Ryan Dalton is author of THIS LAST ADVENTURE, the TIME SHIFT TRILOGY, and THE BLACK CAPE SAGA (written by his alter ego). He splits his time between writing books, fighting crime, and hanging out in his awesome underground lair. He’s a singer, a painter, a voiceover artist, a pretty decent amateur chef, and a lover of all things geek. Please don’t tell anyone he’s Batman. It’s a secret. Ryan is co-host of Craft and Chaos on TruStory FM.
Every creative is running on at least one magnificent lie — and this week, the crew confesses theirs. Pete, Mandy, Kyle, and Ryan name the fictions that get them to the keyboard, the audience living rent-free in their heads, and the craft rules they break without remorse.
This week, Craft and Chaos declares a brief ceasefire with the howling void and asks a genuinely radical question: what do you do that has absolutely no purpose except that it makes you happy? The answers involve a lathe, a murder, a harmonica, and the strongest case ever made for a 2002 kung fu parody that bombed so hard at the box office it practically cratered the earth.
Batman and Joker as co-parenting dads. Zombie apocalypse musicals. The Drawer of Shame. An SNL audition that started with months of lying to everyone you know. Just a normal episode of Craft and Chaos.
Kyle says if you’ve ever been in an argument, said something stupid, and then thought of the perfect comeback the next morning in the shower — congratulations, you’re a writer. This whole episode is about that: the gap between what’s real and what’s true, and how creative work lives in the space between.
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 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.
It’s the end of season one, and the gang is tackling beginnings, endings, and everything that makes artists cry in between. Come for the stories, stay for the emotional reconstruction.
What happens when Google Docs, social media, and AI paranoia collide with sketch comedy, sperm redistribution, and a giant squid? This episode of Craft and Chaos proves that the only defense against the algorithm is pure, unfiltered weird.
What happens when you go viral and nothing changes? We talk about measuring success, forgetting your own lore, and villains with a carb addiction—plus, we end with a game that should never be played in public.
Do intros matter, or are they just verbal confetti we toss before the real party? Ryan leads the gang through a funny, strangely moving meditation on creative momentum, regret, and the tiny rituals that keep the art engine humming when life is very much… life.