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The DORK Side

The DORK Sideis a brutally funnycomedy podcastwhere hostsKevin Jackson and Noel Robertstake a gloriouslyirreverentswing at the world around us. Each week, they roastpop culture, toast newtech, and drag the future into the present just to be made fun of.This isn"t your averagetech podcastor drypop culture show. It"s where curiosity meets comedy—and neither comes out alive. Tune in for hot takes on everything from the latestgadgetsand streaming obsessions to society"s oddities and tomorrow"s

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History's Unsolved Mysteries - Ep 65

The DORK Side ·

2026/04/10

: The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries in History (The Ones That Refuse to Behave)

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Changing the Past - Ep 65

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2026/04/08

If I Could Do It All Over Again… The Fantasy, the Regret, and the Lie We Tell Ourselves

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Biggest Influence on You? - Ep 64

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2026/04/06

Who shapes a life rarely wears a cape. Sometimes they wear a bathrobe, hold a whistle, or grade with a red pen that feels personal.

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Got Pet Peeves?

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2026/04/03

Pet peeves are fascinating because they don’t announce themselves as rules. They arrive disguised as preferences, but behave like moral law. Somewhere between “I don’t like that” and “You are a bad person for doing that,” a pet peeve is born.They are small, specific irritations that punch above their weight. Nobody storms out of a room because of global warming, but chew with your mouth open and suddenly we’re reenacting the French Revolution. Pet peeves are rarely about harm. They’re about

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Find Out About your Bucket List

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2026/04/01

Bucket lists used to be private thoughts. Quiet promises whispered between a person and the ceiling at 2 a.m. Now they’re laminated, hashtagged, and monetized. Somewhere along the way, “live before you die” turned into “prove you’re interesting online before the algorithm forgets you exist.” The phrase itself didn’t crawl out of ancient philosophy. It didn’t come from Aristotle or some monk staring at a candle. It came from a 2007 Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman movie, which is ironic, because

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Fictional BFF - If you could choose anybody

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2026/03/30

Ever fantasized about ditching your boring pals for someone who can punch through walls or web-sling across town? We're launching this "What fictional character would you want to be best friends with?" arc with superheroes – those over-the-top do-gooders (and a couple of villains) who've been crashing into pop culture since the late 1930s, when the world was reeling from the Great Depression and needed larger-than-life escapes. Who wouldn't want Superman as your wingman? Talk about the ultimate

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Influencers Who Changed Branding Forever - Ep 59

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2026/03/23

Somewhere inside every one of us is a spark we never lit. Not because it wasn’t there, but because nobody handed us the match. History loves to crown geniuses after the fact, once the idea has already detonated and rearranged the furniture of civilization. But before the statues and documentaries, these people were just… people. Awkward. Curious. Annoying to authority. The kind of folks who didn’t fit neatly into the lanes they were given, so they built new roads and accidentally changed the

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Icon Makers of the 90s

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2026/03/17

Every revolution has its strategists. Every rebel has a co-conspirator. This is about the essential few who didn't just ride the wave of change—they were the engine behind it. The true creators who forged the raw sound, the groundbreaking script, the authentic style that defined an era. In the defiant, DIY 1990s, they were the critical voice in the ear of the icon, the partner who said, "Go further," and handed them the map. They are the proof that behind every culture-shifting star is a circle of

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Icon Makers of the 80s

The DORK Side ·

2026/03/09

Before the star was a star, there was a believer. Before the hit was a hit, there was a spark in a forgotten room. This is about the people who stood just outside the spotlight, but directly in the path of genius. The architects. The collaborators. The unsung talent who didn't just discover game-changers… they built them from the ground up. In the neon-soaked, ambition-fueled 1980s, they were the secret weapon—the writer, the producer, the mentor who turned a raw voice into an anthem, a nervous

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The Love Algorithm

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2026/03/02

Welcome to the grand, messy laboratory of human pairing. We’re told from childhood that in love, “opposites attract.” It’s a phrase borrowed not from psychology, but from 12th-century observations of magnets and popularized by a 1950s pop song. How romantic. We apply a principle of electromagnetism to the most complex emotional algorithm on Earth. The universe says a proton and an electron get along, so surely a neat-freak and a chaos-goblin can make it work. But science, that eternal buzzkill,

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The Psychos

The DORK Side ·

2026/02/23

Alright, let’s dim the studio lights to a menacing, energy-saving 40%. Welcome to The DORK Side. I’m Kevin Jackson, and floating somewhere in the psychic ether to my right is my co-host, the human equivalent of a comforting nightlight in a haunted house, Noel Roberts.Now, why are we, a show nominally about random knowledge, dedicating an entire episode to the cheery topic of “The Psychology of Evil”? Simple. I’m personally fascinated by the wet computer in our skulls and its ability to run

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Explore Detectives Real and Imagined

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2026/02/16

If true crime is the steak, detectives are the salt—they bring out the flavor. So let’s kick off by ranking our favorite fictional detectives who made crime-solving cool.Icons:Sherlock Holmes – deductive genius with no patience for stupidity. Imagine him with Wi-Fi.Columbo – the disheveled detective who weaponized awkwardness.Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote) – small-town crime magnet. Cabot Cove had more murders than Chicago, but somehow nobody questioned it.Batman – yes, technically a

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Learn About the Biggest Audition Failures

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2026/02/09

Welcome to The DORK Side, where we plunge headfirst into the Department of Random Knowledge's latest obsession: the colossal blunders of Hollywood's what-if wardrobe malfunctions. Today's arc? The biggest movie audition failures and roles actors ghosted harder than a bad Tinder date. We're kicking off with Segment 1: The Turned-Down Titans, because nothing says "eternal regret" like waving off a role that could crown you king of the box office—or at least let you swing from a web. Picture this: in

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Childhood Cartoons - Ep 52

The DORK Side ·

2026/01/20

Welcome to the animated foundation upon which our fragile psyches were built. We're not talking about the 80s or 90s just yet. We're going back to the bedrock. The black-and-white, or rather, the limited-Technicolor morals of the Golden Age. This is the era where the primary lesson seemed to be: violence is hilarious, property rights are negotiable, and the only thing faster than a speeding bullet is a suspension of labor laws. Think about it. Wile E. Coyote’s entire existence was a brutal

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The Art of the Con - Ep 25-051

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2025/12/17

We're starting a deep dive into the most elegant hacks in human history: not of computers, but of trust. We’re talking about the master con artists. Not the two-bit hustlers, but the virtuosos who understood that the most vulnerable system on the planet is the human brain, and they developed the perfect malware for it: the irresistible lie. Today, we're not just looking at what they stole, but how they got people to hand it over willingly. It begins with the understanding that greed is a louder

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Jobs with a Death Clause - Ep 25-050

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2025/12/16

Welcome to the DORK Side, where we’re contemplating the fine line between a 'career' and a 'darwinian plea.' Today, we’re exploring the jobs that make your 'high-stakes' marketing meeting look like a game of patty-cake. Let’s start in the era before OSHA was a glimmer in a bureaucrat’s eye, when danger wasn't just part of the job—it was the job description. We’re talking about the professions where your life insurance provider would hang up on you. The lion tamer, staring into the eyes of 400

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Rearview Mirror of Regret and Childhood Stupidity -...

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2025/12/15

Ah, the 70s, 80s, and 90s—the triumvirate of terror for anyone with a functioning central nervous system. This was a time before ‘helicopter parenting’ was a thing; our parents were more like ‘submarine parents’—they surfaced occasionally to make sure we were still alive, then went back to whatever they were doing, which was probably smoking indoors. We weren't coddled; we were beta-testers for the human body. The world was our playground, and that playground was built over concrete and featured

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The Dangerous Lingo - Ep 25-048

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2025/12/02

We discuss the evolution of slang to a fruit fly's life cycle—brief, frenetic, and ending in a messy death. We'll start with the premise that using outdated slang is the social equivalent of showing up to a club wearing a powdered wig. Remember when everything was "rad," "tubular," or "the bee's knees"? Those words didn't fade; they were hunted for sport by the coolness police. We'll explore the "eternal September" of adolescence, where each new generation invents a linguistic secret handshake to

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Whatever Happened to Etiquette - Ep 25-047

The DORK Side ·

2025/12/01

Back in the day, etiquette wasn’t just about manners — it was social armor. You said “good afternoon” even if you hated the person, because your grandma would rise from the grave to slap you if you didn’t. Now, we live in an age where “good afternoon” sounds like a scam call.There was once something called “finishing school,” actual institutions that taught posture, poise, and how to not slurp soup like a swamp creature. In 1950s America, charm schools turned out people who could attend dinner

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Yes You're Settling - Ep 25-046

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2025/11/28

Welcome to The DORK Side, where ambition goes to die quietly in a cubicle under fluorescent lights. Today we’re exploring settling — the slow-motion surrender that starts when your dreams meet your bills.Why do people settle? Not just romantically, but professionally, emotionally, spiritually. Most folks don’t even realize they’ve settled until they hear someone else’s success story and get that faint pang of nausea — the “What if I’d tried harder?” feeling. See Privacy Policy at

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