A research by Microsoft discovered that the typical human consideration span decreased by 25% from 12 seconds in 2000 to eight.25 seconds in 2015.
On this atmosphere, it is outstanding that comic Joe Rogan’s long-form podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is the cultural touchstone it has develop into.
“Joe Rogan Experience” podcast stats (as of November 2025)
- 2,657 episodes recorded in 15 years
- Common episode length of 2hrs 39min 06sec
- 1,230 folks interviewed (89% male, 11% feminine)
- Most-viewed episode: first Elon Musk look
Whereas getting an viewers to hearken to an interview for 3 hours seemingly contradicts the pattern of shorter consideration spans, “The Joe Rogan Experience” is the preferred podcast within the house.
Final week, Rogan had Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his present for the fifth time since 2018.
Musk had his first viral second throughout his debut on the present when he puffed a marijuana cigarette (however didn’t inhale). His newest interview on the present, which aired on October 31, has garnered greater than 7.3 million views on YouTube alone in underneath every week.
Whereas Rogan has been criticized for not pushing again when his visitors spout blatant falsehoods, his interview fashion undoubtedly will get his interviewees to open up and say issues they may not on different platforms.
Final week, Musk answered a query that has been on the minds of most of the people: Why does the Tesla Cybertruck look the best way it does?
Musk could have realized classes from Titan sub implosion when constructing Cybertruck
Joe Rogan’s freewheeling interview fashion permits his visitors to opine on probably the most distant matters, and his interview with Musk adopted the identical sample.
On the 30-minute mark, the dialog turns to the home made Titan deepwater submersible that imploded in 2023, killing all 5 folks on board.
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“That was not a good design, obviously, terrible design,” Musk stated concerning the vessel. “They made that out of carbon fiber, which doesn’t make any sense because you need to be dense to go down. In any case, you just make it out of steel. If you make it out of sort of just a big steel casting… you’ll be safe and nothing will happen.”
Herein lies the brilliance of the podcast, as that digression led right into a dialog about designs for a few of Tesla’s autos.
Musk briefly mentioned the futuristic Artwork Deco design idea of the autonomous bus that the corporate has teased via art work prior to now.
“I think we want the future to look like the future,” Musk says of his robotic bus.
Tesla has teased Elon Musk’s imaginative and prescient of the long run, and it’s Artwork Deco-inspired.
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Elon Musk explains to Joe Rogan why the Cybertruck seems to be the best way it does
Following dialogue of Musk’s robotic bus, Rogan asks a pointed query concerning the Cybertruck.
“I mean, that’s kind of the whole deal with Cybertruck, right? Like, it didn’t have to look like that,” Rogan says.
“No, I just wanted to have something that looked really different,” Musk bluntly responds.
What Musk says subsequent means that when Tesla designed the Cybertruck, it was constructing a automotive for the highway that addresses the sturdiness points the Titan sub confronted at sea.
“The form does follow function in the case of the Cybertruck, because, as you demonstrated with your armor-piercing arrow, if you shot that arrow at a regular truck… you would have found your arrow in the wall,” Musk stated, referring to a viral clip of Rogan trying to fireplace an arrow via the car to check its sturdiness.
Regardless of what number of arrows the Cybertruck can face up to, the car’s angular aesthetic will not be pleasing to the typical client’s eye.
Regardless of a ton of hype when it launched in late 2023, Cybertruck gross sales have steadily declined over the previous two years.
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Tesla bought about 5,400 Cybertrucks within the third quarter, representing a 62.6% year-over-year drop, in keeping with Cox Automotive knowledge. Tesla sometimes does not path its ICE rival Ford in EV gross sales, however even Ford’s F-150 Lightning EV pickup bought 10,000 models in the identical interval.
However Musk says the angular form of the car is important due to the inflexible stainless-steel panels which might be robust sufficient to cease arrows.
“So then because it’s made of ultra-hot stainless, you can’t just stamp the panels,” Musk added. “You can’t just put [it] in a stamping press because it breaks the press….That’s why…it’s so planar….because it’s bulletproof steel.”
So, having a car design with a operate that would solely be marketed to doomsday preppers getting ready for the apocalypse trumped designing a extra aesthetically pleasing car for the plenty.
As Musk stated earlier within the podcast, “form does follow function.”
Will Elon Musk make any design adjustments to the Cybertruck?
Joe Rogan clearly likes Elon Musk; the pair have good chemistry on the present, and Musk has been a visitor at the least 5 instances.
So Rogan used child gloves to inform Musk how ugly the Cybertruck is to the typical Joe (Rogan podcast listener).
“Are you married to that shape now? Like, can you do anything to change it?” Rogan stated.
However Musk was having none of it. The Cybertruck’s distinct angular form is right here to remain.
“I wanted to just do something that looked unique, and the Cybertruck looks unique and has unique functionality,” Musk stated. “A Cybertruck is alien technology, okay. Because it shouldn’t be possible to be that big and that fast; it’s like an elephant that runs like a cheetah.”
That is an apt reference, because the Cybertruck can weigh as much as 7,000 kilos whereas boasting higher acceleration than a Porsche 911.
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