You’re Not Behind. You’re Exhausted.
January 22, 2026
Pete and Nikki kick off the new season by naming the thing nobody wants to put on a vision board: the post-holiday crash.
Pete Wright is a podcaster, author, and co-founder of TruStory FM. He's been behind a microphone for over thirty years and has logged thousands of episodes across three dozen shows covering film, ADHD, creative process, and the craft of storytelling. He spent fifteen years teaching graduate students and has consulted on brand communications for organizations ranging from global brands to one-person shops. His debut science fiction novella, Lattice, was published in 2026. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Pete and Nikki kick off the new season by naming the thing nobody wants to put on a vision board: the post-holiday crash.
Two joints, endless bad advice: knees and shoulders get blamed for everything, but most of the damage comes from ego-loading, sloppy control, and skipping the boring stabilizer work. Pete and Srdjan sort the myths from the mechanics and give you a clear way to decide when to stop, when to scale, and when to keep moving—lighter, smarter, and pain-aware.
The writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation would literally write ‘tech the tech’ in the script when they didn’t have the technobabble figured out yet. These are professionals. Who got paid. And then they just… moved on. This is permission. Take it.
We unpack The Letter in our Bette Davis series: moonlit shadows, Hays Code pressure, colonial privilege, and a letter that turns into leverage.
Matthew is back from Italy and we’re talking about travelling with infants, teenagers, and adult children.
If you’ve ever worried that missing a 30-minute post-workout window means your muscles are quietly packing their bags, this episode is for you. Pete and Srdjan Injac break down what actually matters in nutrition timing—and why consistency beats panic every time.
We wrap up our John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series with his 2016 film Sing Street, a wonderful story that’s a bit of wish fulfillment for Carney’s own childhood that delivers on all counts, even if it’s full of tropes.
A listener asked who makes Craft and Chaos’s delightfully unhinged “ads,” and Pete and Kyle finally answer—without breaking the spell entirely. It’s a behind-the-scenes chat about surprise, structure, and the craft of making interruptions feel like part of the show’s DNA.
In this episode, we explore the uncomfortable truth that parenting will frustrate you, and what it means to actually let go instead of just suppressing your feelings.
James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash may be a technical marvel, but does it remember to be a movie? The Film Board breaks down adaptive frame rates, hollow spectacle, and why Pandora keeps getting bigger while the story keeps shrinking.