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Sep 18, 2026
CPHOST
Well, and what I think is interesting about that, and again, and I don't know if that is the fact that since that time, right, we've seen Jim Carrey evolve as an actor.
CPHOST
We've seen him play more villainous roles like 23 and the Grinch and things like that, right? Robotnik.
CPHOST
Yeah.
CPHOST
Right.
Noah EfronHOST
But arguably nothing captures the spirit of this city we love so well, Tel Aviv-Yafo, better than how easy it was night before last to feel joy and satisfaction over what this city has become, what we have become, and the long, strange trip that has brought us from a place whose distinguished citizens were mostly all men, mostly all from Europe, all Jews, to a place whose distinguished citizens include a woman who grew up in Baghdad and a Muslim kid who grew up shoeless in Yafo, and a woman who expanded our empathy to include cats and dogs and all the other living things, and a kid born in a lousy neighborhood in the south of the city to parents from Yemen who brought honor to his country by singing a nonsense disco song, great, in front of millions around the world, and the woman survivor who made all of our kids yell, "No!" over and over and over again.
Noah EfronHOST
With us in this city we love so well, and we are so delighted, is a woman whose own life's work is to, about expanding our empathies and swelling our sympathies, and generally doing for all of us that thing that the singing of the Whos in Whoville did for the Grinch.
Noah EfronHOST
I'm pretty sure that you know that that woman is Tehila Wenger.
Noah EfronHOST
Tehila Wenger is deputy director for the Israeli branch of the Geneva Initiative, an Israeli-Palestinian effort to raise support among Palestinians and Israelis for a two-state solution where she focuses on Israeli-Palestinian policy dialogue.
Neal E. FischerHOST
I think people of our generation are kind of attached to it a little bit just because of timing and when it came out.
Neal E. FischerHOST
But I'm going to talk a little bit about the history, the production, and then some really kind of fun facts that maybe some people don't know about How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Jim Carrey movie.
Neal E. FischerHOST
Okay.
Neal E. FischerHOST
So in 2000, Universal spent $123 million to turn the 69-page children's book into this live-action spectacle.
Neal E. FischerHOST
In 1957, he wanted to create a creature whose heart was two sizes too small and who hated Christmas and also the noise, excess, and commercialism of it.
Neal E. FischerHOST
And everyone's kind of read that book since they were a kid.
Neal E. FischerHOST
You know, the Grinch steals physical evidence of Christmas and discovers the celebration in Whoville and doesn't understand the holiday.
Neal E. FischerHOST
So the book was a big hit.
Julie StantonHOST
He turned down $29 million.
Anastasia KingsnorthGUEST
Yeah, because I think the two big Christmas films are Elf and The Grinch.
Julie StantonHOST
Well, yeah, you always say that.
Julie StantonHOST
Yeah, but go on.
Anastasia KingsnorthGUEST
... that he did that.
Julie StantonHOST
What's your favorite Christmas film anyway, you two?
Anastasia KingsnorthGUEST
Mine would be The Grinch or Love Actually.
Anastasia KingsnorthGUEST
I do...
AaronPANELIST
He can literally probably just do that face.
AaronPANELIST
Kind of like Jim Carrey with the Grinch.
AaronPANELIST
He can just do the Grinch face.
KatiePANELIST
Or like Bill Skarsgård as the more modern Pennywise.
KatiePANELIST
He can just do that thing with his eyes.
Alan MorrisseyHOST
It'll be upon us before we know it.
Tommy CorbettGUEST
Yeah, I had the notes in the office and one of the girls actually noticed it and I've been called a Grinch there all week.
Tommy CorbettGUEST
It's just common sense to look ahead, isn't it? Yeah, well, that was my answer as well.
Tommy CorbettGUEST
But I suppose the reason really is that we look at this kind of in December most years, and it's literally a little bit later that stage to be budgeting.
speaker_3HOST
Let's talk about the absolute failures of live action.
speaker_3HOST
We mentioned the Mike Myers' Cat in the Hat, but the article also points to Ron Howard's 2000 version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
speaker_4HOST
Right, and that film is a really interesting case study because the source text points out that younger viewers might actually hold a lot of nostalgia for it today.
speaker_3HOST
I know a lot of people who watch it every single Christmas.
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speaker_4HOST
You have Jim Carrey voicing Horton.
speaker_3HOST
The return of Jim Carrey to Dr. Seuss.
speaker_4HOST
Exactly, but unlike his live action Grinch, this performance captures something entirely different.
speaker_3HOST
Well, in the story, Horton is mocked by his entire community in the jungle of Nool, right?
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
Comments, what do you think? Is the Grinch a narcissist? So let me give you my answer.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
I actually think he's not.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
Now, for anyone watching this who's not familiar with the story of The Grinch, I do know we have folks who watch in different countries, The Grinch is a Dr. Seuss kind of a Christmas story.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
And the Grinch is a sort of monstery guy who lives high up in a mountain with his little dog, and he hates Christmas.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
And the town at the bottom of the mountain...
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
He lives, like, in a cave.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
The town at the bottom of the mountain is called Whoville, and the Who people, the Whovillians, are, um, very agreeable and very empathic, and just sort of this sweet, loving town of people who love Christmas.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
Well, the Grinch takes it upon himself that he is going to ruin Christmas, and one of the premises of the Grinch show, of, of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, is that his heart is one-third smaller, like, than any normal person's.
Bryan HinksonHOST
scary in that movie.
Bryan HinksonHOST
Well, even Jim Carrey's The Grinch was scary.
Bryan HinksonHOST
But he grew on you.
Bryan HinksonHOST
By the way, he's
Esme RussellHOST
doing another Grinch.
Bryan HinksonHOST
I heard.
Bryan HinksonHOST
Yeah, but this
Bud StrossHOST
Cause then you realize like, I'm all this pressure is on your head and it's coming in on you.
Bud StrossHOST
So I always took that Jim Carrey thing when he was doing the Grinch.
Bud StrossHOST
And it's like, you have to really like, calm yourself because if you realize this mask is on you, you can kind of freak yourself out in a weird way.
Bud StrossHOST
But yeah, I think there's something with essentially probably getting high blood pressure because you're getting energized and going crazy.
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