Episode 8: Launch
Shell Game
Kaleidoscope
5.0 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
HurumoAI finally sets sail in the Season 2 finale, and we find out how the world responds to a startup led by AI agents. The company explores new financing avenues and charts the next course for their increasingly merry AI pirate ship, and Kyle meets his true maker.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.6 | How are you, Maddie? |
| 0:17.6 | I'm really good. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm really good. |
| 0:19.2 | I like your shirt. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey, thanks. When I'm at the beach, got to dress |
| 0:23.2 | like I'm at the beach. I told you, I'm the guy who brings like Hawaiian shirts to work in most |
| 0:28.5 | days. So I love this. But I will say that like there's the wine shirts and Hawaiian shirts. And mine are |
| 0:33.8 | like very gay. Over the months, I'd worked with Maddie, building the tech scaffolding that propped up Harumo AI. Over the months I'd worked with Maddie, |
| 0:40.2 | building the tech scaffolding that propped up Harumo AI. |
| 0:42.2 | I felt like I'd really gotten to know him, |
| 0:45.6 | at least as well as you can over weekly video calls. |
| 0:49.1 | If I had a confession, like, I do like me a megachurch. |
| 0:51.8 | I have this like weird thing for like pickup trucks. |
| 0:56.0 | It's been my dream to get a pickup truck like forever since there was a kid. |
| 1:00.5 | Yesterday was like the Czech National Holiday and it's always when they like give out the civilian honors and stuff. |
| 1:02.0 | So I got the Senate medal. |
| 1:05.2 | This was just the way it was. |
| 1:07.4 | Some days he'd show up to a meeting jazzed about Hawaiian shirts. |
| 1:12.1 | Other times he'd come on having flown to Prague to accept the second highest civilian honor in the Czech Republic, |
| 1:17.0 | basically their Congressional Medal of Honor in a ceremony broadcast live on TV. |
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