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…