The Devil's Details: The Evolution of the Devil through Art and Literature
by TruStory FM · 110 episodes
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What started as an exploration of the devil in their show, The Exorcist Minute, has grown into something much greater. Find all the original episodes of the show and more right here in The Devil's Details with Lester Ryan Clark and Kynan Dias.
Latest episodes
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41 min
Letters From The Earth, Letter 11: The End Is By And By! (Finale)
Letter Eleven is the last one Twain wrote, and it doesn’t end so much as stop. Satan grants that human history in all ages is red with blood and bitter with hate — but that it has…
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50 min
Letters From The Earth, Letter 10: Satan Goes To The Window, To The Wall!
Letter Ten skips Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob entirely and goes straight for the Old Testament body count. Satan’s thesis: the old testament shows us the Deity before he got religion,…
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22 min
Letters From The Earth, Letter 9: Three's Company, Foresight's A Crowd!
Letter Nine is the shortest letter yet, and it wraps up Noah in about two pages. The Ark continues its voyage, compassless and uncontrolled, the sport of random winds and swirling…
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48 min
Letters From The Earth, Letter 8: Satan Is The GOAT!
Letter Eight opens with Satan's flattest verdict yet: man is, without any doubt, the most interesting fool there is, also the most eccentric. He hasn't a single written law in his…
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40 min
Letters From The Earth, Letter 7: Noah And His Family Get Hooked!
Letter Seven finds Noah's family aboard and saved — if that could be called an advantage, Satan says, since no intelligent person over sixty would consent to live his life again. T…
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1 h 55
BONUS Episode - Ridley Scott's LEGEND! (originally recorded June 29/2025)
On this BONUS episode, we look at Ridley Scott's 1985 fantasy epic Legend, where Tim Curry delivers one of cinema's most memorable portrayals of evil incarnate as the "Lord of Dark…
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1 min
Tim Curry Tribute
A while back we covered Ridley Scott's Legend over on our bonus feed — Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness, twelve feet of horns and somehow still the most charming thing in the movi…
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51 min
Letters From The Earth, Letter 6: Waiter! There's a Fly In My Ark!
Letter Six opens with the funniest sentence in the book: "On the third day, about noon, it was found that a fly had been left behind." The Ark turns around. Sixteen days of searchi…
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25 min
Letters From The Earth, Letter 5: Gotta Catch 'Em All, Old Testament Style!
Letter Five is Noah's collecting problem, worked out with actual receipts. Satan sets up the comparison first: a Roman named Symmachus once sent men across Asia and Africa to gathe…
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43 min
Letters from the Earth, Letter 4: Noah’s Villain Ark
Letter Four picks up right after the expulsion from Eden and runs straight through to Noah's Ark. Adam and Eve leave under a permanent curse, having lost every pleasure they had be…
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1 h 05
Letters From The Earth, Letter 3: Satan Can't Adam-And-Eve'n!
Letter Three opens with Satan's flattest and funniest line yet — "You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity" — and then works methodically through the Christian Bible, w…
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1 h 00
Letters From The Earth By Mark Twain, Letters 1-2: Earth? I Give It...2 Stars.
The second half of our Mark Twain season begins with the first two letters of Letters from the Earth, written in 1909 — the last full year of Twain's life, after he'd buried his wi…
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1 h 28
DEMON DEEP DIVE! The Japanese Oni!
Between Mark Twain's two devil works, we're stepping outside the Judeo-Christian house entirely for a Demon Deep Dive on the Japanese Oni — which has no Abrahamic connection whatso…
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41 min
“This is the End.” “Wow.”: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 11 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Chapter eleven of The Chronicle of Young Satan is the last chapter Mark Twain wrote — or rather, the last one he started. The manuscript cuts off in the middle of a magic trick, mi…
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1 h 26
Law & Order & Satan: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 10 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Chapter ten of The Chronicle of Young Satan is the penultimate chapter, and it's structured like two episodes of a Saturday morning cartoon back to back. Episode one: the courtroom…
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1 h 09
Book To The Future! Where We're Going, We Don't Need Stones!: The Chronicle Of Young Satan, Chapter 9 • The De…
The ChapterChapter nine of The Chronicle of Young Satan opens with Theodore reflecting on the one thing he has never asked Satan: his own future. He's been afraid to. What he has d…
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1 h 15
Getting Stoned with Satan: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 8 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Satan is back in the woods — same spot as the first meeting — and the boys are thrilled, because life without him is genuinely dull. He offers to show them the history of the progr…
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45 min
If This Party Gets Any Livelier, a Funeral Might Break Out!: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 7 • The Dev…
Chapter seven of The Chronicle of Young Satan is the darkest chapter of the season, and there's no way to soften it. Nikolaus is going to drown in twelve days — Satan has already t…
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1 h 10
A Whole New World: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 6 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Chapter six of The Chronicle of Young Satan takes a hard turn from sibling squabbles into something genuinely devastating. Theodore tries to talk his sister Lily out of her infatua…
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58 min
Everybody Loves Satan!: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 5 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Five weeks in Eseldorf and everybody loves Satan — which is turning out to be almost as much of a problem as if they hated him. Philip Traum has been charming the whole village, pu…