{"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":"\"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore\" — Isaac Newton","slug":"i-seem-to-have-been-only-like-a-boy-playing-on-the-seashore-isaac-newton","published_at":"2026-05-23T23:16:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/i-seem-to-have-been-only-like-a-boy-playing-on-the-seashore-isaac-newton","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/I-seem-to-have-been-only-like-a-boy-playing-on-the-seashore--Isaac-Newton-e3jsvqa","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/120536330/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-25%2Fd320baee-9363-e7e7-d72c-bcdc302511e0.mp3","summary":"This episode turns over a quote from Isaac Newton — one that surfaced again almost by chance — about the nature of knowledge and how much remains unknown. The quote imagines Newton as a boy on the seashore, delighting in smooth pebbles and pretty shells, while the great ocean of truth stretches out undiscovered before him. This episode sits with that image and considers what it actually means. It reflects on the idea that this wasn't performed humility — that someone who had seen as far as Newton had might genuinely feel the vastness of what remained. That real depth of knowledge might be exactly what makes the unknown feel so large. There's also a quieter thread running through: that even our own accumulated experience — years of work, learning, discovery — might amount to little more than a pebble on the shore, with a wider sea still ahead. A soft reflection on holding two things at once: the pleasure of what you've found, and the awe of everything you haven't.","meta_description":"This episode turns over a quote from Isaac Newton — one that surfaced again almost by chance — about the nature of knowledge and how much remains unknown.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":93,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/i-seem-to-have-been-only-like-a-boy-playing-on-the-seashore-isaac-newton/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/i-seem-to-have-been-only-like-a-boy-playing-on-the-seashore-isaac-newton.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}