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Your instinct about the screens is right, the mechanism is just duller than a conspiracy. Consumer price indexes measure what it costs to keep a household running: rent, food, energy. Asset prices are excluded by design. Housing enters the basket as rent, never as the price of the house itself, so a cohort priced out of ownership registers as mild inflation rather than a crisis. Wages can rise in real terms while the deposit for a flat runs away from them, and both things stay true at once. Nobody on that podcast is lying about his numbers. He is reading a basket that was never built to answer the question you are asking.