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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The scale only tells you how heavy you are—not what that weight is made of—and that’s why it can wreck your motivation. Pete and Srdjan lay out the metrics that actually matter, from body composition trends to strength, recovery, sleep, energy, and the everyday signs that your body is changing even when the number won’t behave.
We continue our True Lies series with a look at the story of Stephen Glass’s fraudulent stories he made up for The New Republic as portrayed in Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass. The trouble is, it feels like it’s just the third act of the story.
We unpack Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! in our True Lies series, exploring unreliable narration, innovative voiceover techniques, and how comedy shifts corporate drama.
Ever stayed in a situation one beat too long because leaving felt worse than staying? This month on Sitting in the Dark, we’re talking The Invitation, The Night House, and Caveat—three films that understand the terrifying math of “just a few more minutes.”
When your emotional tank is empty, your ADHD brain doesn’t need a five-step plan—it needs a reset. Join us as we explore why depletion makes emotions harder to manage and share sensory-based strategies that actually work when you can’t regulate yet.
Coming back from injury or surgery isn’t about “getting cleared” and hoping for the best—it’s about rebuilding trust in movement without letting ego or fear set the pace. Srdjan and Pete walk through how to bridge the gap between physical therapy and real strength training, how to read pain signals, and how to return smarter (even when your body still has opinions).
We unpack Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? in our True Lies series—how stolen voices, forged letters, and desperation collide—powered by Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.
Pete and Nikki kick off the new season by naming the thing nobody wants to put on a vision board: the post-holiday crash.
Two joints, endless bad advice: knees and shoulders get blamed for everything, but most of the damage comes from ego-loading, sloppy control, and skipping the boring stabilizer work. Pete and Srdjan sort the myths from the mechanics and give you a clear way to decide when to stop, when to scale, and when to keep moving—lighter, smarter, and pain-aware.
The writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation would literally write ‘tech the tech’ in the script when they didn’t have the technobabble figured out yet. These are professionals. Who got paid. And then they just… moved on. This is permission. Take it.