65: I’m Not Doing This Under My Desk

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:I want that in my stockingHoliday ModeThe setting on your doohickyDon’t put it in holiday modeWho dropped the dogs offAllen Head Doll HouseIt does everything you want but nothing you needLeast offensive to “you gotta be kidding me”You can’t get this to thatYou can buy HDBaseT out, you just can’t get it inSimilar to Larry, but differentYou always have to buy the power supplies separateThey mostly lastThat’s not the answer; stop it!Some adult supervision required