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Cool Mules
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. ProductionCool 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.[1][2] It was released in six parts, the first of which was released on March 2, 2020.[3] SynopsisThe podcast tells the story of Toronto-based[3] Yaroslav Pastukhov/Slava Pastuk, a Vice Media music editor who goes by the pseudonym of Slava P.[4][5] 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 receptionIn 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.[6][8] See also
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