{"podcast":{"title":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*","slug":"yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","podcast_index_feed_id":7106663,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://makoto-hoshino.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42313807/42313807-1729942256050-67940c9698ba4.jpg","author":"MakotowillOlympusMons","episode_count":644,"summary":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:17:25.711616+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663"},"episode":{"title":"Daily habits are genuinely fascinating","slug":"daily-habits-are-genuinely-fascinating","published_at":"2026-05-29T23:24:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/daily-habits-are-genuinely-fascinating","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Daily-habits-are-genuinely-fascinating-e3k395j","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/120742515/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-29%2Fe6057654-fb74-fdf8-321a-09dae522feb1.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at the daily habits of remarkable people — and what those routines might reveal about how an interesting life actually gets built. The detail that anchors it is Beethoven's morning ritual: waking at dawn to compose, drinking only coffee for breakfast, and counting out exactly 60 coffee beans per cup — sometimes one by one. He then spent much of the day walking, pencil and staff paper in his pocket, ready to catch any melody that came to him. The contrast between that quiet, almost fussy ordinariness and the scale of what he produced is what gives the episode its central question. It moves into a reflection on what "commitment" really means — not the dramatic kind, like quitting a job or moving countries, but the smaller kind: opening the notebook again today, brewing one cup carefully, spending ten minutes on something that actually matters. The idea that these quiet agreements with yourself, kept daily, are where real commitment lives. There's also a brief, earnest aside about a personal goal of climbing Olympus Mons on Mars — offered not as a joke but as an example of how an outsized ambition can quietly give meaning to small, daily maintenance. A large goal lending weight to unglamorous repetition. A quiet look at how an interesting life might be less about waiting for something interesting to arrive, and more about what you choose to do carefully, repeatedly, and without much fanfare.","meta_description":"This episode looks at the daily habits of remarkable people — and what those routines might reveal about how an interesting life actually gets built. The…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":207,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/daily-habits-are-genuinely-fascinating/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/daily-habits-are-genuinely-fascinating.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}