
Afterwards, I can dream that a company would decide to buy the name and keep me on it. Paneech: Once you graduate and leave YSU, will you take Jack Up The Rev with you, or is it something you would want future students to expand with?Ĭatullo: I will still be attending YSU next year, so Jack Up The Rev will definitely continue, even if I am not the sports editor. It is mostly improvision and the ideas are created and followed through upon on the spot. I don’t really know where I come up with the ideas. For other people to think so, I try to present the content in my own entertaining way. Paneech: Where do you come up with ideas to keep the content entertaining?Ĭatullo: Personally, I feel that the sports are entertaining enough. Sports reporter Nick Mancini and photographer Dustin Livesay help in filming games. Our editor-in-chief, Josh Stipanovich, gave his blessing to call the show Jack Up The Rev. He played the guitar and we sang all of the lyrics. He is also the creator of the theme song. Paneech: Who are some of the people involved with you in the project?Ĭatullo: Our online editor, Chris Cotelesse, brought the idea to the table that we could try to produce a sports show. Also, short term, to give the audience a look back at what YSU has done in the past week with some comedy involved.

I want to show future potential employers what I can offer. Paneech: What goals have been set for the show?Ĭatullo: My main goal is that this will help me in my future. It only goes over if we have a lot of content we need to use. Paneech: Does each episode have a set time limit?Ĭatullo: We try to keep each episode about four minutes or less. About an hour later, the entire Jambar staff was saying it. I don’t know where it came from or how it happened, but it did. When he finished, I told him it seemed like he was really trying to jack up the… jack up the rev or something. I was sitting with reporter Patrick Donovan who was telling me about his weekend. Paneech: Where did you come up with a name like, ‘Jack Up The Rev’?Ĭatullo: The name Jack Up The Rev came in February. I recently caught up with Catullo (below) to explain the concept, the purpose, the future, and the past of Jack Up The Rev. Catullo has chased down Wolford, Bob Boldon, Zach Humphries, Anthony Noreen, Jim Brown, and anyone else they have been able to get to say their catchphrase as a show lead-in. I am completely honored to be the featured presenter to Volume #12 (above). I have watched YSU football coach Eric Wolford make Catullo cue him on what was to be said several times before a take was completed. The name can be amusing to those who have never heard it. Congratulations to Dustin Livesay, Nick Mancini, and Catullo for taking their vision as far as they can and continued expansion and growth to who comes next. All-in-all, it is a well produced minicast of what is going on. Not a conventional name by any means, the video clips are entertaining and the quality is surprisingly good. has spent a whole bunch of time compiling editions of Jack Up The Rev. Lately, technology has allowed a few of the Jambar student-writers freedom to be more imaginative and try their hand in video-journalism.

For years, the Jambar has turned out a quality product featuring objective viewpoints from student writers and photographers at Youngstown State University.
