podcast
Honest conversations with builders, creators, thinkers, and people who are too interesting for the usual script.
Based in Lewisporte, Newfoundland
the weird canadian is what happens when curiosity refuses to niche down.
I’m Cody Johnston, a Newfoundland-based creator, podcast host, writer, lyricist, and software builder exploring AI, culture, creativity, technology, and the strange corners where they overlap.
the origin still matters
I didn’t want to erase the origin. The Weird Canadian comes from the whole path: growing up and building a life through Ontario, spending years inside serious government and financial technology systems, then landing in Lewisporte, Newfoundland and making the weird thing the main thing.
That move matters. Newfoundland changed the pace, the perspective, and the kind of work I wanted to make. It gave this project a home base that feels a little outside the usual internet machine, which is exactly the point.
The Weird Canadian started as a place for curiosity and has grown into a podcast, newsletter, creative studio, public notebook, and practical tech lab for conversations about AI, culture, software, creativity, and what it means to stay human while everything gets automated.
Built from Newfoundland, shaped by an Ontario-to-Newfoundland origin story.
Podcast, newsletter, book work, music, media, software, and whatever useful weirdness comes next.
what this is
a few different things, on purpose
The Weird Canadian is not one neat lane. It is a place where conversations, ideas, systems, and experiments can all exist under the same roof.
writing
Newsletter notes, essays, book work, and public thinking about AI, culture, trust, creativity, and the internet.
creative work
Music, video, experiments, and the kind of ideas that usually start with: this might be weird, but hear me out.
practical tech
Software, AI workflows, prototypes, and useful systems for people trying to build real things without corporate fog.
weird is not a gimmick
Weird means curious before polished. Honest before optimized. Human before algorithmic.
It means asking better questions, making useful things, and refusing to flatten everything into the same beige internet template.
the useful background
Before The Weird Canadian became the main thing, I spent years building software in government, public-sector, and fintech environments. That background still shapes the work: practical systems, clear thinking, security awareness, and a bias toward shipping things that actually work.
I keep that experience on the page because it is part of the origin, not because this needs to read like a résumé. The point is simple: I have seen how serious systems are built, and I like bringing that discipline into creative, independent, and human-scale projects.
right now I’m focused on
- The Weird Canadian Podcast
- Bleeding Digital book project
- Beehiiv newsletter and essays
- music and creative experiments
- sponsor, media, and guest collaborations
- practical AI/software builds
want to be part of the weirdness?
Listen to the podcast, read the work, sponsor something useful, or reach out if you’re building something that needs a little weird clarity.
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