This Week in Dulture…

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❎ Not a Squid Games review

🏄️ Thirty years of shredding the gnar

🐢 Kid’s cult classic is back this August

🗽 NYC like you’ve never seen it

Dulture weekly mix

For this week’s mix I have only one request: listen to it at the end of the day.

OR, listen to it when you’ve officially announced to yourself, EFF IT, it’s officially the weekend. You know that point in your day on Friday when you’re like, this can wait til next week -that point, listen then.

Which means you need to bookmark this or just have a really good memory - whatever works.

You’ll thank me later.

The Extreme Games

When you become an adult there’s things you hold on to from your childhood that somewhat morph into an adult thing - maybe it’s the music you listened to, or maybe it’s the Taking Back Sunday T-shirt you still wear to the gym 20 years later…

The point is, we all hold onto things where you end up realizing, you’re probably never not gonna outgrow it.

For me, it’s the X-Games.

Even just thinking about it, then writing it, then telling all you randos about my love of the X-Games makes me feel like you now know who I was when I was 17.

But whatever, it’s so fun that it’s become such a big deal. For those of you who care to watch the X-Games still, you also probably have this weird sentimental connection to X-Games 1999 when Tony Hawk landed a 900.

In fact the X-Games just celebrated its 30th anniversary last week, capped off by Ryan Williams doing the first ever BMX triple backflip on dirt:

The X-Games brand is now venturing into building a league around all the events, starting with skateboarding and BMX and then later snowboarding and skiiing in the winter.

The idea is that select athletes will draft teams to then compete in the events and have an all year round league type of scenario versus just the couple events a year that the X-Games does.

The same way Drive to Survive propelled F1 into the mainstream, the X-Games plans on running it’s own reality show following the athletes around as they compete throughout the season, in hopes that it attracts a more mainstream audience.

I remember staying up late as a kid watching Tony Hawk’s Gigantic Skatepark Tour because for whatever reason TSN only played it at midnight on weekends but that show was the closest thing to mainstream behind the scenes that the public got for these action sport athletes.

Holy nostalgia - if this doesn’t define the early 2000’s, I don’t know what does…

TMNT Re-Release this August

Speaking of 30+ year anniversaries, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle film celebrates its 35th anniversary this summer with a re-release in theatres for two days in August, the 17th and 20th.

The reason why you want to go watch this, aside from the fact that why wouldn’t you want to see an all time classic 90’s film in theatres again, is that the film will come with a new featurette called Turtles Unmasked, which includes a whole whack of never before seen and behind the scenes footage from the 1990 film.

Also maybe you want to remind yourself of how cool the Footclan’s hideout was - what kid wouldn’t have wanted to join the Footclan back in the 90’s??

So far no word on whether any screenings are happening outside of the US but something tells me if enough people complain, maaaybe we see a screening in Canada?

You can find tickets here - but if you’re Canadian, it looks like you’ll be driving to the states to watch.

My guess is the featurette (which is what I really want to see) will be leaked online at some point anyway - the internet stays undefeated, COWABUNGA!

THIS IS INSANE

A team of people have spent the last 4 years building Lower Manhattan in Minecraft.

If you live in NYC, you may just find your home recreated in Minecraft now.

Anyone else getting Sim City vibes?

You can actually purchase the world here so you can go through Lower Manhattan peacefully without all the non-stop honking and sirens.

But is it really New York if there isn’t constant honking at all hours of the day?