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.
If you’ve ever thought “My life would be so much easier if I just changed my name to Wanda Milkshake,” then you already understand the energy of this episode. Also, we’d like to introduce you to our brand ambassador, Brooksie Skittles.
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.
AI can write your first draft, but it can’t shake a new hire’s hand. In this episode, Pete, Kyle, and Terry dig into where AI truly saves time in HR, where it goes off the rails, and how smart teams are building practical guardrails so the tech helps—not harms—people and culture.
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).
Kyle Olson has spent a lifetime building fictional worlds—and now, he’s navigating the very real terrain of grief and legacy. In this episode, he opens up about unexpected losses, the stories we leave behind, and the quiet power of being seen.
Looking for a trainer but overwhelmed by options? Srdjan lays out how to vet a coach, why private gyms often deliver better outcomes than big-box memberships, and the exact questions that reveal whether you’re in good hands.
What if the college major is a relic of an old world—and the real work of higher education is helping students design their own? In this conversation, we explore how to return intention, joy, and human agency to the center of the college experience.
We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with an exploration of the second straight-to-video film, which is partly a rehash of the first film, Takashi Shimizu’s 2000 film “Ju-on: The Curse 2.”
We’re back with a bonus episode in our long-running email challenge series! Melissa and Pete check in on their email habits, test out AI tools like Gemini and Superhuman, and remind everyone that ADHD and inboxes make for a complicated relationship—but also one that’s entirely fixable.
Jane Foster says “seabass” 12 times, and somehow that’s not even the weirdest scientific revelation in this episode. From naked Selvig at Stonehenge to phase meters and the newly coined “Patagonian toothfish of plot devices,” Pete and Matthew explore Thor’s most reality-bending five minutes yet.