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Episodes 64

Adam Ruins Giving

72%
September 29, 201530m
1x1

Adam exposes why shoe companies that give away free footwear do more harm than good, and explains why you should stop giving food pantries your leftover canned goods.

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Adam Ruins Security

78%
October 6, 201530m
1x2

Adam sets his sights on security, explaining that airport security wastes too much of our time and money, medicine safety seals do nothing to protect us, and your credit card number isn't remotely secure.

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Adam Ruins Cars

72%
October 13, 201530m
1x3

Adam exposes the surprising truths behind car dealerships, and the fact that the concept of "jaywalking" was created by auto manufacturers to blame pedestrians for car crashes.

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Adam Ruins Forensic Science

80%
October 20, 201530m
1x4

Adam uncovers the scary truth behind unreliable methods used as evidence in criminal cases. He exposes the flaws of fingerprinting, hair strand matches and bite mark analysis - which often send innocent people to jail.

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Adam Ruins Restaurants

82%
October 27, 201530m
1x5

Adam explains why tipping is a custom worth ditching, shows that experts can't tell the difference between wines, and reveals that mislabeled seafood is rampant in the industry.

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Adam Ruins Hygiene

72%
November 3, 201530m
1x6

Adam reveals that the term "halitosis" was popularized in a 1920's ad campaign that used cruel ads to make people insecure about their breath, and explains why running water is one of the greatest miracles of modern times.

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Adam Ruins Voting

82%
November 10, 201530m
1x7

The twisted history of the Electoral College, explaining that the Founding Fathers did not want most Americans to vote.

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Adam Ruins Work

80%
November 17, 201530m
1x8

Adam shows how the 40-hour work week not only exhausts employees but also harms businesses, reveals the legal mess of hiring interns and freelancers, and explores how discussing your salary with co-workers is actually a good thing.

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Adam Ruins Summer Fun

80%
December 1, 201530m
1x9

Adam reveals that extended vacation makes you dumber, and that iconic rodent Mickey Mouse has made a mess of our copyright laws.

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Adam Ruins Sex

80%
December 8, 201530m
1x10

This episode explains why circumcision is common in the United States, how Herpes isn't as scary as the media makes it seem, how most people do not truly understand the hymen, and explains the worst sexual problem of all.

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Adam Ruins Nutrition

77%
December 15, 201530m
1x11

Adam shows why vitamin supplements don't make us any healthier, that the "balanced breakfast" we've been sold is anything but, and reveals how most of the nutritional science the media reports on isn't science at all.

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Adam Ruins Death

90%
December 22, 201530m
1x12

In a limbo setting, Adam exhibits several failed attempts at terrestrial immortality, and reveals the American funeral industry's more exploitive tactics of mourners. After his date dies in a freak accident, however, he concedes that grappling with uncertainty with death can be just as healthy as clear-cut answers.

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Adam Ruins Hollywood

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August 23, 201630m
1x13

Straight from the red carpet (and with the help of celebrity guests Rachel Bloom and Ariana Madix), Adam exposes the hidden truths behind Hollywood's glitz and glamour, from the clothes stars wear to the process behind movie ratings.

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Adam Ruins Football

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August 30, 201630m
1x14

Adam hits the gridiron to illustrate why the playoffs rarely determine which team is best, then he explores how hydration myths spread by sports drink companies are putting kids at risk. Adam also tackles football-caused brain injuries.

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Adam Ruins Weddings

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September 6, 201630m
1x15

Emily and Murph's wedding day is finally here - but Adam's gift of information may rain on their parade. Adam reveals how most wedding "traditions" were recently created by consumerism, and that divorce is actually a wonderful thing.

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Adam Ruins Malls

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September 13, 201630m
1x16

Adam illustrates that shopping centres were created as tax loopholes for greedy developers, outlet stores are a scam selling low quality merchandise, and nutrient supplements are often dangerously unregulated.

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Adam Ruins Animals

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September 20, 201630m
1x17

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Adam Ruins Immigration

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September 27, 201630m
1x18

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Ever Wonder Why the government gives you a tax break on your mortgage? Or where the Hollywood sign came from? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you!

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Adam Ruins Housing

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October 4, 201630m
1x19

Adam gets evicted from his home, and while searching for a new place, he exposes the harsh realities of real estate. Plus, Adam explains why helping the homeless is a lot simpler and more straightforward than you might think.

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The Adam Ruins Everything Election Special

80%
October 25, 201630m
0x1

Adam Conover explains everything people need to know before entering the booth on Election Day.

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Adam Ruins Drugs

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November 15, 201630m
1x20

Adam weeds through the misconceptions of marijuana and exposes the blunt truth about the War on Drugs - that it stemmed from a racist and political agenda. Plus, Adam illustrates why prescription pills are the true gateway drug.

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Ever Wonder Why? Fish Oil / Q-Tips

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November 16, 20164m
0x3

Ever wonder why fish oil gives you such gross burps? Or why we put Q-tips in our ears? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you!

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Adam Ruins Prison

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November 22, 201630m
1x21

When Emily gets tossed in the slammer, her cellmate reveals that corporations make money off prison inmates while the system does nothing to reduce crime. Adam then sheds light on jail rehabilitation and solitary confinement.

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Ever Wonder Why? Cheese / Treadmill

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November 23, 20164m
0x4

Every wonder why Americans eat so much cheese? Or why treadmills are so un-fun? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you!

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Adam Ruins the Wild West

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November 29, 201630m
1x22

Adam reveals how prostitution - despite its reputation - actually helped settle the West. He then explains why the "All-American Cowboy" is a myth and that the real western hero wasn't a person; it was air conditioning.

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Ever wonder why Johnny Appleseed planted all those seeds? Or why the Statue of Liberty looks the way she does? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you!

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Adam Ruins the Internet

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December 6, 201630m
1x23

While on a magical technological journey, Adam shows that smartphones are not the society-killers you'd think they are, American cable service providers are basically cartels, and most "free" sites are actually very costly.

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Ever Wonder Why? Literally / Paper Size

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December 7, 20164m
0x6

Ever wonder why people literally always misuse the word "literally"? Or why the standard paper size is 8 ? by 11? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you!

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Adam Ruins Justice

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December 13, 201630m
1x24

After getting Emily out of prison, Adam and his sister Rhea take on the justice system; shining a spotlight on the infamous McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit and the substantial problems with the jury duty system.

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Ever wonder why some people have photographic memories? Or exactly why we have the secret service? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you!

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Ever wonder why It's a Wonderful Life plays on TV every Christmastime? Or why no two snowflakes are alike? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you why!

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Adam Ruins Christmas

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December 20, 201630m
1x25

Ho ho...huh?! Adam teaches his sister that the real St. Nick story is a lot creepier than she thought, and modern Santa was created by commercialism only a century ago. Adam also reveals how gift-giving actually hurts the economy.

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Adam Ruins Going Green

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Season Finale
December 27, 201630m
1x26

Adam meets a young dad on a personal mission to save the world and end climate change...until Adam turns his world upside down. Find out why electric cars and green products don't make the impact you've been promised.

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Ever Wonder Why? Paperless / Bananas

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December 28, 20164m
0x9

Ever Wonder Why people want us to go paperless? Or why bananas taste so boring? Cartoon Adam Conover will tell you!

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Adam Ruins Having a Baby

70%
July 11, 201730m
2x1

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

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Adam Ruins Weight Loss

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July 18, 201730m
2x2

Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.

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Adam Ruins the Hospital

60%
July 25, 201730m
2x3

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.

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Adam Ruins Dating

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August 1, 201730m
2x4

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

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Adam Ruins Art

60%
August 8, 201730m
2x5

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.

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Adam Ruins What We Learned in School

50%
August 15, 201730m
2x6

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

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August 22, 201730m
2x7

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 privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.

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Emily Ruins Adam

65%
August 29, 201730m
2x8

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.”

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Adam Ruins His Vacation

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September 19, 201730m
2x9

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!

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Adam Ruins the Suburbs

60%
September 26, 201730m
2x10

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.

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Adam Ruins The Economy

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October 3, 201730m
2x11

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 back because it was a fluke to begin with.

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Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories

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October 10, 201730m
2x12

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

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October 17, 201730m
2x13

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!

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Adam Ruins Halloween

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October 24, 201730m
2x14

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 and séances have a long history - of being fake.

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Adam Ruins Science

70%
October 31, 201730m
2x15

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 results, even though it's essential in proving findings.

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Adam Ruins the Future

60%
November 7, 201730m
2x16

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 with research, the future is unpredictable.

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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth

80%
March 20, 201830m
2x17

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 slave who helped America win.

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The First Factsgiving

80%
March 27, 201830m
2x18

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 London in scale before their “discovery.”

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Mutually Assured Ruination

70%
April 3, 201830m
2x19

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

60%
April 10, 201830m
2x20

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.

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The Copernican Ruin-aissance

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April 17, 201830m
2x21

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!

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100 Years Ago Today

60%
April 24, 201830m
2x22

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!

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Adam Ruins Guns

85%
November 27, 201830m
2x23

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 ineffective, showing how the NRA has evolved over the years 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.

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Adam Ruins Sleep

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December 4, 201830m
2x24

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.

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Adam Ruins Tech

80%
December 11, 201830m
2x25

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 devices because of corporate abuse of copyright law; and that tech companies not only routinely evade taxes, but also downright eradicate competition and harm society by abusing their monopoly power.

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Adam Ruins Flying

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Season Finale
December 18, 201830m
2x26

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 regulation allowed the skies to be ruled with an iron fist.

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Adam Ruins a Plate of Nachos

70%
January 8, 201930m
3x1

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.

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Adam Ruins a Sitcom

60%
January 15, 201930m
3x2

Adam tackles classic television stereotypes, from the racism behind public pools, to the "model minority" myth of Asian Americans, to the on-screen toxic masculinity that's masking the problems young men face today.

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Adam Ruins Games

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January 22, 201930m
3x3

Adam hits pause on the myth that connects video games to real-life violence, and reveals that Monopoly was a rip-off of an anti-capitalist teaching game. Plus, Olympic organizers get rich while athletes struggle to get by.

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Adam Ruins Nature

70%
January 29, 201930m
3x4

Adam digs up the dirt on nature, revealing that Mount Everest is a frozen pile of poop, natural disasters are actually man-made, and there is no such thing as untouched wilderness.

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Adam Ruins America

70%
August 13, 201930m
3x5

Adam lets his freedom flag fly by examining why America doesn't have higher rates of social mobility. He then uncovers the flaws within our constitution and examines our country's progression and regression.

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Adam Ruins a Night Out

70%
August 20, 201930m
3x6

Adam and Emily prepare for a big night out by revealing the marketing ploy that convinced women to shave and the fashion agendas that created pockets. They then probe the truth about alcohol consumption.

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Adam Ruins Doing Good

70%
August 27, 201930m
3x7

Adam takes down the do-gooders and reveals how Teach For America is harmful to both students and teachers. He then uncovers the ineffectiveness of recycling and calls out the billionaires who create charities for tax breaks.

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Adam Ruins A Murder

70%
September 3, 201930m
3x8

Adam shines a light on why drivers are rarely prosecuted for car accidents that result in death, he breaks down border patrol's search policies, and Adam examines the messed-up history of corpses and medical studies.

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Adam Ruins Music

70%
September 10, 201930m
3x9

Adam reveals to a music-lover that white artists in the early days of rock-and-roll profited off of plagiarism, that Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment have an unstoppable monopoly over concerts, why many of today's musicians are forced to sell out, and how record labels extort their artists due to the advent of streaming services.

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Adam Ruins Little Bugs

70%
September 17, 201930m
3x10

Adam reveals to a woman getting ready for a party how spiders actually benefit humanity, how bug parts are hidden inside everyday foods and a whole insect can be more nutritious than part of conventional livestock, and some bugs actually help the human body function properly. Between the segments about food and the human body, Emily discusses what actually happens when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly; and, at the end of the episode, she discusses the eradication of mosquitoes.

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Adam Ruins Cops

80%
September 24, 201930m
3x11

Adam reveals the serious issues behind SWAT teams, how school police officers send children into a life of crime, and that the issue of mass-incarceration was due to cops cherry-picking whom they arrest.

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Adam Ruins Himself

70%
Season Finale
October 1, 201930m
3x12

As Adam wraps up the show's third season, his self-doubt gets the best of him to reveal the show's biases, the inconsistencies and mistakes in previous episodes, the sinister agenda of advertising, and how advertisers shift the focus of the show.

Between the correction and advertising segments, Adam discusses the truth about dopamine.

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