Faustian Deal with the Devil

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The DORK Side

Kevin Jackson

51 episodes

3 weeks ago

The DORK Side is a brutally funny comedy podcast where hosts Kevin Jackson and Noel Roberts take a gloriously irreverent swing at the world around us. Each week, they roast pop culture, toast new tech, and drag the future into the present just to be made fun of.

This isn't your average tech podcast or dry pop culture show. It's where curiosity meets comedy—and neither comes out alive. Tune in for hot takes on everything from the latest gadgets and streaming obsessions to society's oddities and tomorrow's worst ideas.

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Faustian Deal with the Devil - Ep 25-040

The DORK Side

38 minutes 4 seconds

1 month ago

Faustian Deal with the Devil - Ep 25-040

Today, we're tackling a tale as old as time, or at least as old as German literature: the story of Faust. You know, the guy who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited knowledge, pleasure, and power. A story that, if we're being honest, has less to do with 16th-century alchemists and more to do with the "Terms and Conditions" we all blindly accept every single day. Before we can diagnose our own spiritual diabetes, we have to understand the original sugar rush. So, what is the Faust story? In a nutshell: a brilliant but disillusioned scholar named Heinrich Faust makes a bet with God, and the demon Mephistopheles—Satan’s wingman—takes the call. Faust signs a contract in blood (the original "click agree without reading") trading his soul for 24 years of having every earthly wish granted by Mephisto. He gets youth, he gets the girl (the tragically innocent Gretchen), he gets cosmic knowledge, and it all ends… poorly. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.