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TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical & Ferrari's 1st EV

Explore episode May 31, 2026
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Ferrari Luce: Jony Ive Designs a $640K EV That Doesn't Look Like a Ferrari

TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st … · May 31, 2026 Leisure

Ferrari's first EV, the Luce, costs $640,000 and carries design input from Jony Ive's firm LoveFrom. Sam Abuelsamid's verdict: the interior is genuinely interesting, but the exterior could belong to any premium brand — it just doesn't look like a Ferrari. Many suspect this is essentially what Jony Ive wanted Apple's canceled Project Titan car to look like.

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Closing Credits and Sign-Off

At 2:41:20 · chapter starts 2:29:35

Leo Laporte wraps the show with individual plugs for each guest: garyrivlin.com for Gary Rivlin's AI Valley and future projects; citationneeded.news for Molly White's newsletter, podcast, and upcoming Citizens United episode; wheelbearings.media for Sam Abuelsamid's car podcast. Sam gets one final plug for Operation Frodo on Animal Rescue Rigs. Leo gives the full TWiT listener guide — the show streams 2-5 PM Pacific every Sunday on YouTube, Twitch, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Kick; audio and video downloads at twit.tv; Club TWiT at twit.tv/clubtwit for ad-free feeds and member Discord. He closes with the show's 21-year-old sign-off: 'Another TWiT is in the can.' A post-roll Mint Mobile sponsorship ad featuring Ryan Reynolds' voice follows.

Technology
Waymo's Growing Pains: Floodwaters, Roundabouts, and School Buses

TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st … · May 31, 2026 Technology

Waymo robotaxis drove into floodwaters with passengers, got stuck circling roundabouts endlessly, and failed to recognize school buses. The company has paused all highway operations while it tries to diagnose problems in an AI-based system where the behavior is fundamentally harder to debug than the old rules-based approach. Sam Abuelsamid says nobody is making money on robotaxis yet — and won't be for years.

Society & Culture
Operation Frodo: Rescuing Beagles Across America in EVs

TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st … · May 31, 2026 Society & Culture

Sam Abuelsamid's Operation Frodo charity drive transports rescue beagles from Nebraska to the Pacific Northwest, where demand for the breed far outstrips supply. This year's drive uses an all-electric vehicle fleet — Cadillac Escalade IQ, Lucid Gravity, Hyundai Ioniq 9, and Kia EV9 — covering 2,700 miles with free charging from EVgo at Pilot Flying J stations.

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