Recorded November 21, 2025

In this jam-packed episode, the AV SuperFriends welcome two guests from sunny Southern California, Raj Singh from USC and Joe Way from UCLA, to tackle one of the most challenging topics in higher-ed technology today: cloud-connected AV. The panel reviews what it truly means to run a "connected campus," exploring the benefits, hurdles, required workflows, stakeholder alignment, and how automation and virtualization are reshaping classroom support.

But it's not all cloud talk! USC and UCLA are days away from their big Crosstown Cup rivalry game, making this the biggest weekly rivalry segment of the season. Expect good-natured trash talk, playful jabs, and a surprisingly collaborative discussion between two AV teams who are supposed to be mortal enemies.

Along the way, the panel veers off the rails into corporate jargon, classroom design myths, camera panic ticket escalations, and the ever-expanding universe of AV podcasts and tools. As always, there's plenty of humor, plenty of trash talk, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting.

Whether you care about AV architecture, cross-campus ecosystems, sports rivalries, or just want to hear two LA schools grin through their competitive tension, this episode has something for you.

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Connect with our guests:

Joe Way: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josiahway/

Raj Singh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/r5ingh/

Alternate show titles:

• AV in a Box

• Craft Brewing Cloud

• So when AWS goes down…

• We're sky-connected

• Simple scales and complex fails

• You all spent a crapton of money

• Adopting standards that are already pre-existing

• Tickets are the results of problems

• They don't know how to speak "us"

• They're saying crap I've never heard in my life

• No one cares about the network

• We want the AI applications to be on the ground

• I have a number and it is 10

• People view your strategy through their strategy

• Do NOT let me do installation

• I was high on something

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