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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We return briefly to our Ricardo Darín series with a one-off episode, looking at Darín’s second collaboration with writer/director Fabián Bielinsky, The Aura. It’s about an epileptic taxidermist and a casino heist, and absolutely worth tracking down.
Return-to-office mandates, medical exemptions, and layoffs are testing every HR leader’s balance between compliance and compassion. Tom Jones and Annette Dupree join Pete Wright to share how to navigate the hardest workplace conversations — and rebuild trust when the dust settles.
The Film Board Gathers! The gang re-enters the grid to battle Jared Leto’s glowing ego, dissect Trent Reznor’s righteous soundtrack, and try to remember why TRON still exists. Spoilers, complaints, and some genuine love for Greta Lee await in this electric, overclocked deep dive.
Desert Storm veteran and relationship coach Lionel Moses reveals how the “mirror effect” helps people break unhealthy divorce patterns and build emotional resilience for healthier future relationships.
Thor and Loki’s escape plan hits turbulence as bad blocking, plot armor, and cartoon physics sink the spectacle. But the brotherly banter still shines—even as the countdown to the end of the movie begins.
Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth joins us to discuss his career and projects he’s worked on, including “Tron: Ares” now in theatres. We also discuss “Blade Runner,” one of his favorite movies.
A doctor once told Alan Brown that ADHD was a media myth and he should just do more crossword puzzles—so he did, for five years, becoming a near-expert while his ADHD remained completely uncured. Now the ADD Crusher returns to reveal why the hardest part of ADHD isn’t the diagnosis—it’s learning to ask for what you need without apologizing for existing.
We wrap up our return to our Seven Samurai Family series with a B-movie that’s pretty bad but oddly still entertaining. It’s one of Jean Negulesco’s final films, The Invincible Six.
It’s the end of season one, and the gang is tackling beginnings, endings, and everything that makes artists cry in between. Come for the stories, stay for the emotional reconstruction.
From a 47-year-old first-time parent-to-be to parents of adult children, three hosts at wildly different stages discover that parenting looks nothing like the movies promised. They tackle the uncomfortable truth about parental control, the gap between media myths and messy reality, and why raising kids might require a village after all.