{"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":"What \"42\" Tells Us About the One Thing Only Humans Can Do in the Age of AI","slug":"what-42-tells-us-about-the-one-thing-only-humans-can-do-in-the-age-of-ai","published_at":"2026-07-18T04:49:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/what-42-tells-us-about-the-one-thing-only-humans-can-do-in-the-age-of-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/What-42-Tells-Us-About-the-One-Thing-Only-Humans-Can-Do-in-the-Age-of-AI-e3m8phs","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/123020284/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-19%2Ff59e5cfd-fd2c-7550-58fa-6c7e74adb56d.mp3","summary":"This episode takes the most famous joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a supercomputer that thinks for seven and a half million years and returns the answer "42" — and uses it as a lens for thinking about what AI can and can't do. The point isn't that the computer failed. It's that the people who made the request never understood what they were actually asking. "The ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything" sounds like a question, but it isn't asking anything specific. Two examples ground the idea in something concrete: the decision to open an eyewear store in Hong Kong, which began not with data but with a feeling felt while walking the streets — something that simply rose to the surface — and the impulse to climb Everest or run 250 kilometers across the Gobi, which resists rational explanation but is exactly what sets any plan in motion. AI, this episode suggests, is genuinely useful once a question exists. But the spark that produces the question — emotion, experience, a sense that something is slightly off — is not something AI can generate on its own, at least not yet. A quiet look at where human agency still lives in the age of capable machines: not in producing answers, but in finding the question somewhere inside yourself before setting anything in motion.","meta_description":"This episode takes the most famous joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a supercomputer that thinks for seven and a half million years and retur…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":230,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/what-42-tells-us-about-the-one-thing-only-humans-can-do-in-the-age-of-ai/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/what-42-tells-us-about-the-one-thing-only-humans-can-do-in-the-age-of-ai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}