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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Kynan hands us psycho-biddy horror — Baby Jane, Sweet Charlotte, and Auntie Roo — a cycle built on selling the audience an aging actress’s face as the monster. We come out of it with one real axe per film, a lot of love for Shelley Winters, and a unanimous verdict: the hag was never the threat.
Asking for help is hard. Receiving it might be harder, and James Ochoa and his son Jules are here to talk about why, from both sides of the equation.
Every November the internet warns you about the five to ten pounds coming your way. Researchers have actually weighed people through the holidays, and the real number is about one pound. The bad news is what that pound does next. Plus: how much food a pound of fat really takes.
Before Headstone had a single episode in the feed, Derek Brandow sat down in front of his own class at the University of Oregon and let Pete ask the question for the very first time. As a new round of interviews gets underway, we’re bringing back that live test episode—a conversation about confidence as performance, the ache to belong, and what it takes to finally let yourself be seen.
We dig into The Platform as a thought experiment, how two built floors create its world, and whether it holds up as the second film in the Luxury Is a Trap series.
This season, All the Feelings takes on the senses.
Misty Stinnett has read hundreds of self-help books for her podcast, and her best advice is to let the book work for you. We talk reading, audiobooks and the research on what helps ADHD brains hold on to what they read.
For decades, women were sold a different gym: light weights, high reps, burn the calories, don’t get big. This week, why “toned” isn’t a kind of muscle, what happens to bone when estrogen drops, and where pickleball fits in. Hint: not where you’d hope.
We open the Luxury Is a Trap series with High-Rise, a tower block where every floor ranks its tenants and the allegory gets messy. We dig into class, performances, and whether the point lands.
ICE quietly rewrote the rules on I-9 violations this year, and the errors that used to be fixable now come with a bill. Immigration attorney Shiva Karimi and AIM’s Kallee McGraw walk through what changed, how an audit actually unfolds, and what Massachusetts employers now owe their workers under the PROTECT Act.