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Apr 5, 2020 46 min

A Pointless Endeavor

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In this episode, we discuss the difficulty of changing someone's mind, Bong Joon Ho and the Oscars, speaking ill of the dead, and arguing with strangers online. Endnotes: 22:35 – Between recording and publication, we both saw Parasite and it, of course, won the Oscar for Best Picture. 26:35 – of those 6 nominations, Parasite won 4 (Picture, Original Screenplay, Director, Foreign Language Film) Content Warnings: Sexual references, death, ableist language. Follow Us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheWeeklyArtifact/ Music by Nicholas Puzzuto Links to the Artifacts: Jung, E. Alex. "Bong Joon-ho’s Dystopia Is Already Here," Vulture, 7 Oct. 2019, https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/bong-joon-ho-parasite.html Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds," The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

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