{"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":"Still Ahead at 90","slug":"still-ahead-at-90","published_at":"2026-06-28T23:53:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/still-ahead-at-90","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Still-Ahead-at-90-e3ld8f6","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/122118054/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-28%2F202f569c-ebce-4523-4512-e975a6d89455.mp3","summary":"This episode reflects on a passage from designer Junko Koshino's book — specifically her mother's habit, even at 80 and 90, of saying "my life is just getting started" — and what it quietly does to the feeling of being "already 47." It looks at Koshino's idea that continuing isn't really a matter of willpower: you continue because it's enjoyable, and it becomes enjoyable because you continue. Once you're inside that cycle, she suggests, age stops mattering much. There's also a thought about the shift that happens when something you do for long enough stops being something you do and becomes something you simply are — and how, once that happens, the conscious effort to keep going tends to disappear on its own. A brief reflection, too, on how a single phrase from one person can quietly sustain another across an entire life — and how that sustaining is often invisible to the one doing it. A quiet look at what it might mean to still be ahead at 90, and the small shift in perspective that comes from encountering someone who genuinely lived that way.","meta_description":"This episode reflects on a passage from designer Junko Koshino's book — specifically her mother's habit, even at 80 and 90, of saying \"my life is jus…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":177,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/still-ahead-at-90/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/still-ahead-at-90.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}