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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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.
We unpack “The Death of Stalin,” Armando Iannucci’s dark satire on the power struggle after a dictator’s death, part of our Institutions Eating Themselves series.
Some of the worst HR decisions start with a sentence that sounds completely reasonable. Terry Cook and Tom Jones take apart ten of them, from the single-person layoff to the company that skips the handbook entirely, and Pete spends the whole hour failing to get a single yes.
You already know how to tune in to everyone else. Dr. Dodge Rea returns to talk about the much harder skill of staying with yourself while you do it.
We kick off our Institutions Eating Themselves series by digging into In the Loop, Armando Iannucci’s razor-sharp satire of British and American political maneuvering.
Pete, Kyle, and Matthew close the book on Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The credits roll, Bucky walks into a museum to find out who he is, and the three of us wrestle with what this film did to the MCU — the genre-bending, the action grammar, and the day Cap stopped trusting the institution.
You can rest all weekend and still come back empty — and it usually has nothing to do with how many hours you got. This week we get into the four different kinds of recovery, why they can’t substitute for each other, and how to figure out which one your brain is actually asking for.
Every rep you lift is a decision your brain makes: which fibers fire, in what order, how hard to brace. This week, what resistance training does to memory, executive function, balance, and the odds of staying sharp at 80.
We close out our Smoke and Mirrors series with Bulworth, digging into Warren Beatty’s rapping-senator satire on race, wealth, and truth-telling in politics.
The cemetery goodbye closes every loop the movie has left open, and then the credits turn into the best design lecture of the season. Stay through the stinger, where Joss Whedon introduces two kids Marvel was legally forbidden from explaining.