Episodes
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1. How I Spent My Summer III
7 Jul 2016 · 29 min
A 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!)
21 Jul 2016 · 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
4 Aug 2016 · 27 min
Have 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)
18 Aug 2016 · 50 min
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
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5. Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
1 Sept 2016 · 39 min
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
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6. Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
15 Sept 2016 · 30 min
Oddity 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
29 Sept 2016 · 56 min
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
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8. Betamax
13 Oct 2016 · 23 min
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
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9. Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
27 Oct 2016 · 27 min
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?
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10. VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
10 Nov 2016 · 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)
24 Nov 2016 · 26 min
Another 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
8 Dec 2016 · 46 min
The 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)
22 Dec 2016 · 34 min
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
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14. VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
5 Jan 2017 · 20 min
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
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15. Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
19 Jan 2017 · 25 min
Bargain 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)
2 Feb 2017 · 28 min
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
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17. Random Kiddie Records
16 Feb 2017 · 23 min
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
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18. Minidisc
2 Mar 2017 · 25 min
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.
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19. Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
16 Mar 2017 · 37 min
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
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20. DBX Noise Reduction System
30 Mar 2017 · 25 min
And 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
13 Apr 2017 · 44 min
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
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22. Useless VHS Tapes
27 Apr 2017 · 34 min
No, 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)
11 May 2017 · 29 min
With 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)
25 May 2017 · 36 min
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
Oddity Archive Season 5: quick answers
How many episodes are in Oddity Archive Season 5?
Season 5 of Oddity Archive has 24 episodes, about 13 hours in total.
When did Oddity Archive Season 5 come out?
Season 5 premiered on 7 Jul 2016.