Nick never wanted to work at all. When he got out of college, he worked at a bank and a financial company for maybe three or four years total. He never had the income from those jobs to support five children and a stay at home wife. Family money seems to have supported him and put him into big houses from the start.
He hated working at the bank. He didn't like having to show up for work or do work. He invented all kinds of medical conditions to avoid work and didn't get along with his bosses.
My theory is that his parents encouraged him to go to law school in his 30s to try and get him doing something by which he could support himself financially and which he would enjoy personally.
So they got him into law school with a poor academic background, paid for his law school & entirely supported his family while he was in law school and then set him up with a law office (with assistant) when he graduated. The lawyers in town welcomed him into the legal community and the lawyer currently representing Montagraph against him offered to help him when he moved into town.
Nick did the law for three years, but then figured out ways to stay home and drink. Then his youtube career gave him the opportunity to shut down his law firm entirely so he could just stay in the house drinking full time.
In some sense, everything that has happened to Nick recently was the inevitable outcome of him being a lazy, stupid, uneducated prick with a trust fund who always thought of himself above working. He is like an adult baby. He has likely never supported himself or his family.
Nick could never be totally honest with his audience. He couldn’t say he was an unsuccessful small town Minnesota lawyer living on his family’s trust fund with his family. He wanted people to assume he must be a very successful lawyer if he had five kids and a huge home.
I think the fact he wasn’t a very good lawyer, one that could not support himself and his family practicing law, bedeviled him on some level. It must have felt a bit like a fraud now playing legal expert on YT, relying on the fact the average YT viewer would never know the difference. Nick couldn’t succeed as even a country lawyer, but now he was playing one on YT.
It’s only amazing that the complete disaster that was the Vic case didn’t tank his lawtube aspirations. Seriously it showed Nick was clueless but that didn’t stop him from running his mouth.
Being able to gossip and shit talk Amber during the Depp trial, when main stream coverage had to be very careful what they said, was a godsend for him. Nick didn’t know the law, but he was good at telling people what they wanted to hear. (I notice this issue on KF a lot. Many people have no interest in legal reality and like their revenge / punishment fantasies reinforced or entertained. This was writ large during the Vic case, people were fucking delusional on that KF thread with the vengeance that would be Vic’s)
After Depp and Rittenhouse the lawtube stuff really blew up and I think Nick was nervous about continuing to do trial coverage with more lawyers entering the YT ring and more eyeballs on him. I think he worried people were going to see through the facade. His legal knowledge was pretty limited. Or he might have been depressed to see his YT peers were all just a bunch of hacks who had limited success being actual lawyers too.
I’ve wondered if Nick might have gotten some ego or psychological blows from talks with some bigger platforms after his YT success, like the Blaze and maybe others. They didn’t take him seriously as a “law commentator” probably thought he should be a “Trump loving dad from Minn” giving right wing opinions from the heartland….and Nick would have loathed that. He seemed to seethe at Rumble trying to make him do something similar.
Lots of people seemed to think Nick was poised for big things after Depp, but it was after that he seemed to start going over the cliff. He seemed determined to sabotage what success he did achieve after 2022.
I think being a guy who never actually had to be a self-sufficient adults, which involves humbling yourself and stfu at times to get by or succeed with other humans. Nick was prone to tantrums, pettiness, laziness etc.. because he could always take all his toys and go home when shit got difficult or hurt his ego thanks to grandpa’s money Mountain. I think his parents tried to guide the adult Nick on a path. I think they incentivized law school and having a big family hoping it would keep him settled and stable.
I’m sure they were happy Nick found some success on YT, and tried to be supportive, but also thought it a bit tawdry and maybe not serious. I’m sure they hoped it was a phase that would led to something better, but instead it led to much worse.
