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These movies are reminders of Summer
Pusha T trying to stay relevant with another diss
Andrew Safranko
June 20, 2025
This Week in Dulture…
Approx 5 minute read:
😎 Summer movie reminders
📱 Another Trump branded product
🎤 Pusha T trying to remain relevant
🖥️ They don’t want you to stop working…ever
Dulture weekly mix
If you’re not catching them, you’re missing out - DJ Shtoops live streams a few times a week now and it’s like this mini exclusive party, while you lie on your bed doom scrolling.
Listening to this week’s mix is like watching a movie based on a true story. Knowing he hasn’t heard any of these songs before and the mix still slaps makes it all the more fun to listen to. Also is it me or by about 20:33 there’s some major World Cup vibes.
🎵 Top 3 Spotify Global This Week
Welp, it’s officially summer.
And while there’s a million things that may remind you of summer, for me it’s these guys:
Ben Afleck is in this movie lol
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve watched Dazed and Confused.
I remember the first time I watched it I had no idea what the point of the movie actually was. Frankly, I still don’t really know 20 years later.
It’s literally a day in the life of kid (who doesn’t stop touching his nose) about to go on summer holidays while he continues to bump into people in his small American town.
All I know is everyone I know who has watched this film wishes they had this kind of end of school year day. If there was ever a movie that made you feel like summer was starting, it’s Dazed and Confused.
Let’s’ be honest, a lot of us saw only one scene from American Pie before watching the full movie.
You know what scene I’m talking about 😉
I wouldn’t say American Pie is as pointless as Dazed and Confused but it’s right up there - a bunch of teenagers trying to lose their virginity by prom night.
The original name of the script should tell you all you need to know: Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Most Readers Will Probably Hate But I Think You Will Love.
I remember summer of 1999 was just non-stop jokes, quotes, and talk of American Pie.
If there was ever a hall of fame for pointless yet HILARIOUS films, Superbad easily would be the first inductee.
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as embarrassingly loud in a theatre as I did when I watched this movie.
The summer Superbad came out was my last summer before I gave my soul to the corporate world. Perhaps this is why I haven’t laughed as hard in a movie theatre since.
Let the longest day of the year start ✌️
Temu Trump Phone
Let me flex on you for a minute…
At one point in my illustrious corporate career I was the right hand man for the guy who ran IBM in Canada. It was him, me, and a couple others who had all the secrets to a 13,000 person workforce.
The execs that came in and out of his office all made stupid amounts of money and so naturally they always had the most expensive clothes, and they weren’t afraid to talk about them if the topic ever came up.
The year Trump announced he was running for president I remember the head of legal came into the office and said, “I’ve got my Trump shirt on today” and we all asked why? and then found out Trump was actually running.
I was just surprised Trump had his own branded button down dress shirts.
But then again he’s put his name on all kinds of stuff…
NFT’s
Cologne & perfume
Steaks
Hypebeast shoes
Vodka
Bible
And the list goes on and on…and leads us to this thing:
This thing looks like a bootleg Samsung phone
The T1 is going to be a $499 USD Android phone, touted by The Trump Organization as being built in the US.
The media on the other hand has immediately jumped all over the phone’s specs to point out it will most likely be made in China or neighbouring Asian countries.
Along with the phone, Trump Mobile was recently launched, offering phone plans like any other cellular provider but with a couple unique additions - telehealth and prescription ordering services, as well as 24/7 roadside assistance.
Why does it look like a bootleg iPhone though?
Pre-orders have started for the phone - no word on when it gets shipped but if there was ever a review that MKBD breaks the internet with, it will be when he gets his hands on the T1.
Pusha T disses Travis Scott (yawn)
There’s a whole lot of irony of me writing about this but bear with me, I’ve got a couple points to make.
So let’s go back to 2018 when Pusha T released Daytona, an album that unless you’re a hardcore Push fan, you probably didn’t catch much of, except for his track Infared aka the track that ignited the mini rap beef with Drake.
Infared threw subs at Drake and his ghostwriting, to which Drake responded with Duppy Freestyle within hours of the track being released and then four days later Push came out with “The Story of Adidon”, the big diss track that was critically acclaimed, but IMHO, the hype was really around the reveal of Drake’s (secret at the time) son.
Since then Push released another album in 2022 (It’s Almost Dry) which basically blended in with the rest of his discography. And essentially he has remained relevant because of his friendship with Pharrell and the ties to Louis Vuitton.
Back in May it was announced he was getting back together with his brother Malice to bring their two man crew, Clipse, back together for another album and tour.
This week they released “So Be It” off of their upcoming album, dissing Travis Scott for
Interrupting their studio session in Paris to play them and Pharrell music off of Uptopia, which includes the song “Meltdown”, where Drake has a verse talking about buying Pharrell’s Neptune’s chain and melting it down
Being shady and supporting Drake, who seemingly disses Kanye on “Sicko Mode”
And then telling Metro Boomin’ and Future to play “Not Like Us” at Rolling Loud
I get it - Travis Scott was tied to the Kardashians and let’s be honest, no man has ever walked out of that circle of women normal again.
BUT - go ask anyone 30 or younger who Pusha T is and they will have a hard time telling you, let alone naming a song. To me dissing Travis Scott today over an incident that happened in 2023 is mad weird.
Why am I even writing about this in the first place then?
Yes Push was annoyed that Travis jumped in on their studio session just to play some music for Pharrell so that he’d get some content out of it…but like, here he is dissing someone much more relevant than him 2 years later…ON THE HEELS OF AN ALBUM RELEASE.
Geee…. wonder why he waited 2 years to do this 🤔
Yeah okay, Mr. Me Too.
The Infinite Workday
Ever feel like your workday never ends?
According to Microsoft’s latest data, it’s because it actually doesn’t.
In a report from Microsoft 365 data, the company reported…
40% of people who are online at 6AM are reviewing their email
The avg person receives 117 emails per day, skimmed in under 60 seconds
People get about 153 Teams messages per day
I hate, hated, still hate Teams.
A big stat that jumps out of Microsoft’s analysis is that over 50% of people’s peak focus time (9-11AM and 1-3PM) is taken up by people booking meetings during those periods of time.
Leave me the hell alone, is what I used to say when I had coworkers.
Meanwhile meetings after 8PM are up 16% from the previous year and people are sending on average of 50 messages after hours. By 10 PM people are back in their email trying to clean it up.
And then they go to bed and do it all over again the following day.
Is it really a rat race when it sounds like a hamster wheel?
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