{"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":"How Are We Supposed to Live on That?","slug":"how-are-we-supposed-to-live-on-that","published_at":"2026-05-24T22:54:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/how-are-we-supposed-to-live-on-that","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/How-Are-We-Supposed-to-Live-on-That-e3jsv68","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/120535688/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-25%2Fd58ce479-7514-a53f-b00f-dbcae8f7d21c.mp3","summary":"This episode takes a single scene from the TV series *Billions* — a wife snapping "How are we supposed to live on that?" despite sitting on tens of billions of yen — and uses it as a lens for thinking about why financial anxiety doesn't scale the way we expect it to. It touches on a piece of research suggesting that even people with savings over 100 million yen often still carry money anxiety, and explores why: not because the numbers are wrong, but because the future stays undefined, and an undefined future keeps the mind on alert. There's a close look at what happens when a certain standard of living becomes normal — the house, the travel habits, the schools, the social circle — and why lowering that standard isn't simply a matter of spending less. It starts to feel like rewriting your own sense of who you are. The episode also draws on a description of anxiety as "fear of a vague, possible future threat," using it to reframe the real source of financial unease: not the size of a balance, but the shapelessness of what's ahead. A quiet reflection on what it might actually mean to feel like enough is enough — and why putting that into your own words, rather than chasing a larger number, may be what genuinely helps.","meta_description":"This episode takes a single scene from the TV series *Billions* — a wife snapping \"How are we supposed to live on that?\" despite sitting on tens…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":194,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/how-are-we-supposed-to-live-on-that/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/how-are-we-supposed-to-live-on-that.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}