The Weekly Stuff Podcast #116 - Doctor Who S9E2 & The Top 10 Persona Vocal Songs

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link.

This is potentially my favorite podcast we have ever recorded.

I don’t say that lightly. We have done this many times by now. But today’s wildly self-indulgent topic, and the specific way Sean and I wound up tackling it, made for one of my all-time favorite discussions we’ve had in all our years doing this show.

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 a good discussion.

But the bulk of the show this week is devoted to a crazy, niche, awesome top 10 list: The Top 10 Persona Vocal Songs. If you don’t know what Persona is, you are probably a new listener, because Persona is our favorite video game series here at The Weekly Stuff Podcast, and we use different songs from the various soundtracks to open the majority of our shows. So we love the series. We really love the music. And with the rhythm game Persona 4: Dancing All Night coming out next week, we thought now would be the most relevant time to count down our respective 10 favorite vocal songs from across the series and its many incarnations.

Doing so involves Sean reading poetry.

So yeah. Get hyped. This is a really fun episode.

This week’s Super Mario Maker Course:

Maze of Life and Death: 1E58-0000-0064-640B

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The Weekly Stuff Podcast #115 - Doctor Who Series 9 Premiere & Destiny: The Taken King

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link.

Doctor Who is back! Doctor Who is back! It’s finally back! Doctor Who is back!

Ahem.

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 only did Doctor Who return for its ninth (modern) series on the BBC, but the Persona series – the object of our other primary obsession – was shown off at the Tokyo Game Show, with a new preview – and new release window – for the upcoming Persona 5. So there is a lot of excitement and enthusiasm on this week’s episode, and that’s before we even factor in Destiny: The Taken King, a new expansion that is absolutely wonderful, and very exciting to talk about.

Enjoy, and come back next week as we continue to review the new season of Doctor Who!

This week’s Super Mario Maker Courses:

Mushroom Mile – 3E3E-0000-0039-B683

Undertaker – EEB1-0000-0047-4398

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The Weekly Stuff Podcast #114 - Reviewing Metal Gear Solid V & Super Mario Maker

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link.

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 of the most acclaimed games of the year, but is it, well…any good? Sean and I aren’t exactly crazy about it, and the many, many, many problems on display with this game make for a lively, heated discussion.

We also offer some initial thoughts on Nintendo’s fantastic new Super Mario Maker, and in what might be the start of a new podcast tradition, I wanted to share some of my sample courses here for listeners to play. Course IDs are below, so if you have the game, give them a try, and let me know what you think!

Super Mario Maker Courses:

2-1 Super Remix – BFC3 – 0000 – 001D – A222

Fun in the Sun! – 4E1A – 0000 – 002A – F193

Fun in Hell! – EEC9– 0000 – 0035 –1AD2

Enjoy, and come back next week for the start of Doctor Who Series 9!

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The Weekly Stuff Podcast #113 - Metal Gear Solid Retrospective Spectacular!

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link.

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 entry in the franchise from the original Metal Gear Solid on the PSOne all the way to Peace Walker on the PSP. If nothing else, this is an endlessly fascinating franchise, and there is plenty to discuss and debate as we take a walk down twenty years of video game memory lane.

We also give some early spoiler-free reactions to The Phantom Pain, though as both of us are still a little ways away from finishing it, we won’t be giving our full podcast review until next week’s show. So look forward to that next time!

Enjoy! 

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