The Nick DiPaolo Show - Up Close and Personal With Nick Part 2 | Nick Di Paolo Show #1742

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

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Music playing Oh yeah, how are you folks? Welcome on a Wednesday. Great state of Georgia. Great city of Savannah. Great county, Chatham great Street maple don't want to dox myself good to be with you got a great show today we go up this guy we've had him on many times a regular on the show very handsome very charming a funny fuck that's right it's me that's right it's me we did a sweeted Dallas

interview if you remember back in January we did a interview because people wanted to hear about a little more about me now I don't believe that but apparently according to my shrink they want to go what the fuck's your problem so we're gonna do part two show you part two of an interview. Dallas asking me about more personal stuff, whether it be my first job or college or whatever, what makes me be so unpleasant, stuff like that. So without further ado, here is part two of me. I'm Don Lemon.

You're Katie Kirk with better legs. Much better legs. My calf muscles look really good. Yes, you shredded for a guy in his late 70s. This is true. This is true. Doesn't he look like one of the cough drop brothers? Smith look up. You want to have a good laugh? Right now people are

shitting their pants. Now the best one I've gotten so far was I look like Jeb Stewart or JB Stewart. Jeb Stewart. Yeah, Jeb Stewart. He was a Confederate general. Look like every Confederate general. You shitting me? Shabstew it. Pick a good one. At least he was for the South. Yeah, well that's good enough for us. Duck dynasty. That guy's back is ghost. So yeah we're sitting here we're gonna do part two of Up Close and Personal with Nick. Part one if you want to go back and watch it again to refresh yourself is want to go back and watch it again to refresh yourself is gonna be go back to January 29th and that'll be of this year. So that'll be part one so go back watch that then watch

this or don't. Go fuck yourself or whatever. But yeah we're gonna. The reason the reason we're doing it is people, because my wife, she follows a lot of that stuff on Facebook and blah, blah, blah. And people requested, there's a couple of shows where I mentioned stuff that happened to me personally, and people like more stories, more personal. And even Tommy, my manager who pays no attention, says that people love that.

They love when you let, you know. And I said, well, I'm not Tom fucking Hanks Anyways Back by popular demand. Yes, I can have the interview. Yep. Yep. Absolutely. So what we left off was high school sports and Kind of at the end of your high school and which I think is a natural segue into college College didn't have a shitload of choices. Tufts University which is like almost Ivy League and they're right in Boston and Medford Mass it's like a medical it's known for a medical and the

Tufts that was Division 3 football and their coach loved me. Vic, oh, don't forget his name. Anyways, he caught the winning pass against Harvard in the most famous Harvard-Yale game. And I can't remember his name. Anyways, he wanted me to play it. And I was snickering in the back of my head going, is this guy, you know, does he realize, I'm not dumb, I mean, you know, but shut up.

I didn't say anything. But no, you know, a little above average student, or a little above average, I'm going by, you know, 399 and a 401. So I was just kind of snickering going, I don't have the, you know, the grades to get in there. And guess what? I was just kind of snickering going I don't have the you know the grades to get in there and guess what I was right but he did I was just flattered that he pulled all these strings but you know what am I gonna be a podiatrist? Right. So yeah that was one of them UNH came, I must have told the story, we must have ended it with the guy, the head coach of UMaine, I mean UNH speaking at a banquet my senior year in high school. I told that right? I think so. And my coach got up and was bragging how I played with a shoulder and a leather harness

to keep it in for the last three games. I thought they told me I was going to UNH on a full ride right after they, my coach said that They had to sit down ago. He's damaged goods. Whatever the fuck. I probably already mentioned that But uh, yeah, so at BU I get accepted at BU and I literally went I'm not gonna go to BU because there's too many distractions. How do I know that? Well, I grew up 20 miles from Boston and I was in Boston every night That I could get into and and and get in all kinds of trouble. Not serious trouble but I knew there was enough distractions. There was enough prostitutes and quite a

few bars run by Irish fellas. Definitely went to a place with minimal distractions. Good point. So that was honestly that was part of the thinking. University of Maine at Orono and they recruited me too for football. The coach, Cowboy Jack Bicknell, if you follow college football, he was Doug, I probably talked about this too, we'll'll get past it he was Doug Flutie's coach at BC and he went on to I think he did some NFL scouting of assistant coaching he was a pretty good coach so he recruited me but I had to have my shoulders fixed right after high school I blew up both I had to have them both reconstructed and decided to do that right after high school and

my freshman year up at Maine. So I couldn't work out because I just had my shoulders done. I weighed you know about 175 soaking wet, 180 maybe and I walked in because I knew I wanted to still play football even against the doctor's advice. Lyle McKaylee, great doctor, I don't know if he's still alive. So I walked into Jack Bicknell's office one day, I got the balls up and reintroduced myself. I said you recruited me up here as a as a strong safety and you know he's looking at me. I remember I'm in a sweat jacket. I look like Dorothy Hamill. I was and he and he was so goddamn

arrogant to me. And I told him, you know, I said, you recruited me up here, but I had my shoulders operated on and I was just wondering, is this somewhere I can fit in to the, I was hoping he'd go, well, come out to Spring Ball and see what you got. He's like, well, you can, he literally said this,

you can like carry water and stuff, which, you know, I mean, that's's he might as well say get the fuck out of my office you're too small I mean it was the most insulting fucking I walked out of the gun a motherfucker so Jack if you see this kiss my ass anyways yeah you can let he said literally you can like carry water and stuff I couldn't I know that she might as well spit in my face. I would have felt better. So I go, I went okay.

And I just sort of walked out without even hearing what else he wanted to fucking. So yeah, I leave and I wait till my shoulders heal and walk on at spring and spring football. I took his advice, but I went home over the summer and lifted weights seven days a week and my buddy Mike Czestenski's I hope we didn't say all this because this is sort of still like and and my buddy Mike Czestenski's garage I would come home mr. Czestenski would come up from work and

I'll be in there pumping I and he'd love it because he used to play for mr. Sizer fucking alpha male and he goes, where's my son? He should be fucking in here with you. His son was a co-captain or a tri-captain me in high school. Anyway, so I busted my balls. I'm lifting weights and running every night and going to the high school and working out and doing all that shit. And then went back to Maine and all that shit. And then went back to Maine and walked on spring of my sophomore year. And I opened some eyes.

And so they have me behind a kid, Paul Phelan, who was just a great white kid. He was an All-American in high school in La Crosse. But he was just a fucking great football player. He was an all-american in high school in La Crosse but he was just a fucking great football player. He could return punts, he was a running back and just you know a little faster than me. So I'm sort of behind him and in the spring game as you know college football you you have winter workouts where you get up at six in the morning to be at the field house by 6.30. This is Orono, Maine in February.

And literally, I'm walking from my dorm. Luckily it wasn't that far to the gym, but it's snowing, minus six or whatever the fuck. And you have winter workouts where they have all these drills and shit. And I had never been through it. I was excited, you know. I'm in with the rest.

Nobody know me or whatever the fuck. And all the big linemen are throwing up because we had to like sprint around like twice whatever the track is and the linemen you know fucking all we did was drink the day the season ended right all they did yeah and they're literally throwing up all over the field house and then they time you in the 40 and shit and I was real excited just to be I'm like I'm doing it I'm gonna play and I open a few eyes I went out for spring ball and now like I said they have me behind Phelan and then the spring game at the end of the year you have an inter squad game like blue versus white and I I broke one for about 70 yards I could caught from

behind but I you know bounced off a linebacker, spun around, and went about 70 yards. Could tackle that like the five, and all of a sudden now they all know me. They're going, DeBallo, you get caught by Downey! Not the way you want it. Yeah, I'm like, I ran out of gas! I fucking, which never happened to me ever again.

But I opened some eyes, it's spring ball, so then comes fall, my junior year, I go out. And now I'm behind a guy named Lorenzo Bouillier who still owns every record up at Maine. He was a black guy, he was a street, a gang member out of Hartford. At least that's what I was told out of Hartford, Connecticut. He was about six, two, you know, about 250. Just fucking ripped naturally. Nice guy too. I don't even know if that part, I'm like, this guy. Doesn't add up.

But you could tell if you pissed him off, he'd fucking kill you. And I saw somebody piss him off. They were playing, this is before practice. They, a couple of guys, football players were playing basketball, pickup game in the field house. And this little running back who was like fifth string, he was a track star somewhere in Massachusetts,

he fucking bangs into Lorenzo and I go, oh Jesus. And then he goes like this to Lorenzo. Lorenzo goes like this. Lorenzo goes like, bang, out like a light. Right bang, out like a fucking light i went oh god anyways i'm behind him now for half the season my junior year he breaks his leg guess who's up and guess what right before homecoming so now i'm starting and um against umass up at Maine, 11,000 people, 10,000, 11,000 people, that's a huge, you know, for Maine football.

And all my dormitory buddies, I lived in a dorm my freshman year, Gannett Hall, and on the second floor, all those guys, you know, came back, the ones that were seniors that graduated before I did, they come back for homecoming and they see me, they didn't know me as an athlete. I never really said anything about it. I just drank with them and had fun and they couldn't believe that first of all I was playing football. I never said anything. Yeah so I had to fill in little did I know that would be the highlight of my football career that day was the highlight of my, we ran like a double reverse and I went 65 yards and it was just wide open.

The fucking line just crushed everybody down. I couldn't believe it. When the guy handed it off, Phelan handed it off to me, I go oh my God, 65 yards baby and scored and I scored another touchdown. And that was the high of my football career. Homecoming 11,000 people. I know it's not a big deal folks to-

First starting game. Yeah, first starting game. My parents are up there and I go back to Sigma Nu cause I was pledging Sigma Nu, the fraternity, and all these guys, I come in and they're like, you know, even guys that didn't know me, old guys, it was a fucking highlight. And my family's up there. I think my sister came up,'re like, you know, even guys that didn't know me, old guys, it was a fucking highlight. And my family's up there. I think my sister came up, my parents, you know, they wanted to have dinner.

I had dinner in about eight minutes. I go, I gotta go get laid, which I didn't. Ended up getting drunk and getting in a fight with somebody like athletes would do. But it was cool. The school paper had my name in the fucking headlines and shit, you know. And Richie Labani was the quarterback, was my roommate. He was a kid from York, Maine, who was very good. That was, but that was the extent of, you know, I played on. So anyways, we won the Yankee Conference Championship.

Well, where did the depression come in? That was freshman year of high school. Oh yeah. Okay. Freshman year of high school. I don't know again looking back on we know now it's just growing and hormones and a lot of people go through it. But let me tell you something folks I don't laugh at anybody who's depressed. Right. It was the weirdest I don't know how it came on but it was somebody explained it perfectly explaining depression. They go, it's like if somebody told you, you won the lottery, right? For fucking forty million dollars. And then half hour later

they go, no we made a mistake, wrong ticket. You would have the same emotion. It wouldn't bother bother you it didn't excite you when you it's the way it's it's terrified I was inside my own head I don't know if that's how most depressed people are I couldn't get out of my own head and and Louis CK said this he said there's nothing more frightening than being afraid of your own mind. Which is a great fucking line. And I, dude, my parents are like, what's wrong with you?

We had a boat, I remember the whole family go out on the boat. My parents are like trying to cheer me up. Just a small fiberglass boat. I'm sitting at the front, they're all talking and yapping and I'm just fucking staring off into space. Going, when is this going to fucking fucking I'm still in my head not even it's just horrible so and I see why when I hear people commit suicide but yeah you have to know you need to talk to somebody that says it will get better

about you know I mean you have to hear that because I was convinced I'm gonna be in my own head the rest of my life I'll never fucking make it. Yeah, and it was tough because I that was Freshman high school and I was just starting football then double sessions and all that shit and football help It distracted me a little bit, but not really Anytime I was by myself or there was a locker room and shit. I'm in my own head going you're going crazy It was the most horrible. I busted both my shoulders up. I've had four or five concussions.

I have broken my nose, broke both hands. I would take all that at once over being depressed for a week. That's how fucking horrible it was. How long did it last? About a year, a little less than a year. I think a little, maybe a little less than a year. But it was hormonal. Because it just sort of went away.

But I had two panic attacks while that was going on. And I still remember them. I'm watching Fernwood tonight, if you guys are my age, you remember Fernwood tonight with Martin Mull, it was a spoof on sort of like Johnny Carson show. And I watched it every night, I loved it. And I was watching it, nobody was home, my parents were out at the dinner, and I freaked out while I was watching it.

I ran upstairs, I shut the TV, went to bed. And the other time was not long after, a couple months later, I'm cutting the neighbor's grass for an older dying guy, and I fucking had a panic attack. Shut the lawnmower off, ran to my house, went in my bedroom, thought I was losing my fucking mind. Shut the lawnmower off, ran out of my house, went in my bedroom. Thought I was losing my fucking mind. I'll never forget those two things. Ugh, anyways.

And then I got cancer! No. Well, back to college. So what was your major? Why do you say it like that? It's obvious. Charm. Underwater basket weave. Underwater? No, that's for the black kids. I'm kidding. They don't go underwater. I was a marketing major which you know you don't know what you want to be. They ask you what your sophomore year or whatever.

High school. Yeah they ask you in high school. Whatever. They ask you when you're 17. I want to major in pussy and Budweiser. With a minor in Budweiser. So you don't know. I'm like marketing sounds easy. You know what I mean? And let me tell you to this day folks and it's not University of Maine's fault it's my fault. And I'm not I'm not making a joke here. Marketing is the thing I know least about. I am NOT kidding you. My brother is a marketing guy. He worked for Time Warner Cable starting off knocking on doors. I actually did it with I am not kidding you my brother is a marketing guy. He worked a time on a cable Starting off knocking on doors. I actually did it with him for the first year He went on to be a high executive marketing and you know retired a few years ago

15 years ago. He's two years younger than me. I knew nothing about it, but If I could do it all over again, I'd go to you, Manny. I never had more fun in my goddamn life. You don't go up there to learn books, calculus. You go up there, they teach you how to learn. I mean, how to live on your own is what you're learning, really. You know what I mean? Oh yeah, I'm going to use calculus. That'll come in handy when I'm telling dick jokes at the fucking funny ball.

The point of college is to do just that, is just to teach you how to be an adult. They don't do that anymore. Yeah, to show up on time. Now just to teach you how to be an adult. They don't do it anymore. Yeah, to show up on time. Now they just teach you how to be an activist. Yeah, a left-wing activist. Exactly. There was no... So that was cool though, going to class and you're in a class of like 150 people, you

know? It's kind of cool. You're in these beautiful seats. It's almost like being at a concert. Hey boys and girls Real quick. I got I got dates a couple dates confirmed. We're not gonna put them up till we know everything We were gonna put like four or five stand-up dates that are at the end of the summer and fall Actually one one in July, but if you want to support this show go to nickdip.com, go to the merchandise page Which my wife busted her ass to make we have hats mugs Nick DiPaolo crutches we have those things are flying off the shelf and

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