Nick Mullen

Nick Mullen is an American stand-up comedian and podcast host. He created and hosted the podcast Cum Town, which ran from 2016 to 2022 and was funded by a Patreon subscription campaign he ran, and he co-hosted its successor, The Adam Friedland Show, until January 2025. He continues to tour as a stand-up comedian.

Cum Town

The show’s podcast feed — a single continuous feed that later became The Adam Friedland Show’s — retains episodes back to “Ep. 3 – The Sleepy Boys”, dated 25 May 2016. Those earliest surviving episode notes name Dan Soder as the show’s first guest and refer to the hosts as Mullen, Adam Friedland and Stavros Halkias (“Stav”). The show published weekly.

Its Patreon campaign was created on 12 January 2016 and published on 27 June 2016, with its first post at the end of that month. Patreon’s own record lists the campaign’s creator accounts as twitter.com/nickmullen and instagram.com/mulldogforever, and the earliest archived capture of the page gives the creator’s display name as “The Cum Boys” with Mullen’s Facebook and Twitter attached. The offer was straightforward: the weekly show free, additional premium episodes for subscribers.

Subscription Funding

The campaign displayed its patron count and monthly total publicly, so its growth can be read directly off archived captures of the page:

Capture	Patrons	Monthly total displayed
23 December 2016	1,484	not rendered
25 February 2018	6,699	not rendered
14 June 2019	10,370	$46,559
7 June 2022	22,043	$97,859
3 October 2022	29,731	$138,506

By the June 2022 capture the campaign was approaching 100,000 US dollars a month from listener subscriptions alone, against a publicly displayed goal of $250,000 a month. This is the concrete fact underneath the general claim that independent podcasts could be financed by their audiences rather than by advertisers or a network.

The Adam Friedland Show

The audio show ended in October 2022. Its feed labels the episode of 27 October 2022 “THE LAST AUDIO ONLY / PODCAST EPISODE” and announces that a new show “premieres this weekend”; a Patreon post dated 31 October 2022 is titled “The Adam Friedland Show – E101 – Halloween Special”, and the episode released on 3 November 2022 describes itself as the show’s second. The new programme was a video talk show with in-studio guests, distributed on YouTube and as a podcast, and it kept the same Patreon campaign and the same RSS feed.

Mullen co-hosted it. Through 2023 and 2024 the show’s episode notes routed listeners to his tour dates alongside Friedland’s, and in December 2023 the show promoted his stand-up special “The Year of the Dragon”, released on YouTube on 3 December 2023.

On 25 January 2025 the show’s own clips channel posted a video titled “Nick Mullen Is Leaving The Adam Friedland Show”, taken from that week’s Episode 90. The numbered weekly podcast stops at that episode in the feed; what follows is a run of previously recorded “Lost Episodes” before the show resumed in April 2025.

The Patreon campaign that had funded both shows posted its last item on 3 March 2025, titled “Cum Town Farewell”, and was renamed “Cum Town Archive”. As of 1 September 2026 it held 631 posts, 40,873 patrons and 6,205 paying members.

What Is Not Established Here

This audit removed a good deal that the sources do not support.

Political relevance. The page’s claim on this site rested entirely on characterization rather than on documented events: it described Mullen as “a prominent figure in the New York comedy and podcasting scene that intersected with online political culture”, said the show carried “commentary on politics and culture”, grouped it with Chapo Trap House “as part of a broader wave of independent podcasting”, and credited him with “contributing to the growth of irony-driven internet culture that intersected with political commentary”. None of that was attributed to anyone, and no source located in this pass documents a political action, endorsement, campaign role or stated political position by Mullen. What is documented is a funding fact: a comedy podcast that reached tens of thousands of paying subscribers and roughly $100,000 a month without an advertiser or a network. The page has been reduced to that. A reader looking for Mullen’s place in American political discourse should be told plainly that this record does not establish one.

Removed for want of a source. The birth year 1988 — the only citation traceable for it is a friend’s birthday greeting on Twitter, which is unreachable and would not establish a year in any case. The follower count field (“500K+ Twitter followers, 20K+ Patreon subscribers at peak”) — X/Twitter figures cannot be retrieved, and the Patreon figures are now given with the dates they were captured. The claim that the show “held the position of the top-earning podcast on Patreon for much of 2017 and 2018”: Patreon publishes no such ranking and no source for it was found. The account of an early stand-up career on the New York circuit and of a “reputation for improvisational humor and an irreverent comedic style”. The assertion that Mullen and his co-hosts “generally resisted political categorization of their work”. The claim that he “co-founded” the show is narrowed to what the feed and the Patreon record show: he created and ran its subscription campaign and hosted it alongside Friedland and Halkias.

Not verified. The reason for Mullen’s departure. The clip announcing it is behind a video this pass did not transcribe, so the page states the date and nothing about the cause.

Note on the figures. Patreon’s patron count includes free members where a free tier is offered, so the 2026 figure of 40,873 is not a count of paying subscribers; the paying figure on that date was 6,205. For the 2016 and 2018 captures the archived page does not render a currency-labelled earnings figure, so none is given.