Off the Rails Episode 123: There’s only one batman on our campus

Written By AVSF

Recorded September 12, 2025

It’s episode 1-2-3 Off the Rails, and the crew is joined by two special guests for an especially thick and robust panel for a discussion of multi-display classrooms that either delight faculty or guarantee support tickets, the eternal war over dongles, aspect ratios, and those pesky 4:3 PowerPoints that just won’t die.

Special guests Tino Kaltsas and BC Hatchett jump into the chaos, sharing stories about bats in classrooms, rogue lighting complaints, and makeshift pandemic-era libraries-turned-classrooms. The panel debates whether multi-display AV systems are a blessing or a curse, all while tossing good-natured jabs and commiserating over faculty whiteboard obsession.

And of course, it wouldn’t be an Off the Rails live show without the Weekly Rivalry segment featuring this week’s unlikely face-off between Wisconsin and Vanderbilt. With their original opponents chickening out, the Badgers and Commodores go toe-to-toe in a spirited four-quarter contest of AV wits, scored with touchdowns, field goals, and a surprising number of bats.

News: https://www.cined.com/apple-iphone-17-pro-introduces-prores-raw-and-genlock-for-filmmakers/


AI-Generated Alternate Show Titles:

  • Bats, Whiteboards, and Multi-Display Madness

  • The One True Aspect Ratio (and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)

  • When Your Library Becomes a Classroom and Your Classroom Gets Bats

  • Zip Ties, Velcro, and the Scars to Prove It

  • Weekly Rivalry: Wisconsin vs. Vanderbilt—The Matchup Nobody Asked For

  • Pumpkin Spice and PowerPoint Crimes

  • Genlock, Dongles, and the Quest for Simplicity

  • From Cheese Curds to Hot Chicken: A Higher Ed Showdown

  • Please Stop Writing on the Auditorium Whiteboards

Far superior human generated alternate show titles:

  • Broadcast-ish quality

  • There’s a button on your phone?

  • Listen… she was sleeping

  • I didn’t realize that was a big fauxpas

  • That’s a piece of garbage on a chair

  • Makes me want to start smoking again

  • I have a maybe-even-worse scenario

  • The goober who comes in off the street

  • Somebody’s got to speak a bit of truth

  • Asking for a hammer to dig a ditch

  • Sound freeze

  • Bats in our belfry

  • Chasing this thing around with a Dell box

  • Did you tell them the sun moves?

  • I was super pleased with it

  • That’s a great example of Marc being wrong

  • We do math pretty well

  • Test in production

  • It’s a squeaker!

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