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
First one’s in the chamber
Episode one is out now. Episode two is written and in production.
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.
Watch now →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.
In productionNew 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.