[dsfyu404ed]

Regardless of how you feel about smoking pot the CEO of a publicly traded company is expected to be prudent enough to avoid doing things that are federally illegal on camera with the beforehand knowledge that the footage will be made public.

I personally don't care what Elon, or anyone does in his spare time but smoking pot on TV (or podcast, basically the same thing since both are going to be broadcast to viewers) shows a willingness to take risks with the wrong amount of upsides relative to their downsides and wall street doesn't like that.

[mulmen]

The Joe Rogan podcast is on national TV now? I thought the whole point of it was that it wasn’t a network show.

[dragonwriter]

> The Joe Rogan podcast is on national TV now?

The part of it in discussion was, because of its content.

Everything that is recorded and available outside of a narrowly controlled group is effectively national TV, in that if you do something that would be newsworthy, that's where it's going to end up.

Anyone in a PR-sensitive role, including any CEO, ought to be aware of that.

[mulmen]

The comment I replied to was edited after I replied. Musk didn’t smoke weed on a national broadcast but I agree he should be aware his actions anywhere could be reported at a national level.

[dsfyu404ed]

I thought he did it on some evening comedy show. I'm probably wrong about that.

[mulmen]

He did it on the Joe Rogan podcast.

[londons_explore]

I wonder what wall Street would think of a company CEO going and buying a lottery ticket...