Shell Game
By Kaleidoscope
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Subscribers: 358
Reviews: 10
Episodes: 10
Jenny
Nov 2, 2025
Funny, thought-provoking, and terrifying.
A Podcast Republic user
Feb 21, 2025
Jan 2, 2025
M
Dec 23, 2024
Nicole
Sep 21, 2024
Fascinating and addictive. One of the best independent podcasts.
klkonrath@gmail.com
Sep 13, 2024
JT
Sep 10, 2024
A tantalizing look at the state of the art with interactive AI bots. I feel like the joke's on me, though: I'm not sure why the presenter didn't reveal that it was his voice clone reading a script and not a human presenter.
Derek
Sep 9, 2024
Incredible show! Gripping story telling and crazy premise
Rebecca
Aug 18, 2024
An interesting and thought provoking look at various aspects of AI and how it's already incorporated in our lives and where the technology may be going. The host Evan conducts fascinating real world experiments using his AI agent.
jeff
Jul 9, 2024
a fascinating concept, really curious to hear where future episodes go!
Description
A podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 2 tells the story of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the AI age. Or: how Evan tried to build a real startup, run by fake people.
This season, Evan confronts head-on the assertion from tech entrepreneurs and VCs that we’re on the precipice of AI remaking the workforce. That we should expect not just AI colleagues working alongside us, but also — by Sam Altman’s telling, at least — the dawn of a billion-dollar company with only one human involved. Evan learns what it would take to create such a company … by doing it: Launching a real startup with five AI employees. Over the course of eight episodes, he explores what AI agents tell us about the work we do, the meaning we find in it, and the world that their makers say we’ll all be living in soon enough.
Shell Game was named one of the best podcasts of 2024 by Apple, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Vulture, The Information, and The Economist. It's "riveting," says The New Yorker, "awesome" says The Verge, and "slightly terrifying," says The Globe and Mail.
New episodes are published on Wednesdays.
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Episode 1: Minimum Viable Company
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The One-Human Unicorn
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Season 2 Is Coming!
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Episode 6: The Future Isn't Real
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Episode 5: My Digital Twin
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Episode 4: Take a Deep Breath
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Episode 3: Conversations With Myself
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2: Me and My Scammer
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Episode 1: Quality Assurance
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Introducing Shell Game, a Strange and Immersive AI Experiment
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Jul 02, 2024 |