An I'M SO POPULAR SPECIAL: Zach Langley Chi Chi Takes Korea. He meets Brixton and Ronald and the most famous gay man in South Korea, Tony Hong. Discovering the nature of perception, the secret use of idols, Korean pop music, Parasite, gay culture and above all else: an exuberance of overflowing life in all of its threads.

Follow Brixton on Twitter: twitter.com/Brixton

And Ronald: twitter.com/taylorronald

And on a very special SIRENS untucked available only on Patreon, Chi Chi further elucidates the creative process and gets into the grisly details of his trip to Korea: patreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E17 서울악보)

Live in Tokyo, Shibuya Ward -- domain of the dreams of idols -- Miho joins Chi Chi to elucidate for the first time ever the truly unbelievable life of nineties one time Japanese pop legend KAHARA TOMOMI and her appearance on DENPA SHŌNEN. You've never heard a horror like this before: lost in love, strung out on pills, suicidal and compelled by nothing but a power of character and thirst for passion, Tomo-chan is humiliated in painstaking abjection beyond all American imaginations. And it's all on film.

Follow I'M SO POPULAR on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod

And listen to the exclusive untucked Patreon Experience SIRENS in which Miho and Chi Chi hit the streets of Shibuya armed with a microphone and unwillingly interviewing every Japanese man they can find as they shop for a bag and try on perfume: patreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E16 体力と責め苦)

Stephen King's CARRIE (1974) + Brian De Palma's CARRIE (1976) + LIFE ライフ (2007). THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU! Revenge, bullying, the spiraling world of torture and sadism, buckets of blood, sexual cars, schoolgirl uniforms, fake rain, Ayn Rand....

Subscribe to FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES on Patreon: www.patreon.com/filthyarmenian

And THE PERFUME NATIONALIST: www.patreon.com/perfumenationalist

And on this week's SIRENS exclusive untucked continuation: the girls discuss how to be a podcaster, Jordan Peele's NOPE, TWIN PEAKS, internet menaces, hard drugs and their pure love for another. Listen today: parreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E15 人生は螺旋)

In the dilapidated deserts of someplace called Hollywood… ancient dreams in a modern land: the outskirts of society suddenly thrust into the eye of the storm as RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE floats into heaven. A portrait of an unraveling world, the most subterranean corners of the psyche made tauntingly real and the torture of screaming liberals turned into manic theatre. Walking through the barren California wastelands and pursued by police, PUNISHMENT PARK, screaming your politick with every thread of your being: Your God, RuPaul Andre Charles, is laughing.

Follow Gremlin on Twitter please, he’s very handsome: https://twitter.com/goodboygremlin

And on the exclusive PATRONS ONLY Untucked (if you’re not listening you’re only getting half the story!), Gremlin and Chi Chi contemplate whatever a “consultant” is: patreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E14 軍靴)

Desires consuming the world… Zane and Chi Chi ponder the eternal wonders and perils of real love and lust with Oshima Nagisa’s IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES and Utada Hikaru’s seminal DEEP RIVER. Balancing acts of life, relegation of passion, the systems of the world stacking upon, true love and something else...

Follow Zane on Twitter: twitter.com/perched_atop

And the I’M SO POPULAR Twitter account: twitter.com/imsopopularpod

And if you’re not listening to SIRENS on Patreon you’re only getting half the story… this week’s episode starring Zane and Chi Chi reflecting on “sex workers” and the nightmare alley of the internet: patreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E13 愛の川）

The internet is real. The internet is a series of circuits connecting human beings. The internet possesses a malicious system of misrepresentation and hatred. The internet will isolate you into an afterlife of eternal loneliness. The internet will become an enormous artifice depicting just how distant our souls are from one another. The internet must be a weapon. We must take it in our hands. 回路 (2001) + SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN (1998) + CAPS LOCK (2013).

And an answer to the network's riddle on this week's Patreon exclusive SIRENS, embracing the joy and ecstasy and newfound experiences of the real works as Chi Chi and a new friend take the clubs and bars of Shinjuku Nichome: patreon.com/imsopopular

(S3.E12 インターネットの中に生きているもの)

Chi Chi does her makeup and is joined by a few friends from a public Zoom link...

starring some dear friends

only on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70243481?pr=true

Old friend Natalie joins Chi Chi to celebrate their twenty sixth and twenty seventh birthdays respectively and discuss Alexander Payne's ELECTION (1999) and its source material, ELECTION (1998).

Stream a special birthday episode about dead animals on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopoular

(S3.E12 誕生日)

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)