On the reg

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason are back, a bit later than anticipated because the audio the first time this episode was recorded was borked (that's a technical term). We promise the re-record is much better, and also, much longer. There's some unscripted banter at the start, which Inger had to cut as it went on a bit long. Jason can tell you abou...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! The Downs household has suffered a loss, while one member of the Mewburn household has discovered hither to unknown talents. Somehow the team still end up crapping about Obsidian a lot in the banter section. This is our second sabbatical mailbag episode (starting 20:44) , which prompts a series of incredibly nerdy conversations about Microso...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! WE'RE BACK BABY! Inger sums up her whole Cambridge University experience in one anecdote about dinner. Jason has gone up a notch in Brazilian Ju Jitsu, which puts him in a position to comment on Mark Zuckerberg's training routine. In other words, it's a normal catch up, but twice as long! This episode is all a mailbag, startin...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason pop in for a brief, 2 minute-ish pod. The quickest episode in OTR pod history!  It's not really an episode, just a reminder that we will be back next month.  Thanks for all the amazing emails and speak pipes so far - we're enjoying them all and planning a big mailbag episode when we get back! Got thoughts and feel p...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! On The Reg is officially on hiatus until Inger returns from her sabbatical in August. Listen to our quick explainer so you know what is happening until then. We're asking you send in all your questions and thoughts so we can put together a reader mailbag episode when we come back. The claim here that Severance Pod has dropped are false,...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger's dusty in this episode, after an epic David Lodge style dinner party the night before, but her blood pressure is the best her doctor has seen in years. By the time you listen to this she'll be in Cambridge, punting or something. Jason didn't win the annual hot cross bun off, but did invite Inger into the WhatsApp group...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has been doing BJJ, the gym, eat sleep and repeat - with an occasional visit to country Victoria. Inger has been doing ALL the event organising and somehow managing to make a podcast with her sister about the Apple TV show Severance at the same time. You'll have to subscribe to the Thesiswhisperer podcast channel to get the episod...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger's happy her Apple Watch has declared her 'fit' while Jason surprised his team with actually putting on an interesting strategy day. Inger finally bought a ticket to the UK for her sabbatical in Cambridge, so Jason is on notice that the pod will be his while she is away. He's got Plans. The Mailbag [21:14] has a spea...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger was late to the microphone  but Jason is in the lead this time, so the show actually happened! Jason didn't win at the first annual 'Meat Off' competition, but it was a tough field. At work it's all Chat GPT all the time, or, as Inger's sister Anitra calls it 'ChattieG'. Inger's been on the road...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason have been on holidays, so there's a lot to catch up on. Jason was off the grid, finding boxes of romance novels in country opp shops while Inger borked all the authenticator apps on her phone and was locked out of ANU email.  There's a brief foray into Power Ballads and the Australian 80s band Noiseworks. There&apos...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! You might have noticed this episode is rather... long. But it's  your last episode before February, 2023. so we  figure you can digest this omnibus episodes in parts! Look, there's a lot of Spider Talk in our catch up, so you might want to skip it if you're an arachnophobe. There's some very interesting questions from lis...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger's had Covid Bingo, where she scored almost every symptom in the book. Meanwhile Jason has been been out there, having a life, which involves a story about the physics of gumboots. It makes sense in context, we promise. Inger snippety doodah-ded our catch up a bit, but it's still kind of long, so if you want to skip it, go str...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Buckle up folks, this is a long one! It's been a big couple of weeks since Jason and Inger caught up.  Inger went to Tassie and experienced crossing bass strait in gale force winds on the way back while Jason got rained on while camping and discovered 'Truckie Twitter' on the UHF band radio during an unexpected 2.5 hour journe...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason catch up to get their nerd on HARD in this episode - you have been warned. After the usual catch up - with only a little bit of old person health problems - Inger reads out some nice feedback (17:50). People loved our last episode on 'Building a second brain for writing' where we talked about Tiago Forte's book...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! There's a lot of sweary words in this one, headphones in! Inger brought a sword to work and Jason is back on the mats at Brazillian Ju Jitsu (BJJ) so it's business as usual at On The Reg. Big shout out to Jason's wife Cath, who has nearly finished her course, which somehow leads to a long discussion of Jason's first exper...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason have been busy, you know - the usual. Inger has been deep in three minute thesis land (ie: the annual ANU 'high school musical') and Jason paid $250 to learn he doesn't have to have surgery (yay!). There's only a little bit of 'old people complaining about their health' in the first bit before th...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason are both complaining about their health again. Jason has 'mild degeneration' of his shoulder joint and Inger has 'mild degeneration' of her eye lens. The duo agree that it means they are falling apart, but as Jason says ' slowly'.  After the whinging about health, and a few things about the Jeep/...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason catch up on Inger's 24th wedding anniversary (with Mr Thesis Whisperer's permission!). Inger went to Newcastle in the Tesla and had fun doing a workshop in a bathroom. It's been a weird couple of weeks: she also encountered giant animatronic wombats on the lawns of parliament house while taking part in an NTEU...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has Novid now, but he dragged himself to the mic. Inger’s been sick again and, honestly - the first 20 minutes or so of this podcast is just ‘old people complaining about their health’ (but we know some of you really like that stuff, so we left it in). Katherine Firth rings in (18m:17s) to give Jason another romance novel recommendatio...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason and Inger are behind on their podcasting schedule because Inger had Not-Covid/ Not-flu and too sick to record last Sunday. Meanwhile Jason has injured himself at Brazilian Ju Jitsu - again. Jason texts a picture of his inner thigh to Inger, live on air, to show her the damage. She is shocked (not at the body part itself, because she li...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason are back to their usual format now the election is done. This is the first weekend in 18 months that Inger doesn't have any political activism planned for the weekend - and she is happy about the election result because a well hung parliament is a good parliament in her book (totally worth a 6 vodka hang over). Meanwhile...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Warning - there's a LOT of swearing in this one, so if there are sensitive little ears present, maybe save it till later... We recorded this on the 10th of April as Scott Morrison called the election. It's another short one as Inger was already deep in campaigning for the Greens, We did manage to cover a lot of ground though (actua...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! We've been busy, but you know - in a good way. Inger and Jason are both exhausterated - both exhausted and exhilarated at the same time. Sort of like how you feel after a good workout. Jason has started his new job at Latrobe, where he has an office above the pub and #awesometeam. Meanwhile Inger has a huge face to face teaching thing a...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Warning - there's a lot of swearing in this one, so maybe shield from sensitive little ears... Jason is between jobs, which means he's nearly killing his family on a hike and getting suits delivered. Oh - and reading Cal Newport's book 'So good they can't ignore you'. Meanwhile Inger is surprised she hasn't...

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! This episode of On the Reg is slightly delayed because of children being stranded in Western Port Bay, internet upload speeds and an ill-advised attempt to record in the evening after work. In other words, it took time to get our shit together (and not just because we are both now over 50 and the government is starting to show an interest in...