The Overnightscape Underground

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46:03 – Grinding coffee live on the show, Hahndorf Inn Hotel coffee mugs, Bourke Street Bakery, coffee, unfriendly hipsters, Weetbix, overcast and sunny days, a regrettably-phantom Rubénerd Show episode, The Overnightscape Central, PQ Ribber, Old-Time Radio, audio museums, Radio Free Shambles, American and Australian accents, Perth, cheap drinks that still smell good (Nescafé, Lipton Tea), studying for my HSC at the AIS, friendly librarians, elitism in music, jazz and Coldplay, What’s Your Plan B?, Snake Tea Podcast, still haven’t finished The Overnightscape 1209, 7-11 and Spar, Atlantic City, Apple Boot Camp, Windows 2000, and liking all the uncool things.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).

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01:02:17 – Topics include gentrification, virtual worlds (limitations of physical world, Nightstation) geo-locked console fun, Need for Speed Most Wanted: Terminal Velocity expansion, consoles versus computers, Plex, Crunchyroll, Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, walking to find ATMs, Singapore’s atm5, paying to get access to your money, lost with maps, insufficient PIN lengths, migraines, family folklore, depressing malls, visiting Mascot parks during the day, us as ant lifeforms, being closed minded, 209 (university days, apartment doors, the number 8 in Chinese, The Overnightscape 1209, email address), etymology behind the Rubénerd name, and fictitious billboards. Music by Who Ha, again!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding). Also available on Rubénerd.

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01:13:51 – Topics include unintentional three shows in a row, night roadworkers, social awkwardness with public podcasting, the end of my job honeymoon, QANTAS, Australian states, finding lava lamp bulbs, flood lamp power generators, insomnia, listener question from Jimbo, legal status of fire alarms, time (frames of reference, physics, diverging timelines and paths), Star Trek Voyager (Kes, 7 of 9), my own terrible sci-fi novel discussed publicly for the first time, nostalgia as a form of time travel (DOS games, holodecks versus “real” time travel), Nightstation, witty music (Phish, The Grateful Dead, Michael Franks), gooey logos (Holiday Inn, QANTAS, Black and Decker, Avery), spraying bitumen around the joint, coffee shops, jaffles, loud motorcycles, and far too many Frank Nora name drops.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).

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11:59 – A brief trip in time and space to an apartment building fire evacuation in suburban Australia. Did Ruben survive!? Of course he did, he uploaded the episode. No wait, I mean… listen to find out!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).

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54:48 – Topics include losing and finding things with Tiles, recording phone crashes, living without bags, 24 hour hosting jobs, gym memberships, building file servers, taking lifts, brick and mortar stores, the Australia tax, a live trip to Bunnings Warehouse (cat6 cables, USB power outlets, dust mitts, fun warning signs, floating floors, newspaper circles, cheating with pebbles, self-service checkouts), fake wood laminate on 70s appliances, paying for journalism, The Guardian Australia, disease-resistant tomatoes, worst nightmare bananas, charity sausage sizzles, feedback from Dave Wares, the great Coffee Freezing Debate, IKEA breakfast cereal, high fructose corn syrup, feedback from Julie about crashing podcast clients, and a very creepy dream with one way mirrors and giant 80s rooms.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).

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01:28:37 – Topics include haunted construction sites, abandoned building shells in Kuala Lumpur, South Park, travelling from Singapore to Malaysia, bus coaches, squeaking chairs, concrete monorails, SMASH!, anime conventions, doujinshi and anime fanart, grey-area fansubs, Reuben Hills coffee from Brasil Souza Farm, coffee plungers, a random observant, fuel caps, rubbish skips, “WE SAVE and YOU $$$”, boy racers, “Only Milk and Juice Come in 2L”, Toradora, root sudo, xkcd, response to Frank discussing fictional coffee shop chains in anime and Need for Speed Most Wanted (Sudoh-bucks, Deep Cups, OMG Coffee), trying Apple Photos, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge), anime figures, unintentional pantsu, model ship kits of the RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Mauritania, 1940s and 1980s design, and photos as memory supplements, not memories themselves. Music by PHINX.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding). Also available on the Rubénerd Show site.

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58:27 – The Five Eyes and ECHELON, US sharing intel on Japan with Australia, radomes, the state of IT security, type safety, The Small Faces, the Nespresso system, Arpeggio Decaffeinato, drinking decaf coffee, George Clooney, scripting away work, the utimate PySolFC card game suite for Linux and Mac, PySolitaire for Windows, the Intel 486SX CPU and playing DOS games on an HDTV. Goodbye 80s~90s song by BeFive.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).

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46:50 – Topics include spherical alignment, timezones and climate, the friggen cold, going places for work, how spaces impact us, identifying Boeing 737s and Airbus A320s, the interior of 70s and 80s shopping centres, lamenting the rise of 2010s glamour architecture, the new-old Alexandria Homemaker Centre, new-old De Ruuci stores, brutalist architecture, the Singapore Power Building, and those faded showroom lightboxes.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released July 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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22:02 – Topics include bulk haulage, an iPhone pro tip, the Rubénerd Beta concept, July and 2014, transient states between houses and offices, waiting for deliveries, IKEA furniture, Lego, high school economics and chemistry, Baltic states, Latvia, and change in the air.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released July 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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54:05 – Topics include Eddie Murray, Hey Everybody it’s Jimbo, Gangnam Style, critics, Frank Edward Nora’s new job, unemployment, New Horizons photos of Pluto, lucid dreaming, science, why I hate beaches, scary seagulls, one pieces are better than bikinis, gender double standards, Radio Free Shambles, introversion draining, sleep troubleshooting and insomnia, The Law Report, caffeine, energy drinks, and travelling through dreams.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Music by Eddie Murray.

Released July 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.