Could It Though?

Garry "Gazza"

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 out whether they’d actually work. New questions, real answers. Could it? Would it? Should it?

Episodes

  1. 15h ago

    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 your life? We walk through the official roadmap, stage by stage: pilots on board first, then vertiports and sky corridors, then aircraft that fly themselves. Then the hard part. Why you won't own one, what a seat will cost, how many aircraft one city would need, what the weather does to it, and the crash in Beijing that froze everything. Could it? Would it? Should it? I'm Gazza, and this is Could It Though? Numbers in this episode: - Tesla Roadster reveal, flip and thruster hop, 15 October 2026: TechCrunch; CBS News - "Flying cars are real" and the FAA saying it is not an aircraft: CBS News, 15 October 2026 - BYD Yangwang U9 jumps about 20 feet over a pothole, about 1.4 inches off the ground: Fast Company, August 2026 - EHang EH216 flies itself, 17 months of passenger trial operations: Low Altitude Economy, April 2026; EHang Q2 2026 results - Joby JFK to Manhattan in seven minutes, May 2026: The Next Web - Archer Oakland airport to San Francisco in about ten minutes, 19 October 2026: Archer - NASA noise test, about 45 decibels at 500 metres: NASA via Vertical Magazine, July 2022 - Three-stage roadmap, 2027, 2030, 2035 or later: US DOT Advanced Air Mobility National Strategy, December 2025 - Corridors, remote pilots, operators separating their own aircraft: FAA Urban Air Mobility Concept of Operations 2.0, April 2023 - Dubai vertiports at the airport, Dubai Mall and Atlantis The Royal: Joby; Dubai RTA - 35 hours plus a 250-hour commercial licence: FAA, 14 CFR 194.216 and 61.129 - Vertiport approach surface extending 4,000 feet: FAA Engineering Brief 105A - US$7 to 12 a seat mile, landing fees the biggest cost: Valour Consultancy - Dallas: 25,000 trips a day needs 102 vertiports and about 1,200 aircraft: NASA - New York weather grounds flights about 8 of 11 hours: Reiche, Cohen and Fernando, IEEE, 2021 - Beijing tower crash, June 2026, and China freezing approvals: Aviation Week - EHang's announced fare, about US$41, never sold: Low Altitude Economy, 2026 Got a hypothetical you want us to run? Send it in. If you're enjoying Could It Though?, hit follow and leave us a five-star rating. It really helps new people find the show.

    Could we all have flying cars?

  2. 2d ago

    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 a judge who never said it, a Dutch algorithm that brought down a whole government, and an AI candidate beaten by the Monster Raving Loony Party. Then the big one: should we let it? Because you can’t vote out a chatbot. Could it? Would it? Should it? I’m Gazza, and this is Could It Though? Numbers in this episode: Diella appointed September 2025: Al Jazeera, NBC News“Diella is pregnant”, 83 kids: Rama at the Berlin Global Dialogue, October 2025Australian PM salary $622,050: Remuneration Tribunal, July 2025Estonia online vote about EUR 2.30 vs paper about EUR 20.40: e-EstoniaUK “Humphrey” AI tools and GBP 45 billion savings: UK government, January 2025DOGE AI deregulation tool, 200,000 rules: Washington Post, July 2025NYC MyCity chatbot illegal advice: The Markup, March 2024Deloitte A$440,000 report with invented references: Bloomberg, AFR, October 2025Robodebt, “crude and cruel”, over $2.4 billion: Royal Commission 2023; Canberra Times 2025Dutch childcare benefits scandal, about 26,000 families, government resigned January 2021: Brussels Times; Amnesty InternationalLeader Lars and Denmark’s Synthetic Party: Fortune, October 2022AI Steve, 179 votes, Brighton Pavilion 2024: UK Parliament election resultsAKSHI investigation (allegations, no convictions): OCCRP, 2026Actress Anila Bisha’s lawsuit: Anadolu Agency, Balkan Insight, February 2026Albania Constitutional Court ruling, October 2026: Bytes EuropeSweden PM uses AI for “a second opinion”: Dagens industri via The Guardian, August 2025“A computer can never be held accountable”: IBM training slide, 1979Got a hypothetical you want us to run? Send it in. If you’re enjoying Could It Though?, hit follow and leave us a five-star rating. It really helps new people find the show. New episode every week. Chapter markers TimeChapter0:00 | Albania’s AI minister 0:40 | Could it? A robot PM for $30 a month 1:32 | Would it? How AI in government is going 2:53 | Should it? Who’s accountable 3:57 | The verdict 4:13 | Next time: could we stop ageing?

    Could AI run a country?

  3. 2d ago

    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 cream), whether free money works (surprisingly, yes), and the big question: who owns the robots? Could it? Would it? Should it? I’m Gazza, and this is Could It Though? Numbers in this episode: “Universal high income” and “probably none of us will have a job”: Musk at VivaTech, Paris, May 2024“Universal HIGH INCOME” in capitals: Musk on X, April 2026“Like growing your own vegetables”: Musk on X, October 2025“No need to save money”: Musk on X, December 2025High-income line US$14,375: World Bank country classifications, July 2026World population 8.3 billion: UN, 2026World economy about $126 trillion: IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026US federal revenue about $5.2 trillion: CBOAI industry revenue about $200 billion a year: Epoch AI, 2026Remote-controlled Optimus robots at Tesla’s 2024 event: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The VergeRobotaxis “next year”, 2019: Tesla Autonomy DayTaco Bell AI and 18,000 waters: Wall Street Journal, 2025McDonald’s AI drive-through test ended: AP, 2024Klarna AI and rehiring humans: Klarna CEO interviews, 2025$1,000 a month study: OpenResearch / NBER working paper w32719One million robots in Musk’s Tesla pay deal: Tesla shareholder vote, November 2025Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, 1930Half of entry-level office jobs: Dario Amodei to Axios, May 2025About 80% of Twitter staff cut: Musk to the BBC, April 2023“Just embeds inequality”: Lord Stockwood, UK Minister for Investment, February 2026Albania’s AI minister Diella: AP and TBS News, September and October 2025What hypothetical should we run next? Send it in. If you’re enjoying Could It Though?, hit follow and leave us a five-star rating. It really helps new people find the show. New episode every week.

    Could AI pay everyone a universal high income?

  4. 2d ago

    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? Numbers in this episode: Musk net worth: Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, early October 2026Taylor Swift net worth about $2 billion: Forbes, March 2026Extreme poverty line $3/day and 837 million people: World Bank$340 billion a year to end extreme poverty: UC Berkeley, 2026$6.6 billion WFP plan and the $5.7 billion Musk Foundation transfer: CNN, Snopes, SEC filing Feb 20222.3 billion to 837 million since 1990: World BankGot a hypothetical you want us to run? Send it in. If you’re enjoying Could It Though?, hit follow and leave us a five-star rating. It really helps new people find the show. New episode every week.

    Could Elon end poverty?
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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 out whether they’d actually work. New questions, real answers. Could it? Would it? Should it?

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  • Creator
    Garry "Gazza"
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Could It Though?