I am shouting this off the street to anyone who bothers to listen.

Him smoking weed is the LEAST important takeway of the whole podcast. 

No one seems to pay attention that his demeanor throughout the whole podcast is totally different from his normal self. I'm sensing HUUUGE nervous breakdown and i'm not the only 1 to have this view. Someone like him would never attend Joe Rogan podcast under normal circumstances especially with all the shit that's going on with his companies. There is waaaay more that meets the eye as to why he attended the podcast.

He's said himself that we should expect an announcement from his company (Neuralink) in the next few months. Which can either be the best or worst thing to happen. Because as we know, for the past few years Neuralink has been dedicated to invent an interface that lets our brain to directly connect to a computer and by proxy - the internet, so that we can overcame the human output bandwidth limit of our fingers and thumbs. Which is something he's been talking about. I gather since Neuralink isnt a publicly traded company no one gives a shit until it's too late. Despite the implication this entails.

He's stopped being optimistic about things he was singularly driven about when he take over Tesla and SpaceX, and you can see he's lost hope (He used the term Fatalistic) on how we treat AI. 

there's so much to take away from the Podcast and yet all we see in the news was him sucking a mouthful of weed which he didn't even inhale by the way.... 

The mass population and mainstream news media is fucked beyond repair and I've stopped caring about what they think.