PastMaster: Reshaping History

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

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

"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

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

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