Purely Academic with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman

In what should have been a light week, we somehow recorded for close to two hours, talking first about the Star Wars: Battlefront beta on PS4, which transitions into a discussion about the state of S…

This is a light, grab-bag style week on the podcast, as Sean gives his initial thoughts on Persona 4: Dancing All Night for the PS Vita, Jonathan talks about this weekend’s new movies – including Rid…

The episode begins with some catch-up on Super Mario Maker and Destiny, before we jump into this week’s Doctor Who review to talk about “The Witch’s Familiar.” It’s a damn good episode, and makes for…

If you’ve been listening to this show for any length of time, you’ll know that Doctor Who is one of our two primary obsessions here. That means this is a pretty great week for the podcast, as not onl…

After looking over the history of the Metal Gear Solid franchise on last week’s show, we dive in full with the latest installment of the franchise, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. This is one o…

With Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain the big video game release of the past week, this week’s episode dives into the history of the entire Metal Gear Solid series, as we look back on every major…

We continue our summer recollections with several video game topics, as Sean gives his final thoughts on The Witcher 3, I profess my newly discovered love for the Metal Gear Solid series – just in ti…

In this week's big summer catch-up episode, I discuss my recent trip to Austin, Texas for Rooster Teeth’s annual RTX convention, while Sean talks about his time playing J-Stars Victory Vs. Plus for t…

Given our recent, unexpected hiatus, we wound up missing the releases of several major summer movies we meant to cover in depth. So while this is coming a little later than planned, we have recorded …

E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is underway this week in Los Angeles, bringing with it a flurry of news from all corners of the gaming industry. As we do every year, we have devoted an entire …

It's a busy episode this week as we tackle lots of recent movie news - ranging from major Star Wars trailers and announcements, to the reveal of Jared Leto's delightfully idiotic Joker design - befor…

This time last year, we reviewed the first of the new four-part film adaptation of our all-time favorite video game, Persona 3. Now, the second film in the series has finally reached Blu-Ray, and we …

In another ‘grab-bag’ style episode, Sean and Jonathan run the gamut from discussing the recent James Bond Spectre trailer, Trever Noah taking over from Jon Stewart as host of the The Daily Show, rec…

On this week's belated installment of The Weekly Stuff Podcast, Sean and Jonathan swap some funny stories, dive into an assortment of recent film and gaming news - including the much-anticipated Pers…

It’s been a little over a year since the respective launches of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One – topics we’ve covered in depth over the life of this podcast – and with that in mind, and coming off wh…

On the first episode of the new year, we look back at 2014 to count down our Top 10 Favorite Video Games of the past year. Was this a disappointing year for gaming, or did it have some unexpected gem…

Jonathan counts down the Top 10 Films of 2014 on this special bonus mini-episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast.

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On a belated, busy episode of the Weekly Stuff Podcast, we discuss lots of topics from the month of November, including our reactions to recent video games like Persona Q, Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inqu…

With the eighth series of Doctor Who having wrapped up with its finale episode, "Death in Heaven," we take an in-depth look at the final episodes of the season, before transitioning into our overall …

On the landmark 100th episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast, we celebrate our centennial recording by counting down our Top 100 Stuff! What does that mean? It's a surprise. Listen to find out. Also dis…