Cool Mules is a podcast by Canadaland about a cocaine-smuggling ring led by Slava Pastuk that operated within Vice Media.
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.
[3] The 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.
[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.