuss the internet legend of Densha Otoko and the 2005 film adaptation of said legend: TRA...
CHI CHIのBOOK CLUB第6: WHEN SHE WAS GOOD
On the fifth edition of Chi Chi’s exclusive Patreon bookclub, we discuss WHEN SHE WAS GOOD by Philip Roth.
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MIN KAMP III: BOYHOOD AND GORE
Discussing Karl Ove Knausgård's MY STRUGGLE VOLUME THREE (2009年) + memories from my childhood + mysteries of the unconscious mind.
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MUSCLE MAN with jordan castro
Very handsome novelist Jordan Castro joins to discuss his fascinating new book MUSCLE MAN (2025年), a fascinating work of fiction about an English pro...
RING with angel heart and maggie
Discussing the iconic Japanese horror mainstay franchise of RING リング: its original trilogy of late nineties films + its source material novels + th...
PSYCHO MONSTER with maggie
Discussing the Ryan Murphy produced MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY (2025年) + Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960年) + Polio Addison Rae + "gynephilism" + tru...
SILENT HILL 2 with maggie
Inaugurating the Halloween season, we're talking about Bloober Team's 2024 remake of horror masterpiece SILENT HILL 2 + otherworlds and American rot +...
MALE LOVE IN THE MIRROR with maggie
erotica THE GREAT MIRROR OF MALE LOVE 男色大鏡 (1687年) + the ethereal world of desire and pleasure + sexual roles across the great scope of history +...
CHRONICLE OF THE DYING DAY with maggie
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Maggie and Chi Chi discuss the perverse gender inverted world of Jap...
PHANTOMS with maggie
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We discuss Utada Hikaru’s tremendous and heartbreaking comeback rec...
I SAW THE TV, BRO AND OTHER TALES FROM BENEATH THE TRANS UMBRELLA with maggie
We discuss the diabolical filmography of JANE SCHOENBRUN: I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024年) + WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2021年) + A SELF-INDUCED H...
LIFE WITHOUT SEX with maggie and maggie's ex-girlfriend
We’re joined by Maggie’s very own ex-girlfriend to discuss the state of open relationships, polyamory, artificial insemination and the future of sexua...
BLUE VELVET with maggie
Discussing the seminal David Lynch film BLUE VELVET (1986年),
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LOLITA with maggie
Discussing Vladimir Nabokov’s masterpiece of perversion and English letters LOLITA (1955年) + Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the same name LOLIT...
CHLORINE SAMEN CHESTNUT FLOWER with kiku and maggie
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Bidding goodbye to my first home in Tokyo, Shinjuku Ward, with a discussing legendary Ja...
TOO MUCH with jack mason [preview]
Jack Mason from The Perfume Nationalist podcast joins to discuss the new Lena Dunham created Netflix series TOO MUCH (2025年). Full episode only for s...
YEAR TWENTY NINE with natalie
It’s the classic ISP birthday special: birthday twin Natalie joins to celebrate the closing of another year on planet Earth as Zach turns twenty nine...
I'M SO POPULAR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY (LIVE)
A live recording of the I’M SO POPULAR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY from Koenji, Tokyo, Japan.
REBUILD OF EVANGELION with maggie
Ending the endless time loops of Evangelion, Maggie returns to celebrate the fifth anniversary of ISP with a discussion of the REBUILD OF EVANGELION f...
THE END OF EVANGELION with deniz
Continuing our month long celebration of ISP’s fifth anniversary, Deniz joins to discuss one of the best films ever made: THE END OF EVANGELION (1997...
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION with sascha amato
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of I'M SO POPULAR, Russian genius Sascha Amato joins to revisit the most important anime of all time: NEON GENESIS...
THE ENDLESS JUNE with dylan and maggie
Discussing the seminal anime adaptation of HIGURASHI: WHEN THEY CRY ひぐらしのなく頃に by 07th Expansion + contesting with fate and will + friendship...
PRELUDE TO THE ENDLESS JUNE
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Question Arc
Poems of Frederica Bernkastel read by Skye
MISHIMA WITH THE SEA with maggie
Discussing Mishima Yukio’s THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA 午後の曳航 (1963) + the pinku eiga gay pornographic parody of his life BEAUTIFU...
FRUIT AND SUN with maggie
We discuss the iconic films CRAZED FRUIT (1956) and SEASON OF THE SUN (1956) from the Japanese Sun Tribe movement: postwar nihilist youths dressed in...
"IT" GIRL
Inaugurating the official start to a very I'M SO POPULAR summer, I'm discussing the debut album by Addison Rae ADDISON (2025) + Stephen King's IT (198...
THE RED EPISODE with maggie
Following Maggie’s recent travels to Bejing China, we discuss THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA at large, its scope and influence and uncanny vision of a...
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Chi Chi presents two numbered lists of intriguing topic...