N TV's official Challenge Podcast is back for another season.

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The weight is over, guys. All Stars Four is finally here.

And this season takes it to a whole new level.

Old school legends, modern power players, and ex-lowers are all competing in Cape Town South Africa

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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact.

A short form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

In a rare case of synchronicity with the news cycle, which is all about brainworms of late, I decided

to devote this trek-themed episode to the dreaded SETI eels of SETI Alpha Five. You will of course remember them from the 1982 film Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan, in which

thawed 20th century eugenics war tyrant Khan Noonan Singh played by the superb Ricardo

Montebon uses larval seti eels to torture and control two enterprise crew

members in his quest for vengeance. We also learned that Seti Eels

native to the harsh world Singh was exiled to by Starfleet, killed many of Khan's

people including his wife.

The SETI worm is a burrowing desert creature,

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