It's holiday time so what happens when you throw two automation nerds at things like holiday decorations, festive music, and ? Listen and find out.

The holidays are upon us, and Rosemary and David are ready to automate. Our trusty nerds start with simple things like wallpaper and voice-in-a-can technologies.

Then our team talks about this episode’s sponsor, TextExpander, which they both love very much.

Then they get into their favorite automation contraptions for automating holiday lights. David admits Thanksgiving is a mere speed bump to his holiday preparations. David even admits to creating his own little Disneyland Main Street, and it all runs on HomeKit. Open David’s front door and the magic starts happening. Rose takes it a level deeper by invoking homebridge, third-party software that lets you run non-HomeKit gear with HomeKit.

Then the team talks about the best ways to automate holiday cards. It’s harder than you think. They aren’t done there, however, there is room in automation for present lists, grabbing multiple browser tabs via automation,

Why does David love this so much?

Here's a Siri Shortcut that lets you automate music playback.

A Siri Shortcut for adding list items to OmniFocus.