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 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.
Maintenance gets a bad rap, but it might just be the most important phase of your health journey. Pete and Srdjan break down why holding onto your gains is a skill—one that keeps you strong, resilient, and ready for whatever comes next.
We kick off our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series, our celebration looking at a quarter century of this influential J-Horror franchise, with the first film, Ju-on: The Curse.
This week, we’re cracking open our creative toolkits and showing you the hardware, software, and unhinged rituals that fuel our art. From haunted potatoes to the gospel of Obsidian, we explore what helps us make things—and what helps us stay weird.
Is there such a thing as a “real” adult, or are we all just faking it with slightly more expensive shoes? In this season finale, Pete and Tommy take on generational myths, the emotional absurdity of growing older, and why the Gen Z stare might just be your new worst nightmare.
Thor pouts, Odin plots, Lady Sif thirsts, and Jane Foster attempts to move on by dating the human embodiment of wallpaper — until Darcy crash-lands their lunch like the beautiful social wrecking ball she is. Also: a surprising amount of time spent discussing space laser tag.
When divorce attorney Seth Nelson steps out of the courtroom and into a conversation about legacy, what emerges is a moving portrait of a life measured not by victories, but by presence. In this episode, Seth and Pete explore the quiet weight we leave behind in the lives we pass through—and why that might be the most enduring legacy of all.
We return to the mysterious and violent world of John Wick to continue our John Wick series with this year’s installment, introducing us to a new dancing assassin! Okay, well not at the same time. That’s right! It’s Len Wiseman’s 2025 film Ballerina starring Ana de Armas!