Josh McIntyre is a musician, DJ, and co-host of Cold Pod, a pop culture podcast at the heart of Toronto’s emerging underground podcasting community. After curb stomping onto the scene just over a year ago, Cold Pod wasted no time in its effortless delivery of hot takes on all things music, art, and pop culture—all while keeping true to and embracing its home (the six). 'The Cold Pod Formula', meticulously crafted by Josh and his co-host, Austin, was considerably influential in shaping Toronto’s extremely gritty and underground podcasting scene. To this day, the recipe to the formula remains shrouded in secrecy despite many would-be podcasters claiming to know what’s in it.

These days, you can catch Josh hanging out in Toronto’s infamous “West End" working on new music with his band, Thermal, recording Cold Pod episodes, and more…

Topics discussed in this episode:

- Liberty Village

- The service industry

- Halloween

- Pigeons and racoons

- Facebook marketplace

- Spadina

- Podcast analytics