Craft and Chaos

A Weird Show for Weirdos Who Make ThingsHow 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.

Craft and Chaos is a society podcast hosted by TruStory FM, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

TruStory FM hosts Craft and Chaos, a society show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #20

  Specifically Specific: A Love Letter to the Humor We Do Not Write

  May 21, 20261 hourS0

  <p>Ryan kicks the season finale off in a British accent, which we will not explain, and from there the episode is about humor — specifically, the humbling realization that the comedy you love and the comedy you write are often two completely unrelated genres operating in two completely unrelated brains. Pete worships the broad, sandwich-falling-from-the-sky lunacy of The Young Ones. Kyle reveres physical comedians who can walk into a room funny. Ryan grew up on Monty Python. None of them, it turns out, write anything resembling any of that.</p><p>Up top, Kyle tells a story about a script of...

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  Episode #19

  Cold Read.

  Apr 30, 20261h 18mS0

  <p>Kyle saw a Jen Silverman play that broke every formatting rule he thought theater had, which turned out to be the perfect prompt for an episode about what happens when creatives stop asking whether they're allowed. Mandy goes to bat for Lynn Shelton's Humpday. Pete makes the case for The Lego Movie, unironically and at length. And Ryan reminds us that Lord and Miller cast a puppeteer as the year's most beloved alien because the guy was too good at the scratch track to replace.</p><p>Then: a pair of 24-hour plays, both written to the same brief...

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  Episode #18

  Understanding the Heroes, Gods, and Monsters in Creative Work

  Apr 16, 20261h 6mS0

  <p>There is something almost embarrassing about the relief that comes from owning a thing entirely. Pete self-published his first novella, Lattice, and what he keeps coming back to is not the early reader responses or the question of whether people will like it. It is the dashboard. The group digs into what gatekeepers actually do (less line editing than you think, more echo chamber than you would hope), what self-publishing opens up and what it absolutely cannot guarantee, and why Ryan Dalton's first question to any aspiring author is not about craft but about goal.</p><p>Mandy is...

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  Episode #17

  Necessary Fictions

  Apr 2, 20261h 9mS0

  <p>Your brain told you this was going to be a short project. It also told you the outline was basically done, that sleep is optional, and that this time things would be different. Your brain, it turns out, has the self-awareness of a raccoon who just knocked over a trash can — and you keep listening to it anyway, because without it you never start anything. That's the premise of this week's Craft and Chaos, and it only gets more uncomfortably accurate from there.</p><p>Pete Wright, Mandy Fabian, Kyle Olson, and Ryan Dalton each confess the lies that ge...

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  Episode #16

  Against Productivity: A Manifesto in Three Acts and One Bowl

  Mar 19, 20261 hourS0

  <p>Creative people are very good at turning joy into homework. We find something we love, immediately ask how it could become a career, worry that we're not doing it correctly, read seven books about it, and six months later we're staring at the thing we used to love and feeling nothing. It is a remarkable talent and we should probably stop.</p><p>This week — inspired by The Tick, of all things — the Craft and Chaos crew attempts to remember what it felt like before all that. The assignment: something you made or did or consumed recently whose only job...

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