This film or show by Robert Zemeckis has come up 7 times across 3 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. 6 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrej Karpathy, Brian Keating, Joe Rogan, Katee Sackhoff, Matthew McConaughey, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-11-30 and the most recent from 2025-10-25. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Joe Rogan Experience #2400 - Katee Sackhoff
“It's from the movie with Jodie Foster. Contact. Beautiful movie. It's a great movie.”— Katee Sackhoff
The guest here is Katee Sackhoff: American actress best known for playing Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace in the rebooted Battlestar Galactica and Bo-Katan Kryze in The Mandalorian. She also hosts The Sackoff Show podcast. Katee Sackhoff joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging talk on Battlestar Galactica, the AI threat to artists, pediatric cancer funding, homelessness, and ruthless praying mantises.
Joe Rogan Experience #2379 - Matthew McConaughey
“Freaking loved it. You do? One of my all-time favorite movies. I love that movie. And I love Carl Sean.”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Matthew McConaughey: Oscar-winning actor (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, True Detective) and bestselling author of Greenlights. Here promoting his new book Poems and Prayers and the film The Lost Bus. Matthew McConaughey and Joe Rogan trade big-picture talk on AI, belief, kindness as self-interest, peak performance, and his new poetry book.
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating
“this movie contact is a really wonderful movie uh it's not cheesy science fiction it was the first to like use a wormhole”— Brian Keating
The guest here is Dr. Brian Keating: Professor of cosmology at UC San Diego who built telescopes at the South Pole to study the cosmic microwave background. He led the BICEP experiment, made a headline 2014 'discovery' of the universe's origin that was later retracted, and wrote 'Losing the Nobel Prize.'. Cosmologist Brian Keating takes Huberman on the most zoomed-out tour of the podcast: telescopes, time, the Big Bang, and a lost Nobel Prize.
Joe Rogan Experience #1962 - Eddie Huang
“the original uh novel was by Carl Sagan and um they converted it into one of the best like Alien movies of all time”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Eddie Huang: Restaurateur, author of the memoir Fresh Off the Boat, filmmaker who directed Boogie, former Vice host of Huang's World, and podcaster. Eddie Huang and Joe Rogan riff on AI taking over, Vice's chaos, weed, fighting, curiosity over insecurity, and a near-derailed shotgun wedding.
Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #384
“it's sure in a similar way to contact this is a movie I did with Bob zimekus”— Matthew McConaughey
The guest here is Matthew McConaughey: Oscar-winning American actor (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, True Detective, Mud) and Texan. Author of the memoir Greenlights and creator of the Road Trip video course. Matthew McConaughey and Lex Fridman roam across love, death, fatherhood, denial, acting, AI, and the meaning of life.
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching Interstellar Gladiator contact Goodwill Hunting”— Andrej Karpathy
The guest here is Andrej Karpathy: Former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI, previously a researcher at Stanford. One of the most influential figures in deep learning, known for his teaching (CS231n) and hands-on explanations of neural networks. Andrej Karpathy on Tesla's vision-only self-driving, Optimus, the Transformer, aliens, simulation theory, and the path to AGI.
Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything | Lex Fridman Podcast #142
“the movie contact and the book is just so beautiful this whole concept of we don't need to travel physically we can travel as light”— guest
The guest here is Manolis Kellis: MIT professor and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group, a leading genomics researcher. This is his fourth appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast. MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis riffs on music, evolution, AI, and the meaning of life through the lens of 42.
