Guys, we are back. We are so excited. It is season two of your favorite New Girl Rewatch

podcast. We have got a new season, we got a new name, we have got some of your

favorite people from the New Girl universe we've got the creator and

showrunner Liz Maryweather we got the max greenfield

Olivia Munn we also have some of your least favorites like like Jake Johnson

what's up we do have Jake Johnson? LeMorne.

What's up?

We do have Jake Johnson though.

Yeah.

Listen to the mess around on the I-hard radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff to Blow Your

Mind focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

In this episode will begin a multi-installment exploration of the various strange forms found in the alien universe leading up to the debut of the new alien Romulus film in August. I previously wrote about xenomorph biology in the

article How the alien xenomorph works back in 2012 for the website how stuff works.

That article is still there in full, accompanied by illustrations authorized by the HR Giger Museum, and as I work up to various

considerations of how natural world biology is reflected in or matches up to the xenomorph, I'll likely draw on some of the same ideas.

But I also plan to touch on various additional natural world and mythological connections,

as well as such sources as the 2017 film Alien Covenant and the

excellent Alien RPG source books from Free League publishing. I want to add the caveat that I am not setting out to wrangle all the lore here or to provide

you with a 100% canonical take on everything.

You have no shortage of wickies and lore videos for that. The Monster Fact Journey will touch on a lot of the same themes and information, but will also reflect my own thoughts and obsessions as a fan. With all that in mind let's start at the beginning

with the enigmatic engineers.

An elder race of space-faring humanoids, the engineers have largely vanished from the portion of the galaxy traversed by 22nd century Terrence.

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