I'M SO POPULAR

A complete and total history of the United States of America from the end of World War II in 1945 and the onset of the HIV/AIDS to the present + the second volume of Larry Kramer's epic historical "novel" THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: VOLUME TWO: THE BRUTALITY OF FACT.

Follow Jocko on Twitter: twitter.com/jockogay

And exclusively on the Patreon, a deep exploration of Jocko and Chi Chi’s sexuality, the hospitalization and naturally, RuPaul’s Drag Race. (S3.E44 病気の波）

A complete history of the United States of America from its creation to 1945 + the birth of HIV/AIDS and the first volume of Larry Kramer's epic historical "novel" THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: VOLUME ONE SEARCH FOR MY HEART.

Follow Jocko on Twitter: twitter.com/jockogay

And exclusively on the Patreon, a horrifying piece of context about the hospitalization of Zach Langley Chi Chi that will change everything you hear today: patreon.com/imsopopular

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Beyond the sixteenth century, beyond the twentieth and the twenty-first, there looms in the sky an unreachable dream of the so-called utopia…. I’M SO POPULAR all star lesbian genius Vera joins to discuss Thomas More’s UTOPIA (1516), Björk’s UTOPIA (2017) and John Boorman’s ZARDOZ (1974). The foolishness of utopian dreams, the asexual safety of morality and religion, a need for the phallic will, the heinous screeching of birds and “Arca,” Marxism as death cult, psychic group think and the garden of human desires: a horrifying place after all.

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And for Patrons only, the crucial continuation of the show SIRENS in which we endorse Oprah for president and discuss the terrifying power of Spring over the homosexual spirit: patreon.com/imsopopular

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“PRECIOUS TURMOIL” is the first EP by Zach Langley Chi Chi: an impression of one year, three months and some days. There are lots of things I want to say at the moment, but sometimes saying them in words is too painful. Featuring samples from Okada Yukiko, Madonna, Yano Akiko, Globe, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Togawa Jun, AKB48, Lana Del Rey, Utada Hikaru, Fuji Keiko, Frederic Chopin, Sergei Prokofiev, Sakamoto Ryuichi and Cliff Martinez. Recorded in April, 2023. A high quality file with separated tracks, liner art and the EP cover is available only for patrons: patreon.com/imsopopular

01. Mount Daisen (昭和)

02.告白

03.A Motionless Be

04. That Conversation Hasn’t Happened Yet

05. Complete Dependence (平成)

06. Souring

07. Souring II

08.渋谷PARCOから見えた都市景観

09. Don’t Talk to Me Like That

10.桜のSEASON

11. Mount Fuji (令和)

12. Someone Will Play the Piano for You Another Day

(S3.E41 PRECIOUS TURMOIL)

A survey of the state of justice, discipline, incarceration and education with Michel Foucault’s all seeing masterpiece DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH + Japanese soap opera classic THE QUEEN’S CLASSROOM. Imagine a society around you governed by nothing but the innate fear of human touch, a senseless leakage of vengeance into order and murderer-children, train abortion suicides and demon teachers. Can’t you see it?! イメージできる？！OPEN YOUR EYES, it’s right before you! But there are inexplicable mysteries, an inherent value of life: joy in the curiosity to learn and uncover it all. String the murderers and children on the great wheels once more. Make this modern torture into something worthwhile once again.

Follow Bayou on Twitter: twitter.com/ BayouCervidae

And listen to an exclusive SIRENS episode available only on Patreon discussing France, Japan, travel and more: patreon.com/imsopopular

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Thinking about youth and death, old age and beauty, with two novels by gay men -- Bret Easton Ellis's LESS THAN ZERO and Andrew Holleran's new novel THE KINGDOM OF SAND.

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The second edition of Chi Chi’s book club. This time, discussing Kawabata Yasunari’s THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN. If you’d like to participate in the book club and join us next month for our discussion of Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD, subscribe to I’M SO POPULAR on Patreon for access along with paywalled episodes of ISP, the entire SIRENS untucked phenomena, exclusive photos and more: patreon.com/imsopopular

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Discussing the towering work of American art CAITLYN JENNER, her life, memoir, documentary tv show, Vanity Fair interview and Fox News appearances in conversation with Lana Del Rey’s poetic masterpiece, BLUE BANISTERS. Pop star in the making Jenny Scoones joins Chi Chi to stare directly into the transgender heart, the ability to make narrative out of one’s own turmoil and perversion, what it means to not fit into a bathing suit, eternal tragedy, gender politics, the struggle to pick out a pair of heels and above all else… America… Arcadia…

Follow Jenny on Twitter and listen to her new single out March 3rd: twitter.com/jennypopstarxxx

And on the Patreon exclusive SIRENS... Chi Chi reveals the gruesome details of a night gone wrong in drag only for subscribers: patreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E36 プールへ入る美人)

What is the most brutal sight in the world: a hydrangea petal found rotten and decayed on the cement of an unfeeling civilization. J-pop provocateur and host of the Nante Japan podcast Ronald returns to reflect on the nature of stagnating beauty and castrated Instagram sexuality through the figure of one of the most gorgeous boys in the world, Japanese water popular player Arai Atsushi, and Visconti’s 1991 DEATH IN VENICE. Homo and hetero sexualities colliding, age melting from one’s hair, the encroaching menace of self awareness and a single plea for the future…

Follow Ronald on Twitter: twitter.com/taylorronald

And on 100% crucial context for the episode, Chi Chi and Ronald discus the endless cycle of violence sustained by Japanese gay fetish porn and the burnout stars of the industry: patreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E35 公園で散歩しろ)

Tabloid superstar and host of the UNPOPULAR podcast Jacques Peterson joins to dive into the furthest extremities of Chi Chi ethos known to man with a complete oral history of the calamitously ill failed Japanese idol group, KEYAKIZAKA46. When a fascist militia of twenty-one Japanese high school girls are charged with the artistic duty of diffusing an entire nation’s cultural malaise, terrible things begin to happen. Sixteen year old girls faint en masse in fits of hyperventilating passion, they are attacked with smoke bombs and paring knives, they are fondled by their teachers, they fall off stage and begin to weep uncontrollably and collectively break down into public thrashing spasms as they scream and rip at their hair. Art swallows young women home and returns them as husks of their former selves. This is all real: and through it all, a singular mission to destroy the chains of society and liberate an objectivist soul to save Japan. A schoolgirl’s skirt is cut open on a Monday morning train….. “Everyone is living with something cut from them.” The loneliness of an ignored corner of society and a silent majority unafraid of DISCORD.

Follow Jacques’s funny and very witty show on Twitter: twitter.com/unpopularjp

And this week available only for Patrons, a collection of photos featuring Chi Chi in Keyakizaka drag, a complete PDF outlining the group’s history, a starter-pack playlist of their music and on an especially gossipy, shady and RUTHLESS episode of SIRENS: patreon.com/imsopopular

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