I'M SO POPULAR
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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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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...
LISTS!
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Chi Chi presents two numbered lists of intriguing topic...
CITIZEN SHAME with maggie
Discussing Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE (1941年) + John Waters’ A DIRTY SHAME (2004年) + the doomed world of language + hedonistic catharsis + the asexu...
TABLOID GUERILLA 1974 with maggie
Discussing the abduction of PATTY HEARST + Paul Schrader’s biopic of her life in hostage, PATTY HEARST (1988年) + surviving radical politics + the wil...
SIRENS: MYSTERIOUS SKIN with maggie
I'M SO POPULAR has been largely removed from Spotify! The Library of Alexandria burns! But fortunately, the entire history of ISP remains available on...
FALLING SNOW with maggie
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Discussing two novels by the iconic Japanese author TANIZAKI JUNICHIRO 谷崎 潤一郎: MANJI/QUICKSA...
SIMULATION MALADY with maggie [preview]
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Espousing the strange and libidinal undercurrents in the kingdom of THAILAND with...
GHOST IN THE SHELL/GHOST IN THE NET with maggie
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Recorded live from Tokyo, we approach some of the headiest and most intriguing ex...
THE WITCH FROM MERCURY with maggie [preview]
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Discussing the lesbian romance corporate drama bloodbath anime MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: THE WITCH FROM MERCURY...
GIRL OF MYTH: KURIYAMA CHIAKI with maggie
Returning the soul to KILL BILL and BATTLE ROYALE actress KURIYAMA CHIAKI (栗山千明) by discussing her erotic photobook GIRL OF MYTH (1997年) + Sono S...
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF THE OTAKU with maggie [preview]
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A brand new co-host officially enters the world o...
APHEX TWIN EPISODE with veroncia
Veronica from The Temple of Friendship podcast stops by for a discussion concerning the music and legacy of APEXH TWIN + imperial rot + electronic and...
OHTANI SHOHEI AND THE MASCULINE DIVINE with rare candy
Glen and Psi from the Rare Candy podcast join to discuss a newly anointed god on earth: OHTANI SHOHEI + his image and allure + his visage as product a...
DANCE SEX ARTPOP MAYHEM with david [preview]
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David, host of Gang Bang podcast and general Madonna stan twitter nuisance, joins to discuss La...
MIN KAMP II: APOCALYPSE GIRL
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Discussing Karl Ove Knausgård's MY STRUGGLE VOLUME TWO (2009年) + the psycho alternative feminist pop albu...
A BEAST IN THE WEB with matthew denicola
Photographer and host of The Salt Box Matthew Denicola joins to discuss the mimetic nightmare, ecstasy and American maximalism of Jimmy Donaldson, aka...
THE ANNIHILATION OF MAN with vyl [preview]
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Vyl of the newly formed podcast Conversations With Prostitutes returns to I...
CHI CHIのBOOK CLUB第5: HAPPENING
On the fifth edition of Chi Chi’s exclusive Patreon bookclub, we discuss “Happening” by Annie Ernaux. Subscribe to the Patreon to join us next time.
SILENCE with stephen zerance
We discuss Endo Shusaku’s brutal novel SILENCE (1966年) and Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the same name + the cruelty of God + Catholic doubt + the...
MIN KAMP I: AUTOFICTION
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Discussing Karl Ove Knausgård's MY STRUGGLE VOLUME ONE (2009年) + the...