The Buster Cast

Maya and Dan are on holiday, so Raving Roy Brennan from KSUN Sunshine 99 has the studio, a guest and no supervision.

The lead singer of Storm Riders talks about the new album Palorama, and Roy plays 4 tracks from it, including Pete Ryan's Bike Shed, Midnight Odyssey, Nothing at All - then closes out with a bonus track called Retribution.

Storm Riders play the album front to back at Havana Jacks, Seaview Boardwalk, next Thursday.

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The Stone and the Siege

Buster is back, and for once he hasn't gone anywhere in time. He's gone to Ireland.

Maya and Dan take on the two videos released in the last 10 days. The Siege of Redford, which goes to 1649 and the loss of the family castle, and Black Jack Dalton, which picks the story up a century later with a smuggler, a ledger and a friend in Dublin Castle.

Running through both is an amethyst. A stone an ancestor is said to have owned, which the family has always been told was nothing more than an Irish fairytale. It appears on a woman's neck in a burning castle in 1649. It appears again a hundred years later. And at the end of one of these videos, on a table by candlelight, it glows violet.

Which happens to be the colour of the vortex.

More lore coming. The creator says the big one is a few weeks out.

Seaview has a television station. Nobody in this town is ready for it.

Maya and Dan work through the newest drop from Buster Goes Back: an entire local evening news bulletin from KSEA-TV Channel 9, anchored by the unshakeable Curt Redgrave. On the pier, a fight to save the Fandango. At the gates of the country club, a mayor who keeps being told no. And at the very end, a signature on a rejection letter that changes what we thought we knew about the Dalton family.

Watch Newswatch 9: Trouble on the Pier at @BusterGoesBack on YouTube, and find the whole universe at BusterGoesBack.com.

I'm Maya. I'm Dan. See you in the vortex.

Kleptograd, 1984. A general, a file, and a photograph slides across a table. The face in the photograph is someone you know.

Maya and Dan unpack the darkest and most cinematic drop in Busterverse history: a full Cold War period piece with no jokes and no mercy. Dan brings the real KGB history, Maya spots a connection to Episode 5 that reframes both drops, and there's an ending the hosts refuse to discuss at all. Watch the film first. Then listen.

Watch Agent Nokov at youtube.com/@BusterGoesBack and get updates at bustergoesback.com.

It's morning time in Seaview, and Mayor Art Riordan would like your vote. Please ignore the potholes, the protests, and whatever is happening to his posters.

Maya and Dan break down the funniest drop in Busterverse history: a pitch-perfect parody of the most famous political ad ever made, and Dan has the 1984 history to prove it. Inside the golden sunrise footage there's a plot brewing, an old picture palace on the pier, some faces you know, 1 face you've been waiting for, and a final-seconds reveal that had both hosts shouting at the screen. Seaview will never be the same.

Watch It's Morning Time in Seaview at youtube.com/@BusterGoesBack and get updates at bustergoesback.com.

Maya and Dan go full conspiracy board on the week's clues, from a mysterious new arrival on bustergoesback.com to the first real details about Buster's father, a man with a fortune, a secret, and a story that begins long before the grow tent. There's a legend involved. Dan has a theory. Maya has egg rolls.

More at bustergoesback.com and youtube.com/@BusterGoesBack.

Silesia, March 1944. The vortex opens in a frozen forest, and 90 seconds later Buster is face down in the snow with a rifle at his head, inside the most secure POW camp in the Third Reich.

Maya and Dan break down part 1 of the biggest story the series has told: the real Stalag Luft III. Why the camp was built to be escape-proof, from raised huts to buried microphones to sand that betrayed every digger, and how a man with no papers, no coat and 1 pristine white sneaker on the Kommandant's desk ends up in the cooler, Steve McQueen style. Plus what the 1963 film got wrong, and a first hint of what hundreds of Allied airmen are quietly doing 30 feet beneath Buster's cell.

Watch part 1, Buster's Great Escape, at youtube.com/@BusterGoesBack and get updates at bustergoesback.com.

Dublin, 13 April 1742. Buster walks into a packed music hall on Fishamble Street to hear something nobody alive today has ever heard: Handel's Messiah, brand new.

This time the trip is no accident. Buster is a music lover, and of everywhere in history the vortex could take him, he's chosen the premiere of the most famous choral work ever written. Maya and Dan unpack the episode and the astonishing true history behind it: why Messiah premiered in Dublin rather than London, the charity concert that freed men from debtors' prison, the notice asking ladies to leave their hoops at home and gentlemen their swords, a shopping trip through a real Dublin neighbourhood called Hell, and a supper table shared with Handel and a very grumpy Jonathan Swift.

Watch the full episode, Buster Goes Back: The Messiah Premiere, at youtube.com/@BusterGoesBack and get updates at bustergoesback.com.

Who is Buster? Maya and Dan go behind the scenes of Buster Goes Back, the internet's favourite cult time travel comedy, and start where you have to start: the origin.

Meet Roger 'Buster' Dalton, Santa Monica entertainment lawyer, dedicated surfer and self-described weed lawyer with frequent flyer status. His life was sorted until a routine grow tent order turned out to be something else entirely, because the tent is a time machine. In this episode: the delivery that started it all, what it's actually like inside the time vortex (including the sailing ship nobody can explain), the ancient legend of a strain older than history, and a first glimpse of the mysterious Mori. Plus the reveal that changes everything: Buster is not the first Dalton this has happened to.

Watch the series at youtube.com/@BusterGoesBack and get updates at bustergoesback.com. New to the Busterverse? This is the perfect place to start.