• Air date: 20 Mar '18 3 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (3)
    • 1. Adam Ruins a Plate of Nachos

      08 Jan '19
      Adam takes a bite at foods with the worst truths by stating that Mexican drug cartels import most avacados, that the meat industry lies about health risks and manipulates opposers to side with them, and how corn subsidies changed the crop into the most overused and unhealthy food in American history.
    • 2. Adam Ruins a Sitcom

      15 Jan '19
      This week, Adam Conover shares that the Pilgrims didn't break bread with Native Americans, but brought death and disease, stole their settlements, mooched off their food supply and dug up their graves! The romance between Pocahontas and John Smith was made up by John himself, and she died far from home after being kidnapped and forced to wed another Englishman. Plus, cities in the Americas rivaled London and Paris in scale before the "discovery" of the New World.
    • 3. Adam Ruins Games

      22 Jan '19
      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.
    • 4. An Ancient History of Violence

      10 Apr '18
    • 5. The Copernican Ruin-aissance

      17 Apr '18