Podcast
Root Causes 250: 250 Episodes of Root Causes!


Hosted by
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer
Jason Soroko
Fellow
Original broadcast date
October 26, 2022
It's Root Causes episode 250! In this episode Tim and Jason indulge themselves in podcasting about podcasting. Hear about setting up a podcast, choosing topics, why we don't rehearse, why we have so few guests, and how we reacted the first time someone asked us for a media kit.
Podcast Transcript
Lightly edited for flow and brevity.
But we talked about this and we both thought that that's a lot of episodes, and maybe it's worth just one look at how is it? What is it? What did it turn out to be? How did that compare to what we thought? And then I think you had an excellent suggestion, Jay, is also a little bit of sort of pragmatic, how do you actually get it done? If other people want to get it done? And that's a lot of good stuff to cover. So, with that, I don't know, where do we want to begin?
And I said, well, I'm going to take that as a promise. I had no idea what to do. So, we went out, we bought ourselves a couple prosumer mics, and some pop screens and swivel, scissor booms. I don't know if you're still using the scissor boom I mailed to you, but I am. Then we just kind of worked out the pragmatics of how to do it. And it was all poking at things. You're a good sound editor. So, I think you enjoy that. I think you think it's kind of fun. So that part was handled. Because you just, you do that naturally with software you have and skills you have. I had to figure out how to publish it and I just sort of looked around and with not a whole lot of research landed on SoundCloud and my rationale was it seemed to have the basic functionality we were looking for. It could do RSS feeds, so it could get to a lot of other places and it was popular and well-reviewed. And I was like, ok, let's try it. And SoundCloud has been great to us. The RSS feed has been great. We know we definitely get listeners from other places like Spotify and Apple Podcasts. So that means the RSS feed is doing what it needs to do. We just started making episodes.
A lot of times the root of the reasons why we agree more often than we don't is because we've been around for an awfully long time and we repeat subjects a lot. Certificate lifecycle management is one of those topics that it comes up often, for obvious reasons, and Tim and I are gonna have a hard time disagreeing on a lot of those topics. But there's a lot else that we get into, especially in terms of when we're getting into real root causes of cybersecurity events that we need to call out and we're just trying to figure it out amongst ourselves. That's true organic conversation happening there.
And so, subsequent to that, I've had this problem like, how many episodes do we have? I think I said it right in the beginning. I think I said this is our episode 250, Not it’s our 250th episode. Now, I don't remember. But it is our episode 250 but it is not our 250th episode. It is our 251st episode. And then we've talked about truing it up by skipping a number, but then it's going to look like there's something missing. And I don't know what to do.
I also think, though, that there are also some people from general cybersecurity who tune in because of the fact that hey, man, I don't live in the PKI world, but you sure helped me to keep up to date. And it's great. I think the combination of tried, true and old veterans who I might have thought, oh, this is kind of old hat to them. Why would they? It turns out, they actually are very curious and they want to hear other people's take on the subjects. And they even like the idea of the news breaking stuff. It helps them to stay up to date. And Tim, this is the one I've heard the most often, the people who are listening, one of the things they like, is this idea of the root causes where we really do give a take. We quite often rip from the pages of technical journalism, but we get down to what was important on paragraph 15 that you needed to know.
And especially from a PKI perspective, and I think from the question of who's listening, it’s people who want to hear that.
But to increase it to 1.25 I, I know a guy who listens to us at two times. And we don't quite sound like chipmunks two times, but boy, do we ever go by quickly.

