Oddity Archive — Season 5

Jul 201629m

A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.

Jul 201634m

…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?

Aug 201627m

Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?

Aug 201650m

Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.

Sept 201639m

Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!

Sept 201630m

Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!

Sept 201656m

…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.

Oct 201623m

The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.

Oct 201627m

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?

Nov 201632m

…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.

Nov 201626m

Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!

Dec 201646m

The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.

Dec 201634m

The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!

Jan 201720m

Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.

Jan 201725m

Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!

Feb 201728m

‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.

Feb 201723m

Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!

Mar 201725m

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.

Mar 201737m

Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!

Mar 201725m

And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.

Apr 201744m

A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…

Apr 201734m

No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.

May 201729m

With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.

May 201736m

And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!