"Sui-Yona" in Memory

I believe radio is a "medium that dissolves into memory."
The witty banter and delightful listener letters on a program dissolve and vanish into each listener's memory the moment they are spoken by the personality and the moment they reach the listener's ears. A fleeting brilliance.

A project that challenges this "radio" medium head-on is the "Wednesday Yoru-Night Cult Quiz (Sui-Yona Cult Q)."
Wednesday Yoru-Night is a program where nearly 100% of the content consists of conversation between the main personality, Takeshi Washizaki, known as a "living legend of the anime radio world," and his assistant, Yuma Aoki, who loves him dearly.
This is a project unique to Wednesday Yoru-Night, even among the Monday-through-Thursday Yoru-Night x Yoru-Night strip programs, held every year since the show's inception to look back on the famous lines and scenes created over the past year in the form of a 10-question quiz.

According to Aoki's description, Wednesday Yoru-Night is "a competition where you touch a place as far away from the starting point of the conversation as possible, a place no one has touched, and then try to return." Because of this, the content of the conversation follows an unprecedented and orderly path. It is not rare for the two to end up so far away in their topics that they can never return to the starting point.

As a result, you get questions like this, for example:
"In the broadcast on June 15, 2016, a story unfolds about maidens treading grapes, but in the flow of the conversation, these maidens eventually end up in a different profession. What kind of job do they end up taking?"

People who don't listen to the program would probably think, "...What on earth are these people talking about?" but those who know, know.
By the way, the correct answer is, surprisingly, "debugger." Due to Washizaki's opinion that "clam chowder goes better with a meal than wine," the grape-treading maidens unfortunately lose their jobs in winemaking. After many twists and turns, fortunately, the maidens had computer skills, so they were able to successfully find re-employment in the game industry.
The time was the 16th century, and it was a grand spectacle lasting about two and a half minutes from the maidens' unemployment to their re-employment.

Those solving the questions recall the conversation from their memory.
Depending on the question, as mentioned above, there are topics that left such a strong impression that you can recall them quite easily if you have been listening to the program.
On the other hand, there are things that have dissolved deep, deep into memory. There are questions where, even after reaching the depths of my memory, I cannot recall the answer.
That is precisely why, the moment I derive the answer word for such a memory-digging question, I don't just stop at that word; the conversation before and after it also races through my brain. Depending on the question, I might even recall the scent of the air and the colors of the day I listened to that conversation.

I search for the brilliance that had dissolved into the bottom of my memory and call up from memory the moment when the other side of the radio and this side dissolved into one.
The pleasure of having that brilliance vividly reproduced in my memory is irreplaceable.

In the program's theme song "Yona Yona ~Yoke of Nights~ (Lyrics and Music: Takeshi Washizaki)," it is sung, "Night after night secrets that seem like they will disappear if I wake up tomorrow."
Of course, it is not explicitly sung that "this is about radio" or "this is about Yoru-Night."
Nevertheless, at least regarding Wednesday Yoru-Night, those "secrets" have dissolved into me, and as part of me, they continue to shine without disappearing.

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*The above is a piece I submitted (but unfortunately failed to be selected) for the column recruitment for "Separate Volume Voice Actor Radio Time: Radio-Obsessed Voice Actor Reader"
( https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4799506781/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AJR6EN9WPK1WCYFKDMZF ), which has been partially revised based on the editorial department's suggestions.
For the background on the recruitment, please also see this article
(
http://blog.livedoor.jp/radio_no_jikan/archives/84514633.html ).

*If you are interested in the program, please visit the program website ( https://joqr.co.jp/qr/program/yonayona/ )!