Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)

E1 7 juillet 2016 29 min

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.

E2 21 juillet 2016 34 min

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?!?

E3 4 août 2016 27 min

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?

E4 18 août 2016 50 min

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

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

E5 1 septembre 2016 39 min

Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul

Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!

E6 15 septembre 2016 30 min

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!

E7 29 septembre 2016 56 min

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.

E8 13 octobre 2016 23 min

Betamax

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

E9 27 octobre 2016 27 min

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?

E10 10 novembre 2016 32 min

VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)

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

E11 24 novembre 2016 26 min

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)!

E12 8 décembre 2016 46 min

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.

E13 22 décembre 2016 34 min

Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)

The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!

E14 5 janvier 2017 20 min

VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)

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

E15 19 janvier 2017 25 min

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!

E16 2 février 2017 28 min

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

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

E17 16 février 2017 23 min

Random Kiddie Records

Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!

E18 2 mars 2017 25 min

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.

E19 16 mars 2017 37 min

Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel

Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!

E20 30 mars 2017 25 min

DBX Noise Reduction System

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

E21 13 avril 2017 44 min

Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul

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

E22 27 avril 2017 34 min

Useless VHS Tapes

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

E23 11 mai 2017 29 min

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.

E24 25 mai 2017 36 min

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

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