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PastMaster: Reshaping History With AI
PastMaster: Reshaping History With AI
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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... more

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S3E13: Freaking out the Founding Fathers of America [1775 CE]

With American politics constantly in the news right now PastMaster heads back in time to visit the first presidents of... more

07 Oct 2024 · 46 minutes
S3E12: Plato's Wrestlemania & the Search for Atlantis [355 BCE]

Is Atlantis real? That's the question we've been pondering as Tan takes to the PastMaster hotseat to try and uncover... more

30 Sep 2024 · 37 minutes
S3E11: HardMode 3.0 - Hard Claude with a Vengeance

Is Claude a more realistic GameMaster than ChatGPT?  This week we're bringing back 'Hard Mode' to PastMaster. We've crafted a particularly... more

23 Sep 2024 · 39 minutes
Important PastMaster Announcement(s)!

We've been a little quiet over the summer, but fear not, the wheels of time are still turning at the... more

17 Sep 2024 · 1 minute
S3E10: ‘Lady Claudius’ vs Robin Hood (ft Heidi Regan) [1152 CE]

Comedian Heidi Regan joins the PastMaster team for the chance to meet her hero Robin Hood. Sent on a mission to... more

09 Jul 2024 · 59 minutes
S3E9: Claude is back! Cockney GameMaster vs Samurai Warriors. [~1336 CE]

GameMaster Claude is back and is as weird as ever! Tan has always wanted to return to feudal Japan to... more

01 Jul 2024 · 51 minutes
S3E8: Does AI believe in Aliens? The Truth behind Area 51 (ft Sunil Patel) [1988 CE]

Aliens. Living amongst us. Possibly. What does GameMaster think? Surely with access to all the knowledge on the internet, our AI-powered... more

24 Jun 2024 · 40 minutes
S3E7: Infiltrating Pablo Escobar's Cartel. "El contacto y las tartas" [1973 CE]

This week Keon takes the reins to explore 1970s Medellín, Colombia. The mission: Become Pablo Escobar’s right-hand man with a... more

17 Jun 2024 · 41 minutes
S3E6: Move over ChatGPT, Clever Claude is the new GameMaster (ft Nick Horseman) [~1350 CE]

GameMaster - the AI-powered narrator of PastMaster adventures - gets a makeover in today's episode. ChatGPT has been benched and... more

10 Jun 2024 · 41 minutes
S3E5: Pheasants & Phlatulence. The best drama. Period. (ft Kim and Alice from Fetch the Smelling Salts) [1813 CE]

Brace yourself. We're heading to rural Derbyshire in 1813 with Alice Nagle and Kim Marsh from ⁠@fetchsmellingsalts⁠ for a romp through Regency... more

04 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
S3E4: Sunil Patel's Roman Rampage [~150 BCE]

Comedian and actor Sunil Patel (Alice & Jack (C4) The Witchfinder (BBC), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), Stath Lets... more

27 May 2024 · 46 minutes
S3E3: AgathAI ChristiGPT – Can we make a compelling murder mystery drama? [1928 CE]

First Sherlock Holmes then Hercule Poirot and now Inspector Klaus. Keon pits himself against the greatest crime-solving detectives in a special... more

20 May 2024 · 34 minutes
S3E2: “A Whole New (smoke-free) World” - Saving Walt Disney (ft Verbal Diorama’s Em McGowan)

Disney's "Dark Ages" typically encompasses the late 1960s to the late 1980s. During this time the quality and success of... more

13 May 2024 · 41 minutes
S3E1: Hard Mode 2.0 – Can Tan become a god in Ancient Sparta? [~500 BCE]

We're back with Season 3 of PastMaster! This week's episode is PastHard with a Vengeance as Ryan tries to turn the... more

06 May 2024 · 47 minutes
Season 3 Trailer – The Past and the Furious

The PastMaster crew are back with Season 3. And it's promising to be more Past-ery and more AI-y than ever... more

03 May 2024 · 4 minutes
S2E13: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Season 2 Finale

Looking back on highlights of season 2, Ryan, Keon and Tan pick out the good, the bad and the tremendously... more

19 Feb 2024 · 38 minutes
S2E12: The Mary Celeste - Mystery Solved (kinda) [1872 CE]

The PastMaster team joins the fateful final voyage of the Mary Celeste, the merchant ship whose crew vanished without a... more

05 Feb 2024 · 46 minutes
S2E11: The Sausage of World Peace (Dinner Party Master Special)

This week the team head to the Palace of Versailles to host a fantasy dinner party attended by the good... more

29 Jan 2024 · 37 minutes
S2E10: Two Mad Dogs, a Swan Burger and a Fighting Bear [1613 CE] (ft. special guest Marc Zakian)

In the ultimate battle of man vs machine, we pit our human guide against artificial intelligence for an adventure through... more

22 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
S2E9: Harder, faster, Past-ier – Royal Rumble in the American Revolution [1773 CE]

Besieged by PastMaster fans asking for the game to be made harder, Tan updates the rules of the game, giving... more

08 Jan 2024 · 40 minutes
S2E8: Operation: Save Jesus [~30 CE] (ft. special guest Nick Horseman)

Returning to PastMaster for another crack at the past is rapper and comedian Nick Horseman. Nick (AKA Cat R Pillar)... more

18 Dec 2023 · 31 minutes
S2E7: FutureMaster – We've been to the year 3000. Can confirm, they don't live underwater [2985 CE]

Keon flexes his muscles and updates his Insta profile pic before jumping into the time machine and darting off to... more

11 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
S2E6: Stop the Conference! Berlin 1884 (ft. Chinny Ukata & Astrid Madimba from It's a Continent)

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... more

04 Dec 2023 · 58 minutes
S2E5: Solving the Mystery of Stonehenge [~3000 BCE]

Keon’s always wanted to know who built ⁠Stonehenge⁠ and why. So Ryan used PastMaster to find out (of course). In what is possibly... more

27 Nov 2023 · 54 minutes
S2E4: Labour of Time [1959 CE] (ft. special guest Tom GK)

Comedian and writer Tom GK returns to the PastMaster studio, taking the hot seat for his first time as a player. Heading... more

20 Nov 2023 · 44 minutes
S2E3: TrueCrimeMaster – We solved the Jack The Ripper case!

Tan travels back to the slums of Victorian Whitechapel in a bid to catch Jack the Ripper and solve one... more

13 Nov 2023 · 37 minutes
S2E2: "The Strategist" sniffs out Napoleon Bonaparte [1805 CE] (ft. special guest Nick Horseman)

Special guest rapper and comedian Nick Horseman returns to PastMaster in the year 1805 for an adventure aboard the HMS... more

06 Nov 2023 · 47 minutes
S2E1: Sorcery Slam (Hallowe’en special) [~1400 CE] ft. special guest Tom GK.

PastMaster is back for season 2 and for this Halloween special Tan takes on the Witchfinder General himself in a... more

30 Oct 2023 · 51 minutes
EP20: A blast from the PastMaster — Season 1 Finale (featuring special guest ‘Dave’)

We’re wrapping up Season 1 of PastMaster with a look back on some of the highlights of our adventures so... more

29 Aug 2023 · 36 minutes
EP19: Barbenheimer (Special 2 Player PastMaster)

Barbie and Ken try to prevent nuclear war by sabotaging the bomb in our first two-player game of PastMaster. Barbie, played... more

22 Aug 2023 · 39 minutes
EP18: Cap’n F**k-C**tle’s Sweary Sea Shanty [1756 CE]

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING: While we have bleeped out the worst of the swear words, this episode is definitely not safe for... more

14 Aug 2023 · 49 minutes
EP17: Olympic wheelbarrow racing (with special guest Louise Banham) [776 BCE]

At the first ever Olympics Keon sets out to win a gold medal and introduce some new sports to the... more

31 Jul 2023 · 48 minutes
EP16: Elizabethan Jazz Hands (with special guest Louise Banham) [1592 CE]

Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I feature in this episode set in 1592. Special guest Louise Banham attempts to become ruler... more

24 Jul 2023 · 56 minutes
EP15: Aria of Death, A Mission to kill Hitler (with special guest Nick Horseman) [1911 CE]

Special guest Nick Horseman stars in a time travelling mission to kill Adolph Hitler before he can rise to prominence. Adopting... more

17 Jul 2023 · 36 minutes
EP14: Death Wish Kitty (with special guest Nick Horseman) [1250 BCE]

The gang head back to ancient Egypt, this time with a cunning plan involving poles, furs and a beatboxing cat-god... With... more

10 Jul 2023 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
EP13: The Windy City Wedding Whiskey Run (with special guest Nick Horseman) [1926 CE]

Special guest comedian and rapper Nick Horseman stars in a wise-cracking journey to prohibition-era Chicago. With his gangster patter down... more

03 Jul 2023 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
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... more

26 Jun 2023 · 50 minutes
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... more

19 Jun 2023 · 45 minutes
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... more

12 Jun 2023 · 47 minutes
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... more

05 Jun 2023 · 48 minutes
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... more

28 May 2023 · 38 minutes
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... more

22 May 2023 · 32 minutes
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... more

15 May 2023 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
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... more

08 May 2023 · 47 minutes
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... more

30 Apr 2023 · 20 minutes
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... more

30 Apr 2023 · 42 minutes
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... more

30 Apr 2023 · 31 minutes
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... more

30 Apr 2023 · 32 minutes
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... more

28 Apr 2023 · 1 minute
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Ryan gaslights Charles Darwin about who really wrote On the Origin of Species and orders the scientist to give him a piggyback... more