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His new radio programme which runs from 10pm - 1 am Eastern Time is a sports talk call-in show. Artie is quick witted and funny and he knows his baseball and a little bit about football and basketball. He's got a lot of stories about sports and even more about gambling on sports. His partner on air is Nick DiPaolo who I know only from an episode of Louie where he talked about his hatred of Barack Obama. DiPaolo is not as witty as Artie and his on air persona is not very attractive: an old school borderline racist Italian American who thinks political correctness is ruining the country. This is some tired schtick and although it might appeal to the geriatric Fox News or Limbaugh crowd its not really Artie Lange's audience. When he's on a roll DiPaolo sounds like Junior Soprano on a bad morning which is odd because it says on Wikipedia that he grew up in Danvers, Mass and went to the University of Maine. Hmmm. But like I say this is only his on air persona. I want this show to do well so maybe DiPaolo could tone down the pseudo Jersey Shore mook and, you know, let Artie be Artie. . .
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One very good thing about the show is that all the episodes are available commercial free on iTunes, something the Stern show never did for its loyal fans.
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Very nice article from BBC Travel about a road trip to various microbreweries in Pennsylvania, New York and New England:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20111024-a-craft-beer-road-trip-in-americas-northeast
I've been to five of these breweries and agree that they're great.
I also find much of what DiPaolo says pretty repugnant. He seems like a guy who wishes society would go back in time to the 1940s, when women knew their place and beanballs were applauded. But I think the fact that Artie, who is I think a very decent guy with serious demons, is his friend, is something.
BTW Adrian, I know we both dropped ESPN's Baseball Today from our playlists after Peter Pascarelli got booted, but I took some comfort in that of all of the ESPN brain trust, Pascarelli was the only one to get five of the eight playoff teams predicted correctly this year (Tigers, Rangers, Yankees, Cardinals, and Phillies).
Matt
Have you ever been to Danvers or Beverly, Mass? It is like America in the 1940's.
DiPaolo must be smarter than his on air persona otherwise Artie and Louis CK wouldn't be his friends. At least I hope he is. I can't imagine why he thinks advertisers will be want to buy time on a show that attracts only reactionary white males in their sixties.
Matt
I have listened to Baseball Today a couple of times since but its a quite annoying show. ESPN is all shiny happy people now. I miss Pascarelli's intelligence, cynicism and darkness.
Someone should tell the beard that 'smoking' and 'smoking hot' are two very different things.
Seana
I think smoking may be the least of Artie's problems.
I'm telling you--it's the beard taking over. Beware of unusual impulses, unless they involve donating money to the poor.
Jersey Shore mook, you say? I rode home from Cape May with some on the bus this evening.
Seana
Or walking to the South Pole or something.
Peter
Better a mook than a shnook I suppose.
I could have done without the nasal whining, though. Good thing I had my ear plugs.
Great piece by Hadley Freeman in the Guardian about her favourite film of all time:
Ghostbusters
I was tempted at one point to buy Too Fat to Fish, but then got distracted / Too Poor To Buy (anything)...and I never heard anyone else say anything about the book. Until now. I liked what I heard on the radio with him being interviewed by someone. He seemed genuinely interesting and funny. Thanks for the reminder.
DiPaolo's sarcasm and wit is great. He and Artie fit very well together. Stop being a bunch of metro-sexual wusses....maybe you would prefer Rosie O'Donnel and Paula Poundstone.
I like the show, but someone needs to tell Nick to clear his throat. He's phlegmy a lot of the time.
Nick needs to clear his throat? Are you kiddin me, Artie sounds like he's talking through a trach tube....
Wow! Generation Chooch has spoken. Nick is great on the show...the combination of Artie's great stories with Nick's razor sharp wit makes for great radio..awesome chemistry.
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