From Podcast to Platform:
The Duff Radio Story So Far

"Lift up all creatives, serve as a platform for good, and bring more awareness to the projects and voices of our collaborators."

On January 16, 2021, the first Duff Radio Show aired: STBtheDon and Conor Chill Out in front of a camera, debuting three new songs and having a conversation. The footage goes back even further — to the summer 2020 sessions at the old Emerald Dreams Lab, where the camera was already rolling while Mighty Casual's Vol. 1 came together. That was the founding idea in its rawest form: point a lens at Kansas City's underground and let the work speak.

In 2023 the platform expanded into a proper podcast — long-form conversations on every audio platform, built on a simple belief that the people making music here deserved more room to talk than a 30-second clip allows. No label backing, no studio budget. Just episodes, published one after another, every Sunday.

The podcast came first on purpose. Conversations are the cheapest thing in media to make and the hardest thing to fake. Thirty-eight episodes later, that catalog of interviews is still the spine of the platform, with four seasons of artists, producers, and people building the scene sitting down to tell it straight.

2024 was the year the music started. Mixtape Vol. 1 turned Duff Radio from a show about music into a platform that makes it, produced in FL Studio and released to every major streaming service. The mixtape format fit the mission: more tracks means more features, and more features means more collaborators getting their names on a release.

2025 was volume. Mixtape Vol. 2 and Vol. 3. The "Last Song" and "Dark Side" singles. An instrumental detour into dungeon synth and dark ambient. Music videos shot on a Blackmagic 6K. A fourth podcast season. The catalog grew to seven releases, and the audience grew with it, with an audience past 400,000 views across more than fifty countries.

2026 opened with "Nun' to Say / Feel My Pain" — the most collaborative record yet. Seven featured artists across two tracks: Wyd Benny, OkCasheyy, Young Gittyman and STBtheDON on the A-side; Mighty Casual, Riley Macc and Zajikc on the flip. That ratio — seven collaborators, two songs — is the whole idea in miniature.

What Duff Radio is now is what it says on the label: a modern online radio and media platform. Original music, interviews, vlogs, and music videos, run end to end — recorded, produced, shot, edited, and published in-house — so the people who collaborate get a real platform, not just a post.

The next chapter is more of everything: more episodes, more releases, more video, and more names pulled up with us. If you make something, send it over.