PastMaster: Reshaping History

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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!

  1. FEB 3

    A few sherbets for the Silk Road ft. Esther Manito

    Comedian Esther Manito joins the PastMaster team for a time travel trip to the ancient Silk Road. On a mission to hire a crew and trek a caravan of silk from Samarkand to Baghdad, how will Esther's negotiating skill and improvised poetry serve her in this land of hard bargains, street-smart urchins and uncompromising rulers? With the clock ticking and our robot Game Master in no mood for tomfoolery, the chances of success look slim. But as a "naturally competitive person" can will Esther prevail against the odds? Episode features camels, sherbet, poisonings, silk and limericks. - - - - -  GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠⁠www.pastmasterpod.com⁠  Instagram 👉⁠ ⁠@pastmasterpod⁠  TikTok 👉 ⁠@pastmasterpod⁠ X 👉⁠ ⁠@pastmasterAI⁠ Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER ⁠INTERACTIVE MAP⁠  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. - - - - - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    57 min

  2. JAN 6 · BONUS

    What next for PastMaster... ?

    Can the past be mastered? Is AI still cool? Where has Keon gone? As the hands of time click forward into 2026 we ask – what is the future of PastMaster? - - - - -  GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠www.pastmasterpod.com  Instagram 👉 ⁠@pastmasterpod  TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 ⁠@pastmasterAI Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER INTERACTIVE MAP  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. - - - - -  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    13 min
  3. "Modern Knowledge / Medieval Consequences" — TRAILER

    TRAILER

    "Modern Knowledge / Medieval Consequences" — TRAILER

    Picture this, you've been sent back in time. You have nothing but the clothes on your back and the knowledge in your head. Could you survive and thrive using your present day know-how? Or would you utterly fail, be shunned or worse, burnt at the stake for witchcraft? Well now you can find out. PastMaster is the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each week hosts Ryan and Tan put a comedian in the hot seat to find out if they have what it takes to survive in the past. We've crafted a detailed prompt to turn your run-of-the-mill AI bots into our maverick and judgmental AI Game Master. It’s simple. We give the AI the rules of the game and then it acts as our narrator and guide. Will it keep things historically accurate? Will we become masters of the past? Will any of it make any sense? Tune in and find out! GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠www.pastmasterpod.com  Instagram 👉 ⁠@pastmasterpod  TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 ⁠@pastmasterAI Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER INTERACTIVE MAP  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    3 min
  4. The Santa Claude Intervention: PastMaster Christmas Special

    12/22/2025

    The Santa Claude Intervention: PastMaster Christmas Special

    The night is clear. Your purpose is holy. But something has gone very, very wrong at the North Pole. In this special Christmas edition of PastMaster, we welcome back the Laura, Elsie and Meg from the Thots TV podcast for a festive adventure that quickly veers into dark, industrial territory. What was supposed to be a sacred pilgrimage to Bethlehem in Year Zero takes a sharp turn into an Arctic nightmare of corrupted factories, screaming elves, and a Father Christmas who has traded his "Ho Ho Ho" for a whiskey bottle and a whip. Can Father Christmas be saved? Will the Baby Jesus melt his heart? Can we start a new Christmas tradition? Tune in and find out - - - - -  GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠www.pastmasterpod.com  Instagram 👉 ⁠@pastmasterpod  TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 ⁠@pastmasterAI Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER INTERACTIVE MAP  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. - - - - -  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 12m
  5. Nuns of Death: The Beastmaster Cometh (Part 3)

    12/15/2025

    Nuns of Death: The Beastmaster Cometh (Part 3)

    It's Death Wish Speed Run! The game where we see who can die the quickest and most stylish death in history. We're back in the unforgiving 7th Century, outside a nunnery. Surely the sisters will be kind, forgiving, and disinclined to quickly resort to punishment? It's Tan's turn in the kamikaze hot seat. And as usual he shows little regards for the rules and realism that PastMaster so accurately tries to uphold. Will Gamemaster allow Tan to summon a bear? Will the nuns be pleased to see him? Who will be crowned the pound-for-pound Death Wish Champion? Stay tuned to the end where we also uncover a rich, untapped vein of historical exploration... - - - - -  GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠www.pastmasterpod.com  Instagram 👉 ⁠@pastmasterpod  TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 ⁠@pastmasterAI Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER INTERACTIVE MAP  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. - - - - - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    25 min
  6. Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun. Burn the witch! (Part 2)

    12/13/2025

    Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun. Burn the witch! (Part 2)

    In part 2 of 3 we return to a 7th Century nunnery on a Death Wish Speed run - a mission to die as quickly and as stylishly as possible in the past. This time its Nick's turn in the kamikaze hot seat. But he's a pro, he's done speed runs before. He's here with a master plan to get the nuns to top him. A sexy, dirty, witchy plan... Tune in next time for Part 3 to hear how Tan fares against the tough medieval Nuns. More from the Death Wish series: Nuns of Death: Part 1 – Ryan's attempt ⁠Death Wish Down Under: The "Aussie Rules" Speed Run⁠ Tan, Nick and Ryan each arrive on a convict ship in Australia. Who can get themselves killed first? ⁠Ancient MesoPOOtamia: A Death Wish Speed Run⁠ The original speedrun episode. Nick is on a Grand Theft Auto style mission to get himself killed as quickly as possible. ⁠A Cat-God with a Death Wish⁠ The episode that inspired this series. Ryan pushes Game Master to the limit in Ancient Egypt. - - - - -  GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠⁠www.pastmasterpod.com⁠  Instagram 👉⁠ ⁠@pastmasterpod⁠  TikTok 👉 ⁠@pastmasterpod⁠ X 👉⁠ ⁠@pastmasterAI⁠ Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER ⁠INTERACTIVE MAP⁠  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. - - - - -  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    19 min
  7. Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun in a 7th Century Nunnery (Part 1)

    12/01/2025

    Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun in a 7th Century Nunnery (Part 1)

    What happens when you try to die as quickly as possible in one of medieval England's most peaceful locations? It's the return of "Death Wish Speed Run", the series where we attempt to get ourselves murdered by history as quickly, and as stylishly as possible! After the grim success of the Australian penal colony Death Wish episode, the we decided to make things harder: choosing a peaceful, holy setting where violence is scarce and Christian patience runs deep. Ryan arrives at one of England's first and most prestigious nunneries with a plan to convince the sisters he is Jesus in an attempt to provoke rapid execution. But Sister Edberg and her fellow nuns prove remarkably difficult to scandalise. Throughout, Game Master Claude enforces uncomfortable historical realism, rejecting quick theatrical deaths in favour of slow deterioration from hypothermia and starvation. Cheers mate. Tune in next week for Part 2 of 3 to hear how Nick fares against the tough medieval Nuns. More from the Death Wish series: Death Wish Down Under: The "Aussie Rules" Speed Run Tan, Nick and Ryan each arrive on a convict ship in Australia. Who can get themselves killed first? Ancient MesoPOOtamia: A Death Wish Speed Run The original speedrun episode. Nick is on a Grand Theft Auto style mission to get himself killed as quickly as possible. A Cat-God with a Death Wish The episode that inspired this series. Ryan pushes Game Master to the limit in Ancient Egypt. - - - - -  GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠www.pastmasterpod.com  Instagram 👉 ⁠@pastmasterpod  TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 ⁠@pastmasterAI Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER INTERACTIVE MAP  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. - - - - -  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    32 min
  8. MC Wicked Drops the Beat at Woodstock (ft. Nick Horseman)

    11/24/2025

    MC Wicked Drops the Beat at Woodstock (ft. Nick Horseman)

    What if hip-hop had been invented at Woodstock? Join MC Wicked as he attempts to blow flower children's minds with beats from the future. Hip-hop "expert", Tan becomes MC Wicked - a beatboxing time traveler who literally cannot stop making beats. Armed with nothing but vocal percussion and robot voice effects, he crashes Woodstock 1969's backstage area with a mission to get on the main stage and introduce hip-hop culture decades before its time. Those hippies won't know what hit 'em - - - - -  GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 ⁠www.pastmasterpod.com  Instagram 👉 ⁠@PastMasterPod⁠  TikTok 👉 ⁠@PastMasterAI⁠ X 👉 ⁠@PastMasterAI⁠ Email us  👉 ⁠pastmasterpod@gmail.com⁠ - - - - -  EXPLORE THE PASTMASTER INTERACTIVE MAP  The perfect companion for keeping track of our increasingly chaotic attempts to meddle with history. - - - - - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    35 min
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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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