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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Coach Jane Massengill joins us to talk about the harsh inner voice a lot of us with ADHD live with, and where it actually comes from. She shares a simple practice for noticing that self-talk and starting to loosen its grip.
Christopher Nolan built a new IMAX camera, banned the orchestra, put a real Cyclops in a real cave, and aimed all of it at the oldest story we have.
Danny Pudi loses a parking war, Captain America gives the speech of his afterlife, and three Helicarriers heave themselves out of the Potomac like the world’s least advisable pool toys. Minutes 96–100 are where Winter Soldier stops simmering and starts shooting.
Three grown adults, nine flavors of Goldfish, and one rubric that develops a mind of its own. It’s the taste test episode, and the crunch is heard ’round the world.
HYDRA reboots Bucky like a frozen laptop, Fury loses the room, and Steve goes museum-shopping for his old wardrobe. The crew cracks open the third act of The Winter Soldier — minutes 91 through 95 — pausing to ask the one question the movie sprints right past: with the whole world about to catch fire, why does nobody just call Tony? (Or, for that matter, the big green guy.)
Your brain is great at counting what you didn’t finish and terrible at noticing what you did. In the Season 32 finale, we trade the scorecard for one quieter skill — and it may be the one that carried the whole season.
Nick Fury’s not dead, Maria Hill’s been hiding under a helmet, and the guy who invented the Winter Soldier is standing in the back of the bank vault getting paid in “special thanks.” Minutes 86–90 are all reveals — plus one genuinely infuriating comics-industry story and a surprise field trip to a Cleveland cemetery.
You can lose six hours to the thing that grabs you and still can’t make yourself answer a two-line email. Same brain, different room — and this week Pete digs into why that gap says a lot more about your environment than it does about you.
The shieldiest Cap in MCU history, the four words that break Steve Rogers (“Who the hell is Bucky?”), and a listener-fueled brawl over what actually counts as a cameo. Minutes 81–85 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier — buckle up for one totally routine prisoner transport.
Kynan curates a month of animated horror and discovers the throughline by accident: in animation, the artist is always the raw material. Perfect Blue, Mad God, and Stopmotion turn pop stardom, creation, and grief into bodies fed straight into the machine.