Cold Pod

We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we discuss Josh's birthday plans, 'Poor Things', things slowing down in December, transition lenses, the Bar Italia show, Dev Hynes, Debby Friday, the way directors hold cameras, Austin's short trip to Montreal, Vancouver redemption, rating systems, comparing our Letterboxd accounts, Kanye's cursed 'Vultures' rollout, Emma Stone, 'post industry plants', Amanda Bynes, deleting twitter, 'The Sweet East', 'Priscilla', 'Cool Things' and more!

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we discuss Austin working a weed event, charcoal filters, 'Budtenders', free shots, Josh opening for Bar Italia tonight, classic indie rock guys, 70mm screenings, 'May December', YTV's game show 'Uh-Oh', making a Letterboxd account to review Christmas movies, dark app ideas, Squid Game: The Challenge, reality tv contestants, narcissism, rating your friends, Kontravoid live at EXPO, old goths, 'Jingle All The Way', weird Christmas music, Sagittarius season and more!

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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Dan Burke is a legendary Toronto-based concert promoter who booked shows over the last 25 years for artists such as Orville Peck, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The White Stripes. Dan sat down with us to discuss being a big fish in a small aquarium, his 'Class Of' concert series, viewing new bands as draft picks, growing up in Montreal, working as a busboy, The Montreal Gazette, his early days as a journalist, working as a producer at The 5th Estate, Irish Canadian organized crime group 'The West End Gang', The Hells Angeles, Saturday Night Magazine, uncovering corruption within the RCMP in the 90s, Montreal weekly crime tabloids, The Main Deli, meeting Leonard Cohen, smuggling smoked brisket into prison, addiction, sobriety, becoming a club promoter, Club Shanghai, the Detroit garage rock scene, The Deadly Snakes, the El Mocambo, lower east side glam bands, The Silver Dollar, Now Magazine and more!

Dan Burke

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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In part 2 of our conversation with Josh Pong and Le Creepture, Norman Wong crashes our podcast just in time to taste test a variety of asian snacks including duck tongue and chicken feet flavoured chips, as well as dried stingray. As we munched on snacks, we discussed dating a vegan, Labyrinth Lounge, Oliver El-Khatib as a high school DJ, helping people move, Josh Pong turning down a job with Kanye West because he can't drive, walking cities, Ikea, accessibility, Bodega Nord, 'the good, the bad and the ugly of Toronto', and more!

Josh Pong

Le Creepture

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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Josh Pong and Le Creepture are two longtime friends from Toronto who have had their hands in everything from nightlife, graphic design, restaurants and streetwear. In part one of this episode we discuss 90's counter culture, house music, discovering Hip Hop, art school, 'The Legend of Josh Pong', their graffiti days, getting robbed at a Cypress Hill concert, Central Tech, pre-internet slang, leaving positive Google reviews, living in Sweden, being a creature of habit, trying to love Toronto, Drake, the design of Toronto garbage cans, stoop culture, living at Double Double Land, bedbugs, Toronto clubs in the 90's, switching up your style, choir, hidden gems, Hong Kong Bistro Cafe and much more!

Josh Pong

Le Creepture

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we recap our Halloween party at EXPO Warehouse, borrowing expensive equipment, handing out halloween candy, kids costumes that wouldn't fly these days, the winner of our costume contest, method acting, 'Dunbar's Number', not being able to remember peoples names, 'Coherence' (2014), referring to people by their Instagram handles, Young Teesh, Webb performing as an old man, Millennials, generational shifts, mysterious Instagram ads, 'This American Life', guerrilla actors, genius', The Shaggs and more!

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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We’re back with everyones favourite recurring guest Lauren Armstrong! In this episode we discuss Julia Fox's new book 'Down The Drain', tv shows being too dark, 'Killers of the Flower Moon', Frasier, Halloweentown, Josh's Nightmare, dreaming about scorpions, Toronto-centric Halloween costumes, Thermal's new single 'Plaster Girl', subconsciously naming your art, archive Instagram pages, fake job titles, bringing back shame, 'Creatives', 'Zanta', Cold Pod party as a networking opportunity, Trinidad James' new career as a creative director and more!

Lauren Armstrong

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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BAMBII is a Toronto based DJ and producer who's most recent EP 'Infinity Club' was released in August. Bambii sat down with us to discuss touring Australia for the first time, Eastern Europe, taking her time with music production, Aaliyah remixes, 'Infinity Club', chronic procrastination, finding collaborators, the music industry's lack of social spontaneity, remaining accessible, Taylor Swift, Instagram as social currency, working with Kelela, turning down roles in TV shows, the way DJ's are portrayed in movies, co-directing all of her music videos, the pros and cons of people taking pictures of DJ's, Boiler Room, people who don't dance, the evolution of her party 'Jerk', Toronto still having a level of excitement, Soca vs Dancehall, Beyonce, Drake and more!

Bambii

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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We're back with another solo pod. In this episode we discuss Austin's upcoming video music video with Kat Duma, Paul Thomas Anderson making Boogie Nights when he was 26, 'Netflix Movies', 'Deconstructed Club', 'There's Something About Mary', Jonathan Richman, underground musicians in mainstream movies, Fran Lebowitz, The Golden Bachelor, Moya's sculpture at Livestock, 'Toronto Sober', Josh DJing a running event, Fox Atticus' show at The Burdock, Webb at EXPO, Drake's 'For All The Dogs', Miami Bass and more!

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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Debby Friday is a Toronto based musician and producer. Her latest album 'Good Luck' (Sub Pop) recently won the 2023 Polaris Music Prize. Debby sat down with us to discuss performing with a full band for the first time, preparing acceptance speeches in the shower, writing music during the pandemic, treating 'Good Luck' as the end of a chapter, getting her masters in interdisciplinary studies, living in Vancouver, having a nervous breakdown in Montreal, quitting DJing, her 'party girl era', the golden age of Soundcloud, learning to produce in her mom's basement, being involved in the visual aspects of her projects, signing to Sub Pop, working with Graham Walsh, Chino Amobi, visual albums, Carl Jung, death psychology and more!

Debby Friday

Josh McIntyre

Austin Hutchings

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