Adam Ruins Everything: Season 2

S2·E1 Mytharc

Adam Ruins Having a Baby

Jul 11, 2017 · 30 min

Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum depression for women - and men.

S2·E2 Core

Adam Ruins Weight Loss

Jul 18, 2017 · 30 min

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 Core

Adam Ruins the Hospital

Jul 25, 2017 · 30 min

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, an

S2·E4 Core

Adam Ruins Dating

Aug 1, 2017 · 30 min

Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites; the existence of alpha males (and wolves); personality tests.

S2·E5 Mytharc

Adam Ruins Art

Aug 8, 2017 · 30 min

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 re

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Adam Ruins What We Learned in School

Aug 15, 2017 · 30 min

Adam shows that Columbus didn't discover America, King Tut was a dud and the rules of grammar are not as ironclad as people think.

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Adam Ruins College

Aug 22, 2017 · 30 min

Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are not in your favor, how manipulated school rankings have little to do with education quality and why the privatizati

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Emily Ruins Adam

Aug 29, 2017 · 30 min

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

S2·E9 Mytharc

Adam Ruins His Vacation

Sep 19, 2017 · 30 min

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 desi

S2·E10 Core

Adam Ruins the Suburbs

Sep 26, 2017 · 30 min

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 tod

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Adam Ruins The Economy

Oct 3, 2017 · 30 min

Adam explains why lobbying makes filing your taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers we focus on don't provide the whole story. Plus, American manufacturing can't come b

S2·E12 Mytharc

Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories

Oct 10, 2017 · 30 min

Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and reveals how to spot a false theory.

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Adam Ruins Spa Day

Oct 17, 2017 · 30 min

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

S2·E14 Mytharc

Adam Ruins Halloween

Oct 24, 2017 · 30 min

Adam reveals why you have nothing to fear from strangers with candy and how the “panic” over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was the clickbait of the 1930s. And, mediums

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Adam Ruins Science

Oct 31, 2017 · 30 min

Testing mice means wasted resources because what works on them often fails on humans. Scarce funding stops scientists from seeking cures, and there's no money in reproducing result

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Adam Ruins the Future

Nov 7, 2017 · 30 min

Adam explains that unregulated food expiration dates lead to waste and that your 401(k) won't be enough to support your retirement. Plus, Adam's girlfriend Melinda proves that even

S2·E17 Core

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth

Mar 20, 2018 · 30 min

Adam Conover undermines everything you thought you knew about the American Revolution with startling facts about George Washington, Paul Revere's overrated ride, and the tale of a

S2·E18 Core

The First Factsgiving

Mar 27, 2018 · 30 min

The Pilgrims didn't break bread with Native Americans, but did dig up their graves! There was no romance between Pocahontas and John Smith, and cities in the New World rivaled Lond

S2·E19 Mytharc

Mutually Assured Ruination

Apr 3, 2018 · 30 min

Adam reveals that the United States kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis; a lone female politician stands up to Joseph McCarthy; a bureaucratic mistake brings down the Berlin Wall.

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An Ancient History of Violence

Apr 10, 2018 · 30 min

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” S

S2·E21 Core

The Copernican Ruin-aissance

Apr 17, 2018 · 30 min

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 wai

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100 Years Ago Today

Apr 24, 2018 · 30 min

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

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Adam Ruins Guns

Nov 27, 2018 · 30 min

Adam gets a shot at both sides of the gun debate by reviewing the science evidence of the effectiveness of gun regulation including stating that a ban on assault weapons would be i

S2·E24 Core

Adam Ruins Sleep

Dec 4, 2018 · 30 min

Adam states that the mattress industry was always a huge scam, that cheap school systems created sleep-deprived teenagers, and how "safe" sleep medications may actually be harmful.

S2·E25 Mytharc

Adam Ruins Tech

Dec 11, 2018 · 30 min

Adam logs in to dulge into monopolistic tech companies by stating how Amazon's monopoly over online shopping harms consumers; how consumers do not fully own their technology device

S2·E26 Mytharc

Adam Ruins Flying

Dec 18, 2018 · 30 min

Adam takes to the skies to elucidate how airline miles and other credit card rewards are huge ripoffs, the extremely sexist "golden age of flying," and how lack of government regul