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

33 minutes | Thursday, 19 March 2026

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.



00:00 Intro

02:30 Shanthi on maths

05:08 Trying out Hannah Fry’s tips

08:45 Rom reads his ChatGPT therapy

09:50 Shanthi and the team catch a stray

11:25 A question on AI

14:40 A role play of grief AI

16:25 A desert island question

20:30 Snog Marry Avoid Disney addition

26:39 A final question on the winter olympics

28:05 Outro
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How To Survive A Desert Island & Shanthi’s AI Boyfriend?!
The Romesh Ranganathan Show

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