Episode

Adam Ruins Everything: Adam Ruins Having a Baby

Name: Adam Ruins Everything: Adam Ruins Having a Baby
Released: 2017-07-11
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Adam Conover, Emily Axford, River Butcher, Hayley Marie Norman, Ravi Naidu

Adam Ruins EverythingSeason 22017-07-11

Overview

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

Details

Series: Adam Ruins Everything
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 2017-07-11
Runtime: 30 min

Episode context

Adam Ruins Having a Baby is Episode 1 in Season 2 of Adam Ruins Everything. It aired on 2017-07-11. The runtime is 30 min.

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Episode 3: Adam Ruins the Hospital 2017-07-25 | 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, and you might not need a mammogram.

Episode 4: Adam Ruins Dating 2017-08-01 | 30 min Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites; the existence of alpha males (and wolves); personality tests.

Episode 5: Adam Ruins Art 2017-08-08 | 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 reveals that today's art market is a moneymaking scheme.

Episode 6: Adam Ruins What We Learned in School 2017-08-15 | 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.

Episode 7: Adam Ruins College 2017-08-22 | 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 privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.

Episode 8: Emily Ruins Adam 2017-08-29 | 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 the past. Plus, she explains the “backfire effect.”

Episode 9: Adam Ruins His Vacation 2017-09-19 | 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 designed to be addicting, and a whole lot more!

Episode 10: Adam Ruins the Suburbs 2017-09-26 | 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 today's institutionalized segregation in schools.

Episode 11: Adam Ruins The Economy 2017-10-03 | 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 back because it was a fluke to begin with.

Episode 12: Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories 2017-10-10 | 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.