| Cool Mules | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | True crime |
| Cast and voices | |
| Hosted by | Kasia Mychajlowycz |
| Publication | |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Original release | 2 March – 29 March 2020 |
| Provider | Canadaland |
| Related | |
| Website | www |
Cool Mules is a podcast by Canadaland about a cocaine-smuggling ring led by Slava Pastuk that operated within Vice Media.
It won a National Magazine Awards Gold Award for best podcast in 2021.
Production
Cool Mules was produced and co-written by Jesse Brown; Kasia Mychajlowycz was the host, reporter and producer, Jonathan Goldsbie did research, Nathan Burley did the music, and Chandra Bulucon did the sound design and mixing.12
It was released in six parts, the first of which was released on March 2, 2020.3
Synopsis
The podcast tells the story of Toronto-based3 Yaroslav Pastukhov/Slava Pastuk, a Vice Media music editor who goes by the pseudonym of Slava P.45 The story takes placed between 2014 and 2016,3 in which Slava P recruits younger Vice employees into an international cocaine-smuggling ring.6
Themes in the podcast include the gig-economy, worker exploitation, and the line between journalists reporting news and creating news.4
Critical reception
In 2021, Cool Mules won a Digital Publishing Awards Gold Award for best podcast (arts & culture) from the National Magazine Awards.7
Maxine Betteridge-Moes writing for Smack Media described the podcast as refreshing and fascinating.4 Lizzy Steiner, writing in CrimeReads writes "host Kasia Mychajlowycz painstaking unpacks a crime that seems custom-built for the millennial generation."3
US corporation Storied Media Group bought the rights to the story.68
References
References
- "Cool Mules is a new podcast about that cocaine-smuggling ring run out of Vice". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- "Presenting the Winners of the 2021 Digital Publishing Awards". Digital Publishing Awards. 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- Steiner, Lizzy (2020-03-26). "12 True Crime Podcasts to Listen to this Spring". CrimeReads. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- Betteridge-Moes, Maxine (3 April 2020). "Cool Mules is the #1 Podcast You Need To Hear Right Now". www.smackmedia.ca. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- Thiessen, Connie (2021-04-29). "SMG to market Canadaland IP for TV & film adaptation". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- Ramachandran, Naman (2021-04-29). "Canadaland Podcasts to Be Adapted For Film and TV Through Storied Media Group Deal (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- "2021 National Magazine Awards Nominees Announced". National Magazine Awards. 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- "The surprising rise of Canadaland". mcgillnews.mcgill.ca. June 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
External links
External links
- Cool Mules podcast official website
- Sean Craig and Adrian Humphreys, How a former editor allegedly used Vice Canada to recruit drug mules for a global smuggling ring, The National Post, 2 February 2017