PastMaster: Reshaping History
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SubscribersWoodstock, 1969. Four hundred thousand flower children, Jimi Hendrix finishing his legendary set, and one man backstage who literally cannot stop beatboxing. Tan has been sent back to Max Yasgur's far...
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The Colosseum, 80 CE. Fifty thousand Romans screaming for blood, Emperor Titus presiding from his box, and two time travellers with ten minutes to get rich, get notorious, and not die. Recorded live a...
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Before the Big Bang. Before atoms. Before the laws of physics even bothered to show up. The Thots TV team are back, this time with DeepSeek as Game Master, and they've been sent to the most impossible...
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New York City, 1890. The War of the Currents is raging — and PastMaster is about to make it significantly worse. In this two-player showdown, Keon channels Nikola Tesla with ChatGPT as his Game Master...
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Cape Canaveral, 1969. One small step for man. One giant mess for Chris Dillon. Back for his second PastMaster mission, Chris has a plan: impersonate Buzz Aldrin and steal his spot on Apollo 11. His co...
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Harvard University, 2003. A lanky guy in a grey hoodie is skulking the corridors of Kirkland House with plans to build something called TheFacebook. Chris Dillon has been sent back to beat him to it. ...
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Regency London, 1815. The ton is in full swing, reputations are made and destroyed over a single dance, and comedian Micky Overman has just materialised in the middle of it as the mysterious "Lady Hem...
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London, 1843. Charles Dickens is writing A Christmas Carol at 48 Doughty Street, and the PastMaster crew have been summoned by three Christmas spirits to atone for their previous sins against the time...
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The countdown to Christmas continues with another PastMaster replay special. We've turned back the clock to this episode from Season 2 where we uncovered the mysteries of Stonehenge...
Keon’s always ...
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In true PastMaster style we're turning back the clock to revisit the past. In this case, our own podcasting past.
In this episode from Season 2, Tan travels back to the slums of Victorian Whitechapel...
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Palos de la Frontera, Spain, 1492. Christopher Columbus is about to set sail for the New World, and Ryan has joined the crew with one objective: convince everyone on board that he is, in fact, a deity...
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Philadelphia, 1775. Colonial America is on the brink of declaring independence, the Founding Fathers are assembling, and Ryan, as the ever-reliable "Ryanardo," has arrived with two goals: amend the Co...
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Athens, 355 BCE. The cradle of Western philosophy, the birthplace of democracy, and the current location of a man who is simultaneously one of history's greatest thinkers and an absolute unit on the w...
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Three eras. Three players. One brutally unforgiving AI. Claude has been given a prompt demanding full realism, and the result is PastMaster's hardest episode yet — so hard there was time for three cra...
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We've been a little quiet over the summer, but fear not, the wheels of time are still turning at the PastMaster HQ! We've got 3 exciting announcements:
1. Next week PastMaster Season 3 returns.
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Sherwood Forest, 1152. Comedian Heidi Regan has arrived to meet her hero, and she doesn't mean the Kevin Costner version. Robin Hood, the Merry Men, and a mission to steal the Sheriff of Nottingham's ...
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Kyoto, 1336. Feudal Japan at its most volatile. Samurai clans vying for power, the emperor's authority in flux, and the AI Game Master narrating the whole thing in a cockney accent. Ryan inserted one ...
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Rachel, Nevada, 1988. The nearest town to the most secretive military installation on Earth, and comedian Sunil Patel is here to ask the question PastMaster was arguably built for: does the AI Game Ma...
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Medellin, 1973. Pablo Escobar is building the most powerful drug cartel in history, and Keon has arrived with possibly the most ambitious opening gambit in PastMaster history: become Escobar's right-h...
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Oxford, 1350. Medieval England is deep in the age of superstition, the university is the closest thing to a centre of learning, and Nick Horseman has just been dropped into it with a brand new AI Game...
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Rural Derbyshire, 1813. The Regency social season is in full swing, and Alice Nagle and Kimberly Marsh from Fetch the Smelling Salts podcast have arrived as the pushiest aunts in English literature. T...
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Rome, 150 BCE. The Roman Republic is at its swaggering peak, senators are running the show, and comedian Sunil Patel has arrived with a plan to make a name for himself among the elite. His previous Pa...
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A country manor, 1928. Lord Jasper Cavendish Brown is lying face-down by the marble fountain, and Keon, as the enigmatic "Inspector Klaus," has just arrived to solve the case. Welcome to MurderMystery...
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Kansas City, 1920. Walt Disney is a young artist with big dreams, a pack of cigarettes, and absolutely no idea that his smoking habit will kill him at 65 and send his company spiralling into two decad...
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Ancient Sparta, 500 BCE. A city-state built entirely around warfare, discipline, and men who could crush your skull before breakfast. Tan asked for medieval Japan. The Game Master sent him to Sparta i...
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The PastMaster crew are back with Season 3. And it's promising to be more Past-ery and more AI-y than ever before.
Featuring upgraded GameMasters, Murder Mystery solving, Regency period dramas, Wal...
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Season 2 is done, and it's time for the reckoning. Ryan, Keon, and Tan sit down to pick through the wreckage — the good, the bad, and the tremendously ugly from a season that sent them to Whitechapel,...
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The Atlantic Ocean, 1872. The merchant ship Mary Celeste is sailing towards its place in history — the vessel whose entire crew vanished without a trace. "Third Mate Tan" has joined the fateful voyage...
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The Palace of Versailles. A dining table. Jesus, Gandhi, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, and Liz Truss. One host. No chance of this going well. Tan takes on the role of "Hostess with the ...
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London, 1613. Saturday the 29th of June, to be precise. Blue Badge Guide Marc Zakian from the Extraordinary Stories of Britain podcast knows exactly why that date matters. In the ultimate battle of ma...
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Boston, 1773. The colony is itching to break free from the English crown, anti-British sentiment is at an all-time high, and Ryan has just rolled up being outrageously, unapologetically British. Welco...
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Jerusalem, 30 CE. Two players. One Messiah. A race to prevent the most famous execution in history. Nick Horseman returns as "Cat R Pillar" and Keon takes the alias "Colin Winklethorpe" — both named a...
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The year 2985. Neon skyscrapers, AI entities living alongside organic counterparts, and Keon has just arrived with his Instagram muscles and a mission to prevent the "Great Data Wipeout" — a virus thr...
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Berlin, 1884. Fourteen European nations are sitting around a table carving up an entire continent like a Christmas turkey, and Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba from It's a Continent podcast have been s...
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Salisbury Plain, 3000 BCE. Keon's always wanted to know who built Stonehenge and why, so Ryan fired up ChatGPT and went looking for answers. The Game Master was told to be a flamboyant eccentric wizar...
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Blackpool, 1959. The Labour Party conference is in full swing, and comedian Tom GK has arrived with possibly the most cerebral plan in PastMaster history: rewrite British politics by fixing Labour's h...
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Whitechapel, 1888. Jack the Ripper hasn't struck yet, and "Inspector Nathaniel" has just marched into London with one objective: catch the most notorious serial killer in history before the first vict...
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HMS Victory, 1805. Admiral Nelson is preparing for the Battle of Trafalgar, and Nick Horseman has just boarded as "Baron Cuthbert Wanklethorpe" — a name he insists is the most British thing imaginable...
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Suffolk, 1645. The English Civil War is raging, self-appointed Witch Finder General Matthew Hopkins is terrorising East Anglia, and Tan has just landed in Bury St Edmunds as "Tom Dandelion" with a Hal...
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Season 1 is done. Twenty episodes. Fast food in the Wild West, Guns N' Roses on a medieval lute, a headbutting Viking, a friendly orc, a stolen donkey, a dead cat, and Barbie trying to stop the atomic...
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New Mexico and Germany, 1945. The Manhattan Project is racing towards the atomic bomb, and two unlikely saboteurs have been sent back to stop it: Barbie and Ken. A two-player game inspired by the summ...
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Port Royal, Jamaica, 1592. The Golden Age of Piracy, the Caribbean's most notorious haven, and Ryan has finally cracked the code to make ChatGPT swear. The result is Captain F*ck-C*ntle — a foul-mouth...
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Olympia, Greece, 776 BCE. The first Olympic Games are about to begin, the athletes are naked, and Keon's turned up with a plan to introduce wheelbarrow racing. With Louise Banham voicing the Game Mast...
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London, 1592. Shakespeare is writing plays, Queen Elizabeth I is ruling with an iron fist, and Louise Banham has just arrived with a plan to beat the Bard to the punch by writing Macbeth: The Musical....
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Vienna, 1911. The Habsburg Empire is creaking, Wagner's Lohengrin is playing at the opera house, and somewhere in the audience sits a young, failed art student who will one day start a world war. Nick...
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Ancient Egypt, 1250 BCE. The reign of Rameses II — one of the most powerful pharaohs in history, and Ryan's been tasked with deposing him. His plan? Insult the sacred cats. Repeatedly. With Nick Horse...
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Chicago, 1926. Prohibition is in full swing, the speakeasies are packed, and Nick Horseman has just walked into one with his gangster patter down to a tee. His opening move? Spit whisky in the bartend...
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Republican Rome, 70 BCE. The Circus Maximus is packed, the crowd is baying for blood, and Tan's just arrived with plans to pimp his chariot using 21st-century engineering know-how. Channelling his inn...
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The Egyptian Underworld, 1400 BCE. Keon (aka Kheper) is knee-deep in the afterlife, and the jackal-headed god Anubis is deciding whether to weigh his heart or just rip it out of his chest. Keon's not ...
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Ancient Egypt, 1400 BCE. The New Kingdom is at its zenith — monumental temples, all-powerful pharaohs, and an elaborate system of gods who will absolutely rip your heart out if you displease them. Keo...
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Could you survive and thrive if you were sent back in time? Would you invent electricity in ancient Rome, or perhaps teach Napoleon rock & roll? Well now you can find out! Join our hosts Ryan, Tan and Keon in PastMaster – the time-travelling, history-bending, role-playing show. It’s simple. We've given an AI the rules of the game and it acts as our narrator and guide. Each week we navigate to a different era and find out if we've got what it takes to reshape history. Will it be historically accurate? Will any of it make sense? Will we master the past? Tune in and find out!
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