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Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

Feb 12, 2026 · 1h 23m

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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…