What's up? This is Ryan Hollins 10 year NBA vet and current analyst for the Houston Rockets.

And I've got a new podcast called NBA Rookie Life, given you weekly news, analysis,

and an inside look into the 2022 draft class. This rookie class is really so bad.

Each week, I'll be breaking down the best rookie performances, as well as getting behind the

scene stories and welcome to the league moments that make NBA Rookie Life so crazy.

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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lam 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.

Over the past two weeks, we've looked at the tyrannid invaders of the Warhammer 40K Universe,

biological armies and high fleets from beyond the limits of the Milky Way on an inhuman quest

to consume all biomass in their path. They constitute an outer threat to the Imperium of Man,

like none other, but they also pose a terrifying inner threat as well.

As described in the ninth edition, Gene Stealer cults Codex from Games Workshop,

the tyrannids have a means of corrupting a host world ahead of a high fleets arrival,

ripening it for the plucking. We're told that a form of tyrannid known as a Gene Stealer

initiates this corruption, stealthily stowing away in cargo or aboard derelict spacecraft

in order to reach a new human occupied world. Once there, the creature will begin to infect

members of a planet's agricultural or industrial workforce with its genetic material via an Ova

positive in its tongue. This act initiates a multi-generational process that introduces a variety of human

tyrannid hybrids. While initial generations are monstrous and remain below ground, later generations

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