# My Wife Sent Me a Link

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Podcast: [*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*](https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663)
Published: 2026-07-17T14:10:39+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/My-Wife-Sent-Me-a-Link-e3m72ej
Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/122963859/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-17%2F98448ef7-3e64-e95c-aae5-038c377af921.mp3
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Duration seconds: 82

## Resource

This episode starts with something small: a link from a wife, a purchase application for a new MoonSwatch, and the Swatch phrase "Time is what you make of it." It traces back to 2005, when a space travel company called Ginga Hitchhikers was founded, watched it fail, and notes that more than twenty years later — now at 48 — not a single bit of that dream has faded. There's also a quiet tension at the center: a row of Omega Swatch Moon series watches lined up across a desk as a kind of accountability, a book written, things said out loud — and still the honest admission that the time spent hasn't really moved toward space. Not nearly enough. Completing an application form becomes, unexpectedly, a moment of sharpened resolve. Time, curiosity, and dreams turn out to be connected — and the act of pressing a button quietly becomes a question about identity: what exactly is worth stepping up to the plate for? A small reflection on how dreams don't fade on their own, and how even a link from a spouse can become a mirror.

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