Everyone Knows

Tired of politically correct spin and media dodging the obvious? This podcast says what everyone's thinking but afraid to say. No sugar-coating, no corporate sponsors dictating content—just honest analysis of current events and corruption the mainstream won't touch.We call out stupidity when we see it, expose corruption hiding in plain sight, and discuss stories the establishment buries. Questionable money trails, double standards, policies that make zero sense—if nobody's talking about it, we will.This isn't left vs. right; it's truth vs. spin. No scripts, no PR team, just real talk.

Everyone Knows is a news podcast hosted by Brian Bullock, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Brian Bullock hosts Everyone Knows, a news show with 31 episodes published.

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  Episode #33

  Ep. 33 - Cuba in the Dark: The US Military Buildup, the Blackouts, and How It Ends | Everyone Knows

  Sep 29, 202634 minS1

  On March 16, every light in Cuba went out at once. Eleven million people sat in the dark for more than a day, ninety miles from Florida, while an American aircraft carrier moved into the Caribbean. Cuba in the Dark: The US Military Buildup, the Blackouts, and How It Ends | Everyone Knows Ep. 33 Everyone Knows | Episode 33 | Starborne Studios A carrier strike group in the Caribbean. A federal murder indictment against Raul Castro. An Army Reserve message asking what units could be ready in ninety to one hundred and twenty days. Havana living on fifteen hours of blackout a day, with no fuel left to run the water pumps. Brian Bullock goes through what the United States has actually put in the water, how an island this close to home ran completely out of oil, and where all of it is heading. Three parts. All of them matter. FIRST, the buildup. The Nimitz strike group entered the Caribbean on May 20, the same day the Justice Department charged Raul Castro over the 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue planes that killed four men. Nine days later the commander of Southern Command sat down with Cuban generals at the fence line at Guantanamo Bay. Then came the Army Reserve message this week. Brian takes each piece for what it is and what it is not, including the drone story that got a lot of play and the one thing Havana has conspicuously not done. He also sets the warships beside the other track running at the same time, the Secretary of State saying on the record that Washington is open to talking. SECOND, how the island ran dry. The Soviet Union propped Cuba up for thirty years, and when it collapsed Cubans lived through the Special Period, oxen back in the fields and people leaving on anything that floated. Venezuela replaced Moscow with up to a hundred thousand barrels of oil a day, until this January, when the oil stopped. Brian walks through what happened to the grid after that, what no power means inside a house, the law passed after the 1996 shootdown that took the embargo out of any president's hands, and why the country that ran on sugar now imports it. THIRD, what happens next. There are only a handful of ways this ends, and Brian lays every one of them out plainly, including the one almost nobody mentions, which is written into American law and quietly rules out the deal most people assume is possible. The deciding piece is not in Havana's speeches or Washington's warnings. It is sitting inside the Cuban military itself. Everyone Knows is one man reading the story straight. Who benefits, who gets hurt, why now, and what happens next. No panel, no talking points, no hedging. If you're tired of the spin, you're in the right place. ABOUT EVERYONE KNOWS: Everyone Knows is an independent podcast hosted by Brian Bullock — author, storyteller, and founder of Starborne Studios. Every episode breaks down the stories that matter using one simple framework — who benefits, who gets hurt, why now, and what happens next. No cable news theatrics. No party line. Just a straight read on what's actually going on and what it means for regular people. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one. ALSO FROM STARBORNE STUDIOS: ️ Everyone Knows Podcast — you're already here Sentinel Universe Short Stories — now available on YouTube The Sentinel of Crater Daedalus — Book 1 of The Sentinel Trilogy — Coming Soon brianbullockwriter.com — books, audio stories, updates, and more CONNECT WITH STARBORNE STUDIOS: brianbullockwriter.com ️ Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YouTube Follow on X @EveryoneKnws1 Hosted by Brian Bullock Starborne Studios Speak up or step aside. #EveryoneKnows #BrianBullock #StarborneStudios #Podcast #NoSpin #StraightTalk #ConservativePodcast #Cuba #Havana #Caribbean #Guantanamo #RaulCastro #Blackout #Embargo #Venezuela #Rubio #USNavy #Politics #ForeignPolicy #Conservative

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  Episode #32

  Ep. 32 -White House Press Ban: CNN, Politico, MS NOW and Trump TV | Everyone Knows

  Sep 22, 202631 minS1

  Three newsrooms lost a desk. The networks called it the end of a free press. Here's what actually happened. White House Press Ban: CNN, Politico, MS NOW and Trump TV | Everyone Knows Ep. 32 Everyone Knows | Episode 32 | Starborne Studios On Saturday, September nineteenth, reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico showed up at the White House gate and had their press badges taken. Two days later, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox refused to cover the president in solidarity, the three outlets sued, and the White House switched on its own around the clock stream, Trump TV. Brian lays out what the ban is, what it is not, and the record the networks would rather you forgot. Three parts. All of them matter. FIRST, what really happened. Only three outlets lost their passes, and every one of them can still report whatever it wants. Brian walks through Trump's reasons, Vance's "it's not a ban," and the day the networks went dark and left Americans unable to hear the president at his own ribbon cutting. Then the lawsuit, the Trump-appointed judge who handled the Jim Acosta fight in 2018, Wednesday's hearing, and the appeals court ruling in the AP's Gulf of America case that already sided with the White House on who gets into the Oval Office and onto Air Force One. SECOND, Trump TV and the record behind the complaint. Presidents have gone around the press since Roosevelt's fireside chats, and Trump TV is one more choice for viewers, not a replacement. Then the numbers: Vance says ninety two percent of these outlets' coverage is negative, and a Harvard study put CNN and NBC at ninety three. Then the receipts. ABC paid fifteen million dollars over George Stephanopoulos. CBS paid sixteen million over the Kamala Harris interview. The BBC admitted splicing Trump's January sixth speech and now faces a ten billion dollar lawsuit. CNN retracted, corrected and settled more than once, MSNBC retracted a story on the air, and Politico ran the Hunter Biden laptop disinformation headline. THIRD, a free press versus a free desk. What the First Amendment actually says, where the briefing room came from, and why the Pentagon walkout proved reporting goes on without a badge. The outlets' strongest legal argument, answered plainly. What the Obama White House did to Fox and to AP reporters' phone records, and why that was a real threat and this is not. Trust in the media at a record low. Then a straight answer for everyone crying crackdown. A straight read on what is happening and what it means for regular people. No theatrics, no party line, no soft edges. If you're tired of the spin, you're in the right place. ABOUT EVERYONE KNOWS: An independent podcast hosted by Brian Bullock — author, storyteller, and founder of Starborne Studios. Every episode breaks down the stories that matter using one simple framework — who benefits, who gets hurt, why now, and what happens next. No cable news theatrics. No party line. Just a straight read on what's actually going on and what it means for regular people. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one ALSO, FROM STARBORNE STUDIOS: ️ Everyone Knows Podcast — you're already here / Sentinel Universe Short Stories — now available on YouTube / The Sentinel of Crater Daedalus — Book 1 of The Sentinel Trilogy — Coming Soon / brianbullockwriter.com — books, audio stories, updates, and more CONNECT WITH STARBORNE STUDIOS: brianbullockwriter.com / ️ Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YouTube / Follow on X @EveryoneKnws1 Hosted by Brian Bullock / Starborne Studios / Speak up or step aside. #EveryoneKnows #BrianBullock #StarborneStudios #Podcast #NoSpin #StraightTalk #ConservativePodcast #FreePress #PressFreedom #WhiteHouse #TrumpTV #CNN #MSNOW #Politico #MediaBias #FakeNews #FirstAmendment #JDVance #Trump #ABCNews #CBSNews #BBC #AirForceOne #Journalism

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  Episode #31

  Ep. 31 - Diesel Hits $6 a Gallon: Why Fuel Prices Exploded and Who Controls the World's Oil Routes | Everyone Knows

  Sep 15, 202637 minS1

  Six dollars a gallon. First time in American history. And the reason is not the one you were told. Diesel Hits $6 a Gallon and the Two Straits That Control the World's Oil | Everyone Knows Ep. 31 Everyone Knows | Episode 31 | Starborne Studios On Friday, September eleventh, AAA reported the national average for diesel had passed six dollars for the first time ever. Six dollars and six cents. Third record in a week. A year ago, it was three seventy. Half a world away, an Iranian-backed militia took an island in one of the two narrow gaps that carry a large share of the planet's oil, and the other gap has been near a standstill since February. Brian connects the water to the pump, then goes where most coverage will not. Three parts. All of them matter. FIRST, the two straits and who holds them now. The Houthis took the port of Mocha, then crossed by boat and took Perim, the island that splits the Bab el-Mandeb into two shipping lanes. Eighteen miles wide at the narrowest point, and twelve percent of global trade moves through. The Yemeni battalions there stood at twenty percent of their paper strength. The rest were names on a roster drawing a salary. American-built armored trucks were left parked where they sat, and the Houthis are driving them through town on camera now. At the other end, Hormuz has been nearly shut since the war with Iran began, and the Saudi pipeline built to bypass it was hit Friday by drones out of Iraq. That pipeline was the workaround for the first strait, and the second is the exit it feeds. Brian walks through who armed this, who benefits, and why one Chinese tanker sailed the blockade untouched. SECOND, what happened at your pump and why diesel got hit harder than gasoline. California came in at seven ninety-eight. Oklahoma at five sixty. That spread is not the war, it is state policy, and Brian explains which is which. Then the part most coverage skips. Crude is not the reason diesel is where it is. The refineries are. Five million barrels a day of refining capacity is offline worldwide, and more oil out of the ground does not make cheaper fuel when the bottleneck is the machinery that turns it into diesel. Diesel is what the country runs on, and when it goes up it rides along on every item in every store, because it got there on a truck. And it lands in the middle of harvest. THIRD, the part nobody wants to put a number on. There is a cost to keeping those waterways open that never shows up at the pump, and it is running out faster than we can replace it. Brian puts the arithmetic on the table. Stay to the end. A straight read on what is happening and what it means for regular people. No theatrics, no party line, no soft edges. If you're tired of the spin, you're in the right place. ABOUT EVERYONE KNOWS: An independent podcast hosted by Brian Bullock — author, storyteller, and founder of Starborne Studios. Every episode breaks down the stories that matter using one simple framework — who benefits, who gets hurt, why now, and what happens next. No cable news theatrics. No party line. Just a straight read on what's actually going on and what it means for regular people. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one ALSO, FROM STARBORNE STUDIOS: ️ Everyone Knows Podcast — you're already here / Sentinel Universe Short Stories — now available on YouTube / The Sentinel of Crater Daedalus — Book 1 of The Sentinel Trilogy — Coming Soon / brianbullockwriter.com — books, audio stories, updates, and more CONNECT WITH STARBORNE STUDIOS: brianbullockwriter.com / ️ Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YouTube / Follow on X @EveryoneKnws1 Hosted by Brian Bullock / Starborne Studios / Speak up or step aside. #EveryoneKnows #BrianBullock #StarborneStudios #Podcast #NoSpin #StraightTalk #ConservativePodcast #DieselPrices #GasPrices #FuelPrices #OilPrices #Inflation #Trucking #RedSea #Houthis #BabElMandeb #StraitOfHormuz #Yemen #Iran #SaudiArabia #SuezCanal #Shipping #Trump

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  Episode #30

  Ep. 30 - Lindsay Clancy And What A Mistrial Means | Everyone Knows

  Sep 8, 202632 minS1

  Two million Americans went to Google on Friday and typed the same four words. What does a mistrial mean. The Lindsay Clancy Mistrial, and What a Hung Jury Actually Means | Everyone Knows Ep. 30 Everyone Knows | Episode 30 | Starborne Studios A six week murder trial in Massachusetts ended without a verdict, and most of the country did not understand what it had just watched. Not because people are stupid. Because almost nobody is ever taught how this part works, and the coverage moved on before it explained anything. Brian Bullock walks it through from the beginning, in plain English, with no legal degree required and no spin on either side of it. Three parts. All of them matter. FIRST, what actually happened in that house in Duxbury, and what the jury was really being asked. Here is the part most people never understood: her own attorney never argued she did not do it. Not once. He stood up and told the jury flat out that Lindsay Clancy killed those three children. There was no whodunit, no alternate suspect, no fight over forensics. The entire trial turned on a completely different question, one American courts have treated as separate for a very long time, and if you did not know that going in, the ending would not make any sense to you. SECOND, what a mistrial is and what happens next. Twelve to zero or nothing, on every count, on its own. Why the judge has to declare one when a jury deadlocks, why double jeopardy does not stop the state from trying again, and what manifest necessity means. There are three doors open right now and only three. Brian lays out all of them, including what the District Attorney said outside the courthouse, what the defense attorney answered in three words when he was asked about a second trial, and the one unusual request he would make if it happens. Massachusetts has two recent cases that ran this exact road and ended in opposite places, and both are worth knowing before anybody starts predicting. THIRD, the question underneath all of it. Twelve reasonable adults sat through the same six weeks and heard the same eighty witnesses. Seven days of deliberation and they could not land in the same place on a single count. Brian gets into why, and it is not because any of them were foolish or not paying attention. It is the part of this story that should stay with you long after the verdict question is settled. No cable news theatrics. No party line. Just a straight read on what happened, what it means, and what comes next. If you're tired of the spin, you're in the right place. ABOUT EVERYONE KNOWS: Everyone Knows is an independent podcast hosted by Brian Bullock — author, storyteller, and founder of Starborne Studios. Every episode breaks down the stories that matter using one simple framework — who benefits, who gets hurt, why now, and what happens next. No cable news theatrics. No party line. Just a straight read on what's actually going on and what it means for regular people. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one. ALSO FROM STARBORNE STUDIOS: ️ Everyone Knows Podcast — you're already here / Sentinel Universe Short Stories — now available on YouTube / The Sentinel of Crater Daedalus — Book 1 of The Sentinel Trilogy — Coming Soon / brianbullockwriter.com — books, audio stories, updates, and more CONNECT WITH STARBORNE STUDIOS: brianbullockwriter.com / ️ Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YouTube / Follow on X @EveryoneKnws1 Hosted by Brian Bullock / Starborne Studios / Speak up or step aside. #EveryoneKnows #BrianBullock #StarborneStudios #Podcast #NoSpin #StraightTalk #ConservativePodcast #LindsayClancy #Mistrial #HungJury #DoubleJeopardy #JuryTrial #CriminalJustice #InsanityDefense #Massachusetts #Duxbury #TrueCrime #LegalAnalysis #CourtCase #PlymouthCounty

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  Episode #29

  Ep. 29 - American debt 40 trillion | Everyone Knows

  Sep 1, 202637 minS1

  On August 18 the national debt of the United States passed $40 trillion. It took two hundred years to borrow the first one. The last one took five months. America Owes $40 Trillion | Everyone Knows Ep. 29 Everyone Knows | Episode 29 | Starborne Studios The Treasury publishes what this government owes every business day, and on August 18 it came in at forty trillion dollars and change. Fox Business ran it. So did NPR and the AP. Left, right and center, same figure, because it is not a projection. It is a bank balance. Nobody disputes the number. Every fight you hear about it is over whose fault it is. Brian Bullock skips that fight and goes after the part nobody explains. Three parts. All of them matter. FIRST, who we actually owe this money to. Most people picture China holding the paper. Wrong. The largest share sits with American pension funds, insurance companies, banks, and retirees holding Treasury bonds. Back in March the debt held by the public passed the size of the whole American economy, which has not happened since 1946, when we were paying off the Second World War. This time we did it in peacetime. Washington takes in about five trillion a year and spends about seven. It borrows about six billion dollars a day, and over half of that is interest on debt we already have. Foreign aid, the thing everybody names first when asked what to cut, is under one percent. SECOND, what the interest is doing to you. Net interest now runs about a trillion dollars a year, more than this country spends on its entire national defense. Every ship, every plane, every base, every paycheck, and the finance charge is bigger. Every other dollar in that budget buys something. Interest buys nothing. It is up more than a hundred and fifty percent since 2019, and it reaches your kitchen table, because when Washington borrows two trillion a year it stands in the same line you do for a mortgage. Then there is the receipt. All three credit rating agencies have marked this country down, including one that held us at the top since 1917. All three gave the same reason, and it was not a war or a recession. THIRD, the part that should make you angry. Everybody says nobody has ever tried to fix this. Not true. They have tried, over and over, across forty years, and there is a pattern in how each one died. There is also one stretch in living memory when this country balanced its books four years running, and the reason it worked is not what either party tells you. Brian lays out what got broken, who benefits from keeping it that way, and the two questions to put to any politician who claims to be serious about the debt. Both parties built this. Neither one will own it. If you're tired of the spin, you're in the right place. ABOUT EVERYONE KNOWS: Everyone Knows is an independent podcast hosted by Brian Bullock — author, storyteller, and founder of Starborne Studios. Every episode breaks down the stories that matter using one simple framework — who benefits, who gets hurt, why now, and what happens next. No cable news theatrics. No party line. Just a straight read on what's actually going on and what it means for regular people. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one. ALSO FROM STARBORNE STUDIOS: ️ Everyone Knows Podcast — you're already here / Sentinel Universe Short Stories — now available on YouTube / The Sentinel of Crater Daedalus — Book 1 of The Sentinel Trilogy — Coming Soon / brianbullockwriter.com — books, audio stories, updates, and more CONNECT WITH STARBORNE STUDIOS: brianbullockwriter.com / Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YouTube / Follow on X @EveryoneKnws1 Hosted by Brian Bullock / Starborne Studios / Speak up or step aside. #EveryoneKnows #BrianBullock #StarborneStudios #Podcast #NoSpin #StraightTalk #ConservativePodcast #NationalDebt #40Trillion #FederalDebt #FiscalPolicy #Treasury #Deficit #Congress #SocialSecurity #Medicare #CreditRating #DebtCeiling #Taxpayers #PoliticalPodcast

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