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

About this episode

The hosts celebrate the third birthday of PastMaster by time traveling to a grand Renaissance party with historical figures.

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 mask can't quite hide the limp. To celebrate three years of PastMaster, Ryan and Tan have dragged returning co-host Keon out of parental leave, handed everyone a plus-one from history, and gatecrashed the greatest party the Renaissance ever threw. Ryan brings a Neanderthal — male, roughly 30,000 years out of his depth, dangerously interested in the nearest torch. Keon brings Anne Boleyn, sharp, multilingual, and 40 years early for the court politics that will eventually kill her. Tan brings Zeus. Actual Zeus. King of the gods, toga intact. Will Game Master Claude suffer silly plus-ones gladly? The real Medici masquerade sat two years downstream of the Pazzi Conspiracy — the Easter-Sunday cathedral stabbing that killed Lorenzo's brother Giuliano and left Lorenzo himself wounded, vengeful, and consolidating power through spectacle. Florence in 1480 is Botticelli arguing about the exact colour of shadow, Leonardo sketching whatever catches his eye, and every wealthy house performing the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ryan, Tan

Guests: Keon, Anne Boleyn, Zeus

Topics covered

• Renaissance
• time travel
• historical figures
• comedy
• party
• Medici

Keywords

• PastMaster
• Renaissance party
• time travel
• Neanderthal
• Anne Boleyn
• Zeus
• Lorenzo de Medici
• comedy podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Botticelli, Leonardo

Places: Florence

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