Meet Your Host

Pete Wright

Pete has been a broadcaster for the last 30 years, falling in love with the edit bay in the back of a newsroom in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied journalism at the University of Colorado with a focus on long-form documentary production, turning that early experience into a career helping businesses shape the stories of their brands through image and sound. Pete earned an M.S. in Organizational Design and spent fifteen years teaching graduate marketing students the power of human-centered communications. From public relations teams on global multi-million dollar brand projects to marketing for independent business owners, Pete has helped shape communications that build brands. In 2006, he launched Fifth & Main, LLC., a media consultancy focused on brand-building through the nascent field of podcasting. In 2020, nearly 3,000 individual podcast episodes behind them, the company rebranded as TruStory FM with an ear toward the next decade of podcast education and entertainment.

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.
See episodes where Pete has been a panelist right here.

TDW Minutes 36-40: Occam’s Prison Break

Loki has a heart-to-heart with his possibly real mother, Curse goes full rage-monster, and the Asgardian prison system proves once again that it should not be OSHA certified. We talk betrayal, ambiguity, and why you probably shouldn’t store your ancient evil in a guy with a belt buckle detonator.

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The Forbidden Exercises

Not every exercise deserves a place in your routine. Pete and Coach Srdjan expose the “forbidden exercises” that put your joints at risk—and the safer, smarter alternatives that actually build strength.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema • Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

We kick off our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, celebrating 50 years of incredible, groundbreaking films. We start things off with Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon.

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Build Your Own Weather

Do intros matter, or are they just verbal confetti we toss before the real party? Ryan leads the gang through a funny, strangely moving meditation on creative momentum, regret, and the tiny rituals that keep the art engine humming when life is very much… life.

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The Thursday Murder Club

A charming cast, a light mystery, and a lot of feelings about Netflix’s lighting presets. The Thursday Murder Club has been adapted for the screen—and The Film Board is here to investigate who did it, why it happened, and whether the cast deserves a heart.

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TDW Minutes 31-35: The Analogical Goat

In a rare turn, The Dark World stops punching things long enough to explain itself, giving us cosmic lore, unreliable royal narrators, and the return of the Asgardian DMV: the Book of Yggdrasil. It’s high fantasy meets hard sci-fi, delivered via one king’s snarky goat analogy and a surprising number of mythological side-eyes.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema • Night Moves • Member Bonus

Night Moves • Member Bonus

Join us for this member bonus episode, part of our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, discussing Arthur Penn’s neo-noir film Night Moves, starring Gene Hackman.

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