Ex Machina came up with a genuine on-air endorsement 10 times across the episodes we processed. This page collects every one of those moments: who said it, what they said, and the exact point in the episode.
Alex Garland's Ex Machina has ten mentions across Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, and Tim Ferriss, usually surfacing when guests talk about AI consciousness, manipulation, or where the technology might actually be headed.
Each mention below links to the exact quote and YouTube timestamp. Three shows with very different focuses all landing on the same decade-old film about a Turing test gone wrong is worth a closer look.
“Have you seen a great movie, Ex Machina? Oh, of course. Fantastic movie. So good” — Kevin Rose 01:43:41
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose swap health gadgets, sobriety strategies, Japan/Taiwan travel, brain stimulation, genomics, and AI's threat to online trust.
“then it's exmachina did you ever see X makina yeah I love that movie one of our top 10 all-time favorite movies” — Joe Rogan 01:04:47
DMT researcher Rick Strassman joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling talk on psychedelics, the Bible in ancient Hebrew, AI, and consciousness.
“ex bakina I remember really enjoying there are a lot of great science fiction movies” — Tim Ferriss 00:46:07
Tim Ferriss answers fan questions on reinvention, parenting, dating, intuition, archery, and why doing things in real life beats AI overload.
“it's one of my all-time favorite movies I've watched that movie at least five times someone listening to this go watch that movie” — Joe Rogan 02:27:56
Joe Rogan and Tim Dillon roam from fur coats and ancient Egypt to war profiteering, money laundering, immigration, and an AI-run future.
“that movie was one it's one of my top tens I love that movie but that scene where he's just” — Joe Rogan 00:06:24
Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan riff on ChatGPT, AI's future, aliens, chess cheating, crypto, Twitter, and what makes us human.
“like ex machina where it's exhibiting all of the behavior characteristics of a person... that's one of my favorite movies of all time I love that movie” — Joe Rogan 02:36:19
Bret Weinstein and Joe Rogan dissect COVID vaccine harms, the lab-leak case, institutional capture, AI consciousness, and political tribalism.
“oh x maacho one of my all-time favorites that was yeah I've watched that movie like 10 times it's incredible” — Joe Rogan 00:40:37
Twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou tell Joe Rogan how YouTube stunts, drug trials and death-match wrestling led to the A24 horror hit Talk to Me.
“movie was so so good yeah it was good man one of my all-time favorites I've watched that so many times on planes” — Sam Morril 01:40:45
Comedian Sam Morril and Joe Rogan riff on stand-up, sports, mob movies, AI surveillance, and the comedy boom over drinks.
“called cam mackina nice well done yeah yeah which is basically a um for people who don't understand the point that xar is a great uh film about I guess AGI embodied” — Lee Cronin 02:31:39
Chemist Lee Cronin explains assembly theory, his controversial Nature paper quantifying selection, life's origin, and why time is fundamental.
“i got in she has to meet alex garland who wrote ex machina and that movie um i yeah the movie's good” — guest 01:49:12
Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda on loneliness, losing her best friend, and building an AI companion born from grief.
