Episode
Shell Game with Evan Ratliff
- Podcast
- Oxide and Friends
- Published
- Feb 12, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 5003
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- https://share.transistor.fm/s/b45ed844
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Summary
Evan Ratliff, journalist and podcaster, joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his extraordinary podcast, Shell Game, in which he started a company staffed exclusively by agentic AI. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Evan Ratliff . Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Shell Game Evan on This American Life MIT Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" The Startup Chronicles - HurumoAI PRs needed! If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!