Holiday Tech Survival Kit — SolarWinds TechPod 104

Get ready for a festive, tech-filled ride! 🎄✨ In this special holiday episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor are joined by Movies and Mainframes host Andy Garibay to unpack the perfect Holiday Tech Survival Kit — from must-have travel gadgets to kitchen tech that saves your holiday dinner, how to deck the halls with smart lighting, and surviving every IT pro’s nightmare: holiday tech support for family. Whether you're traveling, cooking, gaming, or helping parents remember their Wi-Fi passwords, this episode is filled with relatable stories, practical advice, and plenty of laughs. 🎧 In This Episode: • Essential holiday travel tech (noise-canceling headphones, Switch/Steam Deck, offline media & more) • Kitchen gadgets that actually make the holidays easier (air fryers, Instant Pots, pellet smokers) • The chaos of family tech support on Christmas morning • High-tech & low-tech ways to decorate for the holidays (RGB lights, projectors, lasers, pre-lit trees) • How traditions evolve — and how tech helps shape new ones • Bonus: Stories about pigs eating ornaments, the death of a Tamagotchi, and why battery screws are the enemy If you're a techie, a parent, a traveler, a chef, or just someone who gets overwhelmed plugging in Christmas lights, this episode is for you. 👉 Enjoying TechPod? Subscribe and follow for more episodes on tech culture, IT life, and expert insights. 👉 Check out Andy's show: Movies and Mainframes — where movies, tech, and fun collide. Connect with SolarWinds: TechPod: https://www.solarwinds.com/blog/techpod Movies and Mainframes: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/categories/movies-and-mainframes-blog-eam96p THWACK IT Community: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SolarWinds LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/solarwinds Instagram: http://instagram.com/solarwindsinc/