Reverse Jackass

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 the way, they discuss past birthdays, wrestle with appropriate terminology for various bodies of water, and reflect on how it's okay when some things you're certain you'll grow into never actually arrive at all. Also: a reminder that adulthood is mostly improvisation, and maybe it's time to quit smoking.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 class.Then Evelyn shares perhaps the least responsible moment of her teaching career: a Grade 11/12 guitar lesson where she attempted to explain minor scales by giving them “family personalities,” only to accidentally create a horrifying musical universe involving a metaphor that could not be salvaged.A beautiful educational disaster from start to finish. Reverse Jack-CLASS has begun.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 chili dinner: loud, unavoidable, and instantly changing the entire mood of the table.Lesson learned here folks: don’t go to dinners you don’t want to attend, don’t say unhinged things (ideally EVER, but definitely within earshot of waitstaff), and if chili is involved, the group’s true character will reveal itself by dessert...if someone doesn't let one rip before then.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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: first, running over her sister with a bike hard enough to embed gravel in her butt cheeks and somehow not taking the fall, and second, executing a senior skip day so clean it involved using her piano exam as an alibi, despite visible sunburn evidence. Canada commits its chaos quietly (and without UV protection, apparently), and  America launches it right at your face...and somehow both systems reward the same thing: confidence and a straight (sometimes sunburned) face.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 beloved family pet: I'm going to eat you.Nick follows with a story from his teenage years working at a theme park, where a well-intentioned restaurant recommendation lands with a thud he’s never been able to forget. What he meant as helpful was received as something else entirely, and the moment has been living rent-free in his brain ever since.Together, Nick and Evelyn unpack the quiet chaos of good intentions gone wrong, the weird permanence of small social misfires, and the deeply human experience of realizing (often years later) that you might have been the accidental villain.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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's reputations has been dragged kicking and scream through the Tim Hortons parking lot, and Evelyn scores just high enough to feel both proud and personally victimized.It’s trivia with a side order of sabotage...holding a Bob Barker microphone.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 themselves.From there, Evelyn asks what the Nick Bognar version of the Marathon of Hope would be, and Nick offers the only logical answer: a long-distance walk to 7-11 fuelled by enormous sodas, unexpected hugs with strangers, and a surprisingly sincere vision of mutual care.Nick turns the question on Evelyn and asks what her charity walk would be named. She imagines her own fundraising sacrifice: high-fat dairy meets a Friday-before-a-long-weekend Costco trip. Truly the kind of public endurance event that could permanently reduce London, Ontario to one usable Costco for a few days, at least.Canada gives us Terry Fox. America gives us the Double Gulp Walk for Community Harmony. And somewhere between the two countries, diplomacy barks in the distance.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 family. It’s less horrifying than your imagination wants it to be.Evelyn counters with her own scope story, including the Canadian version where you’re apparently awake enough to watch your own insides on screen and think, “Wow, that’s my bum.” From there, the conversation spirals into ranking drugs of choice: colonoscopy bliss, Ativan, Pasadena, gluten-free orange polenta cake, and buttered panettone eaten over the kitchen sink like a total trash goblin.America gives you glossy colon photos for the fridge; Canada gives you partial consciousness and no souvenir. Somehow, both countries still agree: that little hospital nap? Five stars.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 caused the damage, mostly sits back and enjoys the carnage.Naturally, this leads to Evelyn having reflections on Saskatchewan.Evelyn explains that Saskatchewan lives between worlds because it refuses to participate in daylight savings time like a normal province, and then asks Nick which American state feels most like Raise Your Voice. Nick, after briefly considering Virginia and Louisiana, lands on Oklahoma with the assurance that everything he says makes him sound worse and worse.Somewhere out there, a dog barks in the distance, Hillary Duff is still singing, and John Corbett's menacing a cello.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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, Evelyn shares a story about how one of the things she loved most, music, also became the reason she got dragged into a deeply unwanted long-distance phone friendship with a girl in New Zealand, courtesy of her grandfather. In response, Nick tells a college story about being the one responsible person in a dorm crisis, only to have his moral compass ruin his romantic evening in record time.Both sides of the Canada-U.S. border can agree on this one thing: sometimes the very thing that makes you you is also the thing that causes the trouble.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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-safe. A tribute to innovation quickly becomes a transitional first grade disasterpiece.Evelyn, unfortunately, is severely allergic to peanuts, which leads to a moving deathbed monologue in which she thanks Mr. Carver for his contributions while gently asking whether he ever considered almonds (a nut she can enjoy).The conversation takes a sharp right, a sharp left, and almost lands in the ditch as, for the first time in Reverse Jackass history, Nick and Evelyn try on 3 different question prompts before landing on one that Evelyn has the brain power left to answer. Somehow Canadian Tire’s Frank mascot enters the conversation as Canada’s possible answer to George Washington Carver. Let's just agree that the peanut lives on. Frank’s gummies do not. And who the heck even knows where we are on the diplomacy-o-meter anymore...TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 “younger me would never believe this” list. They talk about the weird tenderness of aging: how weather stops being romantic and starts being…joint pain and headaches, and how what feels “cool” shifts from big milestones to tiny comforts that keep you afloat.The moral of the story is: If your side of the border feels heavy right now, borrow a little ridiculous joy from your neighbo(u)r. Even if it’s just a manicure you can’t stop staring at.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 arts, but her relationship with math was hostile at best, and entire evenings were sacrificed at the kitchen table trying to make sense of something that simply refused to be understood. Add in some eerily calm teachers who could maneuver a classroom with one sentence, and others who absolutely should’ve retired mid-rant, and you’ve got the full educational experience between Canada and the United States.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 list of words. Nick, naturally, responds with equal parts linguistic smugness and chaos energy, and somehow we end up with the phrase “funky butt loving” entering the chat like a fresh-out-of-hibernation brown bear staggering into an Erewhon.In conclusion: we may not pronounce things the same, but we do share a sacred cultural value… arguing confidently about pronunciation while being completely unqualified to do so. And confident arguing is the foundation of, not only Nick and Evelyn's friendship, but also of the Reverse Jackass podcast.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 tries to sneak out early, Evelyn tracks him down in the cafeteria like a woman possessed, and the whole class gets the deeply satisfying return of Scott to the scene of the crime. It’s discipline, theatre, and asset protection, all wrapped into one very sweaty high school music room.Meanwhile, America contributes David Mamet, emotional violence, and the phrase “coffee is for closers,” while Canada contributes classical guitars, weaponized patience, and a teacher who absolutely will come down the stairs after you. Peace between nations? Maybe not. But at least nobody dropped the guitar.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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 glorious detours, including wisdom teeth hidden in a bag of M&Ms, an accidental candy-color rigging incident, and one exquisitely satisfying college theatre moment when a smug scene partner gets corrected in front of everyone after brushing him off. A cross-border reminder that whether you’re on a sled in Ontario, or driving a moving van across the country with a friend in the U.S., it's safe to say that the story we never stop retelling often contains strange memories, big feelings, and the sweet, sweet thrill of a perfectly timed win.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Nick learns the hard way that you should never say “Where’s a cop when you need one?” out loud, because the universe will take it as a legally binding request. A pair of cars are street racing, a head-on crash happens, and Nick becomes an accidental teen narc. Months later he's still dealing with court continuances, missed school, and a defense lawyer who tries to gaslight him in the waiting room.Evelyn follows with a passionate explanation of snow days: the pure dopamine of “no kids are coming” (especially when you haven’t left the house yet), the thrill of checking the predictor site, and the sacred rite of texting every teacher friend like it’s Christmas morning. But the wish turns rotten when it’s a Friday PD day snow day, aka “Congrats, you got the day off… except you didn’t, and you also lost your prep, and now your life is ministry-mandated PowerPoints, three cheers for literacy..."Before you go: we want your best accent attempts. Record a quick voice memo doing your best Canadian accent (if you’re American) or American accent (if you’re Canadian). One sentence with as much chaos as you can cram in there.If you need a prompt, say: “I failed 13th grade and it was a real slap in the bum for my mom.”  Email it to [email protected] and we'll play it on a future episode.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Lordy, Lordy, look who's 30! Episode 30 of the RJP starts sweet. Evelyn reveals a listener-made Canadian Blade t-shirt, complete with sword-through-maple-leaf imagery, and gives a long-overdue shoutout to Jason J, possibly the most committed Reverse Jackass listener alive. He listens on schedule, renames the group chat after episode jokes, and has now crossed over into podcast folklore. It’s everyone’s dream, and you can’t tell us it’s not.Then Evelyn delivers the prompt, “What is the American standard for gift giving?” and, because this podcast cannot be normal for even three consecutive minutes, the whole thing careens into a distempered TED-talk about empire, leverage, dependency, and how American “generosity” somehow always arrives wearing steel-toed boots and carrying a battering rampart.Also in the mix: meritocracy becoming Ameritocracy, jazz slander (I'm sorry, Jason J), the Nick Bognar Grammar Hour feat. less vs. fewer, and one more reminder that peace between Canada and the United States is apparently being negotiated by two people who should never be left unsupervised.It’s Reverse Jackass.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Nick launches this episode of the RJP with Part Three (or maybe Part One? It's all TBD at this point) of a potential worst-neighbor-ever trilogy: a restaurant owner who tried to annex the building’s gorgeous plant-lined corridor as his personal patio, break room, and smoke lounge. After the landlord, the fire marshal, and basic zoning rules all tell him “no,” the restaurant owner pivots to his backup plan: turning the hallway into a rotating exhibit of fryer oil, cardboard, and wine in a garbage bag.Evelyn then shares a story from her teaching days where two grown men pull a little after-hours “prank”: one corners her alone in a classroom with intense, targeted religious interrogation vibes, and the other appears like it’s a magic trick. Surprise! It was all for laughs! (Translation: it wasn’t.) Evelyn follows up the way an adult should have to zero times in her life by paying one of the teachers a little visit, names how inappropriate it was, and politely informs him that scaring colleagues for sport is a great way to land yourself in HR.Two countries and one shared lesson: sometimes peace talks are nice, but sometimes the most Canadian-American unity you’ll ever experience is simply agreeing on this sentence: don’t be a douchebag.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Evelyn decides it’s time to drag the peace talks back to their original purpose: repairing Canada-US relations through culture, humility, and a deeply unnecessary discussion of national anthems.On a Family Day / Presidents’ Day recording, she reveals that many Canadians know the American anthem far better than Americans know O Canada… then proves it by singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” from memory...with her eyes closed. Nick, meanwhile, gamely admits that his knowledge of the Canadian anthem is somewhere between “vague” and “absolutely not.”From there, the episode spirals into school rituals, the Pledge of Allegiance, whether cultural awareness is a point of national pride, and a full-on detour into the Canadian artists both countries should know. Tom Cochrane, Celine Dion, Neil Young, Anne Murray, Sloan, the Tragically Hip, and Brad Sucks all make an appearance, along with one deeply cursed suggestion for how O Canada could be rewritten.Cross-border harmony is HAPPENING, people. It's happening.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Cue the airhorn because Reverse Jackass is here with another episode (#CantStopWontStop). Nick opens with a random story of his childhood belief that a Chinese restaurant closed because it made too much money ("Sure, Jan"). Then he flashes back to his college-era “King Narc” phase: hosting Sex & Banana Splits, learning condom basics, and later receiving the most satisfying phone call imaginable from the same roommate who mocked him for it.Meanwhile, Evelyn admits her proudest narc moment: tracking a reckless driver through her subdivision, collecting receipts like a suburban detective, and calling the non-emergency line with the intensity of a woman who absolutely has time today and isn't afraid to use it sitting in her car in a Dollarama parking lot. The episode ends in a spiral of Canadian vigilante justice fantasies, including a signature warning gift: one banana, one condom, left on the hood like a Canadian calling-card.We might be getting off-track here in terms of peace talks and cross-border atonements...but it's actually supposed to get worse before it gets better, right?...Right?TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

In this episode, Evelyn shares the story of Irv, her first piano teacher: a farmer, musician, painter, poet, and deeply eccentric fixture of her childhood who taught her for years in a tiny overheated room on the family farm. What starts as a loving tribute turns into one of the most gloriously uncomfortable stories in Reverse Jackass history, featuring Evelyn's overactive teenage sweat glands, a wooden piano bench, and a long-term newspaper solution no one ever verbally acknowledged.What follows is part tribute, part comedy of discomfort, and part meditation on the wonderfully odd people who become permanent fixtures in our memories. Along the way, Nick brings his usual mix of curiosity, jokes, and escalating disbelief, helping turn a very specific small-town Canadian story into something weirdly universal.Because apparently both countries can agree on this: the people who teach us the most are often the ones we’ll never fully know how to explain.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

In this episode of Reverse Jackass (recorded eons ago back in November 2025), Nick and Evelyn debrief Evelyn’s recent visit to Southern California and officially confirm that peace talks can survive real-life proximity...but only in short bursts. Then, Nick delivers a true cold-weather horror story: a flight into Chicago featuring explosive barf, missing luggage, and one airport employee hitting his shift-ending limit so hard he drops a legendary “f** you” and disappears into the night.Then Nick hits Evelyn with the main prompt: “What’s the hottest you’ve ever been in your life?”Evelyn’s answer: Japan. Late July. Tottori sand dunes in rubber boots.And because Nick calls mild BS on this story, AND this podcast can’t resist a receipt, Evelyn calls in her friend Jill Parker to confirm: YES, the sand dunes were truly nuclear, and YES, the trip featured some extremely questionable chaperone behavio(u)r (including the now-verified “I’m a raccoon” moment). Finally, Jill signs off like an absolute pro.Cross-border diplomacy always wears rubber boots.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

It's Episode 24 on the 24th - make a wish!Evelyn drags Nick into a true crime-themed episode of the RJ Pod… but instead of murder, we’re going straight to heists. First: a wildly French museum jewel robbery that Nick somehow missed entirely (despite being a true-crime guy). Then Evelyn hits him with Canada’s proudest, stickiest headline: the Great Maple Syrup Heist, featuring a strategic syrup reserve, barrels getting topped up with water, and a criminal empire that screams “OH! Canada!"Nick counters with what he calls the most quintessentially American true crime: MLMs and confidence schemes, plus a detour into Bernie Madoff, Ponzi scheme logic, and why luxury brands basically benefit from chaos. This episode's got jewel heists, syrup heists, and enough reminders that the only way to properly pronounce anything en français, is likely with with a mouth full of syrop d'érable while wearing a toque.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Let's turn back time a bit for this episode of the RJ Podasaurus: It’s the day before American Thanksgiving 2025 (YES IT IS CURRENTLY MARCH 2026 GET OVER IT), so naturally Nick tells a heartwarming tale about adopting a former champion show poodle… who immediately becomes an 8-pound, toothless, whisper-bark houdini in Nick's childhood home (and Nick’s eternal sworn enemy). There are cages. There’s a padlock. There is strategy.Meanwhile, Evelyn tries to answer Nick’s question: who out there considers you their worst enemy? Cue a surprise call to Evelyn's sister Heather, who (a little too quickly, some might say), initially blames Evelyn’s toilet, but then reminds Evelyn of a friendship breakdown that she seems to have wiped clean from her memory.This episode features “pick up five taco ingredients in rush-hour" energy, and is basically a masterclass in Canadian conflict style: polite texts with the emotional temperature of cold chicken McNuggets.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

In this episode of Reverse Jackass, Evelyn decides Nick has earned a very special privilege: taking her completely unofficial, moderately chaotic Canadian Citizenship Test. What follows is a rapid-fire gauntlet of blizzard logic, “sorry” etiquette, jacket math, door-holding aerobics, and the true Canadian definition of “not that far.”Nick tries his best to answer like a respectable future citizen… but keeps getting derailed by windchill conversions, butter tart confusion, and an absolutely unhinged snow-shoveling scenario that Canada’s legal system would like to formally decline.Cross-border peace talks, one multiple-choice question at a time.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Nick kicks off with Maya Angelou’s timeless warning: when someone shows you who they are, believe them, then immediately lists three times he did not do that. He shares a therapist-world horror story (public ethical shaming), a restaurant-world horror story (the return of a difficult customer), and a dating-world horror story starring a drunk Star Wars screening and the wild sentence: “I could never date you because you have body hair.”Evelyn answers the prompt with her own “I forgot how you are” moment… featuring an ex, a Canadian Tire, barbecue tongs, and the kind of public yelling that makes you consider changing your identity and moving provinces.Nick caps it off by asking the important question: when the movie is made of Evelyn's life, what song plays when this man rounds the corner in slow motion, tongs in hand?Reverse Jackass: The only podcast out there that can incorporate Maya Angelou,  Canadian Tire, and Oscar the Grouch in the same conversation.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Episode 20 of the RJP! Evelyn comes armed (and only somewhat dangerous) with two stories about belonging, Canadian-style: the time she got a spiral perm to match the Grade 8 cool girls… and immediately became the school bus Chia Pet.Then she takes Nick to Newfoundland (for the love of cod, please pronounce it properly, people!) for the sacred ritual of getting “screeched in” which includes fried bologna (yes, it’s called “Newfoundland steak”), a shot of Screech, a chaotic oath, and kissing a cod in exchange for honorary local status. And a certificate. Nick answers Evelyn’s question with the stuff he did (and didn’t do) to fit in: being perpetually late to haircut trends (exception: being a trailblazer in the bald movement), resisting frosted tips by the sheer grace of future regret, and briefly becoming a Dallas Cowboys starter jacket guy… for three days.Two countries, one universal truth: belonging makes us do weird things.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Hold onto your milk allergies, everyone. Nick tells the story of a wildly misguided “casino night” staff party from his teenage theme park days, where a bunch of dressed-up high schoolers played table games, won raffle tickets, and somehow ended the night with a realistic-looking BB gun as the grand prize. Things take a turn when that same gun accidentally ends up on school property, a sweet innocent kid gets kicked out, and Nick unknowingly sends the world’s most ill-timed Christmas card.Meanwhile, Evelyn brings Canada’s finest gambling tradition to the table: Roll Up the Rim to Win. Live on-air, she demonstrates the deeply unglamorous reality of mangling a Tim Hortons cup with your teeth in pursuit of glory, all while explaining how the most Canadian prize imaginable is not a firearm, but maybe a donut...or, if Tim Horton himself smiles upon you, a pontoon.A great cultural divide between “win a firearm” and “win a donut.”TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

The ol' Reverse Jackass pod is back, and it's all about being nice on this episode. And bathrooms. But first, Evelyn re-activates the sacred mission of this podcast (peace talks, allegedly) and then slaps Nick a prompt with the entire purpose of making his skin crawl: what’s the nicest thing you’ve ever done that you never told anyone about? Nick panics in Catholic, tells a few stories, requests that Evelyn edit most of them out, then lands on a story about an unexpectedly heartfelt compliment that boomerangs back a year later.Then we get a Bognar Bonus Story: Nick explains why he stopped letting strangers use the restaurant bathroom after one “quick restroom stop” turned into chaos, noise, and broken glass (and maybe a baby 9 months after, who knows?). Evelyn counters with a genuinely heroic mess: she and friends volunteer to clean a stranger’s apartment so filthy it required masks, gloves, garbage bags, and a full laundromat run.🇨🇦🇺🇸 Two countries. Two bathroom sagas. One cleanup crew. Nothing but peace.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

In this episode of the Reverse Jackass podcast, Nick confesses his lifelong fear of horses (he blames a traumatizing 80s talk show and the subpar reconstructive surgery practices du jour), and relives the time he had to go horseback riding in France armed with exactly zero French equestrian-themed nouns. Meanwhile, Evelyn attempts to explain Canada’s mysterious (and slightly chaotic) “Stag and Doe” parties, which combine flannel, beer tickets, and light gambling in support of rural weddings.The pair also tackle the classic French maxim “a thousand cheeses and one church,” exploring what that ratio might look like in the US and Canada. (Spoiler: Celine Dion is somehow involved.) There’s talk of cash bars, cultural shame, and how peach schnapps and the ibex might be South Africa’s secret weapon.Join Nick and Evelyn as they expertly knit together a cross-border friendship that would rival the toques made by Newfoundland grandmothers.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Nick and Evelyn are back with more cross-border camaraderie and chaos. On this episode, Evelyn attempts to explain Canada’s most divisive institution: Timothy Frickin' Hortons. Nick learns about double-doubles, four-by-fours, and the emotional calisthenics of ordering a mediocre coffee with pride and self-loathing in equal measure.Meanwhile, Nick draws the most perfect parallel America has to offer: the Super Bowl. A tradition everyone watches, everyone critiques, and everyone participates in—begrudgingly or otherwise.Together, they unpack what it means to love something while simultaneously roasting it to death. Whether it's donut balls named after Justin Bieber or halftime shows no one agrees on, this is Reverse Jackass at its bittersweet best.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

In episode lucky #15 of the Reverse Jackass podcast, Nick and Evelyn open negotiations on provincial reputations and Southern assumptions, starting with Nick’s greatest hits from moving away from the American South (including two truly unhinged questions people asked him the second he said “I'm from Virginia”). Evelyn fires back with a Canadian provincial tour: Ontario as the self-appointed center of the universe, Alberta as the aggressively conservative cousin, Winnipeg’s bleak reputation, and Newfoundland as the place where the people are so kind it might actually heal your nervous system. Along the way, they detour into LA friendliness, unexpected stranger interactions, and why you’d probably survive Newfoundland just fine as long as you don't mind travelling for 13 days straight and you keep your feet covered.This the sound of true peace talks, friends.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

Confession is good for the soul... and even better for podcast content.In this episode, Evelyn finally admits to Nick that for months she had no idea what the acronym "CAMFT" meant—and thought he was talking about an actual camp for therapists. Meanwhile, Nick shares a very real confession of his own: his internal tug-of-war between admiring Canada and subconsciously treating it like “America Jr.”Together, they unpack how cultural assumptions—about therapy, about hockey, and about national identity—can be both funny and revealing.This is Reverse Jackass at its most honest: part comedy, part cultural therapy, and always in pursuit of becoming slightly better neighbors*.*also, neighbours.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

This episode of Reverse Jackass is pure mayhem: Nick explains how a college tantrum led to drywall destruction and an absolutely deranged (yet completely successful) plan to avoid consequences. Evelyn counters with a story involving a totaled car, broken glass, just out of reach chicken nuggets, and the kind of decision-making that makes you reconsider left turns forever.Also featured: Nick and Evelyn want to give a big shoutout to Nick’s far more talented brother, Bobby Bognar, who graciously allowed us to use his song "Heartbreaker" by his band the Piper Downs. Bobby, you are a true professional entering a deeply unserious episode.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving at the time this Reverse Jackass episode was recorded (even though it's closer to Valentine's Day at the time this is released, WE KNOW OK, GET OVER IT), and Evelyn is ready to sincerely express her gratitude… for overlooked vegetables, surprise double garbage pickup, and the joys of ergonomic design. Nick, meanwhile, is thankful for gluten, therapy, and a wedding toast gone off the rails thanks to an imbibed and despairing (worst combo, btw) bridesmaid.This episode is part friendship roast, part cultural exchange, and part ode to the everyday things that (almost) never get thanked.Whether you’re the kind of person who reflects deeply on gratitude or just wants to hear about Canadian municipal composting, you’ll feel right at home here.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

What happens when an American mislabels Canada’s national dish and brings up the Oklahoma–Texas rivalry? Let’s just say: tensions rise, and it's not pretty.In episode 11 of the Reverse Jackass podcast, Evelyn explains the VERY. SPECIFIC. RULES. of what makes a real poutine (spoiler: it’s not just fries with gravy and shredded cheese, you animals), while Nick recounts a moment of cultural tension in a gas station on the wrong side of the Red River. Together, they explore sacred regional rivalries, the fragility of cross-border culinary respect, and whether you can hear cheese.This episode is absolutely a food fight disguised as a podcast episode.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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:[email protected]*SIGH* Are we finally becoming friendly neighbo(u)rs… or just being cringy? Hopefully it's both.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.)TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.)TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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?TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]

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. ...they might have a long ways to go.TEXT US!...and we'll respond, because that's the kind of people we are. =============Want to get in touch with Nick & Evelyn? Email them at [email protected]