2026 Predictions: Safe, Bold, and Outlandish Projections for the Year to Come

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Happy New Year! Join Jim and Greg as they kick off 2026 with predictions for the year to come. In this special edition, they will start with safe predictions and get increasingly bold as the conversation continues.

Jim's first prediction centers on what he expects will be a frequent and disturbing trend as America gets ready to celebrate 250 years of independence. Meanwhile, Greg is bracing for a horrible year in politics close to home as a purplish state shifts strongly to the left and horrible pieces of legislation will likely become law.

Next, they get a bit bolder. Jim focuses on where he thinks the economy will be when the midterm elections roll around a little less than a year from now. Greg examines the midterms themselves and has good and bad news for both political parties.

Finally, they issue their most aggressive predictions. Jim has an incredibly rosy outlook on where his and Greg's favorite NFL teams will be a year from now. Greg predicts a shocking verdict in a case that should be open and shut.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:04.9	Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.6	Three martini's coming up.
0:13.3	Very glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the three martini lunch.
0:17.5	Even more important than that.
0:18.8	Happy New Year.
0:19.7	It is January 2nd and it is the last of our
0:23.3	year-end specials, even though we're at the beginning of the new year here. But as we enter
0:28.2	2026, we have our fearless predictions for the year to come, starting with what we think is the
0:34.3	most likely to happen to the most outlandish.
0:37.8	Now, I should point out last year, Jim's most outlandish prediction, I think it came true
0:42.7	before the predictions podcast even posted. We had two terrorist attacks on New Year's Day,
0:48.6	one in New Orleans where a guy mowed people down, several people killed, and then we had
0:52.7	the guy that blew up the cyber truck out in Las Vegas. And so, Jim, that is mighty prescient of you. We'll see what happens this
1:01.9	year. Hopefully we have mostly positive predictions. Actually, I don't. But maybe. We'll see.
1:08.0	Where do you start? What's most likely to come true? Well, the other thing is, if I remember correctly, the prediction was terrorist attacks and generally from the left, people who were apoplectic about Trump's election and basically believed it was time for not just hashtag resistance, but, you know, French resistance from, you know, the authorities and stuff.
1:27.4	And so you think about the authorities and stuff.
1:29.2	And so you think about the Charlie Kirk assassination.
1:34.9	You think about the shooting up at the church up at Minnesota, attacks on ice workers.
1:36.8	Unfortunately, that turned out.
1:40.3	I have another prediction for this year that is unfortunately glum.
1:49.0	You will notice that as we go in from very likely to more outlandish, predictions get happier.
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