Selects: Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil

**Chuck Bryant** (0:00)
Hey, everybody, Chuck here. We're moving forward in time in 2020 for This Select, the year of COVID with our February 20th episode, Birthmarks, colon, probably not the mark of the devil. I honestly don't remember much about this one, but when I was looking through our 2020 list, it made me want to go listen to it. And so that's what I'm going to do, and I think you should too.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:27)
Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

**Josh Clark** (0:36)
Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant over there, and there's Jerry. Jerry's back, everybody.

**Chuck Bryant** (0:44)
That's right.

**Josh Clark** (0:46)
And all the listeners said, What happened to Josh T?

**Chuck Bryant** (0:49)
What are we doing? Did we decide?

**Josh Clark** (0:51)
Yeah, we're going to do birthmarks.

**Chuck Bryant** (0:52)
Okay, great.

**Josh Clark** (0:53)
Check the title, Chuck.

**Chuck Bryant** (0:55)
Well, I mean, I have two things in front of me.

**Josh Clark** (0:58)
How you doing?

**Chuck Bryant** (0:59)
I'm great, how are you?

**Josh Clark** (1:00)
I'm good.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:01)
You got any birthmarks?

**Josh Clark** (1:02)
I do.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:02)
What you got?

**Josh Clark** (1:04)
I've got something under my right armpit.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:08)
You're like, it looks like Richard Nixon.

**Josh Clark** (1:12)
Close, it looks like Spiro Agnew. Do you remember when Mad Magazine used to make fun of Spiro Agnew? You're like, I have no idea who that is.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:20)
I think it was the name maybe.

**Josh Clark** (1:22)
No, it was because they hated his politics.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:25)
Yeah, well, that too.

**Josh Clark** (1:26)
But then there was a Simpsons where Millhouse is like, they're making fun of Spiro Agnew again, he must work there or something. And I remember specifically thinking that he must work there.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:35)
Oh, he referenced Mad Magazine? Oh, that's funny. So you've got an under-your- armpit birthmark?

**Josh Clark** (1:41)
Yeah, how about you?

**Chuck Bryant** (1:43)
I don't think I do, actually. What I have a lot of now, because I'm an old man speeding toward death, are skin tags.

**Josh Clark** (1:54)
Oh, yeah. Those are not birthmarks.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:56)
Around the neck and armpit, that's where they tend to gather.

**Josh Clark** (2:00)
That's just your skin, you know, really going at it.

**Chuck Bryant** (2:04)
I used to have them clipped, and I did that for a while, but it's been a while.
But now, I went in recently, it was so annoying, it was one of these, our medical system is just broken. It was one of those reminders, because I went in to get it taken care of like I usually do, and I got in, and the guy was like, oh, well, we don't do this now unless you make another kind of appointment. I was like, well, can I just make this that since I'm here, sitting in your office? He's like, no, no, no, those take much longer. These are just 10-minute appointments, and that'll take like an hour. And some of them have their own vascular system, so they need to be cauterized.
And I was like, oh, okay, so I'm just leaving? And he was like, yes. He's like, if you want to make that other appointment, and then they refunded the money for that appointment, which was nice.

**Josh Clark** (2:48)
That was nice.

**Chuck Bryant** (2:49)
That was a copay, but then he said make the longer appointment if you want to come back.

**Josh Clark** (2:54)
Huh, so are you going to?

**Chuck Bryant** (2:55)
Yeah, you know, I mean, they're not like medically dangerous or anything, but they're rather unsightly.

**Josh Clark** (3:03)
It's fine.

**Chuck Bryant** (3:04)
When they get long and big.

**Josh Clark** (3:05)
Well, long, sure. I mean, how long are we talking?

**Chuck Bryant** (3:08)
I mean, some of the ones are like, you know, quarter inch.

**Josh Clark** (3:12)
So, okay, I was just about to say how big that was. Let me see if we can figure it out in metric.
It's a few centimeters, I think, is what you just did.

**Chuck Bryant** (3:21)
Yeah, I want to get them clipped again. So, I'm going to make that longer appointment. I think it will be painful.

**Josh Clark** (3:27)
Is it painful? I've never had one clipped.

**Chuck Bryant** (3:29)
The regular clipping, the small ones aren't a big deal because they just hit it with a little quick shot and then clip it and it's no big deal.

**Josh Clark** (3:36)
What kind of a shot?