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.
Hosted by Quinn “Q” Vidal · Four Segments
Hear Quinn explain it
The Blast Radius, in about a minute
Quinn Vidal, founder of AIQSO, on what this is, who it is for, and what happens first. No slides, no pitch deck.
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.
The Blast
~10 min
One news story: what happened, who it hits, and what the headlines got wrong.
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 will never do.
Field Notes
Occasional
Anonymized lessons from real engagements — the things that only show up once you are on site.
Four in the chamber
Episodes one through four are out now. New episodes land on YouTube first, and the full archive lives on the show's own site.
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.
Watch now →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.
Watch now →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 →The audio feed is live — listen on Spotify or Amazon Music, or iHeartRadio now; the Apple Podcasts link follows once it clears review.
The editorial half of the work
The Blast Radius is timely and editorial — news, analysis, and what the coverage missed. The instructional half is Inside The Blast Radius, a community where topics get taught properly rather than commented on. “The Fix” is the seam between them.
The Blast Radius
Timely. Editorial. What just happened, how far it reaches, and what to move first.
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Evergreen. Instructional. Member-driven lessons, in a community that answers back.
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Most coverage tells you something exploded. The show tells you how far it reaches, whether you're standing in it, and what to move first.