Fleeing the psychological dregs and parasocial torment of Twitter, Dasha Nekrasova takes shelter on the season premiere of I'M SO POPULAR to discuss the loneliness of the human soul + NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, karaoke bars and the divine work of hostessing. A rejected Japanese schoolgirl look, fascist cleanliness, the emotional world of Asian businessmen, male feeling, the will to act, puberty, what it takes to get in the robot and last one more day in the world. twitter.com/imsopopularpod imsopo...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In the final episode of I’M SO POPULAR’s first season, Zach interrogates the purpose of the podcast, gay art, his own ego, what any of this means and what it means to express. Featuring (in order of appearance) Ava, Biracial Angel Miles (twitter.com/MalcoImFleX), Comrade Bjork (https://twitter.com/boyzthere), Amina (https://twitter.com/itsonlyamina), John, River Page (https://twitter.com/gayliaronline), Ronald Taylor (https://twitter.com/taylorronald), Thot Topics (https://twitter.com/ThotTopics...
Jan 06, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 26
In my final episode of the year, I spoke to one of my favorite musicians JESSY LANZA about her brilliant and moving new album ALL THE TIME along with vulnerability, anger, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Todd Haynes' Safe and the condition of music and human relations in the year 2020. Buy Jessy Lanza's new album, ALL THE TIME, and its accompanying remix EP, 24/7, on Bandcamp: https://jessylanza.bandcamp.com/ And follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessy.lanza/ impopular.me (s1.25)
Dec 30, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Zach, the girls of Twink Revolution and the divas at Thot Topics are recapping September to December of the worst year on Earth as the third segment of our year end collaboration with Twink Rev (@twinkrev) and Thot Topics (https://twitter.com/ThotTopicsPod). Rihanna's fat models! Anorexia! The election! Death! Podcasting! Cyberpunk 2077! Everything in the entire world. Stream Part One on Twink Revolution: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SHHgu1rHpNmrPjUc1xY2B?si=adUwOuoMRRCDvlXP8qNmPA Stream Pa...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Zach analyzes his life in Japan thus far with his drag sister Gustav, addressing racism, the education system, Brazil and what it means to live in Nihon as a foreigner. impopular.me (s1.23)
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 23
It's the monthly solo episode and I am getting the last word on the #DisruptTexts movement, the destruction of the canon, William Shakespeare, the literary attack on my character, young adult novelists, diversity and every last liberal bluecheck who dared defy me. This is a piece of art: THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS..... rally in the street. 書を捨てよ町へ出よう。 the violence issue of the i'm so popular zine out now: https://etsy.me/39xvybM impopular.me
Dec 02, 2020•42 min
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Japanese diva icon, bodybuilder and writer MISHIMA YUKIO, Zach is with Jack of The Perfume Nationalist podcast (@DonnaMillsFan1) to discuss the author's life, books and Paul Schrader film adaptation (MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS). We talk the end of cinema, the end of real gayness, the end of beautiful men and the end of Drag Race as a good TV show. Subscribe to The Perfume Nationalist on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/perfumenationali...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In the most important debate of the century, Zach battles Levi Kohler on the eternal question: does LOONA suck or not? Between deciding if the Korean girl group is a postmodern death psyop or the saving grace of pop music, they address online leftists, teenagers, hangovers, stan culture, misogyny and more. Buy Levi Kohler's music on Bandcamp: https://levikohler.bandcamp.com/ And follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/l3vik0hlerMUSIC (ISP S1.E21)
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Celebrating twenty successful episodes of the best podcast from the end of the world, Zach and his number one hag Ava take on YOUR questions, problems in love, problems in sex, math problems, hot takes, political intrigue, pop cultural queries and more. impopular.me (s1.E20)
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Zach and friend of the pod Miles (https://twitter.com/MalcoImFleX) are back to dissect the first night of the US 2020 presidential election. We talked about who's sexy, who will win, who's gay and who's a stupid lib, along with Azealia Banks, Kanye West, manic bipolar disorder and that time Zach had to do an entire drag look with no makeup at all. Submit your questions of any and all kinds for next week's extra special power hour q&a episode: https://forms.gle/JPYu3gQwD1mxfCVC8 impopular.me ...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 19
It’s the October episode of the I’M NOT POPULAR solo show and I’m all on my own, celebrating Halloween with takes on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Beyoncé, Lemonade, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ben Hopkins and my lack of a halloween costume. Vote in the I’m So Popular 2020 Presidential Election: https://forms.gle/MpyjMY3WXYMtT4AZ9 Buy the November issue of the I’m So Popular zine, SUFFERING, on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/889919027/im-so-popular-november-2020-...
Oct 31, 2020•48 min
It's the end of this year's Halloween season and Zach and John got sloshed to review two of their favorite horror sequels: the hidden gem HELLO MARY LOU PROM NIGHT 2 and wildly underrated TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2. They're both great! We covered camp, violence, divas, irony, americana, apocalypse, gore and guts in each film. Check out the November issue of the I'm So Popular zine, SUFFERING on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/889919027/im-so-popular-november-2020-suffering?ref=hp_opfy-4&fr...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In the spirit of the season, Zach and Natalie attempt to remember the plot of every single SILENT HILL game EVER! Even the garbage ones! We definitively review each entry in the Silent Hill universe, attempt to understand the series’ enduring mystique and popularity, rate the male characters for hotness and identify the hottest diva queens of the franchise. We even watched the movie adaptations so you don’t have to! The November issue of the I’M SO POPULAR ZINE is available now! SUFFERING, with ...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 17
On the first ever episode recorded live and in person, Zach and Emily are deconstructing the most famous young adult vampire novel ever, TWILIGHT, its movie adaptation, cultural prominence, psychosexual content and the brand new retelling from Edward’s perspective, MIDNIGHT SUN. We didn’t like it! But we do like Robert Pattinson. Also addressed: that video of gays dancing to stupid love at a wedding, Japanese convenience stores, Zach’s trauma with breasts, miso tofu, horse girls, our high school...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Zach and Trans Twitter legend Amina Banks are rambling and ranting in the shadiest and least comprehensible episode of I’m So Popular to date, discussing INTERNET CELEBRITY and straight men… kind of. We’re getting into Zach’s latest Twitter drama, Amina’s bathroom botox, who is and who isn’t a doll, chasers, OnlyFans gays, ketamine, camp, Azealia Banks, ball crushing, Amina’s excellent new album, transitioning and more than you can wrap your little chicken brain around. Stream Amina’s latest alb...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Björk! Zach and resident Björk apologist, Comrade Björk, are dissecting the music, career and filmography of the Icelandic queen of bestiality. And also that time she said the n word! We watched DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 so you don't have to, along with DANCER IN THE DARK and THE JUNIPER TREE. We also discuss her most iconic diva moments, the artistic treatment of women, whether or not Björk's a communist, Ricardo Lopez and much more. Follow Comrade Björk on twitter: https://twitter.com/boyzthere Join...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In September's solo episode, Chi Chi is in fact getting the yayo with a pretentious lefty reading of SCARFACE along with Paris Hilton's awful new documentary, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays and Elfriede Jelinek's Lust. We also are mourning the death of Keeping Up with the Kardashian and chatting about what the pod's accomplished thus far. Join the I'm So Popular discord: https://discord.com/invite/fU93s5X And buy the October issue of the zine: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ImSoPopular?ref=search_s...
Sep 26, 2020•45 min
Zach and Marxist writer River Page are getting hot and heavy with an analysis of the “cLaSs rEdUcTiOnIsM” debate on Twitter and SHAME’s role in #TheDiscourse. We’re also going off on Grindr canvassing, the death of the Notorious LIB, Marie Kondo living spaces, the curse of the New Left, sterility, the death of aesthetics, Equinox, Elon Musk, Lana del Rey’s existential masculinity and our favorite kinds of cigarette. Not to mention rimming and BDSM! Get into it! Read River’s elucidating “The Woke...
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Zach and Leo watched yet another stupid Netflix movie and this week it's CUTIES. We analyzed and reviewed the film and addressed the pedo paranoia in political discourse. We also discuss the time we were on a reality TV show with Bob Saget, the fires wrecking America, pumpkin spice girls and whiskey. Check out the new I'M SO POPULAR ZINE: https://etsy.me/2RAgK1S Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/fU93s5X impopular.me (s1.E12)
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Zach and Justin are tipsy and they are really babbling about the new Charlie Kaufman movie I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS along with the nonsense nightmare of gay thirst traps, sex workers, feminism and so much more. Along the way, we veer into if Arca is a furry or not, OnlyFans, victimhood, fashion, A24 movies, Ari Aster, Midsommar, furries, chihuahuas, wokeness, trans representation, Evangelion and gay body image. Follow Justin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunlethwaters And join us on Disco...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Zach and Arama Japan staffer, Japan Times journalist and general villain of JPop twitter, Ronald, talk about Japanese pop music and stan culture’s role in gay legacy. We assess the broken mechanism in which young gay men interact with pop divas and how Japanese pop music got to the point it's at now. Along the way we also go off about how Japanese men kiss (lots of tongue), homosexual shame, Mishima Yukio, dentistry, maintaining a sexual image as a female pop star, OnlyFans, the never-ending Pri...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Zach and the hottest lesbian little monster on Twitter discuss Katy Perry’s career in detail and review her new album, Smile. They also have time to sum up the VMAs and analyze Adele’s new #TotallyNotCancelled Jamaican lewk. They also talk at LENGTH about Lady Gaga, clowns, pregnancy, corsets, the rise of hip hop in top forty, sexual expectations of women in pop culture, appropriation, self flagellation in the public eye and so much more. Find Kenna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shakeurkittyy ...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 9
It's the new monthly solo show from Zach Langley Chi Chi, I'M NOT POPULAR! On the first episode all by herself, Zach takes on all the hot topics, music, movies and books we didn't get around to on the main show. This month it's everything from Jeffree Star and the Republican National Convention to Oscar Wilde and my new favorite communist torture porn, United Red Army. Also addressed, Gwen Stefani, American Gigolo, David Lynch's Inland Empire and there's even some time for some Drake Discourse....
Aug 29, 2020•57 min
Zach finally finished THE LAST OF US PART II so he's got two of his frattiest gamer bros to chat about it. We also talk video game violence, brutality, trans representation, gay representation, dog representation, Star Wars, Avatar the Last Airbender and Zach's continuing lack of awareness toward any state between Nevada and New York. impopular.me (s1.E08)
Aug 26, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Zach takes on the iconic divas of Twink Revolution to tackle contemporary discourse around China and the role of gay decadence in Marxist movements. Along the way, they get into slurs, cancelling, Asian neoliberalism, Stonewall, Tik Tok, streetwear, who deserves human rights and also Hamilton. Check out Twink Revolution on their website: http://pod.twinkrev.com/ And their twitter: https://twitter.com/twinkrev impopular.me (s1.E07)
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 7
For an unhinged eighty minute session of inebriated gay screaming, Zach gets uncomfortably drunk and shrieks about the queen of pop with notorious Madonna stan David (@shantytyrelle). They get into ALL OF IT: her best albums, every controversy, Cher, Eurovision, HIV/AIDs, drugs, Kylie Minogue, voguing and pedophilia. Also featuring the cicadas living in David's backyard, way too many shots of tequila and more slurring than you will believe possible from Zach herself. About to change the name of ...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Zach and Kyle diagnose the rise of contemporary gay men's self hating moralism and tremble in fear before the uncontrollable engine of personal branding on social media. Also discussed: Black Lives Matter, Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham's Girls (again), Ziwe's interview with Caroline Calloway, bathhouses and the difference between Montana and Wyoming. impopular.me (s1.E05)
Aug 05, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Zach was only going to put out one episode this week but then Taylor Swift went ahead and dropped her new surprise album so he’s recruited 100% real swiftie Sam to dissect the record and pop starlet in general. Also discussed: acting, The Last of Us Part II (spoilers), white nationalism, Lana Del Rey, celebrities as virtue tokens, Rihanna, Kanye West, gay men’s taste in popular music and a whole lot more. reuploaded with improved audio <3 impopular.me (s1.E04)
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Zach and Natalie celebrate their mutual birthdays as they contemplate their accelerating march toward death and discuss introverts, along with homewrecking, astrology, student government, dating apps, Alexa, technology, zoomers, bars in the #AgeOfCovid, adoption, parenthood, marriage equality in Asia and honestly the gamut of human existence. impopular.me (s1.E03)
Jul 29, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Zach Langley Chi Chi introduces himself and begins slowly revealing his completely unchecked egocentrism on the preview episode of I'M SO POPULAR, a new cultural commentary nightmare podcast featuring a different one of his many illustrious friends, followers and haters every week.
Jul 16, 2020•2 min
