PastMaster: Reshaping History With AI
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!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 73
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
S4E19: The Battle of Hee Hee Hastings
Keon travels back to October 13th, 1066, as the mysterious "Agent M" with a mission to help King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. But who exactly is Agent M, and what's with the red leather jacket a…
00:52:24 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
S4E18: Greased Lightning – The Apprentice Who Wouldn’t Die
Ever wondered what would happen if you woke up in someone else's body with no idea who you were or what you were supposed to do
In this Quantum Leap-inspired episode, Ryan finds himself in medieval…
01:11:09 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
S4E17: The Greatest Conspiracy in History – The Arkham Investigation PART 2 (ft. The Apocalypse Players)
Dan and Joseph return as Gert and T.G. Fells to conclude their investigation into the missing Ezra Whitmar. What begins as a simple missing person case in 1920s Arkham spirals into an encounter with …
01:03:51 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
S4E16: The Arkham Investigation PART 1 (ft The Apocalypse Players)
Dan Wheeler and Joseph Chance from the award-winning Apocalypse Players podcast bring their Call of Cthulhu expertise to 1920s Arkham, Massachusetts. When businessman Ezra Whitmarsh vanishes from a l…
00:42:32 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
S4E15: Red Dead Sensation – Stopping a War in the Wild West (with the power of music)
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…
00:58:12 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
Short message: back in July!
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 …
00:02:44 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
S4E14: Aussie Rules Speed Run – Death Wish Down Under
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…
00:39:08 |
Mon 19 May 2025
S4E13: The Medieval African Billionaire space program – Mansa Musa and the Golden Rocket
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 miss…
01:02:20 |
Mon 05 May 2025
S4E12: Battle Magic – Cocaine Diplomacy in 55 BCE
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 BCE
Inspired by the be…
00:40:53 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
S4E11: Matthew Crosby and the Satanic Cult
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, …
01:03:49 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
S4E10: Who can build the best Trojan Horse?
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 fo…
00:56:28 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
S4E9: The Haunting of Henry VIII, ft Fetch the Smelling Salts
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 …
01:04:04 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
S4E8: Ancient MesoPOOtamia... – Death Wish Speed Run ft Nick Horseman
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 ac…
00:39:30 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
S4E7: Danny Dyer calls The Void a slag. The Big Bang, Garden of Eden and the East End
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 t…
00:46:26 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
S4E6: AC/DC and The Battle of the Bots – ChatGPT vs Claude
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 electri…
00:50:03 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
S4E5: Claudanum-dreams. A gothic literature revolution, featuring Thots TV
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 f…
01:07:10 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
S4E4: Claude of the Rings
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 br…
00:41:30 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
S4E3: One Giant Mess for Mankind. Hitching a ride on Apollo 11
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 …
00:43:07 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
S4E2: The Social Network Stealer. Founding Facebook First
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 corridor…
00:51:38 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
S4E1: Sense and Shootability with Micky Overman
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 ro…
00:51:44 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
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