Hello and welcome to the Monday September 10th, 2018 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Hour.

Today we're talking about some more reaction from the Joe Rogan Podcast, as well as the

departure of a couple executives from Tesla.

Tesla stock on Friday finished down 6.30% to $263.24, this compared to the NASDAQ down 0.25%.

You may remember in the pre-market on Friday, Tesla was only down about 1%.

Shortly after I recorded that episode on Friday morning, the news broke that

Tesla's new chief accounting officer Dave Morton had resigned after just one

month on the job. A lot of the headlines out there associated the big drop that we saw on Friday which at one point

Tesla was down nearly as much as 10% on the day and the headlines associating that

drop with Elon's appearance on the Joggin podcast and the use of marijuana. It was pretty clear from the pre-market

that that had a slight negative impact when the stock was down one one and a half

percent but when the 8K came out regarding the resignation of Dave Morton that is

when the stock pretty much immediately dropped to down around 6%.

I certainly don't think the other headlines around Elon that day helped with the stock price movement, but it didn't seem to be the main factor driving it.

Looking at the resignation then, obviously one month on the job

is probably not what Tesla had in mind

when they hired Dave Morton.

But the timing is interesting.

We've talked previously about Dave Morton's experience

at Seagate, a company which went private and then went public, while Dave Morton was at the company and serving in financial roles.

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