{"id":21498,"date":"2019-04-08T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=21498"},"modified":"2019-05-11T18:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T23:30:41","slug":"adam-ruins-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/04\/08\/adam-ruins-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Ruins Everything<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Glad to see TruTV, formerly the insipid “reality” Court TV, with a hit show on Netflix (first season only).\u00a0Adam<\/em> is part Snopes.com, part\u00a0Mythbusters\u00a0<\/em>and mostly what journalism is supposed to be, rolled into one 20-minute debunking of everyday issues: Airport Security, Car Shopping, Sex, The Internet, Immigration, etc. A typical episode will have a guest or recurring character spout off a common assumption your MAGA-hat uncle repeats at Thanksgiving, the lazy media reports or collective lie the public has swallowed. Adam jumps in and as he says, drops some truth bombs. While Adam states the facts,\u00a0the program’s sources are shown in the upper corners of the screen (the majority are legitmate, aka, no right-wing bullshit magazines) or a subject expert appears, tells the audience the reality regarding the\u00a0topic (or related subtopic). What\u00a0Adam<\/em> chooses to tackle aren’t exclusively the more common right-wing myths, a couple things close to the Left’s heart were brought up: “Going Green” and “Nutrition.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside the expert guests, I was bummed to learn that the recurring characters Adam torments with this facts (Emily, Murphy and Rhea) are fellow comedians\/writers, not people who were remotely teachers, lawyers, siblings, so on. I did love how the “Christmas” show ended with a special cameo exposing\u00a0Adam<\/em>‘s ancestry.<\/span><\/p>\n

I plan to watch the first season over, see if there’s anything I missed. Despite some topics being pretty\u00a0heavy, Adam always does his best to balance out how the truth hurts with some optimistic news.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glad to see TruTV, formerly the insipid “reality” Court TV, with a hit show on Netflix (first season only).\u00a0Adam is part Snopes.com, part\u00a0Mythbusters\u00a0and mostly what journalism is supposed to be, rolled into one 20-minute debunking of everyday issues: Airport Security, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,44,115],"tags":[66,476],"class_list":["post-21498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factoids","category-history","category-sci-tech","category-tv","tag-comedy","tag-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21800,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498\/revisions\/21800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}