Season 5
Episodes • 2016

1. How I Spent My Summer III
29 minA 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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2. Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
34 min…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
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3. Home Shopping Channels
27 minHave 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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4. LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
50 minCrank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
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6. Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
30 minOddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
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7. The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
56 min…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
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9. Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
27 minThis 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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10. VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
32 min…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
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11. Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
26 minAnother Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
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12. The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
46 minThe second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
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13. Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
34 minThe most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
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14. VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
20 minLooking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
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15. Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
25 minBargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
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16. VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
28 min‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
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18. Minidisc
25 minIt’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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20. DBX Noise Reduction System
25 minAnd welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
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21. Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
44 minA mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
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22. Useless VHS Tapes
34 minNo, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
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23. Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
29 minWith all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
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24. Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
36 minAnd welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
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