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AV SuperFriends: On Topic - I’m not doing this under my desk

AV SuperFriends

Release Date: 12/01/2025

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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 episode is for you.

 

Alternate show titles:

  • Holiday Mode

  • The setting on your doohicky

  • Don’t put it in holiday mode

  • Who dropped the dogs off

  • Allen Head Doll House

  • It does everything you want but nothing you need

  • Least offensive to “you gotta be kidding me”

  • You can’t get this to that

  • You can buy HDBaseT out, you just can’t get it in

  • Similar to Larry, but different

  • You always have to buy the power supplies separate

  • They mostly last

  • That’s not the answer; stop it!

  • Some adult supervision required

  • I want that in my stocking

 

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