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

And he was cool with it.

So then I remember printing those out and in New York I I I I didn't know anybody, so I was I was so alone.

Like I I tr I d I'm not exaggerating when I say I did not have a friend.

And so I would

Google where like the free events were that night.

You know, s there'd be some like, you know, Condé Nas would be having some like release party at the Hermes store.

Yeah.

And I would go get dressed up in my one suit with my little self made business card.

I would stand in line and I would sneak into the party and then I would eat the free food and that would be the dinner for my day 'cause I was so poor.

And then I would just like try to like rub the elbows and hand out like my business card to everybody.

But like

How brave you were.

I think I was just desperate.

Okay, so you um you become an NBC page, which um is a program that you get to give tours to to tourists and things through uh Thirty Rock.

And this really uh amazing thing happens while you're um

a page, the head of um comedy sees uh a s something that you wrote and says like you're super talented, gets you hooked up with an agent.

You get an agent, you move to LA, um

Things get so tough for you while you're in LA, but you're still like, I'm going to do this.

But at one point

It got so rough that you were sleeping on a hospital cot.

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