Interview · moment 7 of 31
Planning an Italy Trip and Old Money vs New Money
from Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #307 · #307
5 min
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Andrew sells Tim on visiting Italy (Capri vs Amalfi), leading into a riff on old money confidence versus new money showiness, ugly rich people, and hot state-school kids.
- Italy has everything figured out—the food, the beauty, the people who appreciate culture
- WASP culture at places like the Polo Bar works because it's comfortable and everyone knows they're wearing costumes
- Capri is too commercialized, too much like Miami and LA—all about showing off what you can buy
- Amalfi represents old money: enjoying life without caring if anyone notices, which is real confidence
- Old money is cooler than new money because there's mystery to someone driving a beat-up car to a massive estate
- Actually rich people are ugly and inbred, while hot people go to state schools like UCSB
- Nick Mullen's description of the rich aesthetic: inbred, syphilitic boy king, malnourished and weirdly put together
- Real billionaires who actually get it eventually go to Montana to look at mountains, which breeds humility
- Italy figured out what America hasn't because it's an older society that dealt with its problems centuries ago
- Everyone becomes a bigot if they live long enough, and Italy had boy fucking apprentices like every ancient empire
ItalyNick MullenAmalfiCapriold moneyWASP cultureCatholicism