{"id":730,"date":"2014-10-08T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/?p=730"},"modified":"2014-10-08T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:31:06","slug":"a-look-into-the-filthy-rich-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/08\/a-look-into-the-filthy-rich-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look into the Filthy Rich Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to be really rich. I made a lot of money on Wall Street, got addicted to coke, lost most of it… Oddly, that’s the best thing that ever happened to me, and it also means I have a unique window into how wealth makes people act really weird. It’s primarily the reason I was asked to be one of the commentators on\u00a0<\/span>The Filthy Rich Guide<\/i>\u00a0airing on CNBC. I digress…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Everyone is on their best behavior during a first date\u2014well, at least they should be. Even through the second date charade we only show our best selves, but it’s also a time to offer a tiny glimpse of who we really are. Back in 2004, I’d just had a fantastic first with a girl named Jenn. She looked exactly like, say, a backup singer for Enrique Iglesias would\u2014maybe because she was.<\/p>\n

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We’d gone to a margarita-infused dinner in Nolita on a blind date and the night ended with a kiss on the cheek. So I called Jenn to see if she might want to come over to my place for a followup. She said yes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was a bitterly cold Saturday night in February. The fireplace was crackling in my 2,700 square-foot triplex apartment in TriBeCa. Okay, so maybe I had a leg up. But the setting doesn’t impact this story, promise. The plan was simple: Jenn would come over; we’d hang out and drink some wine, order Italian food (her favorite, which also proved I was listening on the first date), and then cozy up on the couch and watch a movie. And it was all working. The Duraflame went against my Maine upbringing but perfectly set the mood, the food and wine were exquisite, and the conversation was effortless. I was thinking, “I’m the man!”<\/i><\/p>\n

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I used to be really rich. I made a lot of money on Wall Street, got addicted to coke, lost most of it… Oddly, that’s the best thing that ever happened to me, and it also means I have a unique window into how wealth makes people act really weird. It’s primarily the reason I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}