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

And so are we. I'm Tori Deal.

And I'm Anisa Ferreira.

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

for the prize of $300,000.

And we're going to be right here along

with you fans covering every episode on the podcast.

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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 today's episode, I'm going to round out this initial batch of Star Trek selections and I'm

going to go with a listener suggestion from one of our mini gyms, The Horta of Janus

Six. As we learned in the original Trek episode, The Devil in the Dark, the Horta is a large

subterranean heap-shaped organism. Entirely silicone-based rather than carbon-based based it tunnels through the rock via

powerful acidic secretions which you can also use defensively.

Exceedingly long-lived the entire population of Horta dies out every 60,000 years,

with the exception of a single mother Horta, which tends to the spherical eggs

that will produce the next generation of this amazing species.

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