A rabbi and the Lorax walk into a bar...

Unexplainable

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Science, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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How the bedtime stories we grew up with inspire the stories we tell now. For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠And please email us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, noam.
0:16.0	So, no.
0:17.0	Hello, Mara.
0:18.0	Hello.
0:19.0	I had some friends visiting this weekend, and they brought their little
0:22.9	three-year-old Jay, who is just so cute, like, so cute. Yeah, it's done. It is done. And I was reading
0:32.9	the Lorax by Dr. Seuss. To J? 2J. Or just like for fun?
0:37.9	Well, I also do that.
0:39.1	But 2J, and he was so into it.
0:43.2	It speaks for trees.
0:45.6	Like I was doing the voices.
0:47.4	It's just like when you have a kid's attention like that, it's like you're casting a spell.
0:52.5	He lifted himself up from the pants of his seat.
1:00.0	Pants.
1:02.0	Yeah, I mean, I honestly don't remember all that much about the Lorex.
1:05.7	I remember it's environmentalist.
1:08.0	There's some trees.
1:09.6	Yeah.
1:10.3	It starts off in this smog-covered industrial wasteland,
1:15.7	and then you like walk up to this old ruin of a house
1:19.2	and have to pay the onceler to hear his story of this place.
1:23.3	The Winsler.
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