● Season 01 · In production

Everyone
gets root.

Root Access is a tech podcast about AI, servers, networking, security, and the people who keep it all running. Guests from their first homelab to their fortieth outage. No gatekeeping, no dumb questions, no permission denied.

$ sudo pitch --me Get episode 000 →

guest@root-access: ~

guest@root-access:~$ whoami

guest

guest@root-access:~$ sudo -i

[sudo] password for guest: ••••••••

Access granted. On this show, everyone gets root.

Type help to look around.

AI & LLMs ✦ Homelabs ✦ BGP ✦ Zero Trust ✦ Kubernetes ✦ Linux ✦ Self-hosting ✦ Incident response ✦ Wi-Fi ✦ CTFs ✦ Open source ✦ Hardware ✦ Careers in tech ✦ It's always DNS ✦ AI & LLMs ✦ Homelabs ✦ BGP ✦ Zero Trust ✦ Kubernetes ✦ Linux ✦ Self-hosting ✦ Incident response ✦ Wi-Fi ✦ CTFs ✦ Open source ✦ Hardware ✦ Careers in tech ✦ It's always DNS ✦

// netstat -tlnp

Listening on every port.

If it plugs in, boots up, routes packets or makes a security team nervous, it is fair game. A few of the beats we keep coming back to:

LISTEN 0.0.0.0:11434
AI & machine learning
LLMs, local models, agents, and an honest look at which parts are hype.
:11434/ollama
LISTEN 0.0.0.0:22
Security
Red team, blue team, CTFs, and the breach stories nobody puts on LinkedIn.
:22/ssh
LISTEN 0.0.0.0:179
Networking
BGP, VLANs, Wi-Fi, fiber in the ground, and why it is always DNS.
:179/bgp
LISTEN 0.0.0.0:8006
Servers & homelab
Racks in closets, hypervisors at 2am, and the power bill we do not talk about.
:8006/proxmox
LISTEN 0.0.0.0:6443
Cloud & DevOps
Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and the YAML holding the world together.
:6443/kube-api
LISTEN 0.0.0.0:1337
Careers & community
Breaking in, levelling up, burning out, and the mentors who made the difference.
:1337/community

// id guest

Every guest gets root. Whatever their uid.

The best conversations happen when someone on their first VLAN sits across from someone who has been paged at 3am for twenty years. So we book all three, and we mix them on purpose.

uid=1000(user)
The Curious
Students, career-switchers, first-homelab heroes, the person who just broke their router on purpose.
→ Fresh eyes ask the questions everyone else stopped asking.
gid=27(sudo)
The Practitioners
Sysadmins, SREs, network engineers, analysts, developers: the people shipping things and carrying the pager.
→ Real work, real trade-offs, real on-call stories.
uid=0(root)
The Greybeards
Architects, founders, maintainers, researchers, folks who were there when the RFC was a draft.
→ Decades of war stories and the hindsight that comes with them.

// cat run-of-show.sh

How an episode boots.

Same five stages every time, so you always know where you are, and the guest always gets to tell the story that made them.

01
$ ./boot
The Boot Sequence
How the guest got here. First computer, first crash, first "wait, people get paid for this?"
02
$ ./deep-dive
The Deep Dive
One topic, all the way down the stack, explained so the newest listener keeps up and the oldest learns something.
03
$ ./postmortem
Post-Mortem
The worst outage, bug or breach they have lived through. Blameless, but very much named.
04
$ ./man
Lightning man page
Rapid fire: favourite tool, hottest take, the command they would save from a fire. Tabs or spaces.
05
$ ./rabbit-hole
Rabbit Hole of the Week
One link, paper, repo or video worth losing a whole weekend to.

root@root-access:~# atq --season 01

Episode ideas · booking now

EP000
Hello, World
Why this show exists, who it is for, and what "everyone gets root" actually means.
RECORDING
EP001
It's Always DNS
A love letter to the protocol behind half of all outages, and the other half we blame on it anyway.
QUEUED
EP002
My First Homelab
From one Raspberry Pi to a rack in the closet: what to buy, what to skip, what to learn first.
QUEUED
EP003
LLMs Without the Hype
What large language models are good at, what they are bad at, and how to tell the difference.
QUEUED
EP004
Zero Trust for the Rest of Us
The buzzword, unpacked, by someone new to security and someone who has had to implement it.
QUEUED

// usermod -aG guests you

Want root? Come on the show.

You do not need a title, a following, or a CVE with your name on it. If you have built, broken, fixed or learned something in tech, there is an episode in it.

Pitch an episode →

Everyonegets root.

Listening on every port.

AI & machine learning

Security

Networking

Servers & homelab

Cloud & DevOps

Careers & community

Every guest gets root. Whatever their uid.

The Curious

The Practitioners

The Greybeards

How an episode boots.

The Boot Sequence

The Deep Dive

Post-Mortem

Lightning man page

Rabbit Hole of the Week

Hello, World

It's Always DNS

My First Homelab

LLMs Without the Hype

Zero Trust for the Rest of Us

Want root? Come on the show.

Get it in your ears.

Everyone
gets root.