The Oddity Archive is a web series that revolves around the "cultural dustbin", especially as it pertains to media. The Archive also functions as an actual archive of sorts, with a modest collection of off-air Betamax and VHS recordings (about 400 total as of June, 2014). There's also a decent collection of ephemeral video, "ripoff" and "drugstore" LP's/cassettes/8-tracks, as well as (working) obsolete technology.
Oddity Archive (Season 5)
How I Spent My Summer III (Episode 1)
Air date: 2016-07-07
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!) (Episode 2)
Air date: 2016-07-21
Runtime: 34 min
Overview: …dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
Home Shopping Channels (Episode 3)
Air date: 2016-08-04
Runtime: 27 min
Overview: Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1) (Episode 4)
Air date: 2016-08-18
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul (Episode 5)
Air date: 2016-09-01
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?) (Episode 6)
Air date: 2016-09-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V (Episode 7)
Air date: 2016-09-29
Runtime: 56 min
Overview: …because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
Betamax (Episode 8)
Air date: 2016-10-13
Runtime: 23 min
Overview: The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016) (Episode 9)
Air date: 2016-10-27
Runtime: 27 min
Overview: 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?
VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars) (Episode 10)
Air date: 2016-11-10
Runtime: 32 min
Overview: …because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's) (Episode 11)
Air date: 2016-11-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer (Episode 12)
Air date: 2016-12-08
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas) (Episode 13)
Air date: 2016-12-22
Runtime: 34 min
Overview: The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides) (Episode 14)
Air date: 2017-01-05
Runtime: 20 min
Overview: Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials) (Episode 15)
Air date: 2017-01-19
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E) (Episode 16)
Air date: 2017-02-02
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: ‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
Random Kiddie Records (Episode 17)
Air date: 2017-02-16
Runtime: 23 min
Overview: Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
Minidisc (Episode 18)
Air date: 2017-03-02
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel (Episode 19)
Air date: 2017-03-16
Runtime: 37 min
Overview: Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
DBX Noise Reduction System (Episode 20)
Air date: 2017-03-30
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul (Episode 21)
Air date: 2017-04-13
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
Useless VHS Tapes (Episode 22)
Air date: 2017-04-27
Runtime: 34 min
Overview: No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton) (Episode 23)
Air date: 2017-05-11
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126) (Episode 24)
Air date: 2017-05-25
Runtime: 36 min
Overview: And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
Seasons
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