This film or show by Gus Van Sant has come up 5 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. 4 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrej Karpathy, Ben Affleck, Lex Fridman, Ryan Schiller. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2018-01-30 and the most recent from 2026-01-16. 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 #2440 - Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
“when we wrote the first movie that Goodwill Hunting, it was like we knew that had to be a cheap movie.”— Ben Affleck
The guest here is Matt Damon & Ben Affleck: Oscar-winning actors, longtime friends and creative partners since Good Will Hunting, and co-founders of the production company Artists Equity. They were promoting their Netflix film The RIP, directed by Joe Carnahan. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck join Joe Rogan to dissect the streaming era, the craft of acting, AI in film, and the brutal cost of greatness in sports.
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
“I really like this torture genius sort of character who's like grappling with whether or not he has any responsibility ... it's just a beautiful movie”— 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.
Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry | Lex Fridman Podcast #274
“one of my favorite movies is goodwill hunting i don't know if you've seen it with robin williams”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Karl Deisseroth: Professor of bioengineering, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at Stanford, widely regarded as one of the world's great living psychiatrists and neuroscientists. He pioneered optogenetics and authored the book Projections: A Story of Human Emotions. Stanford psychiatrist and optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth on depression, schizophrenia, autism, suicide, and the deep mystery of consciousness.
Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses | Lex Fridman Podcast #172
“what is it the goodwill hunting and went to see about a girl oh yeah that's a good movie i love that movie”— Ryan Schiller
The guest here is Ryan Schiller: Yale student and creator of Librex, an anonymous discussion feed for college communities. A former competitive chess and poker player who taught himself to code to build the app. A self-taught student founder explains how he built Librex, an anonymous Ivy League discussion app, to fight campus self-censorship.
MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Human Sensing
“so one of my favorite movies Good Will Hunting we're in Boston Cambridge”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Lex Fridman: MIT researcher and lecturer on deep learning, autonomous vehicles, and human-centered AI; instructor of MIT 6.S094. Lex Fridman's MIT lecture on using deep learning and computer vision to sense human drivers for safer human-centered autonomous vehicles.
