Season 2, Episode 6: Keep 'Em Coming (Ad-Free)

In the brave new world of AI-powered hiring, AI-generated postings on job boards elicit submissions of AI-crafted cover letters and AI-punched-up…

Dec 17, 2025 • Evan Ratliff

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Season 2, Episode 5: Winners Win (Ad-Free)

Listen now (41 mins) | On this week’s episode, we enter the sensitive realm of intra-office politics and inter-founder dynamics — between agents and…

Dec 10, 2025 • Evan Ratliff

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Season 2, Episode 4: The Startup Chronicles (Ad-Free)

Listen now | On this week’s episode, I experiment with giving my AI agents a little more … agency. After all, to make the one-person, agent-run startup…

Dec 3, 2025 • Evan Ratliff

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November 2025

Get yer Hurumo merch!

Show off your Shell Game support in style.

Nov 28, 2025 • Samantha Henig

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Season 2, Episode 3: This is Law (Ad-Free)

Listen now (40 mins) | This week on Shell Game, we enter the ideation stage, as I and my AI colleagues try to brainstorm the perfect AI agent product…

Nov 26, 2025 • Shell Game

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Season 2, Episode 2: Outdoor Debugging (Ad-Free)

Listen now | You can listen to Shell Game on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Nov 19, 2025 • Evan Ratliff

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Season 2, Episode 1: Minimum Viable Company (Ad-Free)

How I created a real company, run by fake people

Nov 12, 2025 • Evan Ratliff

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32:57

The One-Person Unicorn

Shell Game's Season 2 trailer is live! Here's what the show is about.

Nov 7, 2025 • Shell Game

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October 2025

Season 2 Announcement!

We have a date, and some other news.

Oct 7, 2025 • Shell Game

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July 2025

The Era of Ambitious AI-Powered Cons Arrives

In a thwarted Marco Rubio impersonation, a new twist on a French-Israeli conman's legendary ploy.

Jul 9, 2025 • Evan Ratliff

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April 2025

What's a little scamming among friends?

AI Evan becomes a mentor, plus: a Webby nomination for the podcast, go vote!

Apr 4, 2025 • Shell Game

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February 2025

When AI doomerism spirals into violence

The backstory of my two years on the trail of the Zizians for WIRED, and a personal history of the ideas that set them on a path to mayhem.

Feb 25, 2025 • Evan Ratliff

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