#2404 - Elon Musk artwork

#2404 - Elon Musk

The Joe Rogan Experience

October 31, 2025

Elon Musk is a business magnate, designer, and engineer known for his work in electric vehicles, private spaceflight, and artificial intelligence. His portfolio of companies includes Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, X, and several others.https://x.com/elonmusk Learn more about your ad choices.
Speakers: Joe Rogan, Jamie, Elon Musk
**Joe Rogan** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Jamie** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Joe Rogan** (0:13)
Just every morning.

**Elon Musk** (0:15)
What are Jeff Bezos doing?

**Joe Rogan** (0:18)
Definitely doing some testosterone. He looks jacked. He looks jacked, right?

**Elon Musk** (0:22)
Yeah, but he's like...

**Jamie** (0:24)
Quick.

**Elon Musk** (0:25)
Quick.

**Joe Rogan** (0:26)
Quick.

**Elon Musk** (0:30)
At age 59 and less than a year, he went from pencil neck geek to looking like the rock.

**Joe Rogan** (0:38)
Yeah, like a little miniature alpha fella.

**Elon Musk** (0:40)
Yeah, like his neck got bigger than his head.

**Joe Rogan** (0:42)
Yeah, he got big.

**Elon Musk** (0:43)
Quick. But then like his earlier pictures, his neck's like a noodle.

**Joe Rogan** (0:46)
I support this activity. I like to see him going in this direction.

**Elon Musk** (0:49)
Which is fine, and his voice dropped like two octaves.

**Joe Rogan** (0:52)
I want you to move in that direction as well. I think we can achieve this.
I think we can achieve Giga Chad. That's what Beeple called it.

**Elon Musk** (1:02)
Where is that guy?

**Joe Rogan** (1:03)
Beeple? I don't know where he is.

**Elon Musk** (1:06)
That's like a real guy.

**Joe Rogan** (1:07)
The artist? Yeah.

**Elon Musk** (1:08)
Oh, Giga Chad.

**Jamie** (1:09)
Oh, Giga Chad.

**Joe Rogan** (1:10)
Yeah, I don't know if that's a real guy. It's hard to tell.

**Elon Musk** (1:12)
No, no, it is a real guy.

**Joe Rogan** (1:13)
It is a real guy?

**Elon Musk** (1:14)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (1:14)
He's got the crazy jaw and like perfect sculpted hair.

**Elon Musk** (1:17)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (1:17)
Yeah.

**Elon Musk** (1:18)
Well, I mean, they may have exaggerated a little bit. But probably. But no, I think I think he actually just kind of looked like that in reality. Well, so like he's a pretty unique looking individual.

**Joe Rogan** (1:30)
I think we can achieve this. That guy right there, that's a real guy.

**Elon Musk** (1:34)
That's a real dude.

**Joe Rogan** (1:35)
I always thought that was CGI.

**Elon Musk** (1:37)
No, I think one of I think the upper right one is not him. That's not him.

**Joe Rogan** (1:42)
That one to the left of that, like that's real. No, that's that's artificial, bro. That's fake. That's got that uncanny valley feel to it. Doesn't it?

**Elon Musk** (1:51)
It's not impossible.

**Joe Rogan** (1:52)
No, no, it's not impossible to achieve, but it's not it's not possible to maintain that kind of leanness.

**Elon Musk** (1:57)
No, no, I mean, that's like you're also at that point, you're there. He's dehydrating and all sorts of things.

**Joe Rogan** (2:04)
Oh, it's based on a real person.

**Elon Musk** (2:05)
Yeah, yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (2:06)
Right, but it's not a real person.

**Elon Musk** (2:08)
What does he really look like?

**Joe Rogan** (2:09)
Those images, I think, are bullshit. Some of them are. Is that real? Okay, that looks real. That looks like a really jacked bodybuilder.

**Elon Musk** (2:17)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (2:18)
Yeah, that looks real. Like, that's achievable, but there's a few of those images where you're just like, what's going on here?

**Elon Musk** (2:24)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Well, I mean, you see it?

**Jamie** (2:27)
Damn, I saw that.

**Elon Musk** (2:29)
Is that the I...

**Joe Rogan** (2:30)
That's the real dude.

**Elon Musk** (2:31)
Well, there's that Icelandic dude who's Thor.

**Joe Rogan** (2:34)
Oh, yeah, the guy who jumps into the frozen lakes and shit.

**Elon Musk** (2:37)
Well, the guy who played the mountain.

**Joe Rogan** (2:39)
Oh, that guy.

**Elon Musk** (2:40)
Yeah, oh, yeah. That is like a mutant strong human.

**Joe Rogan** (2:44)
Yes.

**Elon Musk** (2:45)
Like he would be in the X-Men or something.

**Joe Rogan** (2:47)
We were hanging out.

**Elon Musk** (2:49)
He's just not like... And then, have you seen that meme? Tent and tent bag?

**Joe Rogan** (2:56)
No.

**Elon Musk** (2:56)
You know how it's really hard to get the tent and the tent?

**Joe Rogan** (2:59)
Oh, right, right. That's true.

**Elon Musk** (3:05)
And there's a picture of him and his girlfriend.

**Joe Rogan** (3:08)
Oh, right. Tent bag. That's hilarious.

**Elon Musk** (3:12)
I don't know how it gets in there. You know, it seems too small, but...

**Joe Rogan** (3:16)
I met Brian Shaw. Brian Shaw is the world's most powerful man. And he's almost seven feet tall. He's 400 pounds. And his bone density is one in 500 million people.
So there's maybe 16 people. He's an enormous human being, like a legitimate giant. Just like that guy. But we met him. He was hanging out with us in the green room of the mothership. It's like, okay, if this is like David and Goliath days, this is an actual giant, like the giants of the Bible.

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