SAN FRANCISCO — Former CNN pressreporter Don Lemon blended it up with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview Lemon published on Musk’s X social network Monday. The interview was expected to kick off Lemon’s brand-new talk program on X, previously understood as Twitter, at least upuntil Musk canceled the program soon after the interview was taped.
Over the course of alittle more than an hour, the 2 guys jousted over topics varying from the political effects of migration and the advantages and damages of material smallamounts to Musk’s signs of anxiety and his usage of ketamine to ease them.
Here are some of the more noteworthy minutes.
THE X GAMES: PLAYER VS. PLAYER
Musk stated he believes of X as the “player versus gamer platform,” utilizing a term for video videogames that pit gamers versus one another, normally in battles to the pixelated death. While he wasn’t especially clear about what he implied by comparing X to a death match, he did bring it up in the context of the periodic late-night posts in which he appears to be ruining for an argument.
The topic developed when Musk explained how he unwinds by playing video videogames and his choice for these PvP contests — what he thinksabout “hardcore” videogaming. It’s one method to blow off steam, he stated — and concurred, at least to a point, when Lemon recommended that taking on X challengers served the exactsame function. Though not constantly, he stated.
“I usage it to post jokes, often trivia, often things that are of fantastic value,” Musk stated of his X posts.
MUSK USES KETAMINE TO TREAT POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION
Musk is “almost constantly” sober when publishing on X late at night, he informed Lemon. “I puton’t beverage, I puton’t truly, y’know…” he stated, his voice routing off. Then Lemon asked about a subject Mu