Could It Though?
Could Elon Musk end world poverty? Could AI run a country? Could you buy every lottery ticket and guarantee a win? Big “what if” questions, answered with real numbers.Each episode takes one wild hypothetical and runs it through three questions. Could it? Is it even possible? Would it? What happens when someone actually tries? Should it? And if we could, is it a good idea?Hosted by Gazza. Real maths, real sources, short episodes and a straight verdict at the end. From stopping ageing to moving a million people to Mars, we take the questions everyone wonders about and find...
Could protesters bring down France's government?
It started with a few high school kids in the suburbs of Paris. No teacher for six months. Three weeks later, 550,000 people were marching across France, and a historic town hall had burned.
So could protesters actually bring down France’s government? We look at how easy it is to sack a French prime minister (France lost three in under a year), why the president is almost untouchable, and the rule that says once 3.5% of a country hits the streets, governments almost never survive.
Then the history: the Bastille, May 1968, the yellow vests, the pension ma...
Could we stop ageing?
A microphone got left on at a military parade in Beijing, and the whole world heard Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin chatting about living forever. Meanwhile, Bryan Johnson spends about $2 million a year trying to be 18 again.
So could we actually stop ageing? We do the maths on living to 1,000, look at what nature has already cracked (a 400-year-old shark and a jellyfish that turns itself back into a baby), and follow the billions pouring into labs trying to reset old cells.
Then the hard part. Young blood, biological age tests, a drug for transplant...
Could we all have flying cars?
Elon Musk walked onto a stage in Texas and said four words: "Flying cars are real." Then the new Tesla Roadster flipped upside down in midair, fired its thrusters and hopped over a Cybertruck. The FAA had a look and said it isn't an aircraft.
But the real future of flying cars looks nothing like a Roadster. In China, a two-seater that flies itself has been carrying passengers for 17 months. Joby flew JFK to Manhattan in seven minutes. Archer flew Oakland airport to downtown San Francisco in ten. So how does this actually work its way into...
Could AI pay everyone a universal high income?
EP02: Could AI Pay Everyone a Universal High Income?
Elon Musk says AI and robots will take everyone’s job, and then we’ll all get paid anyway. Not a universal basic income. A universal HIGH income. He even typed it in capitals.
So we ran the numbers. Paying all 8.3 billion people a high income costs $119 trillion a year, which is 94% of everything the planet makes. Elon’s trillion dollars would cover it for about three days.
Then we look at how the robots are actually going (remote-controlled bartenders, 18,000 cups of water, bacon ice cr...
Could Elon end poverty?
EP01: Could Elon Musk End World Poverty?
In 2021 the UN told Elon Musk that $6 billion could keep 42 million people alive for a year. He said show me the plan. They showed him the plan. They got nothing.
Five years later he’s worth around a trillion dollars. So we ran the actual numbers: could he end world poverty? Would it even work? And should he?
Three acts, one verdict. I’m Gazza, and this is Could It Though?
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Musk net worth: Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, earl...Could AI run a country?
EP03: Could AI Run a Country?
In September 2025, Albania hired a new government minister. She never sleeps. She never takes a bribe. And she doesn’t exist. Her name is Diella, she’s an AI, and a month later the Prime Minister announced she was “pregnant” with 83 AI babies, one for every MP in his party.
So could AI actually run a country? We do the maths on replacing a prime minister with a $30 subscription, then look at how AI in government is really going: a New York chatbot giving illegal advice, a government report quoting...
