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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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00:31:10

S2E8: Operation: Save Jesus [~30 CE] (ft. special...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/12/18

Returning to PastMaster for another crack at the past is rapper and comedian Nick Horseman. Nick (AKA Cat R Pillar) and Keon (AKA Colin Winkleforth) face off in a two-player competition to save Jesus from being arrested and crucified by the Romans. Our AI Game Master, perhaps predictably, struggles to run a game with two players in the same scenario, instead creating two co-existing realities. But to spice things up our heroes try to sabotage each other’s efforts. Keon reverts to type and uses his

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01:07:41

S2E7: FutureMaster – We've been to the year 3000. Can...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/12/11

Keon flexes his muscles and updates his Insta profile pic before jumping into the time machine and darting off to the 30th century. Landing in a year when data is apparently more valuable than gold, Keon must find a way to stop the ‘Great Data Breach’ before it can happen. (TBF the Great Data Breach sounds like something very plausible at Northamptonshire County Council in the 21st century.) Egged on by his sci-fi-friendly teammates Tan and Ryan, Keon heads to a local cybernetic cafe to find out

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00:58:34

S2E6: Stop a Conference! Berlin 1884 (ft. Chinny...

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2023/12/04

Special guests Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba from It’s a Continent podcast join the PastMaster crew for a mission at the Berlin Conference of 1884. Taking aim at the event widely regarded as the point when European nations gave themselves the green light to seize Africa for themselves, Chinny and Astrid plunge into the heart of the action. Aiming to disrupt the conference and put a stop to the European colonisation of Africa, our heroines must first think of a way to get inside without arousing

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00:54:04

S2E5: Solving the Mystery of Stonehenge [~3000 BCE]

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2023/11/27

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 already ringing). It turns out the secrets of Stonehenge are much bigger than anybody ever realised. Alliances will be forged, secrets will be revealed, and crystal toilets will be

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00:44:37

S2E4: Labour of Time [1959 CE] (ft. special guest Tom...

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2023/11/20

Comedian and writer Tom GK returns to the PastMaster studio, taking the hot seat for his first time as a player. Heading to the Labour Party conference in Blackpool in 1959, Tom plans to alter the course of British politics and improve life for everyone in the country for decades to come. After an initial display of hopeless incompetence from our AI GameMaster, Tom finally gets to take the microphone. With a deft surgical incision into the Labour Party’s home ownership policy, Tom sets the backdrop

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00:37:21

S2E3: TrueCrimeMaster – We solved the Jack The Ripper...

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2023/11/13

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. Donning his detective gear and using the moniker Inspector Nathaniel, Tan marches into Scotland Yard in the summer of 1888 and demands to speak to Chief Insp Fred Abberline. Using his knowledge of future events, such as the eruption of Mt Bandai in Japan, the emergence of touch typing, and a fire at the Main Building in Wells College, New York, Tan

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00:47:53

S2E2: "The Strategist" sniffs out Napoleon Bonaparte...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/11/06

Special guest rapper and comedian Nick Horseman returns to PastMaster in the year 1805 for an adventure aboard the HMS Victory en route to the Battle of Trafalgar. With a surreal curveball, Admiral Horatio Nelson’s nemesis, the time travelling Napoleon Bonaparte, turns up below deck on the Victory, blending in among the barrels. Horseman, fearing he might be branded a traitor, uses his keen sense of smell to implicate Napoleon and prove his allegiance to the crown. Next, with a long sea voyage

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00:51:10

S2E1: Sorcery Slam (Hallowe’en special) [~1400 CE]...

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2023/10/30

PastMaster is back for season 2 and for this Halloween special Tan takes on the Witchfinder General himself in a bid to end the persecution of witches. Starring special guest comedian and writer Tom GK as the voice of GameMaster. Tan finds himself in the spooky surrounds of Suffolk town of Bury St Edmunds during the English Civil War it isn’t long before Witchfinder Matthew Hopkins and Tan are locked in a battle of words to decide whether witches really exist and to test whether Tan is himself a

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00:36:31

EP20: A blast from the PastMaster — Season 1 Finale...

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2023/08/29

We’re wrapping up Season 1 of PastMaster with a look back on some of the highlights of our adventures so far. Joining us “live, in-person” for the very first time is GameMaster itself, being voiced by various AI voices ranging from wheeler-dealer ‘Dave’ to creepy, patronizing ‘Thomas’ And finally, in a break from the past, we look ahead to FutureMaster and tease what’s coming up next. We'd love your thoughts and feedback on where to take this in Season 2. Get in touch with us: Instagram 👉

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00:39:15

EP19: Barbenheimer (Special 2 Player PastMaster)

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2023/08/22

Barbie and Ken try to prevent nuclear war by sabotaging the bomb in our first two-player game of PastMaster. Barbie, played by Keon, goes deep undercover in New Mexico, using her knowledge of physics and her charm to get past the US scientists and into the lab. Meanwhile Ken, played by Tan, goes so deep undercover in Germany that he almost forgets his mission and hunkers down into a simple life of farming. Will the pop culture icons get to meet Oppenheimer? Can you use bananas as a substitute for a

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00:49:18

EP18: Cap’n F**k-C**tle’s Sweary Sea Shanty [1756 CE]

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2023/08/14

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING: While we have bleeped out the worst of the swear words, this episode is definitely not safe for work or those who don’t wish to hear bad language Ryan finally gets Chat GPT to swear and puts it to the test in an adventure full of grimy pirates, squawking parrots and buried treasure. After assembling a malodorous crew of cutlass-rattling sea-dogs, Ryan (AKA Captain F*ck-C*ntle) tries his luck wooing Belch-Breathed Bella. Next, he gets serious with a plan to make money by

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00:48:04

EP17: Olympic wheelbarrow racing (with special guest...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/07/31

At the first ever Olympics Keon sets out to win a gold medal and introduce some new sports to the Games, starring special guest Louise Banham as the voice of Game Master. Channelling his ‘inner Jonathan Edwards’ he gets the crowd going, but not before exploring some ancient Greek trash talking, all under the watchful supervision of Game Master’s stern moral compass. Next Keon ditches PowerPoint and uses physical demonstration to persuade the Olympic Committee to accept wheelbarrow racing as an

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00:56:21

EP16: Elizabethan Jazz Hands (with special guest...

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2023/07/24

Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I feature in this episode set in 1592. Special guest Louise Banham attempts to become ruler of England by introducing the land to musical theatre. Beating the Bard to the punch, she writes Macbeth: The Musical and lures the queen into her masterplan with the promise of a role as lead lutist in her show. After securing a face to face meeting with the formidable monarch, Banham uses her famous jazz hands to beguile and bamboozle Queen Liz into considering her cunning

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00:36:17

EP15: Aria of Death, A Mission to kill Hitler (with...

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2023/07/17

Special guest Nick Horseman stars in a time travelling mission to kill Adolph Hitler before he can rise to prominence. Adopting the moniker of Klaus Hörsmann, Nick journeys back to the Habsburg Empire in Vienna, 1911, via a log flume time machine and heads straight to a gun shop. Finding himself penniless, Hörsmann immediately gets to work bartering for a discreet but deadly weapon with which to do the deed. After badmouthing a rival arms dealer’s business, Hörsmann gets his hands on the gun and

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01:12:37

EP14: Death Wish Kitty (with special guest Nick...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/07/10

The gang head back to ancient Egypt, this time with a cunning plan involving poles, furs and a beatboxing cat-god... With Keon away the team welcomes back special guest comedian and rapper Nick Horseman to take on the voice of Game Master. The game’s difficulty setting has been dialled up with new rules to make it much stricter and more realistic and also more cutting in its criticism of the player. Ryan tries to lose the game as quickly as possible. But will ChatGPT play ball? PastMaster is the

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01:11:48

EP13: The Windy City Wedding Whiskey Run (with...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/07/03

Special guest comedian and rapper Nick Horseman stars in a wise-cracking journey to prohibition-era Chicago. With his gangster patter down to a tee and a cunning plan to get in with the local mob boss, Nick sets out to make a name for himself as the new player in town. PastMaster is the time-travel role-playing adventure show where Ryan, Keon and Tan explore a different era of history each episode with the help of our maverick AI GameMaster. Landing in the Windy City in 1926, Horseman bowls his way

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00:50:08

EP12: When in Rome... [70 BCE]

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2023/06/26

Tan visits an ancient Roman amphitheatre to try and spruce up their chariot designs with some 21st-century know-how. PastMaster is the time-travel role-playing adventure show where Ryan, Keon and Tan explore a different era of history each episode with the help of our maverick AI GameMaster. The thundering of hooves, the crowd baying, and the clash of steel on steel provide the soundtrack to this week’s episode! Channelling his inner Premiership footballer, Tan baits the crowd before climbing aboard

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00:45:24

EP11: Egypt, pt 2 – Are ghosts real or not then?...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/06/19

We rejoin Keon (AKA Kheper) on his treacherous journey to the Egyptian underworld to see if Anubis, the god of the dead, will play ball with his theme park idea or instead extract his still-beating heart from his chest. PastMaster is the time-travel role-playing adventure show where Ryan, Keon and Tan explore a different era of history each episode with the help of our maverick AI GameMaster. It is the year 1400BC and with his plans for world beard domination firmly in mind, Keon must put his

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00:47:34

EP10: Egypt, pt 1 – Ancient Egyptian beard modelling...

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2023/06/12

GameMaster gets a makeover from pithy and sarcastic to a bitter, angry old man for this beard-themed trip to ancient Egypt. The game’s difficulty level is also dialled up, with strict instructions to deduct the player’s lives as a punishment for dangerous actions. Despite the increased danger, Keon cheerfully adopts the name Kheper and heads for the land of sphinxes and pyramids where he intends to discover the secrets of the pharaohs’ beard grooming. His attention is distracted by the House of

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00:48:34

EP9: Galilee, pt 2 – Come on Jesus, what was your...

PastMaster: Reshaping History ·

2023/06/05

Tan finally meets Jesus. Picking up from the knife-edge where we left off last time, we also find out whether Tan’s plan to take over the saffron trade in Galilee circa 25AD will pay off. PastMaster is the time-travel role-playing adventure show where Ryan, Keon and Tan explore a different era of history each episode with the help of our AI GameMaster. With a gang of local tough-nuts and farmers now working for him and making plans to out-do rival saffron trader Mordechai at his own game, Tan takes

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