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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The wellness internet says women’s fitness runs on a $40 cycle calendar, a fear of carbs, and a hormone out to get you. The science says otherwise. A look at GLP-1’s muscle-and-bone cost, what keto does to thyroid and energy, and why the scale lies.
Zhang Yimou’s ink-wash wuxia epic Shadow features a secret double, bladed umbrellas, and one of the most visually committed films of his career.
Cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker on The Conformist—the film that made her want to pick up a camera, and what Storaro’s light taught her.
What are you waiting for permission to do — and who, exactly, are you waiting on? This week, we look at the permission slips ADHD adults keep stalling on, where the habit comes from, and what it takes to finally write your own.
Zhang Yimou trades empire for intimacy in this wuxia companion to Hero—two officers fall for the same woman, loyalties collapse, and the visuals are almost too gorgeous to look away from.
Three hosts walk into a Cold War bunker. A Swiss Nazi monologues from inside a TV. Somewhere, in the future, Tony Stark is having a very bad day and doesn’t know it yet.
Three films, fifty years, and one stubborn question: what do we keep asking of artificial intelligence, and what does it keep becoming anyway? Pete, Chelsea Stardust, and Tommy Metz III work through Demon Seed, Cam, and Companion — a triptych that runs from a 1977 forced-pregnancy nightmare to a 2025 robot waving goodbye through a car window.
When you’re depleted, an email isn’t an email — it’s a moral referendum. Pete and Nikki dig into why ADHD fatigue makes every productivity strategy stop working, what the research says about how much harder this hits ADHD brains, and why rest isn’t the opposite of productivity — it’s a condition for it.
The scale lies. BMI was invented by a 19th-century astronomer who said never to use it on individuals. So what should you actually measure? Pete and Srdjan dismantle the metrics we’ve been handed and make the case that muscle mass — not weight — is the number that matters.
Zhang Yimou trades his visual spectacle for raw naturalism—and Pete Wright and Andy Nelson dig into why that restraint is the whole argument.