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Mule Radio Syndicate
12+ albums
about
Mule Radio is closing. Well, kind of. Mostly, but not quite. I’ll explain. But first, let’s go over a little history. We started Mule Radio a couple of years ago because I was looking for a home for my podcast, Let’s Make Mistakes. In a pique of punk rock DIY fever, I gathered the team at Mule and convinced them we could build our own network, produce our own shows, invite our friends to join us, and even make a little money. And we convinced our friend Caleb Sexton, a fantastic audio engineer, to join us as a partner. The first few months were fun. The first few months of anything usually are. The team worked its ass off, we built a site, gathered our shows, and launched to the world. We muddled along, quietly pleased with ourselves and slowly increasing listenership week over week. Shit got real when John Gruber joined us. That’s when people took notice. Including sponsors. The Talk Show was the rising tide that lifted all the ships. And now we were making enough money to consider this a real business, including hiring our first Radio employee. Except that it really wasn’t a real business. It was a side project. A side project that was now playing with real-ish money. And therein lies the problem of side projects. They will either muddle along as a fun side project and provide a necessary distraction from your main work, or they will grow and demand your attention. They want to be fed. The answer to “what if this fails” is easy. You shut it down. The answer to “what if t
top songs
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2: Dare I Say, Kubrick?
17924: A Decent Thing That Someone Would Like
16733: Superman Didn't Even Make His Own Logo
16448: Like Giving Natalie Portman a Trucker Cap
155510: The Next Big Thing
15165: Live From WWDC 2012
15171: What If the Dolphins Had Thumbs
14886: Laggy by Any Standard
142914: You're Not Gonna Name Him Fuzzbutt
1351017: The iPhone 5 Episode
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