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July 7, 2016

Season 5

01. How I Spent My Summer III

A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.

29min
July 7, 2016

02. Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)

…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?

34min
July 21, 2016

03. Home Shopping Channels

Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?

27min
August 4, 2016

04. LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)

Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.

50min
August 18, 2016

05. Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul

Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!

39min
September 1, 2016

06. Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)

Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!

30min
September 15, 2016

07. The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V

…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.

56min
September 29, 2016

08. Betamax

The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.

23min
October 13, 2016

09. Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)

This is your Civil Defense announcer speaking (er, typing) with a VERY important message. But first, this nearly 27-minute Oddity Archive episode. NOTE: Yes, I’m well aware that the LP’s discussed in the video have nothing to do with the Conelrad broadcasting stuff—just humor me, will ya?

27min
October 27, 2016

10. VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)

…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.

32min
November 10, 2016

11. Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)

Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!

26min
November 24, 2016

12. The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer

The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.

46min
December 8, 2016

13. Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)

The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!

34min
December 22, 2016

14. VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)

Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.

20min
January 5, 2017

15. Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)

Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!

25min
January 19, 2017

16. VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)

‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.

28min
February 2, 2017

17. Random Kiddie Records

Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!

23min
February 16, 2017

18. Minidisc

It’s (100% showtune-free) Musical March (read: Audio Geek March, “Musical March” is just a lot catchier) in Archiveland! Let’s kick it off with a little reevaluation of a format that I’ve bashed in the past.

25min
March 2, 2017

19. Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel

Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!

37min
March 16, 2017

20. DBX Noise Reduction System

And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.

25min
March 30, 2017

21. Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul

A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…

44min
April 13, 2017

22. Useless VHS Tapes

No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.

34min
April 27, 2017

23. Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)

With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.

29min
May 11, 2017

24. Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)

And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!

36min
May 25, 2017