Adam Ruins Everything
Iconoclastic Adam Conover from CollegeHumor turns life as we know it on its ear by showing us how unnecessary, and sometimes horrible, things we think we know to be real and true really are.
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Cast:Adam Conover , Adam Lustick , Emily Axford , Amos Vernon , Avery Monsen , Brian Murphy , River Butcher , Eliza Skinner , James III , Chris Parnell , Carlos Alazraqui , Brandon J. Sornberger , Pam Murphy , Timothy E. Goodwin , Greg Tuculescu , Zach Broussard , Michael Daniel Cassady , Nathan Barnatt
S2.E1 ∙ Adam Ruins Having a Baby
Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum depression for women - and men.
S2.E2 ∙ Adam Ruins Weight Loss
Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.
S2.E3 ∙ Adam Ruins the Hospital
Adam Conover explains that inflated hospital costs have created a system that's unaffordable and unfair. Plus, the reckless prescription of antibiotics is making them worthless, and you might not need a mammogram.
S2.E4 ∙ Adam Ruins Dating
Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the major flaws in dating sites. Plus, infamous alpha males - and the wolves that inspired them - don't really exist, and personality tests are a total failure.
S2.E5 ∙ Adam Ruins Fine Art
Adam poses the question of what makes great art and shows why pieces visible to the masses are revered, regardless of artistic merit. He then exposes the masters as copycats and reveals that today's art market is a moneymaking scheme.
S2.E6 ∙ Adam Ruins What We Learned in School
Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
S2.E7 ∙ Adam Ruins College
Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are so low, how manipulated school rankings have little to do with education quality, and why the privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.
S2.E8 ∙ Emily Ruins Adam Ruins Everything
Emily takes over to "ruin" Adam, pointing out where his facts fall short. She debunks the idea that IQ tests measure intelligence and points to information Adam has gotten wrong in the past. Plus, she explains the "backfire effect."
S2.E9 ∙ Adam Ruins His Vacation
Adam Conover and his girlfriend take a journey across America, where he reveals that Mount Rushmore was built on stolen Native American land, Vegas slot machines are purposely designed to be addicting, and a whole lot more!
S2.E10 ∙ Adam Ruins The Suburbs
Adam explains how the idealized lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, and that the design of the suburbs is slowly killing you. Plus, the racist history of suburban planning led to today's institutionalized segregation in schools.
S2.E11 ∙ Adam Ruins The Economy
Adam explains why lobbying makes filing taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers that are focused on do not provide the whole story; the possibility of a return of American manufacturing.
S2.E12 ∙ Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories
Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, and reveals how to spot a false theory.
S2.E13 ∙ Adam Ruins Spa Day
Pricey "detoxifying" treatments cleanse you of cash (and may do more harm than good), while MSG's scary reputation is undeserved. Plus, the placebo effect is way more powerful than you think.
S2.E14 ∙ Adam Ruins Halloween
Adam goes trick-or-treating for the truth behind myths and misconceptions like candy poisoned by strangers, the legendary War of the Worlds radio broadcast, and psychics who claimed to communicate with the dead.
S2.E15 ∙ Adam Ruins Science
Adam looks at scientific funding of science in the USA and how politics can effect the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
S2.E16 ∙ Adam Ruins The Future
Adam looks at the most perplexing dilemmas facing mankind, trying to be prepared for the future and just how cautious one should be about investments and new relationships.
S2.E17 ∙ Reanimated History: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth
Adam sets the record straight on everything incomplete, outdated or even downright wrong about the American Revolution.
S2.E18 ∙ Reanimated History: The First Factsgiving
The pilgrims did not break bread with the Native Americans, but did dig up their graves; no romance existed between Pocahontas and John Smith; cities in the New World rivaled London in scale before their discovery.
S2.E19 ∙ Reanimated History: Mutually Assured Ruination
Adam Conover reveals that the US kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that you've probably never heard of the lone female politician who stood up to McCarthy! Plus, a bureaucratic mistake brought down the Berlin Wall.
S2.E20 ∙ Reanimated History: An Ancient History of Violence
Adam shares that it was against the rules for gladiators to kill opponents, and tells the story of a Celtic woman who brought the Roman Empire to its knees. Plus, the brave "300" Spartans numbered closer to 7000.
S2.E21 ∙ Reanimated History: The Copernican Ruin-aissance
Reanimated History: Adam sheds some light on Copernicus, who was actually supported (NOT persecuted) by the Catholic Church. Plus, a rogue dwarf revolutionized what we know about anatomy, and just wait until you hear about Tulip Mania.
S2.E22 ∙ Reanimated History: 100 Years Ago Today
Reanimated History: Adam digs into the Panama Canal, where Teddy Roosevelt formed a new country to snag free land. Plus, one man fought to keep food from killing us, while the Spanish Flu killed more Americans than all 20th century wars combined.
S2.E23 ∙ Adam Ruins Guns
Adam Conover is back to take aim at critics on both sides of the gun debate in America. He explains why an assault weapons ban would not be effective and demonstrates how the Second Amendment has been twisted to fit the NRA's agenda.
S2.E24 ∙ Adam Ruins Sleep
Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
S2.E25 ∙ Adam Ruins Tech
How big tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Facebook manipulate laws, influence government policies and create marketing ploys to promote their monopolistic businesses, ignore the rules and increase their financial and social power.
S2.E26 ∙ Adam Ruins Flying
Why free frequent flyer miles aren't free, why commercial flying was even worse before, how the airline companies created a monopoly, how the stewardesses fought for their workers' rights, and why blimps are far safer than planes.
