Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

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 (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social) and Adam Leventhal (bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social), our special guest was Evan Ratliff (bsky.app/profile/did:plc:azdxooyhowgbpgtjbfako…).
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• Shell Game (iheart.com/podcast/1119-shell-game-196754557)
• Evan on This American Life (thisamericanlife.org/870/my-other-self/act-one-1)
• MIT Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater (technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbo…)
• "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" (youtube.com/watch?v=-d4NMUnY85c)
• The Startup Chronicles - HurumoAI (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-startup-chro…)
• PRs needed!
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