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PastMaster: Reshaping History

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

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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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49:38

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

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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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50:44

S4E1: Sense and Shootability with Micky Overman

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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...

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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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01:00:09

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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00:46:49

S3E13: Freaking out the Founding Fathers of America...

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2024/10/07

With American politics constantly in the news right now PastMaster heads back in time to visit the first presidents of the USA to see what they were like.The year is 1775. Colonial America is on the brink of declaring independence from Britain. Ryan has arrived on the scene with two goals in mind: 1) Can he make some changes to the constitution before it gets enshrined? 2) Can he make such a big mark on history that they put his face on Mount Rushmore? Continuing our exploration of Claude-powered

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00:37:44

S3E12: Plato's Wrestlemania & the Search for Atlantis...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/09/30

Is Atlantis real? That's the question we've been pondering as Tan takes to the PastMaster hotseat to try and uncover the truth. Travelling back to ancient Athens, the first priority is to seek out a man who is a philosopher, and yet most famously known by his wrestling name - Plato. Will Plato give us the answers? Will GameMaster Claude be any better at solving mysteries than GameMaster Chatty G? Is Plato any good at wrestling? Tune in and find out. Don't forget, tickets are onsale

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00:39:44

S3E11: HardMode 3.0 - Hard Claude with a Vengeance

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2024/09/23

Is Claude a more realistic GameMaster than ChatGPT? This week we're bringing back 'Hard Mode' to PastMaster. We've crafted a particularly difficult prompt that requires full realism, or else... It turns out, Claude is very hard indeed, so much so that we had enough time for 3 cracks at it! Keon heads to the Victorian era to claim some lands from a nobleman. Tan has a little jolly in the ancient Aztec empire. And Ryan brings a throwback to Season 1, Episode 15 where we tried to

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00:01:52

Important PastMaster Announcement(s)!

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/09/17

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. We're having another crack at making the show even harder, only this time using Claude instead of ChatGPT. But how hard is too hard? Tune in on Monday 23rd to find out. 2. PastMaster is going live!! We've been invited to perform at the Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival. Catch us live and in

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00:59:28

S3E10: ‘Lady Claudius’ vs Robin Hood (ft Heidi Regan)...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/07/09

Comedian Heidi Regan joins the PastMaster team for the chance to meet her hero Robin Hood.Sent on a mission to steal the Sheriff of Nottingham’s treasure and free the Merry Men from jail, will she use stealth and cunning or brute force (or a little of both?) Expect lots of tickling, plenty of gold and if all goes to plan a good bath and a giant celebratory bonfire in Sherwood Forest. This is PastMaster’s debut with Claude 3.5, currently the chattiest, slickest chatbot in the game

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00:51:37

S3E9: Claude is back! Cockney GameMaster vs Samurai...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/07/01

GameMaster Claude is back and is as weird as ever! Tan has always wanted to return to feudal Japan to meet some Samurai warriors. He finally gets his chance, but will GameMaster let him play? Tan finds himself in a battle against the Samurai warriors and GameMaster itself, who insists on inserting into the story with main-character energy. Who can win in a battle of wit and brawn? In concocting a special prompt for this Claude-powered episode Ryan inserted one simple line: "GameMaster must

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00:40:55

S3E8: Does AI believe in Aliens? The Truth behind...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/06/24

Aliens. Living amongst us. Possibly.What does GameMaster think? Surely with access to all the knowledge on the internet, our AI-powered guide has parsed the data, found the patterns and come up with a convincing theory? Comedian and actor Sunil Patel (Alice & Jack (C4) The Witchfinder (BBC), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), Stath Lets Flats (C4)) joins us again to explore the murky goings-on inside Area 51. Get in touch with us: Instagram 👉 @PastMasterPod (check out our AI-generated art

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00:41:29

S3E7: Infiltrating Pablo Escobar's Cartel. "El...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/06/17

This week Keon takes the reins to explore 1970s Medellín, Colombia. The mission: Become Pablo Escobar’s right-hand man with a 50/50 split of all the takings. Ambitious as ever, but Keon has… a unique plan to get his way. First, how do you prove your worth to the biggest cartel leader in history? A lavish party may be in order... Nick Horseman joins us once again to lend his voice to GameMaster, which returns to ChatGPT after our crazy diversion to Claude last week. Get in touch with us: Tell us

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00:41:17

S3E6: Move over ChatGPT, Clever Claude is the new...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/06/10

GameMaster - the AI-powered narrator of PastMaster adventures - gets a makeover in today's episode. ChatGPT has been benched and replaced by a competing tool known as Claude.ai We've given Claude the same starting prompt we usually feed to ChattyG. So how will it compare? Well, it turns out Claude brings a unique energy to the proceedings! Friend of the show Nick Horseman returns to the hot seat for another crack at the past, only this time he's being guided by a radically different

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01:05:01

S3E5: Pheasants & Phlatulence. The best drama....

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/06/04

Brace yourself. We're heading to rural Derbyshire in 1813 with Alice Nagle and Kim Marsh from ⁠@fetchsmellingsalts⁠ for a romp through Regency England's high society.While all eyes are on the debutantes and bachelors, it is the wily elder generation calling the shots. Alice and Kim take on the roles of pushy aunts with a mission – can they find an eligible bachelor for their nieces? Expect a full helping of dashing bachelors, an ensemble of blushing debutantes and lashings of devious

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00:46:18

S3E4: Sunil Patel's Roman Rampage [~150 BCE]

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/05/27

Comedian and actor Sunil Patel (Alice & Jack (C4) The Witchfinder (BBC), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), Stath Lets Flats (C4) is back in the hot seat for another blast through the past.As our first guest back in Season 1 Sunil is a veteran of exploring the markets and brothels of history’s muddy waters. This time he’s headed back to Rome to make a name for himself amongst the Roman elite. But will GameMaster allow him to wander around punching senators without consequences? And what

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00:34:47

S3E3: AgathAI ChristiGPT – Can we make a compelling...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/05/20

First Sherlock Holmes then Hercule Poirot and now Inspector Klaus.Keon pits himself against the greatest crime-solving detectives in a special MurderMysteryMaster edition of PastMaster. We've powered up GameMaster to deliver a veritable Cluedo feast of a whodunnit. But will we ever find out who delivered the fate of the recently deceased Lord Jasper Cavendish Brown? Tune in and find out Get in touch with us: Instagram 👉 @PastMasterPod (check out our AI-generated art illustrating what our

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00:41:06

S3E2: “A Whole New (smoke-free) World” - Saving Walt...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2024/05/13

Disney's "Dark Ages" typically encompasses the late 1960s to the late 1980s. During this time the quality and success of Disney animated films suffered and it wasn’t until 1989’s The Little Mermaid that things turned around. But what happened? Why was one of the most successful studios of all time in decline? The answer likely lies with the man himself, Walt Disney, whose untimely death at 65 left the company struggling to find creative leadership that could fill his shoes. It turns

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