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What we're gonna do, is go back, WAAAY BACK

For starters, remember Johnathan Taylor Thomas??

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Andrew Safranko
April 18, 2025

This Week in Dulture…

Approx 5 minute read:

🥇 You’re living in a golden era and you don’t even know it

🚀 The internet reacts to space travel

💰️ Your next shopping list

🔫 Water fight for days

Dulture weekly mix

This week I need you to grab your dark sunglasses and throw them on like you’re Wesley Snipes walking through a club full of vampires (that’s a Blade reference for all you daywalkers).

I think if I were ever going to name a mix after a Pokemon I’d name it Blastoise too…that or Stoutland (my favourite Pokemon).

Chat, is it me or are we living through a golden era of fashion?

I know we’ve been in this fashion era for a minute, but it’s still so wild to me that 90’s era fashion just crept up on us out of nowhere. But this time around, it all seems like it makes even more sense.

Back in the 90’s the idea was to just wear something as baggy as possible - you weren’t supposed to see any outline of your arms or legs in your clothing. And it worked - I think ultimately it was one of the more comfortable eras for dressing.

With that baggy style back in full force today, it seems like all the 90’s kids have a second opportunity to get it right, like you don’t need to try so hard to look like Tim Allen’s kids in Home Improvement. Although if you go back and watch that show, those kid’s shoe game was not to be messed with - Tim the toolman Taylor definitely bought his sons some heat.

 

The girls swooned over Johnathan Taylor-Thomas, the guys just wanted the shoes these kids had.

I’m glad the 90’s are back, it’s about time we can all dress like Andre Agassi again.

A couple days ago Andre re-lived his top 3 fits from his playing days on IG. They go from #3 to #1 left to right:

‘95 Aussie Open, ‘89 US Open, ‘90 French Open

Firstly, Nike jean shorts?

Secondly, Nike recently brought back that pink tennis shirt, straight 🔥 

Thirdly, as Andre put it, he had the Pirates of the Caribbean look going on in 1995.

One of the best shoe silhouettes and colourways Nike has ever done will forever be these shoes…just bring back all the fluorescent Nike shoes from the 90’s already.

They Went to Space - No One’s Happy

My wife and I always argue over how long we want to live for. I want to live well into my 100’s or at least until we go to Mars and do something special. Meanwhile she’s good to go at a normal age expectancy.

Space travel is so fascinating.

Except if you’re Katy Perry…in which case no one was particularly happy that she went up into space.

This week Blue Origin shot up an all female crew into space for what the internet is calling the cringiest 11 minutes they’ll never get back, lead by Katy Perry.

Emily Ratajkowski, of all people, slammed the all women space flight, saying, “having a man who has gained his power and become a part of the one percent purely through exploitation and greed deciding to take his fiancée and a few other famous women to space for space tourism is not progress”.

Which is true - Bezos’ fiancé was up there on board as the celebrity women floated around amongst Katy Perry’s butterfly with her setlist for her tour on it. So what was really the point of this other than to prove that Blue Origin’s space tourism is open for business.

Answers the question, if you could bring one thing into space, what would it be?

Well thank goodness for Wendy’s

Bro why/how is a fast food restaurant of all things roasting this better than anyone else on the internet? Knight and shining sticky floored Wendy’s ain’t having any of this nonsense…let us all lock arms and eat spicy chicken sandwiches in solidarity.

Stuff You Should Buy This Week

Sometimes you just find really cool things on the internet where they’re basically beyond an impulse buy. It’s like your mind was already made up and you would’ve bought it already if you your thoughts were Apple Pay enabled.

Apple Pay enabled consciousness - pay with your mind

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “pay them no mind…” HA okay, super digressing here.

If you’ve got the money you should 100% buy these things:

2016 Ford Mustang GT

Why? It’s actually a Deceptacon car from Transformers the movie.

How much? I’m actually not sure, you have to inquire about the price here but it’s super low mileage!

‘Polaroid Flip’ Instant Camera

Why? Yes you get the classic instant photo coming out the bottom. But it’s also got this 4-lens system that gives you very precise shots, that are supposed to be in focus and sharp at a variety of distances and lighting.

How much? $209.99 USD ($188 if you’re a Polaroid member). You can find them here.

The Flipper

Why? If you’re the type of person who has one of those popper things on their phone to hold it or to prop it up, you’ll appreciate this little invention. When the case hears the word “cheers”, the robotic arm flips the phone over so you can ignore all of your notifications.

How much? Honestly who knows, but you should get one if you’re the type who likes to look at your phone while you’re supposed to be sitting with your hot date at the bar.

The World’s Biggest Water Fight

You’d think this should just happen in every hot place around the world but apparently this is only a thing in Thailand. Last weekend Thailand celebrated Songkran, an annual festival tied to Thai New Year, honouring elders and promoting a sense of renewal.

Time to bust out your old Supersoaker

Songkran is a festival of washing away the old and ringing in the new and since it takes place in April, one of the hottest months of the year, water plays a key role in splashing over everything, while trying to be culturally respectable.

The Thai people encourage foreigners to participate in the festival, especially in Pattaya where instead of going for 3 days, they keep the water flowing for 10 days.

While the idea is that you pour fragrant water over elders hands as a sign of respect and cleansing, water guns were eventually introduced for the rest of everyone else, because why not?

Little did we know we were also celebrating Songkran back in the day every summer in the hood! Except when we sprayed our elders, they chased us - perhaps wanting to bless us?

Perhaps not 🙃 

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