Season 5 (2016)
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Episodes 24
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
Read MoreRecord 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?!?
Read MoreHome Shopping Channels
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
Read MoreLaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
Read MoreBen's Random Audiocassette Haul
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
Read MoreTalking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
Read MoreThe Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
Read MoreConelrad (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?
Read MoreVHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
Read MoreTop 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's & 90's)
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreChristmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
Read MoreVideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
Read MoreLocal 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!
Read MoreVHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
Read MoreRandom Kiddie Records
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
Read MoreBen Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
Read MoreDBX Noise Reduction System
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
Read MoreBen's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
Read MoreUseless VHS Tapes
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
Read MoreGoing (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
Read MoreVideo Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
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