Read an oral history of Adam Ruins Everything

Paste Magazine

“We’ve got five writers, five researchers, a head writer, a head researcher, a couple executive producers and me,” Adam Conover says of his truTV series, which returned Tuesday for Season 3. “These are very smart people who are reading, learning things, watching documentaries, listening to podcasts, reading the newspaper. They’re ingesting information all day long, and I want them to think back—what is something you learned recently that blew your fucking mind, something that you thought was a truly remarkable fact. Anything that will make the whole room go ‘Holy sh*t! Really!?’ That right there is the bar for a Truly Remarkable Fact.”