I'M SO POPULAR

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 Japanese dating reality show fiasco THE BOYFRIEND. We ponder infatuation, masculine coldness, the cruelty of desire and the tyranny of the homosexual top. For even more episodes, please join us on Patreon at patreon.com/imsopopular for five dollars a month. For your patronage, you’ll receive countless paywalled episodes from the I’M SO POPULAR story along with hundred of hours of the gossipy aftershow SIRENS.

Multitalented musician, artist, editor and jewish bodybuilding stud Adam Lehrer joins Maggie and Chi Chi to discuss the new Vince Gilligan Apple TV drama PLURIBUS (2025年〜). For the full episode, please join us on Patreon at patreon.com/imsopopular for five dollars a month. For your patronage, you’ll receive countless paywalled episodes from the I’M SO POPULAR story along with hundred of hours of the gossipy aftershow SIRENS.

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 becomes popular and why popularity is the magic of life itself. Join Maggie and Chi Chi on Patreon for exclusive episodes of the scandalous SIRENS aftershow along with dozens of paywalled episodes of ISP: patreon.com/imsopopular

Surprise! And happy New Year.... Maggie and Chi Chi recapped literally everything that happened in 2025 in a five hour extravaganza of exhaustion, kpop, online politics, Smurfs, horses and more. Sorry I meant for this to be free for everyone but it's 5 hours long so you have to subscribe on Patreon for the whole episode: patreon.com/imsopopular

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 future beyond the parabola with a discussion of JD Salinger’s CATCHER IN THE RYE (1950) + the murder of John Lennon + Yoko Ono’s SEASON OF GLASS (1981) + Yoko Ono’s GRAPEFRUIT (1964). For the full three hour episode, join us on patreon for just five dollars at PATREON.COM/IMSOPOPULAR

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: TRAIN MAN 電車の男 + love and actualization of the otaku + escaping the constricted panopticon of the online world. For this week's salacious SIRENS along with over a hundred and seventy five paywalled episodes, join us at PATREON.COM/IMSOPOPULAR

On the fifth edition of Chi Chi’s exclusive Patreon bookclub, we discuss WHEN SHE WAS GOOD by Philip Roth. Subscribe to the Patreon to join us next time: patreon.com/imsopopular

Discussing Karl Ove Knausgård's MY STRUGGLE VOLUME THREE (2009年) + memories from my childhood + mysteries of the unconscious mind. FULL EPISODE ONLY FOR PATRONS: patreon.com/imsopopular

Very handsome novelist Jordan Castro joins to discuss his fascinating new book MUSCLE MAN (2025年), a fascinating work of fiction about an English professor who hates being an English professor and loves lifting weights. We discuss novels of the mind, Mishima Yukio and the mimetic flattening of reactionary authors, the puzzling reception to his work, the godless twenty-first century and more. For paywalled episodes of the show and over one hundred locked episodes of the essential SIRENS chat show, join us on patreon at patreon.com/imsopopular Find Jordan Castro and his fabulous books on his website: http://www.jordancastro.com/

Discussing the iconic Japanese horror mainstay franchise of RING リング: its original trilogy of late nineties films + its source material novels + the occult world of spirituality and tangible emotion + video tape and horror of memory + Nakatani Miki and her iconic haircuts. For the bonus SIRENS aftershow, join us on patreon at Patreon.com/imsopopular

Discussing the Ryan Murphy produced MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY (2025年) + Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960年) + Polio Addison Rae + "gynephilism" + true crime + horror and phalluses. Join us on Patreon.com/imsopopular for the full episode and access to the book club, discord and more.

Inaugurating the Halloween season, we're talking about Bloober Team's 2024 remake of horror masterpiece SILENT HILL 2 + otherworlds and American rot + latent sexual impulses + grief and violence + video games as art. Full quality episode available only on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular

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 + gently falling cherry blossoms and the melancholic impermanence of all things. Only for patrons: patreon.com/imsopopular

* HQ episode available only for patrons at patreon.com/imsopopular * Maggie and Chi Chi discuss the perverse gender inverted world of Japanese samurai history by way of Yaoi excess: Yoshinaga Fumi’s OOKU 大奥.

* HQ Episode available only for Patrons at Patreon.com/comsopopular * We discuss Utada Hikaru’s tremendous and heartbreaking comeback record FANTÔME (2016年) + the career of her late mother, classic Japanese Enka singer FUJI KEIKO.

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 HALLUCINATION (2018年). Full episode only for Patrons: patreon.com/imsopopular

We’re joined by Maggie’s very own ex-girlfriend to discuss the state of open relationships, polyamory, artificial insemination and the future of sexuality with a review of the most shocking Japanese novel this century: Murata Sayaka’s VANISHING WORLD 消滅世界 (2015年). For the full shocking episode, join us at patreon.com/imsopopular

Discussing the seminal David Lynch film BLUE VELVET (1986年), For the full quality version of this episode + the shady take down of THOT TOPICS join us at patreon.com/imsopopular

Discussing Vladimir Nabokov’s masterpiece of perversion and English letters LOLITA (1955年) + Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the same name LOLITA (1962年). Full episode only for patrons at patreon.com/imsopopular

High quality version available only for patrons. Bidding goodbye to my first home in Tokyo, Shinjuku Ward, with a discussing legendary Japanese singer-songwriter SHEENA RINGO 椎名 林檎 (1978年〜) + her first three albums MUZAI MORATORIUM 無罪モラトリアム (1999年) SHOSO STRIP 勝訴ストリップ (2000年) + KALK SAMEN KURI NO HANA 加爾基精液栗ノ花 (2003年). Join us for the paywalled SIRENS series and Patreon exclusive episodes at patreon.com/imsopopular