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⚽ WTF is Blokecore?

👿 Summer of K-Pop

💪 A wrestling goat

📽 I only watched these 2 docs in 2025

🛹 Sneaker of the year

⛷ Red Bull doing Red Bull things

This one time I waited in line for half an hour at a club just to be turned away because I wasn’t wearing the right shoes. I eventually snuck in anyway and was extremely disappointed at how bad the music and the DJ was.

It was like the universe telling me I really shouldn’t have wasted my night going to the stupid club.

Luckily I have things like these weekly mixes to take my mind off of my club trauma from my 20’s.

Club trauma - it’s a real thing. How do you think those floors get so sticky?

I’d be remiss if I didn’t start the second half off of 2025 talking about K-Pop Demon Hunters.

I know, I know - I can’t get that stupid song out of my head either.There’s mornings where I wake up and it’s like it was playing all night while I slept - I digress.

So firstly, I didn’t know Red Notice WAS Netflix’s most streamed movie of all time. I remember The Rock promoting it on IG and I was like, blah blah blah, another Rock movie that I’ll watch and completely forget about.

And it’s true, I think I’ve seen Red Notice but now whenever I think of one of his movies I feel like I’m spinning a roulette wheel of which one was it - they’re all the same!

I digress again. KPDH surpassed Fast and the Juman- GI Joe whatever Rock movie he did where he plays the same character, as the most streamed movie on Netflix of all time, and then surpassed Squid Game (Korea showing up big on Netflix) as the most streamed ANYTHING on Netflix of all time.

Not that it means anything but I remember my kids watching the movie when it came out in May and paying slight attention to it and thinking - huh, this is different, and kinda catchy. Next thing I know it’s all that’s on in the house…and eventually the world.

As much as I can’t get the song out of my head, I think it’s got a pretty cool backstory. EJAE, Golden’s co-writer and creator, got the idea and melody for the song in the car on her way to a dentist appointment.

The bar has been set SO HIGH for the sequel and the sequel’s soundtrack, lord knows how it even comes close - kinda like when Frozen 2 came out and we were all like, that was it?? If you’ve got kids you know what I’m talking about.

I was in Tokyo when I found out Hulk Hogan passed away in July. A little extra bittersweet because earlier in the year I had learned about his roots in Japan and how much of a megastar he was in the late 80s in Tokyo.

I had tried to find where I could buy wrestling t-shirts in Tokyo, in hopes of picking up an Ichiban shirt…that and a Bullet Club shirt (IYKYK). No dice.

As soon as Hogan passed, the internet was awash with all kinds of controversy and stories on both ends of the love/hate spectrum for him. I really don’t want to get into any of that.

What I can share is that I was at Wrestlemania 18 when Hogan fought The Rock (I swear I didn’t expect him to come up this much!). Toronto had/has a massive wrestling fan base but we hadn’t gotten Hogan since the yellow tights days when WWE was WWF.

The majority of people who bought tickets for Wrestlemania 18 bought them to see Hogan - in fact I can’t even tell you who the main event was - Hogan was our main event.

I remember everyone went nuts when he came out for his ring entrance, like bonkers. If you’ve ever been to a concert where you’re near the speakers and it’s like loud but so loud you can’t hear (it’s weird but y’know what I mean?) - that’s what it was like in Skydome - 60K+ people going insane.

I’ll stop there because I could talk for hours about how cool it was to see arguably of the greatest matches of all time live, botches and all.

RIP to the worst best wrestler to ever do it.

Unless you count random YouTube videos that take you down rabbit holes at 2 in the morning, I’m afraid I only watched two documentaries last year - Ye’s and Diddy’s 50Cent’s.

You can go check out my review for In Whose Name here but man, it was a well done documentary, by a younger, who then grows up a bit, Nico Ballesteros.

The doc is essentially the most recent Ye over the past 6 years or so which gives you a really good documented perspective of what’s going on behind a ton of the infamous bi-polar Twitter rants

I’m not here to defend anything Ye has said because all of it was whack, but as I’m sure everyone would agree, perspective is everything and the documentary does a decent job of giving you a glimpse into what real life looked like for Ye.

From the weird presidential run, to his relationships with Elon and Trump, to the fall out with Kim - you get the real life version of it.

Which leads me to Sean Combs: The Reckoning.

In all honesty, I really didn’t care that a documentary was going to be done on Puff Daddy’s past.

And wowzers - whether you believe all of it, some of it, none of it, it’s a REALLY GOOD documentary.

If you’re the type that’s into those murder mystery shows or serial killer documentaries on Netflix, and you HAVEN’T watch this yet, put down your damn phone, get off the toilet, and go turn it on - it’s an easy 3 episode binge.

Dawg, I don’t care - it was a good watch. And 50cent treating it like revenge made it all the better!

Man, I don’t even want to get into it about Eric because there’s too many rabbit holes I’d go down and your legs are probably starting to go numb on the toilet.

Eric has done so much for NikeSB and he has more to come. If you rock the SB Jordan 4’s, you can thank him for making Nike create an SB version of that silhouette.

Now it’s not to say this last story is last because it was the best of the year, it just so happened to happen towards the end of the year.

And without the use of supplementary oxygen. Andrzej Bargiel climbed the summit of Mt. Everest without the typical help of an oxygen mask, and then said ‘see ya later’ to his sherpa and began to ski down the tallest mountain in the world.

Actually speaking of documentaries, go watch 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible on Netflix - it’s about Nims Purja climbing all 14 of the earth’s 8000m peaks in under 7 months and then you get an even greater appreciation for what Andrzej did on Mt. Everest.

Red Bull has given us skydiving from space, people jumping from one plane to another in mid air, and a guy riding his bike over jumps and obstacles on a moving train…amongst other things.