Selects: Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s a pretty safe assumption that people have been born with birthmarks since humanity began, and between then and now we’ve come up with some wacky, even dangerous, explanations for them – even a few that survive still today. Learn all about them in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey, everybody. Chuck here. |
| 0:06.4 | We're moving forward in time in 2020 for this select. |
| 0:09.6 | The year of COVID with our February 20th episode, birth marks colon, probably not the mark of the devil. |
| 0:17.7 | I honestly don't remember much about this one, but when I was looking through our 2020 list, |
| 0:22.2 | it made me want to go listen to it. |
| 0:24.4 | And so that's what I'm going to do, and I think you should do. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Brian over there. |
| 0:46.0 | And there's Jerry. |
| 0:47.5 | Jerry's back, everybody. |
| 0:49.3 | That's right. |
| 0:50.4 | And all the listeners said, what happened to Josh T? |
| 0:53.5 | What are we doing? Did we decide? Yeah, we're going to do birth marks. Okay, great. Check the title, Chuck. Well, I mean, I have two things in front of me. How you doing? I'm great. How are you? I'm good. You got any birth marks? I do. What you got? I've got something under my right armpit. |
| 1:12.7 | You're like, it looks like Richard Nixon. |
| 1:17.2 | Close. It looks like Spiro Agnes. |
| 1:20.5 | Do you remember when Mad Magazine used to make fun of Spiro Agnew? |
| 1:23.4 | You're like, I have no idea who that is. |
| 1:25.1 | I think it was the name maybe. |
| 1:26.7 | No, it was because, like, they hated his politics. |
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