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Rubenerd Show
by Ruben Schade
A long-running harmless podcast of observations from Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia.
Episodes
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Rubenerd Show 435: The hippopotamus episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 36:07 – There’s a Hippopotamus on the Roof Eating Cake. Also brewing a caffeinated beverage, the fact we can still run and program old things (I know, right?), visual novels, ScummVM, the PalmPilot, 35 mm photo slides from Hong Kong in the 1950s, Tame…
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Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show from Adam, Alistair, and Abdullah. Discussing my favourite personal shows that are still going (Into Your Head, The Overnightscape Underground), task management (Getting Things Done™, the spark to…
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Rubenerd Show 433: The digital dust episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 32:30 – Who’s Peter, and why does he live in Kensington? Also Muji coffee, my favourite places in the world to travel, Chatswood’s Japanese stores, cheesecake, subscribing to feeds at a coffee shop in 2003, Singapore changing beyond recognition, and Frank…
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Rubenerd Show 432: The pontification episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 31:03 – Thinking aloud about thinking, projects, and projects to manage thinking that end up doing the opposite. At least, I think? Also times in which it’s dangerous to eat peanut butter, and the best life advice I’ve ever received. Recorded in Sydney,...
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Rubenerd Show 431: The AI episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 11:15 – What… what are we doing? Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released April 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform...
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Rubenerd Show 430: The two mugs episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 14:22 – Bit of a weirder one today; talking about the time last week when the trolls won! But I got some amazing feedback and some help, so maybe there are lessons here I can pass on. Have you heard of this thing called the block button? I should do that!...
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Rubenerd Show 429: The pa-paya pa-pa-paya episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 41:19 – A few things today, but mostly a discussion of our beloved Amelia Watson wrapping up her regular English vtuber activities with Hololive, and the adventures of buying our first home! When one thing ends, another thing starts. ♡ Microwave ovens.…
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Rubenerd Show 428: The balcony memories episode
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 28:16 – Sitting outside on this blustery winter morning talking about Mike Karels, Gordon Bell, Dave Ross, and Jim Kloss, with some trademark digressions and a hot mug of coffee. Recorded early June 2024. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this…
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Rubenerd Show 427: The ramping praties episode
Podcast: 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,...
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Rubenerd Show 427: The ramping praties episode
Podcast: 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,...
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Rubenerd Show 426: The clever curtain episode
Podcast: 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....
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Rubenerd Show 426: The clever curtain episode
Podcast: 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....
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Rubenerd Show 425: The goodbye Jim episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 425: The goodbye Jim episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 424: The Midosuji Line episode
Podcast: 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,...
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Rubenerd Show 424: The Midosuji Line episode
Podcast: 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,...
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Rubenerd Show 423: The Tokyo 2022 episode
Podcast: 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…
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Rubenerd Show 423: The Tokyo 2022 episode
Podcast: 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…
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Rubenerd Show 422: The caffeinated travel episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 422: The caffeinated travel episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 421: The flying progress episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 420: The belated holidays episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 419: The musically soaked episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 418: The tiled pattern episide
Podcast: 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…
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Rubenerd Show 417: The stormy apartment episode
Podcast: 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…
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Rubenerd Show 416: The microwaved nostalgia episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 415: The Amehhhhh Sharipov episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 414: The thingy stuff episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 413: The Wheaty 2021 episode
Podcast: 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…
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Rubenerd Show 412: The wandering mug episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 411: The FreeBSD cat(1) episode
Podcast: 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…
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Rubenerd Show 410: The apothecary coffee episode
Podcast: 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...
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Rubenerd Show 409: The uncanny silhouette episode
Podcast: 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...
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How many episodes does Rubenerd Show have?
Rubenerd Show currently has 33 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Rubenerd Show about?
A long-running harmless podcast of observations from Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia.
How often does Rubenerd Show release new episodes?
Rubenerd Show has 33 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Who hosts Rubenerd Show?
Rubenerd Show is created and hosted by Ruben Schade.
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