E1 - 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.
E2 - 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?!?
E3 - 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?
E4 - LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
!Aug 18, 2016 - 50m
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
E5 - Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
!Sep 1, 2016 - 39m
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
E6 - 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!
E7 - 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.
E8 - Betamax
!Oct 13, 2016 - 23m
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
E9 - 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 discussed in the video have nothing to do with the Conelrad broadcasting stuff—just humor me, will ya?
E10 - VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
!Nov 10, 2016 - 32m
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
E11 - 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)!
E12 - 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.
E13 - Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
!Dec 22, 2016 - 34m
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
E14 - VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
!Jan 5, 2017 - 20m
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
E15 - 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!
E16 - 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.
E17 - Random Kiddie Records
!Feb 16, 2017 - 23m
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
E18 - 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 bashed in the past.
E19 - Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
!Mar 16, 2017 - 37m
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
E20 - 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.
E21 - Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
!Apr 13, 2017 - 44m
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
E22 - 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.
E23 - 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.
E24 - 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!
