Hold on, still thinking.

The HOST crew get together for their now traditional review of their year. Bring on 2019!

Laura stubbornly believes Possum can't eat fifty chicken nuggets in 30 minutes. Possum stubbornly believes he can...you can see where this is going...

Laura and Possum are back, diving deep into the dark depths of Yahoo! Answers in an effort to help others. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

In this thrilling episode, Hannah and Tom sit in a cafe for a long time. A long, long time. Featuring: "James"; squirells; a person that is a house, and eventually; dinner. Join Hannah and Tom as they try to Tinder.

Laura and Possum bring the pod back to it’s roots answering random questions from Yahoo! Answers. Featuring advice on turning your loved ones into mermaids or vampires, descriptions of Canada, the philosophy of self-cannibalism, and instructions on how to unbake a cake. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom shares his story of sperm donation and STI testing with Laura and Possum before they move on to a broader discussion of children and the ways of making them. It's enlightening, funny, and rather graphic at times. NSFW. Obviously. Things we talk about: fertilityassociates.co.nz/ Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Inspired by a basketball article, Laura and Possum talk about what would happen if Dinosaurs roamed the earth today, somehow covering tangents into ethics, ecology, gun control and much more in the process. Things we talked about: Shea Serrano’s Article: https://www.theringer.com/nba-playoffs/2018/4/19/17254986/kawhi-leonard-joel-embiid-spurs-draymond-green Wolves in Scotland: http://www.wolvesandhumans.org/wolves/wolf_reintroduction_to_scotland.htm Robin Williams on Gun Control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtVICSFmgI Danger 5: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1807165/ Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom and Possum make a stupid attempt, while brain fried, at making a questions pod without asking questions. The results are painful, full of broken english, awkward silence and vague hilarity. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

What if everything you think you know is a lie? Have you considered the alternate facts? Cabbage joins Laura and Possum on the pod to discuss conspiracy theories, their validity, and what makes them so fascinating. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Content Warning: Death, depression, suicidal thoughts The team discuss the practicality and logistics of immortality. How do you implement it? Who gets to be immortal? Would it get really boring? What does you life look like? Would you actually want to? All these questions answered and more... Things we talked about: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Fed up with New Years resolutions, the extended Hold On, Still thinking whanau start a new tradition of reflecting on the past year and taking stock of their current lives. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

The results are in from the poetry competition to decide Tom's #1 Fan. Listen as Possum reads the poems and Tom wishes there was an adult around when they take a turn for the...interesting... Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom and Possum discuss morality in the context of AI-driven cars, leading to differences in values, hopes and fears of the future or transport, and a lot of hypothetical deaths. References: MIT Moral Machine: moralmachine.mit.edu The Trolley Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem Black Mirror ‘Nosedive’: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/ Community ‘App development and condiments’: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3278596/ The Good Place: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom and friend-of-the-pod Hannah work their way through a poetry podcast executive produced by Possum. Things we talk about in this podcast include: Hone Tuwhare - No Ordinary Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh6dpo9rM5E http://honetuwhare.org.nz/hones-poems/ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Read: http://www.hpmor.com/ Listen: http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/ Watch (only really, really don't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpejSWY0Wa0 Emi Mahmoud - How to Translate a Joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq-W_GLxsUs Tim Minchin - Storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U Shane Koyczan - To This Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY Neil Hilborn - OCD (on Button Poetry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s Glenn Colquhoun - A set of instructions to be used when reading a poem. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-set-of-instructions-to-be-used-when-reading-a-poem/ Some sound effects courtesy of http://www.freesfx.co.uk/ Massive thanks to Hannah for not only coming on the show, but also agreeing to edit this episode! (#bestguestever?) Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom is back! In this episode your intrepid HOST hosts talk all about Tom's travels, and pretty much nothing else.... Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Possum and Door Bells continue their answering and debating hypothetical questions, including the personal value of hair, ways to torture people, and whether going to Jurassic Park is ever a good idea. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom’s continuing absence from the country faces Possum to find a “guest Tom’ to have hypothetical discussions with, including feelings on knowing your own fate, beauty vs intelligence, and the price of immortality… Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

A story and history of a great and inspirational man, Kurt. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com Music: bensound.com References: http://www.kurthahn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017-stet.pdf http://www.kurthahn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/james_final.pdf http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35603975 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/the-potempa-murder-of-1932/ http://www.americanradioworks.org/segments/kurt-hahn-expeditionary-learning/

Michelle joins the podcast to discuss her experiences throughout pregnancy and a new mother, her daughter's controversial name, her amazing dog, and which of the two is cooler. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

With Tom still finding himself both literally and figuratively overseas, Possum has a chat with John Williams about the complexities of learning and teaching leadership skills. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Possum interviews a special guest Laura on the different aspects of being an archaeologist in New Zealand and around the world, children's misconceptions of archaeology, and what happens to all the things they find (including bodies) Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom and Possum summarise the policies, hopes and their opinions of New Zealand's political using poetry. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom and Possum discuss the issues that will and should be a factor in the upcoming New Zealand General Election. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom and Possum interview people on who their role models are and why, and spend time analysing these and discussing their own, including the boundary between respecting and wanting to be Elon Musk. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Turnabout is fair play, so join Tom and Possum as they answer the quickfire questions they'll be asking their future guests on the pod. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Sometimes you go to record an episode, and you spend half an hour talking, and all you get is 1:40 of cicadas and planes with the odd funny quote.

Join Tom and Possum as they go through the list of 'Fifty things to do before you're fifty' as defined by people over fifty, measure their current progress as of their mid-twenties, and the legitimacy of the items on the list. List being discussed: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11824655 Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

At a lovely day at the cricket, Tom and Possum interview friend and Heavy Vehicle Permitting Team Leader; Cabbage. Learn about about his job, answers to some of the more interesting listener questions we've had, and his preferences when it comes to heavy machinery.

In this episode, Tom and Possum answer questions and discuss follow up points from their previous podcasts, including broken wrists, talking with butchers, and You, Me, Her.

In this episode Possum and Tom talk about the government raising the superannuation age, the concept of "work", UBI, and killing cats. Super interesting and informative article on UBI is here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/why-we-should-all-have-a-basic-income/ Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Possum and Tom discuss "Breaking news" and offer official clarification on the different types of fun. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Tom and Possum ask each other questions their audience believe you should ask your future partner before getting serious with them. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/

Possum and Tom talk about their attempt to summit the 3 highest mountains in the North Island of NZ in under 30 hours. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

In this fourth and final part of our Harry Potter episode Possum and Tom talk diversity, religion and twins. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

In part III of this Harry Potter/Wellington Anniversary Day Special Tom and Possum discuss which parts of the Potterverse they'd like to know more about, their amazing headcanons, and dive deep into their favourite characters. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

In part II of this Harry Potter/Wellington Anniversary Day Special Tom and Possum delve into technophobic wizards, the educational philosophies of the wizarding and muggle world, and the problematic mess that is the House System. Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

In this episode Possum and Tom answer audience questions about Harry Potter, struggle to remember things about the books, and endeavour to describe how truly terrible "The Cursed Child" was. Tom thinks you should read these fanfics: The Pure and Simple Truth - http://archiveofourown.org/works/392764/chapters/645041 HPMOR - http://www.hpmor.com/ Soundcloud: @stillthinkingpod Twitter: twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com

Possum and Tom give our thoughts on 2016, wanting to experience more art and tea in 2017, the fledgling Sir Ed Day holiday, and death. You can follow and contact us with questions and recommendations for music/poems/movies to discover on: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stillthinkingpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/HoldOnPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stillthinkingpod/ Email: stillthinkingpod@gmail.com If you do not have access to the internet, you can contact us by bird. Just find a pigeon or crow, kill it, and use its message to write on parchment. Dig a hole near the bend of a river and bury that letter with a postage stamp (used or otherwise). Plant an acorn on top of the hole. In 10 years time once the oak tree of big and strong, chop it down into small pieces, light them on fire, and there is a 5% chance we will see the smoke signals.

Possum and Tom discuss their plans and feelings for Christmas, getting confused for other people, shift worker misanthropy, their top holiday songs, and answer Christmas-related questions from Yahoo! Answers. Top Christmas Songs Fairytale of New York - The Pogues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8 Christmas is All Around - Billy Mack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fmf3D9oNn4 White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q Snoopy’s Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf---13Q0g Merry Christmas You… - Frank Turner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW308CpEj1s