Rubenerd Show
40 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA long-running harmless podcast of observations from Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia.
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Rubenerd Show 427: The ramping praties episode
October 05, 2023 00:59 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 20:47 – The Into Your Head show is returning! I also returned to the Exit Ramp for an episode! Join Ruben as he discusses these, along with brewing coffee, a recovered audio clip from 2008, bad accents, and adventures with audio levels. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released October 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on ...
Rubenerd Show 426: The clever curtain episode
July 07, 2023 23:14 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 30:40 – Join Ruben on a muggy, cold Sydney evening talking about James from James’ Coffee Blog starting his own podcast, why I’m allergic to Melbourne, and meeting my favourite ever vtuber Pavolia Reine from Hololive Indonesia! Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released July 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform m...
Rubenerd Show 425: The goodbye Jim episode
May 21, 2023 22:46 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 25:15 – This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jim Kloss, whom I interviewed on the show in 2016. Jim was one of my dearest friends, a mentor in life, and a wonderful human being. Recorded late one evening wandering around a park in Sydney. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released May 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing...
Rubenerd Show 424: The Midosuji Line episode
April 18, 2023 03:23 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 21:44 – Join me on a brief wander through Namba Parks, then onto the Osaka Metro to Daikokujo! Talking about being back in Japan, why Clara and I love the Kansai region even more than Tokyo, topping up Suica and ICOCA cards, the growing number of bikes here, and almost walking into someone. *Sumimasen!* Recorded in Osaka, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released April 2023 on The Overnights...
Rubenerd Show 423: The Tokyo 2022 episode
December 22, 2022 00:05 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 33:53 – We’re overseas again for the first time in three years! Recorded at the busy Kudanshita Tokyo Subway station (complete with jingles!), then wandering around near the Imperial Palace one night. It’s a bit all over the place, but that was my mental state at the time. Part two coming soon, thanks for listening. Recorded in Tokyo, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released December 2022 o...
Rubenerd Show 422: The caffeinated travel episode
July 19, 2022 04:03 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 28:23 – Hey, I remember when I recorded stuff! Making coffee, talking about the state of the world, some personal notes, putting the kettle on, not being fancy with tea, a letter from strata, and thoughts about travel. I’ll be back to doing these regularly again when I feel up to it, thanks for listening :). Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released July 2022 on The O...
Rubenerd Show 421: The flying progress episode
January 19, 2022 21:20 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 21:50 – The risk of ordering clothes online, Simon Whistler, AviationTag memorabilia from the A380 and B757, humans needing physical contact, appreciating technological and medical progress, and giving people permission to have new year resolutions! Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released January 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel...
Rubenerd Show 420: The belated holidays episode
December 31, 2021 22:55 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 36:36 – Join your host as he finally gets around to uploading some festive cheer and other rambling nonsense. Talking about Xmas lights, the programming VCR meme, Travan tapes, health fun, couch potato-ism, coffee chains in Asia, trying a seasonal brew, and the infamous “much more!” Happy new year from us to you ♡. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released December 20...
Rubenerd Show 419: The musically soaked episode
September 24, 2021 03:50 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 53:50 – Join your host as he enjoys some milder Sydney weather! Talking about monsoons in Singapore and Hong Kong, wanting to live in the latter after it blew me away (metaphorically, not in a monsoon), slim Japanese clothing, water-retaining socks, always feeling the need to be productive, embarrassing nerd magazines on the train, old-school MP3 players, downtime, meditation, a rant about music streaming platforms, and collecting music again. Record...
Rubenerd Show 418: The tiled pattern episode
September 18, 2021 23:04 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 24:12 – Join Ruben as he pours one out for airline pilots, Australia being European in Asia, travelling with Clara, nostalgia for Singapore and working remote from there, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Bishan, introverts and Third Places, saying goodbye to a friend, Robin Williams, and mismatched tiles. Warning, I might even get half-serious at certain points this time! Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribut...
Rubenerd Show 418: The tiled pattern episide
September 18, 2021 23:01 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 27:47 – Join Ruben as he pours one out for airline pilots, Australia being European in Asia, travelling with Clara, nostalgia for Singapore and working remote from there, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Bishan, introverts and Third Places, saying goodbye to a friend, Robin Williams, and mismatched tiles. Warning, I might even get half-serious at certain points this time! Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribut...
Rubenerd Show 417: The stormy apartment episode
August 28, 2021 00:44 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 27:47 – Why am I out here under a shelter while there’s a storm outside? Talking about the HoloCouncil, why am I out here, missing travel, it’s a bit windy out here, where I’d live if I had a spare billion dollars between the proverbial couch cushions, and why am I out here? Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released August 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an In...
Rubenerd Show 416: The microwaved nostalgia episode
August 17, 2021 23:26 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 32:51 – Join Ruben as he takes an evening lockdown socially-distancing stroll as he discusses UniSA campus nostalgia in Adelaide, adventures with side effects, a freezing family holiday to Germany in the early 2010s, and an extended discussion on the merits and flaws of contemporary electronic microwave oven appliance design affordances (I think Dire Straits did a song about that, though in significantly fewer words. Custom kitchen deliveries, and all...
Rubenerd Show 415: The Amehhhhh Sharipov episode
July 02, 2021 03:38 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 55:49 – In part one, your sophisticated host attempts to make an Aeropress coffee live on air, namedrops his friend, mentions some Minecraft LEGO adventures, and discusses some listener mail from Oskar Sharipov regarding audio recording, OGG files, and independent production. Then we timeskip a week to when your aforementioned host walks around an abandoned Chatswood street late at night to find which coffee shops are open during the Sydney lockdowns....
Rubenerd Show 414: The thingy stuff episode
May 11, 2021 23:11 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 14:00 – A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patience while I produced this one :). Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released May 2021 on The Overnightscape U...
Rubenerd Show 413: The Wheaty 2021 episode
January 20, 2021 04:16 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 13:57 – Jim Kloss returned to the Whole Wheat Radio airwaves again for a chat! I was not prepared, and even started typing over it towards the end when work pinged me, but I couldn’t let this moment of Internet audio history go unrecorded. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released January 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing ...
Rubenerd Show 412: The wandering mug episode
August 30, 2020 23:27 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 47:35 – An impromptu discussion on everyone’s favourite comestible beverage conveyance, among several other unrelated topics. Recorded July 2020, only getting around to producing... gulp! Hey, that’s the sound someone drinking from a mug makes. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released August 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focus...
Rubenerd Show 411: The FreeBSD cat(1) episode
June 16, 2020 05:14 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 28:45 – A discussion about feline creatures liking me despite having never owned one… turned into a rant about desktop software quality, remembering Wintel and desktop Java, running OpenZFS on FreeBSD and NetBSD with cgd, BSD on an iBook back in the day, being burned by btrfs, BSDCan comments about home labs now being production, and wandering outside in beautifully-mild winter weather. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative ...
Rubenerd Show 410: The apothecary coffee episode
May 31, 2020 03:12 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 25:23 – Not knowing a place till you leave it, the fascinating triangular windows of the old Belle Vue in Singapore, faded knock-off Lego blocks, Albert Einstein’s travels, finding new coffee shops, apothecary tables, government posters, a 1990s-era glass foyer, and a borderline rant on my butterfly Apple keyboard. Recorded early May 2020. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Scha...
Rubenerd Show 409: The uncanny silhouette episode
May 05, 2020 22:35 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 29:37 – Join Ruben for a late-night wander around the abandoned Sydney suburb of Chatswood during these lockdown adventures. Topics include 100 days of COVID-19, stairwall-derived exercise, Australia and New Zealand’s potential new travel bubble, finding coffee shops, spooky silhouettes in the night, a Liverpool FC barber, JoAnne Hook paintings, active voice, saying “you too!” to retail staff, and the uncanny valley as it pertains to… sheep‽ Recorded ...
Rubenerd Show 408: The deserted tape episode
April 18, 2020 23:22 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 39:20 – Wandering around a deserted Chatswood late at night, peeking into the empty stores, and watching the regular stream of empty commuter and metro trains roll by. Discussing working from home, trying to reconnect with music, critiquing streaming services, and a rose tinted view of audio tape. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released April 2020 on The Overnightsc...
Rubenerd Show 407: The overengineered everything episode
March 14, 2020 10:28 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 25:32 – What started as a discussion regarding an ugly new concept car turned into pontifications about design, and anti-patterns in cars and websites. If overenginering is to make something intentionally more complicated for no benefit other than to ship product, why are we so compelled to do it? Or did I just answer my own question? Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. ...
Rubenerd Show 406: The chipped hero episode
March 08, 2020 10:02 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 31:52 – Wait, didn’t we only just get Rubenerd Show 405?! Discussing the production of chip-based comestibles, submerged data centres, etymology behind radio buttons, being tired of Boomer and Millennial labels, and when meeting your hero perhaps wasn’t such a good idea. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released March 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Interne...
Rubenerd Show 405: The Walkenbach Envelope episode
March 07, 2020 12:16 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 34:32 – Making a caffeinated beverage LIVE on the show like I used to, remembering Murni’s Warung in Ubud, the joys of envelope budgeting, John Walkenbach from Whole Wheat Radio helping me through his Excel books all these years later, and why it’s still so difficult for people without IT backgrounds to export data from shut down sites. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade....
Rubenerd Show 404: The 29th griddle episode
February 29, 2020 03:49 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 44:51 – The second Rubenerd Show to be released on the 29th of February, HTTP 404 status codes, a new griddle, SARS, Phua Chu Kang, bushfire update, why you shouldn’t need a reason not to be a dick, and a nostalgic snack review from Singapore. Recorded early Febuary 2020. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released February 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Int...
Rubenerd Show 403: The hot cake episode
January 12, 2020 11:46 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 52:15 – Forbidden 403 HTML status codes, unhelpful profiling, Australian bushfire updates (looters, conspiracy theories, hot takes), unexpected Adelaide nostalgia and early breakfasts, unintentional philosophical ramblings on the character and motivations of certain people, and an ongoing good natured but otherwise inexplicable retail saga. With thanks to Phil Collins. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attributio...
Rubenerd Show 402: The hidden PPPoE episode
January 05, 2020 12:55 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 24:25 – Thanking people for Australian bushfire feedback, Malcolm Turnbull’d internet, pronouncing abbreviations as acronyms (PPPoE... pehpehpehooee?), the Ricoh GR III camera, finding a stream and an old key in a forest near Cammeray, the plight of inefficient portable air conditioners, wooden shelving, and various challenges when selling incomplete anime figures. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3....
Rubenerd Show 401: The on fire episode
December 31, 2019 04:33 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 20:56 – I intended this episode to be about something completely different, but now that every state in Australia is on fire, and my dad has evacuated his house, suddenly my other interests and topics seem less pressing. Thanks, and please consider donating to the NSW RFS. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released December 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground, an In...
Rubenerd Show 400: The Quadricentennial episode
December 26, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 01:06:42 – It’s the four hundredth episode of my sporadic podcast! In lieu of formal celebrations, I discuss the surreal circumstances within which we find ourselves, along with various other ruminations about the holidays, significant figures, keyboard memories, ranting about fires, LPs, and more. Thank you so much for listening to my silly audible emissions, here’s to the next 400. ♡ Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative C...
Rubenerd Show 399: The smokeless Melbourne epispde
December 10, 2019 22:48 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 28:40 – Bushfires have engulfed Sydney for more than a week now, so it was a relief and joy to wander around back in Melbourne on a business trip with blue skies, even if only for a couple of days! Talking about the inevitable comparisons between Sydney and Melbourne, Stanley Kubrick-inspired data centres, health nonsense about Kombucha, tree-lined streets, and wishing for a Ricoh GR III pocket camera. Creative Commons music by Chris Jurgenson. Recor...
Rubenerd Show 398: The KLCC again episode
October 26, 2019 02:28 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 24:32 – The Rubenerd Show returns to Kuala Lumpur after thirteen years! Playing a retrospective clip from episode 103 in June 2006, then back to October 2019 with Clara wandering around the Petronas Twin Towers and Jalan Ampang. I never thought I’d be doing this again! Recorded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released October 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground, an In...
Rubenerd Show 397: The Marina Square episode
September 25, 2019 04:22 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 54:03 – Returning to the birthplace and spiritual home of the Rubenerd Show in Singapore, and where I first heard The Overnightscape. Wandering around Marina Square with Clara making random observations about life here compared to the 1990s and 2000s, with sounds of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix in the background. Then jumping on the MRT back to Novena, and walking in the late evening. It’s a remote-working holiday, but I’ll take it! Recorded in Marina...
Rubenerd Show 396: The Brisbane Perth episode
September 17, 2019 00:41 - 42 minutes - 39 MBPodcast: Play in new window | Download 42:30 – Join Ruben as he discusses himself in the third person, and his business trip adventures to two Australian cities on the exact opposite sides of the country for added convenience; the former of which he hadn’t been to since he lived there in the 1990s! Then some nostalgia for coffee chains, specifically the giant Dômes in Singapore. Recorded early September 2019. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribut...
Rubenerd Show 395: The corned mindfulness episode
June 29, 2019 11:57 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBPodcast: Play in new window · Download 51:02 – Join Ruben as he takes a somewhat narcissistic view of work, life in one’s thirties, mindfulness or lack thereof, charities, the events in Hong Kong, the ergonomic considerations behind corn chips, wandering around Artarmon thinking the same things, and a classic clip from Flight of the Conchords. You want to sit down but you sold you chair, so you... you just stand there. Recorded over a few weeks in June 2019. Recorded in Sydney, Australia....
Rubenerd Show 394: The hierarchical coffee episode
April 15, 2019 07:30 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBPodcast: Play in new window · Download 43:59 – Join Ruben in a soulful, bronchital state; a word that almost certainly doesn’t exist. Topics include Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, secret apartment doors, Apple keyboards really are that bad, stabbing myself in the eye with a poster, Australia’s obsessive coffee culture, Arashiyama in Kyoto, and accidental beverages. Break song by the delightful Good Mythical Morning gents who trained a predictive text bot. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Lice...
Rubenerd Show 393: The Ikebukuro episode
March 19, 2019 15:02 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBPodcast: Play in new window · Download 01:10:35 – Join Clara and I on our second day back in Japan! Today wandering around the lights and sounds of Ikebukuro, including pretty anime boys, a Family Mart snack convenience store snack tour, then taking a couple of Tokyo Metro trains back to Kudanshita, complete with those legendary Departing Melodies. Recorded in Tokyo, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released March 2019 on The Ove...
Rubenerd Show 392: The Otemachi episode
March 19, 2019 14:48 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBPodcast: Play in new window · Download 55:03 – Join Clara and I on our first day back in Japan! Wandering around Otemachi in Tokyo looking for an ATM for a sinister card that refuse to work, travelling from Narita, egg sandwiches from convenience stores, and too much more to write notes on when we should be sleeping! Recorded in Tokyo, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released March 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Inte...
Rubenerd Show 391: The Lemon Grove episode
March 16, 2019 06:28 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBPodcast: Play in new window · Download 01:12:50 – It's another Rubenerd Squish, where I stick a few unrelated episodes into one! Part one discusses the most bizarre advertisement I've ever seen, in an audio journey through a 1970s era shopping centre that has barely changed. Part two discusses fabric couches, fun with spirometry, the Clipboard Mafia, and certain frustrating podcast ads. Part three discusses duopolistic allegiances, and fun with reverb-berb-reverb. Recorded Feburuary-March ...
Rubenerd Show 390: The Overnightscape Pegasus episode
February 16, 2019 21:48 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBPodcast: Play in new window · Download 01:23:35 – A tribute to the last few episodes of The Overnightscape. Topics include wood veneer dishwashers and TVs, moving to Chatswood, when I started listening to The Overnightscape, Lunar New Year, abandoned cityscapes in the real world and in simulations, nostalgia for space, gift giving, Gateway 2000, gaming business models, Fate/Grand Order, and the Carlton Branch... plus Side B (at 01:03:56)... opening production credits for A Chinese Ghost St...
Rubenerd Show 389: The 2018 spectacular episode
January 14, 2019 02:41 - 3 hours - 183 MBPodcast: Play in new window · Download 03:19:56 – Every unreleased episode from Q4 2018 in one stitched package! Topics include Sydney Trains, TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND, Honda San, Singapore, flowers, rampling, cicadas, apparently unmanly things, studying, podcast elitism, indie media, late night Mascot, continents, construction, soulless glass boxes, Wikipedia, marketing language, dearth of power points, ocean liners, promises, selling an iMac, making coffee, email, the next leap for...