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.

Thor: The Dark Primer

July 14, 2025

In 2013, Marvel Studios released Thor: The Dark World, the eighth film in what was, at the time, a still-experimental attempt to build a unified cinematic universe. The film made nearly $650 million at the global box office, was a technical success by virtually any Hollywood standard, and yet—if you ask the average Marvel fan today to recall its plot, you’ll likely be met with a long pause, followed by something like, “Was that the one with the elves?”

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Beyond Protein: Building a Smarter Supplement Stack

July 10, 2025

You’re spending good money on supplements—but do you really know what’s helping and what’s just glittery snake oil in a tub? This week on Build for Health, Pete and Srdjan dismantle the myths, decode the labels, and help you stock your cabinet with the stuff that actually works.

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Touching the Wily Breadbasket

July 9, 2025

This week’s episode takes on rejection, writer’s block, and creative rituals—plus, two Mad Libs that spiral from “silly” to “existential crisis in a cheese grater.” It’s weird, it’s honest, it’s everything you didn’t know you needed.

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Jurassic World Rebirth

July 8, 2025

The Film Board dives into Jurassic World: Rebirth, a soft reboot that forgets why we ever cared about dinosaurs in the first place. From missing raptors to sarcastic ADR, we ask: is this a franchise reborn—or just another extinction event?

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The Season 8 Handoff: Thor’s Dark World… Our Dark Problems

July 7, 2025

This week, Marvel Movie Minute does something bold. Something dramatic. Something that, quite frankly, should probably come with a warning label. We’re handing over hosting duties from the Iron Man 3 dream team—Kyle Olson and Rob Kubasko—to the brave, possibly deluded souls who have volunteered to take on the MCU’s most famously “meh” entry: Thor: The Dark World.

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