69: It's Functioning, But Not Fully Functional

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…

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