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How the Grinch went from a Yuletide bit player to a Christmas A-lister
“The economy is in big trouble, our political situation is chaotic, there’s a lot of hate — it’s no wonder that we would seek to express that through the embodiment of a monster like the Grinch,” said Michael M. Chemers, director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
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Explore the history behind monsters and what scares us and why
Some scholars at UC Santa Cruz are exploring what scares us and why. The center for Monster Studies is dedicated to looking at monsters all throughout history. Michael Chemers joined us in studio to explain.