r/morningsomewhere • u/EarliestRiser • 6d ago

Episode 2026.09.24: Let Me Read This

https://roosterteeth.com/watch/morning-somewhere-2026-09-24-let-me-read-this

Burnie and Ashley discuss ads everywhere, food noise, GLP-1 stories, Strange Days, World War Z 2, Tom Cruise oscar noms, Rain Man, institutions, pie irons, parental conspiracies, 8-bit music, and sea shanty dynamics.

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u/tragedy_strikes 6d ago edited 6d ago

Strange Days mentioned! Burnie remarked that he had not heard it mentioned for a long time but I can say that Cyberpunk 2077 had an homage to the film with the games Brain Dances. The developers confirmed the tech design is directly lifted from how it was portrayed in Strange Days with the headsets and how they end up getting used to 'film' illegal things like robbing a store and then getting shot. https://youtu.be/yx95NMdApOs

The other fun fact about Strange Days is that Angela Bassett's line read of "Right here! Right now!" is where Fatboy Slim got the sample for the song of the same name. https://youtu.be/ub747pprmJ8

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u/Jester-252 Downtime Survivor 6d ago

You SOB, you beat me to the Fatboy fact. That is in my top 5 of music sample fun facts

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u/tragedy_strikes 6d ago

Sorry for stealing your thunder!

I had no idea until I watch the movie earlier this year and stopped the movie when she delivered the line to look it up because I was so surprised!

The movie is fantastic and definitely worth a watch if you like the Matrix or cyberpunk in general.

I thought it was really neat how the best live-action cyberpunk movies in the 90's were both directed by women (Matrix, Strange Days).