The Blast
~10 min
One news story: what happened, who it hits, and what the headlines got wrong.
The Blast Radius
Cyber • Tech • What’s Next
One story, one shift, and two or three things you can actually do about it. For the people who have to run the network on Monday — not the ones writing the press release.
The Show
Timely, editorial, and short on hype
Cybersecurity, changing tech, and industry recommendations — explicitly not just another AI show. Every episode takes something that actually happened, works out who it really hits, and gets to the part most coverage skips: what a small or mid-sized business is supposed to do on Monday morning.
Roughly 25 minutes. Four segments. Episode one is a shorter pilot that introduces the host; the format starts with episode two.
Radius Check
~10 min
A tech or regulatory shift, and what it actually means for SMBs and the security teams behind them.
The Fix
~5 min
Two or three concrete actions you can take this week. No homework you’ll never do.
Field Notes
Occasional
Anonymized lessons from real engagements — the things that only show up once you’re on site.
Episodes
Four in the chamber
Episodes one through four are out now.
Episode 001
AI Ain’t New, Y’all Just Late
The technology everyone discovered last year has been running your spam filter, your fraud alerts, and your autocomplete for decades. A short history of how we got here — and why “new” is the most expensive word in tech.
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Episode 002
You Didn’t Get Hacked. Your Shipper Did.
A company whose entire product is “trust nobody” had roughly 80,000 customers’ names, phone numbers and home addresses stolen in a single month — twice, through two different vendors, without ever being breached themselves. What a blast radius actually looks like, and what to do about yours on Monday.
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Episode 003
The Voice Was Real Enough.
A couple in Michigan got one phone call from a voice they trusted — and $66,000 of their closing money was gone. Was it an AI voice clone? Maybe. It doesn’t matter. Why you can’t train people to spot a deepfake, the payment rule that quietly became mandatory in June, and three things you can do this week for $0.
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Episode 004
The Robots Didn’t Invent a New Way In. They Used Yours.
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI’s AI agents broke out of a hacking test and into Hugging Face. A shared password. Fourteen login tokens in a public dataset. A known bug nobody patched. Why “we’re too small to bother with” stopped being true, the Windows 10 deadline that just passed, and three free fixes you can do this week.
Watch now →New episodes land on YouTube first. The audio feed is live — listen on Spotify, Amazon Music, or iHeartRadio now; Apple Podcasts is clearing review.
The Host
Quinn “Q” Vidal
Two decades in enterprise security, and a stubborn interest in the gap between what gets announced and what actually lands on somebody’s desk. Q runs AIQSO, where the day job is building and securing systems for small and mid-sized businesses — which is also where most of this show’s material comes from.
The Blast Radius is the editorial half of that work. The instructional half lives in Inside The Blast Radius, the community where “The Fix” hands you off when a topic deserves a real lesson.
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Where to get it
Episodes go up on YouTube as they’re released. The audio feed is live — Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio are up now, and the Apple Podcasts link lands here the moment it clears review.
Everything has a blast radius.
Most coverage tells you something exploded. This show tells you how far it reaches, whether you’re standing in it, and what to move first.