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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Halloween as a parent means navigating everything from costume choices to candy negotiations, while also managing your own memories of trick-or-treating past. But when does healthy caution cross into helicopter parenting? And how do modern safety concerns compare to the anxieties our parents faced?
We kick off a new series looking at three musicals about musicians in John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series. First up, his independent breakout success, Once, starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.
It’s time for our December member bonus episode and this month, the members voted to add a holiday film to our film noir series, landing on the Repeat Performance, where a woman is given the chance to relive a year and see if she can fix the mistakes she made.
The Smile films ask a brutal question: what if understanding your trauma doesn’t save you—it makes you easier to consume? This month on Sitting in the Dark, we follow that question from a therapist’s office to a sold-out arena, and it never stops grinning.
We return to our Film Noir series with Jules Dassin’s Night and the City, following Richard Widmark’s desperate American hustler as he schemes and double-crosses his way through London’s seedy wrestling underworld.
Flexibility lets you access range of motion; mobility lets you use it. In this episode, Pete Wright and trainer Srdjan Injac untangle why that difference matters for strength, aging well, and moving through life without negotiating with your joints.
We wrap up our journey through the last 100 years of film and our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with Charlie Chaplin’s fun film The Gold Rush.
The holidays bring joy, chaos, and complicated family dynamics. This episode tackles the real challenges parents face during the season: balancing traditions with your own family’s needs, managing expectations from extended family, and deciding which holiday customs matter most to you.
Between the rollback of federal affirmative action requirements and the rise of AI in hiring, 2025 has left HR teams navigating constant recalibration—and according to new research, employees are feeling it. Tom Jones and Kyle Pardo break down the regulatory whiplash, the quiet evolution of DEI, and why morale has suddenly surged past compensation as employers’ top priority heading into 2026.
The final break before the next season detours through rage-filled birthday cards, handwritten letters, immersive horror, and two baby goats who briefly outperform therapy. Pete and Tommy close the pause grateful, slightly older, and fully aware that adulting still has several pop quizzes left.