"Ahhhh I'm curious as to what your methods are. Even if they're 'magic', if it's in some observable way? Information I can use. I didn't care anything about science either until I got a taste for it."

He points and winks.

"Lubin' up my slip 'n' slide to hell with that joke."

No, it's not dressing like actual satan that would make him hellbound. It was a pun.