2026年10月16日(金) 中川家 ザ・ラジオショー(パートナー東島衣里)

Go's Surveillance Operation on Rei

The show opens with Go's confession that the previous day, after Rei finished his set at NGK (なんばグランド花月, Namba Grand Kagetsu), he had secretly tailed his younger brother toward Namba Station, maintaining a gap of about 10 meters the whole way. He even tried to board the same train, but the train pulled away at the underground stairs in Namba before he could make it — and that was the end of the pursuit. Rei was astonished: 'I had no idea, that's terrifying.' He laughed that in everyday life you might never notice someone watching you — 'and it's not just me that could happen to.' Go also let slip that his Suica card balance was a razor-thin 463 yen at the time.

Rei's Problem with Eating Alone

Go describes slipping into a small set-meal restaurant near NHK in Namba between NGK shows — a tiny place with a counter and two or three tables. He had gone for Pacific saury, but was told the fish was too small to render any fat when grilled, so he switched to a charcoal-grilled salmon set meal and came away satisfied.

The story opens the floor to solo dining. Rei confesses he finds eating alone lonely and has drifted into a habit of eating in the dressing room straight out of a plastic bag while watching YouTube. Go is unsparing: 'That's how you feed an animal' and 'You need to go outside.' Rei remains unconvinced. Go, meanwhile, paints a picture of his own routine — eat a proper set meal, then walk from Namba through Doguya-suji to Nipponbashi and as far as just before Tennoji, wrapping up with a coffee at a kissaten before heading home. 'It's fun,' he tells Rei. 'Try it once.'

The Dotour Staff Member's Apology Post

A listener post reveals what unfolded when Rei dashed into a Dotour in Namba five minutes before his shinkansen departure to pick up an iced coffee and some baked sweets. The female part-time staff member recognised him straight away, but the store was too busy and Rei projected a clear 'please leave me alone' aura, so she said nothing. In her nervousness she fumbled the bag setup, causing the drink to tilt badly. She was reaching to fix it when Rei grabbed everything and hurried out the door, leaving her unable to correct the mistake — and regretting it ever since.

Go turns on Rei immediately. 'She was trying to fix it and you just snatched it and ran.' 'You had five minutes — you could have waited.' Rei's excuse — the shinkansen was about to leave — is dispatched without mercy: 'The arrival time is printed on the ticket, it doesn't change. There is no reason to rush.'

Autumn Seasonal Food Talk

Listener posts steer the conversation toward autumn ingredients, and both hosts warm to the topic quickly. Rei makes a forceful case for matsutake mushrooms in dobin-mushi — the mushrooms steamed in a small earthenware teapot with chicken and ginkgo nuts, the broth sipped from a tiny ceramic cup. Both men are visibly moved just describing it.

On mackerel, Go recommends the aged simmered mackerel from the basement food hall of Takashimaya in Namba — 'you can eat right through the bones' — and adds, laughing, that he put away 300 grams of squid-and-daikon on his own and 'almost collapsed.' A tip from comedian Tomonari that 'Rei is the biggest chestnut fan in the entertainment industry' prompts Rei to reveal he made a dedicated trip to Nakatsugawa in Gifu to buy kuri-kinton. Eight pieces cost around 1,500 yen, he recalls, but they were worth it.

On tempura soba, both brothers land on exactly the same position without hesitation: pumpkin tempura 'gets in the way.' Shrimp, squid, and green pepper are acceptable. Pumpkin, they declare in unison, is unwelcome even at yakiniku restaurants.

Sports Day Memories and How Things Have Changed

Autumn talk drifts to school sports day. Rei nominates tug-of-war as his least favourite event: 'You win on someone else's strength — there's no personal sense of accomplishment.' Go loved cavalry battles and always played the general, riding at the very top of the formation. Rei's contribution from the same era: pyramid formations, where his father would plant himself directly in front of him and stare straight at him without stopping. 'That was tough,' he says.

The conversation turns to how sports day has changed. Many schools now finish by noon, skip lunch boxes entirely, or hold the event inside the gym. Both hosts are crestfallen. 'The whole point is the bento,' Go says. They also share a laugh about how the family restaurant everyone piles into after the event inevitably fills up with people they know.