シーズン22-8「ごい黒柱」

LINEMO commercial parody and dentist small talk

The episode opens with the two of them belting out a parody version of SoftBank's LINEMO commercial jingle, setting the plan details themselves to the melody: "Anyone gets 3GB for a base rate of 990 yen a month, and 10GB from 2,090 yen." The other immediately cuts in with, "What kind of song is that?" From there they move into a segment called "Is this really all there is?", where a string of dentist-related mysteries comes up one after another: sitting up before the treatment chair's backrest has fully risen, not knowing how far it's okay to drink the water that pools in the gargling cup, the mystery of Isodine coming out strong at first and then getting diluted partway through, and how whether you're allowed to keep your shoes on in the chair seems to depend on the dentist. They wrap up the segment by concluding that they wish a dentist would just explain all of this to them.

Why is teaching a dog 'okawari' so confusing?

In the following listener-letter segment, they read a submission saying, "I get 'te' (paw) and 'fuse' (down), but I don't understand the dog command 'okawari' at all." The two confirm that while "te" uses the right paw, "okawari" uses the left, then head into a debate about its etymology. Theories fly back and forth: maybe the act of asking for a second helping (okawari) of rice came first, then a hefty-built athlete got nicknamed "Okawari-kun," which later became a personal name, which was then repurposed as the dog command "okawari." In the end, neither of them can figure out why anyone started being called Okawari-kun in the first place, and the mystery goes unsolved as they move to the next segment.

How do typhoons form? A night spent asking AI

During the opening chat, they also touch on a typhoon that was active at the time. After talking through their own hazy understanding that "warm ocean water vapor rises and air pressure drops," they decide to "ask AI" and actually put the question of how typhoons form to an AI. In a story about heading to Nakano for work in the middle of the typhoon, they're surprised to find the izakaya busier than usual, joking that "everyone looks like Yokozawa."

Respect for the Aged Day, 'Rou' activities, Matsui's new show, and the daikokubashira debate

With Respect for the Aged Day falling during this Silver Week, the two trade jokes about dealing with grandparents, quipping that "ours are all gone already." One of them also talks about how he thinks the term "rougai" (elderly nuisance) is unfair, and so has kept up a personal campaign of proactively calling himself "rou" (elder) instead — including an episode where he mistook a Super Chat donor's name, "Hanabi-san," and the Chinese-style reading of "rou" as "rao," which he's taken to using. He also reports that Matsui invited Sakamoto onto the new show he's started on BS, and after drinking together at a back-alley spot in Nakano, the two introduced their wives to each other as "mama friends." That introduction sparks a bit where the other jokingly grills him over whether it's appropriate for two households to socialize without a "daikokubashira" (household pillar) in the mix.

Listener corner: the mystery of the outdoor escalator, and the Boyosu corner

In a listener segment called "Outdoor Escalator Report," a listener who works as a security guard at an escalator construction site shares an observation: once the stair panels are removed, all that's visible is a belt-like mechanism, leading them to guess the motor must be embedded at the very bottom. Next comes a submission about Enoshima's "Esca," known as Japan's first outdoor escalator (now in its 67th year), explaining that it's called "Esca" rather than "escalator" because it only runs upward — but the submission doesn't clearly answer the real question of why it can hold up to rain outdoors, leaving the two unconvinced as they move to the next segment, "Reiwa Roman no Boyosu." There, a listener who visited the parody facility "Leo Roman Memorial Hall" on a school trip asks why white ashtrays were being sold inside, and the two close out the segment laughing without ever figuring out the answer.