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

without that work ethic, you know.

Your family moved a lot.

You all moved as you mentioned, you lived up and down the Midwest, um

In Texas and then up uh Minnesota.

Um, you go to UPenn, you graduate in economics, is that right?

And then you decide I don't want to do this anymore and you move to New York and the first night you get there, your car is like uh people steal everything except for an Aladdin uh DVD.

Yes.

What were you planning to do there?

thought maybe music, you know, I applied to so many music internships, uh, because I was so musical.

That didn't really pan out.

Uh I remember there was this one forum back when internet forums were more of a thing, where uh Jack Ponty, who is the guitarist for Bon Jovi, had just started a record label and he posted that he was looking to uh hire interns.

And I remember replying on that forum, sent my resume and

And

He was based in New Jersey and I would drive out.

and I would just like box C Ds and think from promotional materials and I I was able to leverage uh asking like, Hey, like I don't mind being an intern, but is it okay if I

create business cards of my own where I can like have my title be like director of research.

Oh.

Uh-huh.

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