{"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":"One of the World's Largest E-Commerce Companies Stalked a Journalist Couple Who Criticized It","slug":"one-of-the-world-s-largest-e-commerce-companies-stalked-a-journalist-couple-who-criticized-it","published_at":"2026-07-19T05:41:44+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/one-of-the-world-s-largest-e-commerce-companies-stalked-a-journalist-couple-who-criticized-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/One-of-the-Worlds-Largest-E-Commerce-Companies-Stalked-a-Journalist-Couple-Who-Criticized-It-e3m8qcf","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/123021135/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-19%2Fad4171b8-7507-ce71-d34e-d00664d5012e.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at a remarkable and unsettling case: eBay executives and employees who, in response to critical journalism from a couple running a small e-commerce news site, sent live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, and a blood-soaked pig mask to their home — and reportedly planned physical surveillance. The FBI eventually intervened, convictions followed, and eBay paid fines. It was no movie plot. It sits with what that sequence reveals — the moment an organization decides it shouldn't have to face criticism, something has already broken down inside it. There's a turn toward something more personal: the experience of hearing difficult feedback from customers in an eyewear business. Long waits, limited frames, explanations that didn't land. Words that sting, especially after a day of genuine effort — but words that, with some distance, tend to point exactly toward what needs to change. The phrase "Whatever It Takes" — the reported internal motto behind the eBay campaign — gets quietly reframed. Doing work that genuinely pleases people, building a place where customers leave glad they came: that's the version of the phrase that holds up. A small reflection on how an organization treats the voices that challenge it, and why that response, more than almost anything else, tends to reveal its true character.","meta_description":"This episode looks at a remarkable and unsettling case: eBay executives and employees who, in response to critical journalism from a couple running a smal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":162,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/one-of-the-world-s-largest-e-commerce-companies-stalked-a-journalist-couple-who-criticized-it/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/one-of-the-world-s-largest-e-commerce-companies-stalked-a-journalist-couple-who-criticized-it.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}