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

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, bitches.
0:01.0	Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Ramesh Rang and Athon show. I'm here with my mum, Shanti, and the team of so far remained fairly anonymous apart from the old song and snipe. What a little nest of pricks they are. Every Thursday we chat about Monday's Celebrity Epp, answer listener questions, and have a really great time in each other's company. Love you, mother. Love you too, son. And actually, love you guys. love you too
0:24.0	I was what I said great time in each other's company. Love you mother. Love you too son. And actually love you guys.
0:23.4	Love you too, Rob.
0:24.2	Oh, that's good. That's good. I don't even like you.
0:27.1	Mum, big news.
0:28.9	We're on the precipice of spring.
0:31.2	The spring equinoxes tomorrow.
0:33.9	Oh.
0:36.7	Have you shut down?
0:38.3	The Spring Equinox is tomorrow, Mum.
0:41.3	Oh, hi.
0:42.3	What?
0:43.3	Do me...
0:46.3	What?
0:47.3	What?
0:48.3	What are you talking about?
0:51.3	Do you think one of these guys is called Spring Equino?
0:53.3	I didn't understand the word equinox. It means spring's about to start. What's your favorite part of spring? Definites comes, all the flowers come. Everything is colorful, the garden. I love it. I like color. You like color. Mum, we've battled through the dark, cold, rainy months. We've almost made it through to the other side.
1:14.3	Can you, my mum, and mum of the podcast,
1:18.0	introduce the show like you've got a real spring in your step.
1:18.6	Me?
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