Reverse Jackass

We're now into double-digits over here with our 10th episode of the Reverse Jackass podcast. The hydro's out at Evelyn's place, so she does the classic "social media manager working from a coffee shop” move… and immediately gets betrayed by a wobbly table and spills her tragically expensive Americano all over. From there, it’s off to an upscale market for $15 coffee-caramel sauce, where the parking lot has some weird, geriatric Hunger Games vibes, and the aisles are ruled by silver-haired, me-first entitlement.

Inspired by the day’s “three-act rage ballet”, Evelyn gifts Nick the prompt of his dreams: eight minutes to rant about anything that chaps his ass. Nick unloads years of service-industry fury, from “this is a real problem” wine snobbery, to unloading taco ingredients in Santa Monica, to Getty Center VIPs pulling rank for window seats and top-of-the-hill parking. 

Then the diplomacy question lands: Do Canadians big-time each other the way LA VIPs do?

There's only one way to find out.

Actually, there's probably a few ways if we're being honest.

It's Reverse Jackass.

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In Episode 9 of Reverse Jackass, Nick tries his darndest to bring Canada and the US together through the idea of innovation. He unveils his “million-dollar therapy idea” (never read the comments), then he tries to “innovate mathematics" (deleting the equal sign entirely), and finally, he asks Evelyn to confess what she’s contributed to music theory (spoiler: she burned a piano in a field, learned some cool things in a 20th century opera course, and holds a deep respect for “don’t take this too seriously” when being creative). 

Will Nick be satisfied with Evelyn's response to his question, or will he call her the Queen of the Cop-Out?

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Do you have a terrible song you wrote in high school and want us to analyze it in a future episode (obviously you do)? Well you can submit that thing to the official Reverse Jackass email address:

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*SIGH* Are we finally becoming friendly neighbo(u)rs… or just being cringy? Hopefully it's both.

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In Episode 8 of Reverse Jackass, Evelyn thinks she's choosing a topic of levity, but she may have spoken too soon. She and Nick rewind to their original career dreams (composer and actor) and compare the stereotypes that come with the territory, from instrument cliques to theater department pecking orders.

Nostalgia then takes a sharp turn as the discussion quickly shifts to “let’s unpack the weird shit we survived in arts school.” Nick recounts the “Greg vs. Jerry” divide in his program, and Evelyn reminisces on her racist, terrifying piano instructor who'd have given J. K. Simmons a run for his money.

Will a pinch of cross-border trauma bonding help us become better neighbo(u)rs? Probably.

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This special statement doesn’t have jokes or banter. It has us, speaking plainly about what’s been happening in the United States, including the killing of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.

We’re heartbroken. And furious. 

Thanks for being the kind of audience we can speak honestly with.

(To be honest, we didn't know whether it was appropriate for us to release an episode alongside this message, in case it alloys what we wanted to say. So we're going to push today's episode to tomorrow, and be back on track on Thursday.)

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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 to her was: “Oh… you’re eating...again.” She's almost positive there are a few chapters in a psychology book waiting to be highlighted about this situation.

Together, they unpack the strange relief of realizing you’re not the problem, they are, and Evelyn asks the question many of wonder:

Can people like that ever really change? 

All in a day's work for two cross-border neighbo(u)rs just trying to make sense of the weirdos we all meet.

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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, so she ends up caring for the fallen campers and, now as an adult, wonders: why did nobody shut the camp down or come get her?

Nick counters with his own “how was this legal?” working-teen stories, plus a restaurant shift where a customer vomits across the dining room, a coworker named Cindy declares it Nick’s problem, and Nick uses exactly two words to communicate his feelings about that.

Will barf bring the U.S. and Canada together at last? What an unlikely matchmaker.

(P.S. First person to email us with "Team Bullshit" in Latin gets a prize.)

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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 the most misguided “wooing” method you’ve ever witnessed?

Evelyn immediately nominates promposals, then shares a Toronto dinner story involving a heartfelt letter and a relationship that, in hindsight, felt like a craps game headed for chalk outlines.

Peace talks update: Canada brought promposal energy, America brought karaoke analysis, and nobody got dragged to the East Side Motel. Call it diplomacy.

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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 entirely and commissions a humble 3-movement Canadian tableau vivant, starring auditioned moose, beavers, geese, puffins, and polar bears in full Canadian tuxedos.

Expect poutine and butter tarts, Niagara Falls to Newfoundland icebergs, Parliament Hill as the grand finale, a Tragically Hip salute, and a surprise Baywatch twist that somehow involves Pamela Anderson…as performed by wildlife. 

Roll up your denim sleeves, folks. You don't want to miss this.

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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 touchstones like NASCAR's Bill Elliott and the Tragically Hip's Gord Downie, underscoring their mission to foster peace between their two forced-together-through-geography nations. 

Are we at peace yet?

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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 yaks, stays out with the yaks...". 

One yak and one pickleball at a time, they strive to bring the U.S. and Canada closer together.

"It's Reverse....YAK....assss.....", y'all.

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