The Romesh Ranganathan Show

How To Survive A Desert Island & Shanthi’s AI Boyfriend?!

Donnerstag, 19. März 2026 · 33 min

MP3

Shownotes

Would Shanthi have an AI boyfriend? Find out in the brand new epsiode where Romesh and Shanthi cover everything from grief role play to the pros and cons of AI and Rom's ChatGPT history.

They get into everything from the importance of maths and biology, desert island dilemmas, the danger of tortoises and a chaotic round of snog, marry, avoid featuring some very questionable fictional choices.

As always: unexpected, unfiltered, and impossible to predict where it’ll go next.

A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media.

Intro

Shanthi on maths

Trying out Hannah Fry’s tips

Rom reads his ChatGPT therapy

Shanthi and the team catch a stray

A question on AI

A role play of grief AI

A desert island question

Snog Marry Avoid Disney addition

A final question on the winter olympics

Outro

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