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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Sunil Patel's Roman Rampage
Description: Rome, 150 BCE. The Roman Republic is at its swaggering peak, senators are running the show, and comedian Sunil Patel has arrived with a plan to make a name for himself among the elite. His previous PastMaster appearance gave us the legendary "Patel's Box" — a game-changing invention so enigmatic it became a running joke. Now he's back, and Rome isn't ready.
Sunil's approach to Republican Rome is characteristically direct: find some senators and start networking. His methods for climbing the social ladder involve a combination of charm, violence, and inventions that would make an engineer weep. The Game Ma...