Cold Pod

By Josh McIntyre and Nick MarianArts

Cold Pod episodes

June 06, 2024 Ep101 - "What Not To Wear" with Lauren Armstrong (Preview)
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We're back with everyones favourite recurring guest Lauren Armstrong. In this episode we discuss tonights COLD PARTY, Charli XCX's team reaching out to us, 'Challengers' and the rise of the threesome, male intimacy, 'Normal Guy Style', Alo, Bushwich 2015, Sea Punk, the ten year anniversary of Normcore, 'Quiet Luxury', Jocks, trend cycles, Y2K, assigning new meaning to clothes, Deftones vs Strokes, turtlenecks, Bruce Jenner's style in early Kardashian seasons, emo kids, Austin hears 'Wah Gwan Dalila' for the first time, DuWest Fest, manager mentality, Sniper2004, Yung Lean, 'Cold Pod Hotline', Tiki Bars, Crab Rangoon, 'townies', code switching and more!
Lauren Armstrong
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD

17 min
May 27, 2024 Ep100 - "Places and Spaces" with Nick Marian
EPISODE 100!
In honour of our 100th episode we decided to invite one of our favourite guests back on to the pod, Nick Marian. Nick is the owner of Toronto based vintage stores Expo and Expo Outlet. Nick sat down with us to discuss weather app conspiracies, Jeep Cherokee's, getting his drivers licence in his 30's, his fear of bees, driving across America, truck stops, altitude sickness, Mormons, hating Los Angeles, his love of Thai food, selling at vintage conventions, border cops, weed shops, keg stands, bartending in New York, The Turkey's Nest, 'The Mckibben Lofts', scamming, the time he may have accidentally eaten human meat, 'West Watch', Ontario banning plastic bags, Wendy's, paper straws, Value Village, shoplifting, hating Tim Hortons, eggs not 'working' anymore, Black Dice, the Bowie one year anniversary party, the back and forth between Houndstooth and Juice, Danny's Pizza Tavern and more!
Nick Marian
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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1 hr 29 min
May 16, 2024 Ep99 - "He Podcasts Clouds" with Owen Pallett (Preview)
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Owen Pallett is a Toronto-based musician and composer who's scored films such as 'Her' and 'Dream Scenario'. He's also arranged strings for artists such as Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Lana Del Rey. Owen sat down with us to discuss memory loss, moving to the east end, collection agencies, Leslieville feeling like Los Angeles, seeing shows at History, smoking sections, learning to read music before learning English, Eurythmics, Jean Michel Jarre, scoring a video games as a teenager, Les Mouches, Free Times Cafe, live sampling a blender, naming his project 'Final Fantasy', Ezra Koenig's early noise band 'Total War', signing with Domino, Square Enix's legal team, working with Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran's brand of looping pedals, recording at home vs recording an orchestra, getting left off of 'Taylor's Version', Goldfrapp, getting ripped off by Coldplay, pissing off Spike Jonze, 'Dream Scenario', his next album and more!
Owen Pallett
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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8 min
May 09, 2024 Ep98 - "Psychotic Summer" (Preview)
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We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we discuss getting burnt out by the Drake vs Kendrick beef, the end of 'Chaotic Spring', trying to be mentally in sync, going 'Cat Mode', 'Psychotic Summer', we give our rating to new hot spot 'Cafeteria', 'Baby Blue', bar floors, the club in Scarface, the return of midsized venues, Sex And The City bars, HBO-core, Rachel Sennot, Entourage, 'day hangs', 'The Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show', ghosts, being avoidant, rediscovering Djing, Sabrina Carpenter, Dev Hynes, people who clear their Instagram accounts, Dua Lipa, Comic Sans, 'Kidpix', making art for validation and more!
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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13 min
May 03, 2024 Ep97 - "Friendship Lounge" with WEBB (Preview)
WEBB is a Toronto based musician, producer and founding member of the band Goodbye Honolulu. His debut EP will be dropping this summer. WEBB sat down with us to discuss ‘Rosedale style guys’, ‘post-everything’, working with your close friends, expanding your inner circle, coming from a gigging band background, releasing music at a rapid pace, collaborating with the members of Goodbye Honolulu, Petra Collins, people thinking he was dating Selena Gomez, Rookie Mag, Tumblr, being chased by paparazzi in Manhattan with Selena, smoking weed with the Fyre Festival guy, becoming a solo artist, autotune, the first WEBB show, stage fright, throwing up before shows, not performing with a drummer, Ruby Tuesdays, embracing TikTok, allergies, garage rock, the downfall of Burger Records, discovering electronic music, My Chemical Romance, sampling in rock music, Dean Blunt, making a music video for every song, growing up on the set of SAW, film bros and much more!
WEBB
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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8 min
April 25, 2024 Ep96 - "Chaotic Spring" (Preview)
We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we discuss chaotic spring, the vibes being off, Austin getting told to give up on filmmaking, director cameos, AI generated music tools, 'Her' (2013), M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Village', wanting to start a commune, digital nomad's, Hub.Life Instagram account, 'Falling Down' (1995), voyeurism, gimmicks, artists rejecting technology, purists, the dangers of pursuing 'cutting edge', Andy Warhol, Cindy Lee's new album 'Diamond Jubilee', returning to form, skinny jeans, medieval basics, Queen St making a comeback, Jacob Collier vs Rick Rubin, Vampire Weekend, Josh finding his old music blog, 'Civil War' (2024), getting emotional watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians and more!
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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8 min
April 18, 2024 Ep95 - "Shitposting" with Rhea Singh (PREVIEW)
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Rhea Singh is a Toronto-based arts and culture writer who's work has appeared on Billboard, CBC and BlogTO. Rhea is also the founder of our favourite Instagram account / website Cunt Mag. Rhea sat down with us to discuss being on the other side of an interview, shitposting, Instagram addictions, Absinthe, natural deodorant, Miller Highlife, Chat GPT, learning to code from using Tumblr, astrology, 'Hyperclub', summer 2016, brand activations, Petra Collins, hating live music, Lana Del Rey, Bambi's, frat parties, anonymity, polyamorous relationships, Cat Marnell, pirating audiobooks, expensive parties, internet fragility, calling in vs calling out, the death of shame, cigarettes, Grimes at Coachella, egotistical DJ's, karma, ketamine, millennial gatekeepers, passing the torch, Cafeteria, 'creatives', gateway parties, 'Money is Tight' parties, insecurity as an excuse, Vice Magazine, Bunz Trading Zone, Gen Z vs Millennials, 'Skibiti Toilet' and much much more!
Rhea Singh
Cunt Mag
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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6 min
April 11, 2024 Ep94 - "Staring At The Sun" (PATREON PREVIEW)
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We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we discuss the solar eclipse, everyone posting the same selfie wearing glasses, astrology, 'The Disappearance of Rituals', community, Y2K fear, the Mayan calendar, doomsday preppers, Thermal opening for Crushed in Toronto and Montreal, Patati Patata's poutine, mid level bars, reunions, fragility, 'Before Sunrise', the Curb Your Enthusiasm finale, Mercury Retrograde, superstitions, driving through a blizzard, Kat Duma's new music video, Clothesline From Hell, Djing at Bowie in a Kanye mask, Austin getting compared to Adam Driver, millennial's loving 'Sex and the City' vs Gen Z loving 'Girls' and more!
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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11 min
April 04, 2024 Ep93 - "Boronto" with Bruce LaBruce (PATREON PREVIEW)
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Bruce LaBruce is a Toronto based artist, filmmaker and writer. His latest film 'The Visitor' premiered earlier this year at the Berlin film festival. Bruce sat down with us to discuss Toronto being boring, disaster capitalism, 'No Skin Off My Ass', Sam The Record Man, Yonge Street's seedy era, 'Going Down The Road' (1970), bathhouses, when the city felt glamorous, speakeasy's, The Gun Club, rich kids, condos, living in a squat in Regent Park with Fifth Column, the late 80's Toronto hardcore scene, skin heads, 'lively' mosh pits, falling in love with a Hustler, seeing Nirvana at Lee's Palace, Kurt Cobain calling 'No Skin Off My Ass' his favourite film, 'Hustler White', Rusty, McG, working at Just Deserts in the 80's, The Kentucky Fried Five, his friendship with John Waters, 'Skin Flick', his essay on Camp, Cassavetes Vs Altman, his mentor Robin Wood, film twitter, Eyes Wide Shut, Isabelle Huppert, Gen Z's relationship with sex, porn, his Instagram account, his old Exclaim! column, his infamous TIFF parties, bad DJ's, 'The Visitor', his upcoming book 'The Revolution Is My Boyfriend', the origin of his infamous pose and more!
Bruce LaBruce
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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13 min
March 28, 2024 Ep92 - "Real Friends" (PATREON PREVIEW)
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We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we discuss our two year anniversary, corporate DJ gigs, The Juno's, artistic intentions, monthly listeners, the Canadian film industry, Brad Troemel's 'Hipster Report', the illusion of cool, insecurity, Mubi, the death of the 'Vimeo Staff Pick', the curse of nostalgia, maintaining old friendships, living in the moment, dark hometown energy, synchronicity, viewing Toronto through a tourist's lens, Bambi's, legacy Toronto businesses, Low Bar, McSorely's, Bar Italia, TikTok bands and more!
Josh McIntyre
Austin Hutchings
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COLD POD
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5 min