Episodes (24)
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Ep 1
How I Spent My Summer III
2016-07-07•29m
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
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Ep 2
Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
2016-07-21•34m
…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
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Ep 3
Home Shopping Channels
2016-08-04•27m
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
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Ep 4
LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
2016-08-18•50m
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
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Ep 5
Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
2016-09-01•39m
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
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Ep 6
Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
2016-09-15•30m
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
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Ep 7
The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
2016-09-29•56m
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
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Ep 8
Betamax
2016-10-13•23m
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
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Ep 9
Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
2016-10-27•27m
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?
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Ep 10
VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
2016-11-10•32m
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
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Ep 11
Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
2016-11-24•26m
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
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Ep 12
The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
2016-12-08•46m
The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
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Ep 13
Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
2016-12-22•34m
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
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Ep 14
VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
2017-01-05•20m
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
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Ep 15
Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
2017-01-19•25m
Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
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Ep 16
VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
2017-02-02•28m
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
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Ep 17
Random Kiddie Records
2017-02-16•23m
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
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Ep 18
Minidisc
2017-03-02•25m
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.
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Ep 19
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
2017-03-16•37m
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
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Ep 20
DBX Noise Reduction System
2017-03-30•25m
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
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Ep 21
Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
2017-04-13•44m
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
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Ep 22
Useless VHS Tapes
2017-04-27•34m
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
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Ep 23
Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
2017-05-11•29m
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
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Ep 24
Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
2017-05-25•36m
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!