Pete has hosted as well as been a panelist on a number of episodes.
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You’ve tried connecting tasks to meaning and designing your environment—but what happens when you’re still stuck? James Ochoa helps us understand what’s really happening beneath the surface when motivation strategies aren’t enough.
We unpack Hallström’s The Hoax in our True Lies series, exploring how a literary fraud spun out of control through fake documents, method acting, and institutional complicity.
No judgment. Just two guys, a microphone, and the shared understanding that being a grown-up is less “having it all figured out” and more “Googling things frantically at 2 AM while pretending you’re fine.”
Chris Pratt wakes up strapped into a futuristic courtroom chair with 90 minutes to live and an AI judge who looks like Rebecca Ferguson, so naturally the movie turns into Minority Report: Touchpad Edition. Pete Wright, Andy Nelson, Tommy Metz III, and Steve Sarmento argue whether Mercy is a cautionary tale about surveillance and AI… or just a very shiny roller coaster that keeps finding new ways to trip over its own shoelaces.
Filmmaker Miguel Ángel Ferrer joins us to talk about The Sea Inside, The Shadow of the Sun, and how stories about death can teach us how to truly live.
What happens when the thing you made becomes a place people gather—quoting your lines back to you, building wikis, making dioramas, and expecting you to be both artist and camp counselor? This week on Craft and Chaos, the crew talks fandom, creative boundaries, writing soundtracks, and the dangerous magic of asking, “Tell me you’re a fan without telling me you’re a fan.”
The scale only tells you how heavy you are—not what that weight is made of—and that’s why it can wreck your motivation. Pete and Srdjan lay out the metrics that actually matter, from body composition trends to strength, recovery, sleep, energy, and the everyday signs that your body is changing even when the number won’t behave.
We continue our True Lies series with a look at the story of Stephen Glass’s fraudulent stories he made up for The New Republic as portrayed in Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass. The trouble is, it feels like it’s just the third act of the story.
We unpack Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! in our True Lies series, exploring unreliable narration, innovative voiceover techniques, and how comedy shifts corporate drama.
Ever stayed in a situation one beat too long because leaving felt worse than staying? This month on Sitting in the Dark, we’re talking The Invitation, The Night House, and Caveat—three films that understand the terrifying math of “just a few more minutes.”