Episodes
How I Spent My Summer III
July 7, 2016
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
July 21, 2016
…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
Home Shopping Channels
August 4, 2016
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
August 18, 2016
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
September 1, 2016
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
September 15, 2016
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
September 29, 2016
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
Betamax
October 13, 2016
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
October 27, 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?
VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
November 10, 2016
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
November 24, 2016
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
December 8, 2016
The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
December 22, 2016
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
January 5, 2017
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
January 19, 2017
Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
February 2, 2017
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
Random Kiddie Records
February 16, 2017
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
Minidisc
March 2, 2017
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.
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
March 16, 2017
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
DBX Noise Reduction System
March 30, 2017
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
April 13, 2017
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
Useless VHS Tapes
April 27, 2017
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
May 11, 2017
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
May 25, 2017
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
