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I didn't really understand anything until I was propositioned myself.

This is Jake Kavansh.

Back in 2015, when he was still a teenager,

he was an intern at Vice Canada's Toronto office

when Slava Pastic was their music editor.

One day, Slava propositioned Jake with a job that had nothing to do with journalism.

He said that I would need to travel to Las Vegas for a week, and then I would travel to

Australia for a week. I'd travel back to Canada. And all I had to do was bring a suitcase,

and then when I got back to Canada, they paid me 10,000 Canadian.

And this was Jake's first reaction.

He was just kind of like, you down.

And I didn't know what else say.

So I was like, oh, yeah, like I'm interested.

I'm Kasha Mahalovich, and this is Cool Mules.

Music I'm Kasha Mahailovich, and this is Cool Mules.

When I'm talking about that old vice, it was mostly just being shitty to your interns.

Once he became an editor at vice, that definitely put him in a category of direct report.

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