Jia Tolentino

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The White Lotus Official Podcast · Inside Episode 7: A Deeper Dive with Dan Savage · 2 Apr 2025 podcast

Yeah. I mean, what do you think is going on? Like, I mean, I, I, for, you know, for the record, it's like, I agree. Like I, and I also like have a kind of identification with the Jacqueline. I was like, maybe that's exactly what I would have done.

Yeah.

In the guise of love and caring.

Yeah. And there's like, they all want to be the Jacqueline too, right? It's like, they all kind of want to be the one that the most desirable one of the Russian men desires, you know?

I think so. I think so. Vlad, he can't recover from that shirt, you know, with the angel wings on the front of the shirt.

He's like, I take cash out.

Right. He's switched twice in like the span of 90 seconds in the scene, right? Yes. Gone from lover boy to con artist to like, to beta male with your like, you know, jujitsu trained girlfriend. Do you think there's, I mean, there is something interesting because I was wondering when I knew that this season would be set in Thailand, like,

You know, there is a backdrop of transactional and exploitative, like straight up exploitative sex hovers behind and around this whole season.

Right.

We're seeing the paid girlfriends that are making out really, really, really well and not the vast like actually criminal depraved. And I kind of, you know, we don't I don't think we need a documentary version of that on White Lotus like nobody wants that. But it's there. We all know it's there.

And I guess sex has been transactional in every season, you know, and of course, season two, you have our, you know, our iconic gal pal duo, you know, fucking all over the hotel, et cetera, getting paid for it.

But is there, I don't know, do you feel that sex is working a little any differently in this season with the, you know, the sort of loser was back home, the sort of that Alexi scene where he's like, I take cash out?

human connection yeah that's kind of reaching through or around yeah like one thing that i think is so clear is that chelsea and rick's relationship seems like the most transactional of any of the guests when they step off the boat right you're like this here's this hot girl here's this older guy who's really cranky like she's kept around for vibes and cheer and like her hot Beautiful self.

And they have the most sincere and and on her end, the most thorough and lasting and like unbelievably committed in 11 dimensions, you know, whereas as as society would have it, the relationship between Tim and Victoria Ratliff is incredible. Putatively, you know, it's like they're loving, like long-term, whatever.

And they have nothing but the money that he has given her and the sense of self-satisfaction, you know?

Well, thank you so much for talking to me. I truly have been a longtime reader, learned everything I needed to know about sex in college from reading your column.

The White Lotus Podcast is a production of HBO and Campside Media. This episode was hosted by Gia Tolentino. Natalia Winkleman is the managing producer. Our associate producers are Allison Haney, Anthony Piccillo, and Aaliyah Papes. Sound design and mix by Ewen Lai-Tremuwen. At Campside Media, our executive producer is Josh Dean.

For the HBO podcast team, our executive producer is Michael Gluckstadt, senior producer Allison Cohen-Sarokach, and producer Kenya Reyes. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time.

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