A new app allows you to earn real money just by participating in social events. But what the events are—and who shows up—makes it difficult to know what’s real, and what’s just another gig in the gig economy.

CAST

Louis Kornfeld
Rick Andrews
Leila Ben-Abdallah
Woody Fu
Mary McDonnell
Zach Valenti
T.J. Mannix
Nikki Thomas
Promises Improv Troupe

MATT
JON
SOPHIE
BERNARD
MEL
TRIVIA HOST
POLITICIAN
CLUSTR VO
CROWDS

Written by Sarah Shachat
Produced by Jonathan Mitchell
Our associate producer is Cara Ehlenfeldt
Our associate editor is Davy Gardner

Sarah Shachat (WRITER) is a writer and editor from New Orleans, now living in New York. She’s written and produced the award-winning audio fiction series Wolf 359, Time:Bombs, and Zero Hours, and written for other audio series such as Our Fair City and Wooden Overcoats, as well as publications like The AV Club, College Humor, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. When she’s not working on her own writing, Sarah’s generally tidying up other people’s, playing music too loud through her headphones, and drinking lots of black tea.