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.
