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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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The Art of the Con - Ep 25-051

The DORK Side ·

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

The DORK Side ·

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 -...

The DORK Side ·

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

The DORK Side ·

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

The DORK Side ·

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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Givers and Takers Full of Surprises - Ep 25-045

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/27

Today we dive into humanity’s oldest divide: Givers vs. Takers. Not politics — though that’s tempting — but the primal split between people who offer you their fries before finishing them, and the ones who ask for a bite of your steak. Why do some folks see helping others as joy, while others see it as a form of cardio?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Crazy Jobs You Know Nothing About - Ep 25-044

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/26

Welcome to the gilded cage of the ultra-luxury concierge. This isn't about getting you tickets to Hamilton. This is a world where the phrase “money is no object” is a starting point, not a boast. We’re talking about personal assistants to the 0.001%, the modern-day majordomos for whom the word “no” is a fireable offense, and the word “impossible” is just a suggestion that requires a larger wire transfer.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at

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Gross for Thee but Not for Me - Ep 25-043

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/25

Welcome to the DORK Side, where we're not afraid to get our hands dirty, metaphorically speaking. Because literally, if we got our hands dirty, we'd be disgusted. Or would we?We live in a world sanitized for our protection. We have hand sanitizer dispensers next to the holy water in some churches. But this reflex, this full-body 'NOPE' we feel when we see something gross, isn't a social construct. It's our oldest, most primitive personal bodyguard. Scientists call it the 'Behavioral Immune

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00:38:04

The Ship of Theseus (Remaking You) - Ep 25-042

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/24

"Welcome to The DORK Side, where today we're tackling the ultimate identity crisis, one that makes your teenage years look like a slightly awkward afternoon. It’s called the Ship of Theseus, and it’s the philosophical equivalent of your grandpa’s favorite hammer that’s had three new heads and two new handles. If you replace every single plank of a ship over time, is it still the same ship? Now, apply that to the human body, which replaces almost all its cells every seven to ten years. Are you just

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Ever Played 'Would You Rather' - Ep 25-041

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/21

"Welcome, knowledge seekers and chaos enthusiasts, to the inaugural voyage of The DORK Side. Our mission: to boldly go where plenty of people, often in robes, have suggested we probably shouldn't. Since a certain serpent offered a piece of problematic produce in a garden, we’ve been obsessed with forbidden knowledge. It’s the original 'terms and conditions' we scroll past with gusto. Today, we're not just opening Pandora's Box; we're cataloging its contents, pricing it on eBay, and wondering if we

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00:38:04

Faustian Deal with the Devil - Ep 25-040

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/20

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

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00:38:04

Personality Patches - Ep 25-039

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/19

Welcome to the grand, glittering marketplace of the better you. A multi-trillion-dollar global industry built on one simple, renewable resource: your own crushing inadequacy. We’re not just talking about the faint desire to be a little better; we’re talking about a fully militarized campaign against your own personality flaws, armed with productivity apps that shame you for sleeping, mindfulness gurus who sell you serenity for $19.99 a month, and enough life-hacking content to make you feel guilty

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Communication Overload - Ep 25-038

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/18

Imagine a world where a cutting remark took six weeks to deliver by clipper ship. The sheer, beautiful delay of it all! You could have a furious argument with a business partner in London, but by the time your scalding letter arrived, he’d have been buried for a month from cholera, and you’d feel like a real jerk. That’s the world we lost. We moved from the Pony Express, where a man on a horse was the pinnacle of speed, to the telegraph, which for the first time in human history, decoupled a message

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Decoding Gendered (Bro Code) Communication - Ep 25-37

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/17

Today, we're venturing into the linguistic Bermuda Triangle of human interaction: the things we say only to our own tribe. Specifically, we're starting with the ancient and often baffling fraternity known as... men.Gentlemen, let's be honest. Our conversations with other men are less about exchanging information and more about a series of low-stakes, non-binding verbal handshakes. It's a world where "We should totally grab a beer sometime" is understood by all parties to mean "We will never see

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Unvarnished Truth About Friendship - Ep 25-36

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2025/11/14

We ‘friend’ people we met once at a conference, we ‘friend’ our aunt’s neighbor, we ‘friend’ the barista who knows our order but doesn’t know our last name. This isn't friendship; it's a loosely affiliated network of mild acquaintances held together by the digital equivalent of chewing gum and baling wire. Historically, a friend was your literal survival partner. Now, it's someone who might send you a birthday GIF. We’ve taken a sacred covenant and turned it into a participation trophy for basic

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Is Parenting Easier Now? - Ep 25-035

The DORK Side ·

2025/11/13

"Welcome to The DORK Side, where we dive headfirst into the cultural chaos. Today, we’re tackling the ultimate multi-generational smackdown: Parenting. Specifically, the persistent, romantic, and likely completely fabricated notion that it was somehow easier back in the day. You know the drill. Your grandpa puffs on his metaphorical pipe and says, ‘In my day, a sharp look and a leather belt were the only parenting tools we needed!’ Meanwhile, a modern parent’s toolkit includes an iPad for

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Songs with Sexual Innuendo from the 90s - Ep 25-034

The DORK Side ·

2025/10/31

We've discussed the 70s and then the 80s, a decade where sexual subtlety was as absent as shoulder padding is today. The 80s was all power ballads and direct requests. The 90s, however, evolved. Grunge made everything seem so serious, while pop became a lecture in plausible deniability. We traded the leather-clad obviousness of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" for the suburban fantasy of a "Barbie Girl." This segment explores how the 90s used bubblegum pop and hip-hop to smuggle adult themes into the

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Songs with Sexual Innuendo from the 80s - Ep 25-033

The DORK Side ·

2025/10/30

The other day we dove into the shag-carpeted, bell-bottomed world of the 70s, where the sexual innuendo in songs was as thick as the chest hair. Well, grab your leg warmers and Aqua Net, because we’ve time-warped to a new decade where the hair was higher, the pants were tighter, and the double-entendres were powered by synthesizers. Welcome to the 1980s, DORKS, a decade that looked at the winking, nudge-nudge subtlety of the 70s and said, “No, thank you, we’ll have ours with a power ballad and a

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Songs with Sexual Innuendo from the 70s - Ep 25-032

The DORK Side ·

2025/10/29

Welcome DORKs to an exploration of how 70s pop and rock music used clever wordplay, metaphor, and sheer audacity to smuggle sexual content onto the airwaves. These songs served as a cultural barometer for a society in the midst of a sexual revolution, yet still clinging to its puritanical pearls. Think you will recognize where the sex was hidden? We think not... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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