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PastMaster: Reshaping History

If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? Welcome to PastMaster, the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, hosts Ryan and Tan are joined by a special guest comedian who is sent back in time with nothing but their modern knowledge and the shirt on their back. Under the guidance of a benevolent robot Game Master, they navigate to a different era each episode and find out if they’ve got what

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S4E15: Red Dead Sensation – Stopping a War in the...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/07/07

Nick Horseman returns to PastMaster, becoming refined English gentleman Thorne Jackson-Reynolds. He arrived in the lawless Dakota Territory with an impossible mission: establish a cattle ranch while preventing war between gold-hungry miners and the Sioux tribe. What follows is pure PastMaster chaos as modern pop songs collide with the Old West, featuring piano performances of Spice Girls hits, interpretive dance routines, and the world's first combination cattle ranch/cheese factory/dance studio

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Short message: back in July!

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/06/02

The PastMaster crew is on summer vacation to recharge the batteries of our time machine. We'll be back at the start of July with adventures to the Wild West, the Battle of Hastings and a disturbing investigation of the occult in 1920s Massachusetts.Until then, have a great June and see you when we get back! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:08

S4E14: Come Die With Me – Death Wish Down Under

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2025/05/19

PastMaster takes a dark turn as Ryan, Tan, and guest Nick Horseman compete in a 'Death Wish Speed Run' at Port Jackson's newly established penal colony. Using DeepSeek's surprisingly sassy AI as game master, our time travellers attempt increasingly outlandish ways to meet their maker—from attacking guards with rusty spoons to unleashing venomous creatures on colonial officials. Who will claim the dubious honour of the fastest, most stylish demise in this brutal historical setting? In 1788, the

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S4E13: The Medieval African Billionaire space program...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/05/05

Step back to 1330 and meet the richest person who ever lived - Mansa Musa, with a net worth of $700 billion in today's money! Can Ryan convince this golden emperor to fund humanity's first space mission?In this wild historical adventure, Ryan transports himself to the heart of the Mali Empire during its golden age. Armed with pocket watches and eyeglasses, he must impress the notoriously wealthy Mansa Musa without getting executed as a witch. But when introducing simple technology succeeds, Ryan

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S4E13: Battle Magic – Cocaine Diplomacy in 55 BCE

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2025/04/28

What happens when you replace Asterix's magic potion with cocaine? Risky Dave finds out the hard way when he tries to help a Gallic tribe resist Julius Caesar's invasion in 55 BCEInspired by the beloved Asterix and Obelix comics, Tan creates a character named 'Risky Dave' who attempts to help a Gallic village resist Roman occupation. But instead of magic potion, he brings cocaine as 'battle magic.' The results are predictably disastrous as the drug-fueled warriors charge into battle with plenty of

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S4E11: Matthew Crosby and the Satanic Cult

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2025/04/21

Comedian and writer Matthew Crosby steps out of his bathtub time machine to join us on a murder mystery adventure in Victorian London. When mysterious ritual murders start appearing across the city, Matthew is called up to ivestigate.Posing as French detective 'Inspector Pompidou,' Matthew discovers a satanic cult attempting dark and mysterious deeds in the centre of London. Armed with holy water, a crucifix, and his quick wit, he must infiltrate the cult before darkness consumes Victorian London

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54:40

S4E10: Who can build the best Trojan Horse?

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2025/04/14

What if the Trojan Horse...wasn't a horse at all? In this epic battle of wits, Tan and Keon compete to design history's greatest deception at the walls of Troy.The siege of Troy has dragged on for a decade when our contestants arrive with modern minds but Bronze Age materials. Under the watchful eye of a science-obsessed Game Master (channeling Bill Nye), Tan and Keon's increasingly desperate attempts to create the perfect Trojan deception face the harsh scrutiny of historical accuracy. From

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S4E9: The Haunting of Henry VIII, ft Fetch the...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/04/07

Oh hey girl hey, its the diarrhea service!That's how to convince a maid in Henry VIII's royal palace that you're just one of the staff and not a time travelling spy on a mission. At least according to Kim and Alice from Fetch The Smelling Salts podcast who are back in PastMaster hot seat this week. Their mission – save Henry VIIIs wives from divorce and beheadings. Equipped with a smoke machine, Halloween makeup, and their Catholic background, their plan is to infiltrate the castle, gain Queen

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37:29

S4E8: Ancient MesoPOOtamia... – Death Wish Speed Run...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/03/24

In this unseen episode, from PastMaster’s darkest vault, rapper and comedian Nick Horseman sets course for Ur in the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia.He has one thing on his mind: cause mayhem and achieve Game Over as quickly as possible. It's a death wish speed run. Can you play Grand Theft Auto in Mesoptamia? What’s the best way to insult the guard captain’s mother? And how quickly can Horseman be thrown into jail? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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S4E7: Danny Dyer calls The Void a slag. The Big Bang,...

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2025/03/17

The Thots TV team are back in the hot seat with the most impossible challenge yet. Travelling back to before the Big Bang. Embodying a "heat-resistant" Danny Dyer, can they survive in a place where the rules of physics don't even exist? Plus what would the Garden of Eden have been like? We took a quick trip over their to check out the local boozers. We also debut Chinese upstart DeepSeek as GameMaster, bringing a unique flavour to proceedings. Join us for a hilarious journey through creation

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48:03

S4E6: AC/DC and The Battle of the Bots – ChatGPT vs...

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2025/03/10

It's a battle for the ages as Keon and Tan go head-to-head in a shocking two-player PastMaster showdown! In this electrifying episode, we travel back to 1890s America to determine the fate of electricity itself during the infamous War of the Currents. With Keon channeling Nikola Tesla (backed by ChatGPT) and Tan embodying Thomas Edison (powered by Claude), they'll square off in a proper technological tussle that'll make your hair stand on end. Marvel as they deploy utterly mental promotional

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S4E5: Claudanum-dreams. A gothic literature...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/03/03

The Thots TV podcast join us for a gothic adventure full of literary titans, a 'haunted house' and lashings of laudanum.It's 1816, the year without a summer. Lord Byron, Mary (not yet) Shelly and friends are stuck in Villia Diodati for 3 days in stormy weather. The party that inspired Frankenstein's Monster, The Vampyr and Darkness is in full swing. Meg, Elsie and Laura arrive as the mysterious Lady Thottringham. Their mission? Stop Mary Shelley from writing Frankenstein and inspire her to

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S4E4: Claude of the Rings

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2025/02/24

We're breaking out of the historical timeline for a quick trip back to Middle Earth. Back in Season 1 we took ChatGPT on a quick excursion here, so how will GameMaster Claude react when we try and break the rules of PastMaster and venture into the realm of fiction? Co-host Keon is notoriously not a fan of films, especially fantasy ones. So today we thought we'd educate him all about "Bo Bo Baggins" and the gang. But Claude is a little reluctant to change Tolkien's masterpiece without a bit of

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S4E3: One Giant Mess for Mankind. Hitching a ride on...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/02/17

Return guest Chris Dillon joins us for another historical misadventure as he attempts to infiltrate one of humanity's greatest achievements - the Apollo 11 mission. Armed with nothing but confidence and his character "Buzz Cauldron," Chris discovers that impersonating Buzz Aldrin is considerably more challenging than anticipated, especially when the real Buzz Aldrin shows up. What follows is a cascade of increasingly chaotic events featuring fights, airlocks, spacecraft control mishaps, and

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S4E2: The Social Network Stealer. Founding Facebook...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/02/10

In this episode, the Zuck stops with us. Journalist and writer Chris Dillon joins us in the recent past to reshape tech history! The year is 2003, and a young Mark Zuckerberg is skulking the corridors of Harvard, his mind deep into plans to create TheFacebook. Will our tallest guest ever succeed in his mission to derail Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire, or will Harvard's surprisingly zealous campus security get in the way?Chris discovers that changing the course of tech history is harder than

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S4E1: Sense and Shootability with Micky Overman

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2025/02/03

Comedian Micky Overman joins PastMaster for the Season 4 premiere, heading to Pride & Prejudice times to give sexism a punch on the nose.Micky steps back into Georgian-era London for a tale of romance, social intrigue, and pistols at dawn. Taking on the role of the mysterious "Lady Hemming-Trout," She must navigate a delicate matchmaking mission to unite two star-crossed lovers while outmaneuvering fortune hunters and sharp-tongued society matrons. When a shooting contest with an arrogant

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56:10

The Ghost of Christmas PastMaster

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2024/12/16

It's that time of the year and the PastMaster crew have pulled out all the stops to go on a festive adventure for the ages. Tinsel ✅ Santa hats ✅ Christmas Ghosts delivering time travel rebukes ✅ Returning guest, comedian Nick Horseman narrates the three Christmas Ghosts of Past, Present and Future. Ryan, Tan and Keon are set a series of festive challenges across three different eras. Can they make their mark on Christmas history? Or is it lumps of coal and eternal banishment to the naughty

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00:52:37

The Truth Behind Stonehenge – [REPLAY S2.E5]

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/12/09

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 wanted to know who built Stonehenge and why. So Ryan used PastMaster to find out (of course). In what is possibly the trippiest episode of PastMaster yet, our AI GameMaster concocts a Neolithic adventure for the ages. It all goes pear-shaped when Ryan encounters a mysterious man called Elron (alarm bells

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00:37:37

True Crime Special – Jack the Ripper's identity...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/12/01

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 in a bid to catch Jack the Ripper and solve one of the most notorious unsolved crimes ever. If AI has access to all the knowledge in history, could it spot patterns in the data that mere humans have missed? Will GameMaster have a convincing theory as to who Jack the Ripper was? And can Tan actually

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S3E14: PastMaster Live – How to become worshipped as...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/11/11

In our first-ever live show, Ryan tries to persuade a boatful of explorers that he is a deity. Plus our live studio audience attempts to "bake a gun" in revolutionary France.If you were sent back in time you could persuade people of all sorts of things given your advanced knowledge of future events. But could you persuade them to worship you as a deity? This is the victory condition set out by GameMaster in today's episode of PastMaster. It turns out GameMaster (powered once again by Claude) had

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