Reverse Jackass

Fresh off their CBC Radio debut (watch out, "Board of Canada"), Nick and Evelyn return with tales of flags: Clinical red flags, that is. Nick opens with a story about a high school bully turned co-worker: someone so bizarrely charismatic and casually cruel, he could only be explained through diagnostic criteria. Evelyn counters with her own real-life Canadian villain, whose opening line...

In the 6th episode of Reverse Jackass , Evelyn and Nick get to work on a very specific kind of diplomacy: swapping stories that felt normal at the time… until you say them out loud and someone goes, “Hey… so that’s messed up.” Evelyn kicks things off with a church camp memory from her teens, when an Old Testament-style puke plague takes down basically everyone. Evelyn, however, doesn’t get sick, s...

It's the Reverse Jackass podcast coming at you hard like a high school promposal on steroids, and we're pretty sure we are now at least 2 steps forward into finding common ground between Canada and the US.  In this episode, Nick breaks down the plot to Warren G's song Regulate as a seduction method (street dice game, guns, chaos, then straight to the motel ) and asks Evelyn: what’s...

In Episode 4, Evelyn drops her peacemaking prompt with the subtlety of a Timbit cannon: "You’ve been chosen to build a national statue, but it can only be made of stereotypes." Nick slaps on his Ray-Bans and responds by sculpting America into a fever-dream of chips, firearms, raw milk, measles, and an above-ground pool full of ivermectin. Evelyn, meanwhile, refuses the statue brief entir...

In this episode of Reverse Jackass, Nick and Evelyn roll up their sleeves and get to work digging into their respective countries' jingoistic tendencies (don't feel bad, guys; Evelyn had to look up the word 'jingoistic' when Nick used it for the first time, too, but she edited that part out so you didn't think she sounded dumb). They also compare important cultural touchst...

A 2nd episode? Wow, time sure flies! Evelyn shares a memory of a documentary she watched on Tibetan nomads called the 'Salt Men of Tibet,' leading to her pick for a life-swap fantasy. Nick reveals his much more down-to-earth dream: exacting pickleball revenge. Join their conversation as they joke about the salt language, and Nick's ponderings about "What happens out with the ya...

Hear that? It's the first ever episode of the Reverse Jackass podcast.  Nick and Evelyn jump right into it, discussing everything from the colo(u)rs of their respective currencies, sweat-based pubescent experiences, memorable shoplifting incidents, and more, all in the hopes of finding a modicum of common ground on which they can start peace talks between the United States and Canada.  ...the...