Truth is stranger than fiction and reality TV stars know this better than anyone,

but what you may not know about them or even believe is actually criminal behavior.

I'm Kaelin Miller-Keeze and on my new podcast True Crime Reality, I will be joined by

reality TV stars as they dive deep into the details of the crime they have a direct connection to.

Listen to True Crime Reality on the iHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHard Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Effect, a short form series from Stuff to Blow Your

Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. The crimes of the skexes

are many on the planet Thraw, from the cracking of the crystal of truth to their war of extermination

against the gulfling. While the plight of the gulflings is of particular note, other species

suffered and died under skexis rule, including the gentle Grunach, as related by Adam Chessery

and the dark crystal bestiary, these gray skin flat faced bipeds were a prominent technologically

advanced sentient species on Thraw during the age of harmony. But as the skexes rose to power

during the age of division, the twisted lords of the crystal decimated the Grunach.

They spared only two individuals to serve as slaves in the castle of the crystal.

Here they aided the scientist's skeck tech in his vile research and spoke not a word of their

species' lost culture or the cruelty of the skexes for their mouths were sewn shut in a permanent

mournful frown. Now you might wonder how the last Grunach carried on without mouths, but the biology

of Thraw is exotic and diverse, and so is our own here on earth. So we can turn to our own natural

world for possible answers. For starters are we sure that the Grunach need to eat it all?

The lunumop is an example of a moth that does not eat as an adult. It possesses vestigial

mouth parts but they're functionalists, as the adult flying forms don't live long enough to

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