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The AV Life — 196 episodes

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344: Summer, Stadiums, and Smarter AV Systems

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343: Is “Good Enough” AV Good Enough?

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342: The Women of AV Takeover

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341: Three Tims Talking Tech

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340: Live from InfoComm 26 - Day 3

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339: Live from InfoComm 26 - Day 2

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338: Live from InfoComm 26 - Day 1

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337: The One To Start InfoComm 2026

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336: One Week Until InfoComm 2026: Booths, Parties, and Predictions

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335: One Host, Big Thoughts: June in Higher Ed AV

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334: Hiring AV Talent in 2026: What’s Changed?

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333: A Dongle Has Entered the Courtroom

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332: The Canvas Outage and the InfoComm Countdown

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331: Project Confidence, PM Wisdom, and Spring Transitions

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330: Trade Shows, Travel Hacks, and Changes at Apple

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329: AV Industry Shakeups & Summer Prep: What’s Ahead for Higher Ed

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328: Why “This Is How We’ve Always Done It” Fails in AV

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327: The AV Life St. Patrick's Day Party

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326: The AV Project Manager Handbook Is Here!

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325: Are You Your Own Best Advocate? Rethinking Self-Assessments

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324: Pivot Like a Pro: When Project Plans Fall Apart

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323: Live from HETMA Virtual Conference Happy Hour

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322: HETMA Takeover--Inside the Virtual Conference You Can’t Miss

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321: Live from ISE: Inside the World’s Most Exhausting AV Show

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320: Conferences, Culture, and Campus Challenges

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319: Bold Predictions, Big Layoffs, and the Future of AV

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318: The AV Life Book Club Debut

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317: A Milestone Anniversary, a Nomination, and a Look Ahead to 2026

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316: Holiday Party '25

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315: Boundaries, Burnout, and the Busy AV Season

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314: Productive Rest, Big Potato Energy, and the Power of Collaboration

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313: All By Myself

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312: Attitude of Gratitude: Community, Careers, and Change

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311: From Accreditation to AV Strategy: Lessons from the Field

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310: War Stories: When AV Projects Go Sideways

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309: Tricks, Treats & Tech: The Spooky Side of AV

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308: HETMA Hits the Road to Nashville!

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307: From Atari to Immersive Rooms: A Conversation with Igloo Vision’s Bex Wade

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306: From the Vault: Tariffs, Climate, and COVID: An AV Reality Check

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305: From Budgets to Zombies: AV Fun in the Fall

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304: When Projects Die/End

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303: AV as a Platform

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302: Life Is a Highway: Building Systems for Success

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301: Catch up from March: Roast of COVID

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300: The 300th Episode Spectacular

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299: Countdown to 300: Summer Wrap, Fall Spin Up

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298: Catch Up from March: Camp HETMA Preview and CTS Tips

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297: Catch Up from April: HETMA Roadshow Toronto Review

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296: Infocomm Asia

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295: Catch Up From May: The Reset

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294: Aaron Peterson, Mistakes, and Networks

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293: True North with Brittney Grant

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292: Catch Up from May: Tarrifs, Travel and Tim's Big Move

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291: True North with Tammy Fuqua

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290: Live from Infocomm 25

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289: Post Infocomm 25

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288: HETMA and Corey

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287: Conferences! Conferences! Conferences!

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286: Live From ISE!

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285: ISE Before You Go

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284: ISE and the New Year

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283:The Bald AV Guys, Pace, & NextLVL Learning

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282: Back in Action

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281: HETMA Shenanigans

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280: Infocomm '24 First Timers

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279: Infocomm '24 Day 3

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278: Infocomm '24 Day 2

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277: Infocomm '24 Day 1

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276: Right Before Infocomm '24

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275: Audio Computers

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274: Warming up to Infocomm

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273: Creating Partnerships

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272: The One Where Joe Way...

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271: Marching Ahead

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270: For The Love of AV '24

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269: HETMA Takeover '24

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268: Bold Predictions '24

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267: Holiday Party

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266: Always Learning

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265: Putting A Bow On The Year

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264: Thankful For AV '23

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263: The AV Sphere Goes Round

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262: 40 Under 40

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261: Aurora: Making a Difference in Higher Ed

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260: Blurred Lines

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259: Back To School '23

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258: HETMA Roadshow & AV/IT Summit

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257: Christmas In July

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256: The Summer Nudge

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255: Infocomm '23 Day 1

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254: Let's Stay Safe

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253: Thoughts After Higher Ed

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252: The Force Is With AV

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251: Early Access!! HETMA at Infocomm

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250: Britt Yenser

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249: April Is For AI

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248: Hall of Fame and St. Paddy

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TLE1 - Zoomtopia For The Holidays

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247: The Strong Women

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246: Spring Cleaning

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245: HETMA Takeover '23

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244: For The Love Of AV

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243: AV By The Numbers

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242: Opening The Book On ISE

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241: Plugs to the future

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240: 2023 Predictions

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239: Halloween Party 2022

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238: A Nightmare Of Characters

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237: The Continuing Nightmare

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236: The Nightmares Return

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235: The Nightmare Begins

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234: The Lightning Rounds

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233: Parenting: The Movie

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232: Back to School in '22

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231: To Your (Mental) Health

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230: Let's Put Down The Tech

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229: Summer Fun

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228: Let's Hear It...

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227: Infocomm '22 Live!

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226: Ready! Set! Infocomm!!

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225: It Needs To Be Said

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224: ISE and Infocomm - We Want Badges!

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223: The State of Cinema

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222: Cinco De AV Life

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221: Getting Back to Business

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220: Springing Into Spring

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219: And The Oscar Goes To...

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218: A Few Of Our Favorite Things

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217: St. Paddy's With Mr. Dreamy Sparkly Pants

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216: The AV Pro of Infocomm

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215: The New Cyber War

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214: Celebrities, Cilantro, and Chaos

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213: Post-HETMA Conference Havoc

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212: Glitches, Conferences, Listeners, and Our Love

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211: HETMA Takeover

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210: Hitting The Lottery With Dairy

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209: Buckets of Football Systems

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208: A Time To Celebrate

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207: Christmas With Val Kilmer

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206: Spicy Food, Perfect Humans

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205: The Holiday Party

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204: Bold Predictions for 2022

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203: Death by Selfie, Saved by Toys

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202: Embrace The Lollipop

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201: InfoComm '21 First Timers

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200: The AV Life is 200!!

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199: Infocomm 21 Teaser

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198: Infocomm First Timers

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197: Just Keep Swimming on TikTok

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196: One Year Later

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195: Augmented Reality in Reality

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194: The Immersive Incompetence Experience

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193: Labor Day BBQ

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192: Security Strikes Back

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191: Higher Ed End of Summer Special

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190: Plug In The Code of Teamwork

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189: Who's Theme Is It Anyway?

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188: The Bold and The Boats

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187: Summer, Summer, Summertime

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186: No Guests, No Problem

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185: The Manufacturers - Back To the Show

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184: Back To The Show

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183:Forest Fires and Cyber Security

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182: The Rise of AV in IT

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181: No Shop Talk

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180: The Revenge of AV in IT

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179: AV and IT: A Beginning

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178: Podcast Crashers

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177: Truth, Chips, and the Robot Way

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176: While the Cat Is Away

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175: The Meaning of AV

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174: Sports, Star Wars, and Interruptions

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173: Lifting Each Other Up

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172: Fully Loaded

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171: Not Your Grandma's COVID Conversation

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170: The Hard Truth

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169: Dating in the Age of COVID

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168: For The Love of AV

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167: HETMA and the Conference

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166: Network Security

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165: Welcome Nancy Blanchard

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164: In Summmmmmer

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163: Reflections

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162: Holiday Edition 2020

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161: Bold Predictions for 2021

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160: Finding Joy in... Standards?

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159: An AV Life Thanksgiving

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158: Let's Get Serious

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157: The AV Life and Control4

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156: Villains and Villainy

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155: Oktoberfest, Disney, and COVID, Oh My!

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154: For The Love of AV

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153: The AV Life and the AV Guru

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152: The AV Life has the AVTweeps and the Blues - Part 2

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151: The AV Life has the AVTweeps and the Blues - Part 1

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150: Back to School