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This Week in Dulture…
Approx 4 minute read:
🐴 Horoscope runners
☃ The Snowman’s residency
🐩 Your next robot pet
📺 THE BEST JOB OF THE SUMMER
Dulture weekly mix
It’s come to my attention that unless you have Spotify Premium, you’re not getting the full value out of the playlist.
I’m here to tell you, even if you don’t get my cool transitions, this week’s playlist is going to hit you hard regardless.
In honour of our first story this week, it’s all bangers - the perfect playlist to listen to at the gym or if you just want to blast loud music in your car.
(If you’re an unc, you definitely should do this btw.)
These 7 Stocks Are Built to Outlast the Market
Some stocks are built for a quarter… others for a lifetime.
Our 7 Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever report reveals companies with the strength to deliver year after year - through recessions, rate hikes, and even the next crash.
One is a tech leader with a 15% payout ratio - leaving decades of room for dividend growth.
Another is a utility that’s paid every quarter for 96 years straight.
And that’s not all - we’ve included 5 more companies that treat payouts as high priority.
These are the stocks that anchor portfolios and keep paying.
You can download this report for free as of today, but it won’t be free forever.
This is your chance to see all 7 names and tickers - from a consumer staples powerhouse with 20 years of outperformance to a healthcare leader with 61 years of payout hikes.
Alright alright alright, bear with me here.
Yo, how much do you follow your zodiac sign? (…not embarrassed to ask…nope)
Like when it tells you you’re going to be showered with money, are you believing that? … I mean I guess it doesn’t hurt to lightly believe it right?
I know there’s a bunch of you who definitely follow this stuff:
30% of Americans (prob people in general) check their horoscope on the regular.
I’m not gonna lie, if I think something is supposed to happen I might go peep what the Aries forecast is. But if you reeeeeally wanna know, you gotta check your Chinese zodiac sign.
Chinese horoscopes feel like horoscopes on steroids.
I don’t know what it is but when it comes to your future, the Chinese seem to know better. And when it comes to money, yo - they don’t play around. If your Chinese horoscope says you’re gonna make money, you best believe money is coming. But if it tells you to save and watch your spending, DO WHAT IT SAYS.
If I've convinced you to check take a look here for what the year of the horse is supposed to be doing for you. Being a rat, I need to make it happen for myself this year.
And by making it happen I obviously mean buying more shoes.
And just so happens these Pegasus Premium’s are Year of the Horse. If you don’t own a pair of Pegasus Premium’s you’re missing out on one of Nike’s best runners. Not only do they work really well for short and long runs, they’re also mad stylish and one of the most comfortable runners you’ll ever own.
I picked these up off of Nike.com last week and was about to tell you to do the same thing and not to pay GOAT or StockX prices but now I don’t even see them on the site 🤷♂
Pegasus Premium Tip: These fit a bit more on the narrow side and so if you don’t mind that then true to size with your regular Nike size should be fine. Otherwise half size up, especially if you plan on running in these.
A Moment for Jeezy
The year is 2005 and I’m sitting in my room listening to CIUT 89.5FM otherwise known as Project Bounce late at night in Toronto.
We all had one of these radio stations, plays everything the regular radio won’t play but just super late at night.
This new artist debuts on their charts with this song Trap Star and I pause for a minute from writing my Xanga blog - dawg we’re going way back right now.
I’m a T-R-A-P-S-T-AR
A guy by the name of Young Jeezy made his debut on Canadian radio and subsequently made me listen every night because Limewire (I told you we were gonna go way back) didn’t have a real version of Trap Star by Young Jeezy yet.
Young Jeezy is one of the most underrated hip hop stars we’ve ever seen.
Unless you’re a hardcore hiphop head, you’re probably not paying him much attention or listening to much of his music. But you really really should - dude is one of the pioneers of trap music, basically the sounds and foundation out of Atlanta that birthed the likes of Migos, Future, and Travis Scott.
Jeezy would go on to have 3 billboard No. 1 albums, do something like 5-6M units in album sales, which although is nothing compared to today’s streaming numbers.
The one thing you can’t question are the iconic collabs.
Put On (Jeezy feat. Kanye West)- this track hypes the crowd up at the beginning of every Raptor game.
I do (Jeezy feat. Jaÿ-Z & Andre3000) - if this plays at your wedding you hired the right DJ.
Soul Survivor (Jeezy feat. Akon) - if you know this song then the hook just got stuck in your head - Akon was everywhere at one point.
Seen It All (Jeezy feat. Jaÿ-Z) - ANY track with Jeezy and Jaÿ is an all time track idgaf.
The list goes on and on and on and now you can listen to all of it with the world’s largest orchestra in Jeezy’s Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood.
Jeezy is slated to perform from now until the end of summer his Legend of the Snowman show, which is dubbed a black tie, orchestral performance where you’re supposed to show up in formal wear as Jeezy performs his catalog.
Only Jeezy could perform where trap meets tuxedo.
(alright I’m done glazing)
Artificial Pets
It seems like every week we live through a new episode of Black Mirror.
This week these were announced:
“Target pouring tea acquired”
Not a dog, not a cat, just a “Familiar” - an AI powered robot meant to be your furry companion.
Built by the creator of the Roomba, Colin Angle, The Familiar will use generative AI to form an emotional connection with its owner through a “distinct personality”. If it’s anything like ChatGPT then it will basically agree with literally everything you say.
Angle has a theory that robots have an alternative purpose which centers around “high human connection roles” to aid with things like companionship, entertainment, eldercare, and basically anything else that will build trust with you long enough to quietly“eliminate” you.
The first Familiar won’t be available for purchase until next year and will apparently cost the same as pet ownership…we talking owning a guppy here or a horse??
Can a furry robot really encourage you to work out?
These things are meant to encourage positive habits around the house, get you into routines by making you get up and walk with it, boost your mood by interacting with it, and I guess give you the overall positive vibe that comes with owning a pet that walks around your house.
I dont know if I buy it - Furby’s were supposed to do this back in the day too and all they did was run out of batteries!
Although I always wanted a Roomba, maybe I was meant to get one of these instead 🤔
Looking for a Summer Job?
Firstly, if this isn’t a dream job for the majority of the world, then I don’t know what is.
Fox Sports is hiring this summer where you would work specifically between June 11th and July 19th, where they need you to watch every single World Cup game.
Dubbed as the Chief World Cup Watcher, Fox will pay you $50K to watch all 104 World Cup matches. The catch, well not really catch, but the thing is - you’ll be watching everything in a special glass cube in Times Square where they’ll want you to create content within the cube and I guess try to form watch parties around you watching?
This could be you
Qualifications include:
You like watching sports
You’re actually interesting and have a social presence on camera
You’re comfortable being stared at, because that’ll happen A LOT.
And looks like they’ll pay for your living expenses while you live in NYC for the job too. You’ve got until May 17th to apply here.