Episode Zero - A Short Introduction

Stephen Cobb explains why he created The Dead Chuffed Podcast in 2018, but never published any episodes until now. He also struggles to say Podbean and not Podbeam while explaining the ways to reach this website (e.g. via DeadChuffed.podbean.com, DeadChuffedPodcast.com, and DeadChuffedPod.com)

In fact, Stephen has recorded quite a few podcasts, but for other people, and with other people, but none of them have been on Podbean. Here's an example of Stephen on a podcast called The Malware Report, recorded back in 2014. That podcast was published on a website called We Live Security that Stephen helped to create (it's an archived file, so it takes a while to load—as long as a minute—but it's a good example of the Wayback Machine in action).

As Stephen says, "Those short, professionally produced, interview-style podcasts recordings were fun to do, but they were about cybersecurity and data privacy, and let me be honest here, those are not the only things in life that interest me."

So he kept this Podbean account in his back pocket until he had time to talk about something other than "cyberbadness" (a very handy term coined by his good friend Cameron Camp as a catch-all for the ever-growing litany of crimes, frauds, scams and other abuses of digital technology that degrade cyberspace).

In 2019, Stephen began the process of easing himself out of the cybersecurity world so that he could find some more time to think about other things. He also decided to revisit his past, both physically—by moving back to Coventry, the English city where he was born and raised—and psychologically, by seeing a therapist. 

This episode is short and ad-free. Hopefully, the next episode will be longer, and less than five years in the making.