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A podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 3 is a miniseries in three episodes, telling the story of how Evan tried to understand the tsunami of AI-generated content by injecting as much of it as possible straight into his ears. What exactly is AI slop anyway? How do you actually define it? Who is behind it all? And what does it mean for the human storytelling that we care about? We journey deep into the muck, and fight our way back out with answers.Shell Game is a multiple award-winning series that has been named one of the best of the year by Apple, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Vulture, The Information, The Economist. It's "riveting," says The New Yorker, "awesome" says The Verge, "slightly terrifying," says The Globe and Mail, and “a dry, funny plunge down the rabbit hole that pokes at something essential about the hours we spend on this earth,” says Vulture.www.shellgame.co
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 3 is a miniseries in three episodes, telling the story of how Evan tried to understand the tsunami of AI-generated content by injecting as much of it as possible straight into his ears. What exactly is AI slop anyway?
Shell Game is hosted by Kaleidoscope. The show has published 19 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 2: Hear What Matters" (28 October 2026, 48 minutes), "Episode 1: Into the Slop" (21 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "Season 3 is Coming!" (14 October 2026, 1 minute).
Shell Game publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 19 episodes.
Booking probability for Shell Game is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Shell Game requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Shell Game's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Shell Game are IT Services & Software Development and Business & Management Consulting. Shell Game has a technology audience.
Kaleidoscope hosts Shell Game, a technology podcast with 19 episodes published.
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Episode #2
Evan goes looking for the humans behind the flood of AI-generated podcasts, and gets some complicated answers to his questions about what they think they’re making and what AI slop means to them. Meanwhile, Shell...
Episode #1
Evan creates his own AI-generated podcast detector, locates thousands of AI-hosted shows, and sets off on a synthetic audio listening binge. Strange patterns begin to arise amidst the voices, illuminating the essence of...
Shell Game
The next season of Shell Game arrives October 21! Here's a hint, and another new show from Shell Game to check out in the meantime: Evan Finds a Friend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When an astrologer tells Mangesh that he’ll (probably) die early, he takes it in stride. But his family and friends (not to mention all the Don’t Die longevity influencers on his FYP) feel...
Episode #10
<p>In this bonus episode to close out Season 2, Evan and Maty talk with the hosts of the show No Such Thing, who like to settle their arguments by consulting research and experts. The subject of this argument: Will AI...
Episode #9
<p>We’re back with a special bonus episode to share some behind-the-scenes clips showing how the agents have handled their newly public roles since Shell Game’s launch. Hear Kyle navigate fan mail, unsolicited marketing...
Episode #8
<p>HurumoAI finally sets sail in the Season 2 finale, and we find out how the world responds to a startup led by AI agents. The company explores new financing avenues and charts the next course for their increasingly...
Episode #7
<p>HurumoAI’s AI-agent staff welcomes a new hire: Julia, a social media contract worker who is, most importantly, a human. How will a real person integrate into the company culture, such as it is? Evan watches from...
Episode #6
<p>As HurumoAI prepares to bring on its first human employee, the team must wrestle with some difficult and timely questions about the role of AI in the hiring process. Meanwhile, Head of HR Jennifer Nauro enters a new...
Episode #5
<p>On this week’s episode, we enter the sensitive realm of intra-office politics and inter-founder dynamics—between agents and agents, and agents and people. While HurumoAI gears up to hire its first human, Evan tries...
Episode #4
<p>Evan decides it’s time to give his AI agents a little more ... agency. After all, to make the one-person, agent-run startup feasible, they need to be able to do things on their own. But as with humans, freedom...
Episode #3
<p>As Kyle, Megan, and the gang get to work ideating on the perfect product, Evan is left grappling with some uncomfortable questions about his AI collaborators — whose every attribute and memory he controls. </p> <p>To...
Episode #2
<p>As Evan gets Hurumo’s employees up and running as fully-functioning colleagues (with support from Maty), he learns what it’s really like to spend your days managing, collaborating with, and socializing alongside...
Episode #1
<p>In Season 2 of Shell Game, journalist Evan Ratliff tells a story of entrepreneurship in the AI age; or, how he tried to build a real company, run by fake people.</p> <p>Meet Kyle Law and Megan Flores, Evan’s AI agent...
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<p>As AI agents infiltrate the workforce, some tech entrepreneurs are imagining a not-so-distant future of successful companies with only one human at the helm. That got investigative journalist and former startup CEO...
Shell Game
<p>The next season of Shell Game arrives November 12.</p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>
Episode #6
Evan pushes the experiment one step further, sending his AI voice agent to talk to his closest friends and family — his buddies, his daughters, his dad. With their alternately joyful, skeptical, and painful reactions to...
Episode #5
Will AI bots replace humans in the workforce? Could one replace Evan… right now? That’s what we tackle on this week’s Shell Game, in which Evan sees just how much of his job his voice agent can handle on his behalf...
Episode #4
Evan looks into the depths of his AI-powered voice agent by sending it on a new mission: going to therapy. Shell Game is made by humans. More specifically, it's made by three humans: Evan Ratliff (host and writer)...
Episode #3
Evan takes his experiment in a new direction by having his AI-powered voice agent converse with … another of his AI-powered voice agents. What can these surreal and hilarious conversations between two AI incarnations of...
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host of the TV Guidance Counselor podcast, TV Guidance Councelor Podcast
longevity and concierge medicine doctor, longevity and concierge medicine practice
associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI; tutorial fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford, Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford
LPC-MHSP, Huromo AI
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