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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Nick Fury shows Cap three orbital death machines and calls it a briefing. Cap calls it fear with a targeting system. Then he gets on his motorcycle and goes to look at his own museum exhibit, which is either deeply sad or deeply sensible depending on your read of Steve Rogers.
Chelsea Stardust leads Pete, Kynan, and Tommy in an exploration of three horror films made for almost nothing — and built to last. The Battery, Starry Eyes, and Hellbender prove that a great script and a fearless performance can outrun any budget, especially when transformation is the whole point.
What happens when “pushing through” stops working — and the version of yourself you built around that ability starts to slip away? This week Dr. Kathleen Nadeau joins us to talk about the grief that doesn’t always get named, and what’s possible on the other side of it.
What if forgetting isn’t a failure — it’s just how your brain is designed to work? Dr. Daniella Karidi returns to open our new series on ADHD and aging with a reframe that makes everything else click into place.
We dig into Donald Cammell’s Demon Seed, the Thinking Machines series entry where AI gets personal—hubris, a smart home turned prison, Julie Christie, and a genuinely bonkers ending.
Turns out quitting your job isn’t just a career decision — it’s a psychological eviction notice served on the version of yourself you built at work. Pete and Tommy explore why leaving is harder than it looks, and why one flight attendant’s emergency exit is frankly the most honest thing any of us has ever done.
This week, Craft and Chaos declares a brief ceasefire with the howling void and asks a genuinely radical question: what do you do that has absolutely no purpose except that it makes you happy? The answers involve a lathe, a murder, a harmonica, and the strongest case ever made for a 2002 kung fu parody that bombed so hard at the box office it practically cratered the earth.
You’ve been calling them friends before they’ve earned it — and that’s where the hurt comes from. Caroline Maguire is here to rewrite the whole friendship map.
The machine does exactly what we designed—and that’s the problem. We dig into “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” the Thinking Machines series opener about Cold War AI and the danger of indifference.
Manufacturing HR doesn’t get the luxury of being theoretical — the challenges are physical, immediate, and happening across three shifts while you’re asleep. This episode, Terry Cook and Stacey Wenczel break down the real compliance weight of plant life, from donning and doffing to accommodation requests in roles where “work from home” isn’t a option.