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
![EP12: When in Rome... [70 BCE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ad71209e-cc82-11ef-893f-27ac235c769f/image/87862b8c73b51f498911ca7eaa5c4c7c.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP12: When in Rome... [70 BCE]
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…
00:52:53 |
Mon 26 Jun 2023
![EP11: Egypt, pt 2 – Are ghosts real or not then? [~1400 BCE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/adfa83b6-cc82-11ef-893f-2f87ab92b244/image/b8d63e02b3cc497f17a5034f147b0832.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP11: Egypt, pt 2 – Are ghosts real or not then? [~1400 BCE]
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 h…
00:48:09 |
Mon 19 Jun 2023
![EP10: Egypt, pt 1 – Ancient Egyptian beard modelling [~1400 BCE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ae90b610-cc82-11ef-893f-8fb41550a996/image/ba747f1543dc1975794baddb7af3286e.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP10: Egypt, pt 1 – Ancient Egyptian beard modelling [~1400 BCE]
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…
00:50:19 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
![EP9: Galilee, pt 2 – Come on Jesus, what was your best miracle? [25 CE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/af25a626-cc82-11ef-893f-8bdc171d9638/image/d326c1c26db6e1ba386b3c81c8df74f5.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP9: Galilee, pt 2 – Come on Jesus, what was your best miracle? [25 CE]
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…
00:51:19 |
Mon 05 Jun 2023
![EP8: Galilee, pt 1 – Baron Saffron sets up shop [25 CE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/afc09b54-cc82-11ef-893f-f316ba269460/image/0744a61704ff6e9a469052f5b9848811.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP8: Galilee, pt 1 – Baron Saffron sets up shop [25 CE]
Tan journeys to the era of Jesus Christ in Galilee, circa 25AD. After getting caught stealing some bread, he forges an unlikely friendship with a spice merchant before setting out to become a saffron…
00:40:57 |
Sun 28 May 2023
![EP7: The land before time (and logic) [~65m BCE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b0796e86-cc82-11ef-893f-0f135b71baea/image/9d22384f44e5be26d61fb100dfb38de7.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP7: The land before time (and logic) [~65m BCE]
Tan visits the Jurassic era to test whether he can avoid becoming lunch and emerge victorious as leader of the dinosaurs.
Pushing the parameters of the game to its limits, Tan makes friends with din…
00:35:15 |
Mon 22 May 2023
![EP6: Inventing ‘the box’ and avoiding Agincourt (with special guest Sunil Patel) [1411 CE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b108c130-cc82-11ef-893f-2facbbfb68fe/image/448b4e1997d51c45631a5bd0cd372167.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP6: Inventing ‘the box’ and avoiding Agincourt (with special guest Sunil Patel) [1411 CE]
Special guest comedian Sunil Patel visits a brothel in the mid-15th century. Despite this indulgent opening, his savvy negotiations and surprisingly vague and generic invention soon open the way for …
01:05:02 |
Mon 15 May 2023
EP5: On the origin of "On the Origin of Species" [1861 CE]
Ryan gaslights Charles Darwin about who really wrote On the Origin of Species and orders the scientist to give him a piggyback across town.
Using the acronym Ryland Mulchroneforth, our anti-hero hea…
00:50:19 |
Mon 08 May 2023
EP4: Fixing Lord of the Rings
Dragging our AI Gamemaster off to JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Tan finds out how orc visitor ‘Thokk the Unthinkable’ gets on in the Shire and whether Gandalf will accept his plan to destroy the One Ri…
00:23:10 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
![EP3: Headbutting into the Viking Times [~850 CE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b2b4772c-cc82-11ef-893f-f33635b9e78e/image/fd00576161ae3bc9fda2589a469e907e.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP3: Headbutting into the Viking Times [~850 CE]
Keon explores his inner murder hobo, journeying to Denmark at the height of the Viking empire where he seeks to be worshipped as a god and to start a feud with a rival.
PastMaster is the time-trav…
00:45:29 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
![EP2: Medieval Breakdancing Badgers [~1300 CE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b3805496-cc82-11ef-893f-b7c37fdc293a/image/08c966c7fde772c173bdbb7c8f26d729.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP2: Medieval Breakdancing Badgers [~1300 CE]
Ryan give Guns N’ Roses a makeover on the lute and tries to seduce a lord’s wife. But could his animal training know-how prove the real key to success?
PastMaster is the time-travel role-playing adv…
00:34:01 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
![EP1: Kentucky Fried Western [1865 CE]](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b40abfd2-cc82-11ef-893f-9bc462ef942f/image/9e7ffe903e6f968255ffe63fa5091e01.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
EP1: Kentucky Fried Western [1865 CE]
On our maiden voyage back in time, Keon heads to the Wild West to make a name for himself among the cowboys with a fast food franchise that promises to be finger lickin’ good.
PastMaster is the ti…
00:35:01 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
TRAILER – "Roads? Where we're going they haven't invented roads yet!"
If you could go back 10 years what would you do? Buy a bunch of bitcoin probably. What about 100 years, 200, 500? Could you survive and thrive? Or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch?
W…
00:03:06 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
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