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Season 5 Episodes

1. How I Spent My Summer III (Super Betamax/Software-Defined Radio/ Talking House Transmitter)

July 7th, 201629 min

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

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

July 21st, 201634 min

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

3. Home Shopping Channels

August 4th, 201627 min

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

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

August 18th, 201650 min

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

5. Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul

September 1st, 201639 min

Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!

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

September 15th, 201630 min

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

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

September 29th, 201656 min

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

8. Betamax

October 13th, 201623 min

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

9. Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)

October 27th, 201627 min

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?

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

November 10th, 201632 min

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

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

November 24th, 201626 min

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

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

December 8th, 201646 min

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

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

December 22nd, 201634 min

The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!

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

January 5th, 201720 min

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

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

January 19th, 201725 min

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

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

February 2nd, 201728 min

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

17. Random Kiddie Records

February 16th, 201723 min

Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!

18. Minidisc

March 2nd, 201725 min

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.

19. Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel

March 16th, 201737 min

Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!

20. DBX Noise Reduction System

March 30th, 201725 min

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

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

April 13th, 201744 min

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

22. Useless VHS Tapes

April 27th, 201734 min

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

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

May 11th, 201729 min

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

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

May 25th, 201736 min

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

All Seasons

Season 13

Season 13

Jul 25, 2024
Season 12

Season 12

Jul 27, 2023
Season 11

Season 11

Jul 21, 2022
Season 10

Season 10

Jul 22, 2021
Season 9

Season 9

Jul 16, 2020
Season 8

Season 8

Jul 11, 2019
Season 7

Season 7

Jul 26, 2018
Season 6

Season 6

Jul 6, 2017
Season 5

Season 5

Jul 7, 2016
Season 4

Season 4

Jul 16, 2015
Season 3

Season 3

Jul 10, 2014
Season 2

Season 2

Jul 4, 2013
Season 1

Season 1

Jul 5, 2012
Specials

Specials

Sep 20, 2012