Tiny Disc Podcast

We do a deep dive on the Terrace House commentary panel; who they are, why they’re there, what they add to the show, and why we love them! We’re going H.A.M. on Babazono, Tokui, You, Tori-chan, the elusive 5th chair, and Yama-chan. Grab your katsu sandwich and cuddle up to the fireplace, it’s Tadaima: A Terrace House Podcast!

Taidaima: A Terrace House Podcast is your weekly companion to the comfiest show on Netflix. On this episode we discuss the lengthy history behind Terrace House and the show’s journey from Japanese television to Netflix to international fame and acclaim. Join us for an onsen dip into Japanese culture.

Konbanwa! Welcome to the premier episode of Tadaima: A Terrace House Podcast! We are laying the Tiny Disc name to rest for now, but for those of you interested in Terrace House, feel free to engage with us on our newest podcast. We are your weekly companion to you favorite show on Netflix about a bunch of Japanese people living together in a mansion. New episodes every Monday and Thursday morning! Ittekimasu!

The hour is nigh. This week we present to you the swan song of our beloved Tiny Disc Podcast. Ironic as it is, being the 66th episode and all, we want to sincerely thank everyone that ever downloaded and listened to our dumb show. We hope you had a good time with us over the past year and a half. We’re not done yet though! Follow @tadaimagram on Instagram, @tadaimapod on Twitter and bookmark terracehousepodcast.com for updates and behind-the-scenes content about our exciting next adventure!

Konbanwa! Today we begin the show with a special announcement for fans of Tiny Disc and Terrace House. Join us as we do a deep dive into Terrace House: Opening New Doors Part 4 and reminisce in all the drama that happened at that fated house in Karuizawa!

This week we get a virus—but the show must go on! After sneezing loudly into the mics we continue this experimental phase of the show and take our swing in some good ol’ game design fun. Treat us like a pirate and give us that booty. It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

This episode we are trying something new. We are taking our turn at—drumroll please—game design. That’s right, we got spreadsheets on spreadsheets, some musty and dusty D&D dice, and ye olde random number generator all for your comedic pleasure; whether it’s a pirate-based dating sim or a mascot-centric dungeon crawler, what’s going to happen next? We sure as shit don’t know, so tune in and find out with us. It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

We don’t know jack this week as we give the dirty details on the new direction of the show. If you think Collin is gonna sucker into those nostalgia dollars, you’d be exactly right with Sony announcing the PlayStation Classic. Robert marvels at Dead Rising’s ridiculousness with the sad news of Capcom Vancouver closing its doors. Ready your wallet for the microtransaction madness, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

This week Collin and Robert regale us with stories from the dark side of PAX West 2018. In games of the week, Jac finally gets to play Master Chief Collection on Xbox One X after four long years, and Robert goes all Ninja Gaiden on that ass in The Messenger on PC. Get your black-metal face paint on and MacBook at the ready, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

Listen to the show the podcast gods don’t want you to listen to. This week we all struggle with technical difficulties while recording — apologies in advance for any awkward non-transitions. We end up salvaging what we can and manage to talk about Axiom Verge on Switch, Crane Game Toreba on iOS, and Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC. We finish up the show honoring the memories of Eli Clayton and Taylor Robertson.

Follow ya boys as we take a magical trip across the U.S. in search of the greatest singers from each state to battle it out in a stars-and-stripes version of Eurovision. Robert talks about his experience visiting the first Starbucks and Collin almost snags a signed Alice in Chains CD. Finally, we catch up on all the Gamescom news that’s dropped this week. It’s the most Seattle-ass episode to date, so don’t forget your flannel shirts and jeans with the knees cut out — it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

Konbanwa! The latest batch of episode of our favorite show, Terrace House: Opening New Doors, has dropped on Netflix! We welcome three new roomates to the Karuizawa mansion and spend some quality time frolicking in Konnyaku Park. Everyone one has a story to be told. Join us as we spoil all of part 3.

The boys are back in town! This week we go on a great American road trip and spend most of the show reliving Robert and Collin’s trek across this great country of ours in search of love, lust, and the meaning of life. We also manage to cram some video game news in too! Kneel before your Amazon AI overlords, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

What a season, what a season. As we enter into our second year as a legit show for people to listen to on the internet, we compiled some of our favorite moments for your listening enjoyment. And as you are listening to this, Collin and Robert will be driving all the way to Seattle because, reasons. Is anybody actually reading these show notes? It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

This week Collin has a bloody-good time - where underage drinking is concerned. Jac takes us cross-country in the back seat of an American muscle classic and Robert gets all octo on that ass in Octopath Traveler on Nintendo Switch. You are all loved, appreciated, respected, and cared for, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

We celebrate this glorious week with Seattle on our minds and bacteria in our lungs. Collin knows kung fu in this month’s free PlayStation Plus game, Absolver. Robert falls in love with Shakespeare in the Octopath Traveler demo on Switch, while Jac gets all tactical-mech on that ass in Into the Breach on PC. Get ready for hot wax in the nether regions, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

For this 4th of July, we stick to the longstanding and time-honored American tradition of getting belligerently drunk, all in the name of honoring the Stars and Stripes. We also take a trip in the way-back machine and reminisce on some of the best and worst video games featuring the home of the free. Tip up your cup and throw your hands up! It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

Today we celebrate the dearly departed. Nobody died, Collin just sold a bunch of old video games. Jac gets aced in Mario Tennis Aces on Switch. Collin finally jumps into the Dragon Ball FighterZ arena and Robert lives out his fantasy of being a young white child in The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. Make sure to ask Robert why he played so much Planet Coaster. It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

We begin this week by trading stories of our shitty friends losing and ruining video games after we — out of the kindness of our our hearts — attempt to bestow onto them the joy, the glory, and the majesty of the fine and sacred art that is the video game. Nut dreams, watering ourselves and assassinating bald eagles awaits. It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

It’s that time ladies and gentleman: The Super Bowl of nerdom is upon us with E3 in Los Angeles. We are also celebrating our 50th official episode of TDP - so fucking wahoo for all of that! Let’s get promiscuous up in dis piece, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

The boys are back in town! We actually have a “normal” episode this week where we catch up on the gaming news of the day and set our sights on E3. Robert eats his mom’s spaghetti in Detroit: Become Human, Collin prepares to die in Dark Souls: Remastered and Jac hadoukens his Switch’s D-pad into oblivion. On a somber note, we conclude this week paying our respects to the late John Bain, aka TotalBiscuit.

Ohayo gozaimasu! After eight agonizing weeks left in suspense, Part 2 of Netflix’s Terrace House: Opening New Doors is finally live and we’re talking SPOILERS! We bid a fond farewell to Mizuki and the human dumpster fire that was Yuudai Arai, while welcoming new friends Seina and Shohei to the Karuizawa mansion. Shave your mustaches and make fun of our curry, It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

In a TDP first, all three boys are in the same location recording the show live and direct for your aural pleasure. Too bad it’s within the exotic confines of a 2007 Honda Civic sedan driving through rural-ass Ohio. But hey, beggars can’t be choosers. Like the pine trees lining the winding road, like the singing bird and the croaking toad, we got a name, and it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

This week Collin recounts the sad state of his bank account. Jac gives his best practices for getting out of speeding tickets as a minority in America. We curse the newly announced Monster Hunter movie, and go over recent games played. In lieu of gaming news, we explore our unpopular video game opinions and watch the hilarity ensue. Hell yeah, Collin brought up Knack this week! It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

Ain’t no Ms. Philippines on this show! This week we do what the nerds do: exhibit judgment, bias, and prejudice as we draw lines, take sides, and jump to conclusions in regards to video game companies, publishers and developers. We love this country! Listen to us do the dark deed of predicting what may or may not transpire at this year’s Electronic Three. Steve Harvey would have wanted it this way, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

This week we snap our fingers and wish for it all to be back to normal again. Cinema history was made with the epic release of Avengers: Infinity War. There’s so much to unpack here. Snuggle up with a friend and keep the box of tissues close. It’s TDP’s Infinity War SPOILERCAST!

This week Joaquin Phoenix lays waste to the wicked in “You Were Never Really Here.” Jac visits the Asian supermarket wonderland that is H Mart. We talk at length on the PS4 Pro version of God of War as well as the joy-inducing, Nintendo Labo variety pack. Collin heads up the question of the week while getting curry on the sly. Whip out the wheat cake, it’s cheese mushi time!

This week we put some big, Texas grapes in our mouth. Jac goes under the drill and deep in oral sedation whilst eating his own face off, home theatre seating, blackout selfies, infidelity, international espionage, the coming battle royale, err… battle royale, and more! It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

This week Jac rambles on about his random life ongoings, including: crab legs, Andre the Giant, Penn State, Amazon Wardrobe, and the new movie, A Quiet Place. And Robert and Collin get bodacious and heinous in Radical Heights on PC. Come with us on a vision quest and rediscover what it means to be a man. It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

This week on the TDP we finally get paid for all the products we talk about on the show! We goin’ Sizzler now! (We wish.) After an inspired roundtable discussion on the finer intricacies of carbonated water and hot sauce, we take an extended look at the games of the day: A Way Out, Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom, Far Cry 5 and Yakuza Kiwami. Hey, Daniel! Don’t forget to make curry, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

Konbanwa! The new season of our favorite show, Terrace House, is now streaming on Netflix! In this episode we spoil the first eight episodes and discuss our favorite moments living in the Karuizawa mansion. Let us know when you find our mother dog.

We’re back in full form this week and decide to class-up the joint with a trip to the White Trash Riviera (AKA Myrtle Beach). Jac dolphin dives into the free-to-play FPS Ironsight, Robert lives the life of his dreams in Sims Mobile, and Collin licks a spicy chicken dinner in PUBG Mobile. Make sure to catch up on Terrace House: Opening New Doors on Netflix in preparation for next week’s episode! Do you think love can bloom on a battlefield? It’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

Spring is in the air and it’s got the TDP boys feeling some kinda nostalgic way. Jump in the way-back machine for a trip down memory lane and listen to one of our unpublished episodes when we were discovering our bodies and minds! Apologies in advance for the Limp Bizkit references. Marty, I need you to go back with me — back to the future!

Post-Oscar festivities ensue as we discuss the big night’s winners and losers, but not before Jac reminisces on the greatest Chick-fil-A drive-thru experience in America. Movies dominated the week as Jac talks about Annihilation, Red Sparrow, and the Netflix documentary Icarus. Collin squints his way through Oxenfree on Switch and Robert works his quads in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. Gaming news and a half-naked WYR cap off the week. We’re in the pipe, 5x5, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

This week Jac is living lavish and lets us know what it’s like to sit in a $10K massage chair before an awkward bro-love moment derails things. The boys talk about Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, Nvidia Now, and Tekken Mobile, and Collin finally hacks into Nier: Automata. Finally, Robert licks some sweaty, salty, hot Switch cartridges - mmm, mmm. Step foot into the Shaolin Temple and emerge a man, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

We summon the shaman this week, as Jac escaped a puzzle room and Collin throws down in the Bloodborne card game. We rave about Bayonetta 2 with its release on the Nintendo Switch. The Ready Player One trailer reminds us that Columbus is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, while Black Panther stands as one of the best Marvel movies we’ve seen. So ready your wallet and kickstart that potato salad, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

The three amigos unite for a show packed with intrigue, immersion, and international espionage. We consider a dark alternate future where the Nintendo Switch could potentially (gasp) fail, and celebrate the awesomeness that is the 2018 Winter Olympics. Games of the day, and industry news, followed by Robert soft-serving up our wants and needs of the next Elder Scrolls game. We love you long time, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

Jac and Robert hold it down this week with Collin out sick. We go over Super Bowl trailers and commercials before discussing Hollow Knight and the Shadow of the Colossus PS4 remake. Gaming news, The Question of the Week, and getting down and dirty with a big fat Black Op across that fat ass, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast.

The full crew is here this week and begin the show by feeling old for the first time, with all these kids walking ‘round the mall talking that Five Nights at Freddy’s mess. Collin slashes into the Breath of the Wild DLC while Robert mashes the fireball button in Dragon Ball FighterZ. Jac gets into the smart home game and we go over the week in glorious gaming news. Commit sudoku and stick a tiny disc in those tiny ear holes.

Jac is off doing adult things this week as Robert and Collin talk crappy VR controls and survival horror. It looks like we’ll be blazin’ it with Kratos, with God of War being slated for a April 20 release. We take a gander at the Oscar nominees and question the value of the Xbox Game Pass. So grab your favorite blankie and a warm beverage, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

What started as a discussion of our morning routines turned into a deep exploration of bidets and squatty potties. But we also find time to talk about video games like Valley and Nier: Automata. Plastic peripherals are out, and cardboard is in as Nintendo announced Nintendo Labo. AGDQ raised a ton of money for charity, and even more Final Fantasy games are headed to PC. Grab the glowsticks and the candy necklaces, it’s the Tiny Disc Podcast!

Welcome to the first episode of 2018! New year’s resolutions are dumb, and who cares with this year being so packed full of video-gamey goodness? We catch up on games we’ve been playing over the break. We laugh at CES’s ironic blackout, stroke the Switch’s ego, and applaud this year’s Golden Globe recipients. It’s a new year, so let the Tiny Disc Podcast show you the way!

To help soothe the wounds of the past nine day, we each take a few minutes alone to talk about our personal favorite games of the year. Here’s to a great 2017 and an even better 2018!

It all comes down to this: Day 9, Best Game of 2017. You know what time it is. Strap in, buckle up. Eight nominees enter, but only one can walk away with the Tiny.

It was also a great year for movies. On this episode we award Best Film of 2017.

On this highly controversial episode, we argue about the best moment of 2017. Our pain is your pleasure? Listen and find out.

We want to love these nominees, we really, truly do. Today we lament on and recognize the worst end products in gaming that carried some high expectations.

The gaming landscape is full of surprises. Some come and go, while others leave deep-seeded impacts that shape industry rhetoric long after release. Today we award gaming’s Biggest and Best Surprise of 2017.

It takes more than simply upscaling screen resolution and including DLC to constitute a great remake/remaster. Join us for a discussion on the matter and find out who our winner for 2017 will be.

So many great composers, so many fantastic soundtracks. Today we celebrate the best and crown a winner.

On day two of the Ten Days of Tiny Disc we dole out awards in game design, honoring both artistic and technical achievements.