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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The “disciplined” people you compare yourself to may just be planted somewhere easier. This week, we dig into why changing your surroundings might do more for your ADHD than trying harder ever could.
There’s more free fitness advice than ever, and the share of Americans who strength train has barely moved in twenty years. Why the feed keeps changing the plan, what that costs people on the gym floor, and a lightning round through this week’s trends, from Hyrox to cortisol cocktails.
Pete and Andy revisit Get Out for the Radicalized series, digging into the modern-slavery horror underneath Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut and Chris’s arc from inaction to action.
Season 11 is in the books, and the Feeling Friends have voted on what comes next. Pete and Tommy count the ballots, lose track of the candidates, and somehow end up with a plan.
We dig into “American History X” to open Radicalized, our new series on how people get pulled into extremism—and how one man tries to pull himself back out before it costs him everything.
What did you think was going to happen here tonight? The Film Board goes inside Lance Oppenheim’s operatic, grain-soaked Primetime to ask who the predator is: the host, the producers, the vigilantes, or everyone watching at home.
Before he ate anyone, the zombie had a job — and Pete drags the room back past Romero to the sugar plantation where the monster was invented, through three movies that can’t agree on whether they know what they’re about. Somebody owns him. That’s the whole horror.
“Fine” is the smallest mask you wear, and probably the one you reach for most. This week, what it’s costing you, and what changes when you let it slip on purpose.
We close our Institutions Eating Themselves series with The Personal History of David Copperfield, digging into how Armando Iannucci turns Dickens into something wildly inventive.
You can do your taxes for the refund or you can do them for the letter, and from the outside nobody can tell the difference. Dr. Ari Tuckman returns to explain why that difference is the whole ballgame.