Reverse Jackass

Nick recounts the terrifying saga of the second-worst neighbour he ever had: a drunken Chicago menace, a late-night backyard standoff, a suspected gunshot, and an emergency call that accidentally turned out to be helpful. Meanwhile, Evelyn takes us to Prince Edward Island, where a carnival ride secured with little more than optimism and a heroic hemp rope nearly convinced her she would never walk...

In this episode of the RJP, Evelyn shares a well-intentioned attempt to improve staff morale that turned into a year-long exercise in optimism and emotional endurance.  Nick counters with a story about trying to “do the right thing” during a breakup and somehow making everything dramatically worse with the help of Drew Barrymore. Can Canada and the United States find common ground in movie-night-r...

This week on the RJP, Nick recounts a flawlessly executed middle-school scheme involving the U.S. national anthem, impeccable timing, and one very unfortunate classmate (and teacher). Meanwhile, Evelyn discovers that games with your siblings become significantly more dangerous when swing sets on the farm are involved. We'd love to thank the sponsors of this episode: Revenge, baseball, gravity...

We're crackin' open a cold episode 52 here on the Reverse Jackass Podcast! Nick remembers a high school health-class demonstration that went much further than expected, while Evelyn revisits a pandemic-era school-board conflict that left her feeling very alone in a system she had spent years trying to serve. It is an episode about authority, betrayal, and the moment you realize the peopl...

If a postcard brought you here, welcome to Reverse Jackass : a cross-border podcast where Evelyn (a Canadian), and Nick (an American), attempt extremely informal peace talks between two neighbouring countries with wildly different instincts and far too much confidence. Consider this the beginner’s guide to our show. Expect oddball prompts, cultural differences, personal stories, friendly heckling,...

This week, Nick tells the story of the time a completely innocent movie invitation somehow turned into a major misunderstanding that resurfaced in the most uncomfortable place imaginable: the dentist's chair with someone's hands in his mouth. Meanwhile, Evelyn confesses her lifelong feud with mussels, and shares the horrifying tale of an earwig-infested thermos. First though, they have a...

For our 50th episode, we finally do what every successful podcast eventually does: aggressively pursue sponsorship money. After narrowing the field to a handful of highly questionable finalists, we present a series of ad reads from potential sponsors on both sides of the border and let you, the listeners, decide who deserves our integrity. Fifty episodes. Against all odds. Against some advice. And...

Nick shares the story of a future college roommate whose drunken sleep-talking leads to one of the most alarming misunderstandings imaginable at two in the morning.  Meanwhile, Evelyn revisits her first-ever trip to a drag bar in Ottawa, where an attempt at friendly conversation accidentally turns into a social catastrophe she still thinks about decades later when she's putting on mascara. Ma...

It's Evelyn's birthday today, HUZZAH! The now 45-year-old Canadian Blade reflects on one of her favourite birthdays and the freedom that comes with getting older. Nick responds with a story involving poker in Vegas, a douchebag of an opponent, and an unexpected moment when he was called a name (you'll have to listen to find out what that was!) for the first time in his life. Along t...

This week, Nick opens the episode by singing every preposition in the English language from memory like a deeply patriotic schoolboy. What starts as a conversation about education quickly spirals into a discussion about wildly influential teachers, questionable school lessons, French immersion culture, and one unforgettable high school rumor involving a nudist park photo accidentally shown during...

Episode 46 begins with Evelyn making the classic mistake of saying yes when she absolutely meant no, which is how she and her husband ended up at Mr. Bill’s house for chili, bean jokes, and one deeply uncomfortable baptism interrogation. Nick counters with a college-era TGI Fridays dinner where one friend says the exact wrong thing at the exact wrong moment…and the server shows up like a fart at a...

Episode 45 here on the Reverse Jackass podcast! Nick takes us back to first grade, where a long-simmering hatred for a kid named Brian finally meets its moment: one perfectly timed, absolutely nuclear soccer kick straight to the face. The result? Blood everywhere, Brian snot-crying, and a missing permanent tooth. Justice is served, consequences are not. Evelyn counters with two crimes of her own:...

Episode 44 is what happens when two people try to be kind… and instead create lifelong emotional damage for someone never to be seen again. Evelyn shares the story of sponsoring a young child in Indonesia and doing her absolute best to keep things simple, relatable, and culturally sensitive… only to accidentally step right in it and create the worst possible threat for any 5 year old's belove...

Episode 43 of the RJP brings us the most dangerous thing Nick has ever brought to the podcast:  Preparation. Inspired by Evelyn’s Canadian citizenship test, Nick unveils a game called American or Canadian , where Evelyn must identify whether a suspiciously flattering bio belongs to an American or Canadian public figure. Simple enough, right? WRONG.  By the end, various American's and Canadian...

Root doot doot, it's episode 42! We begin with Evelyn introducing Nick to one of Canada’s most beloved national heroes: Terry Fox, the 21-year-old Canadian who attempted to run across the country on one leg to raise money for cancer research. Nick, somehow, has never heard of him. Canadians across the country and shocked...and "the square provinces" don't know what to do with t...

We’re getting medical on episode 41 of the Reverse Jackass podcast! Nick takes us inside his first colonoscopy experience, from pre-procedure dread to the unexpected joy of waking up peacefully drugged, pain-free, and newly in possession of a full-colour photo album of his own pristine colon. He also offers a surprisingly sincere PSA: get your colonoscopy, especially if colon cancer runs in your f...

Evelyn unveils the Canadian Blade Questionnaire™ , a completely scientific, absolutely binding series of questions designed to fully expose who Nick really is. What follows is a psychological excavation. By the end, Nick is, in fact, fully known. Whether that was a good idea…remains unclear. TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. ============= Want to get i...

We’re back at Château Reverse Jackass with an episode that begins as a casual debrief and quickly becomes a formal complaint against Raise Your Voice , starring Hillary Duff, John Corbett, and several deeply disturbing choices about music education. Nick recounts the cinematic abuse of watching the movie after Evelyn recommended it, including the suspiciously church-camp energy. Evelyn, having cau...

What starts as a simple intro somehow immediately turns into a low-grade workplace dispute, complete with accusations of neglect, passive aggression, emotional damage, and a shocking amount of nostril flaring. Evelyn and Nick spend the opening minutes sounding less like co-hosts and more like two middle managers trapped in a very small boardroom. Eventually, underneath all the fake hostility, Evel...

Episode 45 begins with Nick bringing an actual American icon to the table: George Washington Carver, scientific genius, agricultural legend, and longtime cornerstone of Nick's mother's first-grade curriculum. Nick explains how his mother’s students carefully copied “George Washington Carver” from the board, then absolutely freelanced the word “peanuts” into something far less classroom-s...

Today on the RJP, Evelyn crawls out of a real-life pit of despair the least dramatic way possible: one small choice at a time. It starts with a last-minute manicure, turns into a “whimsy audit,” and becomes a full-on experiment in seeing her current life through the eyes of younger Evelyn. Tiny, practical proof that the story isn’t just “sad,” even when it feels like it. Nick jumps in with his own...

Episode 35 is coming alive! Nick gets dragged to the front of the class and told—loudly, publicly, spiritually—that his essay is garbage and his future is bleak. So he does what any reasonable teen would do: recruits the smartest girl in school, rewrites the whole thing, and somehow makes it worse.  Evelyn, meanwhile, was not a problem in high school...but math absolutely was. She thrived in the a...

Evelyn and Nick open with a “redemption episode” after a lost-to-the-vault recording session, and immediately decide the healthiest possible reset is… publicly daring each other to apologize via email. It’s petty. It’s theatrical. It’s Reverse Jackass. Then Evelyn brings a podcast idea suggested by their mutual friend Alyse (SHOUTOUT TO ALYSE)  and puts Nick on the spot with a delicately curated l...

Nick kicks things off by assigning Evelyn the sacred American homework of watching Alec Baldwin’s “Always Be Closing” monologue, then immediately demands she create a music-teacher version of ABC. Evelyn responds with “Ask Before Closing,” a classroom law designed to prevent busted guitars, busted routines, and busted early-exit dreams. From there, we get a full hallway-justice saga: one student t...

Evelyn brings three oddly perfect moments to the table: flying behind a tractor on a sled as a kid, falling asleep in a flame-decaled PT Cruiser on a beach the day after her wedding, and the pure euphoric justice of watching a reckless driver finally get pulled over by the cops. She (eventually) lands at the question: what feeling would you bottle and keep forever? Nick’s answer takes a few glorio...