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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HYDRA reboots Bucky like a frozen laptop, Fury loses the room, and Steve goes museum-shopping for his old wardrobe. The crew cracks open the third act of The Winter Soldier — minutes 91 through 95 — pausing to ask the one question the movie sprints right past: with the whole world about to catch fire, why does nobody just call Tony? (Or, for that matter, the big green guy.)
Your brain is great at counting what you didn’t finish and terrible at noticing what you did. In the Season 32 finale, we trade the scorecard for one quieter skill — and it may be the one that carried the whole season.
Nick Fury’s not dead, Maria Hill’s been hiding under a helmet, and the guy who invented the Winter Soldier is standing in the back of the bank vault getting paid in “special thanks.” Minutes 86–90 are all reveals — plus one genuinely infuriating comics-industry story and a surprise field trip to a Cleveland cemetery.
You can lose six hours to the thing that grabs you and still can’t make yourself answer a two-line email. Same brain, different room — and this week Pete digs into why that gap says a lot more about your environment than it does about you.
The shieldiest Cap in MCU history, the four words that break Steve Rogers (“Who the hell is Bucky?”), and a listener-fueled brawl over what actually counts as a cameo. Minutes 81–85 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier — buckle up for one totally routine prisoner transport.
Kynan curates a month of animated horror and discovers the throughline by accident: in animation, the artist is always the raw material. Perfect Blue, Mad God, and Stopmotion turn pop stardom, creation, and grief into bodies fed straight into the machine.
A cursed hand. A grieving teenager. A party trick that goes terribly, supernaturally wrong. Pete and Andy close out Horror Debuts with the Philippou brothers.
Hydra lays out its entire evil plan, a Penske truck does the franchise’s dirty work (again), and the Winter Soldier arrives to permanently redefine “road rage.” Plus: the best argument for how vibranium actually works ever made — courtesy of Dungeons & Dragons. And Sam Wilson brings a knife to a machine-gun fight. We need to talk about Sam’s knife.
You signed a rule about your own worth before you could even read it — and for the ADHD brain, it got written in permanent ink. This week, we read the fine print and start figuring out how to rewrite it.
A week off won’t undo your progress. Hosts Pete Wright and Srdjan Injac, with ELEV8 trainer Devon Castro, cover what really happens when you stop training, why “never skip breakfast” is half-myth, how everyday walking adds up, and why sleep is the one thing worth protecting on the road.