Posted on 09/07/2018 8:40:38 AM PDT by McGruff
Shares of electric car maker Tesla Inc. fell more than 6 percent early Friday after the CEO appeared to smoke marijuana during an interview and the company’s accounting chief left after a month on the job.
CEO Elon Musk appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” overnight. About two hours into the podcast, which can be seen on YouTube, Musk inhales from what the host says is a combined marijuana-tobacco joint, which Rogan notes is legal. Rogan passes the joint to Musk, who also takes a sip of whiskey.
Shortly after smoking, Musk looks at his phone and laughs, telling Rogan he was getting texts from friends asking why he was smoking weed during the interview. Later Musk says he doesn’t notice any effect from the joint, which he claims he rarely smokes.
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Musk has been acting a little crazy recently. Hard to tell how much of it is acting.
“Hard to tell how much of it is acting.”
He was clever enough to convince the US Government to finance his BS story to the tune of $Billions.
He wants to take Tesla private. What better way than to drive the stock into the toilet?
I’m surprised he’s not opening pot shops. And parachuting naked into the county fair.
That thought had occurred to me. If someone is doing something that anyone could tell them would tank their stock price, then perhaps that is what they intended to happen.
You're saying in effect that he's shorting his own company.
That strategy would leave him vulnerable to gigantic shareholder lawsuits.
Okay, maybe he was. I only knew of him living in Sri Lanka.
I was thinking it might, but it still seems to be a reasonable conjecture to me. It's either that, or he really is going nuts.
My reading on the subject of homosexuality indicates that a large percentage of them would take young boys if they thought they could get away with it. They even joke about it constantly in their own social circles.
Well in fairness very high-intelligence people can sometimes be fairly eccentric, and say strange things.
Ed Land, founder of Polaroid, could be quite strange. Obviously also the case with Howard Hughes. Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland, was brilliant but made erratic decisions. He liked to attend board meetings by speakerphone while orbiting over the Borland campus in his airplane, five miles up. Eventually he flew his company into a mountainside.
Musk is probably in that mold.
I admire him as an engineer and an entrepreneur, but I'm dismayed by his recent behavior. He's acting like a fool, like Mark Zuckerberg, only maybe worse.
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No, he just wants his ball back so he can take it home.
“Joe Rogan often smokes with guests. SOP”
Yep . Alex Jones smoked with him too and also drank whisky .
I can appreciate both brains here.
Elon puffed...without inhaling, because it was handed to him.
Joe.....threw a wrench in the interview.
Joe Rogan’s mind moves more interestingly than Elon’s I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DasnKpMyQ8
https://youtu.be/6DasnKpMyQ8?t=302
Best part of that interview.
Joe’s got Elon jacked on whiskey and weed. Then he starts talking about a million Teslas. Nikola Teslas.
He was like....um, yeah...yeah....wow. Not my car...
Really dig Joe. There’s a couple times where he winked at his board guy. One being when he lit the joint.
Yes I saw the Alex Jones interview. Check out the Scott Adams interview. Classic Rogan.
Coincidentally , just this morning ( Japan time ) in his latest podcast , I heard Scott mention his smoking weed on Joe’s show . I’ll check it out .
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