Meet Your Host

Pete Wright

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.
See episodes where Pete has been a panelist right here.

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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TDW Minutes 21-25: Vibes, Vampires, and the Void

Jane Foster falls into the Aether, and Pete falls for the cinematography—while Matthew wonders if someone accidentally put Twilight in his Thor. This episode dives into horror pacing, Infinity Stone inconsistencies, and the infinite dramatic range of Stellan Skarsgård (who, mercifully, isn’t in this scene).

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