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Adam Ruins Everything Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Episode 1
Adam Ruins Having a Baby
Tue, Jul 11, 201724 mins
Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum depression for women - and men.
Episode 2
Adam Ruins Weight Loss
Tue, Jul 18, 201724 mins
Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.
Episode 3
Adam Ruins the Hospital
Tue, Jul 25, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 4
Adam Ruins Dating
Tue, Aug 1, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 5
Adam Ruins Fine Art
Tue, Aug 8, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 6
Adam Ruins What We Learned in School
Tue, Aug 15, 201724 mins
Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
Episode 7
Adam Ruins College
Tue, Aug 22, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 8
Emily Ruins Adam Ruins Everything
Tue, Aug 29, 201724 mins
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."
Episode 9
Adam Ruins His Vacation
Tue, Sep 5, 201724 mins
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!
Episode 10
Adam Ruins The Suburbs
Tue, Sep 26, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 11
Adam Ruins The Economy
Tue, Oct 3, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 12
Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories
Tue, Oct 10, 201724 mins
Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, and reveals how to spot a false theory.
Episode 13
Adam Ruins Spa Day
Tue, Oct 17, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 14
Adam Ruins Halloween
Tue, Oct 24, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 15
Adam Ruins Science
Tue, Oct 31, 201724 mins
Adam looks at scientific funding of science in the USA and how politics can effect the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
Episode 16
Adam Ruins The Future
Tue, Nov 7, 201724 mins
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.
Episode 17
Reanimated History: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth
Tue, Mar 20, 201824 mins
Adam sets the record straight on everything incomplete, outdated or even downright wrong about the American Revolution.
Episode 18
Reanimated History: The First Factsgiving
Tue, Mar 27, 201824 mins
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.
Episode 19
Reanimated History: Mutually Assured Ruination
Tue, Apr 3, 201824 mins
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.
Episode 20
Reanimated History: An Ancient History of Violence
Tue, Apr 10, 201824 mins
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.
Episode 21
Reanimated History: The Copernican Ruin-aissance
Tue, Apr 17, 201824 mins
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.
Episode 22
Reanimated History: 100 Years Ago Today
Tue, Apr 24, 201824 mins
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.
Episode 23
Adam Ruins Guns
Tue, Nov 27, 201824 mins
Adam reviews the effectiveness of gun regulation including stating that a ban on assault weapons would be ineffective, showing how the NRA has evolved and influenced how the country interprets the meaning of the Second Amendment, and that both sides of the gun debate ignore how guns and gun regulation affect minorities.
Episode 24
Adam Ruins Sleep
Tue, Dec 4, 201824 mins
Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
Episode 25
Adam Ruins Tech
Tue, Dec 11, 201824 mins
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.
Episode 26
Adam Ruins Flying
Tue, Dec 18, 201824 mins
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.
