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The time MJ was scared to shoot a free throw

And the science of scary movies

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Andrew Safranko
October 24, 2025

This Week in Dulture…

Approx 5 minute read:

👟 Love affair with AJ 4 RM’s

💰️ NBA is back in more ways than one

👻 Scientifically calculating what’s scary

🌟 Another thing from OpenAI

Dulture weekly mix

Honestly man, you have to appreciate when songs you already know are mixed with a bunch of new beats and it still sounds good.

That’s what’s going on in today’s mix. It’s like a bunch of new songs that you know every single word to. And quite possibly remember dancing to them in the club as well.

No club? No problem.

You have this mix, commercial free - like how nice is it to have a mix on YouTube where it doesn’t randomly pause because of a stupid ad. How nice is it to have such a thing on a Friday - we’re just doing only nice things today.

If you know me, you know I have a life long journey of both remembering every pair of Nike shoes I had as a kid and then collecting them in an adult size.  

Truthfully more than half the battle is just remembering what shoes I had in what year. 

Growing up in the 90’s, Nike either didn’t release certain shoes in kids sizes (had to wait almost 20 years for Air Max 90 infrareds) OR they made a modified kid version that sometimes actually looked fire. 

Like my Bo Jackson’s in Grade 2. 

Being obsessed with sneakers as a kid was an effort of more so falling in love with motif’s. 

  • You’ve got the lil keychain tag thing that dangles off the shoe. 

  • You’ve got the colourways that popped, mainly thanks to Andre Agassi. 

  • And then you had the classic Nike Air in the back. 

I’ve become a sucker for shoes that have this classic styling.  

Obviously the Jordan 4’s are well known for this 👆️ …I was just never a huge fan of 4’s. 

Until I found the RM’s… 

These low cut shoes are stupid controversial online at times, for no good reason other than they’re a low cut version of the 4’s - people just like to talk.

Which I get. Fine, if you love 4’s these might be a weird adaptation.  

But ultimately I don’t care.  They’re mad comfy. They look great on feet. And there’s tons of colourways. 

 

And now they’re coming out in the ultra classic cement colourway this holiday season.  

Instant 👮 

All you haters, try them on and tell me they aren’t the most comfortable Jordan you’ve ever worn! 

WTF is Going On in the NBA Already??

So we’re like 3 nights into the start of the NBA season and so far:

1. Russell Westbrook never liked playing with, being teammates with, or just being around LeBron in general.

The time Will Smith visited the Lakers at practice after LeBron didn’t want to stick around but then came back and derailed the whole experience

2. Stephen A. Smith also put LeBron on blast, effectively calling him his mortal enemy (paraphrasing of course - it’s much worse)

3. Michael Jordan made his NBC debut admitting he was nervous to shoot a free throw in front of a couple kids in some rich guy’s backyard.

4. Wemby is back - holy EFF Wemby is back.

5. And yo, Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier were arrested by the mfking FBI for illegal gambling on NBA GAMES

If my IG reel algorithm is accurate, WHICH IT ALWAYS IS, we haven’t heard the last about the gambling going on in the NBA.

Oh, and I also had a professional, adult conversation with my colleagues on Threads about LeBron’s retirement.

Lades and gentlemen, welcome to the 2025-2026 NBA season.

You’ve Got a Week to Watch All of This

I recently found out that every year there’s this Science of Scare list created based on a scientific study that tracks people’s resting heart rate, their average movie heart rate, and the highest spike they get during the movie.

A scare score is then created for the films and the rankings come out.

Halloween is a week away - if you had to pick one of the top 3 films on the list to watch next Friday night, which one are you choosing? 👇️ 

Respond to this email, I’ll tell you what my favourite horror film of all time is.

#3 Skinamarink

#2 Host

#1 Sinister

Which Browser Are You?

Gonna date myself for a minute…so when I was in grade 9 I used to get dropped off at school mad early, like a good half hour before the bell rung.  

And I didn’t have much friends early on so I’d go to the library and look for something to do (I went to a school that none of my elementary school friends went to).

Anyway - back then we had like 2 computers in the library that internet on it. I used to spend my mornings searching up N64 games on AltaVista using NetScape Navigator.

We’ve come a long way with internet browsers, to the point where now it’s about to become: take your pick of AI browsers.

OpenAI just launched Atlas this past week, their own AI infused browser that let’s you use ChatGPT-like functionality while you browse. So basically instead of asking yourself WTF is marzipan good for, you can ask ChatGPT right in the window.

You can do a whole lot more - it’s basically like talking to your browser and asking or telling it anything that you’re looking at and it giving you back what you need.

Microsoft announced their own browser two days after Atlas came out meaning there are a quite a number of AI browsers creeping up:

  • Perplexity comet

  • Dia

  • Opera

  • Fellou

  • Google (if you use AI mode…kinda sorta)

Soon you’re going to be able to just stare at the screen and look wherever you want and that’s where the action will take place.

How long til “Googling” something is replaced by “ChatGPT-ing” it?

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