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.

Rug Pullers: Topsy-Turvy Horror Twists

Some horror films twist; these three commit identity theft halfway through. Chelsea Stardust joins us to dig into Ghostwatch, Barbarian, and Strange Darling—movies that pull the rug so hard you’ll hit the floor laughing and screaming.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on • Ju-on: The Grudge 2

Ju-on: The Grudge 2

We wrap up our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the fourth feature entry in the franchise, Takashi Shimizu’s 2003 film Ju-on: The Grudge 2, in which Shimizu does an able job of changing things up and advancing the concept.

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TDW Minutes 26-30: Aether, She Wrote

This week, Jane becomes an accidental conduit for cosmic sludge, Darcy delivers the MCU’s best thirst compliment, and Thor gets romantically assaulted with nuance. We ask the big questions: is the Aether sentient, and if so, why does it hate the rain?

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Energy or Intimacy? Choosing Your Gym Fit

What’s the real difference between training at a big national gym and a private studio? New trainer Brooke Passey joins Pete and Srdjan to unpack incentives, atmosphere, and coaching—and Srdjan drops news about his own bodybuilding prep.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on • Ju-on: The Grudge

Ju-on: The Grudge

We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the big one, the one that most people probably started with because it was the move to theatrical, it’s Takashi Shimizu’s 2002 film “Ju-on: The Grudge.”

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The Inbox Redemption Issue: You Talk, We Finally Listen

What happens when you run an entire season of a podcast and then realize you’ve been ignoring your listener mail the whole time? Pete and Tommy make amends the only way they know how—by diving headfirst into tales of canine fast-food heists, elderly romance, lucid dream saddlery, and the great crockpot conspiracy of the American Midwest.

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