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On today’s episode, we discuss how Elon Musk’s tech empire is reshaping both the roads and what’s under them, starting with Charlotte’s first ride in a Tesla autonomously threading through Dallas rush‑hour traffic and how “Jug” (James’s Tesla) handles aggressive drivers better than most humans do. The Fearsome Threesome then dig into The Boring Company’s newly approved tunnel projects in cities like New Orleans and Dallas, explaining how Musk’s relatively low‑cost, largely autonomous boring machines could bypass surface congestion if regulators will cooperate. From there, they bounce through a grab bag of tech topics: naming future Teslas, how fast‑charging and autonomy might change commuting, and what an eventual web of electric tunnels could mean for urban design. In the back half, the conversation turns to digital privacy and “burner” tech, using a real high‑school case where a student left a burner phone filled with a teacher’s photos on her desk to explore how traceable “anonymous” devices actually are through point‑of‑sale data, activation records, and IP logs. Dwayne and Mark lay out how investigators could still unmask the prankster, while James keeps circling back to the core question of what, legally, counts as a crime versus something that’s just deeply creepy and grounds for school discipline. Throughout, the crew mix serious concerns about surveillance, safety, and stalking with their trademark humor, local PJ’s Coffee ad‑reads, and side riffs about naming cars after blue‑footed boobies and grinning every time someone says, “I’m taking the Jug.” Don't miss it!