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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Sorcery Slam: Wrestling the Witch Finder General (ft. Tom GK)
Description: Suffolk, 1645. The English Civil War is raging, self-appointed Witch Finder General Matthew Hopkins is terrorising East Anglia, and Tan has just landed in Bury St Edmunds as "Tom Dandelion" with a Halloween mission: shut down the most notorious witch hunter in English history. His toolkit? Three rational arguments, a Zangief-style spinning pile driver, and the willingness to turn 17th-century justice into a Royal Rumble.
Tan's opening move is to call the townsfolk ignorant oafs and demand to see someone important. This goes about as well as you'd expect. Hopkins challenges him to a public debate on witchcraft...