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.
Pete has hosted as well as been a panelist on a number of episodes.
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Three films, fifty years, and one stubborn question: what do we keep asking of artificial intelligence, and what does it keep becoming anyway? Pete, Chelsea Stardust, and Tommy Metz III work through Demon Seed, Cam, and Companion — a triptych that runs from a 1977 forced-pregnancy nightmare to a 2025 robot waving goodbye through a car window.
When you’re depleted, an email isn’t an email — it’s a moral referendum. Pete and Nikki dig into why ADHD fatigue makes every productivity strategy stop working, what the research says about how much harder this hits ADHD brains, and why rest isn’t the opposite of productivity — it’s a condition for it.
Zhang Yimou trades his visual spectacle for raw naturalism—and Pete Wright and Andy Nelson dig into why that restraint is the whole argument.
Star Wars came back to theaters after seven years, and the Film Board showed up to collect the bounty. Pete, Justin Jaeger, Ocean Murff, and Matthew Fox of the Star Wars Generations podcast work out whether The Mandalorian and Grogu is a real movie or the first three episodes of season four with a snack upcharge.
Steve and Natasha stage the most consequential fake make-out in MCU history, then borrow a pickup truck to investigate a defunct army base where the SHIELD logo is just casually etched into a basement wall. Plus: the hosts cannot agree on who Natasha Romanoff should actually be kissing.
Pete thought his metabolism was broken and the only fix was hiring a wizard. Srdjan has bad news for the wizard industry: metabolism isn’t a switch, it’s a system — and most of it runs on the twenty-three hours you spend outside the gym.
“I’ll deal with it later.” We’ve all said it. And somehow, later never quite comes — but the thing on the list never quite leaves, either. Ari Tuckman returns to the show to unpack the quiet energy cost of that one little phrase, and what to do about it.
We dig into Resurrection in our Ellen Burstyn series—healing without doctrine, faith without explanation, and a performance that carries everything.
Pre-hiring assessments promise sharper hiring decisions — until they quietly become legal liabilities. Terry Cook and Sarah Piscatelli break down where these tools earn their keep, where they cross the line, and why Massachusetts employers should be paying closer attention than most.
Cap goes full video-game on a Quinjet, Natasha reveals the scar under the ghost story, and Pierce runs the greatest “please don’t throw me in that briar patch” gambit in MCU history. Plus: Rob opens with 2,300 years of caltrop history, the crew plots to psychologically torture Kyle next week, and we discover why Demo Mode means this entire scene is a beautiful lie.