Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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556 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

the forty some year olds were all defending the the boomers.

Yeah.

And and I was trying to examine why that is and I'm like, Oh no, it's 'cause we're it's 'cause we're old now.

We know what it's like to be in a relationship.

Yeah.

And I thought that, oh wow, like elder millennials haven't really uh hadn't really seen characters wrestle with the fact that, oh, we we're we're starting to feel and do things that the previous generation did for the first time.

And and, you know, as someone who's forty four, that felt very potent and relevant and and

And so uh yeah, like it just kinda sparked something in me.

I also wondered is there something very specific about midlife?

At this time period for millennials in particular because in this series, um, Oscar Isaac and Carrie Mulligan, they play Josh and Lindsay and they're a married couple.

Um, who the Josh actually works for this really swanky country club.

And then the two younger people, they also work there.

Josh has a little bit more power because he's a manager, but all of them kind of don't have power.

But they're they begin throughout the course of the series to battle against each other instead of

the folks who are the ones with the money and power who are part of the country club, you know?

Exactly.

Yeah, it's just interesting.

uh you know, we we were we've been friends since our mid twenties, we're broke and poor together, temped in random places in LA and he recently came into a lot of money in tech over the last few years.

And so he became a member of Montecito Country Club.

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