Episodes
1. How I Spent My Summer III
July 7, 2016
29 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 21, 2016
34 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 4, 2016
27 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 18, 2016
50 min
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
6. Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
September 15, 2016
30 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 29, 2016
56 min
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
9. Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
October 27, 2016
27 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 10, 2016
32 min
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
11. Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
November 24, 2016
26 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 8, 2016
46 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 22, 2016
34 min
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
14. VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
January 5, 2017
20 min
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
15. Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
January 19, 2017
25 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 2, 2017
28 min
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
18. Minidisc
March 2, 2017
25 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 16, 2017
37 min
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
20. DBX Noise Reduction System
March 30, 2017
25 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 13, 2017
44 min
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
22. Useless VHS Tapes
April 27, 2017
34 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 11, 2017
29 min
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
