Awesome Adam Ruins Everything

The world’s highest peak is hitting rock bottom. Adam Conover shares how every year, about 100,000 tourists climb Mount Everest. They have left tons of trash and thousands of pounds of human waste, polluting local water sources in the process.

For once, Adam Ruins Everything ruins a bad thing. The show reminds us that numerous studies, surveys, and correlative data have shown no concrete evidence that playing violent video games causes people to become more violent or insensitive to violence.

If you think your credit card’s frequent flyer miles program is a great deal, Adam Ruins Everything is here to make you think again. Airlines and banks create convoluted and ever-changing rules that make redeeming miles difficult and confusing.

Adam Ruins Everything tackles some of the frustrating aspects of “owning” a device in the modern day. Some companies make it nearly impossible for us to repair our devices, while others have lied about lethal errors in their products.

Shopping for a mattress can be a real pain. Between the nonsensical pricing, weird product names, and confusing features, the industry seems to be engineered to bewilder consumers. Adam Conover offers his take on the extra-slimy industry of sleep.

You might have seen Adam Conover, host of Adam Ruins Everything, pop up in shows and ads lately. Well, that’s because they’re promoting the new season of his show. Don’t let his honesty hide the fact that he’s manipulating you into watching it.

Standing here at our fancy height-adjustable desk, researching stories and typing away most of the day, we’re feeling a bit deflated after Adam Conover’s latest bubble-burster, in which he explains how the health benefits of standing while working may have been exaggerated.

Do you like scrubbing down with a loofah sponge in the shower? Well Adam Conover is here to destroy any illusion that you had that the things are good for your skin. Apparently, they just hold on to dirt and bacteria, and remove your skin’s natural moisturizing oils.

In this clip from Adam Ruins Everything‘s episode An Ancient History of Violence, the show points out that gladiators were actually treated and governed much like today’s combat athletes. Still, a small percentage of them did meet their end in the arena.

Perhaps it’s because Adam Conover is running out of things to ruin, but he decided to create a whole new point of worry for suburbanites who thought their quiet and peaceful dead-end streets actually were a good thing. Wrong!

If you believe everything you see on TV or the internet, you’re in for a rude awakening. Even serial debunker Adam Conover isn’t right all of the time, but at least he admits it. Let’s find out some of the things presented as fact which might not have been entirely correct.

Adam Ruins Everything explains why healthcare is expensive in the US and practically anywhere else that has medical insurance. Hospitals jacked up their prices so that insurance companies get “discounts”, i.e. the original prices. Check out the show’s sources here.

Adam Ruins Everything kicks off its second season by debunking myths about babies and pregnancy. Like how it’s actually perfectly fine and highly probable for a woman to get pregnant in her late 30s. Check out his sources here.

Adam Ruins Everything washes out a seemingly harmless piece of advice: drinking 2L or eight glasses of water a day. It turns out no study has conclusively proven that standard. So why are we often told to stay hydrated? Because money.

Like weddings, Valentine’s Day and Christmas, dying has become needlessly expensive because of marketing and our desire to conform. Adam Ruins Everything reminds us that the dead don’t need to be embalmed and they certainly don’t need a swanky coffin.

Adam Conover takes a look at the way that early video games embraced women both behind the scenes and as players, and how the industry evolved to marginalize female players over the years. Man, we almost forgot about Roberta Williams.

Adam Ruins Everything ruins one of the few things that can break the vicious Need Experience to Get a Job, Need Job to Get Experience cycle: internships. If you’re an unpaid intern, check these criteria. If any of them don’t apply to you, you’re being screwed.

Adam Ruins Everything talks about the U.S. Electoral College. It was intended to give less populous states a voice and avoid problems should states support regional candidates. But it ended up being an undemocratic mess where a citizen’s vote hardly matters.

Adam Ruins Everything kills any possibility of Listerine ever being a sponsor, as he questions the idea that most of us even need mouthwash, and how marketing, and clever use of the ominous word “halitosis” convinced us otherwise. Well, it can always clean your floors.

Adam Ruins Everything points to two experiments where wine experts were easily fooled by cheap tricks. We don’t think all connoisseurs are frauds, but the truth is that it’s impossible to be purely objective when it comes to tasting food and drink.

Adam Ruins Everything points out that some of the salmon served in restaurants could be cheaper… but you probably wouldn’t eat it. Then there’s the problem with tuna dishes: half the time, they don’t contain tuna at all.

Despite its mass media acceptance, Adam Ruins Everything would like to remind us that the polygraph test is more of a placebo than an accurate device. Even its inventor thought so, and you certainly don’t need a clean conscience to screw with its results.

Adam Conover of Adam Ruins Everything takes an cynical and amusing look at how the early days of the automobile industry managed to turn something as innocuous as crossing a street into a criminal act.