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.

The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: True Lies • Catch Me if You Can • Member Bonus

Catch Me if You Can • Member Bonus

We continue our True Lies series with the story of a young runaway who poses as an airplane pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, all to get validation from his dad. That’s right, it’s time for Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me if You Can” as our February member bonus episode.

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Big Monsters!

Giant monster month turns out to be less about creatures and more about systems that collapse the moment they’re needed. The Host, Troll Hunter, and Godzilla Minus One (Minus Color) all ask the same question: what do you do when the biggest thing in the room isn’t the monster?

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Mythbusting!

You’ve been carrying these myths around like extra weight — and they’re heavier than anything in the gym. This week, Pete and Srdjan bust eleven of the most persistent lies (and sometimes truths!) in fitness, from “lifting will make me bulky” to “I can crunch my way to a flat belly,” and replace them with something far more useful: the truth.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: True Lies • Big Eyes

Big Eyes

We close True Lies with Big Eyes: Burton’s restraint disappoints, Waltz’s choices divide us, Adams shines, and domestic coercion gets bland treatment.

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Laundering in Cars with Dummies

Tommy’s steering wheel once came off at a stoplight, Pete has opinions about your dryer that will make you uncomfortable, and both hosts discover that the invisible labor of adulthood — from oil changes to fabric weight sorting — is basically a series of maintenance rituals nobody trained us for.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: True Lies • Quiz Show

Quiz Show

We unpack Robert Redford’s Quiz Show in the True Lies series: institutional pressure, father-son devastation, and how privilege turns fraud natural.

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The Culinary Industrial Complex

Welcome to Season 11 of All The Feelings: Still Adulting, where Pete and Tommy prove that being a grown-up is just an elaborate prank we’re all somehow still falling for. This week: The culinary industrial complex.

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Taking Family Leave: What People Wish They Knew

Bonding leave sounds simple until you try to coordinate it with FMLA, align measurement periods that don’t match, and manage scenarios the law’s drafters probably didn’t anticipate. Sarah Piscatelli and Mary McNally explain why the distance between a well-intentioned benefit and getting it right in practice is wider than most HR professionals expect.

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