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.
See episodes where Pete has been a panelist right here.
We unpack Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? in our True Lies series—how stolen voices, forged letters, and desperation collide—powered by Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.
Pete and Nikki kick off the new season by naming the thing nobody wants to put on a vision board: the post-holiday crash.
Two joints, endless bad advice: knees and shoulders get blamed for everything, but most of the damage comes from ego-loading, sloppy control, and skipping the boring stabilizer work. Pete and Srdjan sort the myths from the mechanics and give you a clear way to decide when to stop, when to scale, and when to keep moving—lighter, smarter, and pain-aware.
The writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation would literally write ‘tech the tech’ in the script when they didn’t have the technobabble figured out yet. These are professionals. Who got paid. And then they just… moved on. This is permission. Take it.
We unpack The Letter in our Bette Davis series: moonlit shadows, Hays Code pressure, colonial privilege, and a letter that turns into leverage.
Matthew is back from Italy and we’re talking about travelling with infants, teenagers, and adult children.
If you’ve ever worried that missing a 30-minute post-workout window means your muscles are quietly packing their bags, this episode is for you. Pete and Srdjan Injac break down what actually matters in nutrition timing—and why consistency beats panic every time.
We wrap up our John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series with his 2016 film Sing Street, a wonderful story that’s a bit of wish fulfillment for Carney’s own childhood that delivers on all counts, even if it’s full of tropes.
A listener asked who makes Craft and Chaos’s delightfully unhinged “ads,” and Pete and Kyle finally answer—without breaking the spell entirely. It’s a behind-the-scenes chat about surprise, structure, and the craft of making interruptions feel like part of the show’s DNA.
In this episode, we explore the uncomfortable truth that parenting will frustrate you, and what it means to actually let go instead of just suppressing your feelings.