Michael Bazzell’s podcast has been a fantastic resource to me over the years, and I was hoping to re-listen to some of the old episodes. I understand his reasoning for not wanting old episodes to be available through his main channel, but it would be a really nice resource to have old archived episodes available for listening.
I’ve read that there is a torrent of them somewhere, but I’ve unfortunately been unable to find them. Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be very appreciated.
Uninformed-- what is his reason for not wanting older episodes to be available?
Reasoning as to why they prune old shows
EPISODE 287-Listener Questions, UNREDACTED 5, & OSINT 10
https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2023/01/06/the-privacy-security-osint-show-episode-287/
[20:22.30] - The most asked question, we'll start with that. [20:25.02] And this is a question that is dear to my heart. [20:27.74] Where are all the old podcast episodes? [20:30.58] I actually emailed you about this when they disappeared. [20:33.70] Where are they? [20:34.82] - Are there some missing? [20:36.66] - There are all of them missing. [20:38.54] There are all of them missing. [20:39.94] About from about a year ago onwards. [20:42.74] - Yeah, we've been purging old episodes [20:46.14] for a couple of years now. [20:48.10] Typically what we do is once or twice a year we go in [20:51.06] and purge everything over one year old. [20:54.10] And the reason for that is twofold. [20:55.90] First, we wanna be responsible. [20:57.90] We don't want to have bad information out there. [20:59.58] And there was some bad information. [21:01.66] We've been doing the show for many years. [21:02.94] So things that we've talked about in 2016, 2017, [21:06.26] they not only might not apply to today, they might be wrong. [21:09.30] And what was happening was, [21:10.70] and this is the second part of that, [21:11.74] we were getting a lot of complaints from people saying, [21:13.50] "Hey, I listened to your show episode 14," whatever, [21:16.46] from 2017. [21:18.34] I did the thing you said, [21:19.66] and then two years later I listened to another show [21:21.62] or I listened to the show from two years later after that. [21:23.70] You said that you shouldn't do that anymore [21:26.02] and basically you gave me bad advice, I'm mad. [21:28.90] So what we found was easiest was, [21:32.46] let's just prune old shows [21:34.38] because a lot of people are, [21:36.22] they're taking old advice, which is not bad advice. [21:38.42] It might have been good advice at the time, [21:39.54] but now it's bad advice. [21:40.58] Now they're applying these techniques, [21:41.98] which I shouldn't be applying. [21:42.98] And we just want to be responsible and say, [21:44.82] "Let's don't allow bad information to be out there [21:46.78] because a lot of people are following old stuff [21:50.14] thinking that it should still apply." [21:51.98] Now I think most people listening to the show [21:53.58] know that if you listen to a tech podcast [21:55.66] from five or six years ago, [21:57.14] you don't put faith in everything you hear, [22:00.66] but a lot of people were doing that. [22:02.02] So we pruned them and we will continue to prune them. [22:05.06] So I think right now the oldest show is October of 2021. [22:07.86] I would anticipate by spring, [22:09.54] we will probably go in again [22:11.14] and we basically prune everything over a year old. [22:13.94] I realized people don't like that, [22:15.82] but we felt like it was the right thing to do. [22:18.42] - So I understand the reasoning and it still breaks my heart, [22:21.78] but we'll go on to question number two.