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