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Oddity Archive

Season 5

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Episodes

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Episode 129 min2016-07-07

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.

Episode 234 min2016-07-21

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?!?

Episode 327 min2016-08-04

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?

Episode 450 min2016-08-18

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

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

Episode 539 min2016-09-01

Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul

Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!

Episode 630 min2016-09-15

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!

Episode 756 min2016-09-29

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.

Episode 823 min2016-10-13

Betamax

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

Episode 927 min2016-10-27

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?

Episode 1032 min2016-11-10

VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)

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

Episode 1126 min2016-11-24

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)!

Episode 1246 min2016-12-08

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.

Episode 1334 min2016-12-22

Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)

The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!

Episode 1420 min2017-01-05

VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)

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

Episode 1525 min2017-01-19

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!

Episode 1628 min2017-02-02

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

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

Episode 1723 min2017-02-16

Random Kiddie Records

Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!

Episode 1825 min2017-03-02

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.

Episode 1937 min2017-03-16