Meet Your Host

Pete Wright

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.

The Generous Goodbye with Aliza Kline

Aliza Kline has spent her life building communities that help people find belonging—from the living waters of ritual to the warmth of a Friday night table. But when the work no longer needs her, she discovers that legacy isn’t what you leave behind—it’s what you let keep growing without you.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Seven Samurai Family • Battle Beyond the Stars

Battle Beyond the Stars

We continue our Seven Samurai Family series with a Roger Corman-produced sci-fi that fits the Seven Samurai bill while also cashing in on the Star Wars fever—it’s Jimmy T. Murakami’s Battle Beyond the Stars.

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Three Parents, Few Clues, Infinite Chaos

Three parents at completely different stages—newborn chaos, teenage hostage negotiations, and adult children who’ve achieved independence except financially—tackle the parenting questions nobody warns you about. It’s thoughtful, emotional, and funny, because raising humans means getting raised right back, and none of us know what we’re doing.

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TDW Minutes 56-60: No More Illusions

Odin readies Asgard for war, Thor asks how he’s any different from Malekith, and Loki finally drops the illusion to show his grief. These five minutes could have been the film’s heart—so why do they feel like missed opportunities?

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The Lorem Ipsum of Our Future

What happens when Google Docs, social media, and AI paranoia collide with sketch comedy, sperm redistribution, and a giant squid? This episode of Craft and Chaos proves that the only defense against the algorithm is pure, unfiltered weird.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Golden Jubilee: 1975's Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema/Seven Samurai Family • Sholay

Sholay

We wrap up our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with a crossover into our next series—the Seven Samurai Family—with a wildly fun and exuberant film, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.

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