Thank God he explained what a basement is! I always thought that underground chamber below the house I grew up in was an under used dungeon.

I had to tune my KZreads to 1240 to see this

@imrustyokay

7 жыл бұрын

Huh, I had to tune it to 640

@ltvg

6 жыл бұрын

I was needed to tune to 1240 AM (kilocycles?).

@syxepop

5 жыл бұрын

АРХИВЫ И БАЯ, term did change to KHz (kiloHertz) in the '70s, IIRC... (someone forgot about Dr. Hertz, not the one from the car rental company... )

@bkrbyex4339

4 жыл бұрын

🤣 "Radioactive"

@johnnyklebitzrevenge4793

Жыл бұрын

Man, mine was at 640.

"Home Sweet Homicide" Now that was morbidly hilarious.

@benjamingreenwood7370

3 жыл бұрын

Tonight, on Home Sweet Homicide, on this our annual Christmas Special, "Oh, Little Town of Deathlehem"

Funny how some of the videos I go back to most frequently for that classic soothing Oddity Archive vibe are the ones about tornado warnings and missile defense systems

I briefly went to broadcasting school years ago, and I remember one instructor mentioning how much time it takes to fully power up a transmitter, and if it isn't fully powered up before bringing the radio station on the air (for those smaller stations that literally ceased broadcasting overnight, which still existed into the 90s) you could damage it bad enough it needs expensive repair and the station will be off the air that whole time. Therefore, if you were late getting in to get the station on the air in time, you were better off just coming on the air late than trying to come on the air in time to a non-fully warmed up transmitter. Not entirely sure if it relates to the powering down and powering up these transmitters had to do, but it might. "The more you know."

i always found radio related spooks/creepy stuff to be the only things that really make me shit my pants.never scared with blood or ghosts or jumpscares,but radio messages and inteferences...damn

@JohnDoe-vq9ck

7 жыл бұрын

An automated radio system is as close to ghost as you can get without getting super natural

@Zontar82

7 жыл бұрын

John Doe indeed.especially those russian ones that keeps calling the same names all over again

@n00byscrazycorner43

7 жыл бұрын

Number stations?

@Zontar82

7 жыл бұрын

N00by's Crazy Corner yep

@excrono

7 жыл бұрын

+Zontar82 Number stations are just a method for governments to discretely send messages, or decryption information to its agents, officials or spies. They are certainly interesting, but I don't find them scary myself.

Every frame of that intro looks like someone's last known photograph.

@dededesgustingtkemylife4825

6 жыл бұрын

i agree

17:02 "team members will be picking up valuable dope" "get all the dope you can" ; obviously realizing that some will need hard drugs to calm down after an attack, and, urging rescue teams to score quick as the supply will soon dry up. you know what? Good on them.

"Get all the dope you can" Will do!

@WAQWBrentwood

7 жыл бұрын

KhakiBlueSocks Comcast.

@dougbennett8592

7 жыл бұрын

We're gonna need all that dope now that the Earth is now a smoking radioactive cinder!

@BELCAN57

6 жыл бұрын

Just how valuable IS that dope?

"Get all the dope you can." Is this a Creech & Chong Album?

@ITILII

5 жыл бұрын

Dave's not here, man !

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

MasterCard

Oh man, the PXL's motor whine makes my teeth hurt. ^^

Wow, I can just imagine the broadcast transmitter techs way back when horrified: "they want us to turn it off... then on... then off. then on!? using THIS gear!?! -- that just won't happen no matter who wants it, it's impossible! but... oookAAAaaay here it goes" KA-BAM! (transmitter room fills with pcb capacitor cancer smoke vape) (station employees taken to prison after hospital burn treatment for failure to transmit). Genuine royal grade AAA foot stamping idiots must have thought of this.

@mr.bobcyndaquil4214

7 жыл бұрын

wdavem It was called the EBS Stress Test for a reason...

@JSrises

6 жыл бұрын

Except it wasn't called that until years after that idiotic requirement was in place.

@PhirePhlame

3 жыл бұрын

The first iteration of the EBS (before the overhauls caused by the infamous false alarm) also was activated in that manner, and transmitter failures during testing were common enough that engineers gave them the not-so-affectionate nickname "EBS stress tests".

"Home Sweet Homicide"? That's morbidly daft. I like it, CONELRAD training people.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🦴

Name for new punk band "Home Sweet Homicide"

@MrWolfSnack

7 жыл бұрын

Not a good band name, but works for an album name.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🧪 🧫 🧬

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🐺

Your open is very authentic. By the time I started working in broadcasting in 1969, Conelrad had dropped the "640 kc. or 1240 kc." requirement because changing frequencies often required non-technical announcers to dig around inside transmitters to change coils and crystals...totally impractical under emergency conditions. The "carrier off-on twice and tone" remained, however. This activated the simple Conelrad receivers of the day which were located at other stations, helping to (slowly) spread the word.

@steadfastcoward

5 жыл бұрын

Did you mean 19fifty9?

Who else turned down the volume in this due to the fear of loud ass alarms connected to the destruction and chaos that's after them?

This episode made me think of the Conelrad radio mod for Fallout New Vegas, which in turn makes me think of Oddity Archive. Especially when it plays that damn Duck And Cover song.

@chrysanth.5700

7 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how many obscure references Fallout has in there. I mentioned Noam Chomsky the other day and someone knew who it was but only because of the achievement or whatever in Fallout.

@daftoptimist

7 жыл бұрын

Ooh, I would love this mod.

The KZread channel "el1998p71" has all three of those slideshows with the slides

In his Hans.

@TheGerkuman

6 жыл бұрын

blackcitroenlove moleman

@damonthaplaya8443

6 жыл бұрын

blackcitroenlove In his Hans Solo, Darth Vader's ghost sleeps in his middle finger

@damonthaplaya8443

6 жыл бұрын

Random Star Wars phrases, ftw

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Robloxian

On a bit of a OA binge right now as I've neglected this channel a little. Some great stuff you've been making recently.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🐰

In New York City, a lot of buildings had signs that says “Fallout Shelter” on housing projects, apartments, etc. which was used during the 1960’s where there was a sign of a nuclear attack, they have to rush into the shelter to prevent from blowing them up causing nuclear fallout. I saw the Fallout Shelter sign since I was a kid, right up until now, because it was scary.

@benjamingreenwood7370

3 жыл бұрын

They have some like that here in Milwaukee and I've even seen a few in Madison and other smaller towns I lived in growing up in Wisconsin. One of the schools I went to had one.

@JustJaidenism

3 жыл бұрын

*My School Has That Sign On It.* *_I Live In The Safest City, Philadelphia._*

@rapman5791

2 жыл бұрын

That wasn’t just in NYC, that was country wide.

@stratkiller86

2 жыл бұрын

@@benjamingreenwood7370 nowadays we would have little if any protection here. If Chicago were hit the hot zone is about a 300 mi radius

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

💻📱💾📺

I was looking at an old Ford at a car dealership near me, it was a 56, and I looked inside of it and sure enough it had the CONELRAD symbols

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

📹📹

I'm kinda glad you added that catalog of AM radio stations because I was able to find the two in my hometown!

Love the new show, Ben! I thought there was a lot that you left out in your original discussion of CONELRAD, and you covered pretty much all of it here. Great job, as per usual. :)

i really really love this episode. for some reason, even though i’m extremely well-educated on things like this, something about it is just so interesting and the episode itself is so well-made that i keep coming back to watch it when i wanna see something interesting. such good work, love this topic a lot.

Great episode, it was stuff like this that brought me here in the first place.

I've never seen some of these clips before. Great video as always, Ben!

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Montreal. ☘️ 🍀

Hey, I'm ConelRAD!

'Tropes vs Conelrad', on the next Oddity Archive.

Seems like the tones in that record are the prompts to change the slides. I wonder if the projector was automated to listen for them.

@Stup1dG33kz

7 жыл бұрын

xelena Probably just a cue for whatever sap was playing these to switch slides.

@noralewis5390

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, from being a slide operator in my grade school class, yes, you used the tone to go to the next slide. Filmstrips usually had a mechanical operation, at least by the late 70s, although the class had to hear the beep anyway.

16:05 the missing scene from "The Ring" videotape

Nowadays would be the CONELAPP.

@luisreyes1963

5 жыл бұрын

Japanese cell phones have that app, in case the N. Koreans start WW3. 😨

@JustJaidenism

3 жыл бұрын

Okay, Man Or Woman That Doesn't Like Modern Technology Unless Main Comment Is Something Wanted Or A Joke.

I used Conelrad announcements in my Fallout 4 mod, it's pretty cool.

@mariic2

6 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@merules2247

2 жыл бұрын

For what game???

@grkb

2 жыл бұрын

@@merules2247 fallout 4

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

📱💻📺📻

still loving your channel, Ben :) keep it going!

Another great episode as always Benny boy

Whoa! Erie Daily Times! And a Conelrad radio broadcast addressing residents of Erie country! I'm just geeking out over all the references to my home town. XD

The word obsolete at 10:05? Wheres Broken Matt Hardy?

@djraptorx

7 жыл бұрын

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those tones move a slide carosell.

The siren was in my nightmare last night

Love the video effects

Dont make fun of this. It was history. The "beeb" you heard was a "cue" to change the Picture in a filmstrip. Used to fix that stuff.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Minion pfp

I think the LP’s came with slides instead of film and I’m willing to bet those beeping sounds are for signaling the warden or whoever in charge to move ahead to the next slide. Just a guess though.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🧙‍♀️

I am a minute in and I already know I'm going to freak myself out. But I'm excited.

Your life has sunk into nuclear hell, relax to this cinematic swooning music.

For funsies, I looked up the AM stations in my area. One of them operates at 640, and three are on 1240. Sadly, none of them are the Primary Entry Point station on the current EAS, which would have made for some delicious irony.

I laughed too hard at the male goose bit. Friggin awesome episode!!!

Loved the Halloween bit!

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Pikachu pfp

Hmm ok ive always wondered why 640 and 1240 is highlighted on some old radios...

The beeping noise in the early part of the show was probably a signal to a device to change the slide being shown.

Oh, GOD I hate Civil Defense sirens! I live in Tornado Alley and hear them a LOT during certain times of year...

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🦔

Intro - I know what hands are, but what are "hahnds"?

@FooPanda

7 жыл бұрын

The_BlueJay Funny bumping into you here :)

@uncaaj6242

7 жыл бұрын

***** Took me a bit of digging, but howdy doody!

@artistwithouttalent

7 жыл бұрын

The_BlueJay "Hans." He's here to PAMP * CLAP * YOU UP!

@sawbonesquad4876

7 жыл бұрын

hans the hands from spongebob?

@artistwithouttalent

7 жыл бұрын

Sawbones Quad I was thinking Hans and Franz of SNL, but it works either way.

Perhaps the beeps on the record were to change pages (Maybe it was a manual for a single person, but it would be redundant) or slides while listening to the information.

cool effect on the intro

At 19:07....the correct pronunciation is of course AuthoriTAH...as Eric Cartman will inform you !!!

I saw this at 940. Me is rebel.

Did Ben just slip in a reference to the awful PPV Heroes of Wrestling with the 'I said to myself... self' joke, or was it just serendipity?

After the attack: “You are listening to OCNS. The Oceana Central News System, providing quality news, information and entertainment since the nation’s founding in 2071 about 7 months after the day of the great war.”

The first time you’ll truly hear Benny boy scream like a mad man.

Check out the old film "A Day Called X" for more insight. I noticed some clips of it used here.

LOL that ending here we go again

I prefer the Bray Wyatt version of "The Whole World in His Hands."

@TG5455

7 жыл бұрын

Me too. Follow the buzzards.

@Wire_Mother

6 жыл бұрын

Dan Mount Sister Abigail may have risen from her grave...

"Home Sweet Homicide" ... dang!

That beep was Conelrad's Code-A-Phone.

"only a guy with a wooden head would take a chance wearing a loose 2x4 for a hat!" I'm looking at YOU, Pinocchio!

Escaping gas? Fuck, can't I ever fart while watching KZread anymore?

The Wold Wide World in his Hands brings be back to Primary School, I remember that song always creepily skipped at one part.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🐱

Last 5 mins = Oddity ARG?

that noise though

Only Frostbite Falls, Minnesota is safe, nobody can get Moose and Squirrel.

Can I live in your basement?

0:00 he's got a whole wide world with his hands

aahh the miss atomic bomb pageants...music to my ears..anybody whos interested watch the documentary by the las vegas sun on vegas's history and they mention good insightful points about this era.

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

Cool effect!

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🎶

Re: voices on the records. One sounds like Hugh Beaumont and another Marvin Miller. BTW, I worked at one time next to the Conrad family and referred to them Conelrad. :)

The EAS national test was still hit or miss when they ran it recently.

Nice record player, Ben! But you know, I bet they could have fit all three programs onto one record, if they had set the speed to 16 rpm.

@MrWolfSnack

7 жыл бұрын

No, they are split that way on purpose.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🤖

20:05 You enjoy that PXL-2000, don't you?

Is that actually Bob Barker at 17:00?

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🪒 🦊

Some Scots do pronounce "hands" as "honds".

@SeanQuinn93

7 жыл бұрын

hawns!

@smittykins

7 жыл бұрын

Sean Q I thought it sounded like "old hens."

@steadfastcoward

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not going to go near what thirty third sounds like with a BBC reporter.

Gave you a shout out on twitter and Facebook.

What was the Jack Webb narrated video?

@visaman

7 жыл бұрын

SciFiFan2012 Invasion USA. A Twilight Zone type of propaganda film.

@SciFiFan2012

7 жыл бұрын

Albert Giesbrecht Thanks for the info,,I'm going to look for it.

@luisreyes1963

5 жыл бұрын

@@SciFiFan2012 Actually, that movie was called "Red Nightmare" & it was a U.S. government film warning us about the threat of Soviet Communism.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Superman pfp. Science fiction

17:01 Spy vs Spy!!!! Yahhh!!!!!

17:54 -- They'll want to run away if they want to survive...

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Pepper Ann pfp

Valuable dope you say?

Have you seen the movie Special Bulletin? It's a made for tv sci-fi psychological thriller. It's basically a movie that aired on A&E. It was basically about what would CNN be like if this was an actual nuclear terrorist attack going on in a city.... The problem with that movie it was in the mid 80s when cable was becoming popular and people randomly flipping through channels thought it WAS A REAL LIFE TERRORIST THREAT and the news was breaking into the channel the movie was on

Sounds like Hugh Beaumont on the CD record

Has anyone ever seen the simulated conelrad alert here? kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6Jp2tKvkamYo9I.html simulates what would've happened if the Cuban missile crisis went completely downhill, some small inaccuracies but overall really well done.

06:40 man, creepy. I'm from the area that's referring to.

@loganmacgyver2625

5 жыл бұрын

and the timestamp....

Nice

0:59 Oh, hi Stan!

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🧛‍♀️

YES YES YES

@5roundsrapid263

7 жыл бұрын

N00by's Crazy Corner NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN EIGHT

@Dannypuck

7 жыл бұрын

Or Noine Noine Noine Noine if you're a Howard Stern fan.

*kack*

Just HOW did the trapped woman get her shoe out if her feet were firmly pinned beneath a heavy beam? Surely she was doing weightlifting? Don't ask her to go fetch you a beer!

18:14 That face is terrifying. Is she supposed to be smiling? Or is she screaming because the entire back of her skin is burned off?

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🌹

So... it's been over 3 years I've been watching your videos, Face reveal when? And no the time your face got partially revealed doesn't count.

@MrWolfSnack

7 жыл бұрын

His upper face and lower face were revealed twice in past videos. Photoshop them together and you have his face. I don't know why he hides his face anyway other than to be an idiot.

@Notelu

7 жыл бұрын

his official explanation is that camera's always break when it sees his full face, so he always covers it.

The Oddity Archive (including the show's host and editor) is NOT homophobic NOR transphobic. Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Skip start to 2:30 SERIOUSLY it will be much better

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🦴

Nein nein nein nein nein nenin nein *two hours later* Nein Nein eight. percent

And today we have to endeared those stupid amber alerts. At least dish network does not honor those alerts.

@excrono

7 жыл бұрын

You take something that most of us associate with deathly serious events (natural or man made disaster) and use it for something comparatively less important. The last time I heard an amber alert from another persons phone, it scared me quite a bit. We should be keeping EAS alerts and their alert tones for disasters exclusively. Amber alerts should use a different alert tone entirely, I feel. Otherwise you its effect may be diluted over time.

@excrono

7 жыл бұрын

+excrono On another note, an OA episode on Amber Alerts themselves would be an interesting topic.

@djraptorx

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah those stupid alerts about kidnapped kids. Fucking ignorant kids shouldn't get themselves kidnapped because god forbid I have to see an alert.

@excrono

7 жыл бұрын

+djraptorx Well, I think they can serve the public good. We shouldn't have to worry that WWIII just started, or that a tsunami or a tornado is about to destroy your local area, as a result, however. I only had awareness of the last few years of the Cold War as a child, but it was enough for me to associate hearing EAS warning with impending destruction.

@djraptorx

7 жыл бұрын

excrono I can understand that. I was more replying to OP who referred to AMBER alerts as "stupid." I dunno how anyone can see something that helps rescue kids who were kidnapped and are in severe danger as "stupid."