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.
This page features episodes on which he has been a host.
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The Film Board takes apart Spider-Man: Brand New Day with full spoilers — spider puberty, the X-… factor… of it all, and Damage Control as the movie’s actual heavy. Six panelists this week and one very loud vote for worst post-credits scene in MCU history.
Fury crashes the party, Pierce does the math on genocide, and Maria Hill files the two most casual headshots in SHIELD history — all before Steve has to throw down with his best friend. It’s the five minutes where the spy movie finally becomes the superhero movie.
A peptide is just a short chain of amino acids. Insulin is one. So is Ozempic. So are the compounds an FDA panel just voted on after the agency’s own scientists said no. What that vote did, what it didn’t, and why the difference is making people just plain crazy.
If you’ve got ADHD, odds are you get a lot more done than you give yourself credit for. Pete and Nikki talk about flipping the script from deficit to appreciation, and a simple practice for actually noticing what you do.
We kick off our new Platformed Lives series with The Truman Show, unpacking consent, hidden cameras, and a life lived entirely on camera for the world to see.
Cap finally gets to throw a good old-fashioned punch, Falcon flies the fight of his life, and in five minutes on the deck of the Insight, Natasha’s data dump quietly ends SHIELD as we know it. Plus: a deep dive into a lost Disney glider-suit movie and a real argument over whether Alexander Pierce believes his own villainy.
Chelsea hijacks the Fourth of July for a fireworks-and-patriotism triple feature — Blow Out, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Final Destination III — and finds the same rot glittering under all three. It’s a spiritual trilogy about the ugliness we agree not to look at while we’re staring up at the pretty lights.
Two weeks away from your program costs less than the internet says. This episode covers what actually declines when you stop training, how to build a workout in a gym full of equipment you’ve never touched, the unwritten rules of a crowded gym floor, and how to come back without hurting yourself.
Coach Jane Massengill joins us to talk about the harsh inner voice a lot of us with ADHD live with, and where it actually comes from. She shares a simple practice for noticing that self-talk and starting to loosen its grip.
Christopher Nolan built a new IMAX camera, banned the orchestra, put a real Cyclops in a real cave, and aimed all of it at the oldest story we have.