[Picked Up] The G Word With Adam Conover (fka The Fifth Risk)

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Coming from Netflix and Higher Ground

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Government: a dirty word or a trusted institution? Adam Conover hosts a funny, fast-paced look at the power, complexity and shortcomings of "The G Word."

This has been renamed - here is the announcement in Deadline from November 2020.

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The G Word with Adam Conover (Season 1)     May 19            Netflix   

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The G Word with Adam Conover is a hybrid comedy-documentary series that pulls back the curtain on the surprising ways the US government impacts our everyday lives, from the mundane to the life changing. With his signature blend of irreverence and insight, Conover explores the government’s triumphs, failures, and what we might be able to do to change it. Based on The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by best-selling author Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Moneyball).

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The G Word With Adam Conover    May 19, 2022    Netflix

Episodes 1-6   Titles and Descriptions

S01.E01: Food 
Adam unpacks the origins of the USDA, the ways in which it keeps food
safe, its challenges, and how it's directly responsible for stuffed-crust
pizza.
Food: Adam reveals how the USDA revolutionized the American food system, visits a Cargill beef processing plant to meet the brave workers who make sure our meat is fit to eat, then explores how our government’s own food policies have left us overweight, unhealthy, and led to the birth of stuffed-crust pizza.

S01.E02: Weather
How's the weather? The answer could mean life or death. Adam meets with
those tasked with predicting the weather and handling its fallout. Adam tags along on a Hurricane Hunter plane to see how the government predicts the weather, and discovers how shadowy corporate interests are trying to undermine this vital public mission.

S01.E03: Money
From bank bailouts to stimulus checks: Adam digs into the ways in which
the government keeps people in the black — or shortchanges them, keeps our money safe in the bank — or shortchanges us by prioritizing the needs of the wealthy over everyday Americans.

S01.E04: Future 
“Hey, Siri. Who created GPS, drones, Roomba and you?” “A secretive military agency responsible for some amazing — and awful — advancements in futuristic technology.”

S01.E05: Disease
Adam examines the US government's helpful and harmful approaches to
sickness and finds that incompetence and indifference are all too
contagious.
Disease: Adam explores how the US government has wiped out entire diseases like malaria and polio that used to kill us in droves, and meets the incredible scientists at National Institutes of Health (NIH) who are working to cure Sickle Cell Disease; then discovers why and how the government disastrously mishandled COVID-19.

S01.E06: Change 
A disillusioned Adam visits Barack Obama to see if the man who made
“hope and change” a thing can explain how to make an actual impact in
government.
Change: A disillusioned Adam visits President Barack Obama to learn if changing our massive government is really possible, learns that our local government is more powerful than most of us imagine, and travels to Philadelphia to meet an inspiring group of citizens changing their government for the better.

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It's Adam Ruins Everything: Government edition