{"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":"The Man Who Dissolved His Own Religion","slug":"the-man-who-dissolved-his-own-religion","published_at":"2026-06-30T12:22:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/the-man-who-dissolved-his-own-religion","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/The-Man-Who-Dissolved-His-Own-Religion-e3lfh7h","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/122192561/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-30%2Faca3b08d-89bd-c6a1-5b57-9b36a9d190e1.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at Jiddu Krishnamurti — the man raised from childhood to be a global spiritual leader, who in 1929 stood before his followers and dissolved the entire organization built around him, declaring that truth is a pathless land. It traces what that act meant: that any road built by someone else belongs to them, not to you. There's a particular line that surfaces more than once — "observe the very mind that seeks a teacher" — a prompt to notice the impulse that wants to hand its questions over to someone else. The episode doesn't look away from the contradiction either. Late in his life, Krishnamurti was found to have carried on a long secret relationship with a close supporter's wife — a gap between his words and his life that drew real criticism. What follows is a quiet consideration of whether a man who never claimed to be a saint should be judged by the consistency of one. An analogy runs through it: in mountain climbing, the route drawn on the map is a reference, not a guarantee. Snow conditions, weather, the body — none of it follows the plan. The map is still useful. Mistaking it for the answer is where things go wrong. A small reflection on the difference between using something as a reference and depending on it — and why a thinker who never handed over the answer might be exactly the reason he's still being read a hundred years later.","meta_description":"This episode looks at Jiddu Krishnamurti — the man raised from childhood to be a global spiritual leader, who in 1929 stood before his followers and disso…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":201,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/the-man-who-dissolved-his-own-religion/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/the-man-who-dissolved-his-own-religion.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}