PastMaster: Reshaping History

PastMaster: Reshaping History

PastMaster

Episodes 90
Avg. Duration 50m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 2.6 (5)
Since Apr 2023
Latest Episode May 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
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65%
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If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? Welcome to PastMaster, the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, hosts Ryan and Tan are joined by a special guest comedian who is sent back in time with nothing but their modern knowledge and the shirt on their back. Under the guidance of a benevolent robot Game Master, they navigate to a different era each episode and find out if they’ve got what it takes to reshape the past. Will it be historically accurate? Will any of it make sense? Will they master the past? Tune in to find out.

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S5E8 The Singing Grave Diggers of The Black Death, ft The McPherson Twins

May 13, 2026 1h 22m

Bristol, 1348. The Black Death is two days from sealing the city, bodies are being carted through the mud, and a desperate merchant needs a sealed letter carried to London before the gates close.…

S5E8 Crashing the Greatest Party in History: PastMaster 3rd Birthday Special

Apr 27, 2026 1h 22m

Florence, 1480. The Palazzo Medici is blazing against the February dark, 500 guests in silk and masks are drinking like nothing bad happened two years ago in the Duomo, and Lorenzo de Medici's gold…

A Vegetarian with Bad Knees vs. Vlad the Impaler, ft. Rohan Sharma

Apr 13, 2026 1h 1m

Wallachia, 1456. Vlad III has just retaken his throne, impaling stakes line the city's edge, and a scribe named Constantin has hidden the only written record of Vlad's chaotic first reign in a…

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Cricket: Qin Dynasty China ft. Caroline McEvoy

Mar 30, 2026 1h 1m

Qin Dynasty China, 212 BCE. Climbing into the time travel machine otherwise known as the Hen & Hound, award-winning comedian Caroline McEvoy steps foot in Qin Dynasty China. She’s been set a…

S5E4 How to conquer Greenland ft. Ashley Haden

Mar 16, 2026 1h 1m

Greenland, 986 CE. Erik the Red has just established the first Norse settlement at Brattahlid, and comedian Ashley Haden has been living among the colonists for three months. The problem? A prominent…

S5E3 Hot Dog Hijinks at the Great Library of Alexandria, ft. Lexx Education podcast

Mar 02, 2026 46m

Alexandria, 48 BCE. Caesar's forces are closing in, fires are spreading through the harbour, and the greatest collection of knowledge the ancient world has ever assembled is about to go up in smoke.…

S5E2 Accidental Mayan Blood Sacrifice ft. Bilal Zafar

Feb 16, 2026 54m

Tikal, 741 CE. One of the most powerful Maya city-states at the height of the Late Classic period. Towering pyramids, elaborate blood rituals, and a head priest who has the king's ear and absolutely…

S5E1 A few sherbets for the Silk Road ft. Esther Manito

Feb 03, 2026 56m

Samarkand, 750 CE. The Islamic Golden Age is in full swing, the Silk Road is the most lucrative trade network on Earth, and comedian Esther Manito has just been dropped into the middle of it with a…

What next for PastMaster... ?

Jan 06, 2026 12m Bonus

Can the past be mastered? Is AI still cool? And where exactly has Keon gone? Season 4 was a big one — we pitted ChatGPT against Claude in a two-player electricity showdown, launched Death Wish Speed…

"Modern Knowledge / Medieval Consequences" — TRAILER

Dec 30, 2025 3m Trailer

If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive -- or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? Season 5 of PastMaster is here. New comedians. New eras. New ways to…

The Santa Claude Intervention: PastMaster Christmas Special

Dec 22, 2025 1h 12m

The North Pole has gone very, very wrong. Father Christmas has swapped his "Ho Ho Ho" for a whiskey bottle and a whip, the elves are screaming, and the factory is belching black smoke into the Arctic…

S4E26 Nuns of Death: The Beastmaster Cometh (Part 3)

Dec 15, 2025 24m

Northumbria, 687 CE. The nuns have survived Ryan's naked Jesus act and Nick's witchcraft-and-Christina-Aguilera gambit. Now it's Tan's turn. His character name is Wee Willy Winky, the Beast Master.…

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

Dec 13, 2025 18m

Northumbria, 687 CE. The nunnery that refused to kill Ryan is about to meet its next challenger. Nick has a plan. A sexy, dirty, witchy plan. Nick's opening move: introduce himself as Emily. The nuns…

S4E24 Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun in a 7th Century Nunnery (Part 1)

Dec 01, 2025 32m

Northumbria, 687 CE. A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon nunnery. Prayer, scholarship, deep Christian patience. The last place in history you'd expect someone to get murdered quickly. Which is exactly why we…

S4E23 MC Wicked Drops the Beat at Woodstock (ft. Nick Horseman)

Nov 24, 2025 35m

Woodstock, 1969. Four hundred thousand flower children, Jimi Hendrix finishing his legendary set, and one man backstage who literally cannot stop beatboxing. Tan has been sent back to Max Yasgur's…

S4E22 Persia McPersia goes to Persia: PastMaster Live at the Cheerful Earful

Nov 17, 2025 51m

The Colosseum, 80 CE. Fifty thousand Romans screaming for blood, Emperor Titus presiding from his box, and two time travellers with ten minutes to get rich, get notorious, and not die. Recorded live…

S4E21 The Man who Destroyed Civilisation While Trying to Share a Bowl of Frosties with Charlie Simpson.

Nov 10, 2025 57m

Neo-Singapore, 2999. A vertical city-state stretching from the ocean floor to the stratosphere. Humanity's entire pre-digital cultural heritage is stored in a quantum archive, and a virus is about to…

S4E20 Flogging Miracle Tea at the Great Exhibition in 1851 (ft. Chris Reading)

Sep 29, 2025 45m

The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851. Six million visitors. The Crystal Palace. The pinnacle of Victorian innovation. And Chris Reading has just rolled up in a quack-mobile to sell miracle tea bags…

Mr Blobby tries to Save the Titanic

Sep 22, 2025 1h 1m Bonus

Friend of the show Ian Walker joins Tan to pit four AI large language models against each other and see which makes the best Game Master.   The setting? It couldn’t be grander or have higher stakes:…

S4E19 Michael Jackson at The Battle of Hee Hee Hastings

Aug 19, 2025 52m

The Battle of Hastings, 1066. The day that ended Anglo-Saxon England, crowned William the Conqueror, and changed the English language forever. Now Keon's been sent back to stop it — armed with a red…

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PastMaster: Reshaping History has published 90 episodes since April 2023, covering topics in Comedy, Games.

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