65: I’m Not Doing This Under My Desk

About this episode

The AV SuperFriends discuss holiday AV gear and the frustrations of missing accessories and requirements.

Recorded November 14, 2025: The AV SuperFriends kick off their first holiday special of the season with a spirited look at the gear, gadgets, and AV workflows that should make life easier, but only if you also bought the missing accessories, licenses, adapters, or seventeen extra widgets the manufacturer forgot to mention. In classic Christmas fashion, the crew shares their “Batteries Not Included” frustrations: software that secretly requires expensive hardware, switchers that almost solve every problem but miss the basics, power supplies that mysteriously vanish from product boxes, and cloud-connected ecosystems with more prerequisites than a graduate-level course.Along the way, the panel detours into holiday lights, dubious Best Buy happenings, the return of RDL-style power-supply roulette, and the annual reminder that USB extension is still cursed. They also preview an upcoming deep-dive on enterprise cloud AV, tease the December call-in show, and, of course, deliver an unhealthy dose of seasonal immaturity.If you’ve ever unboxed a “perfect” AV solution only to discover it needs three more boxes, a license key, an aggregator VM, and a Christmas miracle to function, this…

People in this episode

Host: AV SuperFriends

Topics covered

• AV workflows
• holiday gadgets
• technology frustrations
• cloud AV
• accessories
• seasonal humor

Keywords

• AV solutions
• gadgets
• technology
• holiday special
• accessories
• cloud AV
• USB extension

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Best Buy

Products: USB extension, cloud-connected ecosystems, power supplies, switchers, Batteries Not Included

Books & works: enterprise cloud AV

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