AV SuperFriends

About AV SuperFriends

The AV SuperFriends are AV and eLearning nerds who embrace the challenges that come with managing audiovisual systems and resources within a higher education environment. Most of us have had similar experiences and seek to find answers in an ever-changing audiovisual world. We engage the higher education audiovisual community through podcasts, videos, panel discussions, interviews, and social media to share ideas and solve problems. Our shared experiences and your own will lead to new and creative solutions. In summary, we are going to steal all your ideas and share them with everyone.

Publisher

AV SuperFriends

Category

education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Oct 2020

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

298 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   AVSF Halloween 2026: The Backrooms

   Recorded October 9, 2026 The Metaverse is shutting down. Nobody uses it, nobody wants it, and the lawyers have finally had enough. There's just one small problem: Justin is still trapped inside. After a year of increasingly questionable attempts to rescue him, the AV SuperFriends discover a possible way in, and it's considerably worse than the Metaverse itself. Welcome to the Backrooms. An endless maze of abandoned hallways, forgotten classrooms, and impossible spaces where reality doesn't quite follow the rules. Every turn leads somewhere unexpected, and every door opens into another era of audiovisual technology. From the rolling TV carts and overhead projectors of the 1980s to the increasingly complicated integrated classrooms of the 2000s and the AI-powered learning environments of today, the gang discovers that every generation has built its own classroom of the future. But they're running out of time. Justin is slowly coming apart, the Metaverse shutdown is approaching, and something in the darkness is following them. Can Jamie, Larry, Marc, and Chris find Justin before he disappears forever? Join the AV SuperFriends for our 2026 Halloween radio drama, featuring time travel, obsolete technology, questionable engineering decisions, special guest appearances, and enough audiovisual nightmares to haunt an entire campus. Because every classroom was once the classroom of the future. And some of them should have stayed in the past. 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

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Why didn't you ask for it?

   Recorded October 9, 2026 Seven seasons. Six years. And somehow we still haven't figured out how to start the show on time. We kick off another season of Off the Rails with questionable advice, unsolicited opinions, and a news story about "AI holograms" that turns into an argument over Pepper's Ghost, large language models, refrigerator-sized displays, and whether any of this really needs to be a hologram in the first place. Then we get into something slightly more useful: the documentation that's routinely missing from AV projects. We're great at documenting hardware, signal flow, rack elevations, and where the displays go—but what about how the system is actually supposed to operate? We talk programming, DSP configurations, user interfaces, submittals, commissioning, RFP language, subcontractors, and the uncomfortable realization that higher ed AV teams may be just as guilty of relying on institutional knowledge instead of properly documenting their own systems. Finally, we tackle lifecycle planning for "other people's stuff" and departmental AV and technology that somehow becomes IT's problem when it stops working. How do you inventory systems you didn't install, plan replacement cycles you don't control, and explain to a department that "it still turns on" isn't necessarily a lifecycle strategy? News article: https://www.techlearning.com/learning/stem/teaching-with-ai-holograms Alternate show titles: Pepper's Ghost! Big box in the front of your room We're out of instructors More lecterns! They're actively learning There's a missing step in there You are your own client There's a lot of layers to this We're just trying to get it in It did not go the way I thought it would go not* Shared Google Spreadsheet Four or Five Deans Turnover They're trying to pre-spend money Maybe it moved 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

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   AV SuperFriends: On Topic - Signage on Wheels

   Recorded October 2, 2026 Six years of questionable professional judgment have brought us to season seven, and we're celebrating with wine, undocumented processes, and an idea the panel has been avoiding for months: can digital signage pull double duty as a presentation system? Marc makes his case with a winemaking lab where a display needs to show live fermentation dashboards to visitors, then let an instructor take over for class. Pairing Zoom Rooms sharing with the campus's existing Yodeck signage content offers a potential solution, and immediately starts an argument about what counts as signage, what counts as AV, and whether we're making things simpler or inventing another support headache. From student services lobbies to neglected "huddle-cuddle" spaces, we explore where a shared signage and presentation setup might make sense. Could the same approach support a basic BYOD classroom without the usual pile of hardware and elaborate controls? The panel weighs wireless reliability, video performance, software requirements, licensing uncertainty, and the enduring appeal of an HDMI cable that just works. Somewhere along the way, we even find a configuration everyone can tolerate. Plus, rogue campus signage, newspaper racks selling ads, displays on wheels threatening to escape the building, and students happily collaborating while the expensive TV behind them sits unused. Welcome to season seven: the planning is questionable, the opinions are plentiful, and we'd still like the classroom to just freaking work. Alternate episode titles: Cloaked in digital signage Kicking off season seven with leftovers Hilltopper Moonshine Knobs and dials and kegs and casks Knob and tube AV You have it backwards, son If you just do sh*t, it doesn't matter 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

Who has been a guest on AV SuperFriends

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mike
• Shaun
• Jason
• Chuck
• Andy

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

12,995

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

94

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

81

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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