Adam Conover: Adam Fixes Everything

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🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Adam Conover from truTV's Adam Ruins Everything tells us why ignorance is not bliss. Then we challenge him to a game we call Adam Fixes Everything. This episode originally aired on October 13, 2017.

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0:40.2	Hey, Jennifer.
0:41.6	So today we're playing a game about fashion. So fashion speed round.
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