The Economy Is About to Snap: Justin Explains What’s Really Coming in 2026

About this episode

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 themost in-depth economic breakdowns the podcast has ever hosted.

Justin drops afull macroeconomic masterclasscovering:

📉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 similarand 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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