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

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

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

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

Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!

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

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

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

Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!

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.

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

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

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

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

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