I'M SO POPULAR

Possessed by the podcasting black lodge demon and recording live from our favorite bar in Mie Prefecture, Chi Chi and dear friend of three years John battle through TWIN PEAKS, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Wilson produces as he listens to a conversation on a series of television programs and films he’s never seen before. “You haven’t seen The Godfather?!” Chi Chi endlessly berates him. They invite more people and order pizza and tequila. Chi Chi takes all the air out of the room. Saying goodbye, getting married, moving, reflecting together… Audio is too loud (too quiet), something is wrong, beauty is too much to take… but there is art and friendship and conversation and alcohol. The gleaming world. Traffic on the strip.

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(S2.E23)

Old internet friend and emerging Tik Tok Brielle enters I’M SO POPULAR at last to explore the boundaries of youth culture in TIK TOK and three albums by the heartthrob metaphysical poet DRAKE. Clips in fast succession: nonstop and relatable. Persecution, mobilization of the zoomer cop class against hot anime boys. Heartless, unemotional identification, finally answered by the hyper feeling love and melancholy of Drake — perhaps the most misunderstood beacon for true, tragic masculinity. Brielle and Chi Chi comment on Drake’s sex appeal. Chi Chi raps. Expressing yourself, expressing your broken heart, expressing…

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(S2.E22)

A journey through the final questions of homosexuality and the elusive, stolen quality of something called “queerness,” starring TELEPATHY PARTY, his roommate MUSCLE MASTER EL LOBO and also Zach’s friend SAKI. First: YAOI MANGA, what is referred to as boys love, women diffusing their feelings toward the horror of sexual penetration into thin limbed beautiful boys, avatars, idols of safety. Next: blowing it up and activating it in the perverted feces spiral of filth, rape and excess porn: GENGOROH TAGAME. And as the gyre fails to hold, the death of a star, the last chance for queerness, in finality: the music of SOPHIE. Rejecting the post nut clarity of death. Looking up where gay men are meeting to satisfy mysterious curiosities. “The Bitch of the Jungle.” Loss, the capacity for ecstasy, joy as void, voices of gay men ready to meet right now, America’s Next [last?] Based Trans Girl…. 私は男になれたなら/私は女を 捨てないわ。

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(S2.E21)

Writer and art critic in exile Harry Tafoya joins to find a new way through discussion on Larry Kramer’s seminal 1978 masterpiece FAGGOTS and his 2005 speech, THE TRAGEDY OF TODAY’S GAYS, in the continuation of Chi Chi’s Pride trilogy. Silence = Death. Scraping narrative from podcasts, mourning the chance to lip-sync, coming close to tears from the blinding light of a dead gay star, moral sexuality, feeling something, Red Scare, Nancy Pelosi and the potential alchemy of a trans party girl into society’s last cry for heart. No more Fire Island. No gay people. Nothing But Queer Theory. Zach drinks whiskey and coke. Conversations whirl into the mirror of Twitter micro celebrities — does it mean anything? How can I tell the world more about blowjobs?? Can anyone hear me?? I blame myself. Larry Kramer’s final, unfinished play…

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(S2.E20)

Dear friend Kyle returns to join Chi Chi for a very special sequel to GAY PEOPLE AND BRANDING and the first in a trilogy of Pride episodes, discussing homosexual men and Andrew Holleran's DANCER FROM THE DANCE and THE BEAUTY OF MEN, nine months later and further sunken into the silt of bland homosexual misery. Sickness and politics reducing the gay climate to a procedurally generated Tik Tok, the looming fate of a flower doomed to wilt, journals and iPhone notes apps listing every man we've ever had, walking into the bathhouse and becoming the sun for a single glistening moment, watching your mother drool on her paralyzed death bed, thinking of semen, the grave of the rectum, crying in Shinjuku, overwhelmed with fear of the beautiful. HIV/AIDS. Moralism. Abandon yourself to darkness and turn to the dream of the homosexual seventies.

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(S2.E19)

River returns from Whataburger so he can receive mystic instruction in the hell arts of Japanese and Korean pop idols from Chi Chi. Together they trace the complete anthropology of the grimmest and most destructive content to touch I’M SO POPULAR yet: BTS hypnotizing non binary people into shapeless autoandrophilic consumers, Demi Lovato becoming possessed by the Satan of the East, AKB48 members shaving their heads, cultures misplacing desires for beautiful young boys, men dressing as lesbians under the eye of pederasty, a French woman descending from the cosmos and cursing a nation, all art sucked into a vacuum and returned as garbage. War and global trauma melts countries into barren fields of Pokemon sex dolls singing to you about ??? River does an impression of Jack. Zach talks about oral sex again. Buy every copy of every edition of every CD so you can touch the hand of an idol. Throw away the CD, only a white transvestite Mishima angel can save you now… An unbelievable miracle will happen, the fortune cookie of Love.

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(S2.E18)

Returning from the bar, wasted and emotional and overfull with heart and truth and slurring fury, Zach and special guest Nadine voyage through makeup, artifice and the cultural role of BRITNEY JEAN SPEARS in the name of having fun and being yourself. Tumultuous, earnest, humiliating podcasting as microphones come unplugged several times, the internet cuts out, frogs scream through the entirety of recording, the audio grows out of sync. Zach reveals the entire oral history of his eyebrows. Nadine describes the time she first put on a leather jacket. Singing “Toxic” at karaoke, thrusting umbrellas at windshields, taking your shirt off and cradling a teletubby to manifest society’s misplaced libido, having fun…

I will never go to the bar before recording again.

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(S2.E17)

Nefarious poster James From Tokyo and Chi Chi gather in an act of real male camaraderie to do the impossible and transcend irony... reading Bronze Age Pervert and BRONZE AGE MINDSET without political eye or apology. We find the answer: revealing the lie of heterosexual Nietzschean greatness. Deriving pleasure from self satisfaction, art and penises. Revealing the true joy of ancient Grecian philosophy. Burning down the alluring curtain of bad Mishima takes in a trash fire on the Caribbean shores. Richard Wagner. Shitposting. REAL EMOTION: What can I do for you...?

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(S2.E16)

Very cool guy Michael Martin del Campo joins to sing a swan song and eulogy for BEAUTIFUL MALE VIOLENCE with the discussion of four films: SHANE + VIOLENT COP + BULLHEAD + FIRST BLOOD. Chi Chi smokes several cigarettes. Bucket hats, Sylvester Stallone in pain, style, action figures, guns, drugs, the vicious fate of hot guys, a vanishing world in which the stoic icon can be one of beauty and glamor...

This podcast is also uniquely available as a two hour cinematic experience on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJijEaYveI

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(S2.E15)

Gwen (twitter.com/rancid0rchid) from the PURE OBLIVION podcast arrives in a cloud of occultism to elucidate BODY HORROR with Ito's Junji's TOMIE + UZUMAKI. Spirals, turning into a snail, sucking the skin of beautiful people, making tornadoes with your arms, spirit photography, learning not to laugh, experiencing art with your soul, cycles of humanity, endless whirlpools, stupefaction and dumbfounded awe in the presence of total bleakness.

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(S2E14)