Pete has been a broadcaster for the last 30 years, falling in love with the edit bay in the back of a newsroom in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied journalism at the University of Colorado with a focus on long-form documentary production, turning that early experience into a career helping businesses shape the stories of their brands through image and sound. Pete earned an M.S. in Organizational Design and spent fifteen years teaching graduate marketing students the power of human-centered communications. From public relations teams on global multi-million dollar brand projects to marketing for independent business owners, Pete has helped shape communications that build brands. In 2006, he launched Fifth & Main, LLC., a media consultancy focused on brand-building through the nascent field of podcasting. In 2020, nearly 3,000 individual podcast episodes behind them, the company rebranded as TruStory FM with an ear toward the next decade of podcast education and entertainment.
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.
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We continue our monthly member bonus series looking at Roger Corman. This month, we return to the women-in-prison subgenre and take a trip to the Philippines where we take on Jack Hill’s The Big Doll House.
What happens when the ADHD brain gets overwhelmed—not just emotionally, but biologically? In this episode, Dr. Sharon Saline and Dr. Dodge Rea join us to unpack emotional flooding, the neuroscience behind it, and the surprisingly simple strategies that can help us find calm in the chaos.
We return to the land of Cimmeria to follow another adventure of Conan, this time in Richard Fleischer’s 1984 sequel Conan the Destroyer. It’s treated with more of a comic book tone. Does that work?
What if the way we see data is just as important as the data itself? Pete Wright sits down with Ben Shneiderman, the visionary behind the visual information-seeking mantra, to explore how better design gives us superpowers—and why, even in the age of AI, humans should stay in control.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners blends vampires, blues, and bootlegging into a supernatural epic that’s as soulful as it is bloody. This month, Pete, Tommy, and Andy dive deep into the film’s genre-bending ambition, emotional weight, and why it just might be one of the year’s most surprising masterpieces.
We wrap up our journey through the Hannibal Lecter franchise, ending at the beginning. Join us as we chat about Peter Webber’s take on Thomas Harris’ novel, Hannibal Rising.
In this months Tough Questions session, Tom and Terry teach us about the challenges of navigating the sensitive situations we might just otherwise want to avoid.
Shame, like fire, can illuminate or consume. It can be a social signal that nudges us toward change—or a psychological prison that locks us in cycles of self-blame. Today, we explore how shame spirals form, how ADHD makes them particularly pernicious, and what it takes to break free.
Pete Wright sits down with Stephen Harley and Adam Obrentz to explore Upland RightAnswers and unravel the seismic shifts happening in the world of knowledge management.
We continue our Hannibal Lecter series with the only remake in the bunch. Here, we find Brett Ratner attempting a retelling of Thomas Harris’ first novel, already done by Michael Mann in Manhunter. It’s his 2002 film Red Dragon. How does it fare?