**William Stickevers** (0:01)
Evening. Buyers remorse.
**Richard Syrett** (0:03)
Buy a new car? I'll be moving in.
Let's get started.
**William Stickevers** (0:07)
Sorry, I think there's been a mistake. I bought it from Carvana.
**Richard Syrett** (0:10)
You what?
**William Stickevers** (0:11)
Yeah, great price. I even have seven days to love it or return it. So there's no... No, no buyers remorse. More like buyers rejoice.
**SPEAKER_3** (0:20)
I guess I'll let myself out.
**William Stickevers** (0:22)
Congratulations.
**SPEAKER_3** (0:23)
I mean it.
**Richard Syrett** (0:24)
Buyers rejoice.
**William Stickevers** (0:25)
Buy your car today on Carvana.
**SPEAKER_4** (0:27)
Limitations and exclusions may apply. See our seven-day return policy at carvana.com.
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**Richard Syrett** (0:33)
So you were scrolling on Marketplace and there it was, the bike you'd been searching for.
**William Stickevers** (0:39)
You sent a message and it turned out the seller was super chatty, kind of funny and an avid cyclist.
**Richard Syrett** (0:45)
The next thing you know, you're in a cycling crew.
**SPEAKER_3** (0:48)
Well, a community cycling group.
**Richard Syrett** (0:50)
The thing about Facebook, you might find more than what you're looking for. From a browse to a bike ride, this summer, find more on Facebook.
**SPEAKER_4** (1:00)
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**William Stickevers** (1:58)
I think it's very striking that with this alignment with Pluto and Aquarius and the Barbot basket is all pointing to hidden systems, hidden information, hidden monopolies, hidden institutional secrecy, all coming under pressure and Trump just started the witness phase of this disclosure. Once the insiders begin talking, Washington will never get the secret back in. They'll never get the secret toothpaste back into the tube.
**SPEAKER_3** (2:25)
Richard Syrett's Strange Planet, following the truth wherever it leads, exposing evil and corruption and the secret machinations of powerful elites, revealing the highest strangeness beneath the surface of our supposed reality. Coming to you from the great white north and his studio beneath the stairs.
Here's Richard.
**Richard Syrett** (2:51)
Hey, welcome to Strange Planet. What if the next chapter of human history has already been written? Not in classified government documents, but in the stars.
My guest has spent nearly four decades using astrology, not to predict romance or riches, but to forecast elections, wars, financial upheaval and geopolitical turning points. Now, he says, we're entering the most dangerous and transformative period of our lifetimes. A world where artificial intelligence becomes the new super power, truth itself becomes a battlefield, and the old global order quietly gives way to something entirely different. Is it prophecy, pattern recognition or something in between? Tonight, we'll find out. William Stickevers is one of the world's leading geopolitical astrologers and strategic forecasters. Blending astrology with macroeconomics, history and geopolitical analysis, he's built a reputation for making bold, time-specific forecasts about global events. In his latest Global Outlook 2026 and Global Transformation Astrology Reports, he argues that we're entering a narrow window where the old world is quietly giving way to something entirely new. Whether you're a believer, a skeptic or somewhere in between, his forecasts are impossible to ignore.
William, welcome back to Strange Planet. How are you?
**William Stickevers** (4:13)
I'm doing great, Richard. Thanks for having me again on your show.
**Richard Syrett** (4:16)
When most people think about the next Cold War, that they think it'll be fought with missiles or maybe tariffs, you argue it's already being fought with algorithms. So have we entered a new kind of arms race where, I don't know, intelligence is the ultimate weapon?
**William Stickevers** (4:34)
Yeah, absolutely. We are in a Cold War with China in particular over the AI arms race. We recently just entered a Sputnik moment with the deployment of Kimi K3.
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