Episode Summary:

Ben looks into a TikTok-fueled panic about sex trafficking abductions in Target stores, then we move to our main topics, the Mark of the Beast and the Number of the Beast, aka 666. From ambiguous or even invisible marks on accused witches hundreds of years ago to ambiguous or even invisible ways our technology “marks” our commerce, the Satanic fears of some 666-fearing individuals have been going on a long time. Masks and the Covid-19 vaccine are merely the latest in a string of things labelled as the Antichrist’s calling card. Pascual rounds us out with some notes on Iron Maiden’s 1982 hit Number of the Beast and how various bands used the number to flirt with Satanic showmanship.