The Economy Is About to Snap: Justin Explains What’s Really Coming in 2026
Housing, inflation, AI, recession… and the chaos no one’s prepared for.
This episode is a wild mix — starting with new chairs and a ridiculous pitch for a male-led sex-advice show… but very quickly turning into one of the most in-depth economic breakdowns the podcast has ever hosted.
Justin drops a full macroeconomic masterclass covering:
📉 Why the global economy is “out of kilter”
✔ Inflation out of control
✔ The hidden consequences of massive COVID money printing
✔ Why young people can’t buy homes anymore
✔ And how wealth keeps cycling upward to the already rich
🏠 The real reasons property prices exploded — globally
And why Ireland’s situation is both similar and uniquely worse.
🤖 AI’s dirty little secret
If you strip AI from the US economic data… the economy barely exists. Is AI the biggest bubble since Dotcom?
📉 Is a recession coming?
The case for 2026 being a once-in-a-generation chance to buy a house — and why the “worm is turning.”
🌍 The decade-by-decade pattern of economic shocks
1975 petrol crisis → 2008 crash → COVID → and whatever comes next.
It’s sharp, alarming, hilarious and genuinely helpful — the kind of episode listeners will replay and send to friends who “don’t get economics.”
And yes… the sex-podcast joke returns just when you think it’s safe.
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🕒 CHAPTER
00:00 — New Chairs & Chaos
Graham Norton chair energy, 15 sheep, wild opening.
02:00 — “We Should Start a Sex Podcast…”
The Sexy Boys gets pitched.
05:00 — Ireland, Money & Generational Economics
From 1975 to 2008 to COVID — how we got here.
08:00 — The Housing Crisis Explained Simply
Why houses cost €800k when wages are €65k.
11:00 — Inflation, Global Markets & the COVID Money Flood
How the rich got richer — and everyone else got locked out.
14:00 — Will 2026 Be the Reset Year?
Justin’s prediction: the worm is turning.
17:00 — The AI Bubble Nobody Wants to Admit
If you remove AI spending… the US economy collapses.
19:00 — Back to the Madness: Sexy Boys Returns
21:00 — Wrap Up & Aftershow Tease
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