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30:06 – A Christmas special coming to you from a Sydney Boxing Day in the heat of summer! Topics include a winter trip in Germany and Ireland, yuletide family traditions, how others celebrate or don’t, the best holiday foods from the UK and Germany, music, and a somewhat minor personal inconvenience! Also retiring the Rubenerd Annexe, self-titled Blogging Experts, a shoutout to Radio Free Shambles and The Midnight Citizen, and best wishes for the season.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released December 2018 on Rubenerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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25:58 – A rare single-topic episode tackling fake foods and beverages! Discussing decaffeinated coffee, non-alcoholic beer, mock meat (including having an Impossible Burger in Los Angeles, and Linda McCartney vegetarian fare in Sydney), sugar-free drinks, grilled plastic cheese slices, and other effective hipster repellent.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released October 2018 on Rubenerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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41:36 – I’m in Tokyo for AsiaBSDCon 2018 and annual leave. Too much audio to process! So for now, have this clip of Clara and I talking about our day trip to Odawara. Topics include the Train Simulator route of yore that inspired the trip, the Odakyu Luxury Super Express, walking past restaurants, Clara cat spotting, dango balloons, Odawara Castle, Ito En milk coffee, Denny’s, ikiben, shiba inu dogs, Foursquare/Swarm, and getting back to Kudanshita.
Recorded in Odawara, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released March 2018 on Rubenerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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20:44 – Quick report from a business trip to Canberra, with unreality, Australia’s worst Thai food, evil vending machines, cashew bags, flight delays, and other fun. Then back to Sydney for an apology to Jimbo and fascinating, though dusty, construction sites. Recorded 30th August and 25th September 2017.
Recorded in Canberra and Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2017 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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01:01:11 – Ruben wanders back from Namba to their Airbnb in Osaka, rambling about visually impaired assistance, political posters, Japanese curry, police, pachinko, lack of street names, complicated bathrooms, and Mashu/Shielder from Fate/Grand Order. Then Clara and Ruben wander around Ninna-ji in Kyoto chatting about the Rurouni Kenshin films, anime flashback episodes, and mushrooms. Then over to Arashiyama talking about soba and Kyoto tofu, beautiful scenery around the Katura River, Kyoto trolley trains, bamboo forests, rickshaws, late-opening shops, and the Togetsukyo bridge. Recorded 29–30th July 2017. Sounds from the Osaka and Kyoto subways, and some spontaneous street music.
Recorded in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released August 2017 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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01:03:56 – Join Ruben as he ventures through the otaku and tech mecca of the Kansai region in Den Den Town (ã§ã‚“ã§ã‚“タウン), then with Ruben and Clara during the Tenjin Matsuri (天神ç¥) by the Okawa, intersperced with the sounds of the Osaka subway. Topics include Japanese cicadas, travel, ubiquitous speakers, vending machines, cute mascots, anime, summer festival food, and much more! Recorded Tuesday 25th July 2017. More to come.
Recorded in Osaka, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released July 2017 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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29:48 – Frank and Manny graciously showed us around New Jersey, and recorded such an epic Overnightscape I didn’t bother doing my own show from there! To keep the chronology of episodes accurate, this is a quick recap of this part of our trip, recorded back around my dad’s new place in North Arm Cove. Intro by ZAGAT.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released November 2016 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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58:39 – Getting family podcast balance right; deciding what’s breakfast food (English and German); broken neon signs (The Good Guys); Airbnb; Mercedes A Class; eschewing (gesundheit) new Western franchises for anime; memory/latex foam mattresses; Captain Snooze got a promotion; computer data rot; and an indulgently-rambling discussion on building a fault-tolerant personal archive out of MicroServers, FreeBSD and ZFS. Recorded mid-August 2016.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2016 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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36:29 – Ruben discusses mixing your own carbohydrated breakfast, and comments on Shambles’ Facebook adventures. Also feedback from episode 345, aircraft identification, umbrage, MythBusters and Penn and Teller Bullshit, rental inspections, weekend getaways, and debuting the all-new Moment with Clara Segment.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released July 2016 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
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29:26 – Recording on a new phone, sci-fi, custom plates, retro computer fandom, upgrade cycle fatigue, listener feedback (Jimbo), Mascot Woolies, chirping birds, farewell One Coffee Bean, food in NYC and Sydney, bagels, cheesecake, Instagram, Southerner stereotypes, and pronouncing food locations.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released April 2016 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
