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AV SuperFriends: On Topic

AV SuperFriends: On Topic

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The AV SuperFriends discuss design, installation, and support of classroom and commercial AV integrations.Copyright AV SuperFriends
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  • 69: It's Functioning, But Not Fully Functional

    69: It's Functioning, But Not Fully Functional
    Apr 1 2026
    AV SuperFriends: On Topic
    It's functioning, but not fully functional

    Recorded March 13, 2026

    This episode of On Topic tackles “Spring cleaning” by focusing less on tidy closets and more on the grime higher ed AV teams create for themselves. The panel trades stories about delayed refreshes, inherited programming messes, legacy systems that refuse to die, rushed project deadlines, and the temporary fixes that somehow become permanent. Before you get clean, revel in the filth…

    It’s a funny, brutally honest look at technical debt, bad design choices, and the institutional rot that keeps old problems hanging around far longer than they should. If your campus has mystery cables, aging systems, and one room everyone’s afraid to touch, this episode will feel painfully familiar. Let’s get filthy!

    Alternate show titles:
    • Budgets are optional
    • Those are sticky weird situations
    • Normally I’m shady and gross
    • I wasn’t a pro, so I used two plusses
    • Good luck, I’m sorry
    • Museum of AV decisions
    • It did what it did
    • Be here when the tree falls on the house
    • I feel like the whole university is guilty of this
    • Just everybody calm down!
    • It’s gonna be… not bad
    • If y’all didn’t take an entire month off for Christmas…

    We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com

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    42 mins
  • 68: The Ten Suggestions

    68: The Ten Suggestions
    Mar 1 2026
    AV SuperFriends: On Topic
    The Ten Suggestions

    Recorded February 13, 2026

    It’s March (yes, March– deal with it), the AV SuperFriends gather to lay down the law… higher ed AV law, that is. This month’s On Topic tackles the Top Ten Commandments of AV: the rules you should follow, the ones you sometimes break, and the ones you pretend you’ve always believed in.
    From protecting audio at all costs and designing for serviceability, to avoiding 4K hype, over-automation, USB abuse, and unlabeled cables, the panel debates what actually matters when building and supporting campus systems. It’s a fast-moving mix of standards, safety factors, lifecycle thinking, and a healthy dose of “why are we still doing this?”

    Opinionated, practical, and just irreverent enough, consider this your stone tablet for smarter AV design… subject to revision next month, that is.

    Alternate show titles:
    • Sometimes you find yourself walking around thinking a lot
    • Today’s commandments are…
    • Do you want to disservice half the room?
    • How do you get away with that?
    • Is that in your scope to check?
    • The university as a whole…
    • Yes, if you’re touching the wall
    We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com

    ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀
    ► Website: https://www.avsuperfriends.com
    ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends
    ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends
    ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends
    ► Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social
    ► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com
    ► RSS: https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss

    Donate to AVSF: https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support
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    36 mins
  • 67: If It Happened Last Year, You Can Ignore It

    67: If It Happened Last Year, You Can Ignore It
    Feb 1 2026
    AV SuperFriends: On Topic - If it happened last year, you can ignore it

    Recorded January 16, 2026

    In this episode of On Topic, the panel leans hard into the “Groundhog Day” reality of higher ed AV, where every semester feels like a rerun of the last one. From the same classrooms and support tickets to the same mysterious $7 HDMI cable failures, the panel reflects on why our work so often feels stuck on repeat, even as we insist “this time it’ll be different.”

    With their usual mix of sarcasm, experience, and self-awareness, they review the projects, services, and processes that keep coming back year after year… sometimes for good reasons, sometimes because no one ever really fixes the root problem. It’s a funny, honest look at institutional memory, consultant déjà vu, and the strange comfort of knowing that no matter what changes, some AV challenges are forever.Alternate show titles:
    • What failed last time?
    • I’m a shopping cart
    • Not every year… every DAY
    • I’m afraid to ask the question
    • Room with too many TVs
    • In cloud or on prem again
    • Cloud-based whatchamadoolie
    • I’ll track your life
    • Does everybody get access?
    • Hybrid bastardized version
    • What does that mean for YOUR internet of things?
    • In my secret cloud
    • Check in to get the services
    • I’ll flag it, but I won’t unflag it
    We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com

    ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀
    ► Website: https://www.avsuperfriends.com
    ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends
    ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends
    ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends
    ► Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social
    ► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com
    ► RSS: https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss

    Donate to AVSF: https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support
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    37 mins
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