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A Weird Show for Weirdos Who Make Things How do you make art when the world feels like it’s on fire? Welcome to Craft and Chaos, the podcast for creative minds trying to thrive in the madness. Whether you write, paint, build, perform, or daydream ideas that keep you up at night, this show is your companion through the wild ride of making something out of nothing. Join Misty, Pete, Kyle, and Ryan — a ragtag team of creative types — as they dive into the joy, frustration, and beautiful mess of the artistic process. From the spark of inspiration to the reality of “I actually made this,” they’ll share honest stories, epic wins, total flops, and the weird, wonderful chaos that comes with being possessed by a new idea. This isn’t just about craft. It’s about surviving the noise, embracing your weird, and making cool stuff anyway. Wherever the strangest podcasts are found.©TruStory FM Arte Ciencias Sociales
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  • The Lorem Ipsum of Our Future

    The Lorem Ipsum of Our Future
    Oct 2 2025
    This week on Craft and Chaos, Pete, Misty, Kyle, and Ryan take a running jump into the boiling cauldron of AI, authorship, and the existential dread of wondering if your book draft is secretly moonlighting as training data for Skynet’s moody younger cousin. Pete opens the show mourning the discovery that Google Docs is essentially that roommate who “borrows” your clothes without asking—except instead of your hoodie, it’s your creative soul. Kyle yanks all his writing off the internet faster than you can say “Blue Harvest.” Ryan insists on contractual AI abstinence clauses like he’s starring in the world’s least sexy prenup. And Misty? She just admits she’s given up—then immediately delivers a sermon on theft, cognitive diminishment, and the performative weirdness of social media that makes you wonder if Instagram is actually just a giant gaslighting experiment.But this isn’t all doom and gloom! The crew pivots from paranoia to possibility, arguing that the one thing AI can’t replicate is weirdness. Distinct human mess. The sentences with too many M-dashes. The sketch about sperm redistribution. The Shakespearean play about late-night TV hosts fighting for the throne. The legendary giant squid of Lancashire. This is the content the robots can’t touch, and it’s glorious. Then, as if that weren’t enough chaos, they unleash The Working Titles Game—where Hollywood’s real, baffling project code names are guessed, mocked, and improved. “Starbeast” becomes Alien. “Rory’s First Kiss” turns out to be The Dark Knight. And everyone learns that “Group Hug” is somehow The Avengers.If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re a “face” or a “hands,” if you’ve contemplated anonymity as artistic freedom, or if you just want to hear Pete suddenly turn a sketch character Jewish halfway through, this episode has everything. It’s part therapy session, part roast, part TED Talk on weirdness, and part game show fever dream. By the end, you’ll either feel inspired to go make something beautifully strange… or just jealous that you’re not the one writing a half-hour comedy called Sperm Robin Hood.Links and NotesPeople & Creators:John ScalziAustin KleonJohn AugustUrsula K. Le Guin Daily Writing RoutineMiranda July - Author of All FoursWhite Hot Heist (2022) - the one where Bowen Yang does that thing with that stuff.Articles & Resources:"So Your Kid Wants to be a Twitch Streamer" - Wired article discussing "faces vs. hands""Downton Arby's"“Night of the Squid”Creative Works & Projects:Welcome to Night ValeSwashbuckling Ladies Debate SocietyGo Help YourselfHeadstoneMarvel Movie MinuteArcher Thorne superhero seriesTools & Platforms Mentioned:Wattpad - Early writing platform, later acquired and data concerns raisedAutoPod/AutoCut - AI-powered podcast editing tools for multi-camera switchingConcepts Discussed:The Dark Side of Cognitive DiminishmentThe Dunbar number (00:00) - Welcome to Craft and Chaos(02:40) - How have you changed because of AI?(12:07) - "Sponsor:" Headstone with Pete Wright(14:04) - MAJOR SEGMENT ALERT(01:09:26) - "Sponsor:" The Audio Fiction Convention(01:10:57) - Working Title Game!
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    1 h y 23 m
  • Dying to Cobble

    Dying to Cobble
    Sep 18 2025

    This week on Craft and Chaos, Misty wrangles the chaos as the team dives into the comfort of cozy mysteries, the horror of genre snobbery, and the existential unraveling that occurs when you go viral and absolutely nothing happens.

    We kick off with a round of “what are you enjoying,” which—shockingly—turns into a love letter to Murderbot, Idris Elba, and Helen Mirren solving crimes while wearing cozy cardigans. Pete accidentally reboots his Apple TV algorithm. Ryan makes new famous friends. Kyle shares a Netflix recommendation so charming it may cause spontaneous Britishness. And Misty just got back from Edinburgh Fringe with a play that involved one tire and possibly a direct hotline to the gods of storytelling.

    Then we take on a deceptively gentle listener question: “How do you find a supportive creative community when yours has turned toxic?” Cue the most emotionally validating roundtable since that time you cried in your car after improv class. The crew gets real about vibe checks, class-based writing groups, running far away from bad energy, and possibly forming a new community by declaring “you’re in my group now” to strangers in a bookstore café.

    We have a rousing round of Craft Confessions this week and we unpack a brutally honest essay from Amy McNee, whose appearance on a massive podcast should have led to skyrocketing book sales. It didn’t. At all. And that leads us into a real conversation about what success actually looks like when the “big break” doesn’t break anything.

    Finally, we ruin classic movies. Bet you’ll have Little Women: Too Little, Too Women. living rent free you-know-where when it’s over.

    Links & Notes


    Shows, Movies, and Books

    • Hijack
    • Only Murders in the Building
    • High Potential
    • Knives Out / Glass Onion / Wake Up Dead Man
    • Thursday Murder Club (based on the books by Richard Osman)
    • Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
    • Murderbot Audiobooks via GraphicAudio
    • Sandstorm by James Rollins
    • A Letter to Lyndon B. Johnson or God, Whoever Reads This First by Xhloe and Natasha


    Writers & Creators Mentioned

    • Amie McNee (Author of We Need Your Art)
    • "I went on one of the biggest podcast in the world" by Amie McNee


    Bonus D&D Reference

    • Deborah Ann Woll explains D&D to Jon Bernthal
    • (00:00) - Welcome to Craft and Chaos
    • (01:04) - What are you enjoying right now?
    • (09:57) - Listener Questions!
    • (23:22) - "Sponsor" The Other Orange
    • (24:54) - Craft Confessions
    • (37:15) - What's the Bump? Tell me what's a-happenin' ... How do you define success?
    • (57:48) - "Sponsor:" Your Favorite Comfort Show
    • (58:59) - The Terrible Sequel Generator
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    1 h y 7 m
  • Build Your Own Weather

    Build Your Own Weather
    Sep 3 2025

    Ryan opens with a philosophical gauntlet: if a podcast intro is just a throat-clearing, why does it somehow set the weather for everything that follows? Consider this episode a field test in micro-moods and momentum—the kind where vibes double as both a bit and a manifesto. From there, the conversation becomes a collage of modern creative survival: the strange dignity of being the “control group” in a gym commercial; the emotional origami of querying gatekeepers who want both your voice and your compliance; and the quietly radioactive question of whether the world owes artists anything besides indifference and, occasionally, a polite clap.

    Creativity here is a set of rituals that smuggle you back to yourself: five-minute sprints, a piano you only half-remember how to love, a kitchen dance that resets your nervous system, a mantra that lets your brain slip past security. Regret shows up, as it always does, wearing the cologne of “what if,” and gets gently escorted to the door by the older, kinder realization that showing up late is still showing up. We even run a cultural Turing test—romance novel or death metal band?—and discover that genre is just marketing in a studded leather jacket.

    There’s also a quiet benediction tucked inside the jokes: creativity keeps working in the back room even when you can’t get to the front. Life surges, rooms empty, kids drive themselves, and the noise floor drops. So you learn to build your own weather. Print your own book if you must. Bless your past self, absolve the cringe, and keep making weird things for the weirdos who will find them. That’s the show: not a lesson plan... a permission slip.

    • (00:00) - This is a Craft and Chaos Intro
    • (01:10) - Pete his hired as "Before"
    • (03:11) - Listener Questions
    • (03:22) - What is a Query?
    • (12:36) - Does the world owe you an audience?
    • (19:42) - "Sponsor:" The Other Orange
    • (20:40) - How do you create when life is full... and possibly a little boring
    • (39:34) - "Sponsor:" It's All Good.
    • (40:38) - The Games Portion: Romance V Death Metal Band
    • (53:00) - Marker 10
    • (54:20) - A Writer's Rec
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    59 m
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